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Design for a Post.
Design for a post with hexagonally woven or meshed wire structure of tubular or cellular form.
Date:
December 27, 1898
Creator:
Flatau, Louis S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Saddle-Blankets
Patent for improvement of saddle blankets through use of a layering of canvas and rubber. Illustrations of blanket in multiple profiles included.
Date:
December 5, 1876
Creator:
McCormick, John Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Sheltering Animals.
Patent for a new and improved animal shelter. This design "relates to a device which may be adapted for use as a hen's nest, a dog-kennel, a stable for domestic animals, or for analogous purposes. The principle of construction prevalent in all these different adaptations for use of the device consists of certain improved means for automatically closing the door as the animal steps into a vertically-swinging compartment, and for automatically opening the door as the animal leaves said swinging compartment" (lines 13-23).
Date:
December 21, 1880
Creator:
Austin, John Overton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Badge.
Design patent for a badge that has a near-rectangular body with additional ornamentation.
Date:
December 7, 1886
Creator:
Lukanitsch, Joseph & Cosman, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Badge or Medal.
Design patent for a round souvenir badge or medal that has an image of a star on the front with a portrait in the center, and rays emanating toward the outside edge used for text. The back of the medal has an image of the Texas state capitol and spaces for additional text. The design also includes a suspending-bar shaped as a bald eagle with spread wings, holding crossed rifles.
Date:
December 6, 1887
Creator:
Maxcy, John Wharton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Direct-Acting Steam-Engine
Patent for improvements in the construction of direct-acting steam-engines.
Date:
December 4, 1888
Creator:
Winn, Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for an automatic coupling that can be used in any car and without replacing the existing draw-head. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 29, 1891
Creator:
Taylor, Debos & Taylor, William M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment
Patent for a cultivator attachment. Illustration included.
Date:
December 25, 1906
Creator:
Bates, General Lowel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for Bed Spring.
Design patent for bed spring comprised of twin spirally-coiled bodies with straight horizontal arm extending from upper coils.
Date:
December 7, 1897
Creator:
Rigg, Elmer E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment
Patent for a cultivator attachment. Illustration included.
Date:
December 25, 1906
Creator:
Wright, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cutter-Casing
Patent for a detachable casing for fruit and vegetable cutters. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 10, 1912
Creator:
Cass, Thomas N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Keeping Contents of Vessels Beneath The Surface of Liquid Therein Contained.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in devices for keeping the contents of vessels beneath the surface of the liquid therein contained,
Date:
December 13, 1898
Creator:
Schenck, August & Schenck, Adolph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Calculator
Patent for a calculator which consists of semicircular device with movable pointers and number indexes printed on it that allows the pointers to be moved to different numbers to produce the answer to a math problem such as calculating the cost of goods sold by the pound in a store.
Date:
December 21, 1909
Creator:
Goss, George Wilson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment
Patent for an attachment for a cotton cultivator that comprises of, among other objects, cotton chopper blades. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 22, 1908
Creator:
Patrick, Henry N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Caisson
Patent for a caisson. This invention is used to remove quicksand while sinking piers in rivers. Illustration included.
Date:
December 19, 1905
Creator:
Gilbert, Edward Nathen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator
Patent for a cultivator "particularly adapted for cutting stalks in rows" (lines 110-111) and is designed to travel in a straight line with less side movement.
Date:
December 3, 1918
Creator:
Mills, Samuel E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Agricultural Machine.
Patent for an agricultural machine, a frame structure that can hold multiple types of agricultural devices and allows for the proper adjustment and manipulation of said devices without changing the frame's structure.
Date:
December 30, 1919
Creator:
Northcutt, John & Crawford, Miner
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Agricultural Implement.
Patent for a planter attachment that is readily controllable by the operator so as to allow rows or spots in the ground to be replanted. This is accomplished by controlling the flow of seeds from a seed box to a spout and by controlling the distance of the spout from the ground.
Date:
December 17, 1918
Creator:
Nettles, James P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Topper and Boll Weevil Catcher
Patent for improvements to cotton topper and boll weevil catcher machines. This invention will cut tops off cotton plants at a certain height to prevent the spread of the boll weevil insect.
Date:
December 6, 1917
Creator:
Marquis, A. of Hondo, Texas & Sprott, W. of Hondo, Texas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaning Cultivator Attachment
Patent for improvements to cotton-cleaning cultivators. The improved cultivator "is designed for cleaning cotton or similar crops so as to eliminate the necessity of hoeing cotton," (line 14-16) uproot unwanted surrounding plants, and level ridges formed while cultivating cotton.
Date:
December 29, 1917
Creator:
Hasting, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Curtain Fixture.
Patent for a new and improved curtain fixture. This design "consist[s] of the brackets secured to the window-frame, and a frame consisting of a single continuous integral U-shaped bar having its arms bent outward from its shoulders . . . and having the end of one of its arms pivoted to the adjacent bracket and the end of the other arm bent laterally and journaled in the other bracket, the curtain-roller being journaled in and extending between the arms" (lines 60-69).
Date:
December 24, 1889
Creator:
Bomar, Mattie A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design "is to produce . . . cultivators [that] can be adjusted laterally in relation to each other and turned at any desirable angle, and in which the frame and the beam can be made to stand at any desired angle to each other" (lines 17-23). It consists in "a semicircular frame, two vertical plates secured to the ends of the said frame and having their upper edges serrated, blocks placed between the plates, the plates, bolts for clamping them to opposite edges of the vertical plates, and the cultivators which pass through the plates and the beam" (lines 8-15).
Date:
December 16, 1890
Creator:
Ford, John Owen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a cultivator used for sub-soiling and cultivating small grain.
Date:
December 1, 1891
Creator:
Thomas, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fuel Produced From Lignite.
Patent for the process by which fuel is created from lignite coal.
Date:
March 16, 1891
Creator:
Edelmann, Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History