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Lock.
Patent for "a lock of novel construction wherein the keyholes at opposite sites of the door are placed out of alignment for preventing children, servants, and curious persons from looking or listening through the keyhole." (Lines 12-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 8, 1897
Creator:
Oleson, Andrew J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Capturing and Destroying Insects.
Patent for a machine that removes insects from cotton plants. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 8, 1897
Creator:
Strouhal, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel or Felly Screw.
Patent for a new and improved screw for a wheel or felly. This design "relates to screws for setting vehicle fellies or rims on the tenons of the spokes; and its object is to provide a device possessing superior advantages in point of simplicity, ease of adjustment, and general efficiency, whereby one [person] can easily and conveniently set the rim" (lines 9-15).
Date:
January 8, 1884
Creator:
Rotzien, Christoph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well Cover.
Patent for a new and improved well cover. This design "is to provide a new and improved cover for wells, cisterns, &c., which cover is so constructed and arranged that it can be moved back by stepping on a step in front of it, and is automatically closed when the pressure is removed" (lines 8-13).
Date:
September 8, 1885
Creator:
Bullock, Henry P. & Cook, Henry B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Machines for Cutting Shingles.
Patent relating to "that class of shingle-machines which form the shingles by means of a knife working sidewise with the grain" (lines 10-13). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 8, 1879
Creator:
Davis, Henry T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Force-Pumps.
Patent relating to "that class of force-pumps which are to be submerged and are double-acting" (lines 17-19). Includes instructions and illustration.
Date:
July 8, 1879
Creator:
Finney, James J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mechanical Movement
Patent for "improvements in devices for converting reciprocal into rotary motion, and is more particularly adapted and intended for use with windmills in applying the reciprocal motion of the pump-rod to the operation of rotating machines" (lines 11-16).
Date:
January 8, 1889
Creator:
Fulton, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trace-Carrier.
Patent for "a simple, inexpensive, and efficient trace-carrier" (line 12) "capable of readily receiving and of securely holding the chain of a trace close to the back-band and of preventing the inner trace-chains form becoming hooked into each other when two horses are employed at a plow or the like" (lines 13-18).
Date:
June 8, 1897
Creator:
Brown, Lewis E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Propeller Shaft Bearing.
Patent for a new and improved propeller-shaft bearing. This design consists, "with the horizontal propeller-shaft, of the single central stationary thrust-block through which the shaft snugly extends, the opposite ends of said block being each flattened and provided with a circular groove concentric with the shaft, the pair of collars rigidly secured to the shaft at the opposite ends of said central block, the inner ends of said collars each having a groove corresponding with the grooves in the block, and series of balls confined and running in each set of grooves and between the collars and block" (lines 5-17).
Date:
July 8, 1890
Creator:
Gaffield, William Z.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hooks for Suspending Meat.
Patent for an improved meat suspending device that will prevent ants and insects from reaching meat, including illustrations.
Date:
April 8, 1879
Creator:
Mason, Sanford
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Baling-Presses.
Patent for improvements to presses used for baling cotton and other materials, including illustrations.
Date:
April 8, 1879
Creator:
McGowen, Edmond Felder
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Manufacture of Hydraulic Cement and Lime.
Patent for improvement in“the manufacture of hydraulic cement or lime form rotten or decomposed limestone” (lines 66-68).
Date:
February 8, 1881
Creator:
Dimelow, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk Knocker.
Patent for a new and improved stalk knocker. This design consists in "the combination, with the running-gear of a wagon, of a frame-work mounted thereon and provided with vertically-adjustable hangers at its rear end carrying stalk-knockers and their shaft, a diagonal adjustable brace connecting the hanger and the frame-work, and a driving-pulley formed in sections, having spoke-embracing lugs, and connected to the knocker-shaft by means of a belt" (lines 10-18).
Date:
November 8, 1887
Creator:
Allen, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Engine
Patent for "a new and improved steam-engine in which the motive agent is utilized to the fullest advantage" (lines 8-10).
Date:
July 8, 1890
Creator:
Robey, James G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mold and Mold Hoisting Apparatus for Building Concrete Walls.
Patent for a new and improved concrete-raising apparatus. This design "consists in a mold in which a course of a wall can be formed, and in devices for raising the mold in the formation of another course. The invention also consists in details of construction and combination of parts" (lines 12-17).
Date:
July 8, 1884
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas Willson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mechanical Motor.
Patent for a new and improved motor. This design consists, "with the frame having the side and end slots, of the two drive-wheels and their springs, the movable spring-actuated shaft having the central pinion, the pivoted lever, the catch of the same, the crank-shaft formed with the central crank and having the pinion, the connecting-pitman, the pivoted adjustable fan-rod formed with the series of apertures near its upper end and along its central part, the adjustable weight, and the connecting-rod" (lines 116-126).
Date:
May 8, 1888
Creator:
Haines, Samuel Alfred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Means for Operating Blowers.
Patent for the improvement and simplification of the construction of blowers and to enable a forge-blower to be readily operated by the foot, to leave the hands of the operator free. Includes illustration.
Date:
December 8, 1891
Creator:
Murphy, Thomas A.; Murphy, John H. & Carroll, J. Y.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spiral Ring.
Patent for a new and improved lap-ring. This design consists in a "lap-ring for connecting the tree-irons of double-trees and single-trees, consisting of the S-shaped lap-ring having the end curves spread laterally from the stem of the S, and carried round on spiral curves to points ninety degrees beyond a line that would evenly divide the figure thus formed longitudinally" (lines 41-48).
Date:
July 8, 1884
Creator:
Brooks, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for regulating the width of the furrow-slice of a "sulky" or "wheel" plow, with illustration.
Date:
June 8, 1897
Creator:
Gauntt, Granville B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for the improvement on plows so that the operator can "readily adjust the moldboard or shovel into any desired inclination" (lines 14-15). The clamp is also adjustable.
Date:
June 8, 1897
Creator:
Baker, Jessie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow
Patent for an improved invention providing a convertible plow and cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 8, 1885
Creator:
Moore, Thomas M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for an attachment for plows or cultivators "whereby it may be converted into a sweep plow, adapted to be operated between rows of growing crops and capable of being adjusted in width in accordance with the distances apart from said rows" (lines 12-16).
Date:
November 8, 1892
Creator:
Baggett, Charles L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for an improved plow that consists of a plow beam, a horizontal shoulder and a loop in its front, a clamp that adjusts the loop, a screw in the clamp and the vertical bar, and draft appliances. It is especially designed to easily connect to the animal that is drawing it.
Date:
August 8, 1893
Creator:
Blunck, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Portable Scale.
Patent for an improved, simple, and inexpensive portable scale meant for weighing cotton, corn, and other similar produce. It folds compactly when not in use, and has a tally device.
Date:
August 8, 1893
Creator:
Storey, Julius W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History