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Tool-Handle And Tool.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in tool handles and tools, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 22, 1899
Creator:
Lantz, Albert C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Horse-Powers.
Patent for a horse-power with a master-wheel, communicating, through a pinion, crank, and pitman.
Date:
April 18, 1876
Creator:
Andrews, Henry K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Preserving
Patent for a process for preserving corn and is done without canning it.
Date:
May 29, 1906
Creator:
Melton, Ephraim B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mud-Scraper.
Patent for a mud scraper attachment for vehicles, which prevents mud from getting in the wheels of the vehicle on muddy dirt roads.
Date:
November 17, 1908
Creator:
Whitaker, Ira Paschal
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Telephone-Switch
Patent for a telephone switch. "This invention relates to switches for telephone and more particularly to shifting devices for short-circuiting certain classes of lines, and the object is to provide a system of cutting off communication in what are called 'party' lines" (line 8-13). Illustration included.
Date:
April 30, 1907
Creator:
Mount, Timothy S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Balancing Device for Cultivators or the Like
Patent for a balancing device for cultivators or the like.
Date:
April 21, 1903
Creator:
Dwight, Frances M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Computing and Weighing Scale
Patent for automatic computing and weighing scale.
Date:
April 21, 1903
Creator:
Mount, Timothy S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grain Header and Loader
Patent for grain header and loader with improved structure and adjustable height, designed to be fitted onto and powered by a moving wagon for the efficient harvesting of crops, including illustrations.
Date:
December 3, 1918
Creator:
Sullins, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Force-Pump.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and efficient double action force pump that has one cylinder and one plunger. It also equalizes the opposite strokes of the plunger, and pushes water into the common chamber with both strokes.
Date:
October 2, 1894
Creator:
Thompson, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Railway-Signal.
Patent for an electric railway signal, which is attached to train engines and signals that a train is stopped to other trains by a light reflecting forwards and lights the platform for passengers by having a light reflecting backwards behind the engine.
Date:
April 14, 1908
Creator:
Stafford, George A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drive for Motor-Vehicles
Patent for the drives of motor vehicles, which provides the means to the front wheels can be driven by a motor without the interfering with the action of the steering wheel.
Date:
May 16, 1916
Creator:
Woods, Arthur M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
End-Gate Fastener
Patent for improvements in wagons' and similar vehicles' end gate fasteners, of which provide a firm lock and are readily and quickly disengaged as needed, with illustration.
Date:
February 16, 1915
Creator:
Harvey, Thomas David
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed Planter.
Patent for a new and improved seed planter. This design "relates to machines for dropping or planting cotton, corn, or other seed, and has for its object to provide a device embodying simplicity, convenience, cheapness, and efficiency. To this end it consists in certain improvements in construction and operation of the same" (lines 12-18).
Date:
March 13, 1883
Creator:
Lowder, John Ellis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Planter.
Patent for a seed planter, with illustrations. "The object of this invention is to facilitate the planting of seeds, and also to promote convenience in adjusting and operating the planter" (lines 22-24).
Date:
May 8, 1883
Creator:
Wise, David
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash Fastener
Patent for Sash-Fastener. "My invention relates to sash-fasteners for holding and locking a window-sash either in an open or closed position." (lines7-9). With illustrations.
Date:
March 27, 1888
Creator:
Williams, Harry I.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash Fastener.
Patent for a new and improved sash-fastener. This design consists "[t]he combination, [of] an angle-bracket having an opening produced in its horizontal member wider at its top than at its bottom, and an essentially yoke-shaped bar passed through the said opening, [and] a thumb-lever hinged in the vertical member of the bracket, extending over and parallel with the horizontal member of said bracket, and a lip integral with the under edge of the lever, concavo-convex in cross-section, and capable of entering the opening in the bracket and contacting with . . . the yoke-like bar" (lines 7-19).
Date:
August 13, 1889
Creator:
Miller, Charles H. & McDonald, Samuel A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Planter.
Patent for improvements in seed-planter by using different sizes of disks to construct a hopper that can be revolved, in which it can be adapted to plant cotton, corn or other seeds. Illustration is included.
Date:
August 25, 1891
Creator:
Thompson, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Straw Cutter
Patent for a rectangular box with attached heavy blade for cutting straw.
Date:
January 31, 1893
Creator:
Ross, George. W. & Winebrener, John A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sliding Valve for Steam-Engines or the Like
Patent for a sliding valve for steam-engines or the like that is "simpler, less expensive, and otherwise more convenient and advantageous for use" (lines 21-24) including an illustration and instructions.
Date:
June 8, 1915
Creator:
Williamson, Jason & Williamson, Elmer
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Roll-Film Attachment for Plate-Cameras
Patent for an improved roll-film plate that lets different parts of the film be exposed in the focal plane.
Date:
December 8, 1913
Creator:
Whatley, Riley V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Plows.
Patent for a new and improved attachment for plows. This design "has relation to devices for guiding or directing shovel-plows, sweeps, or cultivator-plows, and thus release in a great measure the strain upon the arms of the plow[person] consequent upon directing the plow in its proper course; and it consists in the detailed construction of a device or attachment of that class" (lines 12-19).
Date:
August 29, 1882
Creator:
Welborn, Wisp J. N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Remedy For Chicken-Cholera.
Patent for “medicines for the treatment of chicken-cholera” (lines 12-13) which includes ingredients, instructions and dosage. Ingredients include Cayenne pepper, May-apple root, and blue vitriol (sulphate of copper). The medicine may be used as a preventative or as a cure.
Date:
March 17, 1885
Creator:
Ross, George Washington & Ross, James Dewitt
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Riding Saddle.
Patent for a new and improved saddle. This design "relates especially to devices intended for use in coupling or connecting girths to saddles in stock countries or elsewhere where it is desirable to quickly adjust the saddle onto a horse . . . in drawing [a] strap to tighten the girth the inner portion, by reason of the friction of the parts passing through the rings, becomes rolled or creased up and straightened out, and loosens the girth in a short time . . . [the] invention seeks to overcome [these] objections" (lines 12-36).
Date:
April 27, 1886
Creator:
Newman, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine.
Patent for improvements in washing-machines known as “roller and bed and it consists of a rubber-bed adapted to operate in conjunction with a rotatory rubber…….the bed being regulated by tightening screw-nuts upon the hooks which connect the springs with the end walls of said casing.” (Lines 13-22) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 21, 1891
Creator:
Wood, Commodore R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History