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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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