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Improvement in Vibrating Propellers
Patent for Improvement in vibrating propellers for steamers to improve the ability to control the vessel. Includes two illustrated and labeled figures.
Date:
February 18, 1873
Creator:
Macowitzky, Charles P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators.
Patent for improvements to a cultivator "which, for convenience of operation, may be attached to the wheels or frame of any ordinary wagon or cart, or it may be operated independently of either of the above by attaching the draft animals directly to the main or principal beam to which the plow-points are connected." (Lines 10-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 18, 1873
Creator:
Hinckley, Jacob B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Scew-Propellers.
Patent for "means for guiding pivoted propeller-blades so that they can open and close readily and uniformly. It also consists in a new mode of applying a spring there-to so that the obliquity or resistance of the blades will be automatically graduated." (Lines 6-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 18, 1873
Creator:
Wilson, Martin M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for fastening iron or other bands on cotton-bales or packages that put up with iron bands, including illustrations.
Date:
February 18, 1873
Creator:
Quin, Michael
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Breaking-Rig.
Patent for a "horse breaking or training apparatus, and has for its object to provide a simple and efficient device adapted to be attached to a horse to prevent kicking without preventing trotting or pacing." (Lines 7-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 18, 1896
Creator:
Kenner, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the plate, having extensions and laterally-extending arm or bracket, the hopper mounted upon the extension of the plate, the seed-slide or coiled spring connecting the front end of the latter with the bracket, metal plates secured to the front and rear sides of the rear wall of the hopper above the seed-slide, the brush or cut-off arranged between said plates, and suitable operating mechanism for retracting the seed-slide against the tension of the coiled spring" (lines 6-17).
Date:
February 18, 1890
Creator:
Cromer, Thomas L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn or Cotton-Seed Platter
Patent for improvements in "a combined plow and interchangeable revolving seed-dropper so constructed as to permit of its being readilyconverted into a corn or cotton-seed planter with the least trouble" (lines 19-23).
Date:
February 18, 1890
Creator:
Peeler, John Wiliam
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Ventilation.
Patent for an apparatus to improve car ventilation, including illustrations.
Date:
February 18, 1879
Creator:
Knipscheer, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drilling Apparatus.
Patent for a well-drilling apparatus for boring Artesian and other wells. It is meant to "provide simple, efficient, and durable means for expanding or spreading the reamer-blades after the bit-carrying devices have been lowered sufficiently to arrange the reamer-blades below the plane of the lower end of the tubular drill-rod" (lines 10-17). Water pressure is also used to remove the cuttings from the boring-blades. Sections of cable that suspend and lower drill-bit carrying parts into the drill-rod are supported, and sections of drill-rod can be attached and added to the drill-rod. The method of securing the reamer-blades to the reamer-stock is improved with this patent. The parts fit snugly together and prevent water from getting into the drill-rod.
Date:
February 18, 1896
Creator:
Horton, Stephen A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Knee-Pad.
Patent for a knee-pad used while picking cotton, berries, or gardening. It protects the knee from dampness, stones, roots, etc. The pad goes on the knee, and two wooden braces are on the sides. A strap goes around the user's shoe, and the bolts were the pad is attached to the braces also has string where the operator ties the brace to himself.
Date:
February 18, 1896
Creator:
Davis, James Walter & Brown, Elijah Clark
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Train-Marker and Signal-Lamp.
Patent for a train-marker and engine signal-lamp meant to "provide a lamp in which the light may be differently colored and the change of color may be effected in an expeditious and convenient manner without the necessity of opening the lamp" (lines 10-14). It also provides "a guard or slide, whereby the opening through which the adjusting device passes may be closed, so as to prevent the wind from entering the body of the lamp and interfering with the flame" (lines 15-20). The lamp is meant for railroads and has two or more lenses, and is durably and inexpensively constructed. One color of light can be shown from the front and back and another from the sides.
Date:
February 18, 1896
Creator:
Cook, Marion P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thill-Support.
Patent for an antirattling attachment for thill-couplings or thill-irons. It can attach to any axle and any thill, and causes the device to put constant pressure on the eye of the thill-iron. This prevents rattling where the iron is connected with the axel-clip and puts tension on the front of the thill-iron in a rearward direction. This tension balances the shafts and thills when the horse is attached to the thill. When the horse is unattached, the thill is held in an upright position by the attachment.
Date:
February 18, 1896
Creator:
Price, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting Attachment for Sewing-Machines.
Patent for "quilting-frame attachments for sewing-machines, and has for its object the provision of a device which can be readily applied to any sewing-machine without marring or disfiguring the top thereof, and which will not overbalance the machine when quilting a large-sized bed-covering, and which can be easily detached and stored in a small compass so as to occupy a minimum amount of room when not required for use." (Lines 9-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 18, 1896
Creator:
Moon, Richard D.; Spake, William H. & Bain, James H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a blade arranged for connection with a beam and formed with cutting-edges . . . , of a wing in a horizontal plane formed with a cutting-edge and rigidly connected to the blade at some distance above its lower edge" (lines 60-65).
Date:
February 18, 1890
Creator:
Henry, Leroy Bell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mop Holder
Patent for an improved mop holder that will hold the mop head and the handle.
Date:
February 18, 1902
Creator:
Anderson, Isaac Nerie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chain Jack.
Patent for new and useful improvements in chain-jacks. "This invention aims to provide a chain-jack for lifting the boxes of axles, so that the bearings or brasses therefor can be readily replaced, and is designed especially for use in cases of hot boxes on railway-cars" (line 11-15).
Date:
February 18, 1902
Creator:
Phillips, Henry S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Branding-Chute
Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Branding Chutes" (Lines 5-6) including illustrations.
Date:
February 18, 1902
Creator:
Honeycutt, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Annuciator
Patent for an annunciator. "This invention is designed for use in connection with a complete traction system" (lines 13-14). The design drives instruments via a train air system so that air pressure is constantly maintained. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 18, 1908
Creator:
Mayo, William C.; Houlehan, John & Briggs, George E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Wheel
Patent for a car wheel made to ease turning on rounding corners and to prevent slipping due to differences in wheel sizes.
Date:
February 18, 1908
Creator:
Mayo, William C. & Houlehan, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
CHURN
Patent for the improvement of a churn. The churn has a detachable support and a closure for the upper end of the body of the churn.
Date:
February 18, 1913
Creator:
HARRISON, DAVID M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Brake, Lighting, and Signaling System for Railway-Trains
Patent for an electrical system which provides air brake, lighting, and signaling mechanisms for trains. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 18, 1908
Creator:
Mayo, William C. & Houlehan, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Multiple Fuse Block
Patent for an automatic multiple fuse block. This invention is "provided a normally inactive shunt circuit through which, when a fuse is blown, the current is diverted to an electro-mechanical means which, when the rush of current causing the fuse to blow" (16-21). Illustration included.
Date:
February 18, 1908
Creator:
Mayo, William C.; Houlehan, John & Briggs, George E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn or Cotton Planter.
Patent for improvements to the construction of corn and cotton planters that are ridden by the user, illustrated.
Date:
February 18, 1902
Creator:
Boyd, Joseph Lonzo & Gillis, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blank for Making Perforated Tubing
Patent for a blank for the manufacturing of well tubing used in water and oil wells.
Date:
February 18, 1913
Creator:
Layne, Mahlon E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History