Resource Type
Country
States
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
Lamp and Reflector for Same.
Patent for a new combination oil lamp and reflector. This design "has for its object the production of a lamp and a reflector adapted the one to the other, and in such points of construction as shall contribute to the effectiveness of both, in that no part of the former obstructs the rays of light reflected by the other, and both shall be of simple and cheap construction; and [it] consists in certain devices and combinations of devices" (lines 20-28).
Date:
April 25, 1882
Creator:
Cotton, Patrick H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lamp Chimney Attachment.
Patent for a new and improved attachment for oil-lamp chimneys. This design is for a metal piece to be inserted into the top of the glass chimney, resting along the chimney's brim. The piece has an elbow that connects the inserted part to an angled and tapered part, which, when appropriately turned, prevents the wind from extinguishing the lamp's flame.
Date:
November 28, 1882
Creator:
Illingworth, James O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Means for Ventilating Grain, &c.
Patent for a new and improved ventilator for grain, etc. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the tubes, of the protecting end caps, consisting of a base-plate, by which it may be secured to the structure, and provided with a central opening, in which the ends of the tubes are adjusted, and a semi-cone . . . [also] [t]he combination, with the structure provided, with transverse ventilating-tubes projecting on the outside of the structure, of the . . . protecting caps" (lines 88-97).
Date:
December 12, 1882
Creator:
Street, John Kennedy
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark Arrester.
Patent for a new and improved spark arrester for train smokestacks. This design is of "a locomotive-engine, a pipe or pipes for conveying sparks from the smoke-stack, in combination of a diaphragm or cone placed in the stack and a steam or water chamber placed around the discharge of said pipe or pipes" (lines 88-93).
Date:
February 21, 1882
Creator:
Nichols, George B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark Arrester.
Patent for a new and improved spark arrester for smokestacks. This design "consists of an inverted hollow cone suspended within a hollow and flaring receiver for the sparks . . . so as to deflect the sparks against a conical annular cover to the receiver, whereby the sparks are broken and thrown against an arrester located over the hollow cone, and by which the sparks are again broken . . . and continued in that course until extinguished" (lines 7-18).
Date:
August 22, 1882
Creator:
Green, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark Arrester.
Patent for a new and improved spark arrester. This design "consists in the construction and arrangement of devices by means of which the sparks are extinguished and the cinders distributed on the road-bed, while the fine dust is delivered into the ash-box" (lines 19-23).
Date:
September 12, 1882
Creator:
Nichols, George B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark-Arrester
Patent for new and useful device capable of arresting sparks and returning them to the smoke arch.
Date:
April 25, 1882
Creator:
Lochner, Casper F.
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
Oil Can.
Patent for a new and improved oil can. This design utilizes a handle with a hollow tube leading into the oil chamber, so when the removable cap is unscrewed from the handle, air flows into the chamber, which allows the oil to flow. This eliminates the need for a spring-bottom as with other oil cans, for the flow of oil can be stopped by sealing the tube.
Date:
January 31, 1882
Creator:
Wilson, Charles Bennett
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tree Protector.
Patent for a new and improved tree protector. This design "provide[s] the means whereby fruit-trees, ornamental trees, and other trees may be protected against the ravages of the cutting-ant and other crawling insects" (lines 35-39).
Date:
February 28, 1882
Creator:
Hornung, August & Fuos, Adolph Hermann
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Suspended Safe, &c.
Patent for a new and improved safe. This design "[has a] top projecting beyond its sides . . . in combination with the upright posts having liquid-cups, the rods, and sleeves for suspending the safe from contact with any object" (lines 79-83).
Date:
March 21, 1882
Creator:
Mason, Sanford
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sulky Plow.
Patent for a new and improved sulky plow. This design "obviate[s] certain minor defects of the sulky-carriage for plows" (lines 15-17). More specifically, it "provide[s] simple and effective means for properly balancing the plow-carriage or frame and taking the weight off the horses' necks, provision being also made for using plows with or without guide-handles and of varying heights" (lines 39-44).
Date:
May 2, 1882
Creator:
Ward, James
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
Tanning Compound.
Patent for a new compound used for tanning hides and skins of all kinds. It lists the ingredients and their proportions. “The principal advantage of the compound is that its action on the hides is speedy” (lines 27-28).
Date:
September 15, 1882
Creator:
Hayden, Charles Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Paper File.
Patent for a new and improved paper file. This design "provide[s] a simple, cheap, and effective wire clamp for . . . holding bills, papers, cards, and the like . . . that can be secured to a table, desk, wall, or other object, thereby dispensing with the strips of wood or other material to which the wire clamps are usually connected" (lines 18-29).
Date:
September 5, 1882
Creator:
Clark, Chester Cady
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Time-Signal for Telephones
Patent for standard time-signaling instruments and consists of "an instrument for and a manner of signaling standard time through an entire system or systems of telephones."(lines 10-14) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 29, 1882
Creator:
Oram, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stocking
Patent for the invention of stocking manufacture in two section, a leg section and a foot section- susceptible of being connected and disconnected by sewing for the purpose of renewing the foot-section when unduly worn by substituting therefor a new section [5-10].
Date:
April 12, 1882
Creator:
Preston, Leonidus, M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Governor for Cotton Gins.
Patent for a new and improved governor for cotton gins. This design utilizes a moveable suspended roll-breast and a moveable rocking frame to regulate the amount of cotton fed into the roll-box. This design simplifies and cheapens gin production, and it makes the parts of the gin more adaptable to other gins of different sizes.
Date:
January 3, 1882
Creator:
Forbes, Lycurgus D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hand Car.
Patent for a new and improved hand-car. This design has "such construction and arrangement of the cranks and levers of hand-cars that the maximum amount of the power exerted upon the levers by the operators will be applied to the propulsion of the car" (lines 7-12).
Date:
March 28, 1882
Creator:
Sessions, Henry H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hand Sawing Machine.
Patent for a new and improved hand sawing-machine. This design "relates to improvements in hand sawing-machines in which a vertically-movable frame-work supporting the driving mechanism operates in conjunction with a horizontally-reciprocating cross-head for carrying the saw; and the object of [the] improvements is to provide a portable hand-power machine for the rapid cutting of stove-wood, and for other light sawing" (lines 8-16).
Date:
December 5, 1882
Creator:
York, Martin V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Snath Fastener.
Patent for a new and improved snath fastener. This design "relates to devices for attaching scythes to their handles; and it consists in certain improvements in the construction of the same" (lines 17-20).
Date:
April 11, 1882
Creator:
Schultze, August
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
Grave Guard.
Patent for a new and improved grave guard. This design allows for a grave guard that receives fence posts, headstones, and water for neighboring plants, which compiles these effects from various other devices.
Date:
May 16, 1882
Creator:
Gent, Alfred
System:
The Portal to Texas History