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Machine for Filling Brushes (open access)

Machine for Filling Brushes

Patent for a machine designed to fill brushes with bristles. Illustrations included.
Date: March 7, 1911
Creator: Hoover, Orlando B. & Curry, Monroe
System: The Portal to Texas History
Weight Motor. (open access)

Weight Motor.

Patent for a new and improved weight-motor. This design consists in "the drum having the ratchet-wheel, the gear-wheel having the pawl engaging the ratchet-wheel, the lever extending from the track and adapted to be operated by the wheels of a passing train, the push-rod attached to the said lever and adapted to engage the ratchet-wheel to rotate the latter, the rope attached to the drum and having the weights, the trip-lever to move the push-rod out of engagement with the ratchet-wheel, and the rod attached to the said trip-lever and having an arm extending in the path of the weight" (lines 48-59).
Date: December 7, 1886
Creator: Spencer, Hiram A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hay Press. (open access)

Hay Press.

Patent for a new and improved hay press. This design consists, "with the frame, of the pivot-pin mounted in the end of the frame and having a crank disk on its lower end, the pitman pivoted to said disk, the spring secured to the pitman and the frame, the double-cam secured on the pivot-pin, the sweep loosely mounted on the pivot-pin above the said double cam, and the dogs pivoted within the sweep and bearing on the cam" (lines 59-67).
Date: January 7, 1890
Creator: Mayes, Thomas T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improved Medical Compound. (open access)

Improved Medical Compound.

Patent for improvements in medical compound.
Date: January 7, 1868
Creator: Taylor, Daniel W.
System: The Portal to Texas History