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Apparatus for Retailing Shot.
Patent for a new and improved round dispenser. This design "consists in a receptacle or multiple bin the several compartments of which are provided with valves controlling exit-openings, whereby any desired quantity of shot, descending by gravity from the appropriate compartment, may be directed into the scale-pan of a scale without the necessity of lifting the receptacle or bin or any part of its contents" (lines 35-43).
Date:
September 21, 1880
Creator:
Stokes, Micajah
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Ejector for Presses.
Patent for new and useful Improvements in Bale-Ejectors for Presses
Date:
September 21, 1880
Creator:
Riesel, Henry
System:
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Blacking Brush.
Patent for a new and improved blacking brush. This design utilizes springs to move a blacking brush to and from a can of polish. This results in "evenness of wear of the bristles of the brush, economy of blacking, absence of spattering while extracting the blacking from the box, convenience in substituting the circular brush as a lid for the box in case of loss of the box-lid, and the saving of time in looking for a blacking-brush and a blacking-box separately" (lines 53-60).
Date:
September 21, 1880
Creator:
Wood, Edmund Lorenzo.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter.
Patent for a new and improved corn and cotton planter. This design "is an improvement in the class of rolling-hopper planters; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of the devices whereby the hopper is attached to the beams or frame of the machine" (lines 8-12).
Date:
September 21, 1880
Creator:
Howard, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grave Cover.
Patent for a new and improved grave covering. This design calls for a concrete slab, slightly larger than its lidless wooden box, to rest on the upper edges of the latter. A slat in the slab will receive a headstone, which will rest on the slab via flanges.
Date:
September 21, 1880
Creator:
Thomas, James R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wind Wheel.
Patent for a new and improved windmill. This design "consists in a novel arrangement and combination of wings or gates in a casing outside and independent of the wheel, whereby provision is made for adjusting the position of said wings, and consequently regulating the speed of the wheel, according to the force of the wind" (lines 7-13).
Date:
September 21, 1880
Creator:
Smith, Hilliard Bonaparte.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for a new and improved wrench. This design is "especially adapted for manipulating pipe-joints, though applicable, also, for use in manipulating nuts, &c.; and it consists in the [novel] detailed construction and combination of operating parts" (lines 24-28).
Date:
September 21, 1880
Creator:
Weir, Duncan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Sheltering Animals.
Patent for a new and improved animal shelter. This design "relates to a device which may be adapted for use as a hen's nest, a dog-kennel, a stable for domestic animals, or for analogous purposes. The principle of construction prevalent in all these different adaptations for use of the device consists of certain improved means for automatically closing the door as the animal steps into a vertically-swinging compartment, and for automatically opening the door as the animal leaves said swinging compartment" (lines 13-23).
Date:
December 21, 1880
Creator:
Austin, John Overton
System:
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Lamp or Lantern.
Patent for a new and improved oil lamp. This design calls for transparent material (e.g., glass) to be installed on the top of the oil chamber, so one can better predict the fullness, which prevents overflowing. Additionally, a second opening to the side of the main opening allows the oil chamber to be safely refilled while already lit.
Date:
December 21, 1880
Creator:
Eason, Bolivar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Medical Compond
Patent for “medical compound designed for the treatment of diseases of the throat and lungs” (lines 10-12).
Date:
December 21, 1880
Creator:
Rippetoe, Amasa
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow-Carriage.
Patent for new improvements on plow-carriages design including illustrations.
Date:
December 21, 1880
Creator:
McNorton, John Tomas
System:
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Spring Seat for Vehicles.
Patent for a new and improved spring seat for vehicles. This design calls for, "[a]s a means of attaching seats to vehicles, two frames, one connected to the body, the other to the seat, the upper bar of one and the lower bar of the other being connected by draw spiral springs, and the side bars of one sliding in loops upon side bars of the other" (lines 47-53).
Date:
December 21, 1880
Creator:
Smith, Amroy B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for cars. This design "relates to that class of couplers that are self-couplers; and it consists of an open-top hook-shaped draw-bar provided with a pivoted T-shaped vertically-moving coupling-bar, and provided also with an end socket for using the ordinary coupling link" (lines 7-12).
