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Machine for Threshing Grain in the Field.
Patent for a machine that collects swaths of grain for threshing using hooked teeth arranged in rows, including illustration.
Date:
April 14, 1857
Creator:
Wilson, J. C. & Wilson, T. G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Ventilators and Chimneys
Patent for improvement in Combined Ventilators and Chimneys. This object is to be used with the brick chimney on top of the roof to provide air circulation. It consists of an iron-lined inner flue secured within an outer casing with suitable bottom and top perforation for establishing air current around the flue.
Date:
July 14, 1874
Creator:
Hickley, Walter R & Dibrell, Charles J
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plaiting-Irons.
Patent for an improvement to plaiting-irons: "a plaiting-iron composed of a peculiarly-constructed iron or metal plate used in connection with a correspondingly-constructed board" (lines 23-25), with illustrations.
Date:
August 14, 1877
Creator:
Gingras, Joseph E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Awning Bracket.
Patent for a new and improved awning bracket. This design "relates to awning-brackets of that class which are secured to the wall of the building over the sidewalk, and secure themselves without the use of posts, &c. The invention has for its object to provide a self-sustaining bracket possessing superior advantages in point of simplicity, inexpensiveness, durability, and general efficiency" (lines 9-16).
Date:
August 14, 1883
Creator:
Rodgers, Ranzil H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bag Rack.
Patent for a new and improved bag rack. This design "is to provide a new and improved rack adapted to hold a number of paper bags of different sizes, and also adapted to hold samples of groceries, cards, a ball of twine, advertising books, &c.The invention consists of a bag-rack having at one side a case containing a series of shelves and a transparent front, and of the combination therewith of a superposed twine-case having side compartments" (lines 7-16).
Date:
April 14, 1885
Creator:
Williams, Robert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Current Regulator for Dynamo Electric Machines.
Patent for a new and improved current regulator. This design "pertains to that class of regulators in which the collecting brushes of the commutator are automatically moved around the commutator and caused to occupy different positions relatively to the maximum lines of the magnetic field between the poles and the armature; and it embraces a novel method of controlling the movement of the brushes to compensate for variations in the speed of the machine and regulate the current in accordance with the work to be done" (lines 11-21).
Date:
February 14, 1888
Creator:
Crowdus, Walter A. & Sutton, Henry M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stirrup Leather Stay.
Patent for a new and improved stirrup-leather stays. This design "is to provide a stay which will cause the stirrup to hang in proper position for insertion of the rider's foot in the mounting; and the invention consists in a stay the body of which is U-shaped in cross-section to receive the stirrup cross-bar and provided with a loop on its convex side at the bottom for the stirrup leather or strap" (lines 13-20).
Date:
October 14, 1890
Creator:
Padgitt, Jesse D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fish-Harvester.
Patent for a fish-harvester by providing “a floating device adapted to be anchored in a stream or other body of water and carrying the mechanism for taking fish from the water and delivering them to a suitable point on the shore, the whole operating either by steam, by wind, or by the current of the water.” (Lines 10-15) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 14, 1891
Creator:
Yoakum, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Waffle-Iron.
Patent for a waffle iron that can be operated by placing it on a stove-top. It "consists in a base, a yoke pivoted thereto and swinging in vertical plane, and the molding and cooking irons carried by the yoke" (lines 15-18).
Date:
February 14, 1893
Creator:
George, Alexander B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Wheel and Axle.
Patent for a car wheel and axle made up of a built-up metallic wheel with dished side-plates that have flanged and riveted rims, hub-nuts, a lock-plate, hollow screw-threaded ends, hexagonal offsets, tubular journals, a tubular journal, and a radial lubricating feed-tube with a cross-head and a collar.
Date:
May 14, 1895
Creator:
Flatau, Louis Spencer
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
Marking Tag
Patent for marking tags (price tags) for garments and/or fabrics for sale. The design is meant to reduce missing, torn, or frayed marking tags. Illustrations and instructions included.
Date:
September 14, 1897
Creator:
Winkler, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for baling-press to press bales of cotton into rectangular bales including illustrations.
Date:
August 14, 1900
Creator:
Taylor, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mechanism For Cleaning Seed-Cotton
Patent for mechanism for cleaning seed cotton before cotton is distributed into gins, including illustrations.
Date:
August 14, 1900
Creator:
Graber, Henry W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draft-Equalizer
Patent for "a draft-equalizer that the draft will be equally distributed among each of the animals attached thereto, so that one may travel in the furrow, if desired, and the remainder permitted to move over the unplowed ground" (lines 22-27).
Date:
May 14, 1901
Creator:
Anderson, Samuel Cornelious
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buttonhole and Button Location Marking Machine.
Patent for an improvement on machines that create buttonholes and mark buttonholes. Includes illustrations.
Date:
October 14, 1902
Creator:
Powell, William J.; Vaughn, William H. & Rose, Isaac E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed Planter
Patent for a seed planter. This is an improvement on a previous patent, No. 693,724. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 14, 1903
Creator:
Ledbetter, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Fence Clamp
Patent for a wire fence clamp. Illustration included.
Date:
June 15, 1903
Creator:
Hollingsworth, Joseph C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump Valve
Patent for a pump valve. Illustration included.
Date:
March 14, 1905
Creator:
Bassett, John Mott
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Loose-Leaf Individual or General Bank-Ledger
Patent for improvements to loose-leaf individual or general bank-ledgers, mainly pertaining to the ledger's structure and ease of use through adding leaves or sheets without disrupting current leaves or sheets. Includes illustrations.
Date:
November 14, 1905
Creator:
Exline, Marcus P. & Bourke, Edmund
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed Planter
Patent for a seed planter. Illustration included.
Date:
November 14, 1905
Creator:
Hodge, Neely B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Reed Organ
Patent for a reed organ. Illustration included.
Date:
August 14, 1906
Creator:
England, James R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electrically Operated Railway Crossing Gate
Patent for an electrically operated railway crossing gate. Illustration included.
Date:
December 14, 1909
Creator:
Hummel, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fence Post
Patent for fence posts. This invention is designed with metal fence fabric set in concrete. Illustration included.
Date:
December 14, 1909
Creator:
Hughs, Wallace B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History