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Day
Pump.
Patent for improvements in pumps especially adapted for deep wells by using different approaches to construct and arrange the strainer, the working barrel, the conical valve seat and other parts to pump the water upward. Illustration is included.
Date:
October 20, 1891
Creator:
Branham, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Safety-Razor and Hair-Trimmer.
Patent for a tool used for shaving or hair trimming. This device has a reversible plate carrying a guard and comb teeth. The plate being reversible to permit the guard to be used in connection with a blade for shaving and to permit the teeth to be used in connection with a blade for hair trimming.
Date:
August 20, 1918
Creator:
Brasier, William Harry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Swingletree
Patent for a swingletree. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 20, 1904
Creator:
Brazell, David H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hunting Lamp.
Patent for a new and improved lantern for hunting. This design "is to produce a light, cheap, and convenient lamp that can be carried upon the head with greater comfort, and at the same time be more efficient than any heretofore known" (lines 10-13).
Date:
December 20, 1881
Creator:
Brittan, Edward H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting-Frame.
Patent for a quilting-frame that holds "the quilt in position to be sewed with an ordinary sewing machine" (lines 13-14). The frame has rollers on it.
Date:
November 20, 1894
Creator:
Broadfoot, Thomas W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water Motor
Patent for a water motor. This is an invention for a type of motor operated by tidal power.
Date:
October 20, 1903
Creator:
Brooks, Jesse W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plumb Level
Patent for a plumb level. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 20, 1912
Creator:
Brooks, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Cutter.
Patent for "a new and valuable Improvement in Corn and Cotton Stalk Cutters" (lines 5-7). It includes a description and an illustration. The construction of this stalk cutter is "adapted to be driven across the field in the direction of the rows of corn, and the knives may be adjusted to operate on rows of different widths or at different depths, so as to leave only a small stubble in passing over the field" (lines 73-78).
Date:
May 20, 1884
Creator:
Brown, Azariah R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow Frame
Patent for a plow frame "to which may be attached plow bottoms or cultivator beams" (lines 11-12).
Date:
February 20, 1912
Creator:
Brown, Bartley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Brake
Patent for a car brake. This is an invention for a brake on railroad cars.
Date:
October 20, 1903
Creator:
Brown, Herbert Eddes
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable WIndow Shade Bracket
Patent for an adjustable window shade.
Date:
May 20, 1913
Creator:
Brown, James R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Damping-Rollers.
Patent for an improvement of copying-roller through "moistening the leaves of letter-books to take impressions" (lines 15-17), with illustration.
Date:
August 20, 1878
Creator:
Brown, John Anderson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Spurs.
Patent for improvements in spurs that permanently attaches the spur to the boot, including illustrations.
Date:
May 20, 1879
Creator:
Brown, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Back-Band Buckle.
Patent for an improved back-band buckle and an improved hook that connects the buckle with the trace-chain. The lever-hook snaps "into position and is held secure in a pane substantially flush with the lower portion of the buckle-frame when the buckle is closed by the forcing down of the lever" (lines 15-19).
Date:
April 20, 1897
Creator:
Brown, John Staddart
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Walking-Planters
Patent for improvements of a new walking planter where the design is much improved to that of the cotton planters. The new improvements of the walking planter are much safer because of the hopper that is in the new and improved equipment, including illustrations.
Date:
August 20, 1877
Creator:
Brown, Joseph M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for an "invention to produce a cheap and convenient tie, which is durable, and which will not unlock should the rivet holding the button break from any strain on it, the button still holding by means of slots, and the strain being transferred to a slot in the end of the tie in which the button was riveted." (Lines 15-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 20, 1874
Creator:
Brown, Maurice T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Capsule-Filler
Patent for a capsule filler which allows a prescriptionist to simultaneously fill multiple capsules with medication. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 20, 1909
Creator:
Brown, Patrick Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Photographic-Printing Device.
Patent for a new photographic-printing device featuring an improved apparatus, as well as new exposure and printing capabilities, including illustrations.
Date:
February 20, 1906
Creator:
Brown, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut and Candy Depositor
Patent for a nut and candy depositor for sending the nuts and candy into a dipping machine.
Date:
August 20, 1912
Creator:
Brunka, Oscar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Grain-Harvester Reel.
Patent for making the arms of the folding reels of grain harvesters shiftable and creating a way to brace the arms and hold them in different positions.
Date:
April 20, 1915
Creator:
Buchanan, David E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Gate
Patent for a railway gate that can be operated from a distance. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 20, 1909
Creator:
Buchannan, Edward M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel-Plow.
Patent for a wheel-plow that is meant for southern states. All the parts of this plow are adjustable in order to adapt to different sizes of bedding.
Date:
November 20, 1894
Creator:
Bunjes, Friederick
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Constructing Béton or Artificial Stone Curbing.
Patent for a new and improved curbing. This design "consists in a method for constructing [artificial-stone curbing] in the trench in which it is required to be laid; and it further consists in molds for accomplishing such result with accuracy and dispatch" (lines 9-14).
Date:
June 20, 1882
Creator:
Burns, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for the Disposal of Night-Soil, &c.
Patent for a method of disposing of human feces "by water and the destruction of disease producing germs in the same in centers of population which are situated near running streams or large bodies of water" (lines 12-15).
Date:
January 20, 1894
Creator:
Busbee, Loranzo D. & Rosser, Charles M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History