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Baling-Press
Patent for a baling press for hay which is more efficient at compressing the hay than previous machines.
Date:
April 7, 1908
Creator:
Stopple, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cloth-Winding Machine.
Patent for a cloth winding machine, which measures cloth for cutting and then winds the rest of the bolt of cloth back up.
Date:
April 7, 1908
Creator:
Blythe, Edward Willey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brake-Lever.
Patent for a brake lever that is locked by an arc-shaped ratchet-bar. There is "a pawl loosely mounted on the rear side of said lever and bearing against said side when the brake is set, said pawl being spring-actuated to move parallel with said side and project beyond the same and contact radially with the ratchet-teeth between said yoke" (lines 25-30).
Date:
April 7, 1896
Creator:
Burkett, Joseph B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for a simple and efficient baling-press that has an improved press-box and plunger-operating power. The connections between the power and the plunger will be lighter and the feed-opening of the press-box will be closed automatically. The machine has a continuously-rotating operating wheel that allows for an easier way to engage and disengage the pitman.
Date:
April 7, 1896
Creator:
Franks, Lewis W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crate.
Patent for "a crate for packing and transporting bottles of such material and such form of construction as will present a minimum liability to breakage of the contents." (Lines 9-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 7, 1896
Creator:
Riviere, Richard Andrew
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a car-coupling that has a "hollow draw-head provided with a horizontal chamber, a vertical pin-hole near the forward end of said chamber, and a slot in the lower part of said draw-head opening into said chamber, of a sliding latch mounted in said chamber and provided with a lip projecting beyond the outer end of said latch and curved downward as shown, and with a groove on the lower side of said latch, of a pivoted arm engaging in said groove, and a weight integral with said arm and wholly inclosed within said slot and adapted to move said sliding latch forward beneath the lower end of the pin when the latter is raised" (lines 5-18). A coupling pin is mounted in the pin-hole.
Date:
April 7, 1896
Creator:
Barry, Jefferson D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Convertible Mop and Brush.
Patent for improvements in convertible mops and brushes by using a “combination of the fountain-handle, the bail/frame secured thereto and provided with a rubber strip at its lower edge, and the mop secured to the bail/frame.” (Lines 3-7, p.2) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 7, 1891
Creator:
Bagby, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bridle and Bit.
Patent for improvements to Bridles and Bits, specifically what are known as stranglers, used to easily gain control over an animal by exerting pressure on its nose, operated by a slight pull on the auxiliary reins. This patent also provides for a device which activates the strangler when the driver releases it and the animal steps on it.
Date:
April 7, 1914
Creator:
Hentschel, Andrew J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churning-Machine.
Patent for improvements in churning machines so that they "may be used in connection with containers of different sizes" (lines 14-15).
Date:
April 7, 1914
Creator:
Crume, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Service-Switch.
Patent for a new automatic service switch "which will be entirely concealed within a casing ordinarily kept locked, thus preventing any unauthorized parties from endangering themselves by tampering with the switch, and furthermore impeding any attempt to defraud the company furnishing the current by rendering the switch difficult to access." (lines 35-42) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 7, 1914
Creator:
Wetter, Ralph E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for a "simple, efficient, and comparatively inexpensive wrench of strong and durable construction" (lines 12-14) with a sliding jaw.
Date:
April 7, 1914
Creator:
Cunningham, Ira & Flowers, Haywood
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Indicator for Merchandise.
Patent for a new and improved advertising sign. This design "relates to apparatus or devices for marking or indicating upon the outside of boxes or drawers the names and prices of the merchandise or other articles contained therein; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of a device of the above-mentioned class" (lines 23-29).
Date:
April 7, 1885
Creator:
Brown, Sampson Harvey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Truss.
Patent for an "improved truss or abdominal belt" (lines 40-41) that provides a simple design with added pads.
Date:
April 7, 1920
Creator:
Buckley, James William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel
Patent for a vehicle wheel with a rigid frame and a hub that has radical range of motion.
Date:
April 7, 1903
Creator:
Lasswell, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ironing-Board.
Patent for collapsible and compact object intended "for expediting the ironing operation" (lines 11-12).
Date:
April 7, 1914
Creator:
Jacobs, William Ramsey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Destroyer.
Patent for an insect destroyer for removing boll weevils and other insects from cotton or other crops.
Date:
April 7, 1908
Creator:
Ednall, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows
Patent for an improvement on plows specifically designed to turn black Texas soil.
Date:
April 7, 1874
Creator:
Payne, Joseph Mott
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam Boiler Feeder
Patent for improvments in automatic steam-boiler feeders
Date:
April 7, 1887
Creator:
Kelly, George A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Milk-Cooler.
Patent for an improvement in milk-coolers “in which water is drawn by capillary attraction from a receptacle placed above the milk-receptacle onto a cloth wrapped around the latter, thus cooling the milk by evaporation.” (Lines 8-12) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 7, 1891
Creator:
Banks, John F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mirror Attachment for Dressers.
Patent for a mirror attachment for dressers with an improved clamping mechanism so that it can be easily adjusted when in use and easily put to the side when not in use. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 7, 1896
Creator:
Gibson, Lizzie & Crank, Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Means for Making Bats for Mattresses.
Patent for a simple means for making bats for mattresses, and is an improvement on a previous patent (No. 399,041). "I gin into a room or place having the width or the length of the average width or length of a mattress, but extending the necessary length-say twenty or twenty-five feet, more or less to allow the cotton or material used to settle uniformly across it, the top at the extreme end preferably covered with wire-gauze to assist the draft from the gin. The floor and sides of this box or room or other receptacle into which the material for the mattress-bats is falling from the gin is provided with a means to carry the ginned material along from the gin as fast as it is worked. The bats may be formed in one long continuous web,from which the desired length may be cut" (lines 19-34)
Date:
April 7, 1896
Creator:
Haynes, Daniel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Cutter Attachment
Patent for improvements to stalk-cutter attachments to plows. The invention allows stalks to be cut by the plow and then turned under it into the soil to decrease labor an improve plow performance.
Date:
April 7, 1919
Creator:
Wylie, Arthur E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark-Arrester.
Patent for improvements in spark-arresters for locomotives in “which [it] will prevent the sparks and cinders from falling upon the train and upon surrounding lands and buildings;” (lines 10-12) by using a combination of a curved smoke-stack, a cinder-box, conducting pipes and an ash pen. Illustration is included.
Date:
April 7, 1891
Creator:
Hadlock, Edson J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Packing-Ring.
Patent for packing rings featuring inner and outer rings that are transversely divided, with respective rings functioning in a unified manner, preventing independent rotative movement.
Date:
April 7, 1914
Creator:
Bryant, Clarence R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History