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Improvement in Gate-Latches.
Patent for improvements in gate latches: "to provide a self closing latch, simple in its construction and easy f operation" (lines 18-19).
Date:
September 26, 1871
Creator:
Lee, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Recording Instruments for Locomotives
Patent for improvement in Recording Instruments for recording time, speed, and steam pressure of locomotives or cars or other machinery.
Date:
September 26, 1873
Creator:
Richardson, John D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Mixing Mineral and Fossil Substances with Bituminized Clay to Form a Plastic Material.
Reissued patent for a chemical process to create a plastic material made of bitumen, clay, and mineral and/or fossil substances.
Date:
September 26, 1876
Creator:
Lea, Pryor
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for automatic freight car coupler, including illustrations. The coupler "obviates the necessity of any one going between the cars while being coupled" (lines11-13).
Date:
September 26, 1882
Creator:
Chapman, John Edward Howard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Car Brake.
Patent for a new and improved electric car brake. This design "consists in a combination . . . of a friction-wheel mounted on a laterally-adjustable vertical shaft, provided at its upper end with a beveled cog-wheel, engaging with a beveled cog-wheel on a horizontal shaft, journaled in the under side of the car-floor, on which horizontal shaft is loosely mounted a worm, which engages with a worm-wheel mounted on [a] shaft . . . when this worm is locked on the shaft . . . the brake-chain will be wound on the shaft of the worm-wheel, and the brakes will be applied" (lines 10-23).
Date:
September 26, 1882
Creator:
Conover, Philip Vorus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting Attachment for Sewing Machines.
Patent for a new and improved quilting attachment for sewing machines. This design "has for its object to connect the quilting-frame and the sewing-machine so that the action of the machine will automatically propel the quilting frame; and it consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of the several parts" (lines 17-22).
Date:
September 26, 1882
Creator:
German, Francis M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Wheel.
Patent for a new and improved vehicle wheel. This design "consists of a hub formed of a tube provided with an annular shoulder, and having its outer end threaded, on which threaded end a nut is screwed, between the wider inner end of which the nut and the shoulder of the tube the inner ends of the spokes are clamped, cushion bands and rings and metal bands and rings being interposed between the ends and sides of the spokes and the tube, its shoulder, and the inner end of the nut" (lines 11-20).
Date:
September 26, 1882
Creator:
Drauly, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for an inexpensive, simple, and efficient improved twin-jaw coupling that couples automatically and easily uncouples. Operators do not need to go between cars to uncouple the cars. "A further object of the invention is in the operation of uncoupling to open the knuckle after releasing the same in order to have the knuckle in position predatory to coupling" (lines 16-19).
Date:
September 26, 1893
Creator:
Anderson, Anders Peder
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clock-Winding Mechanism.
Patent for "an improved mechanism for the periodical automatic winding of clocks by water power, and has for its object to provide an apparatus that will be adapted to utilize the power afforded by the gravity of water discharged at regular intervals from a tank, which is in an elevated position and is supplied with water by rain fall or other means" (lines 8-16).
Date:
September 26, 1893
Creator:
Everhart, Martin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Educational Appliance.
Patent for an educational appliance that is meant to be used for teaching math mechanics and physics. It easily demonstrates principles of mechanics and physics that involve quantities.
Date:
September 26, 1893
Creator:
Macfarlane, Alexander
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame.
Patent for a hame that has an improved fastening device that easily secures trace chains or tugs to the harness. It is easily adjustable.
Date:
September 26, 1893
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wind-Wheel.
Patent for a wind-wheel that "needs no guiding vane or tail, but shall turn in the same direction at all times regardless of the direction of the wind" (lines 8-11). It is a horizontal wind wheel that rotates on a vertical axis. The blades automatically opens on one side and close on the opposite side.
Date:
September 26, 1893
Creator:
Walker, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Revolving Cabinet.
Patent for a revolving cabinet that "shall constitute a counter or a part of the same, or that may be used as a kitchen-table, and at the same time serve as a convenient receptacle for the safe storage of general articles of merchandise and household supplies, which shall be maintained in a clean and fresh condition and be easy to access" (lines 12-19). There is an opening on the counter to access the trapezoidal trays that can rotate underneath.
Date:
September 26, 1896
Creator:
Smith, John D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Hoes.
Patent for improvements in cotton hoes: "such as are employed in thinning cotton and other plants" ( lines 16-17).
Date:
September 26, 1897
Creator:
Sims, Zachariah B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harrow.
Patent for a new and useful harrow, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 26, 1899
Creator:
Blount, Blanton E. & Guice, Benjamen R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Press.
Patent for a new and improved press for " holding down sauer-kraut, pickles, and other articles in barrels, tubs, or like receptacles" (line 9 -10).
Date:
September 26, 1899
Creator:
Cross, George Francis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sawing-Machine.
Patent for a new and useful sawing machine, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 26, 1899
Creator:
Krenek, Ignatz
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window-Shade Attachment.
Patent for a new and useful window shade attachment, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 26, 1899
Creator:
Garretson, Charles E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cord Wood Machine
Patent for cord wood machine. This machine is designed for splitting wood. Illustration included.
Date:
September 26, 1905
Creator:
Taylor, Lawrence S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crate or Box.
Patent for "a crate or box of knockdown form consisting of a crate or box made of separable sections and bound together by wires and stay-bolts that are loosely set into the sections" (line 11-16) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 26, 1905
Creator:
Hines, Warren H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harness Loop
Patent for a harness loop, also known as a bittet loops. This invention makes it possible to permit machine stitching of the harness loop to a strap. Illustration included.
Date:
September 26, 1905
Creator:
Rogers, Frederic G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Swivel
Patent for a hydraulic swivel. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 26, 1905
Creator:
Thomson, Alexander & McLaughlin, Malacha Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for a baling press that has an improved plunger.
Date:
September 26, 1911
Creator:
Hightower, William M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Commode-Seat.
Patent for a commode/toilet seat and storage cabinet that holds multiple seats that can be used to provide individual seats for each person using the commode/toilet.
Date:
September 26, 1911
Creator:
Ainsworth, Lucian M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History