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Improvement in Animal-Traps.
Patent for improvements to animal-traps to wound or kill rats, mice, and game with the size and strength being adjustable to the size of animals sought.
Date:
August 15, 1887
Creator:
Martin, Josiah
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow And Cultivator
Patent for a plow and cultivator. Illustration included.
Date:
March 21, 1905
Creator:
Henderson, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planter, Chopper, and Cultivator
Patent for "a combined planter and cultivator, including a cotton-chopper" (lines 11-12).
Date:
December 23, 1890
Creator:
Murdock, Joseph Lafayette
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock
Patent for a nut lock. Illustration included.
Date:
August 10, 1909
Creator:
Garner, William Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock.
Patent for a nut lock for railroad joints, which includes spring washers.
Date:
August 3, 1909
Creator:
Garner, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Motor-Actuated Locking Device for Automobiles
Patent for a device that prevents the drive shaft of an automobile from when moving when pushed by an unauthorized person. The device acts as a form of security to ensure unauthorized individuals are unable to move the vehicle. Additionally, the device can be used while the vehicle is in motion in order to slow the drive shaft, and thus the vehicle.
Date:
November 18, 1919
Creator:
Wherry, Robert D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Swivel Joint
This patent is for a swivel joint, used to connect a pipe to a coupling sleeve and allow for water-tight, axial pipe movement.
Date:
June 4, 1918
Creator:
O'Brien, Daniel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil Expressing Box.
Patent for a new and improved oil-expressing box. In this design, "the follower is adapted to fit the box, so as to obviate the need of any joint-closing device, and the face of the follower at its side edges is raised to better confine the bag in place, and at its center or central portion is channeled and provided with a false bottom to provide for the escape of the oil" (lines 24-31).
Date:
June 23, 1885
Creator:
Cathcart, Rodney S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil Expressing Box Package Shaping Machine.
Patent for a machine which shapes boxes for packaging extracted oils, with description of parts and illustrations.
Date:
June 23, 1885
Creator:
Cathcart, Rodney S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Closet Seat Catch
Patent for a closet seat catch.
Date:
March 31, 1903
Creator:
Alexander, Francis Marion
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harrow or Cultivator
Patent for a harrow or cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 24, 1904
Creator:
Cutter, Oliver C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate
Patent for a sliding gate. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 8, 1908
Creator:
Morgan, William B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hoe.
Patent for improvements in hoes, the inventor designed the handle of the hoe to carry two shanks; the shanks diverging form the handle and bent to be parallel with each other. A connecting-rod at the end of two shanks is being threaded and provided with locking-nuts, which used to secure the hoe blades. The hoe blades can be adjusted laterally. Illustration is included.
Date:
May 19, 1891
Creator:
Brown, Henry M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hand Car.
Patent for a new and improved hand-car. This design has "such construction and arrangement of the cranks and levers of hand-cars that the maximum amount of the power exerted upon the levers by the operators will be applied to the propulsion of the car" (lines 7-12).
Date:
March 28, 1882
Creator:
Sessions, Henry H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hand Car.
Patent for a new and improved hand car. This design consists in "[a] hand-car constructed with a frame-work . . . and provided with a propelling mechanism consisting of the bent pipe-lever in combination with the rocking lever, provided with the socket, the connecting-rod, driving wheel, and pinion" (lines 92-98).
Date:
January 16, 1883
Creator:
Johnson, Roberto H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hoop Fastening for Buckets, &c.
Patent for a new and improved fastener for barrels and buckets. This design "consists of a metal strap provided with side tongues and having its ends bent around the upper and lower hoops and the side tongues bent around the intermediate hoops. . . . to prevent them from dropping off when the vessel dries and shrinks" (lines 10-17).
Date:
February 20, 1883
Creator:
Phillips, Hiram B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hoop-Fastening for Buckets, &c.
Reissued patent for a a hoop fastening "to hold the hoops on buckets, barrels, kegs, and other like vessels in an effective manner, and to prevent them from dropping off when the vessel dries and shrinks" (lines 8-12).
Date:
June 5, 1883
Creator:
Phillips, Hiram B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electrical Trolley-Replacer.
Patent for an electric trolley replacer, which automatically replaces the trolley on the wheel.
Date:
February 9, 1909
Creator:
Sparks, Hubert Lorenzo
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Forming Implement.
Patent for a forming implement for sheet metal for making boiler parts.
Date:
August 30, 1910
Creator:
Gee, John H. & Coates, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harrow
Patent for a harrow. Illustration included.
Date:
October 30, 1906
Creator:
Henderson, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Reel for Measuring Bagging, &c.
Patent for a new and improved cloth-measuring machine. This design "consists in the peculiar arrangement of a spool or roller from which the stock is taken, a wheel upon which it is wound from the roller, a cutting board or table, and a measuring-wheel, whereby . . . handling, measuring, and cutting bagging, matting, carpets, and other goods . . . may be effected in a simple and convenient method" (lines 11-19).
Date:
December 7, 1880
Creator:
Le Roy, Charles Jerome
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shovel-Plow.
Patent for the improvement of shovel plows "to so construct and arrange the several parts of the device that they may be easily and quickly adjusted to adapt the implement to different kinds of work," (lines 17-20) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 9, 1890
Creator:
Kersh, Thomas E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway Ticket
Patent for a railway ticket. Illustration included.
Date:
November 15, 1904
Creator:
Lee, Robert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spring Tooth for Cultivators and Harrows
Patent for a spring tooth for cultivators and harrows. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 12, 1904
Creator:
Vance, Sidney F. & Woodard, Lorenzo D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History