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Combined Shaft Holder and Wrench.
Patent for a new and improved shaft-holder and wrench. This design "consist[s] of the arms having their lower ends tapered to form screw-drivers of different sizes, the heads on the upper ends of the arms, the jaws on the heads, and the threaded shaft attached to one of the arms and engaging a tapped aperture in the other arm" (lines 92-98).
Date:
January 8, 1889
Creator:
Nott, Henry W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Shears.
Patent for new and improved animal shears. This design is "of a platinum or other wire or conductor heated to a high temperature, sufficient to burn through the fibers of the wool or hair, and [is] passed over the surface of the body as close as may be deemed desirable to the roots. No injurious effects are produced upon the animal or upon the wool or hair removed, while at the same time the same may be removed with great uniformity and expedition" (lines 28-36).
Date:
June 8, 1886
Creator:
Harrell, Joseph J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Wardrobe, Bureau, and Wash Stand.
Patent for a new and improved combination chiffarobe and wash stand. This design is "constructed with a main wardrobe section provided with hinged upper doors having lower ledges or shelves, respectively, and bureau and wash-stand structures hinged at opposite sides of the wardrobe below its doors and adapted when closed to close the lower front part of the wardrobe, and said door-ledges forming top covers to the wash-stand and bureau" (lines 31-40).
Date:
May 8, 1888
Creator:
Wulff, Henry F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Barrel for Outhouses.
Patent for a new and improved barrel. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the barrel-head having the opening, of the cover adapted to close said opening, the bolt extending through said cover and into the barrel, the clamping bar longer than the width of said opening in the barrel-head, said bar being centrally pivoted by a rivet to the lower end of said bolt, and a nut screwed upon the upper end of said bolt for clamping said cover in position" (lines 16-25).
Date:
May 8, 1888
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Impregnating Liquids with Gases.
Patent for a new and improved apparatus for impregnating liquids with gases. This design "relates to apparatus for impregnating water or other suitable liquid with the fumes emanating from the consumption of a combustible composition of matter, such as sulphur, which when ignited emits a gas containing suitable medicinal qualities" (lines 14-19). It consists in "the closed reservoir for containing the liquid, having windows upon opposite walls thereof, of the transverse beam having its ends supported in said windows, the sulphur-containing vessel . . . the man-hole, the air-hole, and cocks" (lines 4-10).
Date:
October 8, 1889
Creator:
Radam, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Child's Crib
Patent for new "suspended cribs or cradles for the use of children" (lines 17-18) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 8, 1880
Creator:
Brown, Fred Harvey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Cotton-Chopper
Patent for "new and useful improvements in rotary cotton-choppers" (lines 4-5) that are of "the class of cotton-choppers which travel across the rows, and also to the class which use a revolving drum having blades or hoes spirally arranged on its periphery" (lines 13-17), including descriptions and illustrations.
Date:
June 8, 1880
Creator:
Lee, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lever Scraper for Cleaning Plows.
Patent for a new and improved lever scraper for cleaning plows. This design "relates to improvements in plows, the object being to remove quickly and readily from the mold-board the earth which, in plowing stiff, waxy, or greasy soils, adheres thereto; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of a scraper-blade and of the actuating mechanism therefor" (lines 9-15).
Date:
November 8, 1887
Creator:
Tucker, Argyle W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wagon-Body
Patent for "an improvement in extensible wagon-bodies," (lines 8-9) including illustrations.
Date:
November 8, 1887
Creator:
Stumpf, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Umbrella and Sun Shade.
Patent for a new and improved (sun) umbrella. This design utilizes an adjustable metal frame that can be attached to a piece of equipment (e.g., a tractor) or worn comfortably by a person. This allows for hands-free use while being protected from the sun and/or rain.
Date:
February 8, 1881
Creator:
Gray, Hiram Balderston
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock Stitch Ripper.
Patent for a new and improved multi-tool. This design "relates to an improved combination tool or implement designed to be used in connection with sewing-machines, and combining in a convenient form several instruments which operators on sewing-machines should always have ready at hand" (lines 9-14).
Date:
April 8, 1884
Creator:
Wheeler, Elijah Harvey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lift or Elevator.
Patent for a new and improved elevator. This design "consists in the construction of the operating mechanism . . . whereby the mechanism may be regulated or adjusted to run fast or slow, according to the weight of the load to be carried, it being adjusted to run slow, but with great power, when heavy loads are to be lifted, but to run fast, but with lesser power, when lighter loads are to be lifted" (lines 28-37).
