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Baling-Press.
Patent for "baling-presses, and has for its objects to provide a simple and efficient apparatus embodying a rebounding plunger; to provide means for regulating the resistance offered to the advance movement of the forward head-block; to provide improved means for tucking the material during the advance movement of the plunger; to provide means for regulating the length of a bale; to provide means for automatically inserting a head-block when a bale of the desired length has been formed; and to provide means whereby the raising and lowering of the press-box or baling-chamber is accomplished by the draft-horses through the sweep, and without the use of jacks or other analogous devices." (Lines 8-24) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 24, 1895
Creator:
Keith, George A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Loading Cotton-Bales, &c.
Patent for an apparatus for loading cotton-bales onto trucks from the compress. It is comprised of a cylinder, a piston, a piston rod, an inlet and exhaust pipes and a valve, a chain with grapnels at one end end and the other end is connected to the piston rod, a sheave, an adjustable slidable trip rod, a pivoted trip lever connected to the cylinder, a four armed lever connected to the valve, and connecting rods.
Date:
December 24, 1895
Creator:
Thompson, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chemical Fire-Extingusiher.
Patent for a chemical fire-extinguisher meant to "provide an improved acid-receptacle which will obviate the objects to the ordinary acid-bottles now in use" (lines 15-18).
Date:
December 31, 1896
Creator:
Flatau, Louis, S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chemical Fire-Extinguisher.
Patent for chemical fire extinguishers "in which the acid-bottle consists of two concentric cylinders, the inner one of which is open at top and bottom, and which, when the bottle is placed in the cylinder containing the water and soda, potash, or other material, a compressed-air seal will be formed, preventing the acid and water from commingling; but when the bottle is inverted the seal will be broken, and the water and acid coming together will generate the gas." (Lines 18-28) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 31, 1895
Creator:
Flatau, Louis Spencer
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Removing Cores from Cylindrical Cotton-Bales.
Patent for a "means for removing screw-threaded cores from cylindrical cotton-bales" (lines 12-14). It is made up of a wheeled-truck that is holding the bale, an apparatus that grips the end of the core, a way to revolve the grip, a driven shaft, and a universal joint that connects the shaft with the end of the core.
Date:
December 31, 1895
Creator:
White, Charles W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chimney-Protector.
Patent for chimney protectors "which can be readily applied and will secure a water-tight joint between the smoke-pipe and the roof." (Lines 11-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 8, 1896
Creator:
Lamprecht, William & Krieger, Edward C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pounder.
Patent for new and useful improvements in Washington Pounders by "having a series of concentric cones between the sides of which communication is had through apertures to carry away steam, and affords a suitable circulation of the water and air through the clothes." (Lines 17-22) Illustration is included.
Date:
December 15, 1896
Creator:
Toler, Henry Wilson.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Husker.
Patent for a "simple, inexpensive, and convenient hand-operated machine employing an oscillating knife or cutter for severing the stalk or stem and at at the same time clamping the shucks, so that the ear, when turned, will effect the bursting open of the shucks, thus permitting the ready removal of the ear" (lines 8-15).
Date:
December 22, 1896
Creator:
Willmann, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle Wheel.
Patent for a new and improved bicycle wheel. This design calls for an inner tire wrapped in uniformly distributed elastic bands to connect it to the outer tire. This new tire allows for the spring and comfort of pneumatic tires while rendering the pneumatic tubes of the latter obsolete.
Date:
December 29, 1896
Creator:
Neild, Edwin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a car coupling that operates automatically and without causing danger to the railway employees. It operates by a lever on the side or top of the car.
Date:
December 5, 1893
Creator:
Burglin, Bernhard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Axle-Lubricator.
Patent for an axle lubricator that continuously lubricates an axle through a hollow nut in the end of the hub bushing, and the oil cup can be refilled easily and without removing the wheel.
Date:
December 5, 1893
Creator:
Miller, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buckle.
Patent for a buckle meant for use with harnesses and "wherein the ordinary movable and hinged tongue is dispensed with, and a rigid stud or pointed projection is used in reversed positions at opposite ends of connecting loops" (lines 9-13).
