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Country
States
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Month
Day
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
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
Landside for Plows.
Patent for a new and improved plow landside. This design "consists in a landside for plows made with a slotted flange to rest upon the forward side of the plow-standard, and a flange to rest upon the bottom of the furrow, whereby the plow will be made stronger, more durable, and more effective, and will be made to run steadier . . . The object of this invention is to increase the strength and durability of plow-plates, and obtain the efficiency and steadiness of ordinary turn-plows without their weight" (lines 21-31).
Date:
August 21, 1883
Creator:
Wherry, William B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Packer.
Patent for a new and improved cotton-packer. This design "relates to an improved machine having for its object to convey the lint or cotton from the gin-house to the press, and to subject it to a preliminary compressing or packing process, the object being to dispense with the manual labor usually called into requisition for this purpose" (lines 24-30).
Date:
October 21, 1884
Creator:
Steele, Asa Maxey
System:
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Cotton Sack Holder.
Patent for a new and improved sack holder. This design "is to provide a simple, inexpensive device for holding sacks or receptacles upon pickers of cotton or other plants or fruits, which will distribute the weight of the sack and contents over the body of the picker and enable him [or her] to work more easily and quickly" (lines 7-13).
Date:
October 21, 1884
Creator:
Robinson, John Bell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire Escape.
Patent for a new and improved fire escape. This design "relates to that class of fire escapes designed to save life from burning houses or ships; and its object is to provide means whereby a boat or car may be lowered from the side of a vessel, or a car may be raised or lowered to and from the windows of a house" (lines 8-13).
Date:
October 21, 1884
Creator:
McKinzie, Thomas Duncan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mixture For Fish-Baits.
Patent for a coating for fish-bait of any kind which includes ingredients and instructions. The ingredients are water, asafeotida {(foul smelling gum resin from the root of several species of Ferula, a perennial herb) see: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3459456/}, oil of anise, and honey.
Date:
October 21, 1884
Creator:
Bates, Carol F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press.
Patent for improvements to press for making bales of hay.
Date:
April 21, 1885
Creator:
Chidester, John E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed Bottom.
Patent for a new and improved bed bottom. This design "consists in a spring-bed formed of two U-shaped spring-rods or frames formed by the rods, which frames have their end pieces crossed and secured at their free ends in the opposite ends of slates. To the longitudinal pieces of the spring-frames the side edges of a piece of canvas are secured, and spiral springs are secured on the slats below the canvas" (lines 11-19).
Date:
April 21, 1885
Creator:
Bentley, Travis C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churning Device.
Patent for a new and improved churn. This design consists "[i]n a churning device, the combination, with a base and a spring-bar held therein, of a cross-bar hinged to the said base and a churn-carrying bar secured to the said hinged and spring-bars" (lines 69-73).
Date:
April 21, 1885
Creator:
Wood, Sylvanus B.; Wood, Hervey & Wiley, Thomas Wilson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton and Corn Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists "[i]n combination with the hopper having its front wall inclined and formed with a guide-groove, the inner wall of which is cut out, the belt having its side edges working in the groove, and having hooks attached to the same between the side edges, said hooks projecting through the cut-out portion of the groove, so as to have free communication with the seed in the hopper" (lines 88-96).
Date:
April 21, 1885
Creator:
Easley, Levi
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picker's Sack.
Patent for a new and improved sack for cotton pickers. This design "is to improve that class of sacks which are used by cotton-pickers and form a receptacle for cotton after it has been culled from the bolls, and in which it is carried to the gin. These sacks as now made are packed with cotton so as to be unwieldy, difficult to manipulate, and unhandy to empty, thus necessitating a great deal of labor and much waste of time" (lines 7-15).
Date:
April 21, 1885
Creator:
Dye, Charles Headen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window Screen Holder.
Patent for a new and improved window-screen holder. This design "consists in the combination, with a window-frame and a window-screen held in the same, of wires secured on the casing of the frame and having bends near their upper ends, and of hook-eyes held on the sides of the screen-frame and surrounding the wires. The invention also consists in a plate pivoted to the under side of the bottom rail of the screen-frame for covering a recess formed in the under edge and inner side of the said rail or piece" (lines 13-23).
