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Churn-Motor.
Patent for improving crank-lever churn motors for a more simple construction that results in a more lightweight but strong machine.
Date:
December 11, 1900
Creator:
Crawford, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for "a simple, light, and durable press, which may be conveniently manipulated in either a vertical or horizontal position and readily transported in a field from stack to stack of hay. . .wherein the hay may be expeditiously and effectively baled by two persons" (lines 9-16).
Date:
December 11, 1888
Creator:
Freytag, Anton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Uncoupling Device.
Patent for a new and improved uncoupling device for railroad cars. This design consists in "a draw-head provided with a vertically-movable coupling-pin support and lifting frame, a spring holding the coupling-pin support in raised position, a catch for holding the pin-support in lowered position, and a lever mechanism for releasing the catch and effecting the uncoupling of a car" (lines 7-14).
Date:
December 11, 1888
Creator:
Rutledge, William O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Trimming Hooves of Animals.
Patent for a new and improved hoof trimmer. This design "consists in an upright standard or support having a concaved supporting-recess adapted to receive the animal's hoof, with parallel guide-ways arranged in rear thereof, a trimming implement moving in said guides, and so constructed as to operate upon the hoof without injury to the frog, and means for reciprocating the trimming device from either side of the animal" (lines 16-25).
Date:
December 11, 1883
Creator:
Mullins, Joshua C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Armored Car.
Patent for an armored car or portable fort, that aims to provide a novel and improved armor unit of that nature.
Date:
December 11, 1917
Creator:
Spence, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher
Patent for a wire stretcher. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 11, 1906
Creator:
Chisholm, Walter P. & Ladd, J. A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lawn-Sprinkler.
Patent for an inexpensive lawn sprinkler that serves the dual purpose of connecting to a hose to spread the water over a broad area and of holding a hose stationary to water a single area.
Date:
December 11, 1917
Creator:
Schneider, Gustav H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water Tank Cut-Off
Patent for improvements on the devices controlling the flow of water in tanks. Development and use are within text; includes illustrations to demonstrate the object of the patent.
Date:
December 11, 1917
Creator:
Law, Eugene L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rifle-Barrels.
Patent for a "new and useful improvement in firearms" (lines 4-5), including instructions and illustrations. The invention provides "a gun-barrel with a number of cutters or plows for grooving the ball, said cutters or plows to correspond with with the number of guides or ribs which the gun is formed" (lines 20-25).
Date:
December 11, 1877
Creator:
Littlejohn, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water Cycle
Patent for a water cycle. This invention is propeller designed to provided driving force for the floating cycle. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 11, 1906
Creator:
Standard, Allie Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Applying Poison to Plants.
Patent for "new and useful improvement in apparatus for applying poison and cotton to potato plants" (lines 3-5), as well as to "destroy worms and bugs"(lines 13-14), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 11, 1877
Creator:
Goodin, James L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Heater and Feeder for Steam-Boilers.
Patent for "a new and valuable improvement in supplying feed-water to steam-boilers" (lines 15-17), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 11, 1877
Creator:
Hyde, James Boyd
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam Engine, &c.
Patent for a new and improved engine. This design "connect[s] the piston-rod of the steam-cylinder with the disk or crank that is attached to the fly-wheel shaft by means of a lever, or a disk acting as such, in a manner that enables the piston-rod to operate upon its connecting-bar in a longitudinal direction . . . thereby [avoiding] angular vibration of the connecting-rod and reduc[ing] friction of sliding surfaces" (lines 15-25).
Date:
December 11, 1883
Creator:
Barton, Alexander M. & Davis, Philip Z.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a new and improved plow. This design "consists in the point made with a land-side, fitting into a rabbet in the land-side of the standard, and made thicker and deeper than said rabbet, so as to project beyond and below said land-side to receive the wear" (para. 5).
Date:
December 11, 1877
Creator:
Dawson, William Wyatt
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tongs.
Patent for tongs with gripping jaws that are removable and have variable gripping surfaces on each vertical side of the jaws.
Date:
December 11, 1900
Creator:
Rice, John F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Telephone Signal
Patent for a telephone signal. This invention relates to electrically operated signals whereby a visual signal for indicating when a telephone rings. Illustration included.
Date:
December 11, 1906
Creator:
Jordan, Thomas P. & Carden, George A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stirrup.
Patent for "an improved bottom, an improved supporting-bar, and an instep-bar" (lines 8-9) for stirrups.
Date:
December 11, 1900
Creator:
Turner, Ephraim M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process Of Making Fertilizer
Patent for a process of making fertilizer.
Date:
December 11, 1906
Creator:
Luckey, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for improvements to the turning-plow, with convertible attachments for other forms of plow.
Date:
December 11, 1900
Creator:
Armstrong, John Joshua, Sr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trolley-Pole.
Patent for trolley-poles for electric cars which provides "a simple, inexpensive, and highly efficient trolley-wire finder, and one which is readily applicable to trolley-poles such as at present in use and is adapted to be quickly and easily raised to an operative position and when released is adapted to gravitate to a position below and out of the way of the trolley-wire" (lines 15-22).
Date:
December 11, 1900
Creator:
Schroeter, William & Kautzmann, August
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stone Dressing Machine
Patent for a stone dressing machine. Illustration included.
Date:
December 11, 1906
Creator:
Rhea, Learner T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Telephone System.
Patent for, "telephone system; and it has for one object to provide such an arrangement of the instrument and wiring as will permit a subscriber to converse with a second subscriber" (lines 8-12).
Date:
December 11, 1900
Creator:
Bennett, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hitching-Strap.
Patent for a strap to attach an animal to a hitching-post, especially a smooth one, to avoid slipping or accidental loosening by the animal with "an improved slidable catch" (line 18).
Date:
December 11, 1900
Creator:
Jacobsen, Frederik August
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gearing for Gin Saw Cleaners
Patent for an improvement on a previous patent relating to a gearing for gin saw cleaners. Development and use are within text; includes illustrations to demonstrate the object of the patent.
Date:
December 11, 1917
Creator:
Robertson, Osborn Bragg
System:
The Portal to Texas History