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Car-Replacer
Patent for invention for new and useful improvements in Car-Replacer. The invention relates to improvements in car replacers which can easily be applied to a track or rail which will quickly and easily cause the car to enter upon the track and which cannot possibly become displaced by the weight and strain of the car
Date:
January 3, 1892
Creator:
Moore, Francis A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Collecting, Conveying, and Unloading Apparatus.
Patent for "a new and improved apparatus for collecting, conveying, and unloading feed and water for stock and water for private use and for conveying and unloading lumber or merchandise of any kind." (Lines 12-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 14, 1891
Creator:
Rowe, Isaac N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Ginning Apparatus.
Patent for an improvement to cotton gins, allowing them to be constructed from a series of continuous shafts instead of pulleys, belts, and bearings. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 6, 1891
Creator:
Murray, Stephen Douglas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Disk Harrows.
Patent for improvements in disk harrows, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 10, 1889
Creator:
Moffitt, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Change-Maker.
Patent for "improvements in money-drawers which are designed to separate the coin placed therein according to the various denominations, and at the same time providing means whereby change may be readily had" (lines 8-13) with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 1, 1891
Creator:
Johnson, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for car-coupling. The object of this invention is to provide an improved automatic car-coupling of simple, durable, and effective construction that will permit the necessary longitudinal and lateral play of the coupling-link to correspond with inequalities of the track, facilitate the turning of curves, and enable the coupling to accommodate itself to draw-heads of unequal height.
Date:
January 19, 1892
Creator:
Lemon, Eli Jeremiah
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Anti-Friction Sucker-Rod Coupling.
Patent for an anti-frictioin sucker-rod coupling. This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in sectional sucker-rods for artesian, oil, and other wells, and has for its object to provide an improved construction of coupling-joint for connecting the sections of the rods together.
Date:
January 26, 1892
Creator:
Black, William L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Baling Cotton.
Patent for improvements to an apparatus that softens and compresses cotton, and prevents clogging and breakage. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 5, 1890
Creator:
Goldthwaite, Joseph G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Hub.
Patent for improvements to vehicle wheel hubs, with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 12, 1892
Creator:
Jones, George W. & Green, Furney F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Liquid-Transferring Device for Vessels.
Patent for an "improved apparatus in position for transferring liquid from one vessel to another," (lines 10-12) with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 24, 1890
Creator:
Franklin, Edward A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Wheel.
Patent for a water-wheel. The object of this invention is to provide a water-wheel in which the energy of the water shall act upon a series of peripheral buckets on a principle of hydraulic pressure in contradistinction to that of mere impact and momentum.
Date:
June 20, 1891
Creator:
Walker, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Poison-Distributer.
Patent for a poison-distributer. This invention relates to improvements in poison-distributers, the objects in view being to provide a cheap and simple machine for an efficient manner over the entire surface of cotton-plants for the purpose of destroying the worms, and, furthermore to so construct the machine as to adapt it to readily pass through ordinary-sized gates.
Date:
January 26, 1892
Creator:
McGee, Joseph Thomas & Carr, Robert Wooten
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock.
Patent for improvements in nut-locks, "wherein a ratchet and pawl is employed to prevent retrograde movement of the nut after it has once been turned up into the desired position." (Lines 12-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 23, 1891
Creator:
Magee, William L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hand Fertilizer-Distributer.
Patent for "improvements in hand fertilizer-distributers and seed-drills," (lines 19-20) with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 30, 1891
Creator:
Barbee, Napoleon B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Road Graveling and Grading Machine.
Patent for "an improved machine which will distribute gravel upon the road and level the same at one time," (lines 9-11) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 25, 1891
Creator:
Huebner, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Roller-Index.
Patent for "improvements in combined spring-rollers and cabinet for ledger-index sheets," (lines 10-12) with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 6, 1891
Creator:
Nance, John D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Ship.
Patent for a self-propelled, navigable air ship. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 12, 1891
Creator:
Walker, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for an improved coupler, the object of the invention being to provide an improved means for elevating, holding, and releasing the coupling-pin, and also to provide a vertically-adjustable drawhead, which bae readily adjusted either during coupling or before or after.
Date:
January 19, 1892
Creator:
Brimingham, Oliver M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spring-Seat Attachment For Vehicles
Patent for a spring-seat attachment for vehicles.
Date:
January 26, 1892
Creator:
Haney, John W. & Owens, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mosquito-Canopy.
Patent for a folding bed that has a mosquito canopy that automatically unfolds over it. It includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 11, 1891
Creator:
Eva, Addison H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Poise for Scale-Beams.
Patent for scale-beams to balance "for the poise or its suspending attachment to move on when being adjusted to weight" (lines 10-13) including illustration.
Date:
January 5, 1892
Creator:
Wilkening, Gustav
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for improvements to double plows, so that they are pivotally connected and can move independently of the other. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 27, 1891
Creator:
Payne, Hiram Ezkiel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a plow. This invention relates to an improvement in plows, and more particularly to the means for securing the share to the plow.
Date:
January 26, 1892
Creator:
Hyer, Robert Stewart
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oscillating Gate.
Patent for "rotary oscillating gates, in which the gate oscillates to close the way or open the same, as may be desired by the operator." (Lines 9-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 18, 1891
Creator:
Terry, Cyrus
System:
The Portal to Texas History