Date:
April 8, 1884
Creator:
Krause, Earnest.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insecticide.
Patent for an inflammable compound for exterminating destructive insects and animals that contains alkanet-root, arsenious acid, gum-camphor, iodine resubl., phosphorus, sulphur resubl., and bisulphide carbon.
Date:
January 8, 1886
Creator:
Shugart, T. Woodward. & Clifton, Charley D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Stretching and Removing Fence Wires.
Patent for a new and improved machine for stretching and removing fence wires. This design "is to provide a simple, effective, and inexpensive machine for stretching the wires of fences along the fence-posts, and straining the wires taut while they are being fastened to the posts, and also for removing the wires from the posts when required, as in removing or resetting a fence" (lines 8-14).
Date:
January 8, 1884
Creator:
Killough, John N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive Valve Gear.
Patent for a new and improved valve-gear. This design "is especially designed for locomotive-engines; and the invention consists of a combination of rockers, shafts, arms, levers, links, and connecting-rods worked from the cross-head of the locomotive exclusively, and so arranged as to give the valve a correct motion" (lines 7-13).
Date:
December 8, 1885
Creator:
Lewis, Wallace James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel or Felly Screw.
Patent for a new and improved screw for a wheel or felly. This design "relates to screws for setting vehicle fellies or rims on the tenons of the spokes; and its object is to provide a device possessing superior advantages in point of simplicity, ease of adjustment, and general efficiency, whereby one [person] can easily and conveniently set the rim" (lines 9-15).
Date:
January 8, 1884
Creator:
Rotzien, Christoph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well Cover.
Patent for a new and improved well cover. This design "is to provide a new and improved cover for wells, cisterns, &c., which cover is so constructed and arranged that it can be moved back by stepping on a step in front of it, and is automatically closed when the pressure is removed" (lines 8-13).
Date:
September 8, 1885
Creator:
Bullock, Henry P. & Cook, Henry B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mechanical Movement
Patent for "improvements in devices for converting reciprocal into rotary motion, and is more particularly adapted and intended for use with windmills in applying the reciprocal motion of the pump-rod to the operation of rotating machines" (lines 11-16).
Date:
January 8, 1889
Creator:
Fulton, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Manufacture of Hydraulic Cement and Lime.
Patent for improvement in“the manufacture of hydraulic cement or lime form rotten or decomposed limestone” (lines 66-68).
Date:
February 8, 1881
Creator:
Dimelow, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk Knocker.
Patent for a new and improved stalk knocker. This design consists in "the combination, with the running-gear of a wagon, of a frame-work mounted thereon and provided with vertically-adjustable hangers at its rear end carrying stalk-knockers and their shaft, a diagonal adjustable brace connecting the hanger and the frame-work, and a driving-pulley formed in sections, having spoke-embracing lugs, and connected to the knocker-shaft by means of a belt" (lines 10-18).
Date:
November 8, 1887
Creator:
Allen, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mold and Mold Hoisting Apparatus for Building Concrete Walls.
Patent for a new and improved concrete-raising apparatus. This design "consists in a mold in which a course of a wall can be formed, and in devices for raising the mold in the formation of another course. The invention also consists in details of construction and combination of parts" (lines 12-17).
Date:
July 8, 1884
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas Willson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mechanical Motor.
Patent for a new and improved motor. This design consists, "with the frame having the side and end slots, of the two drive-wheels and their springs, the movable spring-actuated shaft having the central pinion, the pivoted lever, the catch of the same, the crank-shaft formed with the central crank and having the pinion, the connecting-pitman, the pivoted adjustable fan-rod formed with the series of apertures near its upper end and along its central part, the adjustable weight, and the connecting-rod" (lines 116-126).
Date:
May 8, 1888
Creator:
Haines, Samuel Alfred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spiral Ring.
Patent for a new and improved lap-ring. This design consists in a "lap-ring for connecting the tree-irons of double-trees and single-trees, consisting of the S-shaped lap-ring having the end curves spread laterally from the stem of the S, and carried round on spiral curves to points ninety degrees beyond a line that would evenly divide the figure thus formed longitudinally" (lines 41-48).
Date:
July 8, 1884
Creator:
Brooks, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow
Patent for an improved invention providing a convertible plow and cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 8, 1885
Creator:
Moore, Thomas M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History