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Improvement in Beer-Refrigerators.
Patent for "an improved refrigerator for cooling lager-beer in the keg, and keep it cool for a long time with a small quantity of ice" (lines 15-18) including illustrations.
Date:
August 17, 1875
Creator:
Bohart, John N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bee-Hives
Patent for an improved design for bee-hives with the sloped V shaped interior designed to aid in warmth for the hive and reducing debris entering the comb. Illustrations included show several cross-sections of the hive construction.
Date:
December 12, 1876
Creator:
Snider, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Presses.
Patent for new improvement in press, including illustration.
Date:
February 10, 1874
Creator:
Fields, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings.
Patent for improvement in car-couplings, including description and illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1875
Creator:
Ramage, Charles E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rerigerator-Cars.
Patent for "improvements in refrigerator-cars for preserving fresh meats, vegetables, and other perishable articles while transporting them over great distance; and it consists of an ice-receptacle at the top of the car, provided with flat top and carved or inclined bottom." (Lines 13-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 18, 1876
Creator:
Zimmerman, Arnold W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Quilting-Frames
Patent for an improved quilting frame that is designed around a folding trestle-frame and two parallel rollers on which a quilt can be rolled, leaving the material between the rollers to be quilted/worked on. Illustration includes a perspective and detail view of the frame.
Date:
January 16, 1877
Creator:
Davis, Henry T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in cane-strippers.
Patent for an improvement in sugar-cane stripping machines, using an arrangement of rollers and a movable spring blade. Includes illustrations.
Date:
July 22, 1879
Creator:
James, Robert C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings.
Patent for an improvement in link and pin car-couplings, including illustrations.
Date:
September 1, 1874
Creator:
Moyer, Alexander L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ballast-Distributing Cars
Patent for ballast-distributing design with new design in changing rails and weight from car to car, including illustrations.
Date:
September 1, 1877
Creator:
Dockstader, Adam B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Rake and Portable Baling-Press
Patent for a "combined rake and portable baling-press, the objects in view being to provide a machine of the above class of comparatively cheap and simple construction and adapted to rake, elevate, deliver, pack, and bale hay and to apply the binding wires to the bales as formed in one continuous operation" (lines 8-15).
Date:
September 7, 1892
Creator:
Shero, Christopher C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle Attachment.
Patent for "a new and improved bicycle attachment arranged to serve as a foot-rest for the feet of the rider while coasting and adapted to be lowered to support the bicycle in a vertical position when not in use and to securely lock the wheel and support together to prevent the machine from being stolen" (lines 7-14), including illustrations.
Date:
May 11, 1897
Creator:
Zintgraff, August
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Car-Switching System.
Patent for "a system of switching where the cars of a train are pushed up an incline and placed successively on an elevated annular revolving platform, by which they are automatically distributed to their respective receiving-tracks" (lines 9-14).
Date:
March 24, 1896
Creator:
Lelardoux, Pierre
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Band Stretcher.
Patent for a new and improved band stretcher. This design "relates to improvements in band-stretchers in which a windlass, crank, and ratchets operate in conjunction with a sliding clamp; and the object of [the] improvement is to provide a device with which the ends of a band may be drawn together and held for the purpose of lacing" (lines 15-21).
Date:
February 23, 1886
Creator:
Lawrence, Joseph A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Grain-Measuring Machine.
Patent for automatic grain-measuring machine, with illustrations. The purpose of this automatic grain-measuring machine is to be an improvement to already existing machines.
Date:
April 10, 1888
Creator:
Grissom, Abram Jackson.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.
Patent for a combined cotton chopper and cultivator that "consists in providing the main axle with spur-wheels and with depending supports to which are attached the beams of the cultivator shovels and a cutting blade which extends in front of the machine and is adapted to be vibrated by the spur-wheels as the machine moves over the ground, thereby providing means for chopping cotton or other stalks" (lines 17-25).
Date:
January 23, 1894
Creator:
Bosley, Henry C. & Organ, Joseph H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Damper-Regulator.
Patent for an automatic steam damper-regulator that is simply constructed, and can quickly close and open its damper in the flue of the boiler or furnace.
Date:
February 13, 1894
Creator:
Gaston, Stephen M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Trap.
Patent for a new and improved animal trap. This design consists in "the combination of the base-board having the opposite recesses and the transverse shaft, the yoke having the spring-coils mounted on the projecting ends of the shaft in said recesses, the standard having the holding-rod, the trigger, and the guards or prongs secured in the base-board" (lines 20-26).
Date:
August 19, 1890
Creator:
Anderson, Henry C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compressed-Air and Steam Apparatus for Sinking Wells
Patent for "a simple and inexpensive apparatus for drilling the rock and earth until sufficient loose material has accumulated in the shaft, and then remove such material by the pressure of an aeriform fluid - such as steam or compressed air" (lines 23-29).
Date:
July 16, 1889
Creator:
Goodrich, Hervey K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Washing and Draining Dishes.
Patent for a new and improved dishwasher. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a pan provided near its top on the inner side with rigidly-attached brackets, with a tray in the form of a pan whose side and bottom portions are perforated . . . the tray being of less diameter and height than the pan and provided on its outer side near the bottom with brackets and on its upper edge with handles" (lines 94-101).
Date:
January 14, 1890
Creator:
Caradine, Virginia C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for a new improvement in baling presses that improves strength, durability and handling and is cheap to manufacture, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 14, 1887
Creator:
Mansfield, James Edward.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design consists in "a box having its upper end open and having an outwardly-opening door at the lower portion of one side, a plunger in the box having a post provided with a braced cross-piece near the upper end, ropes secured to the ends of the cross-piece, a drum under the lower end of the box, having a helical pulley at one end and a small drum at the other end, and having the ropes secured to it and winding upon it, a rope passing over guide-pulleys above the upper end of the box and winding upon the small drum" (lines 16-28).
Date:
December 13, 1887
Creator:
Weddle, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Button Attaching Machine.
Patent for a new and improved button-attaching machine. This design consists in "the combination, with the plunger, of . . . the die having a central projection to enter the concavity of a button and parallel oblique curved recesses in said projection . . . [and] a peripheral flange" (lines 84-99).
Date:
January 24, 1888
Creator:
Tone, Harrison
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bedstead Fastening.
Patent for a new and improved bedstead fastening. This design "consist[s] in the locking-pin, the sections which are . . . provided with the laterally projecting alternating studs . . . having aligned vertical perforations to receive the said locking-pin, and their faces provided with the outer beveled flanges at the base of the studs, extending the entire length of the sections, so that when the sections are connected together they will meet each other in angular form, whereby the strain on the locking pin and the lateral studs is equalized" (lines 59-70).
Date:
October 7, 1884
Creator:
Stewart, John Adkerson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Land Roller and Plow
Patent for combined land roller and plow. This tool is meant to be used to prepare the ground for planting. The illustrations have the labeled components and the text describes their uses.
Date:
March 10, 1885
Creator:
Weddle, Henry, of Sherman, Texas
System:
The Portal to Texas History