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Baling Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design consists in "a box having its upper end open and having an outwardly-opening door at the lower portion of one side, a plunger in the box having a post provided with a braced cross-piece near the upper end, ropes secured to the ends of the cross-piece, a drum under the lower end of the box, having a helical pulley at one end and a small drum at the other end, and having the ropes secured to it and winding upon it, a rope passing over guide-pulleys above the upper end of the box and winding upon the small drum" (lines 16-28).
Date:
December 13, 1887
Creator:
Weddle, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clutch Clamp.
Patent for a new and improved clutch-clamp. This design "is to provide a simple and effective device for lowering or hoisting the pipe or rods of pumps into bored wells or other places, such as mines or shafts, and without injury to the pipe or rod, such device being not only readily and easily handled in connecting it to or disconnecting it from the object to be raised or lowered, but capable of being manufactured at comparatively small cost" (lines 20-29).
Date:
August 16, 1887
Creator:
McCoy, John William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Ring and Buckle.
Patent for a new and improved combined ring and buckle. This design is "to provide a device particularly for use in halters, whereby the manufacture of the latter may be accomplished without so much sewing or riveting of the parts together as is required where the ordinary halter-ring is used. [It] is capable of application to purposes other than harnesses" (lines 9-16).
Date:
January 4, 1887
Creator:
Kay, William V.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Saw Buck and Drag Saw.
Patent for a new and improved saw-buck and drag-saw. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the saw-buck having cross-piece, the swinging arm pivoted to and laterally movable on said cross-piece, the upper-end of said arm being provided with a slot, the saw, the saw-carriers . . . having spindles, the forward-carrier being provided with a tenon, and the saw-frame pivotally mounted on the spindles of the saw-carriers" (lines 74-82).
Date:
March 22, 1887
Creator:
Nitsche, John Emil & Kowalewsky, August
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition To Be Used As A Non-Conductor Of Heat And For Other Purposes.
Patent for a non-conducting material designed to prevent heat loss from radiation, prevent damage from frost, for fire-proofing, and for "the deafening of floors and partitions" (lines 21-22). Ingredients and proportions are listed.
Date:
August 30, 1887
Creator:
Clayton, Nicholas Joseph
Object Type:
Patent
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.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design "comprise[s] a frame and case having aligned baling-chambers at opposite ends, a follower having two head-blocks working one in each of the baling-chambers, a shaft journaled between the baling-chambers, and two ropes connected at one end to the shaft and at their other ends to the opposite head-blocks" (lines 46-53).
Date:
May 3, 1887
Creator:
Green, William Robert & Green, Newton Jasper
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for improvements in "the class of baling-presses in which the follower is forced upward in the press-box by a lever pivoted or fulcrumed upon the ends of toggle-arms, and having a rope or chain for drawing it into an upright position," (lines 26-31) with illustrations.
Date:
May 24, 1887
Creator:
Stopple, John Julius
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Car Uncoupler.
Patent for a new and improved car uncoupler. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a coupling adapted to hold two cars together, of an uncoupler comprising a lever pivotally connected to the car, a weight supported on the car and connected to said lever, and a connection between the weight-operated lever and the coupling for operating it, to separate the cars upon the dropping of the weight" (lines 4-11).
Date:
June 7, 1887
Creator:
Flett, John Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for a new improvement in baling presses that improves strength, durability and handling and is cheap to manufacture, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 14, 1887
Creator:
Mansfield, James Edward
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton and Cotton Seed Press.
Patent for a new and improved press. This design consists in "a suitable frame-work, the follower, two sets of toggle-arms which are operated by a screw, and two sets of toggle-arms which extend at right angles to the two sets which are operated by the screw, and which second set are operated by a rope and tackle . . . The object of [the] invention is to produce a very powerful press in which the follower is operated by four sets of toggle-joints, two of which are operated by a screw and the other two by a rope and tackle, so as to produce twice the amount of power usually exerted in toggle-joint presses" (lines 15-29).
Date:
June 14, 1887
Creator:
Drew, John Melvin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cultivator and Corn-Planter
Patent for improvements in the design and construction of combined cultivators and planters.
Date:
July 5, 1887
Creator:
Wright, Samuel Winfield
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Auger.
Patent for a new and improved auger. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a shank provided with a conveying-screw and the cutters at the lower end of the screw, the sides of the cutters being extended beyond a vertical line drawn across the edges of the screw, and a tube or casing enclosing the screw and connected at its lower end with the cutters, said tube being of less diameter than the cutters and arranged within the outer sides thereof" (lines 56-64).
Date:
August 23, 1887
Creator:
Tevebaugh, Henry Clay
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cultivator and Corn-Planter
Patent for "a planter that shall be self-covering and adjustable as to the transverse and longitudinal space between the hills and rows, and which at the same time may be regulated as to the amount of material fed at each throw of the seed-slide, and which will also mark off the adjacent row as the machine advances" (lines 10-16).
Date:
August 23, 1887
Creator:
Westhoff, Emil
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Planter.
Patent for improvement of corn-planters, with illustrations. The purpose of this corn-planters patent was to improve existing corn-planters through, "peculiar construction and combination of devices, that will be more fully set forth hereinafter, and particularly pointed out in the claims" (lines 9-12).
Date:
October 18, 1887
Creator:
Koepke, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton-Chopper, Harrow, and Cultivator
Patent for an improved version of a machine which aids in the processing and maintenance of cotton plants. Includes description of parts and their use and illustrations.
Date:
October 18, 1887
Creator:
Robinson, John H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling-press. This design consists in "the ordinary framing, shell, or case for containing the material and stationary lower platen or bed are used, the upper platen being the movable one to effect the compression. This upper platen is brought down upon the material for its compression by the lowering of screw-threaded rods to which it is attached, such lowering being effected by the rotation of rotating nuts in fixed bearings taking on such screw-threaded rods" (lines 25-35).
Date:
January 25, 1887
Creator:
Brown, Maurice T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper and cultivator. This design consists in "the frame, the axle having drive-wheels, and a bevel-gear in combination with the longitudinally-sliding gear-shaft having [a] short crank on its rear end, the bar, the longitudinal rock-shaft in rear of and above the shaft and having the long crank, the handle depending from the rear-end of the rock-shaft, and the opposite chopping-hoes" (lines 27-35).
Date:
March 29, 1887
Creator:
Ferriott, Charlie L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn Planting Attachment for Plows.
Patent for a new and improved corn-planting attachment for plows. This design "consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of such an attachment, which may be secured to the rear end of the beam of a common breaking-plow, having a wheel running in the furrow operating the dropping mechanism" (lines 22-28).
Date:
October 18, 1887
Creator:
Aten, Frank L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History