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Arrangement of Devices for Lowering and Detaching Boats.
Patent for "lowering and detaching life and other small boats from large ships" (lines 5-7), including illustration.
Date:
March 16, 1858
Creator:
De Veuve, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Machines for Polishing Marble, &c.
Patent for an improved machine that rubs and polishes marble using a sand and water box moving forward and backward to polish the stone without man power and tools, including illustration.
Date:
March 20, 1860
Creator:
Emmett, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rectifying High-Wines.
Patent for an improved mode of rectifying high wines using a new apparatus.
Date:
March 21, 1871
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties.
Patent for improved bale-tie fastener with flattened hook.
Date:
March 10, 1874
Creator:
Davis, Waters S.
System:
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Improvement In Bale-Ties.
This patent was crated for an improved way of manufactoring ties to hold packages together that consists of bale, hemp, cotton, rags or substances. It was created to reduce the rising costs or manufacturing products of this caliber.
Date:
March 16, 1878
Creator:
Davis, Water S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Construction of Roofs.
Patent for improvements in the construction of roofs, including instruction.
Date:
March 11, 1879
Creator:
Boyd, John
System:
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Ice-Making Apparatus.
Patent for an ice maker that more effectively handles the chemicals used to freeze water. Use of a more strategically placed condenser keeps steam and liquids separate.
Date:
March 25, 1879
Creator:
Lee, Charles B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Music-Leaf Turner.
Patent for a device for "Turning Leaves of Sheet-Musics, Music-Books and, other Books" (lines 5-7), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 16, 1880
Creator:
Becker, Francis L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Suspended Safe, &c.
Patent for a new and improved safe. This design "[has a] top projecting beyond its sides . . . in combination with the upright posts having liquid-cups, the rods, and sleeves for suspending the safe from contact with any object" (lines 79-83).
Date:
March 21, 1882
Creator:
Mason, Sanford
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water Cooler.
Patent for a new and improved water cooler. This design consists in "vessels, packing, cross-bars in [a] compartment, connecting tube, coiled pipe, coupling, and faucet . . . [and] the swinging bracket arranged below the faucet, and having stands for two or more glasses," as well as casing and lining (lines 1-7).
Date:
March 27, 1883
Creator:
Schultze, August J.
System:
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Sash Fastener.
Patent for a new and improved sash fastener. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a window frame and sash, of a fastener consisting of stops secured to the frame and formed with beveled ends and a shoulder . . . and a button pivotally secured to the sash and recessed to form a triangular projection, and a finger-piece extension, which latter serves also as a weight to effect an automatic fastening as the window is lowered" (lines 72-80).
Date:
March 4, 1884
Creator:
Bendy, Napoleon Bonaparte
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shutter Fastener.
Patent for a new and improved shutter fastener. This design consists "[i]n a blind-fastening, the case, constructed . . . and provided with [a] projection in combination with the bolt having recess, the spring, the swinging catch, and the keeper secured in the window sill" (lines 45-49).
Date:
March 9, 1886
Creator:
Cutter, Martin A.
System:
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Process of and Machine for the Use of Compressed Air as a Motive Power
Patent for "a new and useful Process of Operating Locomotives by Compressed Air," (lines 6-8) including illustrations.
Date:
March 16, 1886
Creator:
Tull, Francis Shales; Kuehn, Herman & Beers, William Francis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Fluid
Patent for invention has relation to improved detergent and it consists in combining certain ingredients and the manner and proportions as will be here in after fully set forth, and particular pointed out in the claim appended.[10]
Date:
March 8, 1887
Creator:
Mnnick, Maggie, E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clasp.
Patent for a new and improved clasp. This design "consist[s] of the front plate formed with the integral strap loop or slot at its upper end, the teeth at its lower end, and the opening above said teeth, the rear plate formed with integral teeth at its lower end, side ears at its upper end, and the lugs below said ears and projecting beyond the outer face of the plate, the spindle passing through the ears and provided with a spring throwing the plates apart, and the locking-plate pivoted at its upper end to the lugs and having a [different] lug projecting inward from said upper end" (lines 83-96).
Date:
March 27, 1888
Creator:
Lewis, Annie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Letter Copying Press.
Patent for a new and improved copier. This design consists in "the combination of the dampening-roller . . . with the smoothing-roller at one side of and in close proximity to it and situated between said dampening-roller and the roll of paper, and the roller journaled in the standard, and the smoothing-rollers placed at one side and beyond the rollers . . . and journaled in brackets . . . whereby the paper is evenly and smoothly moistened before the copy-paper is applied and both are kept smooth during the process of copying" (lines 90-104).
Date:
March 12, 1889
Creator:
Thompson, Charles Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Book Carriage and Protector.
Patent for a new and improved mobile bookcase. This design is "composed of a base-piece having a longitudinally-central raised table-piece adapted to support the leaves of the book, and a depressed-ledge portion outside thereof adapted to support the cover of the book" (lines 20-25).
Date:
March 19, 1889
Creator:
Leith, Lawrence C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blotter.
Patent for "a combined hand-blotter, ruler, paper-cutter, and pen-rack... especially for the use of book-keepers and accountants," (lines 12-15) with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 14, 1891
Creator:
Betts, Walter & Herbert, William B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plant-Protector.
Patent for an adjustable shade that protects plants from direct sunlight while still allowing some light to reach the plant.
Date:
March 14, 1893
Creator:
Gruetzmacher, Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spool or Bobbin Holder.
Patent for a spool or bobbin holder that has a spindle with a flange on it, a retractable spring, an actuated catch, and a stem on the spindle.
Date:
March 13, 1894
Creator:
Homer, Arthur B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine.
Patent for "improvements in rotary engines by which a flanged or bladed disk is made to revolve in a steam tight chamber or chest." (Lines 7-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 5, 1895
Creator:
West, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling Lint-Cotton.
Patent for an apparatus for handling lint-cotton that allows air to move freely without back pressure while putting the fiber into a bat. It has a "trunk into which a series of gins deliver, of a primary condenser having a high surface speed, so that it will rapidly remove the fiber and prevent the bat from building up of such thickness as to check the escape of air, and a second condenser having a slower surface speed and arranged to receive the lint from the first condenser and form it into a thicker bat" (lines 29-37).
Date:
March 19, 1895
Creator:
Campbell, Douglas M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Tightener.
Patent for improved tire-tighteners "capable of ready adjustment to contract and expand a tire, to permit the tire to be tightened when a wheel becomes loose in dry weather, and to expand in wet weather to prevent the same from becoming dished." (Lines 13-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 9, 1897
Creator:
Rembert, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stirrup.
Patent for "a stirrup having an improved turntable spring-support which will permit the stirrup to turn readily, so that the foot can assume any desired angle toward or from the horse and so that the stirrup will be yieldingly upheld, whereby certain advantages are attained in mounting, particularly when employed in connection with a wild or unmanageable animal." (Lines 14-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 16, 1897
Creator:
Vann, George G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History