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Improvement in Curing Meat, &c.
Patent for curing meat using an air-tight brine vacuum to heat and purify the meat, including illustrations.
Date:
September 12, 1846
Creator:
Allen, Augustus C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combination Locks.
Patent for improved combination locks, with a bolt that is locked or unlocked by the combination of spindles and pivoted buttons. The invention combines the spindles in to an "annular ring having letters or numbers and a series of different shaped pegs or combinations of letters or figures or both jointly" (pg 1).
Date:
September 12, 1871
Creator:
Hall, William N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Railway-Car Trucks.
Patent for improvements in railway car trucks.
Date:
September 12, 1871
Creator:
Mestier, John R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Automatic Detaching Hook.
Patent for "a new and useful improvements Hooks"
Date:
September 12, 1876
Creator:
Wyckoff, Cornerius P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bee-hives
Patent for an improvement of a bee-hive enabling inspection of bees, protection of bees from moths, ventilation of the hive, and removal of honey without disturbing the brood-chamber.
Date:
September 12, 1876
Creator:
Hayden, Noah Dunken & Clapp, Amasa O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ironing Apparatus.
Patent for an improvement in ironing-machine which can iron clothes quicker and better with very little physical labor. Illustration is included.
Date:
September 12, 1876
Creator:
Nott, Henry J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Toy Trumpets.
Patent for improvements in toy trumpets in which in addition to making sound, the movement of air through the instrument also causes a disk on top of the instrument to revolve by the force of the air on paddles that form the bottom of the disk. The top of the disk will have decorative figures such as soldiers.
Date:
September 12, 1876
Creator:
Sterzing, Fred.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Amalgamator.
Patent for a new and improved amalgamator. This design "consists in placing in the bottoms of the chambers a number of iron balls or other suitable-shaped pieces of amalgamated iron, which have sufficient room to move freely among themselves, and then forcing up through the balls or pieces of iron, in contradistinction to forcing it down over their tops, the amalgamated ore and water, so as to cause the pieces of iron to vibrate, and thus to grind and break the pieces of quartz passing up through them" (lines 14-24).
Date:
September 12, 1882
Creator:
Schmidt, Erich Franz & Streernwitz, William Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beer Cooler.
Patent for a new and improved beer cooler. This design "consists in the detailed construction and arrangement of a cooling-chamber or refrigerator which is adapted to be attached to the faucet of the keg or barrel containing the beverage" (lines 24-28).
Date:
September 12, 1882
Creator:
Newman, George Morton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Earth-Auger.
Patent for an earth-auger that allows a hole to "be bored in ordinary soil in much less time than with the ordinary auger. It readily bores in ground in which the ordinary auger will not bore - viz., dry, hard, and packed soil, gravel, and concrete beds."
Date:
September 12, 1882
Creator:
Porter, Thomas & Gillilland, George Washington
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Crate.
Patent for an improved construction of traditional "knockdown crates for shipping fruit, eggs, vegetables, and other merchandise" (lines 25-27). A "combination of box, having transverse bottom cleats, cleats upon the inside of its ends, with hinged sides, having cleats, the knockdown partition having cleats, and the false bottom pieces as set forth" (lines 78-83).
Date:
September 12, 1882
Creator:
Van Hutton, William B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Ditching Machine.
Patent for railway-ditching machines used "to facilitate the opening of railway ditches and the removal of dirt" (lines 41-42) including illustrations.
Date:
September 12, 1882
Creator:
Grove, David E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark Arrester.
Patent for a new and improved spark arrester. This design "consists in the construction and arrangement of devices by means of which the sparks are extinguished and the cinders distributed on the road-bed, while the fine dust is delivered into the ash-box" (lines 19-23).
Date:
September 12, 1882
Creator:
Nichols, George B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Whiffletree Hook.
Patent for a new and improved whiffletree hook. This design is for a whiffletree hook that is easy and cheap to make. Additionally, it cannot easily become detached from the whiffletree, the tongue of the wagon, or the trace chains.
Date:
September 12, 1882
Creator:
Dossey, Daniel Jasper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a churn that quickly makes butter and has an easily detachable churn body. The churn body sits sideways in a frame, and gears and a hand-operated crank that is built into the removable part of the frame churns the cream.
Date:
September 12, 1893
Creator:
Moon, Richard D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive cotton chopper that is "adapted for simultaneously forming rows and cross-chopping the same, thus bringing plants, such as cotton, &c., to a stand, all in one operation, and thereby avoiding the necessity, as occurs in some cases of plowing or cultivating two ways in a field for the purpose of forming rows and then the stands or for any hand hoeing, as is also commonly done" (lines 12-19).
Date:
September 12, 1893
Creator:
Schofield, James Drommond
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Meat-Tenderer.
Patent for a meat-tenderer that "consists of two plates having a series of intermeshing teeth thereon and connected by suitable means to allow of automatic adjustment, the object of which is to provide a utensil for culinary purposes" (lines 11-15).
Date:
September 12, 1893
Creator:
Passmore, Benjamin Hill
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Painting-Machine.
Patent for an automatic device that paints large surfaces that has a reservoir for the paint, a brush that sweeps similarly to an expert painter, a mechanism that dips the brush in the paint, and an air pump that is connected to the reservoir to bring the paint to the brush. Multiple brushes and reservoirs can be used with this machine. The pump may be operated by hand or by machine.
Date:
September 12, 1893
Creator:
Gebhardt, William Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene Gas Generator.
Patent for a new and improved acetylene gas generating machine, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 12, 1899
Creator:
Miller, Frank A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Table.
Patent for a new and useful adjustable table, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 12, 1899
Creator:
Congour, Presley Alpheus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in car coupling devices, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 12, 1899
Creator:
Yeiser, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Thinner.
Patent for a machine that thins cotton fibers.
Date:
September 12, 1899
Creator:
Billingsley, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Duplex Menu.
Patent for new and useful improvements in duplex menus, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 12, 1899
Creator:
Billow, Sherman
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Frame For Slates.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in frames for slates, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 12, 1899
Creator:
Mitchell, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History