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Improvement in Saws.
Patent for improvement in saws by way of the construction of beveled edged teeth with concave sides.
Date:
April 26, 1870
Creator:
Littlepage, C. V.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment to Cotton Gins.
Patent for a new and improved attachment for cotton gins. This design "consists of a lever-frame journaled to the gin-frame and carrying a shaft provided with a friction-pulley which may, by will of the operator, be thrown in contact with the driving-pulley of the gin, thus rotating the shaft, which is provided with a set of cleaning-blades fitting between the gin-saws between which they are, by the said mechanism, made to revolve rapidly, thus cleaning the said saws" (lines 18-27).
Date:
April 26, 1881
Creator:
Steward, Francis Marion
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Axle Box.
Patent for a new and improved self-oiling axle box. This design utilizes a sleeve with several small, oil-filled holes to be placed between the spindle and the axle box, which lubricates the machine and reduces friction. A nut keeps the spindle and axle box together.
Date:
April 26, 1881
Creator:
Barnes, Thomas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design has an axle "provided with holes, so that the choppers or cultivators may be adjusted thereon to bring them nearer together or place them farther apart, as may be desired, to change the implement from a chopper to a marker or cultivator" (lines 30-35).
Date:
April 26, 1881
Creator:
Lindsey, James E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Handling Seed-Cotton to be Ginned.
Patent for a gin-house constructed of double tramway that can be used to improve the process of gaining seed-cotton.
Date:
April 26, 1881
Creator:
James, Andrew P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame Fastener.
Patent for a new and improved hame fastener. This design utilizes a clasp that slides along a bar. When the clasp is at the desired position relative to the hame, a pin and a locking plate on the clasp lock the clasp in place; thus the hame is fastened.
Date:
April 26, 1881
Creator:
Crump, Thomas Jefferson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sawing Machine.
Patent for a new and improved drag-saw. This design "consists in the combination of a drag-saw, an operating-lever, and a wheelbarrow or truck, the wheelbarrow being made to support the saw and move it . . . [t]he object of [the] invention is to provide an easy and ready means of transporting the saw from place to place, and to so connect it to the wheelbarrow or truck which supports it that they can be readily separated, so that the wheelbarrow or truck can be used by itself" (lines 13-24).
Date:
April 26, 1881
Creator:
Crump, Thomas Jefferson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk Cutter.
Patent for a new and improved stalk cutter. This design has "the combination of the A-shaped frame, consisting of side pieces hinged together at their forward ends, and provided with lateral projecting knives or cutters and horizontal slots, in which work set-screws for adjusting the cross-braces, tongue or pole, hinged at its rear-end to a bracket, vertically adjustable on the front side of [the] cross-brace, and the seat-bar hinged or otherwise secured to the underside of [the] cross-brace" (lines 76-85).
Date:
April 26, 1881
Creator:
Horn, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for automatic car-coupling for passenger and freight cars.
Date:
April 26, 1887
Creator:
Ferguson, George Jones
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton or Hay Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling-press. This design consists in "[a] duplex cotton or other press comprising connected pressing-boxes, each having a loose lower platen and platen-supports on its sides, devices . . . for raising said lower platens, a truck for supporting said boxes, traveling wheels or rollers journaled to said truck and having bevel or V-shaped treads or peripheries, a track mounted upon suitable supports and having a V-shaped or recessed top face to receive and guide said wheels or rollers during the reciprocatory movements of said truck and the thereto-connected boxes" (lines 15-27).
Date:
April 26, 1887
Creator:
Berry, William Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dental Chair.
Patent for a dental chair improvement.
Date:
April 26, 1887
Creator:
Stiles, Edmund P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harness-Saddle
Patent for the "construction and combination of devices" (line 10) that serve as "an improvement in harness-saddles" (lines 8-9) for horses, with illustrations.
Date:
April 26, 1887
Creator:
Goodman, William Dave & Tuttle, Frank
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hypodermic Syringe.
Patent for a new and improved hypodermic syringe. This design consists in "the combination of a barrel, a sleeve secured to said barrel and having a diaphragm adapted to close the end of the barrel, a needle-carrier having a cylindrical projection working in the sleeve, an outlet-tube secured to the needle-carrier and extending through the diaphragm in the sleeve, and a coiled spring arranged around said tube within the cylindrical projection of the needle-carrier" (lines 71-80).
Date:
April 26, 1887
Creator:
Dunbar, Addison
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Toy Race-Course.
Patent for toy race-course.
Date:
April 26, 1887
Creator:
Cordray, Henry A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Tightener.
Patent for a new and improved wire tightener. This design consists in "the combination of the disks or sections connected by the central bar, the oppositely-pointing lever-arms, the transverse pin fitting into corresponding openings in the disks or sections on one side of the central bar, the locking-pin adapted to fit into any two corresponding openings of the concentric series of openings made in the disks, and a rope or similar device connecting the wire to be stretched with the disks and their connections" (lines 93-103).
Date:
April 26, 1887
Creator:
Boyd, James W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Butt Board for Grain Binders.
Patent for a new and improved butt board for grain binders. This design "relates to improvements in butt-boards for grain-binders to even the butts of the gavel of grain to be bound and to also adjust said gavel in regard to length so that short grain will be bound near the center as well as long grain . . . [i]t has reference more especially to the construction of the butt-board and operating parts, so as to even the butts of the grain and adjust the same to proper position to the binder at one single movement of the butt-board" (lines 12-27).
Date:
April 26, 1892
Creator:
Schubert, George
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, durable, and efficient car coupling "which will insure positive automatic coupling when two opposite draw-heads come together" (lines 16-18).
Date:
April 26, 1892
Creator:
Bird, Robert L. & Bird, John L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for centrally pivoting gates that can "be readily opened and closed from a vehicle or from on horseback" (lines 13-14).
Date:
April 26, 1892
Creator:
Pearce, William J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Provision Safe.
Patent for a new and improved safe. This design "has for its objects, among others, to provide a simple, cheap, and economical safe, in which provisions may be kept cool during the hot season and from freezing during the winter weather. I provide a suitable post or support, from which extend brackets, shelves, or hooks or other provisions for the support of the various articles to be contained therein. [T]he whole [is covered] with a cloth and [has] a water tank or receptacle at the upper end and . . . ha[s] a stream of water flow[ing] or trickl[ing] down upon the cloth to saturate the same" (lines 14-25).
Date:
April 26, 1892
Creator:
Schrib, Juni
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash Fastener.
Patent for a new and improved sash fastener. This design "has for its object to provide a simple and efficient and at the same time cheap and durable sash-locking device which will serve to automatically lock the sash at any desired height. The device is ornamental in appearance, of few parts, and will not be likely to get out of order" (lines 16-22).
Date:
April 26, 1892
Creator:
Lynch, William Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene Gas Generator
Patent for "a new and useful acetylene-gas generator" (lines 5-6), including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
April 26, 1898
Creator:
Williams, Benjamin F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cooling Milk.
Patent for a new and useful apparatus for regulating the temperature of milk.
Date:
April 26, 1898
Creator:
Porter, Louis H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Seed Conveyer.
Patent for a new and useful improvements in cotton seed conveyer systems.
Date:
April 26, 1898
Creator:
Graber, Henry W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gang-Plow.
Patent for a new and improved gang plow, which employs "disks turning in the soil and serving to form the furrows therein"(line 8 - 10).
Date:
April 26, 1898
Creator:
Gordon, Frederick W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History