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Improvement in Fluting-Machines.
Patent for an improvement in gage-fluting machines, including an illustration. "It relates to a machine for fluting or crimping articles of ladies' apparel" (lines 6-7).
Date:
January 14, 1873
Creator:
Saunders, David R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Compounds for Destroying Caterpillars.
Patent for an insecticide compound that combines Paris green, flour, and lime, which allows the poison, arsenic, to better adhere to cotton plants. Includes instructions.
Date:
January 14, 1873
Creator:
Whisenant, Green F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cloth Bucket or Vessel.
Patent for a cloth bucket or vessel to place milk or water in to keep it cool when ice is not available. One places the bucket in the shade and the air circulates freely through the bucket. The bucket is thick enough that it will not drip, but is breathable to allow aeration and evaporation.
Date:
January 14, 1896
Creator:
Slack, Robert A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle-Wheel.
Patent for an improved rear bicycle-wheel. It has one hub, two rims, two sets of spokes and tires. This invention is meant to be safer and has the qualities of a tricycle. It is meant for a woman's bicycle.
Date:
January 14, 1896
Creator:
Broers, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Awning-Bracket.
Patent for a rigid, strong, and adjustable to different inclinations awning-bracket meant to be permanently attached to a building. It can be folded for shipment or storage.
Date:
January 14, 1896
Creator:
Harry, Owen K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pounder.
Patent for a clothes pounder used in washing clothes. It is a pyramidal vessel that is open in the bottom and has perforations on the top of the inside of the vessel, a cap covering the top of the pyramid with an air-hole, a sleeve that goes through the top of the vessel and through the cap, a handle in the upper portion of the sleeve, a diaphragm with perforations in the base of the vessel, a rectangular box secured beneath the diaphragm, and inclined tubes open at both ends of the angles of the vessel.
Date:
January 14, 1896
Creator:
Leddy, Owen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Quilting Frame and Table.
Patent for a quilting frame which can be quickly set up and collapsed, which folds up to occupy a minimum amount of space, and which can be converted for use as cutting and ironing table. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 14, 1896
Creator:
Burns, Robert Llewellwynn
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Washing and Draining Dishes.
Patent for a new and improved dishwasher. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a pan provided near its top on the inner side with rigidly-attached brackets, with a tray in the form of a pan whose side and bottom portions are perforated . . . the tray being of less diameter and height than the pan and provided on its outer side near the bottom with brackets and on its upper edge with handles" (lines 94-101).
Date:
January 14, 1890
Creator:
Caradine, Virginia C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Awning.
Patent for a new and improved awning. This design consists in "[t]he awning frame, consisting of the pivoted curved rods, pivoted sectional braces pivotally connected to said rods, and the holding or suspending bars pivoted to said rods and having series of adjusting-apertures engaging pins or studs of said braces" (lines 74-79).
Date:
January 14, 1890
Creator:
Allen, William B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wood Pavements.
Patent for a new and improved construction of Bois D'Arc Pavement, which uses two layers of planks that cross at right angle as a base, sand to hold bois d'arc blocks in place and fill gaps in between, and coal-tar covering planks to prevent sand from shifting. It includes illustrations.
Date:
January 14, 1879
Creator:
Shellenberger, Samuel Luther
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Grub-Plow and Stalk-Cutter.
Patent for a device to remove grubs from soil, which consists of an adjustable gage-wheel and a cutter to remove grubs and to cut roots. The cutter can be also used to cut cotton-stalks. It includes illustrations.
Date:
January 14, 1879
Creator:
Talley, Reuben Jones
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type-Writing Machine
Patent for improvements to typewriters "to provide means whereby a number of sheets of paper may be inserted at one time and removed successively after each page is written, there by obviating the necessity of removing the completed sheet and replacing it by a new one at the end of each page" (lines 14-20).
Date:
January 14, 1890
Creator:
Pierce, Jesse W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Kiln.
