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Combined Post-Hole Digger and Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a combined post hole digger and wire stretcher, which allows barbed wire to be strung on a fence more easily and for fence building to be done by one person.
Date:
August 18, 1908
Creator:
Armstrong, John Joshua, Sr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Destroying Insects.
Patent for a new and improved apparatus for killing ants. This design "consist[s] of frame, levers, pivoted arms, piston-rod, piston provided with valves and openings, air-tight iron chamber having opening pipe, furnace provided with double lid, lugs, pipe, clamp, and wedge . . . whereby the flame as well as the poisonous vapors are injected into the insect chambers" (lines 50-58).
Date:
August 2, 1881
Creator:
Gray, Hiram Balderston
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Construction of Railroad-Beds.
Patent for a railroad-bed design that is used to support railroad tracks.
Date:
August 19, 1913
Creator:
Alley, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Street-Cars
Patent for an improvement to Street Cars to better navigate curves. Includes description and illustrations.
Date:
August 26, 1879
Creator:
Towell, Isaac
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties
Patent for improvement in cotton bale-ties, with illustration.
Date:
August 13, 1878
Creator:
Roeber, Alexander
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Jack.
Patent for an automobile jack design adapted for use in garages and by those who need to do work underneath an automobile. Illustration included.
Date:
August 29, 1912
Creator:
Bouldin, W. Claughton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Street Car.
Patent for a new and improved street car. This design "has reference to the construction of steam and other street-cars, whereby the same can be readily turned around corners, having for its object the simplifying of the construction and lessening the cost of construction" of previous street cars (lines 22-27).
Date:
August 9, 1881
Creator:
Towell, Isaac
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seal.
Patent for a car door seal lock device made of a strip of twistable metal.
Date:
August 3, 1909
Creator:
Reister, John Christian
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting Mechanism for Sewing-Machines.
Patent for an improved, simple, inexpensive, and efficient quilting-frame and makes quilting much faster. "The frame is provided with a longitudinal bar having a groove to form a track, in which travels a gage-wheel, which is adjustable and held by a spring-arm, which serves, also, as a means of changing the position of the wheel" (lines 22-26).
Date:
August 9, 1892
Creator:
Delany, Charles William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Post Hole Digger.
Patent for a new post hole digger that both facilitates the creation of straight sides to the hole and a mechanism to allow for easy removal of the dirt.
Date:
August 17, 1916
Creator:
Armstrong, John Joshua, Sr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History