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Improvement in Apparatus for Distilling Turpentine.
Patent for a new and improved process of production and distillation of turpentine, including illustrations.
Date:
September 24, 1872
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings.
Patent for "an improved car-coupling simple in construction, convenient in use, and effective and reliable in operation." (lines 12-14) e.g., including illustration.
Date:
September 24, 1872
Creator:
Allen, Henry & Baldwin, Addison H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churns.
Patent for improving a butter church mechanism.
Date:
September 24, 1872
Creator:
Messick, William P. & Messick, Harvey T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combining Bitumen and Clay.
Patent for a method of combining bitumen, water, and clay for such purposes as plastering.
Date:
September 24, 1872
Creator:
Lea, Pryor
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Presses.
Patent for a new press design, including illustrations.
Date:
September 24, 1872
Creator:
Lasswell, Allen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Guards for Sheep-Shears.
Patent for "an improved attachment that serves both as a guide and guard for preventing the cutting of the sheep in shearing, and by which even unskilled workmen can use the shears and cut the wool close to the skin without hurting the sheep, with by the point or edge of the blades." (Lines 15-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 24, 1878
Creator:
Helmecke, Friederich A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Pumps.
Patent for "a pump having two barrels of different diameters, the larger being subjacent to the smaller, and each provided with a valved piston, said pistons being both secured to the same piston-rod, in combination with a weight, arranged to counter-balance the added weights of the water-columns above the smaller and below the larger piston." (Lines 12-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 24, 1878
Creator:
Beeman, Geraldo A. & Mason, John T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Stamping Envelopes
Patent for "a means whereby with one motion a stamp will be supplied from the'apparatus, moistened, and placed in position upon a letter, wrapper, or parcel adapted to receive it, and wherein a number of stamps may be consecutively placed when and as desired" (lines 10-15).
Date:
September 24, 1889
Creator:
Helland, Hans & Matzow, Frantz
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design consists "of the base-plate, the casing made in two trough-shaped sections . . . one of which is hinged to the base-plate the bifurcated uprights, the operating-levers on each side hinged to the uprights, the compressing-beam extending across the baling-chamber and through the uprights, and connections between the compressing-beam and the levers" (lines 92-100).
Date:
September 24, 1889
Creator:
Hillman, William & Ripple, Joseph F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopping, Planting, and Cultivating Machine
Patent for "a machine of this class which shall be simple in construction, inexpensive, durable, and easily operated" (lines 11-14).
Date:
September 24, 1889
Creator:
Piland, David Winfield
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Door-Check
Patent for "improved door-check for retaining the door in any desired open position. . . of very simple construction controlled by connection with the knob of the door" (lines 8-13).
Date:
September 24, 1889
Creator:
Scarborough, William Daily
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fence Making Implement.
Patent for a new and improved fence-making tool. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the hooks, the bars between the same, the plate connecting the ends of the hooks and provided with the claw, the lever pivoted between the hooks and having the offset and carrying a supplemental lever, and a lever having one end adapted to be inserted between the hooks, and provided on one edge with a stud" (lines 84-92).
Date:
September 24, 1889
Creator:
Fisher, Conrad H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flour Bin and Sifter.
Patent for a new and improved flour bin and sifter. This design consists in "[a] bin having sleeves secured thereto at opposite sides and removable screening and sifting mechanism provided with similar sleeves, and two-prong pins engaging said sleeves for connecting the sifting and screening mechanism to the bin, the said pins being arranged with their heads in opposite directions" (lines 20-27).
Date:
September 24, 1889
Creator:
McClellan, John A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Suspension-Bridge
Patent for a more easily constructible "bridge the pillar or roadway of which is adjustable to different heights, and to meet certain contingencies and while adjustable as a whole is also adjustable at any point whatsoever, whereby the roadway may be maintained level regardless of the yielding of certain portions of the structure" (lines 11-17).
Date:
September 24, 1889
Creator:
Greer, William Henry Clay
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fruit-Picker.
Patent for a fruit-picker that has a jaw or jaws that severs the stem of the fruit, a fabric tube that brings the fruit to the operator or a basket. It bruises the fruit less than other pickers do.
Date:
September 24, 1895
Creator:
Williams, Thomas Page
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harness-Saddle.
Patent for an adjustable harness-saddle that has self-adjusting trees and doesn't pinch or injure the horse.
Date:
September 24, 1895
Creator:
Varga, Lionel J. & Varga, Howard A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Compresor.
Patent for a hydraulic compressor meant to press cotton using the minimum amount of weight and the maximum amount of strength.
Date:
September 24, 1895
Creator:
Reisel, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Jetty.
Patent for a an inexpensive and durable jetty made from "piles driven in the ground in the ordinary way, but incase them in such a way that they will not be liable to early decay or infested by insects, which cut and destroy them when not protected" (lines 11-15).
Date:
September 24, 1895
Creator:
Bryant, Benjamin N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lifting-Jack.
Patent for a lifting-jack that has "strength with durability necessary in this class of devices and that will be simple in construction and easy of operation" (para. 2).
Date:
September 24, 1895
Creator:
Lynn, John McKinzie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve-Gear.
Patent for a valve-gear that uses a single eccentric, "together with devices by which such eccentric may be shifted upon the shaft and locked in its various positions to effect either a reversal of the engine or a stoppage thereof with a full head of steam on, and to run the engine in one or the other direction, as may be desired" (lines 10-15).
Date:
September 24, 1895
Creator:
Hill, Millard F. & Easley, Clifton W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cartridge for Guns.
Patent for "a projectile having an elliptical cross-section and slight longitadinal twist for use in guns provided with a corresponding bore." (lines 8-11), including description and illustrations.
Date:
September 24, 1901
Creator:
Cole, William F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Program-Clock.
Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Electric Time-Reminder Clocks" (lines 5-7) which are "designed for service in furnishing notice to the user of acts to be performed at previously-specified times or periods" (lines 12-14).
Date:
September 24, 1901
Creator:
Dubinski, Benjamin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Refining Crude Mineral Oils and their Distillates.
Patent for a process for the purification of crude oils using a variety of chemical processes.
Date:
September 24, 1901
Creator:
Thiele, Felix C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint.
Patent for a durable, inexpensive rail component which bridges two rails and relieves strain and stressing caused by passing rail-cars. Furthermore, this component does not require existing rails to become obsolete.
Date:
September 24, 1901
Creator:
Gillen, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History