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Gate.
Patent for improvements in swinging gates which “can be opened in either direction and capable of being operated at a distance from either side of it by a person on horseback or in a vehicle.” (Lines 10-15) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 15, 1902
Creator:
Plaster, William M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hammock or Swing.
Patent for a new and improved hammock. This design consists in "the combination of a suspended canopy, consisting of a hoop provided with screw-eyes and having a textile covering and a mosquito-netting secured thereto and depending therefrom, with a basket consisting of a hoop, a suitably-constructed bottom, a cushion, and a guard . . . and supporting-ropes secured at their lower portions to the basket and to the guard, and having snap-hooks at their upper ends adapted to engage the screw-eyes in the hoop of the canopy" (lines 5-15).
Date:
April 24, 1888
Creator:
Broderick, Martin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Governor for Steam-Engines.
Patent for "a steam engine governor for shutting off the supply of steam to the engine in the event of the governor-belt breaking or slipping from the pulley, which is operatively connected with the weighted arms of the governor, so as to control the motion of the latter." (Lines 9-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 25, 1896
Creator:
Wilcox, Ferdenand, S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Suspension-Bridge
Patent for improvements in suspension bridges "to increase the strength of the same and reduce the n-umber of parts and simplify the general construction of the same" (lines 10-12).
Date:
May 20, 1890
Creator:
Hill, James Oliver
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate Closer
Patent for a gate closer. This invention uses a counter weight to automatically closes a gate or door. Illustration included.
Date:
June 21, 1904
Creator:
Rhodes, Efford B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fly-Trap Shed
Patent for a collapsible shed, which is equipped with a trap to catch flies when flies are being removed from cows in the shed through a water spray.
Date:
November 5, 1907
Creator:
Harbuck, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire-Screen.
Patent for a portable, ornamental fire screen. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 17, 1897
Creator:
Havecotte, John H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fireproof Covering
Patent for a fireproof covering. Illustration included.
Date:
February 23, 1909
Creator:
Brigance, Alice Osborne
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fertilizer-Distributer.
Patent for a fertilizer-distributer with "means for agitating and loosening up the fertilizing material and delivering the same through a series of discharge-openings, such series extending transversely of the path of movement of the machine across the field and controlled by individual and independently-operable feed slides or gates, whereby the machine may be used for simultaneously fertilizing adjoined furrows or as a broadcast fertilizer-distributer" (Lines 12-21).
Date:
May 20, 1902
Creator:
Mize, William P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Apparatus for Heating Water and Condensing Steam.
Patent for improvement in apparatus for heating water, other liquids, and condensing steam.
Date:
October 1, 1867
Creator:
Phalen, Henry J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Chairs.
Patent for improvement in chairs, which provides adjustable shoulder supports and back (inclination and height), with intended advantages of better lung capacity and spinal alignment. The chair can be adjusted to fit all sizes of bodies. It is noted that some of the adjustable features could be incorporated into other furnishings such as beds or lounges. An additional feature of the chair is a retracting spring to assist the user in exiting the chair.
Date:
May 9, 1876
Creator:
Barnes, James W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings.
Patent for improved construction and arrangement of car-couplings.
Date:
July 24, 1877
Creator:
McCarty, Ezra B. & Heagerty, James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "slides over opposite holes in the bottom of its hopper and a dropping-cylinder provided with seed-cups on its periphery and removable screws rising from within the cups, whereby it may be changed . . . so as to plant corn or cotton" (lines 59-65).
Date:
September 20, 1887
Creator:
Becker, Philipp William Adolph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway Crossing
Patent for a railway crossing. Illustration included.
Date:
March 2, 1909
Creator:
Meyerlambers, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint.
Patent for a rail joint that connects the opposing ends of a pair of rails while allowing for necessary contractions and expansion of the rails due to atmospheric conditions. It also reinforces the portion of the joint at the meeting ends.
Date:
January 23, 1912
Creator:
Busa, Adam
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad-Tie.
Patent for a railroad-tie in which it will “maintain the gage standard when one rail is replaced by another rail having larger cross section than the original rail.” (Lines 21-23) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 3, 1914
Creator:
Hynds, David H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint.
Patent for a new design of rail joints in which headed bolts and wedge plate have keyhole slots, including with illustrations.
Date:
April 24, 1900
Creator:
Park, Henry J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cutting Implement
Patent for a cutting tool which can be attached to the bottom of a shoe in order to chop cotton or other plants and pulverize ground. It is a sharp, flat, knife blade that affixes to the shoe with straps across the bridge and toe sections.
Date:
May 4, 1915
Creator:
Brigance, Alice O.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator.
Patent for a new and useful acetylene gas generator, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 30, 1899
Creator:
Camp, Charles M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design consists in "the combination, with the frame bearing the standards, of caster-wheels provided with shanks, which are vertically journaled in the bars at each side of said frame and in the ends of the cross-bar, the hand-lever which is secured at the forward end of the beam and pivotally connected to the center of said cross-bar and provided with a slot near its free end, the segmental upright, and the spring" (lines 16-25).
Date:
March 29, 1887
Creator:
Brown, Thomas Jefferson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator and Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for an more efficiently designed cotton chopper.
Date:
April 27, 1886
Creator:
Brown, Thomas Jefferson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Weeder
Patent for a cotton chopper and weeder. Illustration included.
Date:
March 29, 1904
Creator:
Stewart, John Hanibal
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a sulky having a loop secured to its axle, of a pair of hoes secured to a pair of pivoted bars, which are adapted to slide up and down in the loop, and a spring arranged between the bars to hold the hoes in a closed position . . . [and] provided with foot-rests for the driver, whereby the hoes may be forced into the ground" (lines 55-67).
Date:
February 6, 1883
Creator:
Craig, William Sinclair
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History