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Improved Stitching-Horse.
Patent for improvements in the construction of stitching-horses by re-configuring the original constructions, in order to make them better for users. The patent includes instructions and a single illustration.
Date:
October 27, 1868
Creator:
Depp, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner.
Patent for a new and useful hydrocarbon burner, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 15, 1899
Creator:
Jordan, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Storage Battery.
Patent for a storage battery with a high number of amps.
Date:
June 13, 1911
Creator:
Lawrence, Arthur Ewin
System:
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Toy Repeating Gun.
Patent for an improvement on toy repeating guns "which may be cocked and fired by manipulation of a single member and which embodies a magazine to receive a number of projectiles which automatically feeds by gravitative action into proper position to be projected by the striker or discharging member. " (lines 10-16) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 23, 1917
Creator:
Osborn, Carl B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
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
Trace Carrier.
Patent for a new and improved trace carrier. This design consists, "with the back-band and its depending loop, of the . . . improved trace-carrier, consisting of the inverted-U-shaped carrier-frame terminating in opposite trace-receiving eyes, and the V-shaped bifurcating tongue, the lower end of which is adapted to engage a link of the trace-chain and the upper branches or bifurcations of which are bent to form eyes, loosely receiving the frame intermediate its terminals and at each side of the loop" (lines 72-82).
Date:
February 25, 1890
Creator:
Strole, James P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Meat-Cutter.
Patent for a meat-cutter designed for making meat tender by "running it back and forth under the knives and cutting the meat both ways," (lines 30-31) including illustrations.
Date:
November 17, 1891
Creator:
Ricks, Tillmon Perry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tool For Removing Floors, Ceilings, Sidings, &c.
Patent for a tool that removes floors, ceilings, sidings, and more. Illustration included.
Date:
April 26, 1904
Creator:
Harmon, William O. & Quarles, Alexander H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pneumatic Conveyor and Cleaner.
Patent for "a pneumatic cotton conveyer and cleaner designed for carrying seed-cotton from a wagon or the like to a gin-house or warehouse or other receptacle or place of storage and for cleaning the cotton while the same is being so conveyed." (lines 8-13) including illustrations.
Date:
July 10, 1900
Creator:
Parker, Joseph A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a new and improved plow. This design "has for its object to construct a plow with a detachable point, which may be removed from the plow in an easy and convenient manner and which may be held securely attached to the plow without the use of bolts" (lines 8-13). It consists in "the combination of a pair of clamping-plates, a seat or base-plate having a downwardly-extending flange secured between the front ends of said plates, said base-plate being provided with a transverse slot, the mold-board and point provided at their meeting edges with flanges" (lines 85-91).
Date:
August 26, 1890
Creator:
Messer, Jeremiah C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire Tool
Patent for a tool designed to remove the tire casings from vehicle rims and also to replace the casing back on to the rims.
Date:
August 18, 1919
Creator:
Rylander, William P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insulator
Patent for Insulator
Date:
November 14, 1916
Creator:
Williams, Roger A.
System:
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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
Packing attachment for cotton presses.
Patent for improvement of packing attachment for cotton presses.
Date:
October 6, 1885
Creator:
Bradford, John B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Motor for Sewing Machines.
Patent for a new and improved sewing-machine motor. This design has for its object "the production of a motor capable of rapid and convenient adjustment to permit operation by hand or foot . . . Heretofore motors have been provided for [this purpose] but the difficulty experienced in these machines is that during the operation of the machine by hand the treadle forms no substantial support for the feet, the pitman simply being disconnected from the driving-wheel and thrown back. . . . [T]he present invention . . . will obviate the above objection" (lines 10-22).
Date:
August 28, 1888
Creator:
Briggs, Emma Flora
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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:
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Gate
Patent for a gate that can be opened or closed from a remote point, and can be locked with a latch. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 11, 1907
Creator:
Rogers, Frederick S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Fence Stay
Patent for wire fence stay that is used for securing wire lines.
Date:
June 9, 1903
Creator:
Senour, Charles Henry
System:
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Hay-Press.
Patent for a hay-press where "the plunger or traverser is arranged in a suitable frame and is drawn toward its rearward position by means of a spring. rods are connected to the opposite sides of the plunger or traverser, and these are in turn connected to a cross-head, which in turn is connected with a pitman provided on its outer end with a hook that engages mechanism to give it a motion which imparts a reciprocating motion to the plunger" (lines 15-25).
Date:
September 8, 1896
Creator:
McIntosh, Alexander
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hand Seed-Planter.
Patent for an improvement in hand-seed planters, designed especially for cotton-seed. The seeds are spit out the bottom through a series of springs, pins, and plungers.
Date:
May 11, 1897
Creator:
Merwin, Charles F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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:
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Gin Saw.
Patent for a new and improved cotton-gin saw. This design's "object is to provide means for enabling the ready and convenient detachment of the teeth for substitution or other purposes, whereby superior advantages in point of simplicity, inexpensiveness, durability, and general efficiency are secured" (lines 10-15).
Date:
October 30, 1883
Creator:
Mann, Charles Wesley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Snap-Hook.
Patent for improvements in snap-hooks by using just one “single piece of wire, having a stationary arm that bent to form an inwardly-extending shank with its extremity bent in a reverse direction upon itself to form a bearing; the spring-arm and the spring-loop formed by coiling the wire upon itself and crossing, and extending outward at an angle to form shoulders to strengthen the hook immediately in front of the spring-loop.” (Lines 61-70) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 28, 1891
Creator:
Stukes, John Marion
System:
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