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Method of Repairing Circular-Saw Teeth.
Patent for enabling the teeth of circular saws to be drawn out and hammered for repair, including illustration.
Date:
June 10, 1856
Creator:
Parry, M. L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Riding-Saddles.
Patent for improvement in riding saddles that are constructed from saddle-tree in a manner to facilitate the mounting of a horse, and to furnish additional safeguards against being thrown.
Date:
June 10, 1873
Creator:
Hamil, Robert C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Animal-Traps.
Patent for an improvements in animal traps. It is similar to a hook and proper for mouse and rat.
Date:
June 10, 1879
Creator:
Milby, Frank Whitson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Insect-Exterminators.
Patent for an improved insect exterminator design with modifications especially suitable for cotton fields, includes illustrations.
Date:
June 10, 1879
Creator:
Walker, John Z.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Photographic Backgrounds.
Patent for a new way of "holding and manipulating photographers' backgrounds" (line 19) including illustrations.
Date:
June 10, 1879
Creator:
Moberly, Louis
System:
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Nut Lock.
Patent for a new and improved nut lock. This design "is to provide a spring-washer of great stiffness and strength, which, when applied to a bolt beneath a nut, serves to prevent the latter from turning, and also acts to firmly hold the parts of a rail-joint after there has been some wear thereof, thus keeping the bolts from becoming loose and rattling from such wear" (lines 13-20).
Date:
June 10, 1884
Creator:
Campbell, Eli F.; Noble, Laroy C. & Howe, Milton G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tramping Attachment for Baling Presses.
Patent for a new and improved attachment for baling presses. This design "consists of a contrivance of trampers and a crank with power mechanism for working them, in a simple arrangement for beating in the cotton on the follower preparatory to closing the press and completing the pressing by the follower, the device being calculated to enable the bales of full size to be made in a smaller case, and with less range of movement of the follower and more economically than they can be made without the tramper" (lines 8-18).
Date:
June 10, 1884
Creator:
Thompson, Gedeon Philip
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Violin Tail Piece.
Patent for a new and improved tail piece for violins. This design "has for its object to raise or lower the pitch of the strings simultaneously, when required" (lines 10-12).
Date:
June 10, 1884
Creator:
Smith, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well Bucket.
Patent for a new and improved well-bucket. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the well-bucket, having the rabbeted opening in its bottom, and provided with the apertured cross-bars of the valve-rod passing through the apertures in said cross-bars and the opening in the bottom of the bucket, and the valve secured to the lower end of said rod" (lines 56-62).
Date:
June 10, 1884
Creator:
Foat, Robert H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horse Detacher.
Patent for a new and improved horse detacher. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the whiffletree-support, the whiffletree, the hinge connecting such parts having its upper and lower plates secured, respectively, to the whiffletree and its support and jointed at their rear edges, and the arm or lever extended forward from the upper plate, whereby upward draft on said arm or lever will turn the whiffletree backward from its normal position to release the traces" (lines 91-100).
Date:
June 10, 1890
Creator:
Harrison, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of Compressing and Baling Cotton Batting.
Patent for a new and improved method of baling cotton. This design "consist[s] in, first, folding the cotton in successive layers and slightly compressing the same at their folds; second, severing the web at intervals into sections; third, subjecting the sections successively and independently to compression; fourth, piling the sections; fifth, subjecting the mass thus formed to final compression, and sixth, binding or baling the same while under such compression" (lines 90-100).
Date:
June 10, 1890
Creator:
Rembert, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Milk Cooler.
Patent for a new and improved cooler. This design "consist[s] of the main vessel adapted to contain the substance to be cooled, having its upper end open and the walls of said open end drawn or inclined inward, as described, the water vessel supported on said main vessel, with a space between its bottom and the top of the main vessel, and made larger at its bottom than the upper open end of the main vessel, and the enveloping-sheet arranged to be wet by the contents of the water-vessel and extended past the space between the said vessels, whereby to protect the contents of the main vessel" (lines 79-92).
