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Photographic-Printing Device.
Patent for a new photographic-printing device featuring an improved apparatus, as well as new exposure and printing capabilities, including illustrations.
Date:
February 20, 1906
Creator:
Brown, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Trap.
Patent for a new and improved animal trap. This design consists in "a platform having a rod or bar secured to its upper face, and having the ends of the choke-spring coiled thereon, pins or prongs extending from one edge of the platform for engagement with a side of a box, a box having one of its sides elevated, against which the pronged end of the platform abuts for engagement therewith, and having recesses in its opposite ends for the recession of a loop, which passes thence over the free end of the platform for binding the same to the box" (lines 3-14).
Date:
June 12, 1888
Creator:
Beach, Philemon Theodore
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Trap.
Patent for a new and improved animal trap. This design consists in "the combination of the wire frame having the parallel base-arms, the coiled-springs, the upwardly-extending arms, and the downwardly-extending loop, the loop or ring on the bend and engaged portions of said wire, and the trigger-wire having the frontwardly-projecting point engaging said ring" (lines 80-87).
Date:
July 10, 1888
Creator:
Beversdorf, Louis, Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant Trap.
Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design consists "[i]n an ant-trap, the combination, with a trough formed with a top [that is] flanged . . . of a box connected thereto by a tube terminating in a disk . . . [and] of the connecting-tubes, box, and fence" (lines 62-68).
Date:
November 24, 1885
Creator:
Thompson, William Henderson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale Tile.
Patent for a new and improved bale-tie. This design "consists, principally, of a bale-tie jaw stamped from sheet metal and formed with an open hook at one end standing in front of a curved edge, with an opening at the other for attachment to the bale-hoop, said opening being shaped to permit the jaw to have a pivotal side motion upon the hoop. The invention also consists of the combination of two of such jaws applied to the bale-hoop to form a complete tie" (lines 7-16).
Date:
January 11, 1887
Creator:
Rylander, William P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Fence
Patent for a new and useful improvements in wire fences. This invention is to "make a cheap and efficient post to which fence-wires may be quickly and durable stapled" (line 15-17).
Date:
December 21, 1897
Creator:
Johnson, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trundler For Spooled Wire.
Patent for a trundler for spooled wire that is strong, light, and shapely enough to propel or draw spooled fence-wire, telegraph-wire, or similar material that is coiled upon flanged spools, and distribute the same lines for the manufacture of fences or erection of electric conductors.
Date:
April 13, 1891
Creator:
Smith, Cullen R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Index.
Patent for "an improved method of indexing books of reference, and more especially city and county records, and the means for carrying over from one line to another where several indexes are to be set opposite one name" (lines 9-14).
Date:
April 11, 1893
Creator:
Heppenstall, James Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Knife.
Patent for a knife with multiple curved blades used to cut food.
Date:
July 13, 1920
Creator:
Oertli, Henri
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Developing Photographic Plates
Patent for a machine for developing photographic plates. Illustration included.
Date:
March 12, 1907
Creator:
Brown, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ironing-Table.
Patent for "ironing-tables which are arranged to be capable of folding when not in use and of extending when used." (Lines 8-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 30, 1895
Creator:
Mills, Charles Richmond
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect Gathering Machine
Patent for insect gathering machine. Illustration included.
Date:
June 27, 1905
Creator:
Fogle, James Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Neck-Yokes.
Patent for "an improvement in the class of neck-yokes having a swivel-joint connection with a carriage or wagon pole; and it consists in providing the neck-yoke with a central enlargement or boss, and connecting the tube which slips on the end of the carriage-pole with the yoke by means of rings having perforated ears to receive the ends of a pivoted bar, to which the pole ring or tube is swiveled." (Lines 11-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 31, 1876
Creator:
Hannig, Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Neck-Yokes.
Patent for an improvement on neck-yokes that have a "swivel-joint connection with a carriage or wagon pole" (line 18-19).
Date:
September 11, 1877
Creator:
Hannig, Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Cultivators
Patent for an improved cultivator, with adjustable wheel base, plow height and more (pg 1).
Date:
July 23, 1872
Creator:
Griffith, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Lever-Powers.
Patent for a lever-power which applies "the power and resistance to the lever, so that they will change positions with relation to the fulcrum as the power end of the lever descends" (para. 2). The relation of the lever with the fulcrum is flexible, and allows for increased leverage.
Date:
September 23, 1879
Creator:
Franklin, Mathew Calhoun
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Fine-Proof Cotton-Lint Rooms.
This patent is a receiver that is portable and provides a unique way of catching the lint that is ejected from a cotton-gin when in use. The portable receiver helps to prevent fires.
Date:
April 9, 1878
Creator:
Morrell, Zachariah N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Saddle-Tree Forks.
Patent for an "improved saddle-tree fork, which shall be simple in construction, light, and durable, and which may be readily adjusted as a Texas saddle-tree or a muley saddle-tree"( line 6 )includes instructions and illustration.
Date:
May 14, 1878
Creator:
Lane, Calvin M. & Franklin, Mathew C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fire-Extinguishers for Lint-Rooms.
Patent for a fire-extinguisher for lint-rooms with design specifications and instructions on operating procedures and usage, including illustrations.
Date:
June 11, 1878
Creator:
Morrell, Zachariah N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators.
Patent for a new cultivator in the form of a wheel, which includes instructions and an illustration.
Date:
September 29, 1868
Creator:
Stroud, J. C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk Puller
Patent for a stalk puller. This invention is designed to pull cotton stalks from the ground. Illustration included.
Date:
March 5, 1907
Creator:
Smith, Cullen Rogers
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hose or Pipe Coupling.
Patent for a hose or pipe coupling meant to "provide a coupling of great simplicity of construction forming a tight and efficient connection by which the hose can be connected without turning it, without the screwing together of the sections and without a loose washer within one of the couplings which is readily lost and quickly gets out of order" (lines 12-19).
Date:
April 16, 1895
Creator:
Conley, Andrew J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for improvement in plows, allowing for the adaptable use of walking or riding plows with the use of a wheel and frame with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 28, 1915
Creator:
Hildebrandt, Henry F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Cutting Stalks
Patent for machines that cuts rows of stalks, severing them into smaller pieces that will fall to the ground.
Date:
March 20, 1917
Creator:
Smith, Cullen R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History