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Cultivator and Cotton-Chopper
Patent for improvements "to provide flexible revolving knives or hoes, and, second, to afford facilities for supporting the cultivating and chopping device when out of the ground without throwing more weight behind the axle on the main wheels to tip the end of the pole against the horses necks" (lines 13-19).
Date:
January 14, 1890
Creator:
Hurd, Judson B. & McLane, Hiram H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Disk-Hoe and Cotton-Chopper
Patent for a self-adjusting machine to uneven ground, that is gentle when cultivating around plants, and can be used as an attachment to a wheeled cultivator.
Date:
January 14, 1890
Creator:
Hurd, Judson B. & McLane, Hiram H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Feed Water Heater.
Patent for a new and improved water-heater. This design consists in "the combination of the supply-pipe, the supply-tank into which said pipe discharges, the said tank having a perforated bottom through which the water percolates, the vertically-divided cylinder forming the annular heating-chamber, the scatter-plates alternatingly located in diverse directions in said chamber, the said plates arranged to spray the water while heating as it falls from plate to plate, and the exhaust-steam pipe that discharges through an open port near the base of said annular heating-chamber" (lines 19-31).
Date:
January 14, 1890
Creator:
Knox, George F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dry-Earth Closet
Patent for "a commode which may be placed in a bed-room or other suitable place in a house without .danger to occupants on account of disease which would be superinduced by the presence of impure odors, as would be the case where an ordinary receptacle is used" and where the solid and liquid waste would be separated (lines 26-36).
Date:
January 28, 1890
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[a] car-coupling link having a slotted spring-head adapted to hold the link in a draw-head by frictional contact therewith, and arranged and adapted to permit a coupling-pin to pass through the slots in the said link and its spring-head" (lines 48-53).
Date:
February 4, 1890
Creator:
Thompson, James Alfred M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "relates to car-couplings, and more especially to that part or portion of the mechanism usually termed 'link-lifters;' and the object of the invention is to provide means whereby the link can be lifted and caused to enter the draw-head of an approaching car by the operator when standing alongside the stationary car" (lines 7-14).
Date:
April 1, 1890
Creator:
Small, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sanitary Closet
Patent for "improvements on sanitary closets for destroying the human excrement-s on the premises with little labor and expense" (lines 8-11).
Date:
May 13, 1890
Creator:
McCamant, Theodore F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hoeing-Machine
Patent for improvements to hoeing machines "as will cause the hoes to cultivate around the particular plant pointed out without it being necessary for the indicator to remain at rest while each plant is being hoed; second, to provide a pair of oscillating disks that cultivate before and behind the plant as they oscillate across the row" (lines 15-21).
Date:
June 17, 1890
Creator:
Hurd, Judson B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flour-Separator
Patent for "a machine of this class by means of which by a single operation the flour may be separated from the middlings and the tine from the coarser grade of middling-s, thus performing at a single operation that which heretofore has required two separate operations to accomplish" (lines 10-16).
Date:
July 29, 1890
Creator:
Sadravezt, Peter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vault or Cell for Outhouses.
Patent for a new and improved vault or cell for outhouses. This design "consist[s] of the combination of a vault made of impervious material and provided with wheels on its bottom, with a housing and an inclined cover secured above it at the rear and having a seat and hopper in the house, and a receptacle located within the vault and closely fitted to the mouth of the hopper" (lines 5-12).
Date:
August 12, 1890
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists, "with a draw-head and a pin held to slide vertically therein, of a lever pivotally connected with the said link and fulcrumed on the draw-head, a chain connected with the said lever, an eye through which passes said chain, an arm connected with the inner end of the said chain, and a transversely-extending shaft mounted to turn in suitable bearings in the car-body and carrying the said arm" (lines 15-24).
Date:
October 14, 1890
Creator:
Onzon, François P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dress Stay.
Patent for a new and improved dress-stay. This design "is to avoid the use of paste or stitches in connection with the application of the stay, as well as to provide a stay which may be readily detached and reattached in case it be desired to change the location of the seam in order to make the garment either larger or smaller. To this end the invention consists in a stay-body of steel, whalebone, or some other resilient material inclosed within a suitable casing, and wire fasteners passing through said body, through the outer side of said casing, and through the edges of the seam at either side" (lines 10-23).
Date:
November 11, 1890
Creator:
Dacus, Augusta
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Wheel.