Date:
June 21, 1881
Creator:
McCray, John Henry Branic
System:
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Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design is "first, to provide for use in such implements a sectional axle which shall be capable of being so manipulated as to cause the wheels to be placed at a greater or less distance from each other; second, to provide the necessary mechanism and suitable combinations thereof for moving the parts of the axle and the wheels into their desired positions" (lines 20-27). This enables the cultivator to adapt to different spacings of crops, marking an improvement over previous cultivators.
Date:
June 21, 1881
Creator:
Connor, Laurance H.
System:
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Shovel Plow.
Patent for a new and improved shovel plow. This design "provide[s] a shovel . . . having extensible wings pivoted to its rear surface, and combined with suitable mechanism by which they may be extended and forced inward . . . second, [it] provide[s] novel means of adjusting the angularity of the shovel and its standard with reference to the beam of the plow; third, [it] provide[s] novel means for adjusting the positions of the outer ends of the handles" (lines 16-26).
Date:
June 21, 1881
Creator:
Conner, Laurance H.
System:
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Cotton Picker's Wagon.
Patent for a new and improved wagon for cotton pickers. This design "consists in a suitable frame-work supported on wheels and covered on top by canvas or other suitable material to protect the pickers from the rays of the sun or from the rain, and on one or both sides of the frame, preferably both, is a trough for receiving the picked cotton" (lines 10-16).
Date:
February 21, 1882
Creator:
Collins, Charles P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fertilizer.
Patent for improvements in fertilizers “for restoring to the soil the elements which form the food for plants, and which have been abstracted therefore by the absorption of successive crops, or which are naturally deficient in quantity or entirely wanting in the soil.” (Lines 12-16) Instructions on preparing the fertilizers and ingredients are included. No illustration.
Date:
February 21, 1882
Creator:
Elsasser, Isaac
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark Arrester.
Patent for a new and improved spark arrester for train smokestacks. This design is of "a locomotive-engine, a pipe or pipes for conveying sparks from the smoke-stack, in combination of a diaphragm or cone placed in the stack and a steam or water chamber placed around the discharge of said pipe or pipes" (lines 88-93).
Date:
February 21, 1882
Creator:
Nichols, George B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Store Counter.
Patent for a new and improved store counter. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the horizontal slideways in the lower portion of the counter extending from front to rear, the rectangular slide-frames working therein, and the angular boxes pivoted by their lower and middle portions to the slide-frames and reversible therein by a rocking movement" (lines 17-24).
Date:
February 21, 1882
Creator:
Conrad, William Jenkens
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wagon Brake.
Patent for a new and improved wagon brake. This design consists "[i]n the brake-beams pivoted in the clamp, in combination with the bent rods, castings, brake-blocks, and lever" (lines 87-89).
Date:
February 21, 1882
Creator:
Zellers, Robert Emanuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window Frame.
Patent for a new and improved window frame. This design "has for its objects to provide an improved means for holding the sash of a window in any position to which it may be elevated, and at the same time permit the sash to be readily moved up or down" (lines 11-15).
Date:
February 21, 1882
Creator:
Sturm, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design "consists in the combination, with the follower, the right-and-left-screw, and nuts, of the hinged levers and the bars swiveled thereto; also, in the combination . . . of the slotted bars, the hinged socket, and the swiveled arms; also, in the combination, with the nuts having shoulders and the hinged levers having forked up ends, of the anti-friction rollers journaled in recesses in the said nuts; also . . . of the curved and flattened swiveled arms, whereby the lower ends of the said follower-bars can have a lateral movement" (lines 23-38).
Date:
March 21, 1882
Creator:
Jones, Isaac Van Zandt
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Stalk and Weed Cutter.
Patent for a new and improved cotton stalk and weed cutter. This design calls for "[a]n interchangeable cotton-stalk cutter and sulky plow . . . adapted to receive a plow at its rear end" (lines 67-70). The cutting blades can be raised and lowered as needed.
Date:
March 21, 1882
Creator:
Vannoy, James Harvey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Suspended Safe, &c.
Patent for a new and improved safe. This design "[has a] top projecting beyond its sides . . . in combination with the upright posts having liquid-cups, the rods, and sleeves for suspending the safe from contact with any object" (lines 79-83).
Date:
March 21, 1882
Creator:
Mason, Sanford
System:
The Portal to Texas History