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Peach-Parer.
Patent for a paring device for peaches using prongs to hold and rotate the fruit while a blade pares the peach. Includes illustrations.
Date:
December 27, 1859
Creator:
Hermans, Alva & Hermans, Mary E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters.
Patent for the improvement of the cotton-seed planter in the arrangement of the hopper, roller with stirring and feeding teeth attached while distributing seeds accurately, including illustration.
Date:
December 27, 1859
Creator:
Kesler, Charles & Reinhard, Fred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton Cultivators, Scrapers, and Choppers.
Patent for a new cotton cultivator that allows for a worker to adjust the cultivator's angle based on soil depth.
Date:
December 27, 1870
Creator:
Young, John H. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows
Patent for a new design for a subsoil plow. Includes instructions and illustration.
Date:
December 27, 1870
Creator:
Clifton, Josiah
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Presses for Hay, Cotton, Etc.
Patent for the improvement of presses for hay and cotton, by means of a screw. It includes an illustration and description.
Date:
December 27, 1870
Creator:
Cunningham, Matthew G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling
Patent for an improvement of car coupling design so as to be automatic so that it can couple and uncouple without needing a person to move from car to car that can be used alongside pin and link couplings (lines 11-16).
Date:
December 27, 1892
Creator:
Millican, Joel W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling
Patent for improvements to railroad car couplings granted to Conrad H. Carpenter. Improvements simplify the coupling construction and allow the cars to be couples automatically.
Date:
December 27, 1892
Creator:
Carpenter, Conrad H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Barrel-Truck.
Patent for a new barrel truck or wheeled dolly design for moving barrels or boxes more easily, including illustrations.
Date:
December 27, 1887
Creator:
Wilson, William W. & Newton, Jeremiah L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper
Patent for improvements in the construction and design of cotton-choppers.
Date:
December 27, 1887
Creator:
Schofield, James Drommond
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bedstead Attachment.
Patent for a new and improved bedstead attachment. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the side rails and head and foot boards, of the plates having angular projections provided with wedge-shaped grooves and small inclined recesses at their upper parts, and the plates having the tapering wedge-shaped projections provided with the lugs integrally formed with their upper portions and adapted to engage the recesses, whereby when the projecting engaging portions of the plates . . . wear and become loose they are prevented from disjointure by the engagement of the lugs" (lines 83-94).
Date:
December 27, 1887
Creator:
McCormick, Henry Jasper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wagon-Body
Patent for "new and useful improvements in wagon-bodies, having for its object simplicity and durability," (lines 10-12) including illustrations.
Date:
December 27, 1887
Creator:
Folsome, Charles F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pressure Regulator for Fermented Liquids.
Patent for a new and improved pressure regulator for fermented liquids. This design "has for its object to provide an improved automatic hydraulic apparatus for supplying compressed air to kegs or casks containing fermented liquids, to replace the vacuum caused by drawing off a portion of the said liquid, and thus to maintain a uniform pressure in such vessels as long as any portion of their contents remain to be drawn therefrom" (lines 8-15).
Date:
December 27, 1881
Creator:
Freeman, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow Colter.
Patent for a new and improved plow colter. This design calls for a colter that conforms to the face-curve of the plow shovel, thus forming a landside. The colter can be attached to and removed from either side of the plow standard.
Date:
December 27, 1881
Creator:
Kersh, Alvin Jacob
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Journal-Box
Patent for "improvements in journal boxes, the object of my improvement being to provide simple and effective means for applying the lubricant, retaining it always within reach of the wearing surfaces, and conveying it over all of the surface which is subject to frictional content" (lines 8-14).
Date:
December 27, 1892
Creator:
Sneddon, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thill-Coupling.
Patent for the invention for new and useful improvements on the thill-coupling along with illustrations and instructions.
Date:
December 27, 1892
Creator:
Tanner, David Wilmer
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Addressing-Machine.
Patent for an improved addressing machine, which will "paste, cut, and attach the slip simultaneously, or with one operation" (lines 26-27), with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 27, 1887
Creator:
Eberhardt, Theophilus Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for the invention of new and useful improvement to car-couplings. "This invention is an improved car coupling seeking among other improvements to provide simple, easily operated devices by which the cars may automatically couple..." (lines 7-10) Including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 27, 1892
Creator:
Vogt, August G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Ladder.
Patent for a new and improved folding ladder. This design consists in "the combination, with main supporting-strips, of recessed auxiliary strips connected thereto, rounds formed with bows, sections which pass through the recesses of the auxiliary strips, and stops which bear against the main supporting strips, and strengthening strips, through which the bows of the rounds pass" (lines 77-84).
Date:
December 27, 1887
Creator:
Ethridge, William Spencer
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planter
Patent for "a planter which is adapted to be connected to the frame of a sulky-cultivator and operated by one of the wheels thereof," (lines 13-16) including illustrations.
Date:
December 27, 1887
Creator:
Hyde, Richard Edmund
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press
Patent for a simple cotton press that is adapted to be run from the same source of power as the gin so that the plunger operates automatically (lines 12-16).
Date:
December 27, 1892
Creator:
Van Dyke, James E. & Stobaugh, Harry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Crutch and Chair.
Patent for a combined crutch and chair.
Date:
December 27, 1910
Creator:
Johnson, Samuel J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Dasher.
Patent for a churn dasher, which churns cream better and faster.
Date:
December 27, 1910
Creator:
Liles, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale Band Tie
Patent for a bale band tie. Illustration included.
Date:
December 27, 1904
Creator:
Robinson, Laurence B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bench-Dog
Patent for a bench dog for holding boards while they are being cut.
Date:
December 27, 1910
Creator:
McCormick, Terrill W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History