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Improvement in Rotary Cultivators.
Patent for a machine for "opening ditches to drain land and form fences, and to grade railroads, &c." (lines 15-17) including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
October 10, 1876
Creator:
Tadlock, Sevier
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well Cleaner.
Patent for a new and improved well cleaner. This design "is to provide a simple instrument by which wells can be cleaned out without descending into them. It is well known that much danger exists in descending into foul wells on account of the poisonous gases often collected near the bottom of the same" (lines 20-26).
Date:
October 7, 1884
Creator:
Neitsche, Frederick Theodor
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Machines for Making Plow-Irons.
Patent for an improvement in the design for machines for manufacturing plow irons, including illustrations.
Date:
March 4, 1873
Creator:
McGinty, James M. & Nolan, Thomas.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Picket-Fences.
Patent for secure, inexpensive picket-fence construction using various sizes of wood pieces and wire. It is meant for situations in which wood is scarce. Illustration included.
Date:
October 14, 1873
Creator:
McGinty, Robert H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in seed-planters.
Patent for a seed planter that drops seeds into the plow furrow, where a roller covers the seeds with dirt. Includes illustrations.
Date:
February 17, 1874
Creator:
Pressly, Thompson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Picket-Fences
Patent for improvement for picket fences composed of zig zag settings with their upper ends brought in line and are connected and supported by wires and posts.
Date:
October 6, 1874
Creator:
McGinty, Robert H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Veterinary Medicine
Patent for "a compound for the eradication of screw-worms in animals, and it has for its object toprovide a simple and inexpensive compound of this character which will quickly and efficiently destroy the worms, and at the same time serve as both an astringent and antiseptic to the wound" (lines 10-16).
Date:
April 22, 1890
Creator:
Youngkin, John A. & Youngkin, Josiah S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel-Plow.
Patent for a wheel-plow that is meant for southern states. All the parts of this plow are adjustable in order to adapt to different sizes of bedding.
Date:
November 20, 1894
Creator:
Bunjes, Friederick
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Insect-Destroyers.
Patent for a device to destroy "winged insects which are destructive to the cotton plants and other vegetation" (lines 19-21) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 6, 1870
Creator:
Byrne, Thomas; Strunk, Diedrich & Schott, J. J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for a new and improved bale-tie design with different buckle and band. It includes illustrations.
Date:
January 14, 1879
Creator:
Johnson, Jordan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Saw-Gummer.
Patent for a machine that uses a grindstone to sharpen rotary saws. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 4, 1865
Creator:
Fosterm A. K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow Colter.
Patent for a new and improved plow colter. This design calls for a colter that conforms to the face-curve of the plow shovel, thus forming a landside. The colter can be attached to and removed from either side of the plow standard.
Date:
December 27, 1881
Creator:
Kersh, Alvin Jacob
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Triple Valve for Fluid-Pressure Brakes.
Patent for a triple valve for fluid-pressure brakes in trains that prevents accidental triggering of the emergency brakes.
Date:
October 10, 1911
Creator:
Robinson, John W. & Douglas, Frank L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flexible Stay Bolt
Patent for Flexible Stay Bolt
Date:
September 5, 1916
Creator:
Bearicks, Charles F
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Poison-Distributer.
Patent for a certain new and useful class of machines used for distributing poisons for the purpose of killing insects, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 18, 1899
Creator:
Braun, Emil.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Poison - Distributer
Patent for a new and improved poison-distributer. This design is to "provide a machine for distributing poison or a fertilizer to the plants at each side of the furrow through which the machine may be drawn" (line 7 - 9).
Date:
February 8, 1898
Creator:
Richter, Frank L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the plow-beam, the slotted and braced standard, and the adjustable land-bar, of the winged attachment formed with perforated lugs, the plow-point formed with upper and lower extensions and secured to said attachment" (lines 95-100).
Date:
August 21, 1888
Creator:
Wied, August & Lürssen, Henrich
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Poison-Distributer
Patent for an "economically and simply constructed machine adapted to be drawn along over rows of plants and to spread powdered poison over the same for the destruction of insects" while also protecting the driver (lines 10-13).
Date:
June 14, 1892
Creator:
Krueger, John M. & Wunderlich, Fritz
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pliers.
Patent for pliers that has one jaw fitted with ribs and the other with grooves. This allows the pliers to clamp onto and kink a wire in an improved way.
Date:
December 19, 1893
Creator:
Neuhaus, Frank C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seed-Planters.
Patent for a seed-planter that "may be attached to the leg of the attendant and operated by the natural movement of the attendant while walking along behind the machine" (lines 20-23), including illustration.
Date:
March 1, 1859
Creator:
Benthall, J. C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seeding-Machines.
Patent for the improvement of the seeding-machine by having a lever that allows the driver to operate the hopper-box, harrow, and smoothing-roller at any time, including illustration.
Date:
June 14, 1859
Creator:
Veal, Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators.
Patent for "a new and Improved Cultivator" (lines 3-4) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 21, 1859
Creator:
Veal, Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tool for Unscrewing Pipe-Joints from Wells
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Tools for Unscrewing Pipe-Joints from Wells" (lines 5-6). "The object of the invention is to provide a device... whereby the joints of pipe that have become stuck in the well may be unscrewed and withdrawn" (lines 12-16).
Date:
September 3, 1918
Creator:
Matula, Joseph R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tie-Spacer.
Patent for improvement on tie-spacers when loaded on trucks for the process of creosoting ties. Allowing for treating fluid to flow between all sides of each tie when loaded, including illustrations.
Date:
October 28, 1919
Creator:
Sommerlatte, Joseph A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History