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Improvement in Ditching-Machines.
Patent for an improved ditching machine design that will "easily and rapidly cut or excavate, on the surface of the ground, soil, clay, or soft stone, a ditch or trench of any reasonable width or depth suitable" (lines 33-37) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 1, 1878
Creator:
Austin, Matthew J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Earth-Boring Machines.
Patent for improvements in earth-boring machines with new design and connections, including illustrations.
Date:
January 1, 1878
Creator:
Yarborough, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churns.
Patent for improvements in churns with specific improvements in dasher-rods and lids. This patent includes illustrations.
Date:
January 1, 1878
Creator:
Davis, Henry T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churns.
Patent for a better churn which makes butter faster, releases butter from the churn more easily, and is simple to create and use. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 1, 1878
Creator:
McConnell, John A. & McConnell, William V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent for improvements in adjusting devices and attachments for sulky plows, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 1, 1878
Creator:
Payne, Joseph Mott
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
Patent for "improvements in cotton-presses, it's object being to produce a compact and efficient apparatus, adapted to be secure in the floor between the first and second stories of a building, in such a manner that the press-box can be filled and the cotton made up into bales in the upper story, while the pressing operation is effected from below." (Lines 7-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 1, 1878
Creator:
Thompson, Robert C. & Thompson, Joseph N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Hay Press and Horse Power.
Patent for a combined hay-press and horse-power with illustrations.
Date:
January 1, 1884
Creator:
Randle, William, Sr
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a car-coupling that has a draw head with a link opening, a pin opening that goes across the link opening and has two side recesses, a sliding head in the link opening, a spring that holds the sliding head in place, two lever arms in the side recesses, a catch block that the lever arms move, and an apparatus for raising the coupling pin.
Date:
January 1, 1895
Creator:
Shwadlenak, August Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Checkrein-Holder.
Patent for a checkrein-holder for harness-saddles that has a hook grooved on one side, a plate or wire inside the groove that attaches the hook to a smaller hook, a link that engages one end of the hook and as connected to a bell-crank lever, the bell crank lever that locks the link into the hook, and a screw bolt for the bell-crank lever.
Date:
January 1, 1895
Creator:
Winans, Myron L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Tightener.
Patent for a wire-tightener that stretches "the wire after it has been secured to the post, and to take up any slack which may exist therein, owing to causes arising subsequent to the first stretching of the wires" (lines 10-13). It has similar features of other wire-tightener but is simple and efficient.
Date:
January 1, 1895
Creator:
Glenn, John William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve-Motion.
Patent for "a variable cut-off valve-motion, and has for its object to provide simple and efficient and at the same time readily adjustable means for varying the points at which the ports communicating with the cylinder of a locomotive or other engine are opened and closed, in accordance with the load, the desired speed, &c." (Lines 8-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 1, 1895
Creator:
Shelb, Peter J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Engine
Patent for a steam engine, improving on the original design so as to "provide a steam-engine having few parts so as to avoid the use of eccentrics, slide-valve, valve-rod, piston and connecting rods, stuffing-boxes, and glands, thus increasing the actual power by decreasing the friction" (lines 26-31).
Date:
January 1, 1889
Creator:
Harpst, Edgar S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Paint Compound.
Patent for "a fire and water-proof coating material adapted for application to wood and metallic roofing, boats, &c., to preserve the material from corrosion and render the same impervious to water." (Lines 9-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 1, 1895
Creator:
Rook, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Refrigerating Apparatus.
Patent for a new and improved refrigerator. This design "consists, essentially, in a series of vessels surrounded or enveloped by fibrous material, dipping into a water-vessel above, and serving to maintain a constant supply of water to the exterior of the vessels through capillary action, the water being caused to pass down in such quantity as to drip from the bottoms of the vessels and collect in a second tank supplying a second series of vessels in the same manner, and finally to collect in a suitable vessel below, intermediate filtering apparatus being provided or not, as required" (lines 9-20).
Date:
January 1, 1884
Creator:
Dodge, Frances A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Recording Door-Lock
Patent for "a continuous-recording lock suitable for bonded warehouses, factories, stores, public buildings, offices &c., and by a slight modification applicable, also, for private residences" (lines 7-11).
Date:
January 1, 1889
Creator:
Ferguson, George J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sleigh-Runner.
Patent for a new adjustable sleigh runner designed to be easily applied and removed from wheeled vehicles, including illustrations.
Date:
January 1, 1889
Creator:
Lewis, Thomas E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drag Saw.
Patent for a new and improved drag saw. This design "is to provide a simple, inexpensive, durable, and easily-operated machine for cross-cutting timber for railway-ties and material, or for cord-wood, stove-wood, or other uses" (lines 7-11).
Date:
January 1, 1884
Creator:
Bennett, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design "relates to that class of walking-cultivators or shovel-plows which are drawn by a single horse between two rows of plants, and which are frequently called 'double-shovel plows.' The leading object of the invention is to provide such a cultivator with two beams, each carrying a shovel, which beams are independently capable of vertical and lateral movements, whereby the operator can guide or lift the beams and shovels to avoid plants or obstacles" (lines 11-22).
Date:
January 1, 1889
Creator:
Jones, Fred B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method, System and Apparatus for Automatic Keyword Extraction
Patent relating to a method, system and apparatus for automatic keyword extraction.
Date:
November 6, 2009
Creator:
Csomai, Andras & Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Fluorinated Metal-Organic Frameworks for Gas Storage
Patent relating to fluorinated metal-organic frameworks for gas storage.
Date:
September 12, 2008
Creator:
Omary, Mohammad A. & Yang, Chi
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Fluorinated Metal-Organic Frameworks for Gas Storage
Patent relating to fluorinated metal-organic frameworks for gas storage.
Date:
September 12, 2008
Creator:
Omary, Mohammad A. & Yang, Chi
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Combination-Tool
Patent for improvements in combination-tools especially adapted for repairing rubber tires.
Date:
January 1, 1901
Creator:
Green, Samuel Milton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bung and Air Connection for Beer-Kegs, &c.
Patent for improvements in bungs and air connections for beer-kegs by using a metallic bung which has an opening (a bung-hole), “and provided atone side with a passage, the passage being interiorly threaded at its outer end, an air-tube provided with a valve and having a swiveled member exteriorly threaded and engaging the threaded portion of the passage, and the cork or stopper arranged within the inner portion of the bung-hole and closing the inner end of the passage.” (Lines 116-123, p. 3) Illustration is included.
Date:
January 1, 1901
Creator:
Morawetz, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boat Propeller
Patent for a boat propeller. Illustration included.
Date:
January 1, 1907
Creator:
Edgar, Samuel Nooley
System:
The Portal to Texas History