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Coffee and Teapot.
Patent for an improved coffee and teapot, in which the coffee or tea are boiled into the water and then strained out. Included instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 15, 1869
Creator:
Heiss, Gregor
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Syringe for Destroying Cotton-Plant Worms.
Patent for improved instrument to be used to destroy cotton-worms, this instrument “provided with a nozzle, having a fine discharge-passages, through which the liquid is forced slowly, in the form of spray, and that the same nozzle is provided with an inlet-tube, through which liquid can be rapidly drawn into the barrel for filling it, but which will be automatically shut at the commencement of discharging the liquid through the nozzle, and kept shut during such discharge.” (Lines 55-62) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 15, 1869
Creator:
Robira, Antonio
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Velocipede.
Patent for improvement in velocipedes by using “two levers that are secured by a pivot-connection to pendent vibrating fulcra, on each side of the machine, and to the cranks of the driving-wheel; this would develop greater power than can be brought to bear by the placing of the feet of the driver directly on pedals on the crank-pins, or wrists.” (Lines 32-37) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 15, 1869
Creator:
Flint, Daniel P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Velocipede.
Patent for an improved arrangement of velocipedes "to allow the use of a much larger driving-wheel than is compatible with the use of pedals that are placed directly on the crank pins or wrists, and to increase the power that can be applied to the propulsion of the machine by the feet of the driver, and the the speed at which is may be driven." (Lines 16-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 15, 1869
Creator:
Flint, Daniel P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Destroying Worms on Cotton-Plants.
Patent for improvement in insect destroyer by “placing a gas-generator on a wagon, in its lower chamber, a fire box is placed for creating sulphurous gas. A bellows attached to its lower end to regulate sufficient air in forming the sulphurous gas.” (Lines 15-18) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 15, 1869
Creator:
Perl, M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Farm Gates.
Patent for "a gate herein I dispense with the use of hinges and other similar devices and prevent sagging; also that the operation of opening or shutting the gate, owing to its balanced and suspended condition, is attended with little or no exertion on the part of the operator..." (lines 84-90) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 15, 1875
Creator:
Snider, Tunis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Balanced-Valve Testing and Locking Device.
Patent for "a simple testing and locking device for balanced valves of locomotives, the testing device being so placed with relation to the valve that it may be accurately determined whether the valve on one or the other side of the engine is leaking without removing the outer plates form the valve-casing or removing the covers from the steam-chest." (Lines 8-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 15, 1897
Creator:
Sadler, James Alexander
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for "car-couplings; and the object is to provide an improved automatically-tripped pin-supporting mechanism, and also to provide an improved device for holding the link in proper position for coupling, whereby the couplers of adjoining cars may be arranged to interlock automatically before coming together, thus avoiding the extreme danger incident to coupling cars." (Lines 12-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 15, 1897
Creator:
Robertson, Isaac N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coupling for Wagon Tires.
Patent for a new and improved tire tightener. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the wheel-fellies, one of which has a longitudinal socket, of the overlapping sections secured to the contiguous ends of the tire, and having projecting lugs, an adjusting-bolt carried by one of the lugs and bearing against the other lug, and a protecting-plate having a threaded opening for the passage of the bolt and interposed between the end of the felly in which [a] socket is formed, and the lug adjacent thereto" (lines 80-90).
Date:
June 15, 1886
Creator:
Simon, Henry Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a new and improved churn. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the body, or receptacle and its cover, of the dasher having a frame provided with inner apertured or perforated corner blocks and journaled in the body or receptacle, and a second apertured or perforated cross-shaped dasher journaled within the other dasher, the tripod-frame comprising the arched meeting side bars, and a third connecting-bar having an aperture, through which the upper end of the inner dasher-staff passes, the three-armed brace having a gudgeon or shaft" (lines 41-52).
