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Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties
Patent for Improvement in the fastening of the metal bands used to tie cotton bales. Includes detailed description and three labled figures
Date:
July 31, 1873
Creator:
Cromer, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Brick-Machines.
Patent for an improvement in brick-machines by which a new combination of construction materials is contrived.
Date:
July 31, 1876
Creator:
Michel, Ferdinand
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Breech-Loading Fire-Arms.
Patent for improvements in Winchester Repeating fire-arms, or magazine fire-arms. Patent for improvements in the "interior mechanism for operating the breech-block and resisting the recoil, and in the combination of parts". Patent that increases strength and capability to resist recoil, increases the charge of powder. Together, the ball is carried faster and farther with "perfect safety and without increase of recoil or rebound".
Date:
July 31, 1877
Creator:
Petmecky, Joseph C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Harvesters.
Patent for "the construction and arrangement of a cotton-picking machine" (lines 15-16) using wire brushes on rods and chains, including illustrations.
Date:
July 31, 1877
Creator:
Graves, Clinton E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Traction-Engines.
Patent for a traction engine "for running on common roads and rails, and to be used for drawing plows, and as a motive power generally" (lines 8-10) including illustrations.
Date:
July 31, 1877
Creator:
Walker, Leander
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Register for Barber's Chairs.
Patent for a new and improved barber's chair. This design relates to certain improvements in registering devices for barber-chairs, and has for its object to provide means whereby a correct tally can be kept of the persons shaved and the number of hair-cuts which have been performed during the day, week, or month. . . . [The] invention is only applicable to the style of barber-chairs that have a tilting motion backward and forward, for the purpose of more conveniently placing the person when being shaved or having his [or her] hair cut" (lines 10-21).
Date:
July 31, 1883
Creator:
Lane, Fernando G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weather Strip.
Patent for a new and improved weather strip. This design "is to provide a new and improved weather-strip, which is raised into a groove in the bottom of the door when the door is open, but is pressed down upon the sill when the door is closed. The invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts" (lines 7-13).
Date:
July 31, 1883
Creator:
McCurdy, Thomas B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carriage Top Prop.
Patent for a new and improved prop for carriage tops. This design consists in "a prop-joint for vehicles, the combination of the bow, the prop-casting having the circumferential flanges lying against the opposite sides of the bow, and the opposite extension plates lying against and secured by screws to the rear edges of the bow" (lines 70-75).
Date:
July 31, 1888
Creator:
Jacobs, William Ramsey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Pen or Pencil Holder and Pin.
Patent for a new and improved writing-utensil holder and pin. This design "not only forms a convenient receptacle for a pen or pencil, but . . . it is also adapted for use as an ornamental scarf or breast pin, and to this end the bands may be appropriately shaped to confine a stone or other setting, which can be held from endwise displacement, if necessary, by means of lugs . . . at each end of the bar" (lines 63-71).
Date:
July 31, 1888
Creator:
Stewart, Samuel F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
File Case.
Patent for a new and improved file case. This design "[t]he combination, with a case, of the pockets constructed in a series of a single piece of material having partitions formed by long folds connected at the bottom by short folds . . . [and t]he combination, with the folded pockets, of the file case having its sides constructed to overlap a part of the ends of the pockets, and an elastic follower with thumb-pieces arranged to bind with the sides of the case by straightening" (lines 9-24).
Date:
July 31, 1888
Creator:
Altfather, William F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay-Press
Patent for "a simple and effective machine of the character described, which shall possess advantages in point of durability, cheapness of manufacture, and general efficiency" (lines 18-21).
Date:
July 31, 1888
Creator:
Bigham, Joshua R. & Bigham, Ambrose W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a simple and efficient car coupling that easily couples by impact, and can uncouple without going between cars.
Date:
July 31, 1894
Creator:
Kirk, John P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ice-Cream Freezer.
Patent for an ice cream freezer that consists of a can with a joint bearing in the middle, a cover with openings in the center and a central vertical flange, a lid that fits over the central vertical flange, and a shaft with horizontal arms that rotates.
Date:
July 31, 1894
Creator:
Wallace, Lloyd & Wallace, Jeff Davis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Suspended Rail-Joint.
Patent for a suspended rail-joint that improves on the anglebar railjoint. The improved design has the minimum amount of bolts, does not use railbolts, has a newly designed fastener, allowance for the rails to expand and contract, and adjustable guards against creeping.
Date:
July 31, 1894
Creator:
Lang, Otto H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator.
Patent for "improvement in acetylene-gas generators, and has for one object to provide an exceedingly- simple apparatus of this description in which the pipes and connections are closed , and thus protected from freezing by the effects of atmospheric changes; and a further object of my invention is to remove the possibility of an explosion taking place during the manipulation of the machine." (lines 9-17) including illustrations.
Date:
July 31, 1900
Creator:
Hartman, Gus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie
Patent for a bale-tie fastener including illustrations.
Date:
July 31, 1900
Creator:
Cypher, David A. & Dayton, William L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Box for Presses
Patent for a box used to house heated metal presses to extract fluid from cotton seeds.
Date:
July 31, 1900
Creator:
Galbraith, Oscar B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Calcining-Furnance.
Patent for updates to "calcining-furnaces", specifically several original and new parts, including illustrations.
Date:
July 31, 1900
Creator:
Hughes, Godfrey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fence-Post.
Patent for improvements to fence post design in which a base is added to hold the post upright while keeping it above ground to prevent deterioration from soil with illustrations.
Date:
July 31, 1900
Creator:
Hammer, Willie Alice
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flash-Light System.
Patent for new and useful flash light system where the "plurality of lights or series of lights are alternately cut into and then out of the lighting-circuit, so there are a series of flashes " (lines 10-13), including illustrations.
Date:
July 31, 1900
Creator:
Wright, Martin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saw.
Patent for a saw with a blade that can efficiently cut through wood and metal materials. Illustration included.
Date:
July 31, 1900
Creator:
Caruthers, John I.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill-Regulator
Patent for a new windmill attachment that will regulate the amount of water in the watering trough, Including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 31, 1900
Creator:
Schultz, Henry E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Trap
Patent for an animal trap. Illustration included.
Date:
July 31, 1906
Creator:
Crowson, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Cultivators.
Patent for an improved arch-bar for cultivators that allows increasing and decreasing the space between drag bars without having to stop the team of horses.
Date:
July 31, 1906
Creator:
Weempe, Charles M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History