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Car-Door.
Patent for improvements in car doors. These improvements make the doors fire and water proof and allow the door to be locked. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 23, 1891
Creator:
Moore, Francis A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Cotton-Plow.
Patent for a combination cotton plow that makes hoeing more efficient and profitable. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 10, 1891
Creator:
Williams, Charley Mabry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picker Finger.
Patent that improves on existing design of cotton-picking spindles by using an elastic material instead of bristles. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 12, 1891
Creator:
Canuteson, Ole
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Measuring and Folding Dress Goods, &c.
Patent for a device on which textiles can be "quickly and accurately measured and folded upon a revolving reel." (Lines 14-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 4, 1890
Creator:
Talley, James Milton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Means for Operating Blowers.
Patent for the improvement and simplification of the construction of blowers and to enable a forge-blower to be readily operated by the foot, to leave the hands of the operator free. Includes illustration.
Date:
December 8, 1891
Creator:
Murphy, Thomas A.; Murphy, John H. & Carroll, J. Y.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Portable Derrick.
Patent for improvements to derricks which make them portable and easily manipulated. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 15, 1891
Creator:
Hurd, George Murray
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Planter.
Patent for a more simple and affordable way to make seed planters "in which there is used some sort of opener to make a furrow into which the seed are dropped, and some sort of devices which follow after and cover over the seed," (Lines 11-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 26, 1891
Creator:
Flatau, Louis S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sulky-Plow.
Patent for an adjustable plow, with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 13, 1891
Creator:
Jackson, Luther C. & Reiger, John F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher
Patent for a stretcher that connects wires in fence construction and repair. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 29, 1891
Creator:
Wright, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for a new and improved gate. This design "has for its object to provide a device of this character which shall be cheap and simple in its construction, one that may be easily operated, and yet be positive in its engagement with the latch to prevent it from being opened by cattle, &c." (lines 8-14).
Date:
December 8, 1885
Creator:
Dunn, Henry Frankling.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive Valve Gear.
Patent for a new and improved valve-gear. This design "is especially designed for locomotive-engines; and the invention consists of a combination of rockers, shafts, arms, levers, links, and connecting-rods worked from the cross-head of the locomotive exclusively, and so arranged as to give the valve a correct motion" (lines 7-13).
Date:
December 8, 1885
Creator:
Lewis, Wallace James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow
Patent for an improved invention providing a convertible plow and cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 8, 1885
Creator:
Moore, Thomas M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Floating-Docks.
Patent for an elliptic floating dock.
Date:
December 8, 1874
Creator:
Marcusey, Edward; Herbert, Dozier G. & Bunting, R. F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History