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Improvement in Shot-Cases and Distributers
Patent for a "new receptacle for holding several grades of shot, and to an adjustable distributing device for the same. Its object is to enable traders to keep the several kinds or grades of shot in one receptacle, but so that suitable quantity of any one kind can be readily and conveniently measured out" (lines 20-26).
Date:
January 3, 1871
Creator:
Booton, Sinclair
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Saw-Sets.
Patent for a simply constructed device for setting the teeth of saws. Includes illustrations and descriptions of its parts and usage.
Date:
January 3, 1871
Creator:
Harris, Henry A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cloth Measuring Reel.
Patent for a new and improved cloth-measuring wheel. This design "consists in the peculiar combination and arrangement of the cutting-board with two standards, whereby the said cutting-board is made to act as a sufficient brace for the frame, as well as to perform the offices of a cutting board. The invention also consists in means for producing a variable tension on the cloth as it passes from the roll to the reel, whereby the tendency of different thicknesses of cloth to wind the cloth in greater or lesser lengths than the register indicates is compensated for and corrected" (lines 27-39).
Date:
January 3, 1882
Creator:
Peters, James H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Replacer
Patent for invention for new and useful improvements in Car-Replacer. The invention relates to improvements in car replacers which can easily be applied to a track or rail which will quickly and easily cause the car to enter upon the track and which cannot possibly become displaced by the weight and strain of the car
Date:
January 3, 1892
Creator:
Moore, Francis A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Belt-Tightener
Patent for an improvement in belt fasteners, "especially adapted for use in connection with the running belts of planning, sizing, matching, molding and like machines" (lines 10-12) so that belts may be adjusted to tighten or loosen easily.
Date:
January 3, 1893
Creator:
Noble, John B. & Hensley, Joseph B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling Brick.
Patent for an apparatus for handling brick "whereby the number of brick handled by a single hand may be greatly increased" (lines 9-11) including illustrations.
Date:
January 3, 1888
Creator:
Aber, Edgar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Knitting Mechanism for Grain Binders
Patent for a new knotting mechanism for grain-binders for harvesting machines. Patent for "a new and improved machine for the purpose of cutting and binding grain into gavel automatically and successfully." (lines 18-24) including instructions and illustrations. Patent for a new knotting mechanism for grain-binder, including illustrations.
Date:
January 3, 1893
Creator:
Schubert, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow
Patent for invention of certain new and useful improvements in plows with accompanying drawings. An improved plow in which revolving mold board is driven without the intervention of a universal joint [5-30]
Date:
January 3, 1893
Creator:
Kirk, John, P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pneumatic Conveyer.
Patent for pneumatic conveyer using cars, cylindrically-shaped runners, tracks, and lubrication device, including illustrations.
Date:
January 3, 1893
Creator:
Vernon, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Governor for Cotton Gins.
Patent for a new and improved governor for cotton gins. This design utilizes a moveable suspended roll-breast and a moveable rocking frame to regulate the amount of cotton fed into the roll-box. This design simplifies and cheapens gin production, and it makes the parts of the gin more adaptable to other gins of different sizes.
Date:
January 3, 1882
Creator:
Forbes, Lycurgus D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thill-Coupling
Patent for a thill coupling, one of the two pieces of wood that extend from the front of a carriage.
Date:
January 3, 1893
Creator:
Benson, Jospeh Robinson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Toy and Bottle Stopper.
Patent for a novel bottle stopper. This design "consists in certain improvements in [bottle stoppers] whereby the outpouring fluid may be utilized to set in motion an automaton attached to said stopper" (lines 18-21).
Date:
January 3, 1882
Creator:
Zanetti, Fortonato Clemente
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Exhaust Fan.
Patent for a new exhaust fan. Patent for "a new and improved exhaust fan design that can be adapted for exhausting in any capacity and for creating a suction and discharging the air from any devices in connection." (lines 8-13) including instructions and illustrations. Patent for a new exhaust fan design with operating construction, including illustrations.
Date:
January 3, 1893
Creator:
Hyde, Thomas B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting Attachment for Sewing-Machines.
Patent for a new removable quilting frame for sewing machines. Patent for "improvements in sewing-machine attachments for quilting designed to support a quilting frame that can be moved from place to place" (lines 14-21) including instructions and illustrations. Patent for a new quilting attachment for sewing-machine design with, including illustrations.
Date:
January 3, 1888
Creator:
Clark, Chester Cady
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Picture Hanger
Patent for a new picture frame with adjustable hanger. Patent for "a new and improved picture frame with an attached hanger to support the top and bottom of the frame at any desire angle" (lines 14-19) including instructions and illustrations. Patent for a new picture frame hanger design, including illustrations.
Date:
January 3, 1893
Creator:
Hymans, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Picket Fence
Patent for an improvement in short timber picket fences
Date:
January 3, 1882
Creator:
McGinty, Robert H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ox-Yoke.
Patent for a new ox yoke design to reduce wear of the yoke, including illustrations.
Date:
January 3, 1888
Creator:
Herren, William Willison
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dumping-Car
Patent for a dumping car to be used on railways for the purposes of dumping gravel and soil and other such materials.
Date:
January 3, 1893
Creator:
Womelsdorff, Henry Clay
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash Balance.
Patent for a new and improved sash balance. This design "furnish[es] a spring-tensioned sash-balance by which the top sash may be held in close contact with the top of the window-frame or adjusted at a lowered position without hoisting the bottom sash. [The] invention consists in certain peculiarities of construction and arrangement" (lines 9-15).
Date:
January 3, 1882
Creator:
Quick, John Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Loading Baggage
Patent for the description and illustration of an "improved device for lifting baggage such as trunks or other articles, in loading and unloading them form cars, platforms or other locations"(lines 11-14) including instructions and illustrations. Patent for a new lifting device design with different size baggage, including illustrations.
Date:
January 3, 1893
Creator:
Samuel Richard Heidelberg
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Airship
Patent for a dirigible airship. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 3, 1911
Creator:
Bradford, William J. D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burial-Vault
Patent for an air and moisture proof burial vault which can also expel gases. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 3, 1911
Creator:
Pepple, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner
Patent for a crude oil burner for stoves or heaters. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 3, 1911
Creator:
Risley, Carolile
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Copy Holder
Patent for a copy holder for use while typewriting. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 3, 1911
Creator:
Ireland, Ward S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History