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Steam-Boiler.
Patent for the improvement for steam boilers by having a detachable fire-box for a portable boiler with little maintenance and efficient as a steam generator, including illustration.
Date:
March 5, 1861
Creator:
Porter, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bee-Hives.
Patent for a bee-hive that prevents insects (such as moths) from entering therein and maximizes the amount of honey collected from the hive, including a detailed explanation and description of the illustration.
Date:
March 5, 1878
Creator:
Park, Jesse W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Hoes.
Patent for a cotton-hoe with interchangeable blades (one smaller and the other larger), for "chopping cotton" (line 15) and garden use, including a detailed explanation and description of the illustration.
Date:
March 5, 1878
Creator:
Moore, Joseph M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Brake.
Patent for vehicle-brake, with description and illustrations.
Date:
March 5, 1885
Creator:
McIntosh, John L.; Bacon, Edward Hamlin & Vail, Theron
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire Clay Heater.
Patent for a new and improved fire-clay heater. This design "consists in an improved fire-log burner for oil or other fluid or gaseous inflammable substances, said burner being in form of a tube or hollow cylinder, and made of 'fire-clay,' and provided with numerous jet or burner passages in its periphery, and filled with comminuted asbestus or other analogous absorbent or capillary fluid-conducting fire-proof material . . . The object of [the] invention is to provide a practically-operating and fire-proof fire-log for heating steam-boilers, stoves, grates, fire-places, and for other analogous uses" (lines 17-30).
Date:
March 5, 1889
Creator:
White, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fluid Burner Fire Log.
Patent for a new and improved fluid-burner fire-log. This design consists "in combination, a perforated tubular body, metallic removable heads, a fluid-supplying tube, a perforated air-induction distributing tie-tube provided with screw threads and nuts on its ends outside the heads, and a comminuted or disintegrated fire-proof filling surrounding the perforated portion of the air-tube and occupying the chamber of the body" (lines 25-32).
Date:
March 5, 1889
Creator:
White, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mattress-Stuffing Machine
Patent "to provide simple means whereby the dimensions of the packing-box, as well as the spout, may be readily increased or diminished, either vertically or laterally, to enable the operator to stuff mattresses of varying sizes, whereby the dimensions of the packing-box and spout shall be at all times varied in the same relative proportions" (lines 12-20).
Date:
March 5, 1889
Creator:
Stephenson, Edwin N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of Making Mattresses.
Patent for a new and improved method of making mattresses. This invention "consists in first disintegrating the material and simultaneously forcing the same into a suitable receptacle, fanning said material as it passes into the receptacle, and finally compressing the same . . . thereby dispensing with tacking of the bat" (lines 15-22).
Date:
March 5, 1889
Creator:
Haynes, Daniel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in "the combination of the center bar, the adjustable sweep, and the saddle . . . [the] longitudinal center bar extending below the base of the sweep and having the pointed nose and the fan-shaped lip" (lines 85-90).
Date:
March 5, 1889
Creator:
Stewart, John A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash Fastener.
Patent for a new and improved sash fastener. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a window-sash, of the spiral spring, its inner end resting in the socket, its other in the thimble, locking-plate having the hinge-nib working in the perforation, and [the] thimble receiving and covering the outer end of said spring, and handle, said lock-plate and handle fitting and working in [the] groove and [other] perforation, [a] cover-plate countersunk in the face of said sash, covering said lock-plate, and provided with the perforation and opening" (lines 1-11).
Date:
March 5, 1889
Creator:
Teal, Thomas Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mail-Bag Catcher and Deliverer.
Patent for "a device capable of catching or transferring mail bags from a mail bag hanger to the mail car while the car is in motion, the device also acting to deliver a mail bag at the same station, if necessary, one operation in no manner interfering with the other." (Lines 8-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 5, 1895
Creator:
Sliger, Charles F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine.
Patent for "improvements in rotary engines by which a flanged or bladed disk is made to revolve in a steam tight chamber or chest." (Lines 7-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 5, 1895
Creator:
West, Joseph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rein-holder.
Patent for simple, inexpensive and efficient rein holder "adapted to be readily applied to a vehicle and capable of ready adjustment to arrange it to suit the height of a horse and of supporting the lines and of preventing them from coming in contact with the tail of the animal" (lines 11-16).
Date:
March 5, 1901
Creator:
Campbell, James W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spoon.
Patent for a spoon designed to avoid spilling liquids, including illustrations.
Date:
March 5, 1901
Creator:
Holman, Clara Belle
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windlass Elevator
Patent for providing "an improved device... which is especially designed for use as a water-elevator for drawing a bucket out of a well and arranged so as to conveniently take up the slack cable and coil it upon the windlass-drum" (lines 8-14) including illustrations.
Date:
March 5, 1901
Creator:
Higson, Jasper S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill-Regulator
Patent for "improvements in windmill-regulators of that class distinguished by the provision of a movable bucket connected to the regulating-cable of a windmill and communicating with the tank or reservoir supplied by the mill to cause the depression of the bucket for the purpose of throwing the mill out of gear or out of the wind. . .when the level of water in the tank has reached a predetermined point" (lines 8-18).
Date:
March 5, 1901
Creator:
Stein, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Mail and Parcel Delivery Apparatus
Patent for a automated motorized mail delivery vehicle that travels in the air on electric lines on poles to deliver incoming mail and retrieve outgoing mail from rural routes or parcels in urban areas.
Date:
March 5, 1907
Creator:
Dederick, Zadoc P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaner And Gin Feeder
Patent for a cotton cleaner and gin feeder. This invention is designed to clean cotton of impurities and then feed the cotton into the gin. Illustration included.
Date:
March 5, 1907
Creator:
Norris, Mishael E. & Norris, Jesse L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash Fastener
Patent for a sash fastener. This invention applies to fastening and locking the lower sash of a window to the windows frame. Illustration included.
Date:
March 5, 1907
Creator:
Sloan, Emanuel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saw-Filing Machine.
Patent for a gin and linter saw filing machine that is fully automatic and can sharpen multiple saws in succession and then stop when finished without resetting the device or manually stopping it. It also can sharpen saws of varying sizes and thicknesses to different levels of sharpness.
Date:
March 5, 1907
Creator:
Beaver, John M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shears
Patent for shears. The shears are meant to be used with corn, sorghum, and picking and pruning fruit. This invention is designed to worn on the hand and "are operated by the thumb and index-finger" (lines 15-17). Illustration included.
Date:
March 5, 1907
Creator:
Moncus, Joseph Gideon
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Cutter.
Patent for a stalk cutter that easily attaches to various farm equipment with wheels.
Date:
March 5, 1907
Creator:
Frantz, Ezra A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk Puller
Patent for a stalk puller. This invention is designed to pull cotton stalks from the ground. Illustration included.
Date:
March 5, 1907
Creator:
Smith, Cullen Rogers
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water Distilling Apparatus
Patent for a water distilling apparatus. This invention is designed for condensing steam into distilled water. Additionally, the design is meant to separate empyreumatic gases from the water vapor during the distillation process. Illustration included.
Date:
March 5, 1907
Creator:
Lazenby, Robert S. & Lazenby, Henry C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History