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Burial Apparatus
Patent for improvements in burial apparatus, relating particularly to linings and coverings for graves, which are designed to do away with all appearance of earth or dirt in the placing of caskets or coffins in the ground.
Date:
May 7, 1901
Creator:
Spear, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Steps
Patent for rail car steps. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 7, 1911
Creator:
Collier, James Dallas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baggage-Fastener
Patent for a baggage fastener which ties around the box securely.
Date:
December 7, 1909
Creator:
Moses, Jacob Bernhard
System:
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Cotton Gin
Patent for cotton gin. Illustration included.
Date:
March 7, 1905
Creator:
Fuller, James T.
System:
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Apparatus for Protecting Electrical Circuits.
Patent for an apparatus for protecting electrical circuits, and is an improvement on a previous patent (No. 537,932) issued to the inventor. This patent consists of "an electrical circuit, an alarm or indicator, a continuously-operating signal-transmitter at the protected structure operating to affect or influence the alarm or indicator, and a second or duplicate continuously-operating signal-transmitter located at the watchman's station, operating in unison with the first-named signal-transmitter to affect the alarm or indicator equally and oppositely as regards the first-named transmitter, whereby a signal is sounded or an alarm given only when the two transmitters are out of unison or when one is changed, varied, or interfered with in an unauthorized manner" (lines 72-86).
Date:
January 7, 1896
Creator:
Oram, John M.
System:
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Cotton Loading and Weighing Device.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and efficient cotton loading and weighing device for wagons. It can be easily put onto or removed from any wagon. This invention has a unique way of "clamping-loop or wire support by means of which the main inclined beam or support of the device is firmly and securely upheld and braced with relation to the tail-gate of a wagon with which said clamping frame or loop is adapted to engage" (lines 25-31).
Date:
January 7, 1896
Creator:
Paolucci, Henry Emanuel
System:
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Automatic Electric Alarm.
Patent for an inexpensive, simple, and durable automatic electric alarm that allows people in house or hotel rooms, mines, ships, shops, etc. to signal for another person. The alarm is wired to a clock so it can be programmed to go off at a certain time.
Date:
January 7, 1896
Creator:
Stansel, Thomas J.
System:
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Automatic Electric Alarm.
Patent for an automatic electric alarm meant to be hooked up to an automatic dry-pipe sprinkler system, and protects against fire. The alarm goes off when the air in the sprinkler pipes falls below a predetermined level. This invention also signals an alert when there is a leak in the pipes, and is an improvement on the circuit-wires for similar alarms.
Date:
January 7, 1896
Creator:
Williams, George Bayley
System:
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Brace for Heel-Sweeps.
Patent for a simple and durable brace for heel-sweeps. The wings of the sweep will not close, and "that portion of the sweep through which the heel-bolt passes will be materially strengthened" (lines 14-16). It also braces sweeps whatever their size, and all the brace's parts are adjustable.
Date:
January 7, 1896
Creator:
Ferrell, Augustus C. & Hamrick, Thomas J.
System:
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Collyrium.
Patent for a mixture for an eye-water; ingredients, proportions of the ingredients and instructions on how to prepare the mixture are included. No illustration.
Date:
March 7, 1882
Creator:
Templeton, Absalom
System:
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Adding-Machine
Patent for "a simple, cheap, and efficient device of this character which may accomplish with facility and case all the purposes for which it is intended" (lines 13-16).
Date:
June 7, 1892
Creator:
Wright, Joseph W.
System:
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Car-Coupling
Patent for an improvement in car couplings "whereby the pin-support is operated not by the links but by the impact of the cars themselves and of a yielding link" (lines 55-58).
Date:
June 7, 1892
Creator:
Young, James D.
System:
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Clamp or Fastener for Wire Fences.
Patent for a new and improved clamp for wire fences. This design "is to make a device by which the horizontal rails of a wire fence may be conveniently fastened to the vertical stay-wires" (lines 12-15). It "consist[s] of the metallic disk or plate with the curved cross-groove and prongs to hold the horizontal rail and the perpendicular stay-wire, and the key" (lines 69-73).
Date:
June 7, 1892
Creator:
Rogers, Charles S.
System:
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Cotton Cleaner and Condenser.
Patent for a new and improved cotton cleaner and condenser. This design "is to produce a cheap and simple machine of this class which is adapted for use in connection with a cotton-gin and which will rapidly separate the dirt from the cotton and will also condense the cotton, so that it may be easily handled and baled" (lines 10-16). It consists in "[t]he combination of the case or frame having an inlet and its lower end and a hinged downward-curved hood at its upper end with the endless carrier mounted in the said case or frame with its higher end within the curved hood" (lines 47-52).
Date:
June 7, 1892
Creator:
Wherry, William B. & Smith, William F.
System:
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Combined Rake and Portable Baling-Press
Patent for a "combined rake and portable baling-press, the objects in view being to provide a machine of the above class of comparatively cheap and simple construction and adapted to rake, elevate, deliver, pack, and bale hay and to apply the binding wires to the bales as formed in one continuous operation" (lines 8-15).
Date:
September 7, 1892
Creator:
Shero, Christopher C.
System:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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
Grain Measure and Tally.
Patent for improving the measurement of grain.
Date:
August 7, 1888
Creator:
Holland, John Newton
System:
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Automatic Water Trap for Cisterns and Other Receptacles.
Patent for a new and improved water-trap. This design consists in "the combination, with a bent main pipe, of a vessel secured on the said main pipe and connected at its top with the interior of the said main pipe, a pin held on the bottom of the said vessel, a fixed sleeve provided with a spiral groove and engaged by said pin, a grooved pin held in the said fixed sleeve and resting at its top end on the bottom of the said pin, a roped connected with the said grooved pin, and a weight held on the said rope to counterbalance the said main pipe and vessel" (lines 103-114).
Date:
August 7, 1888
Creator:
Pickering, Charles H.
System:
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Baling Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling-press. This design has for its object "to provide a press in which the material to be baled can be compressed into bales of the desired sizes, and then emptied from the baling-box by tilting up the tail-board, which is provided with angle irons to catch under the bale" (lines 15-20).
Date:
August 7, 1888
Creator:
Hoop, Friedrich W. J. & Isaac, Joseph
System:
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Cotton-Gin.
Patent for a cotton-gin that "has for its object to provide means for operating upon or permitting lint cotton, wool and other fibrous material to be ginned from a roll by means of saws as is commonly done in working seed cotton without injury to the mechanism" (lines 12-17).
Date:
August 7, 1894
Creator:
Haynes, Daniel
System:
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Car-Coupling.
Patent for a car coupling that consists of a draw head with two separable jaws, a hand wheel mounted on the car, pitmen connected to the wheel and the jaws, springs pressing the jaws together, and a shaft that has a crank arm.
Date:
November 7, 1893
Creator:
Cassidy, William A. & McGee, Thomas F.
System:
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