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Plow.
Patent for a new and improved plow. This design "relates to an improvement in . . . the construction of the mold-board and to the arrangement thereof relative to the plowshare. The mold-board, instead of being curved or concave, as has usually been the case, is . . . made perfectly flat, and so constructed that it projects at one corner slightly beyond the upper edge of the plowshare. . . . [C]onsequently the plow can be moved through the soil with less difficulty" (lines 13-25).
Date:
January 10, 1882
Creator:
Domschke, Charles.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grain Heater.
Patent for a new and improved grain heater. This design consists of a "hopper provided with [a] flange and perforations, in combination with the hot-air pipe, provided with the inverted-funnel-shaped mouth having its sides perforated" (lines 59-63).
Date:
October 10, 1882
Creator:
English, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press.
Patent for a bailing press used in the milling and processing of cotton.
Date:
January 10, 1882
Creator:
Ensinger, Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "provide[s] a car-coupling, which in the event of a car running off the track and tipping over, will automatically uncouple; also, [it] provide[s] a coupling-pin which will be locked down by reason of the strain thereon when the cars are in motion; also, [it] provide[s] certain improvements in the details of construction of the coupling" (lines 8-15).
Date:
January 10, 1882
Creator:
Fowler, Joseph C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stock for Plow Trucks.
Patent for a new and improved stock for plow-trucks. This design "provide[s] an improved stock and suitable devices for connecting a plow to any pair of wheels and axle forming a part of a wagon, by which simple additional connections a farmer may construct a sulky-plow in a cheap and simple manner" (lines 8-13).
Date:
January 10, 1882
Creator:
Hinson, Asa Chandler
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fence Post.
Patent for a new and improved fence post. This design is for a "fence-post molded of a cement and sand or gravel, with a transverse vertical slot . . . a vertical opening in its top communicating with the vertical slot [designed] for the wire fastening . . . openings [found] in its sides or edges for the wires [as well as] a flange" (lines 51-56).
Date:
October 10, 1882
Creator:
McGee, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saw-Sharpening Tool
Patent for a saw-sharpening tool granted to Robert S. Munger. The tool may also be used for sharpening cotton gin blades.
Date:
October 10, 1882
Creator:
Munger, Robert S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting Frame.
Patent for a new and improved quilting frame. This design consists in "an improvement in quilting-frames, the combination, with the foot-pieces, of the hinged arms, braces, clamping screws, rollers, and set-screws" (lines 66-69).
Date:
October 10, 1882
Creator:
Murphree, John B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History