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Improvement in Bed-Bug Exterminators.
Patent for "a machine for exterminating bed-bugs by steam." (Lines 11-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 3, 1873
Creator:
Fewell, Calvin L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planters.
Patent for a new and useful seed-planter for corns and cottons, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 3, 1873
Creator:
Sims, Zachariah B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Middlings-Purifiers.
Patent for a "machine for purifying the middlings in the process of making flour that will free them more completely from impurities that has heretofore been done, and to construct the parts of the machine so that air-blasts will be completely under control" (lines 8-13) including illustrations.
Date:
June 3, 1879
Creator:
White, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "has for its object the production of a coupling that can be easily and readily applied to the common construction of draw-heads for cars, in which the ordinary coupling link and pin are used, while combining simplicity and economy in construction and effectiveness in operation" (lines 13-19).
Date:
June 3, 1884
Creator:
Harrold, Mahlon
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Base Ball Game.
Patent for a new and improved board game. This design "consists of a game-board marked out to represent a baseball field and provided with a series of marked depressions and a number of baffle-pins, guideways, or gutters being arranged in either side of the board, and a back-stop being arranged at the upper end of the board, provision being made for imparting a proper inclination to the board and for the propulsion of marbles through the gutters or troughs" (lines 13-22).
Date:
June 3, 1890
Creator:
Maxcy, John Wharton
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Broadcast Seeder.
Patent for a broadcast seeder designed to "cultivate, plant, and subsequently roll or cover the seed, the elements for accomplishing the same being combined in a single device simply constructed" (lines 10-13).
Date:
June 3, 1890
Creator:
Callaway, Johnathan Asa
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Forming Cotton-Seed Meal Into Cakes.
Patent for "an organized machine adapted to compress charges of cotton-seed meal into cakes of sufficient solidity to bear handling and removing to the press which expresses the oil from the meal, and to carry said cakes from the point where they are compressed to a point or points in convenient proximity to the press or presses which express the meal" (lines 8-16).
Date:
June 3, 1890
Creator:
Price, James S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Motor.
Patent for a new and improved motor. This design consists, "with a stool having its seat-block perforated centrally, a loose seat, and a depending pusher-bar attached by one end to the loose seat, of a rock-shaft journaled in parallel stretcher-bars, which are secured to legs of the stool, a crank-arm, a bell-crank, an adjustable weight, a ratchet-bar, and a ratchet-wheel revolubly supported" (lines 58-65).
Date:
June 3, 1890
Creator:
Gilbert, Frank L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mud Scraper.
Patent for a new and improved mud-scraper. This design consists, "with a vehicle, of the transverse shaft geared to one of the wheels and provided at one of its ends with spiders, having its arms provided with perforations, the approximately U-shaped scrapers arranged to straddle the wheel, and the L-shaped plates or knees having one arm secured to a scraper and the other arm provided with perforations adjustably connected to the spider" (lines 88-102).
Date:
June 3, 1890
Creator:
Mangum, George A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Self Cigar-Lighter.
Patent for a new and improved self-lighting cigar that has "[a]n attachment for cigars, consisting of a metallic holder having spring-arms . . . and a projecting portion adapted to hold the igniting composition, and a disk adapted to bear upon the outer end of the cigar" (lines 6-11).
Date:
June 3, 1890
Creator:
West, Thomas & Turner, Ephraim M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trace Carrier.
Patent for a new and improved trace-carrier. This design "relates to harness, and is more particularly a trace-carrier connected to the back-band thereof at its point of connection with the traces; and the same consists of a buckle composed of two parts having laterally-extending arms hinged together at their outer ends, whereby an open eye or loop is produced for receiving the trace" (lines 8-15).
Date:
June 3, 1890
Creator:
Brooks, George Washington
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Press
Patent for new and improved plunger to form a compressed bale of cotton.
Date:
June 3, 1899
Creator:
Patterson, Warren A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press
Patent for "an improvement in that class of presses adopted for baling hay" (lines 10-11) with illustrations.
Date:
June 3, 1902
Creator:
Arnold, Cyrus M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burglar-Alarm.
Patent for an improved burglar alarm to attach to a door or window with a "simple locking device for the hammer" so that the alarm can be transported and reinstalled safely (lines 15-16).
Date:
June 3, 1902
Creator:
Moody, Winfield H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Baking-Stove and Steam-Cooker.
Patent for a combined stove and steam cooker for which water can be added without opening the stove/cooker.
Date:
June 3, 1902
Creator:
James, Will S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Firearm
Patent for "a projectile adapted for use in guns having an elliptical and twisted bore" with an illustration.
Date:
June 3, 1902
Creator:
Cole, William F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mud or Sand Band for Vehicles.
Patent for a protective flap to attach to an axle to prevent mud and sand from the wheels from dirtying and interfering with the operation of the wheel-hub and axle.
Date:
June 3, 1902
Creator:
Horger, Simeon D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock.
Patent for a nut-lock "to be used in connection with a vertical bolt" connecting the axles and wheels of a vehicle or a railroad car with the other parts of the vehicle or railroad car (lines 8-12). It also has "many other purposes" that are not detailed (line 13).
Date:
June 3, 1902
Creator:
Bolen, Brantle W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pedal Attachment.
Patent for an "improved attachment for pianos, organs, or other instruments provided with pedals" (lines 9-10) to protect the openings underneath the pedals from mice, dust, or other unwanted items entering the instrument through such openings.
Date:
June 3, 1902
Creator:
Gross, Rudolph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planter
Patent for "planters of that type embodying a rotatable hopper which is carried by the supporting-wheels of the device" with an illustration.
Date:
June 3, 1902
Creator:
Walton, Jesse Moody
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Veneer Basket.
Patent for stronger, lighter construction of baskets frequently used in shipping fruit, although the improvement "may be used for any and all purposes of which it is capable" (lines 13-15).
Date:
June 3, 1902
Creator:
Aber, Edgar
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Fence Tool
Patent for tool "which may be used for various purposes in connnection with wire fences" (lines 16-17) including an illustration.
Date:
June 3, 1902
Creator:
Neeb, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment
Patent for a cultivator attachment. Illustration included.
Date:
June 3, 1909
Creator:
Thornton, William Newton
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Brander
Patent for an animal brander with interchangeable characters and a holder for the characters.
Date:
June 3, 1913
Creator:
Hayes, Monard Vinson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History