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Improvement in Combined Cistern Tops and Filters.
Patent for improvements to cistern covers, combining a cast iron, charcoal filled filter and specially shaped cast perforated iron lid with handles for removing the cover and for changing the charcoal.
Date:
July 9, 1874
Creator:
Stacey, Ephraim Douglass
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Trucks.
Patent for the improvement of car-trucks, consisting in the arrangement of each wheel of a car-truck upon the outer end of a separate short axle, the bearings of each axle being both located on the inner side of the wheel and the bearing at the inner end of the axle provided with a sliding-box and springs. It includes a description and illustration.
Date:
July 9, 1872
Creator:
Onley, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Weighing-Scale.
Patent for an automatic weighing-scale meant to be connected to a pneumatic conveyer to weigh cotton, grain, or other products. The invention weighs "any amount to which its scale may be set, and then cutting off the supply and emptying itself, when it may be reset, preferably by hand, to repeat the weighing operation" (lines 18-22).
Date:
July 9, 1895
Creator:
Schulze, Andrew
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Cotton-Weighing Scale.
Patent for an automatic cotton-weighing scale that is designed "to be used in connection with pneumatic conveyers, and it is of such construction that it will automatically weigh any amount that its scale may be set at, cut off the supply from the conveyer, empty itself, and immediately reset itself, the resetting of the machine opening the supply-valve from the conveyer, so that the weighing operation can be repeated" (lines 13-21).
Date:
July 9, 1895
Creator:
Schulze, Andrew
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wood-Preservative.
Patent for a compound with preservative qualities for protecting submersed wood from the destructive forces of water, whether sea or fresh, and from shipworms.
Date:
July 9, 1895
Creator:
Gallinowsky, Hugo
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Kitchen-Cabinet
Patent for "a device of this class which shall be simple in construction, inexpensive, and in which provision shall be made for the safe-keeping of all the materials and ingredients used in bread-making and in ordinary cooking as well as for pies, cakes, cold victuals and the like" (lines 9-15).
Date:
July 9, 1889
Creator:
Skipper, James Marion
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Tufting Mattresses.
Patent for a machine for tufting mattresses "whereby the tufts or washers are periodically fed to and affixed upon the feed-wheels between which the mattresses is intermittently advanced and compressed, said tufts being placed upon the mattress by the periodical fractional revolution of the feed-wheels and secured by stitching the entire transverse series of tufts by the automatic action of a series of needles, and a lower corresponding series of knotter-heads and devices co-operating therewith" (lines 11-21).
Date:
July 9, 1895
Creator:
Stephenson, Edwin N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Eyeglasses.
Patent for improvements to eyeglasses to accommodate facial differences.
Date:
July 9, 1878
Creator:
Hawkes, Albert K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mechanical Motor
Patent for "a motor of cheap and simple construction, which is adapted for driving various classes of light machinery, and more especially for use in connection with fans, such as are commonly used for creating currents of air in bar-rooms, dining-rooms, and the like" (lines 16-22).
Date:
July 9, 1889
Creator:
Harpst, Edgar S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame Fastener.
Patent for a new and improved hame-fastener. This design "is to provide a fastener . . . which is of simple construction, which can be readily adjusted, and in which all strain is removed from the pivot of the locking-dog, thus obviating any breakage of the pivot, whatever may be the strain" (lines 17-23).
Date:
July 9, 1889
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame Tug.
Patent for a new and improved hame-tug. This design consists in "the combination, with the bar provided at one end with a buckle, of the shield secured to the inner side of the bar and provided with an outward-extending guard, which extends through the loop of the buckle and is provided with a slot for the reception of the tongue of the buckle" (lines 64-70).
Date:
July 9, 1889
Creator:
McKenzie, Joseph Hyder
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Girth-Rigging for Side-Saddles.
Patent for girth-rigging for side-saddles that secure the saddles so the saddles only move when the horse does. It has an extended "saddle-tree so as to produce shoulders, the same underlying the saddle-seat at its front and in supporting upon its shoulders and also upon the tree in rear of the cantle-girth suspension-straps that are continuous" (lines 24-29).
Date:
July 9, 1895
Creator:
Padgitt, Jesse D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator
Patent for "a cultivator of simple and durable construction, capable of being adjusted laterally to any width and vertically to any desired height" (lines 9-12).
Date:
July 9, 1889
Creator:
Benthall, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin.
Patent for a clothes-pin made of one piece of wire twisted around with a spring-clamping mechanism for holding clothes.
Date:
July 9, 1907
Creator:
Freeze, John A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window-Frame Attachment
Patent for a window frame attachment of bars that shades can be attached to.
Date:
July 9, 1912
Creator:
Hillman, Annie M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Top.
Patent for a canvas top for a wagon that is attached to wooden bows and can be folded up into a seat rest when not in use.
Date:
July 9, 1907
Creator:
Kelley, Harrall M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ink-Fountain
Patent for "improved means for supplying only a sufficient quantity of ink for immediate use, while at the same time securing a hermetical sealing of the ink within its reservoir, so as to prevent evaporation and thickening thereof" (lines 13-17).
Date:
July 9, 1901
Creator:
Holden. Elbridge G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel
Patent for a vehicle wheel with spring spokes to absorb shocks.
Date:
July 9, 1912
Creator:
Hodges, Ludia H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Internal Combustion Engine.
Patent for improved internal combustion engine design that replaces puppet valves with slide valves to increase port area and speed, while reducing noise. Includes illustrations.
Date:
July 9, 1912
Creator:
Garfield, George M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Elevator
Patent for a water elevator in which compressed air may be used to raise water from a well. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 9, 1907
Creator:
Martin, Edward G. & Hake, John Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hypodermic-Needle Cleaner.
Patent for a hypodermic needle cleaner that allows the drill sizes to be easily changed for cleaning different size needles.
Date:
July 9, 1907
Creator:
Barr, George T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam Trap.
Patent for invention that relates to improvements in steam and water separators, and more particularly to that class within the valve controlling the escape of the water condensation from the collecting-trap is operated by the movements of a float actuated by the water of condensation (Reynolds, 1901).
Date:
July 9, 1901
Creator:
Reynolds, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow
Patent for improvements of plows and their agricultural implementation.
Date:
July 9, 1901
Creator:
Kothmann, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine.
Patent for a washing machine with a folding frame, which operates with rollers and springs.
Date:
July 9, 1907
Creator:
Davis, John Lafayette & Davis, John Wesley
System:
The Portal to Texas History