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Steam, Air, or Water Engine.
Patent for simplifying the construction of steam-engines allowing them efficiently use the power of steam" gas, vapor or air in varying positions, vertical, horizontal, or inclined.
Date:
May 9, 1882
Creator:
Adams, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fare-Box.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, fraud preventing fare-box for street-railways.
Date:
August 8, 1882
Creator:
Alexander, Samuel & Boyle, Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the fork-shaped draw-heads having under-beveled bearings between the branches, the slotted coupler-bars having hook-lugs in front of the slots and adapted to interlock, the side bearings or ledges on each side of each hook-lug, designed to support the sides of the bar and to allow the hook-lugs to enter the slots in coupling" (lines 19-27).
Date:
June 20, 1882
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coffee and Spice Mill.
Patent for a new and improved mill for coffee and spices. This design "consists in constructing a coffee and spice mill with a hopper having arms for attaching the mill to a wall and for supporting the gear-wheel formed upon it, an inner cone-burr formed solid with the hopper, an outer shell-burr suspended from and swiveled to the inner burr by a cross-bar, rod, and hand-nut, and the gear-wheels and crank for rotating the outer-burr" (lines 22-30).
Date:
March 28, 1882
Creator:
Andrews, Thomas A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Post Hole Digger.
Patent for a new and improved post-hole digger. This design "has for its object to provide a simple, durable, inexpensive, and efficient device, the levers of which can be readily separated, so that either of them can be used as a spade or shovel to fill in the earth around the post after it is placed in the hole" (lines 14-19).
Date:
November 21, 1882
Creator:
Armstrong, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Cotton Gin.
Patent for a new and improved cotton gin. This design calls for the circular saw blades of the gin to pass through two metal ribs, one of which aligns with the tip of the saw teeth, while the other aligns with the root of the saw teeth.
Date:
August 22, 1882
Creator:
Basom, Ransford W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sulky Plow and Cotton Scraper.
Patent for a new and improved sulky plow and cotton scraper. This design "relates to an improvement in sulky-plows, its object being to render the plow right or left hand for operation, to adjust the angle of presentation of the plow with relation to the line of draft, and to adapt the plow as a cotton-scraper; and it consists of the combination and arrangement of parts" (lines 14-20).
Date:
May 16, 1882
Creator:
Baucum, Samuel C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Whip Socket and Rein Holder.
Patent for a new and improved combined whip socket and rein holder. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the pivoted whip-socket, its serrated eccentric face and bearing-plate, and a spring connected to the socket and bearing-plate, whereby the eccentric face is brought to bear automatically" (lines 20-25).
Date:
August 1, 1882
Creator:
Bellah, William Newton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Kitchen Cabinet
Patent for a knock-down kitchen cabinet.
Date:
August 7, 1882
Creator:
Billington, Theophilus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buckle.
Patent for a new and improved buckle. This design is for a double buckle, "of such a construction that secure fastenings may be obtained, and the two ends of a strap or the adjacent ends of different straps may be readily secured together in a reliable manner, thus admitting of the speedy manufacture of sets of harnesses" (lines 13-18). This eliminates the need for rivets or stitching the strap(s).
Date:
September 19, 1882
Creator:
Bills, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Car-Coupling
Patent for improvements to car-coupling using a vertically-moving pin for locking the cars together.
Date:
November 14, 1882
Creator:
Blackley, George I.; Nicholson, John I. & Holloman, Harvey A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a new and improved churn. This design "provide[s] a cheap, durable, and easily-operated motor for dash-churns, and one the length of stroke of which can be varied to suit the size of the churn and the quality of the cream to be churned. [The] invention consists of a dash-lever, connecting-rod, crank and pulley shaft, and large drive-wheel, the dash-lever being made adjustable as to its length of stroke" (lines 7-15).
Date:
March 14, 1882
Creator:
Blackstock, John Lafayett
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Gin.
Patent for a new and improved cotton gin. This design "has for its object to so attach the front and rollers to the device that the rollers may be cleaned and freed from trash, burrs, and seed, when necessary, without stopping the gin" (lines 14-18).
Date:
April 11, 1882
Creator:
Boatwright, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Frame House.
Patent for a new and improved frame house. This design consists of "[t]he combination, in a roof, of T-shaped caps or battens having in their depending tongues the transverse dovetail grooves, the roof-boards arranged above the grooves and below the horizontal and lateral arms of the said battens, and the purlins adapted to enter the grooves and grooved longitudinally to engage the said tongues" (lines 23-31).
Date:
January 17, 1882
Creator:
Boyd, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Converting Motion.
Patent for a new and improved motion converter. This design "has relation to mechanical movements for converting a reciprocating into a rotary motion so as to impart a steady and regular motion to such machinery as windmills and engines, churning and washing machines, as well as to all other motors to which it may be applied; and the novelty consists in the construction of the same" (lines 9-16).
Date:
September 19, 1882
Creator:
Brown, James F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Planter.
Patent for a seed-planter, with illustrations. The "invention relates to an improved seed-planter, adapted to be attached to and operated in connection with any ordinary plow for planting wheat, corn, cotton, or other seed (line 25-28).
Date:
December 19, 1882
Creator:
Brown, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Constructing Béton or Artificial Stone Curbing.
Patent for a new and improved curbing. This design "consists in a method for constructing [artificial-stone curbing] in the trench in which it is required to be laid; and it further consists in molds for accomplishing such result with accuracy and dispatch" (lines 9-14).
Date:
June 20, 1882
Creator:
Burns, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of and Apparatus for the Construction of Concrete Abutments, Bridge Piers, &c.
Patent for a new and improved method of making béton concrete. This design "consists of a method of building piers and abutments in a monolithic character of cement, sand, and broken stone or gravel, called 'béton concrete,' by laying the same in sectional molds contrived to add successive sections to the molds as the height of the structure increases, the molds being supported against the lateral pressure upon the sides by rods passing through the structure, and being removable when the material solidifies" (lines 8-18).
Date:
June 27, 1882
Creator:
Burns, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Planter.
Patent for a new and improved cotton planter. This design "consists in the combination, with the slotted hopper-bottom, of the hinged and curved cut-offs and their spring, whereby the escape of seed will be prevented, except as forced out by the prongs of the feed-wheel" (lines 19-23).
Date:
January 24, 1882
Creator:
Byers, Anthony Walter & Dorser, James Carrol
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lamp Wick.
Patent for a new and improved wick for oil lamps. This design "consists in forming the lamp-wick of one or more layers of mineral wool inclosed in a textile material, the whole being sewed together by a series of parallel longitudinal stitches" (lines 18-22). Employing textile material represents an improvement in capillarity over previous wicks made with refractory cement.
Date:
February 14, 1882
Creator:
Bèck, Gebhard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carpenter's Square.
Patent for a new and improved carpenter's square. This design calls for ribs or ridges running lengthwise along the blades and a thicker, more durable square between the blades. In this way, only the ribs or ridges suffer wear, and the square lasts longer.
Date:
October 3, 1882
Creator:
Callihan, Willie Hoyle
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Earth Borer and Excavator
Patent for an earth borer and excavator machine
Date:
February 7, 1882
Creator:
Carley, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History