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Improvement in Cotton-Cultivators.
Patent for a new improvement for a cotton-cultivator with different tools and connections, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 6, 1873
Creator:
Bates, Finis L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combination Locks.
Patent for combination latch-locks, "in such manner as that the knob-latch, while performing its special function, will also serve as the lock upon any combination to which it may be adjusted, and the said latch can be operated from either the outside or inside of the door as a latch simply, or as a combination lock, which latter is further secured from the inside by the employment of a safety pin, rendering the bolt in its locked position perfectly secure, while by its partial withdrawal it prevents the possible change of the combination from the outside, and admits of the free use of the latch independent of such combination." (Lines 29-42) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 1, 1873
Creator:
Hall, Phidello W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Permutation-Locks. [PAGES MISSING]
Patent for an improvement to combination locks. "It consists of various devices, which are operated by a revolving wheel having a number of projections or pins upon its periphery, which differ so materially from each other in shape that they can be easily recognized by day or night by the touch alone." (Lines 13-19) Illustration included.
Date:
September 9, 1873
Creator:
Hall, Phildello W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bridges.
Patent for an improvement in Bridges and Self-Supporting Roofs and Girders. The invention provides instruction for "the construction of truss-bridges and self supporting roofs and girders"..."by nailing or bolting securely together successive layers of plank joined at different points."
Date:
May 26, 1873
Creator:
Davis, Benjamin F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Permutation-Locks
Patent for an improvement in permutation locks.
Date:
March 10, 1874
Creator:
Hall, Phidello W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent for "means whereby the beam of a plow may be elevated or depressed at the front end according to the depth to which it is intended that the plow shall run, and held securely at several points of adjustment." (Lines 11-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 17, 1874
Creator:
Ihringer, August
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings.
Patent for an improved train car-coupling, including illustrations.
Date:
March 30, 1875
Creator:
Garrett, Charles C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements In Dropping-Bottles
Patent for improvements in dropping-bottles that can be used by doctors, nurses, and pharmacists to dispense medicine one drop at a time.
Date:
June 29, 1875
Creator:
Garrett, Charles C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings.
Patent for an improved automatic car-coupling, including illustrations.
Date:
November 23, 1875
Creator:
Harper, Derastus
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Watchmakers' Lathes.
Patent for the improvement of watchmakers' lathes by way of an adjustable bed.
Date:
March 13, 1876
Creator:
Williams, Daniel M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton Feeders and Cleaners for Cotton-Gins.
Patent for "devices for feeding seed-cotton to cotton-gins, and also, for cleaning the same preparatory to ginning; and it consists of a hopper having wires extending from side to side over a revolving toothed cylinder and a concave thrasher, and being made to reciprocate on a track by pinions on the ends of the thrasher-cylinder, working in double rack-bars, one in each side of the hopper, so contrived that the pinions run them over one way and under the other, making a simple and cheap mode of obtaining the motion." (Lines 6-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 25, 1876
Creator:
Colquitt, George F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for "an improved fastening or tie for cotton-bales, &c.; and it consists of two angular plates, secured at the rear part to one end of the band generally used in baling cotton, &c., and the front part thereof being provided with V-shaped jaws, which engage with angular slots in the opposite end of the band." (Lines 12-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 30, 1877
Creator:
Hanson, Asbury J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Pickers.
Patent for an improvement in cotton-pickers with design specifications and a description of applications and usage, including illustrations.
Date:
June 18, 1878
Creator:
Custer, George
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Spring
Patent for the "improved construction of elliptical steel springs" (lines 7-8) in "carriage and car springs" (line 5) including instructions and illustration.
Date:
June 22, 1880
Creator:
Custer, George
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Corn and Cotton Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design "consists . . . in pivoting the plow-beam, provided with a shovel for making a furrow into which the seed is dropped, in between the front ends of the beams of the two covering-shovels, the seed-covering-shovel beams being secured to the handles of the machine, whereby the pivoted beam is controlled entirely by the handles; second, in pivoting the seed-box to the rear end of the beam, provided with shovel for forming a furrow for the seed to drop in, by means of the loose link or connection, so that the beam can be moved independently" (lines 14-27).
Date:
November 2, 1880
Creator:
Carter, Hiram H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boot and Shoe Indicator.
Patent for a new and improved boot and shoe display. This design "is to provide an indicator for the use of retail dealers in boots and shoes, or other merchandise and wares, by which apparatus the stock can be kept with great accuracy and facility. To that end . . . an indicating-plate with slides [is included], which is to be attached upon the boxes, shelves, drawers, or other receptacles for the goods, as an indicator for showing what goods are contained in the receptacle" (lines 8-17).
Date:
April 3, 1883
Creator:
Woodlief, George T. & Dunn, George Roe.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Game Apparatus.
Patent for a new and improved ring for games. This design is "part of a game apparatus, a ring of wood of a form adapted to be rolled over a flat surface, having a ring of metal cast in a groove cut in its inner surface" (lines 57-60).
Date:
July 15, 1884
Creator:
Fisher, Charles A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Knockdown Barrel.
Patent for a new and improved knockdown barrel. This design "is to provide a cheap and easily constructed knockdown barrel for shipping fruit and other commodities. [The] improvement consists of the construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 7-11).
Date:
November 11, 1884
Creator:
Miller, James Harison
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Reflector Attachment for Lamps.
Patent for a new and improved reflector for oil lamps. This design's object "is to provide a cheap, simple, and durable device for attaching and detaching a reflector to the bottom of the chimney of an ordinary coal-oil or other hand-lamp" (lines 13-17).
Date:
December 9, 1884
Creator:
Hayes, Elbert N. & Kimball, Walter J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil Tank.
Patent for a new and improved oil tank. This design "relates to improvements in oil-tanks, and has for its object to prevent the waste of oil when emptying the can or vessel in which it is received from the factory, and to avoid the odor arising from the oil, and also to prevent evaporation after the oil has been introduced into the tank" (lines 9-15).
Date:
March 24, 1885
Creator:
Fisher, Charles A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design "consists in combining with a frame a roller of any desired width and size having one or more slots or openings in its periphery, and so mounted as to roll over and crush the stand of cotton, except those portions which enter the slots or openings referred to, which regulate the distance apart at which the portions of the stand are left remaining" (lines 19-27).
Date:
November 17, 1885
Creator:
Greer, John I.; Harper, Wiley M. & Greer, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk and Clod Cutter.
Patent for a new and improved stalk cutter. This design "consist[s] of . . . any desirable number of cutting-wheels constructed with heavy spherical hubs of cast metal and spokes carrying at their extremities horizontal knives. The said cutting-wheels are mounted . . . on a horizontal shaft provided with a longitudinal key-slot from end to end, so that the cutting-wheels may be adjusted in the desired positions thereon, the said shaft turning in boxes at the rear ends of a pair of longitudinal beams secured in front to an axle provided with two carrying-wheels and a driver's seat" (lines 9-21).
Date:
December 15, 1885
Creator:
Farley, John C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash Holder.
Patent for a new and improved sash holder. This design "relates to improvements in window-stops, the object of which is to provide a cheap, convenient, and durable device for supporting windows, which may be set in the sash, so as not to mar its looks" (lines 12-16).
Date:
February 2, 1886
Creator:
Whitlock, James Howard
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a new "machine for chopping surplus cotton or corn out of the rows or drills, leaving it in hills at the desired distance apart" (lines 8-11) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 23, 1886
Creator:
Farley, John C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History