Date:
June 15, 1886
Creator:
Lines, Daniel & Long, Charles T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for "a new and useful improvement in car-couplings" (lines 5-6), with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 15, 1886
Creator:
Ferguson, George Jones
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bee-Hive.
Patent for a "new and useful improvement in bee-hives" (lines 5-6), with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 15, 1886
Creator:
McCullar, John Jackson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Condenser
Patent for "the construction of surface-condensers for condensing steam, condensing cooling ammonia-gas, and other purposes" (lines 17-20) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 15, 1880
Creator:
Lee, Charles Brogden
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brick-Machine
Patent for "that class of brick-machines usually termed 'dry-press machines,' in which clay is taken from the bank and passed into molds in a revolving wheel" (lines 15-19) and "consists more particularly in the construction of details and combination of parts" (lines 23-25) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 15, 1880
Creator:
Johnson, Richard M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Exterminator.
Patent for a red ant exterminator that works by "withdrawing the air from an ant-nest and substituting therefor a fluid or gas which may be ignited and thereby destroy the lives of the insects." (Lines 18-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 15, 1897
Creator:
Schindler, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve-Motion.
Patent for "a valve-motion having simple and positive means for varying the points at which the ports of the engine-cylinder are opened and closed to vary the lap and lead, and while accomplishing this result the invention has especial reference to a form of valve-motion designed for use in connection with that type of locomotive or other engines in which there is a comparatively short space between the drive or driving-shaft and the engine-cylinder." (Lines 11-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 15, 1897
Creator:
Shelb, Peter J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock.
Patent for a new and improved nut lock. This design consists in "[a] lock . . . for a nut having a non-circular recess in its rear face, consisting of a washer having a non-circular opening whereby it may be keyed upon a bolt and fitted to enter the non-circular recess of a nut, and a securing-plate having an opening fitted to receive the locking-washer" (lines 81-87).
Date:
June 15, 1886
Creator:
Unger, Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hand-Car.
Patent for "a hand-car with an auxiliary spring-actuated mechanism which can be used with or without the lever mechanism to propel at a rapid rate of speed." (Lines 12-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 15, 1897
Creator:
Rousey, William N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horse Collar.
Patent for a new and improved horse collar. This design "is to supply a cheap, durable, easy fitting and self adjusting or flexible horse-collar for farm and other use, and which shall readily adapt itself to the form of the animal, and thereby obviate those abrasions which are so common with the use of a rigid and unyielding collar. To these and other ends [the] collar is made for the most part of what is known as "moss-yarn," with its strands or fibers arranged and the body of the collar subjected to pressure in a mold or press" (lines 9-20).
Date:
June 15, 1886
Creator:
Bailey, William Luther; Knight, Leonard Thaddeus & Knight, Lenis Douglas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Telephone-Transmitter.
Patent for "a simple transmitter in which the greatest volume of sound may be transmitted without causing grating or rattling." (Lines 8-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 15, 1897
Creator:
Alexander, Horace C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Feeding Envelops to Type-Writing Machines.
Patent for "a device for feeding envelops to type-writing machines, the object being to construct a device of the character described which is adapted to be mounted on the carriage of the machine and feed envelops to be addressed continuously and automatically to the platen on said machine." (Lines 26-32) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 15, 1897
Creator:
Wash, Benjamin S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Seed Conveyer.
Patent for "an efficient and economical cotton-seed-conveyer system for the removal of cotton-seed from gins or linters by the exclusive and unimpeded action of an air-blast through the exhaust-flue of the fan that is ordinarily employed in connection with the usual elevator from conducting cotton into the gin-feeders." (Lines 9-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 15, 1897
Creator:
Graber, Henry W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Operating Mechanism
Patent for a rotary dasher churn operated by a spring motor. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 15, 1909
Creator:
Johnson, Frederick N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Locking and Releasing Device for Mining-Cars
Patent for an automatic locking and releasing device for mining carts and cages. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 15, 1909
Creator:
Stroope, Joseph H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History