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Improvement in Cotton-Tie Stretchers.
Patent for an improvement for an instrument to stretch and tie a band around a cotton bale.
Date:
August 22, 1871
Creator:
Mather, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in ventilating cars, &c.
Patent for a system which prevents ashes and cinders from railroad engines from entering the train cars and also allows for ventilation of the cars. Includes illustration.
Date:
August 22, 1876
Creator:
Andrews, Wright S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in liquid-measuring tanks.
Patent for an airtight and fireproof measuring tank for lamp oils, usable in both daytime and nighttime. Includes illustrations.
Date:
August 22, 1876
Creator:
Williams, Blasius
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Killing Rodents
Patent for an apparatus for killing rodents "that may be used effectively for the destruction of all animals that burrow in the ground; and it consists in a furnace for the generation of sulphurous odors or other suffocating gases and a pump for forcing the gases into the burrows of the animals . . . ."
Date:
August 22, 1882
Creator:
Palmer, Austin D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved car-coupling. This design calls for two u-shaped metal pieces, one narrower than the other, each with eyes at their ends. A metal rod, which doubles as a handle, threads the eyes, connecting the pieces and allowing for the two loops to butterfly; one car can be bound to each of the loops with a metal pin.
Date:
August 22, 1882
Creator:
Stopple, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Burning Garbage, &c.
Patent for an improved apparatus for burning refuse and consists of a roasting chamber, a garbage grate, grates that slope and carry the product away after combustion, flues that open above the grates, and the wall partly closes on one end to let the products away after combustion.
Date:
August 22, 1893
Creator:
Garretson, William H. & Tainter, Silas B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Mop and Window-Cleaner.
Patent for an improved mop and rubber holder meant to clean windows, walls, and similar surfaces. It is adjustable, and the operator can put the mop or the rubber on the end of the handle.
Date:
August 22, 1893
Creator:
Wiebush, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tumbler-Washer.
Patent for a device that is meant to thoroughly clean the inside and outside of glasses, mugs, and similar articles. The operator need not get their hands wet, and the brushes that clean the glasses are adjustable for different sized glasses.
Date:
August 22, 1893
Creator:
Zauner, Alexander
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark Arrester.
Patent for a new and improved spark arrester for smokestacks. This design "consists of an inverted hollow cone suspended within a hollow and flaring receiver for the sparks . . . so as to deflect the sparks against a conical annular cover to the receiver, whereby the sparks are broken and thrown against an arrester located over the hollow cone, and by which the sparks are again broken . . . and continued in that course until extinguished" (lines 7-18).
Date:
August 22, 1882
Creator:
Green, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Feed-Cutter.
Patent for a feed cutter that has a casing that makes up tilted side walls with transverse openings, a reciprocating knife that sits between the casing walls, a link that connects the knife to the casing, a feed trough, and a staple that engages the trough.
Date:
August 22, 1893
Creator:
Butler, Jacob
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flooring or Ceiling Jack.
Patent for a flooring or ceiling jack that is meant to "provide a device, whereby the laying of the flooring, and the fitting of siding and ceiling strips are greatly facilitated, and enables one carpenter to do the work that ordinarily requires two" (lines 14-18).
Date:
August 22, 1893
Creator:
Holiman, William Moses
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow Mold Board.
Patent for a new and improved plow mold board. This design "consists of a circular roll arranged in the mold-board near the point and covered with belting, which, in the forward movement of the plow, is revolved and carries the earth backward on an endless belt passing around rollers journaled in the end of transverse slots made in the mold-board, whereby, in the forward movement of the plow, the belt is revolved and the friction of the earth on the mold-board decreased and the plow scoured" (lines 17-28).
Date:
August 22, 1882
Creator:
Dahlman, Carl Oscar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Gin.
Patent for a new and improved cotton gin. This design calls for the circular saw blades of the gin to pass through two metal ribs, one of which aligns with the tip of the saw teeth, while the other aligns with the root of the saw teeth.
Date:
August 22, 1882
Creator:
Basom, Ransford W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boiler Washing-Machine
Patent for a washing machine for clothes that can also be adapted to stoves or gas jets as a boiler. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 22, 1911
Creator:
Morton, Milo A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burner.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in burners, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 22, 1899
Creator:
Dickerson, Ernest Clifton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ballast-Scraper.
Patent for new and useful improvements in ballast scrapers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 22, 1899
Creator:
McElvaney, Charles T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle-Tire.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in tires for "use with bicycles" (line 10).
Date:
August 22, 1899
Creator:
Lewis, George Harris
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valved Coupling for Train-Pipes.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in valved couplings for train pipes, including instructions and illustrations..
Date:
August 22, 1899
Creator:
Williams, Win D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Truss.
Patent for a new and improved truss for relieving or supporting hernia, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 22, 1899
Creator:
Oliver, Zebulon
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Boiler Feed-Water System.
Patent for a certain new and useful improvement in steam boiler feed water systems, including instructions and illustrations..
Date:
August 22, 1899
Creator:
Clousnitzer, Ernest Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock
Patent for a nut lock. Illustration included.
Date:
August 22, 1905
Creator:
Marx, Ernest Max & Moses, Ealy J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Proportioning Weighing-Machine
Patent for a proportioning weighing machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 22, 1911
Creator:
Cardwell, Robert M. & Tholen, John Ben.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tool-Handle And Tool.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in tool handles and tools, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 22, 1899
Creator:
Lantz, Albert C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Switch
Patent for a switch. "This invention obviates likelihood of derailment by splitting the switches, so as to thereby secure a means for preventing the rolling stock from being thrown from the tracks." Illustration included.
Date:
August 22, 1905
Creator:
Hibbets, Charles M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History