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Wrench.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements to wrenches for removing nuts from vehicle-axles.
Date:
August 23, 1898
Creator:
Haines, Samuel Alfred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for improvements “in axle-nut wrenches in which the wrench comprising an angular socket portion adapted to extend partially within the wheel-hub to engage the nut,” (lines 81-83) so that the nut may be unscrewed by rotating the wheel. Illustration is included.
Date:
April 15, 1902
Creator:
Haines, Samuel Alfred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for "drawing the ends of wire together for the purpose of splicing" (lines 10-12) with illustrations.
Date:
November 18, 1913
Creator:
Holland, Isaac W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher
Patent for a stretcher that connects wires in fence construction and repair. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 29, 1891
Creator:
Wright, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement to Tire-Patch for Inner Tubes
Patent for an improvement to tire-patches for inner tubes by making use of "a simple devise for jacketing that part of an inner tube which may be adjacent to a puncture or weak place in the outer casing to prevent blow outs" (lines 11-14). Instructions and illustrations included.
Date:
February 9, 1915
Creator:
Major, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lever Scraper for Cleaning Plows.
Patent for a new and improved lever scraper for cleaning plows. This design "relates to improvements in plows, the object being to remove quickly and readily from the mold-board the earth which, in plowing stiff, waxy, or greasy soils, adheres thereto; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of a scraper-blade and of the actuating mechanism therefor" (lines 9-15).
Date:
November 8, 1887
Creator:
Tucker, Argyle W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Key-Board Attachment for Pianos.
Patent for a new keyboard attachment as educational aid for "pianos, organs &c. and has for its object to simplify the reading of music" (lines 9-11) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 12, 1889
Creator:
Osborn, Enoch L. S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wagon-Seat Spring.
Patent for an elliptic seat spring on a wagon that is "arranged longitudinally on the front of the wagon-box, for the purpose of taking up the jar and jolt of wagons in passing over rough places in the roads" (lines 15-18). The springs will stay in place once installed.
Date:
December 5, 1893
Creator:
Ingle, Jacob Odem, Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weighing Machine
Patent for a weighing machine. Illustration included.
Date:
August 16, 1910
Creator:
Allison, Joseph W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Removing Insects From Plants Or The Like
Patent for a machine for removing insects from plants or the like. Illustration included.
Date:
July 26, 1904
Creator:
Busseell, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Fence Machine
Patent for a wire fence machine. This invention is designed to tie wires to the line wires and line wires to the stay. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 10, 1903
Creator:
Baumgartner, Blassie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Pulling Stalks.
Patent for improvements in machine for pulling stalks in which it “can break the stalks in small pieces and guide the stalks into the pulling-section of the machine; the pulling-section may be adjusted to suit the average height of the stalks and bodily raised and lowered at any time to permit the pulling-section to be carried out of the way of obstructions when occasion so demands.” (Lines 11-21) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 24, 1904
Creator:
Kirkpatrick, George Milton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well Drilling Bit.
Patent for new and improved well-drilling bit. Illustration included.
Date:
March 7, 1916
Creator:
Marney, Robert A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Binding Grain
Patent for improvement in machines for binding grain for reapers.
Date:
February 13, 1875
Creator:
Tucker, Argyle W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Internal-Combustion Motor.
Patent for an internal combustion engine which "embodies an improved construction of cylinders and connections between the pistons and the crank shaft" (lines 23-25) and which "will be simple, light, composed of comparatively few parts and capable of generating great power" (lines 28-31).
Date:
May 26, 1914
Creator:
Brown, Jared V., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher.
Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design "consists in the combination of a slotted lever provided with points at one end to catch against the side of the post and a hook over which one end of the chain is fastened, a sliding frame, a reel or drum, pawls, a guiding-pulley, a wire or chain, to which the clamp is secured, and a chain for fastening the stretcher to the post . . . [it] is to provide a slotted handle a sliding frame . . . so that when the strain of the wire being stretched is brought to bear upon the frame it will tighten" (lines 13-26).
Date:
July 26, 1887
Creator:
Dunbar, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel.
Patent for "improvements in wheels particularly designed for use on harvesters in heavy or muddy ground." (Lines 8-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 19, 1891
Creator:
Stroud, Wiley N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Putting Ties on Bales.
Patent for a new and improved machine for putting ties on bales. This design consists in a "frame-work which is to be placed across the bale . . . a shaft journaled in the frame and provided with a reel at each end, and pawls and ratchets with hooked ropes or chains . . . a double rope which is to be passed around the bale . . . and suitable U-shaped hooks . . . to provide a machine whereby cotton and other bales can be compressed at that point where the tie has come off, so as to allow another tie to be placed around the bale, and thus prevent the loss of material" (lines 16-33).
Date:
May 1, 1888
Creator:
Dunbar, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel.
Patent for a new and improved wheel. This design, when "traversing soft and marshy soil[,] the ribs or lugs engage in the surface in the ordinary way; but in passing over hard or stony soil the flange bears on the surface and prevents jarring. The ribs and the flange are flush with each other . . . and this height may be considerably more than that of the ordinary ribs . . . for the reason that the said height does not affect the regularity of motion of the wheel in passing over hard soil. The advantage in tapering the ribs or lugs and the inner side of the flange is to prevent earth from clogging therein" (lines 51-53).
Date:
October 16, 1888
Creator:
Hatch, Jerome B. & Stroud, Wiley N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel.
Patent for a new and improved wheel. This design consists in "inner spokes [that] are inclined outwardly, and the outer spokes [that] are inclined inwardly toward their remote ends, whereby compression of the rim of the wheel is transformed into lateral thrusts on the hub, and the lateral thrusts counterbalance each other" (lines 45-51).
Date:
April 9, 1889
Creator:
Stroud, Wiley N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Packing Cotton.
Patent for a new and improved packer. This design consists "[i]n a cotton-packer, the combination of the frame, guides mounted therein, rack-bars moving in the said guides, a press-box and steam-cylinder, and heads secured to the rack-bars and moving in the press-box and cylinder, respectively, cog-wheels of different diameters journaled in the frame and meshing with the rack-bars, and anti-friction rollers pivoted in the guides and bearing against the rack-bars" (lines 4-13).
Date:
May 21, 1889
Creator:
Brady, Farley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Body Construction
Patent for improvements to vehicle body construction, particularly corner-irons. The design of the product claims to be simple, economical, and provide a compact and firm joint for the vehicle body. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 9, 1906
Creator:
Dowling, Stonewall J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Juice-Extractor
Patent for a juice extractor for making drinks at soda fountains. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 3, 1911
Creator:
Williams, Winfield B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ullage-Rod
Patent for an ullage rod. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 21, 1910
Creator:
Mackoy, Edgar S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History