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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
Well Bucket.
Patent for a new and improved well-bucket. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the upper bucket and the lower external bucket, the former having a central vertical tube adapted to receive the rod for operating the valve of the lower bucket, and the spring arranged around the said rod" (lines 5-10).
Date:
June 23, 1885
Creator:
Arnold, James S.
System:
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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:
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Trap.
Patent for a star shaped fish or animal trap, which has spring triggered entry points that allow animals in but not out.
Date:
January 19, 1909
Creator:
Hendrix, Julius M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Train-Order Signal.
Patent for a train order signal device, which sets off an alarm or signal when the train order pad is removed, which cannot be turned off until the pad is replaced.
Date:
November 24, 1908
Creator:
Van Zandt, Luther H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Train-Order Signal.
Patent for a train order signal, which prevents accidental clear signals from the semaphores by requiring the train order pad to be replaced before a signal can be given.
Date:
May 18, 1909
Creator:
Gates, William T.
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
Milling-Machine.
Patent for a milling machine that executes thorough removal of dirt and other substances.
Date:
February 3, 1914
Creator:
Lakey, William Ray.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Milling Machine.
Patent for an improvement for milling machines to thoroughly remove dirt and other substances to improve the quality of product.
Date:
July 23, 1912
Creator:
Lakey, William R.
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:
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Thill Or Tongue Support
Patent for a thill or tongue support. This invention is designed for use with horse buggies. Illustration included.
Date:
January 1, 1907
Creator:
Roark, Lafayette L.
System:
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Stalk Breaker Or Reducer
Patent for a stalk breaker or reducer. Illustration included.
Date:
October 10, 1905
Creator:
Johnson, Robert L. & Robertson, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Cutter.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in stalk cutters to "product chopper in which the cutter-wheels may be adjusted with relation to each other to accommodate rows of varying widths" (line 13 - 16).
Date:
August 15, 1899
Creator:
Terrell, Joseph E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Square.
Patent for a a carpenters square, which has tables printed on it for calculating the length and angle that rafter boards should be cut to.
Date:
January 17, 1911
Creator:
McCormick, Terrill William
System:
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Ice-Box
Patent for an ice box. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 18, 1910
Creator:
Elder, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Muzzle
Patent for a muzzle designed for horses. Illustration included.
Date:
February 22, 1910
Creator:
Lipscomb, James H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gravel Conveyor and Roller
Patent for gravel, sand, or rubble conveyor to use in grading, repairing, and surfacing roads.
Date:
November 28, 1916
Creator:
Whitfield, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Metal-Cutting Shears.
Patent for simple and effective metal-cutting shears that cuts hot or cold metals. The shears are mounted on a frame, and a hand-operated lever forces the upper shear down.
Date:
November 20, 1894
Creator:
Autrey, Benjamin P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Toy
Patent for a toy. Illustration included.
Date:
November 21, 1905
Creator:
Whitefield, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Brazing
Patent for a process of brazing. Illustration included.
Date:
January 15, 1907
Creator:
Hornsby, Charley C. & Bell, Robert F.
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
Measure
Patent for a measure. Illustration included.
Date:
May 15, 1906
Creator:
Turpin, Thomas L.
System:
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Process of Skinning Fruit.
Patent for skinning fruit chemically without the use of Alum to avoid harmful health effects resulting from Alum residue on fruit.
Date:
February 5, 1907
Creator:
Thompson, Jovita Boyd
System:
The Portal to Texas History