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Improved Ditching-Machine.
Patent for improvement in ditching machine which “consists of a boring or ditching-auger, suspended from the frame of a truck, and having an enlarged head projecting in advance of the truck, and rotated, so as to bore out a groove as the truck is moved along, screwing the earth taken back through a trough, to an elevator which carries it up to a spout, chuting it to one side.” (Lines 13-19) Illustration is included.
Date:
November 16, 1869
Creator:
McGehee, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sewing-Machine.
Patent for improvements to the sewing machine. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 16, 1869
Creator:
Clever, P. J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sewing Machines
Patent for "a new Improved Sewing-Machine" that "has for its object to provide more useful and efficient machines than those now in use."
Date:
November 16, 1869
Creator:
Cleaver, P. J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings.
Patent for "an improved automatic car-coupling that may be readily uncoupled from the side and top, and be employed to couple cars of different heights." (Lines 13-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 16, 1875
Creator:
Ford, Oscar E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
Patent for "a press by means of which the cotton can be backed and pressed into the bale in small quantities at a time, by alternating pressing a quantity, then lifting the follower, and inserting more, and pressing again, and so on until the bale is formed." (Lines 19-25) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 16, 1875
Creator:
Frost, Willis Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Portable Extension Top for Stoves.
Patent for a new and improved portable extension for stove tops. This design is for a casing with pot-holes that utilizes a flange and a collar to allow for attachment to the stove top. This increases the usable surface area of the stove by a third.
Date:
November 16, 1880
Creator:
Hutchinson, John Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "the upright frame supported on the beam and carrying the two pivoted arms, in combination with the wheel having studs on both sides, the wires, and the lever middle fastened to the agitator-shaft . . . a hopper having the circular excision in its bottom, of the horizontal feed-wheel and arms, fast to a vertical vibratory shaft" (lines 79-88).
Date:
November 16, 1886
Creator:
Williams, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "the beam, of a hopper having the front hole, the elastic standards, beam bows or braces, and the eye-rod . . . [as well as] the handles of a planter, secured detachably in a clip on the end of the beam and just within the front of the hopper" (lines 71-77).
Date:
November 16, 1886
Creator:
Pulley, David F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design "is an improvement in the class of walking planters. It is particularly adapted for sowing cotton-seed, but will also plant corn and distribute fertilizing material. The principle feature of the invention is the construction of the seed-discharging device arranged and rotating in the bottom of the seed-hopper. The construction of the latter and the frame of the machine likewise embody novel and important features" (lines 7-16).
Date:
November 16, 1886
Creator:
Flatau, Louis S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water Heater and Purifier.
Patent for a new and improved water heater and purifier. This design consists "[i]n the condenser, having the cover, the water-pipe and exhaust-steam pipe combined with the corrugated convex disk, whereby the water falls upon the disk and the steam enters beneath it" (lines 6-10).
Date:
November 16, 1886
Creator:
Wilson, Martin M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of and Apparatus for Recording the Location and Character of Business.
Patent for a new method and apparatus to record the location and nature of a business when it is spread out over a city or large area of the country.
Date:
November 16, 1892
Creator:
Keating, Cecil A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Calculating - Machine
Patent for an improvements in calculating machines. This invention "relates to machines for making rapid and accurate calculations" (line 8-9).
Date:
November 16, 1897
Creator:
Minnis, Henry M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling
Patent for a new and useful improvements in Car couples. This invention "relates to automatic car couples, and more particularly to that class known as " swing-pin" couples" (line 11 - 13).
Date:
November 16, 1897
Creator:
Gillespie, Charles W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton - Chopper.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in cotton choppers machine as the attachment to cultivators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 16, 1897
Creator:
Richter, Frank L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a new and useful improvements in Cultivators to "provide improved means for pivoting the main standards to the plow-beams together"(line 17-20).
Date:
November 16, 1897
Creator:
Ward, Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Sprayer Attachment for Washing-Machines.
Design patent for a sprayer attachment for washing machines that includes a conical base-plate with a circular spout projection at its apex.
Date:
November 16, 1897
Creator:
Bessonette, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Generator for Acetylene Gas
Patent for a new and improved generator for acetylene gas.
Date:
November 16, 1897
Creator:
Williams, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash Fastener
Patent for a new and useful Sash holder and lock to "provide a simple, cheap, and efficient device of this character which may be applied to either the upper or lower sashes of windows in general use at the present time without materially injuring them and without requiring the aid of a skilled mechanic" (line 10 - 15).
Date:
November 16, 1897
Creator:
Tuitte, Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash - Lock
Patent for a new and useful improvements in Sash Locks to "provide a device of this character whereby the sash will be automatically locked in all its adjusted positions, thereby dispensing with the employment of sash cords and weights (line 13-17).
Date:
November 16, 1897
Creator:
Crocker, Lauren A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Station - Indicator
Patent for a new and useful improvements in automatic station-indication.
Date:
November 16, 1897
Creator:
Garner, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tool for Type - Writers
Patent for a new and useful improvements in tools for type writers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 16, 1897
Creator:
Vidor, Charles Shelton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Counting Apparatus
Patent for an automatic counting apparatus for counting packages coming down a chute into a vehicle.
Date:
November 16, 1909
Creator:
Richmond, George E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Dumping-Elevator
Patent for an automatic dumping elevator for supplies which can stop at different heights and dump the contents of the elevator.
Date:
November 16, 1909
Creator:
Richmond, George E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Check-Valve for Locomotive-Boilers and the Like.
Patent for "an improvement in check valves particularly adapted for use on locomotive boilers" (lines 9-11) with illustrations.
Date:
November 16, 1909
Creator:
Fondren, Theodore Robert ; T. R. Fondren
System:
The Portal to Texas History