Patent for a new and improved vehicle wheel. This design is "to improve the felly-expanding devices, to provide a strong, durable, and efficient metallic connection between the spoke and felly, to provide novel means whereby the expanding movement of the felly is amplified by a partial rotation of a screw, and to otherwise improve vehicle-wheels" (lines 13-20).
Date:
December 16, 1890
Creator:
Ashford James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ticket Reel.
Patent for a new and improved ticket reel. This design, "which is filled with the ticket-strip, is mounted upon an angular shaft moving with the reel; said shaft being provided with a journal at or near one end, said journal having bearing in a standard or bracket rigid upon a base piece or plate adapted to be bolted or screwed to a table or desk. . . . [A]lso, to mount upon the end of the shaft immediately outside the bracket or standard a ratchet-wheel, and to pivot upon the bracket a spring-pressed pawl engaging said ratchet, and to combine with the ticket-reel a suitable friction-spring" (lines 16-28).
Date:
January 6, 1891
Creator:
Everett, Milton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Padlock.
Patent for a new and improved padlock. This design "relates . . . more particularly to those padlocks which are used for locking railway-switches . . . [T]he invention consists in a padlock comprising a bow, or hasp, or shackle, a spring-bolt for engaging the same, tumblers, and a lever connecting the tumblers and bolt, a locking device for the tumblers, and an audible alarm, such as a bell" (lines 9-25).
Date:
January 13, 1891
Creator:
Lucas, George William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spring Bed Bottom.
Patent for a new and improved box-spring. This design consists in "[a] main frame having slats and springs and a metallic frame encircling said springs, in combination with the curved brace-springs having the coils and loops pressing on top of the slats, said springs being secured to the slats and metallic frame, and the rods secured to said frame and passing through the ends of the slats" (lines 76-83).
Date:
January 13, 1891
Creator:
Houston, Leonard B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Construction of Privy-Vaults.
Patent for an improvement of privy-vaults using a soil-pipe with sleeve adapted to be connected with the trap-door of the vault-floor into an air-chamber where a ventilating-pipe is placed directly above a furnace; the noxious gases along with the products of combustion in the furnace would be drawn from the air-chamber and carried off to the outer air. Illustration is included.
Date:
February 3, 1891
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Single-Seed Planter.
Patent for a single-seed planter using “grasping-jaws pass through the seed box …to gather a seed and carry it to the discharge tube or place of deposit" (lines 9-12), illustration is included.
Date:
February 3, 1891
Creator:
Hurd, Judson B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thill-Coupling.
Patent for improvements in thill-couplings by using a combination of forward extension arms, having each near its forward end, circular shoulders, adapted to engage the ends of the shaft-iron; the spring-catch for holding the lever arm in locking position and, for retracting arm when the catch is released. Illustration is included.
Date:
March 17, 1891
Creator:
Bryan, William L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for improvements in car-couplings by providing "a coupler which will without any adjustment couple two cars whose draw-heads are of different heights.” (lines 17-19) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 24, 1891
Creator:
Thompson, James A. M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Propeller for Boats.
Patent for improvements in propellers for boats by “having a pair of hinged propeller-blades adapted to swing toward and away from each other, combined with fixed prongs; which are engaged with the propeller blades and hold them from displacement.” (Lines 60-65) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 5, 1891
Creator:
Gillespie, Lewis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Detachable Handle and Spring-Catch.
Patent for improvements in detachable handles and spring-catches for valises, satchels, traveling-bags, and the like in which a handle “may be readily detached from the valise, and devices for automatically engaging and locking the handle to the valise when the handle is replaced.” (Lines 16-19) Illustration is included.
Date:
August 18, 1891
Creator:
Epstein, George B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine.
Patent for improvements in rotary engines to allow for the expansion of steam after admission and minimum leakage in order to provide an engine that is capable of long-continued use with a minimum of wear and working friction (lines 15-22), including illustrations.
Date:
September 8, 1891
Creator:
Stocker, James M. & Stocker, Ziba O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Preparing and Tempering Slurry for Portland Cement.
Patent for improvements in the process of preparing and tempering slurry for Portland cement by expedite the process of production and to produce a uniform quality of cement. Detailed instructions included. No illustration.
Date:
September 29, 1891
Creator:
Kalteyer, George H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History