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Improvement in Pitmen.
Patent for "a new and and useful Improvment in Crank and Pitman;" (lines 3-5) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 17, 1870
Creator:
Kealy, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Sower, Planter, Cultivator, Scraper, and Gang-Plow.
Patent for "a strong, simple, durable, and effective machine, which shall be so constructed and arranged that it may be readily adjusted for use as a gang plow, seed-sower, seed-planter, cultivator, and cotton-scrape, and which will do its work thoroughly and well in either capacity." Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 7, 1870
Creator:
Eddleman, James P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Water-Elevators.
Patent for "an endless chain of buckets on a reel for working them, so contrived that it tilts the buckets so that they empty and pass the spout without revolving, whereby the contrivance is simpler and better than when they are made to revolve, and the buckets are linked together by a novel contrivance for carrying them, to enter the water bottom downward, and to allow the air to escape when filling." (Lines 5-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 6, 1876
Creator:
Smith, Edgar J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Wheel-Plows.
Patent for an improvement in riding attachment for plows.
Date:
September 21, 1875
Creator:
Flow, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Picket-Fences.
Patent for a new design for a picket fence which is simple in construction and inexpensive in manufacture.
Date:
December 24, 1872
Creator:
Willhite, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Preserving Meat, &c.
Patent for "an improved apparatus for use in fumigating substances used as food; and also for impregnating water with sulphurous-acid gas, for the purpose of preserving such substances by the antiseptic quality of sulphur" (lines 9-14). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 15, 1878
Creator:
Ames, Theodore George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Adding-Machines.
Patent for an improved adding-machine design.
Date:
December 7, 1875
Creator:
Butt, Dennis, L. R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press.
Patent for a bailing press used in the milling and processing of cotton.
Date:
January 10, 1882
Creator:
Ensinger, Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for "baling-presses of that class wherein motion is communicated to the plunger from a sweep operated by horse or similar power, and the object in view is to improve the construction of the baling-chamber and attachments, and, furthermore, to provide a simple and efficient construction of plunger-operating mechanism" (lines 8-15)
Date:
January 5, 1897
Creator:
Pearce, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Curtain-Fixture.
Patent for an improved method of hanging and supporting window shades. It consists of a bracket with overlapping portions that form a sleeve, lugs that hold a roller, and end pieces to cover the end of the bar in the sleeve.
Date:
October 10, 1893
Creator:
Snapp, James F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "consist[s] of a draw-head having a spring-actuated sliding piece projecting into the draw-head, with a shouldered end therein, and a hole adapted to register with the coupling-holes in the draw-head, a coupling-link having yielding slotted pieces pivoted at its ends above slots in the ends of the link, and a coupling-pin with reacting spring mounted in a frame having a winding-drum, and a rope connected with the coupling-pin, the latter projecting through and engaging the sliding piece and link" (lines 76-87).
Date:
July 24, 1888
Creator:
Griffith, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Elevator and Distributer.
Patent for a cotton elevator and distributor meant to "provide certain improvements in apparatus of this character whereby cotton may be conveniently and readily elevated from the store house or wagon, and evenly distributed to any number of gins which may be arranged successively in the same row" (lines 11-16).
Date:
October 30, 1894
Creator:
Moffitt, William E. & Williams, James L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cleaner for Cotton-Gin Saws
Patent for "a new and improved cleaner for removing gummy and other matter from the saws of cotton-gins while the latter are running, thus permitting the saws to work very effectively in removing the lint from the seed" (lines 8-13).
Date:
June 4, 1889
Creator:
Godwin, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picker.
Patent for a new and improved cotton picker. This design has a spring-actuating "mechanism located upon the casing, and a hood for inclosing said mechanism hinged to one of the side walls of the casing and held closed by a fastening device . . . [and] the casing thereof, the endless picker-belt, flanged drums, and the toothed disks contained within said casing . . . and a pulley and belt for winding the spring" (lines 1-12).
Date:
August 4, 1885
Creator:
Martin, John Tillman
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bill File.
Patent for a new and improved bill file. This design "is to provide a cheap and simple file, upon which the papers may be strung and from which they may be removed with the least amount of trouble, and which is adapted to be locked to securely retain the papers thereon in such manner that they are readily accessible for inspection. To this end [the design] provide[s] . . . a wire loop having ends adapted to lap, fit snugly, and lock the one upon the other, and which may be opened for the ready reception and removal of papers, said loop being fitted to turn or swivel about an axis" (lines 11-23).
Date:
February 4, 1890
Creator:
Seaman, Milton L. B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a cultivator used for sub-soiling and cultivating small grain.
Date:
December 1, 1891
Creator:
Thomas, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Disk Harrows.
Patent for improvements in disk harrows, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 10, 1889
Creator:
Moffitt, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press
Patent for improvements to parts arrangement in construction of a cotton press.
Date:
May 27, 1884
Creator:
Heflin, Cyrus David
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Book-Rest for Writing Desks and Tables.
Patent for an improved book-rest for writing desks and tables used to support record-books upon desks or tables in such positions that they can be conveniently used.
Date:
October 3, 1882
Creator:
Terrill, Reuben W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bolting Reel.
Patent for a new and improved bolting-reel. This design "relate[s] to bolting-reels for flour-mills; and the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, having for their object to obtain lightness, strength, compactness, and cheapness of manufacture, as more particularly set forth hereinafter" (lines 8-13).
Date:
March 27, 1883
Creator:
Phillips, Edwin Samuel & Kealy, Stephen Alexander
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Handling Device.
Patent for "an apparatus for elevating and distributing cotton from wagons or other receptacles and feeding the same to cotton-gins or storage-bins." (Lines 9-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 27, 1891
Creator:
Moffitt, William E.; Williams, James L. & Bennett, Levi W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Planter.
Patent for an improvement in cotton-planters.
Date:
April 5, 1881
Creator:
McFall, Mark M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Tightener.
Patent for a new and improved wire-tightener. This design consists, "with a curved metallic bar having a central groove in its convex side, and aligned openings of different diameters in the sides of the groove, of the looping-pin having two tapering arms at an angle to each other and of different sizes" (lines 78-83).
Date:
December 9, 1890
Creator:
Austin, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a wire-stretcher meant for making barbed wire fences that is more efficient than other wire-stretchers. It has a bent plate, a split hook swiveled to the plate, a rotatable rod that goes through the plate, stretching wire that is secured to the rod, and the split hook is attached to the wire.
Date:
October 9, 1894
Creator:
Austin, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History