Patent for improvements "to provide new and improved means for extinguishing accidental fires occurring within the kilns" (lines 8-10).
Date:
January 14, 1890
Creator:
Johnson, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive-Headlight.
Patent for a three-way locomotive-headlight with easily removable screens of different colors in order to send signals. The screens are easily fitted to other locomotive headlights. This invention is meant to prevent accidents that happen without proper signaling.
Date:
January 14, 1896
Creator:
Davis, Moses J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for a new and improved bale-tie design with different buckle and band. It includes illustrations.
Date:
January 14, 1879
Creator:
Johnson, Jordan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock.
Patent for a new and improved nut-lock. This design "consist[s] of a strip of metal having the looped portion adapted to embrace the bolt, and having the downwardly-bent spring portion or end forming a biting-edge, the rearwardly-extending straight portion bent upward . . . to form a bearing point or edge, which is also adapted, in conjunction with the edge to grip the fish-plate . . . the forwardly-extending straight spring portion overlapping the straight portion, the inner curved edge of which lies in the path of the edge of the nut when the latter is turned upon the bolt" (lines 76-89).
Date:
January 14, 1890
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trolley Cut-Out.
Patent for "a new and improved cut-out designed for use on trolley-wires, electric light and power wires, and telegraph wires, the cut-out being arranged to reduce the danger from such wires incident to the breaking of the live wires." (Lines 7-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 14, 1896
Creator:
Fletcher, Theodore
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Feed Water Heater.
Patent for a new and improved water-heater. This design consists in "the combination of the supply-pipe, the supply-tank into which said pipe discharges, the said tank having a perforated bottom through which the water percolates, the vertically-divided cylinder forming the annular heating-chamber, the scatter-plates alternatingly located in diverse directions in said chamber, the said plates arranged to spray the water while heating as it falls from plate to plate, and the exhaust-steam pipe that discharges through an open port near the base of said annular heating-chamber" (lines 19-31).
Date:
January 14, 1890
Creator:
Knox, George F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ice-Cream Freezer.
Patent for an ice-cream freezer which can also be used as a churn, with an improved drum that revolves and its lower half sitting in ice or hot or cold water. It has a central shaft and flat heads on the ends of the drum so it can rotate.
Date:
January 14, 1896
Creator:
Harton, Thomas Jefferson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flue-Cutter
Patent for a flue cutter with a pair of pivoted arms, which can be detached, and a cutter-head.
Date:
January 14, 1890
Creator:
Bogusch, Robert J.; Zincke, August & Bogusch, Gustav
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mattress-Making Machine.
Patent for a mattress-making machine that presses the material and forces it into a mattress. The mattress is "suitably held at one end of the machine, guide-strips being provided to hold the material forming the filling for the mattress straight and smooth while being forced into the tick" (lines 19-23).
Date:
January 14, 1896
Creator:
Bates, Frances Marian
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Feeder for Sheets of Paper, &c.
Patent for improvements to sheet feeders "to take the sheet which is to be red from the bottom of the pile of sheets on a reciprocating platform which moves forward, when the sheet is seized by the suction-roller, with approximately the same speed as that of the periphery of the said roller" (lines 11-17).
Date:
January 14, 1890
Creator:
Clarke, George R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Disk-Hoe and Cotton-Chopper
Patent for a self-adjusting machine to uneven ground, that is gentle when cultivating around plants, and can be used as an attachment to a wheeled cultivator.
Date:
January 14, 1890
Creator:
Hurd, Judson B. & McLane, Hiram H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator and Cotton-Chopper
Patent for improvements "to provide flexible revolving knives or hoes, and, second, to afford facilities for supporting the cultivating and chopping device when out of the ground without throwing more weight behind the axle on the main wheels to tip the end of the pole against the horses necks" (lines 13-19).
Date:
January 14, 1890
Creator:
Hurd, Judson B. & McLane, Hiram H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History