Date:
December 5, 1893
Creator:
Odom, Plesant W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter.
Patent for an inexpensive and simply constructed corn and cotton planter that has an "improved mechanism for transmitting motion from the drive-wheel to the seed-disk; to so construct said mechanism as to operate only when the planter is being advanced and to remain inoperative when being drawn backward; to provide for a change of speed for the seed-disk so as to plant close together or far apart as may be desired; and to provide a new and improved hood or protector for the gear connection between the drive-wheel and the power-transmitting mechanism, which hood may be readily cast and will preserve the mechanism at this point against the deleterious actions of dust and other gritty matter that would otherwise find its way therein" (lines 11-26).
Date:
December 5, 1893
Creator:
Schofield, James Drommond
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Conduit Electric Railway.
Patent for an underground conduit electric railway meant to propel cars. The conduit can be drained and kept dry, and a trolley attachment protects the conduit from dirt and water as well.
Date:
December 5, 1893
Creator:
de Voe, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Telephone-Exchange System.
Patent for "a simple system and arrangement which is especially adapted for a telephone exchange, which enables the instruments to be connected by a single wire, which dispenses with the use of an operator at the central station, which has automatic means for registering the messages sent by each subscriber, and which is provided with an automatic switching device by means of which one subscriber may connect with any other" (lines 10-19).
Date:
December 5, 1893
Creator:
Serdinko, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for a baling press that holds the material in the press while it is being formed into a bale. It consists of a frame with notches in the back, a resistance bar that pivots across the back of the frame, a latch that holds the bar in place, and a pin to pin the bar to the latch.
Date:
December 12, 1893
Creator:
Mealer, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Brake.
Patent for a car brake that has independent brake shoes and brake pressure is equally applied to all the wheels of the truck. The invention is meant to "obtain in a car brake of this class a central transmission of the applied brake power to the different groups of brake mechanism whereby the brake power is distributed equally to each wheel and the brakes are not only rendered more stable and certain in their operation, but are better adapted for the application of either hand or air brake or pressure" (lines 22-31). The brake shoes are operated by a lever that is suspended from the truck body and pivots.
Date:
December 12, 1893
Creator:
McGee, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Desk and Copy-Holder.
Patent for a desk with an attached paper-holder that allows for easier transcription.
Date:
December 19, 1893
Creator:
Stuart, Benjamin Franklin & Willson, Frederick William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Copy-Holder and Tablet.
Patent for a combined copy-holder and tablet meant for record keeping. The invention's purposes are to "produce a convenient device designed to be employed ether upon the lap of the operator or upon a counter or other convenient support, and to maintain in position for writing a web of paper, thus requiring no holding of the same by the operator; to provide means for conveniently paying out said web of paper as the same is used or consumed; to provide for conveniently tearing the paper from the web into lengths convenient to the operator; to provide for a simple retention and support in a removable manner of the roll upon which the web is mounted; and finally for a support of the device in an inclined position convenient for transcribing notes therefrom" (lines 13-28).
Date:
December 19, 1893
Creator:
Stuart, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a churn that can be easily operated and does not let flies or dust collect around its top. It is operated by turning a handle which is connected via a rope and a series of pulleys to the churn.
Date:
December 19, 1893
Creator:
Nanny, Amos William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Stalk-Cutter and Cultivator.
Patent for "a combined stalk cutter and cultivating machine comprising a rotary stalk cutter and a gang of plows and it consists in the features of construction and novel combination of devices in a machine adapted for the various kinds of agricultural work" (lines 9-15).
Date:
December 26, 1893
Creator:
Snodgrass, George Melvin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Separating Molasses from Sugar.
Patent for " invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Separating Molasses from Sugar" (lines 5-7) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 6, 1892
Creator:
Ellis, Emmett A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling
Patent for "invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Couplers" (lines 4-5) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 6, 1892
Creator:
Lee, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Feeding Seed-Cotton to Gins
Patent for an improvement to seed feeders "to improve and simplify the feed mechanisms of such machines or apparatus and provide means whereby a number of rigidly depending chutes
Date:
December 20, 1892
Creator:
Murray, Stephen D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History