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Breakwater.
Patent for improving seawalls to "preserve channels across the bars at the mouths of rivers, creeks, or canals and between bays and gulfs" (lines 6-8), including illustration.
Date:
June 7, 1859
Creator:
Armour, D. Hillen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seeding-Machines.
Patent for the improvement of seed-planters using a rotary system to distribute seeds from a drum and into the soil, including illustration.
Date:
September 4, 1860
Creator:
Park, A. R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Propelling Vessels.
Patent for a hydraulic propeller that uses a current of water and steam power, including illustrations.
Date:
August 26, 1846
Creator:
Fulton, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Scrapers.
Patent for the improvement of a cotton scraper "for general cultivation of drill-husbandry" (lines 17-18) and cotton crops, including illustration.
Date:
February 19, 1861
Creator:
Shepard, Josiah
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hanging Millstones.
Patent for improvement of hanging millstones using a driver to hang the runner of a pair of millstones, “as it rotates, adjust itself to the position of the stationary stone, and the parallelism of the faces of the two stones be preserved whether the stationary one be perfectly horizontal or not” (lines 19-24), including illustration.
Date:
May 29, 1860
Creator:
Dance, G. P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters.
Patent for an improvement in cotton-seed planters using a combination of an adjustable agitator and a movable self-adjusting stirrer, including illustration.
Date:
April 3, 1860
Creator:
Sweeny, Samuel P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Medical Compounds or Bitters.
Patent for a medical compound prepared with whisky, gentian-root, cinchonabark, quassia and cloves which is intended as "a remedy for miasmatic fevers" (line 23) including instructions for the preparation and administration of the medicine.
Date:
January 23, 1872
Creator:
Turner, Richard G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Turning-Lathes for Wood.
Patent for an improved machine for turning saddle-tress.
Date:
May 20, 1873
Creator:
Park, Anderson R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in the Manufacture of Fertilizers.
Patent for a process of treating waste animal matter from tallow-rendering factories with plaster-of-paris for use as fertilizer.
Date:
November 25, 1873
Creator:
Stevens, Hennell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Screw-Propulsion.
Patent for "a new and useful Improvement in Screw-Propellers and their adaptation to the hulls of vessels" (lines 4-6) including illustrations.
Date:
November 9, 1875
Creator:
Wilson, Joseph Erwin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Soldering-Irons
Patent for a new and improved soldering iron, which only gives off so much heat from one end and not the other. This patent of the soldering iron a safer tool to work with.
Date:
March 21, 1877
Creator:
Stevens, Hennell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement for Apparatus for Cutting Glue.
Patent for a design for a battery-powered wire glue cutter/slicer including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 11, 1875
Creator:
Stevens, Hennell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Processes for Preparing and Drying Glue.
Patent for a process of drying glue that uses superheated steam and a drying chamber.
Date:
October 11, 1875
Creator:
Stevens, Hennell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Processes of Preserving Meats.
Patent for a method of preserving and canning meat. This describes the inventor's process, as well as his method of reducing air inside the container using hypophosphite of lime.
Date:
January 11, 1876
Creator:
Stevens, Hennell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Breakwater.
Patent for a new and improved breakwater. This design "furnish[es] breakwaters for protecting harbors and roadsteads, and keeping open channels through bars at the entrances of harbors, the mouths of rivers, and in other places, and which shall not be liable to be destroyed by the marine worm" (lines 13-19).
Date:
August 9, 1881
Creator:
Follett, Alexander Glass
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Canal or Ditch Digging Machine.
Patent for a canal or ditch digging machine that has a carriage and a mechanism that draws the carriage across the ground, and a boring-tool beneath the carriage. The boring-tool can bore at an adjustable angle.
Date:
August 20, 1895
Creator:
Hoefs, Otto
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretching and Splicing Tool.
Patent for a wire stretching and splicing tool used when repairing barbed wire and other wire fences. It connects the ends of broken wires by bringing them together and twisting them. It has a wire gripping device, an adjustable end that corresponds to the wire gripper, a way to separate the above listed parts and bring them back together again, and a clamping device.
Date:
April 30, 1895
Creator:
la Bauve, Odelon Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insecticide
Patent for an insecticide specifically for insects that burrow into the shucks of corn. "The general object of my invention is to provide a compound capable, when affected by moisture incidental to the sweating of the corn in the crib, of generating a poisonous gas which will permeate the shucks and reach and destroy the insect within the shucks, where it cannot be destroyed by simply sprinkling the corn with a poisonous powder or solution" (lines 17-25).
Date:
September 13, 1892
Creator:
Carter, Joseph John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel.
Patent for a new and improved wheel. This design "relates to improvements in that class of expanding wheels in which the hub is provided with an inclined abutment, on which the inclined ends of the spokes rest, the said spokes being clamped in position and adjusted on the abutment by clamping collars; and the invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 8-15).
Date:
August 11, 1885
Creator:
Mecham, George Wate
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Life-Boat.
Patent for an improved life boat that "consists principally of a central closed hull equipped with propelling machinery, and floats extending on the sides of the said hull and rigidly secured thereto, to support the hull in position." (Lines 12-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 1, 1896
Creator:
James, William F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bee-Hives.
Patent for a bee-hive that prevents insects (such as moths) from entering therein and maximizes the amount of honey collected from the hive, including a detailed explanation and description of the illustration.
Date:
March 5, 1878
Creator:
Park, Jesse W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of and Apparatus for Extracting Crystallized Sugar from Bagasse.
Patent for a new and improved extractor of crystallized sugar from bagasse. This design "is to save a percentage of [the] loss in the [sugarcane] juice, and also to secure a part, if not all, of the crystallized sugar from the refuse or bagasse or from any other plant producing saccharine matter. To that end [the invention] subject[s] the bagasse to a process which extracts the remaining juice and the crystallized-sugar by suction and atmospheric pressure" (lines 13-21).
Date:
February 19, 1884
Creator:
Yale, Thomas Blossom
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Post-Driver.
Patent for a machine that drives posts and "can be placed on the running gear of a vehicle in such a manner that it can be readily adjusted to operate on posts at either side of the longitudinal axis of the vehicle" (lines 14-18). It can be easily adjusted and is simply constructed.
Date:
April 18, 1893
Creator:
Harris, Stephen G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump-Strainer.
Patent for a pump-strainer that cleans and separates water or other liquid that is drawn from wells or reservoirs.
Date:
May 28, 1895
Creator:
Durant, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History