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Improvement in Medical Compounds or Bitters for Treating Chills and Fever.
Patent for a new medical compound to treat chills and fevers which lists the ingredients and dosages.
Date:
May 20, 1873
Creator:
Owens, Thomas B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Photographers' Bath-Warmers
Patent for keeping photographers' chemicals and bath water the same temperature throughout the liquids. The patent contains instructions and illustrations for the creation and use of the invention.
Date:
March 27, 1877
Creator:
Fellrath, Charles J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Pulverizing Subsoil-Plows.
Patent for an improvement in subsoil plows to pulverize soils, including illustrations.
Date:
September 22, 1874
Creator:
Mangham, Josiah T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seed-Planters.
Patent for a new and improved seed-planter. Illustration included.
Date:
February 20, 1877
Creator:
Miller, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Kiln
Patent for improvements to kilns, which include improvements for transferring heat, "burning lime and clay products"(line 11), powdered fuel feeding and preventing unheated air from flowing into the kiln.
Date:
May 13, 1919
Creator:
Bone, David R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lard-Press.
Patent for a lard press, which is easy to use and inexpensive to make.
Date:
July 12, 1910
Creator:
Harman, Effie
System:
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Meat Chopper.
Patent for a new and improved meat chopper. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the frame having horizontal slots, a sash having interchangeable cutting and tenderizing blades, devices for operating the sash, and wires or rods adjustable in said slots to accommodate either blade . . . [and] [t]he combination of [a] shaft with spur-wheels, pinion, crank-shaft, pitman, sash, removable blade, shaft, carrying spur-wheel, and pinions, and [a] meat-board or table with racks" (lines 91-101).
Date:
March 3, 1885
Creator:
Mathes, William McConnell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nesting and Brooding Box
Patent for a nesting and brooding box made to keep poultry safe from other animals and to be easily transported. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 25, 1907
Creator:
Bradford, Joseph W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Non-Refillable Bottle
Patent for a non-refillable bottle.
Date:
April 14, 1903
Creator:
Parks, Leonard D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Removing Tool.
Patent for a tool for removing nuts that have been "upset or beaded around the outer side of the nut" (lines 14-15).
Date:
April 14, 1914
Creator:
Carnes, John P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Patent for Hay Press and Baler
Patent for Hay Press and Baler
Date:
November 14, 1916
Creator:
Gernigan, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plant-Chopper.
Patent for a plant chopper that can chop down plants of the row variety while not disturbing others that are spaced apart. It can also be an attachment to a cultivator.
Date:
July 29, 1919
Creator:
Martin, Silas W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for "new and useful improvements in plows; and it has for its object the production of simple and highly-efficient means for regulating the depth and penetration of the plowshare in all kinds and conditions of soil." (Lines 10-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 22, 1895
Creator:
Sinclair, James & Sellers, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for improvement in plows by using a “combination of mold-board, land-bar, and share, which will effectually shed the land and prevent the latter from adhere to it.” (Lines 15-18) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 26, 1891
Creator:
Brown, William Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow
Patent for a plow with adjustable handlebars and a better guidance system for depth and position in the ground.
Date:
January 29, 1907
Creator:
Tucker, Samuel Houston
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump
Patent for improvements to pumps more specifically pumps used in windmills.
Date:
December 29, 1914
Creator:
Pierson, Hiram W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting-Frame.
Patent for a portable quilting frame.
Date:
January 9, 1912
Creator:
Dalton, Gilbert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rein-Holder.
Patent for rein supports to be attached to the front of a buggy, with an adjustable height and being collapsible for storage.
Date:
June 11, 1901
Creator:
Hill, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash - Balance.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in sash balancing, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 27, 1900
Creator:
Cayce, Henry P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash Fastener.
Patent for a new and improved sash fastener. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a window-sash, of the spiral spring, its inner end resting in the socket, its other in the thimble, locking-plate having the hinge-nib working in the perforation, and [the] thimble receiving and covering the outer end of said spring, and handle, said lock-plate and handle fitting and working in [the] groove and [other] perforation, [a] cover-plate countersunk in the face of said sash, covering said lock-plate, and provided with the perforation and opening" (lines 1-11).
Date:
March 5, 1889
Creator:
Teal, Thomas Henry
System:
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Sash-Fastener
Patent for "a new and improved sashholder which is simple and durable in construction and permits of conveniently lowerin g the upper sash and raising the lower sash, or raising both the lower and upper sashes to any desired place in the window-frame" (lines 10-15).
Date:
November 26, 1889
Creator:
Bulloch, Henry Purnell & Grogan, William Leonard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash Fastener
Patent for a sash fastener. This invention applies to fastening and locking the lower sash of a window to the windows frame. Illustration included.
Date:
March 5, 1907
Creator:
Sloan, Emanuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash Fastener
Patent for a window sash fastener. Illustration included.
Date:
November 22, 1904
Creator:
Clements, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash-Holder
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Sash-Holders," an invention which "aims to provide a sash-holder of simple construction for supporting a sash at any elevation and which will secure it when closed against being opened from the outside."
Date:
November 13, 1900
Creator:
Hardy, Isham B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History