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Back-Pedaling Brake.
Patent for a new and improved brake and coasting pocket wheel for velocipedes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 24, 1899
Creator:
Wallerich, Nicholas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for "baling-presses, and has for its objects to provide a simple and efficient apparatus embodying a rebounding plunger; to provide means for regulating the resistance offered to the advance movement of the forward head-block; to provide improved means for tucking the material during the advance movement of the plunger; to provide means for regulating the length of a bale; to provide means for automatically inserting a head-block when a bale of the desired length has been formed; and to provide means whereby the raising and lowering of the press-box or baling-chamber is accomplished by the draft-horses through the sweep, and without the use of jacks or other analogous devices." (Lines 8-24) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 24, 1895
Creator:
Keith, George A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Loading Cotton-Bales, &c.
Patent for an apparatus for loading cotton-bales onto trucks from the compress. It is comprised of a cylinder, a piston, a piston rod, an inlet and exhaust pipes and a valve, a chain with grapnels at one end end and the other end is connected to the piston rod, a sheave, an adjustable slidable trip rod, a pivoted trip lever connected to the cylinder, a four armed lever connected to the valve, and connecting rods.
Date:
December 24, 1895
Creator:
Thompson, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive car-coupling that improves on the pin-and-link car-couplings and "will be capable of coupling automatically and which may be readily uncoupled without going between cars" (lines 13-15). After the car has been separated, this coupling automatically puts its parts in position to be re-coupled. It also enables a "flying kick" to be transmitted to the car.
Date:
November 24, 1896
Creator:
Lee, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Car-Switching System.
Patent for "a system of switching where the cars of a train are pushed up an incline and placed successively on an elevated annular revolving platform, by which they are automatically distributed to their respective receiving-tracks" (lines 9-14).
Date:
March 24, 1896
Creator:
Lelardoux, Pierre
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brush.
Patent for a brush used with pressurized water to clean floors, walls, ceilings, horses, buggies, animal carcasses, etc. The brush can have a hose hooked up to it and has a valve. The water goes into the top of the brush and is distributed evenly throughout with holes in the top of the brush, and the water is sprayed through the bristles.
Date:
March 24, 1896
Creator:
Zandt, Luther H. van
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Broom Rack.
Patent for a new and improved broom rack. This design "compris[es] the lower ring provided in its outer edge with a series of notches adapted to receive the head of the brooms, the upper ring arranged to fit within the opening of the lower ring when not in use and provided with a series of perforations to receive the handles of the brooms, the chains or other suitable means for connecting the rings, and the chains . . . secured to the upper rings" (lines 79-88).
Date:
June 24, 1890
Creator:
Neely, William D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Roller and Protector.
Patent for a new and improved roller and protector for maps and charts. This design consists, "with the case having longitudinal slot at its under side, the caps upon the ends of the case and formed with ears, the springs upon the case having their ends engaging the ends of the caps, metal bearings in the ends of the caps, the roller within the case with its pintles journaled in said bearings, and the cord wound upon the roller at one end in a reverse direction to the article carried by the roller with its free end passed through the opening in the under side of the cap at that end of the roller" (lines 21-32).
Date:
June 24, 1890
Creator:
Turner, Ephraim M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Baling Cotton.
Patent for a cotton baling machine in which, it would provide a mechanism for baling the fiber in packages, for the ease of transporting and handling; and to prevent the loss of cotton or fiber in transporting from the gin to the baling-press. Illustration is included.
Date:
February 24, 1891
Creator:
Rembert, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bottle-Filling Machine.
Patent for a bottle-filling machine in which "a number of bottles of equal capacity may be simultaneously filled from a common reservoir by the single movement of a lever" (lines 13-16), illustration is included.
Date:
February 24, 1891
Creator:
Baldinger, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chicken-Coop.
Patent for improvements in coops for fowls and other birds by using a combination of a cage with a door having a depending leg, a post and a lever for raising and lowering the cage; the cage door is “automatically opened when lowered and closed as it is raised,” (lines 75-76) "so that the young will be out of danger from attacks of rodents, collecting water, &c...," (lines 22-23) includes illustration.