Date:
April 21, 1885
Creator:
Barlow, Henry C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher.
Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design "relates to that class of wire stretchers or tighteners which are adapted to be applied upon the strands of wire forming a fence, and are used to tighten or stretch the same by winding the strand about one end of the device and engaging the other end of the latter with the strand" ( lines 11-17).
Date:
April 21, 1885
Creator:
Irvine, John B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air Motor.
Patent for a new and improved air-motor. This design is of an "air-motor, consisting of an engine, single-acting air-pump, air-receiver, and the double-acting exhaust-pump, with the valves and connections . . . [and] the levers and segments" (lines 81-87).
Date:
July 21, 1885
Creator:
Koniakowsky, Alois M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Producing Ammoniacal Gas.
Patent for a new and improved refrigerator and ice machine. This design "consists in an improved construction, whereby the gas is relieved of its moisture before entering the condenser, a better apparatus is obtained, and repairs are facilitated and cheapened" (lines 12-16).
Date:
July 21, 1885
Creator:
Lee, Charles B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Brake.
Patent for improvement to train brakes by using a car brake apparatus.
Date:
July 21, 1885
Creator:
Sledge, Clarence Linden
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Brake.
Patent for a new and improved brake for railroad cars. This design "consists in the combination, with the brake, of an angle-lever on the end part of the car, a draw-head on the car, a lever pivoted on the same, a rod connecting the said lever with the angle-lever, a toothed locking-bar on the standard, and a pin on the lever on the standard" (lines 10-16).
Date:
July 21, 1885
Creator:
Daudelin, Joseph M.T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pulverizer and cultivator.
Patent for improvement of pulverizer and cultivator, which according to the inventors, "pulverizes the soil in an improved manner, and with less expenditure in power in draft, and so that the land can be plowed close up to plants growing in rows, but which are not regularly in line with one another".
Date:
July 21, 1885
Creator:
Chambers, John R.; Chambers, Silas; Chambers, Asa & Davis, William Jefferson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Weighing Mechanism for Elevators, &c.
Patent for "means for automatically indicating the amount of weight placed" (lines 10-11) within an elevator cage or platform with illustrations.
Date:
September 21, 1886
Creator:
Sanger, Isaac S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coffee Pot.
Patent for a new and improved coffee pot. This design consists in "tubes having their upper ends bent downward, a bridge or cross-piece connecting their upper ends, the suspending-rods depending from the bridge, the ring on the lower ends of the suspending-rods, the [other] ring, and the separate strainer held removably between the two said rings" (lines 84-90).
Date:
September 21, 1886
Creator:
Lawrence, Joseph Martin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Landside Cutter for Plows.
Patent for a new and improved landside cutter for plows. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a colter . . . and the landside attachment secured to the landside of the plow, the said landside attachment having the laterally-extending cutting-wing . . . the plate in front of the landside attachment, and the colter on the front edge of the said plate" (lines 66-75).
Date:
September 21, 1886
Creator:
Reed, Benjamin B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Churn.
Patent for a new and improved rotary churn. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the supporting frame, the walking-beam, two crank-shafts journaled in the rear part of said frame, means for connecting the walking-beam with said shafts, a balance-wheel and dasher carried by one of said shafts, a larger balance wheel connected to the other shaft, and a churn-body secured to said balance-wheel" (lines 50-57).
Date:
September 21, 1886
Creator:
Stafford, George A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ventilating Apparatus.
Patent for a new and improved ventilator. This design consists in "a fan casing, constructed and arranged . . . of the fan arranged therein, the gearing placed above the fan, the air-ducts leading to the fan-chamber, the endless weighted chain or cord, and drums and pulleys . . . [and] an open bottom secured to a ceiling and communicating with air-ducts passing between the floor and ceiling of a building" (lines 80-90).
Date:
September 21, 1886
Creator:
Garfield, John Morris
System:
The Portal to Texas History