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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
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:
The Portal to Texas History
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:
The Portal to Texas History
Snap-Hook.
Patent for improvements in snap-hooks in which it “formed of a single blank of wire and consisting of the strap-receiving loop having the long and the short terminal, the latter at its end bent or coiled about the former and the former extended to form an eye and the former extended to form an eye and rear-wardly disposed and terminating in rear of the point of connection between the terminals and opposite said point provided with the inward bend 6, forming a passage narrower than the width of the ring.” (Lines 67-77) Illustration is included.
Date:
November 24, 1891
Creator:
Whitby, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire-Extinguisher for Cotton-Gins.
Patent for an improved, simple, and durable fire extinguisher that can be used quickly conveniently, and effectively to extinguish a fire in a cotton gin. The extinguisher is built into the gin. The gin has a hole in its top, a lint chute on one side, a valve that closes the hole, a valve that closes the lint chute, a connection between the valves, and a rope that connects the valves to a guide.
Date:
May 30, 1893
Creator:
Northcraft, Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drill-Cable Clamp.
Patent for Drill-Cable Clamp is for a device that clamps the rope to which the drill connects. The rope can be rotated, while connected to both the drill and the drilling machine securely.
Date:
May 6, 1913
Creator:
Clayton, Robert Fentress
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash-Fastener
Patent for a new sash fastener, so that the fastener itself is improved upon by the implimentation of a half-hollow cylindar. "The purpose of this cylinder is more for appearance than any actual service, because when the lock is put on the rail of the sash, as shown in Fig. 1, part of it will be seen through the glass from the outside, and the cylinder can be made ornamental and would look much neater than the lock would without it" (lines 87-89)
Date:
July 19, 1892
Creator:
McClellan, Stephen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shutter and Ventilator
Patent for a shutter that may be used as either window blinds or a ventilator. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 15, 1910
Creator:
Rylander, William Pitts
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
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
Shock Absorber.
Patent for shock absorbers the permit bodily movement on one of the parts to which these devices are usually connected in a vehicle.
Date:
June 11, 1912
Creator:
Rife, Stanford Walton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Self Cleaning Plow.
Patent for a new and improved self-cleaning plow. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a mold-board having a plane face on the larger portion of its area, a blade having an axle journaled near the center of the said plane, a wheel journaled in the plow, with its rim parallel to and extending below the landside of the plow, a beveled gear-wheel upon the said wheel-axle, and another beveled wheel upon the blade-axle, engaging each other" (lines 79-87).
Date:
August 18, 1885
Creator:
Jones, Allen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash Holder.
Patent for a new and improved sash-holder. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the wire having an inclined portion and offsets . . . of the plate separate therefrom and having a vertical portion adapted to be secured to a window-frame, a horizontal portion to which the upper end of the wire is secured, a depending portion, and a roller free to ride upon the inclined portion of the wire and formed with a hub and rubber bands, one upon each end of the hub and sprung into grooves in the hub" (lines 84-94).
Date:
September 16, 1890
Creator:
Stukes, John Marion
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash Balance.
Patent for a new and improved sash balance. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a window-frame provided with the pulleys . . . sash provided with the grooves, and [the other] pulleys working in said grooves, and cord having one end attached to the upper part of the frame . . . passing thence under [the latter] pulleys in the upper sash, thence over [the second] pulley" (lines lines 81-87).
Date:
November 4, 1890
Creator:
Cayce, Henry P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horseshoe
Patent for a horseshoe. Illustration included.
Date:
June 21, 1904
Creator:
Harmon, William O. & Smith, Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay Rack.
Patent for a new and improved hay rack. This design consists "[i]n a hay-frame adapted for application to a wagon-body, the combination of the base-bars, the standards or uprights . . . having outward extensions at their upper ends, provided with stop shoulders or hooks, and the side arms having their inner sections pivoted to said uprights at a point in from the stop shoulders and arranged to rest on said shoulders when turned outward . . . and the fastening bolts engaging said uprights" (lines 77-89).
Date:
July 1, 1890
Creator:
Wilkerson, John L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for an improved plow, which can support a rudder-blade adapted for use with a middle-breaker moldboard.
Date:
December 31, 1901
Creator:
Richmond, T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plant-Protector.
Patent for improvements in plant-protection by providing a foraminous hood for young plants. This particular plant-protector is protect melon type and vegetable of similar qualities against worms, grubs, lice and other pests.
Date:
November 6, 1917
Creator:
Cook, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horse Collar Fastener.
Patent for a new and improved horse-collar fastener. This design "relates to certain new and useful improvements in horse-collar fastenings of that class designed to lock the two sides of the horse-collar and to permit of the ready separation thereof to facilitate the placing and removal of the collar when desired; and it has for its object to provide a simple and cheap device of this character wherein provision shall be made for the retention of the lever against the catch, and also means for preventing the drawing of the screws" (lines 15-26).
Date:
April 1, 1890
Creator:
Bomar, Thomas B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History