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Improvement in Portable Fences
Patent for an improvement to portable fences so that they can be "easily and cheaply constructed in sections, and then quickly put together and firmly braced and supported." (lines 14-17) Illustration included.
Date:
October 3, 1876
Creator:
Martin, Josiah
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent for the, "improvement in the auxiliary blades attatched to plows...[and] in the improved method of constructing and attaching the blade to a plow, so that it can be shifted and adjusted in different positions" (lines 14-21). Illustrations included.
Date:
February 27, 1877
Creator:
Kersh, Thomas E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Subsoil Irrigating Implement
Patent for a farming irrigation cart which places the water beneath the soil using a plow.
Date:
May 20, 1913
Creator:
La Rue, Joseph A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire Tightener or Expander
Patent for a device aimed to provide a pair of plates, one disposed adjacent each severed end of a felly of a wheel, and provided with a right and left threaded member having threaded connections with said plates, so that they may be separated, for expanding the felly tight against the tire.
Date:
March 30, 1915
Creator:
Lawrenson, Judge Peck & Hastings, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock.
Patent for a combined nut lock and washer for use on railroad track joints.
Date:
August 3, 1909
Creator:
Garner, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Label and Twine Cabinet.
Patent for a label and twine cabinet which allows for quick removal of various kinds and quantities of labels, including illustrations.
Date:
November 3, 1891
Creator:
Haynes, Thomas M. & Gunning, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trace-Carrier.
Patent for improvements to rein buckles allowing them to be attached to a trace-chain, which will adapt them for use with plows and harnesses. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 5, 1891
Creator:
Jackson, Samuel G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Toy Wagon
Patent for "invented a new and useful Toy Wagon" (lines 5-6) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 6, 1892
Creator:
Douthit, Albert Gilbert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Measuring and Drawing Tool.
Patent for an improved, simple, and durable measuring and drawing tool that is easily adjusted and used to find bevels, pitches, degrees, and lengths in framing roofs. It has other purposes as well. "The invention consists of a plate in the shape of an eighth of an octagon having four sides, and a straight edge pivoted on the side plate and indicating thereon" (lines 14-17).
Date:
May 2, 1893
Creator:
Allred, Lemuel O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Protected Bail-Joint.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in protected rail-joints.
Date:
April 19, 1898
Creator:
Teamer, James Madison
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Animal-Traps.
Patent for improvements to animal-traps to wound or kill rats, mice, and game with the size and strength being adjustable to the size of animals sought.
Date:
August 15, 1887
Creator:
Martin, Josiah
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow And Cultivator
Patent for a plow and cultivator. Illustration included.
Date:
March 21, 1905
Creator:
Henderson, Thomas
System:
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Planter, Chopper, and Cultivator
Patent for "a combined planter and cultivator, including a cotton-chopper" (lines 11-12).
Date:
December 23, 1890
Creator:
Murdock, Joseph Lafayette
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock
Patent for a nut lock. Illustration included.
Date:
August 10, 1909
Creator:
Garner, William Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock.
Patent for a nut lock for railroad joints, which includes spring washers.
Date:
August 3, 1909
Creator:
Garner, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Motor-Actuated Locking Device for Automobiles
Patent for a device that prevents the drive shaft of an automobile from when moving when pushed by an unauthorized person. The device acts as a form of security to ensure unauthorized individuals are unable to move the vehicle. Additionally, the device can be used while the vehicle is in motion in order to slow the drive shaft, and thus the vehicle.
Date:
November 18, 1919
Creator:
Wherry, Robert D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Swivel Joint
This patent is for a swivel joint, used to connect a pipe to a coupling sleeve and allow for water-tight, axial pipe movement.
Date:
June 4, 1918
Creator:
O'Brien, Daniel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil Expressing Box.
Patent for a new and improved oil-expressing box. In this design, "the follower is adapted to fit the box, so as to obviate the need of any joint-closing device, and the face of the follower at its side edges is raised to better confine the bag in place, and at its center or central portion is channeled and provided with a false bottom to provide for the escape of the oil" (lines 24-31).
Date:
June 23, 1885
Creator:
Cathcart, Rodney S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Closet Seat Catch
Patent for a closet seat catch.
Date:
March 31, 1903
Creator:
Alexander, Francis Marion
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harrow or Cultivator
Patent for a harrow or cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 24, 1904
Creator:
Cutter, Oliver C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate
Patent for a sliding gate. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 8, 1908
Creator:
Morgan, William B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hoe.
Patent for improvements in hoes, the inventor designed the handle of the hoe to carry two shanks; the shanks diverging form the handle and bent to be parallel with each other. A connecting-rod at the end of two shanks is being threaded and provided with locking-nuts, which used to secure the hoe blades. The hoe blades can be adjusted laterally. Illustration is included.
Date:
May 19, 1891
Creator:
Brown, Henry M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hand Car.
Patent for a new and improved hand-car. This design has "such construction and arrangement of the cranks and levers of hand-cars that the maximum amount of the power exerted upon the levers by the operators will be applied to the propulsion of the car" (lines 7-12).
Date:
March 28, 1882
Creator:
Sessions, Henry H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hand Car.
Patent for a new and improved hand car. This design consists in "[a] hand-car constructed with a frame-work . . . and provided with a propelling mechanism consisting of the bent pipe-lever in combination with the rocking lever, provided with the socket, the connecting-rod, driving wheel, and pinion" (lines 92-98).
Date:
January 16, 1883
Creator:
Johnson, Roberto H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History