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Apparatus for Washing and Draining Dishes.
Patent for a new and improved dishwasher. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a pan provided near its top on the inner side with rigidly-attached brackets, with a tray in the form of a pan whose side and bottom portions are perforated . . . the tray being of less diameter and height than the pan and provided on its outer side near the bottom with brackets and on its upper edge with handles" (lines 94-101).
Date:
January 14, 1890
Creator:
Caradine, Virginia C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale Band Tightener.
Patent for a new and improved bale-band tightener. This design "is to produce a device by which one person may with ease draw a band tightly around a bale of cotton or other merchandise, in place of one that has by accident been broken" (lines 12-16).
Date:
January 8, 1884
Creator:
Willis, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Button Attaching Machine.
Patent for a new and improved button-attaching machine. This design consists in "the combination, with the plunger, of . . . the die having a central projection to enter the concavity of a button and parallel oblique curved recesses in said projection . . . [and] a peripheral flange" (lines 84-99).
Date:
January 24, 1888
Creator:
Tone, Harrison
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Can Closure
Patent for a can closure. Illustration included.
Date:
January 29, 1907
Creator:
Brundrett, Arnold
System:
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Car-Coupling.
Patent for a simple, practical, and reliable car-coupling with a side latch. It is "adapted for automatic connection in pairs, when two cars having the improvements are brought together on the same track, which will be capable of a ready release from the side of either coupled car, and also that will be adapted by its peculiar formation to receive support from one part of the improvements, when a coupled drawhead is partly detached from its connections to the car, and which if not so sustained might fall on the track, derail the car having the disabled coupling, and occasion the wreckage of said car and others of a train" (lines 14-27).
Date:
January 15, 1895
Creator:
Curry, Charles D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Door Fastening.
Patent for sliding car-door fastening to improve the fastening of said car-door.
Date:
January 20, 1880
Creator:
Buser, William H. & Shaw, Burrell L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Rail Hose-Bridge.
Patent that provides a hose-bridge that is light in weight and simple in construction, that can be carried on the cars or stored at different points on the line convenient for use.
Date:
January 24, 1921
Creator:
Tyler, Charley P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.
Patent for a combined cotton chopper and cultivator that "consists in providing the main axle with spur-wheels and with depending supports to which are attached the beams of the cultivator shovels and a cutting blade which extends in front of the machine and is adapted to be vibrated by the spur-wheels as the machine moves over the ground, thereby providing means for chopping cotton or other stalks" (lines 17-25).
Date:
January 23, 1894
Creator:
Bosley, Henry C. & Organ, Joseph H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compressed-Air Water-Elevator.
Patent for new and improved compressed air water elevator to lift water from reservoirs.
Date:
January 27, 1880
Creator:
Keating, Thomas, B.; Clarke, Lafe. W. & Gelatt, Wallace W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Conflagration Arrester.
Patent for a new and improved conflagration arrester. This design "is to provide a device by which the sides of a building adjacent to other buildings on fire may be protected by a uniform continuous sheet of water covering the sides of such building" (lines 9-13). It consists in "the combination of a series of inclined arms provided with eyes at their outer ends and having hooks to engage the side of a building, a shelf or deflector, and a rod so connecting the latter pivotally with the eyes of the inclined arms that the upper part of said shelf shall overbalance the lower part, which shall . . . rest against the wall" (lines 89-97).
Date:
January 20, 1891
Creator:
Puckett, Florence N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin
Patent for a cotton gin which removes lint with air pressure. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 26, 1909
Creator:
Epps, Clinton Calvin
System:
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Cotton Planter.
Patent for a new and improved cotton planter. This design "consists in the combination, with the slotted hopper-bottom, of the hinged and curved cut-offs and their spring, whereby the escape of seed will be prevented, except as forced out by the prongs of the feed-wheel" (lines 19-23).
Date:
January 24, 1882
Creator:
Byers, Anthony Walter & Dorser, James Carrol
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner
Patent for a crude oil burner for kitchen use such as cooking. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 25, 1910
Creator:
Brennan, John B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Display-Case.
Patent for a display case for food, which has an improved frame.
Date:
January 17, 1911
Creator:
Folsom, Andrew W.
System:
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Evaporator.
Patent for a new and improved evaporator. This design "consists in certain improvements in the construction of . . . sugar boilers or evaporators" (lines 19-21). This design utilizes "[t]he combination, with an evaporating-pan mounted upon wheels or rollers, of a furnace provided with inclined holes adjoining its sides to accommodate the wheels of the evaporator" to make said improvements (lines 57-61).
Date:
January 25, 1881
Creator:
Harman, Franklin S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fruit-Gatherer.
Patent for "improving fruit-gatherers designed to be thrust into a tree and cull each fruit separately" (lines 17-20).
Date:
January 20, 1880
Creator:
Eddleman, James P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gaff
Patent for a gaff. This invention is for catching small animals. Illustration included.
Date:
January 31, 1911
Creator:
Werline, William Frederick
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate
Patent for invention of certain new and useful Improvements in Gates. Relates to the improvements in automatic gates, Including annexed drawing which fully illustrate the invetion (5-10).
Date:
January 31, 1893
Creator:
Boyd, Alexander
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gland or Swab-Holder
Patent for a holder for swabs used for lubricating pistons, valve rods, and other similar devices. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 14, 1908
Creator:
Slaydon, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame.
Patent for a new and improved hame. This design "consists in an attachment provided with a series of lugs or hooks for the attachment of the link of the chain trace or the eye of the tug, whereby the draft may be attached to the hame attachment at any desired point, said attachment being adapted to be secured to a hame of the ordinary construction" (lines 10-17).
Date:
January 26, 1886
Creator:
Hughes, Henry A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harness Attachment
Patent for a harness attachment. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 17, 1905
Creator:
Anderson, Samuel C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay Press.
Patent for a new and improved hay-press. This design "is to produce a hay-press of simple construction that will work easily and rapidly, that will operate in such a manner that the hay cannot clog in the press, and in which the plunger or follower will be automatically reciprocated by a continuous motion of the main pulley" (lines 9-15). It consists, "with the plunger having a sideways-extending arm, a screw-shaft connected with the plunger and having a sideways-extending arm, the pinion on the screw-shaft, the shaft and pinions . . . of a tilting frame" (lines 113-118).
Date:
January 13, 1891
Creator:
Donald, Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horse Detacher
Patent for horse detacher. Illustration included.
Date:
January 17, 1905
Creator:
Anderson, Samuel C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churns
Patent for a geared mechanism to attach to existing churns to aid in the production of cream into butter. Illustrations include front and side elevations.
Date:
January 23, 1877
Creator:
Gray, Whitley F.
System:
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