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Improvement in Fences.
Patent for improvement in iron fences by using rails and bars to support the braced posts. All the parts are easily taken apart, this flexibility allows the fence to be set on uneven as well as on level ground. Illustration is included.
Date:
July 23, 1872
Creator:
Lerick, Isaac N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Tape-Worm Medicines.
Patent for a compound called “Tape-Worm Medicine” that is used to “remove tape-worms from the human body speedily and effectually; and it consists in a composition formed from the fibrils of the roots of the pomegranate mixed with water” (lines 9-13).
Date:
September 23, 1879
Creator:
Nette, August
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Molds for Sewer-Building.
Patent for a collapsible mold on wheels, allowing a sewer to "be built in sections around the mold and the mold moved along the trench as sections are completed" (lines 13-16) including illustrations.
Date:
December 23, 1879
Creator:
Burns, James
System:
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Wood Screw.
Patent for a new and improved wood screw. This design "consists of a screw-head having on the underside . . . cutting-edges alternating with flat and deep interspaces or notches, said notches completely filling the circuit of the screw-head and the notches gradually increasing in width and depth from the screw-shank to the crown of the head, thus enabling the cutters to clear themselves" (lines 12-20).
Date:
November 23, 1880
Creator:
Eckford, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Safety Oil-Can
Patent for a safety oil can. There are two items that are described in the figures. The first is intended to "prevent the contents of the can from becoming inflamed" and the second is to "provide a can from which oil may be poured into a blazing fire without danger from lighting and exploding the oil" (p. 6).
Date:
February 23, 1886
Creator:
Steeneken, Diedrich
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Use in Dry Out-Houses
Patent for the construction of an improved odorless apparatus for dry out-houses, including explications and illustrations.
Date:
March 23, 1886
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas W.
System:
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Rotary Engine
Patent for "an engine that is adaptable to all kinds of work, and which is capable of running the heaviest locomotive and the lightest sewing-machine with equal ease and satisfaction" (lines 9-13).
Date:
April 23, 1889
Creator:
Hines, John Fletcher, Sr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pneumatic Cotton-Picker.
Patent for an improved pneumatic cotton-picker that is meant "to produce a simple machine having a cotton receiving box or vacuum box and arranged to use both a blast and suction pipe, these pipes being oppositely arranged and the suction pipe being made to deliver into the cotton box" (lines 10-17). The cotton is sucked from the plants and delivers it into a cotton box. A guide lines the machine up with the row of cotton.
Date:
May 23, 1893
Creator:
Mauermann, Gustav A.
System:
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Paper-Folder.
Patent for a rotary paper folder meant to fold newspapers as they come from the press in a web. The invention is simple, and cuts the paper into sheets of the desired length. Its folding attachment folds the paper in parallel columns, and the knives do not move in relation to the cylinders.
Date:
January 23, 1894
Creator:
Carr, Elijah W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Placing Torpedoes.
Patent for "a device especially adapted for placing torpedoes on railroad tracks and at the same time fixing the torpedo in position, the work being accomplished in a simple and expeditious manner while the train is in motion, whereby one train following another may be signaled without stopping the first train, thus preventing rear end collisions." (Lines 7-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 23, 1895
Creator:
Seamands, James D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Tightener.
Patent for a tire tightener that allows anyone, not just a mechanic to expand and contract the felly depending on the weather.
Date:
March 23, 1897
Creator:
Dobrowolski, William & Wise, Harry
System:
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Horse-Power And Pumping-Jack.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in a horse power and jumping jack, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 23, 1899
Creator:
Darlington, Benjamin F. & Clary, Edwin P.
System:
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Adjustable Bicycle-Rest.
Patent for a new and useful adjustable bicycle-rest, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 23, 1900
Creator:
Wise, Harry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in bicycles, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 23, 1900
Creator:
White, Edward Y.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Non-Refillable Bottle.
Patent for a new and useful no refillable bottle, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 23, 1900
Creator:
Gutzeit, Charles X.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock
Patent for a keyless combination lock, including illustrations.
Date:
July 23, 1901
Creator:
Katzenberger, Oscar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Force-Pump
Patent for an improved type of water pump that operates using a method where "valves of each piston work parallel to each other and through the cylinders at points diagonally opposite" (lines 15-17)
Date:
September 23, 1902
Creator:
Frank, Samuel M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spring-frame for Motor-cycles
Patent for a suspension spring-frame that is lighter and provides better absorption of shock for motorbikes, with illustrations.
Date:
December 23, 1902
Creator:
White, Edward Young
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thill Coupling
Patent for a thill coupling. This invention is designed to be placed between the rear end of the thill and the connection of the thill with the axle of a vehicle to reduce rattling noises.
Date:
June 23, 1903
Creator:
Trainer, Edgar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sewing Awl
Patent for a sewing awl. Illustration included.
Date:
June 23, 1908
Creator:
Morgan, John W. & Luckenbach, Louis C.
System:
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Forge Locked Grating.
Patent for a forge locked grating for use in jails, which does not collect dirt and is very rigid.
Date:
November 23, 1909
Creator:
Youngblood, David Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard.
Patent for a cattle guard to prevent animals from going on railroad tracks by installing plates which grate and rock if an animal steps on them to scare the animals away from the tracks.
Date:
August 23, 1910
Creator:
Herring, Henry H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Elastic Clutch and Engine-Starter
Patent for a combined elastic clutch and engine starter for hydrocarbon engines that does not produce a jerk.
Date:
April 23, 1912
Creator:
Reagan, Edgar U. G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric-Lamp Attachment.
Patent for an electric-lamp attachment, "the primary object of this invention being the provision of a lamp socket attachment of supporting means in combination with a switch, whereby the current energizing the filament of an incandescent lamp is so controlled as to produce different degrees of incandescence in the filament and thus produce different degrees of radiance to produce a dim or a highlight as may be desired" (lines 9-18). Illustrations included.
Date:
April 23, 1912
Creator:
McNeel, William Pinkney
System:
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