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Combined Cultivator, Plow, &c.
Patent for "a machine having a main frame and a driving-gear with interchangeable planting, cultivating, stalk-cutting, and cotton-chopping mechanism, whereby the machine is adapted to be used for a variet of purposes" (lines 15-20).
Date:
April 9, 1889
Creator:
McBride, Abram B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for "certain new and useful improvements in baling-presses." (Lines 5-6) Illustrations are included.
Date:
April 3, 1888
Creator:
Archer, Roger W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Grain-Measuring Machine.
Patent for automatic grain-measuring machine, with illustrations. The purpose of this automatic grain-measuring machine is to be an improvement to already existing machines.
Date:
April 10, 1888
Creator:
Grissom, Abram Jackson.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press
Patent for the "new and improved Baling-Press which is very simple and durable in construction, and is very easily operated by hand or other power" (lines 4-10) including instructions and illustrations. Patent for a new baling-press, including illustrations.
Date:
April 10, 1888
Creator:
Mattijetz, Andreas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn or Cotton Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "the combination, with the hopper and the seed-slide therein having one end projecting from one end of the hopper, of the reciprocating yoke having its rear portion angular in cross-section and its front portion cylindrical in cross-section and having an arm at one end to engage the opening in the projecting end of the seed-slide, the angular and cylindrical bearings for the respective parts of the yoke, whereby the latter may be unshipped from or attached to the seed-slide, and the mechanism to reciprocate the yoke" (lines 71-83).
Date:
April 23, 1889
Creator:
Armstrong, John Joshua & Lowrey, Andrew Stephen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Recutting Files.
Patent for a new and improved file re-cutter. This design consists "[i]n an apparatus for recutting files by electro-chemical action, the dialectric plates and the carbon plates having their upper ends attached to said non-conducting plates, whereby the files to be recut are disposed between the carbon plates when in the solution" (lines 76-82).
Date:
April 5, 1887
Creator:
Emley, James E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Toy Race-Course.
Patent for toy race-course.
Date:
April 26, 1887
Creator:
Cordray, Henry A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dental Chair.
Patent for a dental chair improvement.
Date:
April 26, 1887
Creator:
Stiles, Edmund P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press.
Patent for improvements to press for making bales of hay.
Date:
April 21, 1885
Creator:
Chidester, John E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Buncher.
Patent for an implement to thin and bunch young cotton plants, including illustrations.
Date:
April 28, 1885
Creator:
Tynes, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
CANNING SHRIMPS AND OTHER FISH.
Patent for a method for "canning shrimps and/other like shellfish and has for its object the better preservation of the fish and greater expedition, and cheapness in canning" (lines 7-10)with illustrations and instructions.
Date:
April 6, 1880
Creator:
Pecor, Emmett C. & Bartlett, F. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark-Arrester.
Patent for concepts and designs used to improve performance of Spark-Arresters used in the smoke stacks of locomotives with illustrations and instructions.
Date:
April 6, 1880
Creator:
Wiggin, John E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial-StoneTomb.
Patent for the concept of an artificial tomb that serves as a tomb and ornamental piece made as one. "This invention relates to certain improvements in artificial-stone tombs; and it has for its object to produce a tomb with head-stone and foo-piece all in one piece that can be built up or placed immediately over grave, so as to form an ornamental finish, at a comparatively small cost." (lines 15-22) including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
April 6, 1880
Creator:
Wilson, Hence
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Earth-Auger
Patent for structural improvement in machines used for boring post holes and wells with illustrations and instructions included.
Date:
April 13, 1880
Creator:
Cudd, Decater P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Selkirk Candlestick
Patent for candlestick handle/dish with an extension that can be used traditionally for holding and carrying a candle as well as hanging on a nail in a wall with illustrations and instructions.
Date:
April 13, 1880
Creator:
Selkirk, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
COTTON AND CORN PLANTER.
Patent for a machine that assist with cotton and corn farmers with the planting of corn and cotton seed which contains instructions and illustrations on "construction and arrangement of parts" (line 18).
Date:
April 20, 1880
Creator:
Faucher, George E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for "construction and arrangement of arrow-shaped draw-heads and lever-bars adjustable upon rack-bars for the purpose of raising and lowering the draw-heads" (lines 16-20)including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 20, 1880
Creator:
Gray, John D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
COMPOSITION FOR WHITEWASH.
Patent for formula used in whitewashing homes, walls, fences. etc. with ingredients and instructions included.
Date:
April 20, 1880
Creator:
Kerr, Archibald Henderson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Seed Planter and Fertilizer Distributer
Patent for device for planting, fertilizing, and cultivating seed and grain.
Date:
April 1, 1884
Creator:
Pickle, William Chesley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Top.
Patent for a new and improved vehicle top. This design consists in "the combination of the supporting-bows having grooves in their side, the upper ends of the grooves overlapping the curtain-supporting frames, comprising the flexible side-bars provided with lateral tongues fitting in the grooves of the supporting-bows, and the cross-bars secured to the side bars and having their ends fitted in said grooves, and the covering secured to said frame" (lines 82-91).
Date:
April 24, 1888
Creator:
McCurdy, Thomas B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tuck Creasing and Marking Attachment for Sewing Machines.
Patent for a new and improved tuck creasing and marking attachment for sewing machines. This design "is to provide a simple and effective tuck creaser or marker to be operated directly by the needle-bar of a sewing machine; and it consists, essentially, of a creaser and an arm attached to the needle-bar and carrying an indent-piece, which strikes the creaser to mark or crimp the tuck. The creaser is formed upon a slide adjustable upon a graduated plate or bar attached to the plate of the sewing machine" (lines 15-24).
Date:
April 2, 1889
Creator:
Crawford, Alice Ann
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Powder Duster
Patent for "a truck mounted upon wheels, to the reat end of which is adjusted a sifter that, as the machine is progressing, will have lateral reciprocating motion imparted thereto and eject powder through an attached meshed screen" (lines 10-15).
Date:
April 23, 1889
Creator:
Glover, Charles Bazel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Walking Seed-Planter
Patent for an improved walking seed-planter.
Date:
April 19, 1881
Creator:
Thomas, Joseph H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insecticide Compound.
Patent for improvements in insect-exterminating compounds and processes; the ingredients for the mixture and instruction on how to prepare the compound are included. No illustration.
Date:
April 4, 1882
Creator:
Nettle, William B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History