Date:
June 10, 1890
Creator:
Stiles, Frederick
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for "an improved device of this character, which may be readily converted from a turning-plow to a shovelplow, or from a shovel-plow to a turning-plow, by resetting the bar, mold-board, and share, and which may be used either with a steel or wood beam, as desired" (lines 14-20).
Date:
June 10, 1890
Creator:
Wilhelm, Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in "[t]he slide for shovel-plows, consisting of two members having enlargements at their ends, provided with radial notches, the upper member being provided with a longitudinal slot, and a pivot-pin inserted through the enlargements of the members" (lines 62-67).
Date:
June 10, 1890
Creator:
Mason, Thomas J.
System:
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Plow.
Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in "the combination of the share having the keeper on the mold-board and the arm, the detachable point bearing against the outer side of the arm and having the tongue engaging the keeper, and the lever fulcrumed to the mold-board at a point between the keeper and landside, and having the short arm adapted to lap the joint between the point and mold-board and to engage the outer end of the tongue to lock the latter in the keeper" (lines 82-92).
Date:
June 10, 1890
Creator:
Hyer, Robert Stewart
System:
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Protractor.
Patent for a new and improved protractor. This design "is to make a protractor or plotter by which may be calculated the length of the base, perpendicular, and hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle where the latitude and departure or the altitude and depression are given" (lines 15-20). To this end, it consists, "with the semicircular protractor provided with a rectangular opening the edges of which are graduated, and centrally-pivoted vernier, of the departure-scale arranged to move up or down within the said rectangular scale within the semicircular scale" (lines 6-12).
Date:
June 10, 1890
Creator:
Dolman, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash Balance.
Patent for a new and improved sash balance. This design consists "of the strap provided with a series of holes and designed to have one end secured to the upper sash of a window, the hanger secured to the top of the window-frame and provided with the roller, the clasp or fastener secured to the lower sash and consisting of the plate having the ears and provided with a roller journaled in the ears and having the pin or stud arranged to engage the hole of the strap" (lines 85-95).
Date:
June 10, 1890
Creator:
Estill, Charles C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash-Holder
Patent for "an improved device, easily attached,cheap of manufacture, and durable and efficient in use, which will dispense with the employment of weights and cords, and which will not be affected by the Weather to allow the window to fall by the shrinkage of the holder" (lines 14-20).
Date:
June 10, 1890
Creator:
Stukes, John Marion
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Screw.
Patent for a new and improved screw. This design consists in "[a] screw, the body and shank of which are of corresponding diameter throughout their length, the shank terminating in a rounded end, and the shank and body being provided with a longitudinal straight channel extending throughout their lengths, one of the terminal shoulders of the channel being removed" (lines 4-10).
Date:
June 10, 1890
Creator:
Ericson, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wagon Step.
Patent for a new and improved wagon-step. This design "consist[s] of the support-piece adapted to be secured to the side of a wagon-bed and formed with a chamber having parallel inclined end walls, extended shoulders, and parallel inclined end walls, in combination with the step formed with a head to fit the chamber of the support-piece, and a lifting and holding hook" (lines 7-15).
Date:
June 10, 1890
Creator:
Nichols, Eliza A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dental Occlusornce
Patent for a dental tool that is used after all of a patients teeth are removed. This devise will restore the patients bite when the jaw is in the closed position.
Date:
June 10, 1901
Creator:
Stocks, Clarence
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burner for Crude Oil.
Patent for "a burner for crude oil, and particularly to a construction by means which a direct or indirect draft may be utilized in the burning of the oil." (lines 11-14) and illustrations.
Date:
June 10, 1902
Creator:
Lewis, Thomas E.; Ray, Albert J. & Wesson, Miley B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cheese Cutter
Patent for a cheese cutter which includes a scale to determine the amount of cheese including illustrations.
Date:
June 10, 1902
Creator:
Niggli, Emil
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compress and Packer
Patent for a device that provides improvements in machines for compressing, packing, and baling cotton, hay, straw, and the like; and the object is to provide a machine of this character operating automatically to form the bat as the material is received from the gin or condenser and folding the bat back and forth in even layers in the press, forming a complete and symmetrical bale (lines 9-17) Illustrations are included.
Date:
June 10, 1902
Creator:
Griffin, John B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History