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Improvement in Hay and Cotton Presses.
Patent for an improvement in cotton and hay presses with elevated levers. It includes a description and illustrations.
Date:
November 21, 1871
Creator:
Sivley, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Earth-Boring Apparatus.
Patent for improvement in well-boring machines in which it can be “rapidly bore through earth or rock holes of any desired size or depth, for the purpose of procuring water.” (P. 1, lines 9-12) Illustration is included.
Date:
November 21, 1876
Creator:
Yarborough, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Seed-Planter, Fertilizer-Distributer, and Cultivator.
Patent for improvement in a combined seed-planter, fertilizer-distributer, and cultivator by attaching some prongs to a dropping-wheel for the purpose of taking hold of the cotton-seed and draw it out of the hopper. This dropping-wheel can be covered with a case when planning seeds and, removed if fertilizer is to be distributed with small seeds. Illustration is included.
Date:
November 21, 1876
Creator:
Flatau, Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Buckles.
Patent for "an improved method of manufacturing a buckle to secure the different part of harness, saddle, or bridle trimmings, by means of mechanical connections that will obviate the use or necessity or stitches or sewing of any kind, and yet retain the adjacent parts firmly and with a secure engagement." (Lines 18-25) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 21, 1876
Creator:
Bond, Virgil A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Tag.
Patent for a new and improved animal tag. This design "consists in an animal-tag formed of a tube provided with a removable cover and an elongated staple for the strap, by which this tube is held to the animal" (lines 11-14).
Date:
November 21, 1882
Creator:
Queen, Elias G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trolley Mechanism.
Patent for a trolley mechanism that is a pivoting "yoke adapted to normally follow being swerved out of line when the car is going around curve of the trolley wire; to prevent catching on cross-wires in case the trolley wheel should leave the line-wire; and to adjust the amount of pivotal action of said yoke with regard to the trolley pole" (lines 13-20).
Date:
November 21, 1893
Creator:
Fuller, James T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Refrigerator.
Patent for a refrigerator that consists of a rectangular chest with "the inclosing casing provided at its upper end with a compartment or ice-chest having a space surrounding the same" (lines 28-30), a gap between the ice chest and the opening, a valved opening, and a food container below the ice chest.
Date:
November 21, 1893
Creator:
Baggett, Thomas A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Post Hole Digger.
Patent for a new and improved post-hole digger. This design "has for its object to provide a simple, durable, inexpensive, and efficient device, the levers of which can be readily separated, so that either of them can be used as a spade or shovel to fill in the earth around the post after it is placed in the hole" (lines 14-19).
Date:
November 21, 1882
Creator:
Armstrong, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Provision-Safe.
Patent for a provision safe that keeps food cool that uses "a jacket of absorbent material inclosing a suitable frame provided with shelves for supporting the articles of food, and a vat for containing water and supplying it to the jacket by capillary action whereby the temperature is reduced through the process of evaporation" (lines 15-21). This patent improves the design of provision safes.
Date:
November 21, 1893
Creator:
Stephens, James Howell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for an improved, inexpensive, and simple cotton press that is "adapted to compress cotton at the initial point of ginning and in a continuous operation with that of ginning, whereby [the inventor] avoid[s] the expense and labor occasioned by the handling of the cotton during its storage and transportation to the neighboring compress and the expense of said compression, and at the same time produce such compression or condensation of the cotton that I am enabled to secure the cheap rates of transportation accorded cotton which has been compressed to the standard degree of density" (lines 11-22).
Date:
November 21, 1893
Creator:
Bessonette, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saddle-Stirrup.
Patent for saddle stirrup, with illustrations. The invention "relates to those stirrups which are provided with foot-pieces adapted to oscillate thereupon... and at the same time provide means whereby the foot-pieces can have limited universal movement" (lines 10-15).
Date:
November 21, 1882
Creator:
Shellenberger, Samuel L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horseshoe.
Patent for a new and improved horseshoe. This design "consists in a horseshoe constructed with a base made in two parts, hinged together at their forward ends, and having a cap, also made in two parts, attached to the base, the parts of the cap being provided at their upper forward corners with eyes and a fastening staple, and the hinged parts of the base being locked in place by a screw-rod passing through the hinged end of the base, whereby the shoe can be readily applied and detached, and will be securely held in place" (lines 22-33).
Date:
November 21, 1882
Creator:
Fenley, George Washington, Sr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Digging-Machine.
Patent for an improved, simple, effective, and durable excavator meant to remove sand-bars. It consists of a hollow drum that is drug across the sandbar, and it picks up sand with shovels on the drum.
Date:
November 21, 1893
Creator:
Bentinck, Eliza J. & Renner, Julia A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire Arm Holder.
Patent for a new and improved pistol holster. This design "consists of a plate of malleable iron or other suitable metal, curved to conform to the waist of a person, having secured to it on the inside a spring adapted to push outward from the waist toward an auxiliary slotted countersunk plate, serving to hold the head of the screw attached to the fire-arm" (lines 19-25).
Date:
November 21, 1882
Creator:
Petmecky, Joseph C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "consists essentially of contrivances for setting the buffer or draw-bar and a pin setting, tripping and uncoupling device higher or lower for adapting the coupling to couple self-actingly with cars different in height" (lines 8-13).
Date:
November 21, 1882
Creator:
Hale, Nathan Mathias
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Power
Patent for an improvement to a churning by allowing a churn to be attached to a sewing machine. The churn and sewing machine could then be used separately or at the same time.
Date:
November 21, 1882
Creator:
Jones, Isaac Van Zandt
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Dasher.
Patent for a new and useful churn dasher, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 21, 1899
Creator:
Franklin, Edward R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Condenser for Cotton-Gins
Patent for a condenser for cleaning cotton gins. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 21, 1911
Creator:
Riemenschneider, Adolph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Cementing Wells.
Patent for new and useful improvements in processes of and apparatus for cementing wells, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 21, 1899
Creator:
Baca, August
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well Screen
Patent for a well screen. This invention is intended to screen sand used in well drilling. Illustration included.
Date:
November 21, 1905
Creator:
Layne, Mahlon E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weighing and Lifting Device
Patent for a weighing and lifting device. Illustration included.
Date:
November 21, 1905
Creator:
Davis, James W. & Alexander, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Kitchen-Cabinet.
Patent for a new and useful kitchen cabinet, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 21, 1899
Creator:
Goodale, Frank O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thimble.
Patent for an improved design of thimble which includes a needle-threader and a thread-cutter that can be used without removal of the thimble from the finger through the design of metal cone shapes as part of the thimble's design.
Date:
November 21, 1905
Creator:
Huntington, Spencer Hinsdale
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stapling Machine
Patent for a stapling machine. Illustration included.
Date:
November 21, 1905
Creator:
Kennedy, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History