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Improved in Medical Compounds or Liver Invigorators.
Patent for a new medical compound to improve liver function.
Date:
January 9, 1872
Creator:
Simmons, William L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coffee Roaster.
Patent for a new and improved coffee roaster. This design utilizes handles "so arranged as to enable the operator to shake it and move it upside down and about with great facility. The perforated or wire-cloth bottom and top allow the heat from the stove or fire to pass unobstructed to the coffee, so that a strong and uniform heat is applied. The wire-cloth bottom also acts as a sieve . . . and it does not scratch or burn the grains" (lines 49-58). The design eliminates the need for a stirring utensil.
Date:
January 9, 1883
Creator:
Stopple, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive wire-stretcher that can easily stretch a wire in a series on a fence in such a way that the stretcher doesn't need to brace against a post.
Date:
January 9, 1894
Creator:
Sparkman, James S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Propulsion of Vessels.
Patent for an improvement on a previous patent granted to the inventor (No. 480,533). "It consists in means for draining the bearings of the jet nozzles, and in means for ventilating and draining the ship's hold" (lines 12-16).
Date:
January 9, 1894
Creator:
Walker, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Motor.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and durable motor for driving pumps, sewing machines, and other small machinery. The motor is reliable and does not break easily, and the weight cord can be easily wound on its drum.
Date:
January 9, 1894
Creator:
Thrasher, Benton C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grate.
Patent for a grate meant for use in train boilers that can "conveniently dump part of the burning fuel in one end of the firebox" (lines 10-11).
Date:
January 9, 1894
Creator:
Baker, John L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draw-Bar for Locomotives.
Patent for an improved draw-bar for locomotives that consists of a frame, a pilot and draw bar, a counterweight that moves vertically in the pilot, a coupler head with a knuckle and a toe and a guide arm, and a release mechanism for the locking device on the bar.
Date:
January 9, 1894
Creator:
Heidelberg, Samuel R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Running Gear.
Patent for a new and improved running gear. This design consists "[i]n an adjustable axle, the combination of the squarely grooved or axle-tree, having [a] central square block, the spindles having inner square portions, having horizontal slots and vertical slots, vertical nutted bolts and horizontal nutted bolts, [and] having hooks adapted to have the draft-chains attached to them" (lines 74-81).
Date:
January 9, 1883
Creator:
Brosius, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Revolving Boot and Shoe Box.
Patent for a new and improved revolving boot and shoe box. This design "consists in the employment of a revolving conoidal or tapering case having a series of compartments arranged one series above another throughout its entire height, and disposed within a surrounding case or inclosure provided with sliding doors" (lines 23-29).
Date:
January 9, 1883
Creator:
Irvine, William Fielding
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wind and Water Motor.
Patent for improvements in wind and water motors in which it will not only increase its efficiency and durability but also, be capable of operating in tidal rivers, streams and other currents. This is an improvement of patent no. 588572 of the same inventor. Illustration is included.
Date:
January 9, 1900
Creator:
Hardaway, Robert Early
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Cycle
Patent for an air cycle that allows a person to fly by pedaling. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 9, 1912
Creator:
Price, Joseph H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Can-Opener.
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Can-Openers." (line 5-6) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 9, 1909
Creator:
Davis, James Walter & McBee, Marshall E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Smoke-Consumer and Vaporizer.
Patent for a combined smoke-consumer and vaporizer that increases fuel efficiency in furnaces.
Date:
January 9, 1912
Creator:
Davis, Othman
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bolt-Clipper
Patent for improvements to bolt cutters, in terms of construction and efficiency. The improvement includes "oppositely-disposed jaw members, having v-shaped cutting edges" (lines 36-37). Includes illustrations.
Date:
January 9, 1906
Creator:
Pulvitt, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Swing and Other Articles of Furniture
Patent for a porch swing that can be converted into other different articles of furniture. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 9, 1912
Creator:
Sanders, Ira B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Administering Medecine to Live Stock.
Patent for for a device to efficiently administer medication to live stock.
Date:
January 9, 1912
Creator:
Holliday, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for improvements to a baling press, making it "simple, inexpensive, durable, and highly-efficient" (lines 17-18), including illustrations.
Date:
January 9, 1906
Creator:
Unfried, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bonnet.
Patent for new and useful improvement sin bonnets, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 9, 1900
Creator:
Thornton, Frances E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Forming Round Cotton-Bales.
Patent to improve automation for forming round cotton bales in baling presses, including illustrations.
Date:
January 9, 1906
Creator:
Cagle, Carter M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Destroying Cotton-Boll Weevil, &c.
Patent for a new and useful machine for the destruction of the Mexican cotton boll weevil and other insects, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 9, 1900
Creator:
Strobach, Francis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Body Construction
Patent for improvements to vehicle body construction, particularly corner-irons. The design of the product claims to be simple, economical, and provide a compact and firm joint for the vehicle body. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 9, 1906
Creator:
Dowling, Stonewall J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Irrigation Apparatus.
Patent for an irrigation apparatus that can be used in various size fields and mimics the falling of rain.
Date:
January 9, 1912
Creator:
Roddy, Isham L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Attachments for Lathe Head-Stocks
Patent for an attachment for lathe-head stocks. It is "a device that may be readily adjustable to provide a backing... that may be gripped by the chucks of a jewelers or watch-makers lathe" (lines 26-29).
Date:
January 9, 1912
Creator:
De Long, Charles E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Destroyer.
Patent for machine "designed to be carried by a cultivator or mounted upon wheels and adapted to discharge the fumes of sulfur and other insecticides upon cotton and other plants to destroy the cotton-weevil, caterpillar, worms, and various other forms of insect life [and to] provide a construction which will insure a steady feed of the sulfur or other insecticide employed and thereby render the discharge of the fumes regular and of uniform strength" (lines 12-23).
Date:
April 10, 1899
Creator:
Passmore, Benjamin H. & May, Robert B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History