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Type-Writing Machine.
Patent for a type-writing machine that has an improved variable line spacer. The simple and durable line spacer has the minimum number of parts and is easily adjustable to any distance.
Date:
June 19, 1894
Creator:
Hudson, John Horace
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Governor for Seed-Cotton-Handling Apparatus.
Patent for simple, efficient, and reliable "a governor for regulating the quantity of seed cotton which is delivered to one or more feeders or gins by a seed-cotton handling apparatus" (lines 13-16). The operator sets the amount of cotton being sent through the gin. The invention has a receiver of a cotton handling mechanism, another mechanism that cuts off the supply of cotton after a desired amount has passed, and the invention can easily be started again after the gin is emptied.
Date:
June 19, 1894
Creator:
Schulze, Andrew
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Sowing Attachment for Plows.
Patent for a seed-sowing attachment for plows which can "drop the seed in a furrow as it is made by the plow, and after it is covered by the formation of a successive furrow, and thereby complete the sowing or drilling process simultaneously with the plowing operation" (lines 14-19).
Date:
June 19, 1894
Creator:
Johnson, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint.
Patent for a rail joint that consists of a chair with a base plate and inwardly projecting flanges, a rail web, two plates that hook under the flanges and hold the rail in place, and two bolts that go through the plates and the rail.
Date:
June 19, 1894
Creator:
Perkins, Miles O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dog or Stop Device for Baling-Presses.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and durable stop-device or dog used in baling presses with a pressure-chamber in a plunger or traverser reciprocates. The invention operates automatically and retaines the material being pressed inside the pressure-chamber. The dog pivots on the side of the pressure-chamber and is enabled to move freely.
Date:
June 19, 1894
Creator:
Schulze, Andrew
System:
The Portal to Texas History