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Box and Package Elevating Apparatus
Patent for an elevator for boxes and packages. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 3, 1910
Creator:
Brigance, Alice Osborne
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Band Buckle
Patent for a bale band buckle. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 6, 1911
Creator:
Brigance, Alice O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compound Engine.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in compound engines, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 20, 1899
Creator:
Johnson, Willie H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie
Patent for a bale tie made of aluminum which has a fastener attached to the band.
Date:
March 3, 1908
Creator:
Brigance, Alice Osborne
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Weeder
Patent for a cotton chopper and weeder. Illustration included.
Date:
March 29, 1904
Creator:
Stewart, John Hanibal
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Book
Patent for a book with margin numbering which allows for page numbers to be visible with one glance, including illustrations.
Date:
October 1, 1901
Creator:
Rhodes, Samuel E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cane Mill.
Patent for a new and improved sugarcane mill. This design "consist[s] of the frame composed of [a] bed-piece, vertical standards, and horizontal pieces, [one] piece having [a] trough, the vertical shaft, horizontally movable . . . and provided with the gear, the roller having stationary shaft provided with pinion, the [other] roller having stationary shaft provided with pinion, boxes, and screw-threaded rods" (lines 81-89).
Date:
February 9, 1886
Creator:
Webb, John T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the platform . . . having a spring buffer and a projection adjacent to and to one side of the buffer . . . the catch pivotally secured below the same and having a series of coupling shoulders on one side, the spring, and the stop arranged to act upon the side of the catch from which the coupling shoulders project" (lines 89-98).
Date:
September 6, 1887
Creator:
Ashford, Thomas Gresham.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "the draw-head having the open space at its front end, the longitudinal groove in its side, extending rearward from said space, and the transverse recess at the rear end of said groove, the coupling bar resting in the groove and having a lug at its rear end" (lines 92-98). Said lug is "pivoted in the recess, and the hook at its front end arranged within the open space, and the spring having its rear end secured to the side of the draw-head in rear of the recess" (lines 1-4).
Date:
December 6, 1887
Creator:
Keith, John David
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Door-Securers.
Patent for a new and improved safety-locks for doors which consists of only three parts: a screw with sharp points, a nut, and a guard pivoted to the nut. It includes illustrations.
Date:
January 21, 1879
Creator:
Hine, Miller J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a sulky having a loop secured to its axle, of a pair of hoes secured to a pair of pivoted bars, which are adapted to slide up and down in the loop, and a spring arranged between the bars to hold the hoes in a closed position . . . [and] provided with foot-rests for the driver, whereby the hoes may be forced into the ground" (lines 55-67).
Date:
February 6, 1883
Creator:
Craig, William Sinclair
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crossover
Patent for cross-overs in railways to prevent collisions of trains traveling on intersecting track ways
Date:
March 2, 1915
Creator:
Miller, Sam P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fence Posts.
Patent for improvements in fence posts and has "for its primary object to provide a post which may be of extremely simple construction and operation and especially adapted for use in constructing wire fences" (lines 12-15) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 29, 1914
Creator:
Conner, Elmer E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard.
Patent for a cattle-guard "for preventing cattle from passing along a certain point of a railroad track from an inclosure (sic)" (lines 10-12) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 26, 1918
Creator:
Bullard, James H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nail-Staple for Barbed Wire.
Patent for a tool meant to assist with attaching fence wire to posts. The nail-staple supports the wire during application to the post, which allows it to be done by a single person, saving time and labor.
Date:
August 30, 1921
Creator:
Washington, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for "a wrench having a sliding jaw and a handle pivoted to the shank in such a manner that a movement of the handle about the work" prevents the jaw to move (lines 13-16).
Date:
March 13, 1906
Creator:
Garrard, William D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window-Sash Fastener.
Patent for a window sash fastener with improvement in locking device that hold it in any position or securely locked against movement, including illustrations.
Date:
December 9, 1913
Creator:
Driscoll, Spurgeon E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for improvements in wire-stretcher for use in fence-building in which wire is secured to a fence-post, using horse power to hitch to the whiffletree and driven along close to the lines of posts. When wires are being leaded out, they are being stretched simultaneously. A lever is inserted in front of the spools as a final additional tension device to tighten and staple the wire to the fence-posts. Illustration is included.
Date:
August 11, 1891
Creator:
Woodward, Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insecticide
Patent for "a compound or composition for the extermination of ants, moles, salamanders, prairie-dogs, large rats, &c." (lines 11-13).
Date:
August 21, 1888
Creator:
Simpson, James Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Whiffletree-Fastenings.
Patent for the improvement of whiffletree fastenings, relating to the means by which single-trees are attached to a double-tree. It includes a description and illustration.
Date:
June 11, 1872
Creator:
Ahrenbeck, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water Mill.
Patent for a new and improved water mill. This design "relates to current water-mills, the object being to provide a mill of inexpensive and durable construction, having a wheel adapted to rise and fall with the tide, and thus to maintain a constant revolution and working of the mill. The invention consists in the combination of parts" (lines 11-18).
Date:
August 28, 1883
Creator:
Steinhagen, Cristofer Friderich Carl
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock.
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Locks" (line 6).
Date:
February 17, 1914
Creator:
Van Hoesen, Benjamin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Stalk-Chopper
Patent for an improvement in corn and cotton stalk-choppers, allowing for the stalks to be turned under by the plow and prevent their interference with the machine.
Date:
May 21, 1872
Creator:
Richards, Augustus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Tonic Remedies.
Patent for a medicinal compound consisting of sulphate quinine, diluted sulphuric acid, purified chinoidine, sulphate iron, sulphate magnesia, peppermint oil, and saturated quassia-water. Includes instructions.
Date:
January 11, 1876
Creator:
Rucker, Benjamin Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History