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Combined Hook and Buckle.
Patent for a new and improved combined hook and buckle. This design "protect[s] straps from wear at the point of attachment to or contact with rings or eyes" (lines 12-14). This patent references another, the invention of which this one is intended to supplement.
Date:
January 13, 1880
Creator:
Padgitt, Tom.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Door Fastening.
Patent for sliding car-door fastening to improve the fastening of said car-door.
Date:
January 20, 1880
Creator:
Buser, William H. & Shaw, Burrell L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cloth-Measuring Machine.
Patent for a cloth cleaning machine to "furnish bagging-reels, so constructed that the bagging can be conveniently unwound from the roll, measured automatically, and again wound into a roll" (lines 13-17).
Date:
January 20, 1880
Creator:
Dodson, Orson W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fruit-Gatherer.
Patent for "improving fruit-gatherers designed to be thrust into a tree and cull each fruit separately" (lines 17-20).
Date:
January 20, 1880
Creator:
Eddleman, James P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary-Engine.
Patent for a new and improved rotary engine. This design consists "of a wheel provided with radially-sliding pistons and revolving within a fixed circumferential steam-chest, and having fixed on its axle an eccentric and spring, that operate to throw the pistons or floats outward to receive the pressure of the steam or other motor that is to drive the engine" (lines 19-26).
Date:
January 20, 1880
Creator:
Adams, James Ansley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine.
Patent for an improved washing machine: "The invention consists in combining a lower cylinder having longitudinal spiral grooves with an upper cylinder having longitudinal straight grooves and holes" (lines 14-17).
Date:
January 20, 1880
Creator:
Dorris, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compressed-Air Water-Elevator.
Patent for new and improved compressed air water elevator to lift water from reservoirs.
Date:
January 27, 1880
Creator:
Keating, Thomas, B.; Clarke, Lafe. W. & Gelatt, Wallace W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bird-Cage.
Patent for improvements in bird cages by "having a woven-wire casing the meshes of which cannot be penetrated by ordinary insects, such as flies,&c., will be lured into the cage to be devoured by the bird" (lines 16-21).
Date:
February 3, 1880
Creator:
Flato, Fridrich W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stylographic Fountain-Pen.
Patent for stylographic fountain pens to improve them by allowing the "ink to flow freely from the point of the pen" (line 35) and allowing easy, pressurized ink refills.
Date:
February 3, 1880
Creator:
Fisher, Charles N. & Downes, Charles L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill.
Patent for windmills by making them self-regulating and "it consists in the construction and arrangement of devices whereby the force of the wind is made to move the wind-wheel and crank-shift backward and turn the vane, and also in the devices for turning the vane at will" (lines 14-18).
Date:
February 3, 1880
Creator:
Tevis, James H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Recording Ballot-Box.
Patent for a recording ballot box to "indicate accurately and instantly the result of an election" (line 10-12).
Date:
February 10, 1880
Creator:
Buck, James G. H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark-Arrester.
Patent for the "construction of a spark-arrester adapted to the smoke-stack of any locomotive" (lines 12-13) detailing a new and better combination and arrangement of plates and screens.
Date:
February 10, 1880
Creator:
Wiggin, John E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Uterine-Supporter.
Patent for a new and improved pessary, or uterine supporter. This design "provides an easy and flexible support . . . and one that will adapt itself to the flexions of the body . . . and one that can be readily removed" (lines 36-40).
Date:
February 10, 1880
Creator:
Long, Cornelius Pruett
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine.
Patent for washing-machines that "employ a circular corrugated or fluted bed with a conical roller revolving about a central post" (lines 12-14).
Date:
February 10, 1880
Creator:
Austin, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saddle-Tree Fork.
Patent for a new and improved saddle-tree fork. This design "strengthen[s] the iron fork by means of a bent wooden part" (lines 14-15). It also utilizes ribs running into and through the neck cavity, which strengthens the neck of the saddle, as when bearing the strain of a lasso.
Date:
February 17, 1880
Creator:
Mittendorf, Gustav Adolph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Power.
Patent for a new and improved motorized churn. This design "has for its object to provide a means for converting a rotary into a reciprocating movement and regulating the range of the reciprocating mechanism" (lines 15-18).
Date:
February 24, 1880
Creator:
Britain, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Car-Brake.
Patent for a new and improved electric car-brake. This design "consists in a car-brake formed of a pinion attached to the car axle, the pinion taking in a ratchet-wheel provided with a projecting pin, that enters into the slots of a wheel provided with a sleeve, upon which the brake chain is wound, which sleeve can be moved on the axle by means of a lever that is actuated by a rod passing into a helix connected with a battery to the locomotive" (lines 11-19).
Date:
February 24, 1880
Creator:
Conover, Philip Vorus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for the Manufacture of Ice.
Patent for a new and improved ice maker. This design calls for "two or more sheets of galvanized iron or other metal set in a tank of fresh water, one on either side of the evaporation-pipes, and held in a position parallel to each other by anchors or yokes that connect them" (lines 15-20). This eliminates the need for strong (ammoniacal) brine and is a faster, more reliable, and less leaky ice-making process than previous ones that used said brine.
Date:
March 2, 1880
Creator:
Zilker, Andrew J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Piano-Forte Tuning-Pin Lock.
Patent for a new and improved lock for forte-piano tuning-pins. This design consists "of an elongated or oblong metal plate provided with a slot in a part of its length and having one of its faces roughened into serrations . . . which, together with . . . correspondingly-toothed hooks bolted to said plate, form a clamp to bind two or more tuning-pins of a piano together, to prevent them from turning as a set or independently" (lines 16-25).
Date:
March 2, 1880
Creator:
Norcross, Levi W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark-Extinguisher.
Patent for a spark extinguisher "to prevent the burning of buildings and other combustible matter by steam engines" (lines 15-17).
Date:
March 9, 1880
Creator:
Blewett, George L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Motor.
Patent for a butter churn with a "vertical rotary dasher" (line 19), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 16, 1880
Creator:
Rogers, James P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Envelope.
Patent for a new and improved envelope. This design calls for "a projecting flap, to which the postage stamp or stamps may be attached in such a manner that the said stamp or stamps may be canceled by perforation (or by means of a punch or otherwise) without danger of injuring the contents of the envelope" (lines 14-19).
Date:
March 16, 1880
Creator:
Terry, James Doss
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Music-Leaf Turner.
Patent for a device for "Turning Leaves of Sheet-Musics, Music-Books and, other Books" (lines 5-7), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 16, 1880
Creator:
Becker, Francis L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Agricultural Implement.
Patent for a device related to plows, with a corn-planter and a cotton-planter attachments, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 23, 1880
Creator:
Chapman, William Arnol
System:
The Portal to Texas History