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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
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:
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Plumb-Level.
Patent for a new and useful level of " that class embodying a pivoted index-finger operating in conjunction with a graduated dial" (line 7 10).
Date:
October 31, 1899
Creator:
Jordan, John J. & Wallace, Olifford L.
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:
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Polish for Woodwork and Method of Preparing the Same.
Patent for a polish for varnished woodwork
Date:
September 14, 1914
Creator:
Hancock, John Benjamin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting-Frame for Sewing-Machines.
Patent for improvement in quilting-frames by providing “screw-eyes on the end pieces of the frame for the purpose of holding the frame together and at the same time serving to run in the rollers to carry the frame along,” (Lines 25-31) and an interchangeable roller-gages would enable either straight or curved or fancy quilting to be done. Illustration is included.
Date:
July 14, 1891
Creator:
Stukes, John Marion
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Root-Puller.
Patent for a root puller for pulling up Mesquite tree root clumps.
Date:
September 27, 1910
Creator:
McGehee, George T.
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
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:
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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
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:
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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
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:
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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
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
Storage Battery.
Patent for a storage battery with a high number of amps.
Date:
June 13, 1911
Creator:
Lawrence, Arthur Ewin
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
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
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
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
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
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
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:
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