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Trace Carrier.
Patent for a new and improved trace-carrier. This design consists in "the combination of a cylindrical body of elongated form and obliquely arranged and having slots in the upper part thereof to form bars, a central top slot between said bars, and a lower bar having a recess therein, an obliquely-inclined spring-latch extending across one of the open ends of said body, the back-band having a strap to pass around said body, and a girth-strap connected to said lower recessed bar" (lines 13-22).
Date:
July 19, 1892
Creator:
Wellborn, Samuel Houston
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Protected Bail-Joint.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in protected rail-joints.
Date:
April 19, 1898
Creator:
Teamer, James Madison
System:
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Milk-Cooler.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in milk coolers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 19, 1899
Creator:
Cowan, Mark L.
System:
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Milk-Cooler.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in milk coolers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 19, 1899
Creator:
Cowan, Mark L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pliers.
Patent for pliers that has one jaw fitted with ribs and the other with grooves. This allows the pliers to clamp onto and kink a wire in an improved way.
Date:
December 19, 1893
Creator:
Neuhaus, Frank C.
System:
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Plow.
Patent for a plow that has a new design for a "subsoil and harrow attachment to the ordinary break-plow" (lines 9-10).
Date:
May 19, 1896
Creator:
Bowers, Thomas M.
System:
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Nut Lock.
Patent for a new and improved nut lock. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the bolt, the nut having a dovetailed groove across its face, of uniform width throughout its length, and a recess at one side of said groove, and a key having tapered sides and sliding into the dovetailed groove from one side of the nut, said key having a pointed end to engage the bolt and also provided with a projecting part to be bent over into engagement with the recess in the nut" (lines 69-78).
Date:
April 19, 1892
Creator:
Robinson, William D.
System:
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Nut-Lock.
Patent for a nut-lock that is meant to be screwed onto a bolt, threaded shaft, axle spindle, or other similar screws. The nut has an improved construction and a lock that consists of a tiny pin that must be pulled out before the nut can be unscrewed.
Date:
September 19, 1893
Creator:
Stewart, William Mills
System:
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Sulky-Plow.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and durable sulky-plow "that will avoid the collection of trash, weeds, grass, &c., and thereby will not clog; that is designed to run upon the unplowed ground and therefore retain the plow in a steady position; to provide an improved adjusting means for plows whereby the same may be set to run shallow or deep; and to adapt the plow for successfully operating upon hillsides or rolling ground" (lines 12-20).
Date:
December 19, 1893
Creator:
Shipman, Samuel H.
System:
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Tag.
Patent for an inexpensive and simple tag to label bolts of cloth that is "a convenient means for fastening the [tag] in such position upon a bolt of goods as to prevent it from becoming twisted or turned, and so that the tag will always be held or supported so as to exhibit the markings thereon" (lines 12-16).
Date:
March 19, 1895
Creator:
Winkler, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Unicycle Road and Racing Sulky.
Patent for a one-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle, with illustrations.
Date:
October 19, 1897
Creator:
Coleman, Thomas Gardner
System:
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Washing-Machine.
Patent for a new and useful washing machine.
Date:
April 19, 1898
Creator:
Roach, Henry B.
System:
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Hay-Press.
Patent for improvements in hay-presses by using the combination of a ram having a connecting rod, a rack engaged with a rotatable cog-wheel, a bed-plate, a weighted lever, a buffer and other minor parts to create the pressing operation. Illustration is included.
Date:
May 19, 1891
Creator:
Grant, Richard A.
System:
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Hoe.
Patent for improvements in hoes, the inventor designed the handle of the hoe to carry two shanks; the shanks diverging form the handle and bent to be parallel with each other. A connecting-rod at the end of two shanks is being threaded and provided with locking-nuts, which used to secure the hoe blades. The hoe blades can be adjusted laterally. Illustration is included.
Date:
May 19, 1891
Creator:
Brown, Henry M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gin-Saw-Filing Machine.
Patent for a machine that is meant to file circular saws. The invention files "saws while mounted side-by side upon a saw arbor, as cotton gin saws usually are; means for moving the file carriage along upon the frame of the machine to locate it in front of the individual saws which are to be filed; means for raising and carrying the file over the saws when the carriage is to be moved; means for securing the file sash on the file carriage and of securing the file carriage upon the main frame by a single act; and means for converting a continuous rotary feed motion of the saws while being filed, to an intermittent motion which rotates the saws step-by-step from tooth to tooth" (lines 15-28).
Date:
December 19, 1893
Creator:
McCurry, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hoisting Device.
Patent for an inexpensive device that is meant to hoist, lift, or extract stumps, stones, or other heavy objects. It also stretches wire and can act as a vehicle jack.
Date:
December 19, 1893
Creator:
Hagelstein, Henry
System:
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Governor for Seed-Cotton-Handling Apparatus.
Patent for simple, efficient, and reliable "a governor for regulating the quantity of seed cotton which is delivered to one or more feeders or gins by a seed-cotton handling apparatus" (lines 13-16). The operator sets the amount of cotton being sent through the gin. The invention has a receiver of a cotton handling mechanism, another mechanism that cuts off the supply of cotton after a desired amount has passed, and the invention can easily be started again after the gin is emptied.
Date:
June 19, 1894
Creator:
Schulze, Andrew
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame.
Patent for a harness-hame and "contemplates the provision of improved means forming a part of the hames for securing the trace-chains thereto; also the provision of an improved trace-link adapted for connection with said securing means in a manner to insure maximum strength" (lines 15-21).
Date:
November 19, 1895
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
System:
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Gin-Saw-Filing Machine.
Patent for a mechanism to sharpen the blades of a gin saw. Includes illustrations of the device.
Date:
October 19, 1897
Creator:
Beavers, John M.
System:
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Gin-Saw Cleaner.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in gin saw cleaners, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 19, 1899
Creator:
Ogden, George
System:
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Grain-Door For Freight-Cars.
Patent for a new and improved grain door for freight cars, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 19, 1899
Creator:
Morten, Edward W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Feed-Trough
Patent for "a stock-feeder which shall permit of the feeding of a measured quantity of food to cattle in the barn or stable from a point remote, so as to enable the farmer or any of the members of his family to feed the cattle from the dwelling without going out into the weather" (lines 7-13).
Date:
August 19, 1890
Creator:
Reed, Francis O.
System:
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Feed Trough.
Patent for a new and improved feed trough. This design "is to provide a portable feed rack and trough adapted to hold a quantity of feed and to discharge the same as is found necessary" (lines 10-13). It consists in "a platform mounted on runners and provided at its sides with troughs, bins arranged at the ends of the platforms and provided at the lower ends of their sides with openings" (lines 99-102). It further consists in "slides arranged in . . . recesses and adapted to vary the size of said openings, strips arranged on the outer edges of the inclined bars, and set-screws connecting the strips" (lines 3-7).
Date:
April 19, 1892
Creator:
Anderson, John Stow
System:
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Engine.
Patent for general "improvements in engines, and while one feature of our invention is adapted for use on all styles of engines, the invention in the complete form ...is especially suited for use on locomotive engines designed to exert high tractive power and to attain high speeds" (lines 12-19).
Date:
February 19, 1895
Creator:
Davis, Philip Z. & Barton, Alexander M.
System:
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