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Automatic Repeating Railroad-Signal.
Patent for an automatic repeating railroad-signal designed to be used with semaphore and other train-signaling apparatus. It eliminates mistakes made in notifying the central office and automatically reports "any change in the position or color of the signal to a central office over the ordinary telegraph-wire" (lines 14-16). The signal is a wheel that operates a key to send a message to the central office.
Date:
January 28, 1896
Creator:
Innes, Robert Hayward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cane-Mill
Patent for improvements in the mechanical make up and physical functionality of cane mills.
Date:
January 28, 1890
Creator:
Dunlap, William O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper and scraper. This design consists in "the combination, with the axle and the wheels, provided with the sleeves, one of which is provided with the spur-wheel of the reach bar secured to the axle, the sleeve mounted on the said bar and provided with the pinion, the arms secured to the sleeve, the curved rods adjustably secured to the arm, and the blades secured to outer ends of the said rods" (lines 8-17).
Date:
January 28, 1890
Creator:
Jordan, Perry L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial-Stone Composition
Patent for "an artificial stone adapted for all purposes to which natural stone can be applied, and which can be given any desired shape while in a plastic state, or carved and polished after hardening" (lines 12-18).
Date:
January 28, 1890
Creator:
Blackmon, Albert M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Water-Tanks.
Patent for an improved water-tank built with lumbers that are thoroughly dried and covered with asphaltum as waterproof agent. It includes illustrations.
Date:
January 28, 1879
Creator:
Bardon, Prosper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Motor
Patent for water motors that aides in "the transmission of the power generated by the revolution of two or more water-wheels to a single driving-shaft" (lines 8-10).
Date:
January 28, 1890
Creator:
Vernon, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Tube-Fastenings for Boilers.
Patent for improvement of tube-fastenings for boilers which will secure flues in steam-boilers, including illustrations.
Date:
January 28, 1879
Creator:
Walsh, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Portable Folding Poultry-Coop
Patent for "an improvement in portable folding poultry-coops, and more particularly to a'coop or crate used in the transportation of fowls to market by rail or boat" (lines 8-11)
Date:
January 28, 1890
Creator:
Yoakum, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Reversible Steam-Engine
Patent for a rotary reversible steam-engine which is "not easy to get out of order, and the parts of which can be readily removed and replaced when worn or broken" (p. 1).
Date:
January 28, 1890
Creator:
Payne, John J. E. H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dry-Earth Closet
Patent for "a commode which may be placed in a bed-room or other suitable place in a house without .danger to occupants on account of disease which would be superinduced by the presence of impure odors, as would be the case where an ordinary receptacle is used" and where the solid and liquid waste would be separated (lines 26-36).
Date:
January 28, 1890
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Earth-Auger.
Patent for an earth-auger meant to dig post-holes. It has a lateral "cutting-edge and a continuous cutting-edge from its point to its top, said cutting-edge receding continuously and uniformly from the axis of rotation of the tool, whereby it cuts from the center outward and gradually widens or increases the diameter of the hole at any given point until this point is reached by the periphery of the ears or basin at the top of the bit, and, furthermore, to provide means for packing or smoothing the sides of the hole" (lines 13-23).
Date:
January 28, 1896
Creator:
Pederson, Hans
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Disk Plow.
Patent for a revolving disk plow that pulverizes the soil. The plow is especially designed to prepare the soil for cotton and cultivating between rows of crops. It has a tongue, a cross-bar with a sloping edge, spindles set at an angle to the cross-bar, disks mounted on the spindles, a double scraper for the disks, a gage-wheel, and a pivoting and locking lever on the tongue.
Date:
January 28, 1896
Creator:
Campbell, Singleton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nursing Bottle.
Patent for a new and improved nursing bottle. This design consists in "[t]he combined breast-pump, feeding-tube, nursing-bottle, and nipple-shield, comprising the bottle, the stopper having the openings, the tube, the plug, the flexible tube, and the nipple-shield having the nozzle adapted to be inserted in[to the] opening and attached to the flexible tube" (lines 6-12).
Date:
January 28, 1890
Creator:
Graves, Henry North
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for an automatic car-coupling that is designed to be operated from either side of the car. The danger of an operator passing between cars to couple or uncouple the cars is avoided in this invention, and the coupling can be adapted to couple cars that have draw-bars to unequal height. The coupling can be manually operated if wished.
Date:
January 28, 1896
Creator:
Boyd, James S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for "car-couplers of the link-and-pin type which couple automatically and are provided with unlocking-levers operated from the top and side of a car, and designed to avoid the necessity of passing between the cars to couple or uncouple the same." (Lines 11-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 28, 1896
Creator:
Boyd, James S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher.
Patent for new and useful improvements in wire-stretchers. The "invention has relation to improvements in wire-stretchers, and especially to that class of wire-stretchers employed in wire-fence building or repairing" line 10).
Date:
January 28, 1902
Creator:
Dunlap, Sam H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Loose Leaf Binder
Patent for a loose leaf binder. The invention consists of two adjustable sections in order to lengthen or shorten the post. Illustration included.
Date:
January 28, 1913
Creator:
Bickley, William P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Magnetic Separator
Patent for a magnetic separator for use in cotton and grain milling that removes all magnetic particles from the product.
Date:
January 28, 1913
Creator:
Preslar, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ironing Machine.
Patent for a new and useful ironing-machine. "Invention is to improve the construction of ironing-machines and to provide a simple, efficient, and comparatively inexpensive one, designed for use both in laundries and elsewhere and capable of advantageously operating on all kinds of garment" (line 10-15).
Date:
January 28, 1902
Creator:
Dunn, William H. & McCurdy, Delo
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock
Patent for a sliding bolt lock for doors that requires a key to open from the outside.
Date:
January 28, 1913
Creator:
Van Hoesen, Benjamin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vending-Machine
Patent for a coin and check operated vending machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 28, 1913
Creator:
Vandagriff, James V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Switch-Hook
Patent for a switch lock which prevents "splitting" (line 13). Illustrations included.
Date:
January 28, 1908
Creator:
Tullock, John Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gearing for Windmills
Patent for gearing used in the operation of windmills. This invention improves the rotary motion of the wheel shaft that operates the pump. "A further object of the invention is to provide a wheel supporting frame in which is mounted for vertical movement the pump actuating rod" (13-16). Illustration included.
Date:
January 28, 1908
Creator:
Brown, Herbert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fan Spring-Motor
Patent for a portable fan spring motor.
Date:
January 28, 1913
Creator:
Von Hohenstein, Charles H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History