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Horse-Detacher (open access)

Horse-Detacher

Patent for a horse detacher for use on wagons that prevents accidental separation.
Date: July 23, 1912
Creator: Backermann, Henry G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Safety Hook and Buckle. (open access)

Combined Safety Hook and Buckle.

Patent for a new and improved combined hook and buckle. This design "is especially adapted for use upon the back-bands, whether of leather or canvas, of harnesses, and for receiving and holding the leather trace or trace-chains of the harness; but it may be attached to various other parts of the harness, and used for various other purposes. The buckle part of the device is composed of a suitable frame . . . and a bar formed or provided with points or small tongues for holding the strap or canvas adapted to slide in the frame" (lines 9-21).
Date: July 18, 1882
Creator: Hake, Francis A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
BED-BOTTOM (open access)

BED-BOTTOM

Patent for "a new and useful improvement in bed bottoms". The bed bottom fits any bedstead and it is cheap, portable, and durable.
Date: July 13, 1880
Creator: Pafford, John R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Discharge-Nozzle (open access)

Discharge-Nozzle

Patent for discharge nozzle for insecticide spraying machines. Proposed nozzle design to have adjustable opening.
Date: July 9, 1918
Creator: Gohmert, Otto Adolph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Window-Frame Attachment (open access)

Window-Frame Attachment

Patent for a window frame attachment of bars that shades can be attached to.
Date: July 9, 1912
Creator: Hillman, Annie M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Tanning Hides. (open access)

Process of Tanning Hides.

Patent for "an improved process of tanning hides in an expeditious and economical manner, and to produce a fine quality of leather" (lines 8-11). The limed and haired hides are baited thrice, afterwards the hides are packed into "tanning-vats with bark and covering them with a solution of alum and water" (lines 80-82). The hides are then leached in salt water and scoured and dried.
Date: July 14, 1896
Creator: Rogers, John Charsley
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ant-Destroying Apparatus. (open access)

Improvement in Ant-Destroying Apparatus.

Patent for "a new and Improved Apparatus for Destroying Ants" (lines 4-5) including illustrations.
Date: July 27, 1875
Creator: Grafton, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Printing Plate. (open access)

Printing Plate.

Patent for a new and improved printing-plate. This design "relates to an improvement in printing-plates designed particularly for printing mailing-lists for newspapers and other periodicals" (lines 8-11). To this end, it consists in "[t]he combination of the bar or holder having the downwardly and inwardly turned ends, and the printing-plates secured on the former . . . of the loop loosely mounted on the plate, and the interposed wedge-shaped locking-key" (lines 5-16).
Date: July 22, 1890
Creator: Eberhardt, Theophilus Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ruffling Attachment for Sewing Machines. (open access)

Ruffling Attachment for Sewing Machines.

Patent for a new and improved ruffling attachment for sewing machines. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the flat main plate having the loop, of the ruffling-plate having its side at one end turned over parallel with its main portion, and provided with a spring tongue or plate that is inserted in the loop" (lines 59-63).
Date: July 8, 1884
Creator: Lauraine, Eugene G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Riding Saddle. (open access)

Riding Saddle.

Patent for a new and improved saddle. This design "provide[s] a flexible or elastic seat, consisting of a number of thicknesses of tanned sheepskin, with the wool on, between the saddle-tree covering and the ordinary external rawhide or other covering, thus preventing the said covering from resting on the inner edges of the saddle-tree side bars, which forms a comfortable and easy saddle; and, in addition to this, [the] invention relates to the opening rearwardly and laterally in the saddle-tree for attaching the girth-rigging thereto, in place of the ordinary rings" (lines 30-41).
Date: July 6, 1886
Creator: Hake, Francis A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Powder-Duster (open access)

Powder-Duster

Patent for a device that will grind poison to a fine powder, and can mounted on a wagon for distribution onto plants.
Date: July 12, 1892
Creator: Wright, John P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Non-Spillable Oil Can (open access)

Non-Spillable Oil Can

Patent for improvements upon non-spillable oil cans that contain "a valve-controlled inlet and outlet whereby the receptacle can be readily and easily filled and its contents prevented from spilling irrespective of what position it may be arranged when not in use" (lines 10-15).
Date: July 6, 1915
Creator: Matthews, William James
System: The Portal to Texas History