Date:
March 24, 1891
Creator:
Harp, Charles A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for improvements in car-couplings by providing "a coupler which will without any adjustment couple two cars whose draw-heads are of different heights.” (lines 17-19) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 24, 1891
Creator:
Thompson, James A. M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Power.
Patent for improvements in churn-power by using a combination of “a vertical support [piece], an operating-lever pivoted thereto, a dasher-shaft, a horizontal bar connected to the said lever, and a cord secured at its ends to the said bar and wrapped between its ends around the dasher-shaft. All these parts combined to enable the churn to operate as described.” (Lines 55-61) Illustration is included.
Date:
November 24, 1891
Creator:
Reese, Roswell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a clamp that is used in fence construction. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 24, 1897
Creator:
Howard, Zenas F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Strainer.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in well strainers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 24, 1898
Creator:
Booth, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill.
Patent for an automatic windmill "which will be capable of obtaining a large amount of power from a comparatively light wind." (Lines 14-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 24, 1897
Creator:
Hardaway, Robert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drilling Apparatus.
Patent for a well-drilling apparatus meant "to provide improved means for adjusting and withdrawing drill-tools without removing the drill-rod to provide a folding reamer and means for adjusting the blades thereof, and to provide means for conveying water to the drill, whereby the drillings are carried up outside of the drill-rod or barrel" (lines 9-16).
Date:
December 24, 1895
Creator:
Horton, Stephen A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lifting-Jack.
Patent for a lifting-jack that has "strength with durability necessary in this class of devices and that will be simple in construction and easy of operation" (para. 2).
Date:
September 24, 1895
Creator:
Lynn, John McKinzie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Jetty.
Patent for a an inexpensive and durable jetty made from "piles driven in the ground in the ordinary way, but incase them in such a way that they will not be liable to early decay or infested by insects, which cut and destroy them when not protected" (lines 11-15).
Date:
September 24, 1895
Creator:
Bryant, Benjamin N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve-Gear.
Patent for a valve-gear that uses a single eccentric, "together with devices by which such eccentric may be shifted upon the shaft and locked in its various positions to effect either a reversal of the engine or a stoppage thereof with a full head of steam on, and to run the engine in one or the other direction, as may be desired" (lines 10-15).
Date:
September 24, 1895
Creator:
Hill, Millard F. & Easley, Clifton W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Destroyer.
Patent for an insect destroyer consisting of a steam-generator used with "removable drawers forming the fire-box and ash-pan of the generator, a safety-valve connected with the steam-boiler, and a novel form and construction of flexible discharge-tube, the same being provided with a cut-off device and with a socket-piece adapted to receive a handle by means of which the discharge end of the flexible tube may be elevated and conducted to any desired point" (lines 12-21).
Date:
March 24, 1896
Creator:
Maddux, Richard Calvin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine.
Patent for "washing-machines which combine in one structure means for heating the suds-water and maintaining the same at the required temperature, a suds-box having chambered or hollow bottom and sides to secure a circulation of the suds-water independently of the agitation resulting from turning the drum or clothes-receptacle upon its axis, and a drum removably journaled in the suds-box and comprising longitudinal slats or bars having bent edge portions for scooping up the suds-water and directing the same into the drum and upon the clothes contained therein, whereby the washing process is greatly facilitated." (Lines 7-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 24, 1897
Creator:
Roach, Henry B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Knee-Protector.
Patent for leg protectors that have "a pad or reinforcement on the knees thereof, such as will afford a sufficient protection against injury by stones or other hard substances or irregularities on the surface of the ground or other place upon which the wearer is obliged to kneel." (Lines 16-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 24, 1897
Creator:
Herbelin, Alfred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grain Conveyer for Binders, &c.
Patent for a new and improved grain conveyer for binders. This design "relates to that class of grain-conveyers for binders and harvesters, &c., in which arms unfold when started from the outer end of its travel on its forward movement and in that position shift the grain in front of it, and thus shift the grain off the inner end of the platform and deliver such grain to suitable compressors . . . and such arms fold back at the beginning of its rearward movement and pass back underneath the grain on the platform" (lines 12-23).
Date:
May 24, 1892
Creator:
Schubert, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History