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Improvement in Street-Cars
Patent for an improvement to Street Cars to better navigate curves. Includes description and illustrations.
Date:
August 26, 1879
Creator:
Towell, Isaac
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Elevated Cable-Railways.
Patent for an "elevated propelling cable-track for the rapid transit of cars in cities" (lines 6-7) including illustrations.
Date:
December 16, 1879
Creator:
Reager, Francis M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ventilator.
Patent for a new and improved ventilator. This design is "to provide a ventilator which shall automatically accommodate or turn the collecting-hood thereof to the direction in which the wind is blowing, to collect and conduct fresh pure air into buildings, cars, &c.; to provide means for regulating the distribution of the air to the compartments or different parts of the buildings, &c.; to diminish the friction and wear between the swiveled collecting-hood and its supporting devices whereby said hood and its attached vane are enabled to turn more freely and readily" (lines 17-29).
Date:
April 27, 1886
Creator:
Sellars, James K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Safety-Guards for Cars.
Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Safety-Guards for Cars" (lines 5-6) intended to pervent derailment of railway cars, including a detailed explanation and description of the illustration.
Date:
February 5, 1878
Creator:
Harding, John W. & Towell, Issac
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tool.
Patent for "...a tool embodying certain novel features and details of construction, as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the drawings, and claimed" (lines 7-10) with illustration and descriptions.
Date:
April 27, 1897
Creator:
Hutchins, John Pearce
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Bale-Ties.
This patent was created for free ends of wire to be united and form a circular shape. The wire is then interconnected with a loop that has been doubled by the device.
Date:
April 16, 1878
Creator:
Knipscheer, John
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
Trace Carrier.
Patent for a new and improved trace-carrier. This design "relates to harness, and is more particularly a trace-carrier connected to the back-band thereof at its point of connection with the traces; and the same consists of a buckle composed of two parts having laterally-extending arms hinged together at their outer ends, whereby an open eye or loop is produced for receiving the trace" (lines 8-15).
Date:
June 3, 1890
Creator:
Brooks, George Washington
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for a new and improved gate. This design "has for its object to provide a device of this character which shall be cheap and simple in its construction, one that may be easily operated, and yet be positive in its engagement with the latch to prevent it from being opened by cattle, &c." (lines 8-14).
Date:
December 8, 1885
Creator:
Dunn, Henry Frankling.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Street Car.
Patent for a new and improved street car. This design "has reference to the construction of steam and other street-cars, whereby the same can be readily turned around corners, having for its object the simplifying of the construction and lessening the cost of construction" of previous street cars (lines 22-27).
Date:
August 9, 1881
Creator:
Towell, Isaac
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed Planter
Patent for...a seed planting machine which improves upon an earlier cotton seed planting machine. The improved apparatus can be substituted for corn and other seeds. It may also be utilized for ground cultivation.
Date:
July 15, 1884
Creator:
Pietzsch, Louis; Armstrong, John J. & Lowrey, Joseph R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Barrel
Patent for ventilated barrels for shipment of fruits, vegetables, meat, and other articles in order to remain fresh
Date:
February 28, 1882
Creator:
McCormick, Willis B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow
Patent for a new type of plow granted to Anton Schindler.
Date:
November 25, 1884
Creator:
Schindler, Anton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Post Hole Digger.
Patent for a new and improved post-hole digger. This design "has for its object to provide a simple, durable, inexpensive, and efficient device, the levers of which can be readily separated, so that either of them can be used as a spade or shovel to fill in the earth around the post after it is placed in the hole" (lines 14-19).
Date:
November 21, 1882
Creator:
Armstrong, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting Mechanism for Sewing-Machines.
Patent for an improved, simple, inexpensive, and efficient quilting-frame and makes quilting much faster. "The frame is provided with a longitudinal bar having a groove to form a track, in which travels a gage-wheel, which is adjustable and held by a spring-arm, which serves, also, as a means of changing the position of the wheel" (lines 22-26).
Date:
August 9, 1892
Creator:
Delany, Charles William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Motor.
Patent for a new and improved motor. This design consists "[i]n a fan motor, the V-shaped frame, the shafts journaled in the upper corners thereof, the ratchet-wheels and spur-wheels secured to said shafts, the spring-actuated pawls pivoted to the frame and engaging the ratchet-wheels, sleeves loose on shafts, and having the spur-wheels fast to said sleeves, the volute springs with their inner ends fast to shafts and their outer ends fast to wheels, the winding-shafts having the pinions engaging wheels, the shaft between [the other] shafts having the pinion, engaging wheels" (lines 19-30).
Date:
February 5, 1889
Creator:
Heinsohn, Ernst Theodor & Hoffmann, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Planter
Patent for a machine used to plant cotton. Contains mechanisms for both plowing a furrow, planting seeds, and covering the seeds.
Date:
June 5, 1883
Creator:
Carter, Edwards D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Sprinkler.
Patent for a new and improved sprinkler. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the L-shaped nozzle having the longer arm and the shorter arm, the spring-board secured to the side of the [shorter] arm and projecting over the end thereof, and provided with a boss on its upper side, the L-shaped bracket secured to the side of the [shorter] arm and having one end projecting over the spring-valve and provided with a screw-threaded opening, and the thumb-screw inserted through and playing in said opening and having its end swiveled in the boss of the spring-valve" (lines 84-95).
Date:
May 14, 1889
Creator:
Kister, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton or Corn Planter
Patent for novel improvements in the construction or production of cotton or corn planters.
Date:
October 8, 1889
Creator:
Hardison, Dock C. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator Combined.
Patent for improvement to a cotton-chopper with a "mechanism for cultivating the soil between the hills as well as for bringing the said hills to a regular form" (lines 18-20).
Date:
February 23, 1886
Creator:
Muray, Joseph L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed Planter.
Patent for a new and improved seed planter. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the seed-hopper and seed-slide, of the stationary catch and elastic spring-catch, both secured to the hopper and arranged to grasp the head of the brush" (lines 60-64).
Date:
October 25, 1881
Creator:
Brooks, James Madison
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed Cotton Cleaner and Distributer.
Patent for a new and improved cotton cleaner and distributor. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the cylinder and drum, of a shaft mounted in bearings on the frame and extending through the said cylinder and provided with blades of varying length, a fan located in the drum, a pipe leading tangentially out from said drum, said pipe having openings formed therein, and guides secured on said pipe over said openings, said guides having wire sides" (lines 46-54).
Date:
September 10, 1889
Creator:
Elliott, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design, when used "as a corn-planter the slotted plate upon the inclined portion of the bottom is adjusted to cover the entire slot, and the pitman is attached to the pin projecting from the bar operating the seed slide, and when the machine is to be used as a cotton-planter the pitman is attached to the crank at the side of the seed-box, and the plate in the bottom of the box is adjusted so as to give the slot sufficient width to allow the cotton-seed to be forced through it" (lines 84-94).
Date:
December 28, 1886
Creator:
Armstrong, John J. & Lowrey, Andrew S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Corn and Cotton Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design "relates to the construction of a planter so arranged that by simply shifting the connection between the corn-slide and the crank-arm of an agitator the device may be adjusted to act as a planter of corn or cotton, but a single connecting-rod being employed in connection with a single driving crank-shaft to operate the planter both as a cotton and a corn planter" (lines 8-16).
Date:
November 30, 1886
Creator:
Walker, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History