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Back Band Buckle. (open access)

Back Band Buckle.

Patent for a new and improved back band buckle. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the middle bar having an outwardly-projecting stud, the upper bar parallel to the middle bar and having an under offset recess, and a depending lug-hook and spring-snap" (lines 19-26).
Date: April 18, 1882
Creator: Lowe, Joseph Alfred
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Safety Hook and Buckle. (open access)

Combined Safety Hook and Buckle.

Patent for a new and improved combined hook and buckle. This design "is especially adapted for use upon the back-bands, whether of leather or canvas, of harnesses, and for receiving and holding the leather trace or trace-chains of the harness; but it may be attached to various other parts of the harness, and used for various other purposes. The buckle part of the device is composed of a suitable frame . . . and a bar formed or provided with points or small tongues for holding the strap or canvas adapted to slide in the frame" (lines 9-21).
Date: July 18, 1882
Creator: Hake, Francis A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bag Holder. (open access)

Bag Holder.

Patent for a new and improved bag holder. This design "consists mainly in the combination of certain parts having a capacity for adjustment relatively to the diameter of the bag, with certain parts having a capacity for adjustment relatively to the height of the bag" (lines 17-22).
Date: July 18, 1882
Creator: Holekamp, Julius
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Gin. (open access)

Cotton Gin.

Patent for a new and improved cotton gin. This design "consists in the combination of the bevel-edged boards with the saws and brush, so as to facilitate the transfer of the cotton from the saws to the arc-shaped support consisting of the bevel-edged boards set at a short distance apart, and to thus straighten the fiber or lint. This gives the lint cotton a finer and lighter appearance, causing a ready allowance of a considerable addition to the usual price" (lines 8-17).
Date: July 18, 1882
Creator: Van Zandt, Jacob
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect Destroyer. (open access)

Insect Destroyer.

Patent for a new and improved insect trap. This design "relates to certain new and useful improvements in devices for distributing liquid poison on cotton and other plants to destroy insect life thereon; and it consists in the [novel] construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 14-18).
Date: July 18, 1882
Creator: Binkley, James E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grain-Feeder and Band-Cutter for Thrashing-Machines. (open access)

Grain-Feeder and Band-Cutter for Thrashing-Machines.

Patent for improvements to grain-feeders for thrashing machines design including illustrations.
Date: March 18, 1882
Creator: Barlow, Thomas James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Snow Plow. (open access)

Snow Plow.

Patent for a new and improved snow plow. This design "is to facilitate the removal of snow from railway-tracks, and also to prevent the removed snow from being blown back upon the track" (lines 20-23).
Date: July 18, 1882
Creator: Grove, David E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Head Protector. (open access)

Head Protector.

Patent for a new and improved head protector. This design utilizes a wire "skeleton mask" and corresponding cap that holds the former in place. These are "designed to be covered with netting and to be worn as a protection against mosquitoes and other poisonous insects, and which is also applicable to bee-keepers' use, thrashers, gunners, railroad brakemen, &c." (lines 14-19).
Date: July 18, 1882
Creator: Turner, Robert W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Saddle tree (open access)

Saddle tree

Patent for an improvement in saddle trees
Date: July 18, 1882
Creator: Still, Henry Clay & Still, Robert Joseph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Rail Joint. (open access)

Railroad Rail Joint.

Patent for a new and improved rail joint for railroads. This design "relates to railroad-rail joints; and it has for its object to construct, without the use of bolts, nuts, and fish-plates, a joint which shall be cheap, durable, and possessed of great strength and rigidity" (lines 19-23).
Date: July 18, 1882
Creator: Tatum, Paul
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draft Equalizer. (open access)

Draft Equalizer.

Patent for an improved double tree adapted to be used without single-trees designed to equalize the draft in case on horse gets ahead of the other in a draft team.
Date: July 18, 1882
Creator: Jones, Jeremiah C. & Robertson, Alexander W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Cutting Boiler Tubes. (open access)

Device for Cutting Boiler Tubes.

Patent for a new device for cutting boiler-tubes. This design "is to be adjusted a distance from the head sufficiently in excess of the thickness of the tube sheet to prevent injury to the latter. The device is then inserted into the end of the tube, with the head abutting against the outside of the tube-sheet. By turning the screw the wedges may then be drawn toward each other, thus forcing the block carrying the cutter outward. The device is now to be turned by the shank alternately with feeding the cutter outward until the tube has been cut through, after which it may be readily removed" (lines 75-88).
Date: April 18, 1882
Creator: Franklin, James Johnson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Converting Reciprocating into Rotary Motion. (open access)

Device for Converting Reciprocating into Rotary Motion.

Patent for a new and improved device for converting reciprocating into rotary motion. This design "has for its object to provide means whereby rotary motion may be converted into reciprocating motion or reciprocating motion into rotary motion without the intervention of cranks; and to this end it consists in a mutilated gear pinion secured to a rotating shaft and provided with suitable cams, whereby the gear-teeth upon the pinion are caused to engage with gear-teeth upon a yoke embracing said pinion" (lines 23-32).
Date: July 18, 1882
Creator: Richardson, John T.
System: The Portal to Texas History