14 Matching Results

Results open in a new window/tab.

Combined Plow and Planter. (open access)

Combined Plow and Planter.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in a combined plow and planter which "can be readily adapted for planting different kinds of seed, such as corn, cotton, cane, and the like" (line 21 - 23).
Date: March 8, 1898
Creator: Franklin, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for a new and useful churn, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 27, 1900
Creator: Parker, Joseph Andrew
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Clothes Washer and Churn. (open access)

Combined Clothes Washer and Churn.

Patent for a new and improved combined clothes washer and churn. This design "is to facilitate the operations of washing clothes and churning, and also to avoid the necessity of having a separate mechanism for each use. The invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 16-21).
Date: March 6, 1883
Creator: Bridges, Mary Jane
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wagon (open access)

Wagon

Patent for "relates to the construction of wagon beds or bodies; and it has for'its object to provide a simple means for bracing such beds-or bodies to prevent the sides thereof from spreading under a load, and whereby the heavy standards usually employed may be dispensed with" (lines 23-30).
Date: March 18, 1890
Creator: Haupt, William W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Supporting Bracket for Freezing Device (open access)

Supporting Bracket for Freezing Device

Patent for brackets used to hold edible fluids to be frozen.
Date: March 29, 1912
Creator: Beckworth, Effie
System: The Portal to Texas History
Toy Cannon (open access)

Toy Cannon

Patent for an improvement to toy cannons to enable marbles and other spherical objects can be fed into cannon and fired providing a varied range of distance.
Date: March 14, 1916
Creator: Osborn, Carl B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Motor-Cultivator (open access)

Motor-Cultivator

Patent for an improvement to motor cultivators. It provides the operator a way to manually adjust the depth of the furrow and cultivator blade, including illustrations.
Date: March 6, 1917
Creator: Runge, Friedrich Albert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Tightener. (open access)

Tire-Tightener.

Patent for improvements in tire tighteners by using wedges with longitudinal ridges, longitudinal tapering ridges or webs, together “with a wheel-rim, clamps arranged in pairs upon each side of the felly-joint, the clamps consisting of plates have a fluted or corrugated inner surface …., the extension of the registering plates being connected by transverse bolts.” (lines 37-45) Illustration is included.
Date: March 31, 1891
Creator: Reeves, Alexander Marion
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hinge-Gainer. (open access)

Hinge-Gainer.

Patent for a hinge-gainer related to "certain improvements in devices of that class employed for cutting a gain or mortise in a door-jam or door for the reception of a hinge. The object of the invention is to provide an improved machine or tool in which all the parts may be readily and accurately adjusted to cut recesses of different width, height, and depth" (Lines 8-16).
Date: March 11, 1902
Creator: Ward, Richard Bryant.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Self-Locking, Nut. (open access)

Self-Locking, Nut.

Patent for a "simple and efficient device" for "securely holding a nut upon a bolt" (lines 76-77).
Date: March 6, 1906
Creator: Galliher, Lawrence M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fire Tongs. (open access)

Fire Tongs.

Patent for new and improved fire tongs. This design "is designed to produce an article . . . which will be practical in every respect, and which will prevent the slipping or sliding of the legs or arms thereof while handling the logs, enabling the latter to be grasped with a firm hold, thereby avoiding the numerous accidents that often occur from the use of the present form of tongs" (lines 9-17).
Date: March 9, 1886
Creator: Bishop, John Andrews
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hose-Coupling. (open access)

Hose-Coupling.

Patent for a hose-coupling that is "simple and economic in construction and which shall be capable of rapid and ready action without use of any tool for manipulating the same" (lines 14-17).
Date: March 19, 1895
Creator: Goodspeed, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pipe-Cutter. (open access)

Pipe-Cutter.

Patent for a pipe cutter, which can be used on pipes that are at any angle and in narrow spaces.
Date: March 17, 1908
Creator: Thomas, Roy L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator (open access)

Cultivator

Patent for a durable cultivator. Illustration included.
Date: March 22, 1904
Creator: Porter, Harrison B.
System: The Portal to Texas History