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Improvement in Apparatus for Slaughtering and Curing Meat
Patent for the design of a facility to slaughter, pack, preserve, and cure meat.
Date:
June 29, 1869
Creator:
Fulton, G. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements In Dropping-Bottles
Patent for improvements in dropping-bottles that can be used by doctors, nurses, and pharmacists to dispense medicine one drop at a time.
Date:
June 29, 1875
Creator:
Garrett, Charles C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Scale-Beams.
Patent for "the movable weight used on scale-beams; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of the weight to slip over the scale-beam, and with a roller, upon which the weight rests or is suspended, in combination with a locking device." (Lines 12-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1875
Creator:
Robinson, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings.
Patent for improvement in car-couplings, including description and illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1875
Creator:
Ramage, Charles E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Bicycles.
Patent for a package-carrying device that attaches to the frame of a bicycle. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1897
Creator:
Saunders, David Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bit-Brace.
Patent for "an improved form of brace having a V-guide which is substantially right-angled and mechanism mounted therein for driving a bit so arranged that the crank-arm of the handle may turn in a corner without striking the wall or without striking the wall or without striking a plane support should the guide rest thereon when boring a hole." (Lines 12-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1897
Creator:
McClellan, Stephen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of Marking the Keys of Key-Boards for Musical Instruments
Patent for "a system of musical notation in which the several notes or note-symbols are shaped so as to approximate in appearance the shape of the letters from which they derive their appellations" (lines 37-41) especially in relation to piano-fortes, organs, and keyed instruments and in teaching music, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1880
Creator:
Black, Jane B. D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for a wrench that can be adjusted without the use of screws. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1897
Creator:
Thomas, Theodore G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher.
Patent for a new and improved wire-stretcher. This design "has relation to that class of wire-stretchers in which a drum is journaled in a frame and is provided with a ratchet-wheel at one end, and in which a lever is pivoted in the frame, which engages the ratchet-wheel, serving to revolve it, and a pawl engages the ratchet-wheel, so as to prevent it from revolving backward, the frame being provided with a wire-clamp, and a rope or chain upon the drum being also provided with a wire-clamp, so that by revolving the drum one end of the wire may be drawn toward the end of another wire" (lines 25-37).
Date:
June 29, 1886
Creator:
Menefee, Stephen Austin & Mullinax, Eli Stephens
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trace-Fastener.
Patent for improvements in trace fasteners, with illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1897
Creator:
Brownwell, John A. F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Measuring Wheel.
Patent for a new and improved measuring-wheel. This design "relates to the construction of an instrument whereby lineal measurements may be taken and automatically registered where the distance is greater than the circumference of the measuring-wheel. The invention consists of a graduated wheel in the slot of a bifurcated handle, and of an automatic registering attachment" (lines 7-14).
Date:
June 29, 1886
Creator:
McCaleb, John L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark-Arrester.
Patent for an improvement to spark-arresters, which deflect sparks and cinders released by locomotive engines. Includes illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1886
Creator:
McCormick, John Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harrow.
Patent for a new and improved harrow. This design "has relation to that class of rotary harrows having arms provided with and extending radially from a common center, a track-ring connected to the upper side of the harrow-arms, upon which work friction-rollers connected to the seat-support. It is the object of the invention to improve the construction of the harrow-arms which carry the teeth, and the manner of connecting them to a common center, whereby the above class of harrows are materially increased in efficiency, much stronger, and more durable" (lines 12-24).
Date:
June 29, 1886
Creator:
McCann, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Screen Attachment for Suction or Exhaust Fans.
Patent for a screen attachment that protects fan blades from damaging and being damaged by debris. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1897
Creator:
Davis, Micajah R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting-Frame.
Patent for a quilting frame "pivotally attached to a suspending-bar, whereby either part may be brought beneath the arm of the sewing-machine without requiring the shifting of the goods to bring a new part into position to be quilted until after the exposed portions of the two parts have been quilted." (Lines 24-30) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1897
Creator:
Scoby, William E. & Spoonts, Joseph L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seeding-Machine.
Patent for "a new and useful improvements in Seeding-Machines" (lines 5-6) the light draft interchangeable seeding-machine can be converted from a cotton-planter to a corn-planter, and vice versa. The invention is "compact, simple, and durable" (line 13)
Date:
June 29, 1880
Creator:
McCall, John L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Display-Rack.
Patent for..." a rack for displaying cakes, crackers, nuts, dried fruits, and like commodities in whole or half boxes, so as to admit of access being readily had to the contents of the boxes or the boxes being quickly removed and replaced for any pur pose, and to devise a rack for the purposes aforesaid which will be compact and occupy a minimum amount of room compared with the display-surface and which provides for the adjustment of the brackets or supports so as to receive boxes of different size and make" (lines 8-20) with descriptions and illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1897
Creator:
Jordan, George M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for an improved car coupling that is automatic and safer than regular couplings.
Date:
June 29, 1884
Creator:
Myers, Newton J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Calipers.
Patent for calipers that can be adjusted micrometrically to within one five-thousandth of an inch. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1897
Creator:
Clarke, George R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for "an automatic link-coupler which shall embody strength, simplicity, certainty of action, and adaptability for manipulation without entering between the cars and without necessity of relieving strain." (Lines 9-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1897
Creator:
Martin, David D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Bag and Twine Holder
Patent for a device which holds both string and bags, with description of construction, parts, and use, and with illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1886
Creator:
Cushing, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Handle-Bar for Bicycles.
Patent for adjustable handle bar for bicycles, including illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1897
Creator:
Winfrey, Edgar, M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "has relation to that class of car-couplings in which the open ends of a coupling bar or link are engaged by hooks in the draw-heads; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of such a coupling, in which the hooks are projecting from the under sides of arms pivoted upon the draw-heads and dropping down by their gravity, and in which the said hooks project into registering recesses in the upper side of the draw-head" (lines 23-33).
Date:
June 29, 1886
Creator:
Boyers, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Belt Fastener
Patent for a belt fastener. Illustration included.
Date:
June 29, 1909
Creator:
Stenzel, Frank O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History