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Surface Cattle Guard.
Patent for a new and improved surface cattle-guard. This design "compris[es] a series of parallel triangular bars tapered at their ends and provided with lateral perforated horizontal flanges, the plates to which said flanges are secured, the cross-tie supports, and the solid plank flooring upon which said ties rest, said flooring being some distance below the guard-bars" (lines 55-62).
Date:
September 20, 1892
Creator:
Berry, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stirrup.
Patent for a saddle-stirrup with springs on the bottom and a spring-catch on the top.
Date:
August 11, 1896
Creator:
Long, Francis F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grain-Door
Patent for a grain car door that keeps the grain securely in the railroad car.
Date:
November 26, 1912
Creator:
Gradick, Wiley, Sr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harrow-Tooth
Patent for an improvement in the device known as harrow tooth. Due to being constructed differently certain parts of the invention can be arranged any way the user wants and the harrow tooth is also capable of a more thorough cultivation and pulverization of soil which allows closer cultivation of crops or being more precise and thorough when digging up weeds.
Date:
September 25, 1905
Creator:
Smith, James Wilson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Guard-Rail Clamp.
Patent for guard rail clamps to securely clasp guard rails with the main rail with features such as spikes and braces.
Date:
March 12, 1912
Creator:
Akers, Harry R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gravity Dump Car
Patent for gravity dump-car cheaper in cost and easy in construction and operation.
Date:
October 8, 1901
Creator:
Swindall, S. M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grave-Cover
Patent for a device to provide a temporary cover to open graves made of non-rusting materials with adjustable length.
Date:
September 19, 1912
Creator:
Rankin, Daniel H. & Cox, William, E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate-Latch.
Patent for a gate-latch. A latch-pin secured in a beam, another latch secured to the inside of another post, with two pivoting hangers, and plates come together to form this latch.
Date:
January 5, 1897
Creator:
Berry, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Felt Picker
Patent for a felt picker. This invention is for use of piano-workmen in making flexible the felts in piano-actions.
Date:
June 23, 1903
Creator:
Bell, William Jackson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Whiffletree
Patent for a whiffletree.
Date:
April 28, 1903
Creator:
Mayo, Daniel L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hand Propelling Device for Sewing Machines.
Patent for a new and improved crank for sewing machines. This design "is to provide propelling device for sewing-machines and similar treadle-power machines which shall dispense with the treadle-action and injurious strain which its use imposes . . . It consists in a rod jointed to the fly-wheel after the manner of a pitman, but which, instead of connecting with a treadle, is fashioned into a handle, which extends obliquely upward toward the operator, and is combined with and held in place by a guide-frame made in the form of a pendent metal loop with flanged ends and screw-holes" (lines 8-21).
Date:
April 10, 1888
Creator:
Beaird, Kate Palmer
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame Tug.
Patent for a new and improved hame-tug. This design consists in "the combination, with the bar provided at one end with a buckle, of the shield secured to the inner side of the bar and provided with an outward-extending guard, which extends through the loop of the buckle and is provided with a slot for the reception of the tongue of the buckle" (lines 64-70).
Date:
July 9, 1889
Creator:
McKenzie, Joseph Hyder
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Guard-Rail Clamp
Patent for a guard rail clamp. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 25, 1913
Creator:
Akers, Harry R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gathering-Machine.
Patent for a gathering machine for boll weevils and other pests in the cotton fields, which collects the insects of of the plants and throws them in the middle of the furrow to expose them to direct sunlight.
Date:
August 31, 1909
Creator:
Barnes, Ferdinand S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay-Press.
Patent for hay-presses relating to the arraignment and and construction of the means for operating the plunger of the press whereby reciprocation of the plunger may be secured by the revolution of an arm or lever whereby a single or double reciprocation of the plunger during a single revolution of the arm or lever may be secured as desired.
Date:
October 9, 1917
Creator:
Dudley, John Z.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate-Latch.
Patent for a gate latch that works by having stop-pins secured to the gate, while a rod goes through the post, with a handle on one end and a latch on the other end. The latch is shaped so that it catches the pin.
Date:
January 5, 1897
Creator:
Berry, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sod Cutting and Disintegrating Machine.
Patent for a sod cutting and disintegrating machine that has a wheel-supported frame, inclined elevator, plow attached to the elevator, front truck, and disintegrating rollers.
Date:
August 17, 1920
Creator:
Thompson, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Driving Mechanism
Patent for a driving mechanism. The object of the invention is to provide a simple and efficient mechanism for transforming reciprocatory motion into rotary motion. It can be adapted in order to connect to other mechanisms.
Date:
January 16, 1906
Creator:
Allison, Andrew J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fish Hook
Patent for a fish hook. Illustration included.
Date:
April 26, 1910
Creator:
Roberson, Elige L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fender.
Patent for a device "to be secured to the prow of a ship or vessel and which projects forwardly therefrom for the purpose of protecting the vessel against injury from a collision" (lines 13-16) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 4, 1915
Creator:
Barton, Charles H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grease-Trap.
Patent for a grease trap "in which the grease is designed to be removed from the trap automatically and the object of my invention is to cause the water passing through the trap to carry the grease out with it" (lines 8-12).
Date:
March 19, 1895
Creator:
Henderson, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate-Hinge.
Patent for a "gravity-hinge for causing a gate to automatically close, and which is susceptible of such adjustment that if the gate-post and the latch-post, either or both, become disarranged as regards their perpendicular position, or if they are not exactly coincident with relation to each other, the gate can be centered relatively to the latch-post, or rather the hinged end of the gate can be set precisely perpendicular or be shifted laterally to any required angle of inclination for the purpose of causing the gate to properly close and engage the latch on the latch-post." (Lines 11-24) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 27, 1897
Creator:
Berry, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Screw-Jack.
Patent for a simple, efficient, and economical lifting jack "which is particularly designed for removing and replacing the brasses in the journal boxes of freight, passenger and other railway cars, and which is so constructed that it can bear against the shoulder formed by the concave part of the car wheel in proximity to the tread and thus avoid the employment of special blocking for the jack, thereby enabling it to be quickly set and operated at any place without preparation of blocking as a foundation for sustaining the jack" (lines 10-21).
Date:
March 7, 1893
Creator:
Quinn, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway Signal and Crossing-Gate.
Patent for an improved railway signal meant to be used at crossings. It consists of a rotary signal post, operating mechanism, a lamp, an arm extension, the signal hanging from the arm, a bearing for the bottom of the rotary post, a box where the bearing sits, a sleeve that holds a cap plate for the box, a ladder from the post to the cap plate, and a brace.
Date:
August 1, 1893
Creator:
Berry, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History