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Improvement in Cotton-Cultivator.
Patent for improvements in cotton cultivators.
Date:
August 13, 1867
Creator:
Adams, Jesse
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Mode of Extracting Essences.
Patent for improvements in extracting essences from objects inserted into a new contraption. The patent includes instructions and an illustration.
Date:
August 13, 1867
Creator:
Walker, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Gin Flues
Patent for a new and improved cotton ginning appartatus using a set a valves to throw lint-cotton into different rooms without stopping the gin (line 2), including illustration.
Date:
August 13, 1872
Creator:
Gaines, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wagon-Sheet and Tent
Patent for an improvement in wagon sheet coverings / tent. The improvement is in the sides of the wagon sheet can be extended by loosening straps to fall the length to the ground and be staked to the earth. This gives a tent to sleep under after a day of traveling.
Date:
August 13, 1871
Creator:
Fitzgerald, M. M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blow-Off Cock and Fire-Extinguisher
Patent for "a new and improved blow-off cock and fire-extinguisher to be used on locomotives for cleaning the boiler, and at the same time serving to sprinkle wooden structures in the track, such as bridges, railroad-ties, trestles, &c., to prevent their being set on fire by falling cinders discharged from the ash-pan of the locomotive or from other causes" (lines 8-16)
Date:
August 13, 1889
Creator:
Michell, Lucius E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve.
Patent for a new and improved valve. This design consists in "[t]he improved valve comprising the casing, having a horizontal passage reduced at its central point . . . and a vertical bore intersecting said reduced portion above the point of intersection to its lower end and being screw-threaded its entire length, a stem having a tapered lower portion, the entire stem being screw-threaded to engage the threads in the bore, and a plug removably inserted in the lower end of the bore" (lines 1-11).
Date:
August 13, 1889
Creator:
Forniraseo, Domenico
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Stuffing Mattresses.
Patent for an improved and simple automatic machine for stuffing mattresses that is similar to previous patents granted to the inventor (Nos. 376,399 and 399,093). The mattresses can be of different widths.
Date:
August 13, 1895
Creator:
Stephenson, Edwin N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lifting-Jack.
Patent for a strong, simple, and easily-operable lifting-jack meant for use in railroad car-axle boxes. It is a lifting bar with ratchet teeth, a lever that pivots against the lifting bar, a mechanism that holds and releases the bar, a pawl, and a double-arm spring connected to the pawl.
Date:
August 13, 1895
Creator:
Hough, William S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Twine-Holders
Patent for improvement in twine-holders to help hold twine, cloth and wrapping to counters for ease of cutting, with illustration.
Date:
August 13, 1878
Creator:
Turner, John William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Flower-Baskets
Patent for an improvement in flower-baskets to be hung in residences without making a mess, with illustration.
Date:
August 13, 1878
Creator:
Tennyson, Fannie C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows
Patent for the improvement of plows, with illustration.
Date:
August 13, 1878
Creator:
Johnson, Felix
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Insect-Destroyers
Patent for an improvement of insect-destroyers in the form of spraying poisonous liquid forced over plants, with illustration.
Date:
August 13, 1878
Creator:
Ruhmann, Julius Paul
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties
Patent for improvement in cotton bale-ties, with illustration.
Date:
August 13, 1878
Creator:
Roeber, Alexander
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash Fastener.
Patent for a new and improved sash-fastener. This design consists "[t]he combination, [of] an angle-bracket having an opening produced in its horizontal member wider at its top than at its bottom, and an essentially yoke-shaped bar passed through the said opening, [and] a thumb-lever hinged in the vertical member of the bracket, extending over and parallel with the horizontal member of said bracket, and a lip integral with the under edge of the lever, concavo-convex in cross-section, and capable of entering the opening in the bracket and contacting with . . . the yoke-like bar" (lines 7-19).
Date:
August 13, 1889
Creator:
Miller, Charles H. & McDonald, Samuel A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rope Attachment.
Patent for a new and improved rope attachment. This design "relates to a novel and useful device which is adapted to be rigidly and substantially secured to the end of a rope, and which is constructed with a curved lip on its protruding end, so that when pressed over the loop of a snap-hook it will form a link or jointed connection of the snap-hook with the rope, ferrule, or clamp" (lines 12-19).
Date:
August 13, 1889
Creator:
Powell, John Seymour
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dry Kiln Furnace.
Patent for a new and improved dry-kiln furnace. This design has "a grate at its forward end, a bridge-wall extending upwardly from the lower side at the rear end of the grate, a smoke-outlet in the bottom between the rear end and bridge, and a transverse flue under the furnace, open at each end and dividing the draft at the smoke-outlet, said flue communicating with the interior of the drying-chamber, and having a vertical baffle-plate under the smoke-outlet extending longitudinally along its bottom in each direction from said outlet, arresting the rotary motion of the products of combustion" (lines 24-36).
Date:
August 13, 1889
Creator:
Ketcham, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Scraper and Chopper.
Patent for a new and improved cotton scraper and chopper. This design "consists of an oblong frame composed of a front piece, side beams, and the rear cross-beam, provided with the handles" (lines 29-32).
Date:
August 13, 1889
Creator:
White, John Calvin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dental Drill Attachment.
Patent for a new and improved dental-drill attachment. This design consists in "the combination, with the upper pulley and the supporting pully-frame of a drill, of a rod having hinged to its upper end the clip, having the set-screw, and having at its lower end the frame, having the wheel and the side-spools journaled within it" (lines 25-31).
Date:
August 13, 1889
Creator:
Moyer, Jesse Hechler & Stansell, Jesse Paine
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Amusement Device
Patent for an amusement device. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 13, 1912
Creator:
Dougherty, James P. & Beeman, Mark
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel Sulky Plow
Patent for wheel sulky plow. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 13, 1912
Creator:
Renfro, William T. & Renfro, William C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel-Tire
Patent for a wheel tightener. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 13, 1907
Creator:
James, Adoniram Judson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Triple Valve
Patent for a triple valve for air brakes on trains that gives the engineer more control over the brakes.
Date:
August 13, 1912
Creator:
Anderson, Williamson D. & Shearer, Edward J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mold.
Patent for a mold for viscous materials that are meant to be hardened in the mold or afterward. It is designed to be easily removed from the cast without damaging it.
Date:
August 13, 1901
Creator:
Parker, William Sink
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Milk Cooler
Patent for improvements to milk coolers; to reduce the temperature inside the cooler by "evaporation of moisture from an enclosing canopy of fabric cloth" (lines 16-17)
Date:
August 13, 1902
Creator:
Daniel, W. S. & Shackelford, W, O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History