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Coffee-Roaster.
Patent for a coffee roaster that intends to "supply a ready and cheap means of effectually stirring the grains of coffee while being roasted in any convenient and suitable vessel...(lines 6-9). The patent includes instructions and an illustration.
Date:
November 23, 1869
Creator:
Hall, Thomas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings.
Patent for an improved automatic car-coupling, including illustrations.
Date:
November 23, 1875
Creator:
Harper, Derastus
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boring Machine.
Patent for a new and improved boring machine. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of a circularly-adjustable rod carrying a pressure screw, an adjustable arm arranged on said rod and having its end or head concave on its underside and provided with bearing indentations or punctures, and a brace having a bearing end corresponding in form to said bearing indentations or punctures" (lines 16-24).
Date:
November 23, 1880
Creator:
Forniraseo, Domaneco
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cough-Medicine.
Patent for "a new and improved cough-medicine" (lines 7-8).
Date:
November 23, 1880
Creator:
King, Julia Ann
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sulky Plow.
Patent for a new and improved sulky-plow. This design represents an improvement in sulky plows due to its novel combination and arrangement of crank-axle, tongue, angular guide-braces, diagonal brace, and adjustable collars (lines 85-87). This novel arrangement results in a plow that is simple, durable, and inexpensive.
Date:
November 23, 1880
Creator:
McCormick, John R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wood Screw.
Patent for a new and improved wood screw. This design "consists of a screw-head having on the underside . . . cutting-edges alternating with flat and deep interspaces or notches, said notches completely filling the circuit of the screw-head and the notches gradually increasing in width and depth from the screw-shank to the crown of the head, thus enabling the cutters to clear themselves" (lines 12-20).
Date:
November 23, 1880
Creator:
Eckford, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air Ship.
Patent for air ship design lifted by balloon with vertical adjustable sails. Accompanied with illustrations.
Date:
November 23, 1886
Creator:
Appling, Marby P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brick Machine.
Patent for a new and improved brick machine. This design consists in "a mold-wheel mounted to revolve in the horizontal plane and provided with mold-cavities, of a vertically-movable plunger in each cavity, a door for each cavity hinged on the top of the wheel, the hinge plate or lug attached to the mold-wheel being slotted to allow a vertical movement of the hinge-pin, a curved arm pivoted over the top of the mold-wheel and extending over part of the same, and a spring acting on the swinging end of said curved arm" (lines 80-90).
Date:
November 23, 1886
Creator:
Thaison, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design "is to provide an improved cultivator which can be very quickly and easily adjusted to adapt the device for marking out or laying off the roads or hills; to provide improved means whereby the shovels or blades are caused to always occupy the same relative position to each other, and adjust themselves when the beams of the harrow or cultivator are adjusted, and finally, to provide improved means for adjusting the shovels at any desired angle, so that they can enter or penetrate the soil to different depths" (lines 14-25).
Date:
November 23, 1886
Creator:
Sutton, James Macaulay
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dinner Bucket.
Patent for a new and improved lunch bucket. This design consists in a "base-plate having sleeves upon two of its opposite edges, two rectangular-shaped bails secured at one end in said sleeves, the upper ends of each of said bails being bent inward or toward each other, the upper end of one of said bails being shorter than the other and bent slightly upward, and means for securing the upper ends of said bails together" (lines 1-8).
Date:
November 23, 1886
Creator:
Lederle, Edward Emil
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fastener for Plow Points.
Patent for a new and improved fastener for plow joints. This design consists in a plow-body, as well as "a hook upon its under side, a lever pivotally secured to the under side of the mold-board, a spring secured to the standard, and a link secured to the free end of said spring and engaging with the rear end of said lever" (lines 1-6).
Date:
November 23, 1886
Creator:
Brown, George Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fruit Picker.
Patent for a new and improved fruit picker. This design consists in "two bags or receptacles [which] are secured upon an endless chain or cord, which passes over a pulley at the top of the pole of the picker and under a pulley near the lower end of the pole, so that the weight of one fruit picked and received in the bag will draw the other bag upward ready to receive another fruit, while the fruit in the descended bag may be removed from the said bag, which will thus be ready to ascend, when another fruit is picked" (lines 24-34).
Date:
November 23, 1886
Creator:
Arnold, Hudson H. C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Kneading Machine.
Patent for a new and improved kneading machine. This design consists in "the elevated upright rollers having grooves near their lower ends, of the tray or receptacle having the surrounding ring or track entering the said grooves of said rollers and supporting said tray in an elevated position" (lines 73-78).
Date:
November 23, 1886
Creator:
Hughes, James F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nail Receptacle.
Patent for a new and improved nail receptacle. This design consists in "a carrying-frame having a cross-beam provided with a rack, in combination with a swinging receptacle journaled in the frame and having enlarged rear end normally resting against the beam to elevate the discharge end thereof, and a detaining bar or rod pivoted to the under side of and carried by the swinging receptacle, and having a projecting lip adapted to engage the rack and retain the receptacle in its adjusted position" (lines 38-48).
Date:
November 23, 1886
Creator:
Mathews, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Cracking Machine.
Patent for a machine that helps crack and break down nuts for processing, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 23, 1886
Creator:
Koerber, Rudolph C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Axle - Nut.
Patent for a new and useful improvements in Axle-Nuts for wagons and carriages.
Date:
November 23, 1897
Creator:
Collins, Corties
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Time - Switch
Patent for a new and improved electric time switch to "used on any kind of electric circuits" (line 13 - 14).
Date:
November 23, 1897
Creator:
Williams, Addison B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Medicine - Glass.
Patent for a new and useful improvements in medicine-glasses.
Date:
November 23, 1897
Creator:
Jenkins, John Marshall
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Portable Gold - Washer
Patent for a new and improved portable gold-washer. This invention is to "provide an improved substitute for the crude forms of portable good-washing apparatus frequently employed" (line 8-10).
Date:
November 23, 1897
Creator:
Kahn, Felix
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway Cattle - Guard
Patent for a new and useful railway cattle guard to "improve the construction of cattle-guards and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient one which will eventually prevent stock from passing from one field or in-closure into another by way of a railroad-track, roadway, or the like" (line 10-16).
Date:
November 23, 1897
Creator:
Wiggs, Zeph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A Biological Reconnaissance of the Base of the Alaska Peninsula
General account with outline of route and life zones, and lists of mammals and birds.
Date:
November 23, 1904
Creator:
Osgood, Wilfred H.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Combined Cultivator, Harrow, and Planter
Patent for "agricultural implements in which a single frame is utilized to support various kinds of mechanisms, and in the present invention there is included a frame of simple and improved construction adapted for carrying and to be used in connection with earth-engaging, implements, such as harrow-teeth and cultivator blades, as well as rollers, for the purpose of crushing clods and leveling the surface of the land." (lines 8-18). Includes description and illustrations.
Date:
November 23, 1905
Creator:
Johnson, Alfred Butler
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Canopy-Top for Vehicles.
Patent for a canopy top for vehicles, which can be adjusted to different angles and is light but sturdy.
Date:
November 23, 1909
Creator:
Reid, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a cotton chopper, which has rotating blades on the front.
Date:
November 23, 1909
Creator:
Thompson, Joseph B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History