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Hydraulic Excavating Machine.
Patent for a new and improved hydraulic excavator. This design "consists in combining a submerged propeller-wheel with a water-jet tube having a flexible connection with the supply-pipe, so as to permit the water-jet tube to rise and fall . . . and also move laterally, whereby the tube will, when it meets an obstruction, yield sufficiently to prevent breaking, jarring, or injuring any of the parts, the water-jet tube and propeller bearing such relative positions to each other that the . . . obstructions disengaged by the jet will be held in suspension . . . and carried off by the natural current" (lines 14-27).
Date:
January 15, 1884
Creator:
Mansfield, Samuel M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Pump
Patent for a hydraulic pump. Illustration included.
Date:
March 7, 1905
Creator:
Russell, Robert H.; Arnold, Clifton W. & Sheldon, Walter L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner
Patent for a burner that uses crude petroleum as well as kerosene, or gasoline. This device works in a way to prevent the jets from clogging and produces a steady flame.
Date:
May 14, 1902
Creator:
Wadkins, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Imposition-Furniture for Printers' Use.
Patent for improvements in imposition-furniture for printers’ use; in this “improved furniture, the page can be removed with the cord tied around it and set aside for future use and the improved pieces of furniture used around another and different page of type and so on indefinitely. It is made to serve the purpose of an almost endless set of furniture-pieces of that style of furniture border-piece where the groove is formed on the outside of furniture border-pieces and the tying-cord is fitted in said groove and made to serve for tying up both the furniture border-pieces and the page.” (Lines 22-34) Illustration is included.
Date:
September 1, 1891
Creator:
Clarke, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Process of Sterilizing and Packaging Rice
Patent for sterilizing and packaging rice by subjecting it to heat for twenty minutes or more. After this, the rice is sorted in a shaker and put into packaging while maintaining the air temperature. This prohibits the rice kernels from cracking.
Date:
April 21, 1914
Creator:
Davis, Waters Smith, Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Distilling Turpentine.
Patent for the improvement of apparatuses for distilling turpentine.
Date:
August 1, 1871
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Distilling Turpentine.
Patent for a new and improved process of production and distillation of turpentine, including illustrations.
Date:
September 24, 1872
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Automatic Detaching Hook.
Patent for "a new and useful improvements Hooks"
Date:
September 12, 1876
Creator:
Wyckoff, Cornerius P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Automatic Fans.
Patent for "an improved device for keeping the flies off the table, bed, or other place; and it consists of a fly-brush constructed of a spiral spring attached to a shaft with rotary reciprocating motion, and provided along the convolutions of the spring with suitable wings" (para. 4).
Date:
November 3, 1877
Creator:
Boone, John Baxter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Automatic Fans.
Patent for " a new and improved Table-Fan"
Date:
April 20, 1875
Creator:
Stamps, Lorenzo D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Band Stretchers
Patent for improvement of bale-band stretcher design "for the purpose of taking out the slack of the band that cannot be taken out by hand." (lines 18-20). Included illustration shows bale-stretcher in both open and closed positions.
Date:
December 12, 1876
Creator:
Pearre, Charles M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Band Tighteners.
Patent for improving the operation of tightening baling-bands and saving the length of metal bands.
Date:
September 18, 1877
Creator:
Hodges, John C., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Tie fastenings.
Patent for the improvement of bale-tie fastenings, including illustrations.
Date:
June 2, 1874
Creator:
Davis, Waters S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in bale-ties
Patent for cotton bale ties, involving a lateral arm. Includes illustrations.
Date:
November 26, 1872
Creator:
Lloyd, Arnold
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for fastening iron or other bands on cotton-bales or packages that put up with iron bands, including illustrations.
Date:
February 18, 1873
Creator:
Quin, Michael
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for an improved bale-hoop tie, consisting of a tongue and slot locking device, which may be used for cotton or other bales, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 3, 1874
Creator:
Davis, Waters S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for the improved design of a bale-hoop tie, including illustrations.
Date:
November 3, 1874
Creator:
Davis, Waters S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for an improved bale-tie which is to be used especially with cotton, includes instructions and illustration.
Date:
May 28, 1878
Creator:
Arnold, Lloyd
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Bale-Ties.
Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Bale-Ties" [lines 4-5] along with a description of construction and illustrations.
Date:
August 5, 1879
Creator:
Rand, Anders
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties
Patent for an improved kind of bale tie "designed to hold in compact form a mass of hay, cotton, moss, and other analogous substances" (para. 3).
Date:
February 2, 1875
Creator:
Reese, John L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for improved bale-ties, including illustrations.
Date:
August 10, 1875
Creator:
Jones, Henry Bradley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for a bale tie that "form[s] a double lock-tie for securing the ends of baling-hoops, which cannot become detached or tear and whose outer surface face is flush, thereby rendering it impossible to catch against other packages, and thus be broken or torn off" (para. 2).
Date:
November 9, 1875
Creator:
Drake, Simeon N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History