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The Federal Reporter. Volume 4: Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit and District Courts of the United States. October-December, 1880.
The Federal Reporter contains the text of decisions and commentary regarding cases tried in circuit and district courts throughout the United States. The opinions printed in the volumes include both written statements and oral comments transcribed for publication. Index of cases starts on page iii.
Date:
1881
Creator:
Boyle, Peyton
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Federal Reporter. Volume 5: Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit and District Courts of the United States. December, 1880-March, 1881.
The Federal Reporter contains the text of decisions and commentary regarding cases tried in circuit and district courts throughout the United States. The opinions printed in the volumes include both written statements and oral comments transcribed for publication. Index of cases starts on page iii.
Date:
1881
Creator:
Boyle, Peyton
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Federal Reporter. Volume 6: Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit and District Courts of the United States. March-May, 1881.
The Federal Reporter contains the text of decisions and commentary regarding cases tried in circuit and district courts throughout the United States. The opinions printed in the volumes include both written statements and oral comments transcribed for publication. Index of cases starts on page iii.
Date:
1881
Creator:
Boyle, Peyton
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Federal Reporter. Volume 7: Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit and District Courts of the United States. May-August, 1881.
The Federal Reporter contains the text of decisions and commentary regarding cases tried in circuit and district courts throughout the United States. The opinions printed in the volumes include both written statements and oral comments transcribed for publication. Index of cases starts on page iii.
Date:
1881
Creator:
Boyle, Peyton
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Bridge
Patent for the construction of substantial bridges of wood adapted for long spans, and which can be put up where iron bridges would be too expensive.
Date:
May 24, 1881
Creator:
Brenner, August W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design is "for cultivating stubble, sugar-cane, cotton, corn, and other plants planted in rows or drills, which will remove the soil from the sides of the rows without injuring the roots, and will throw soil around the plants, and which shall be simple in construction and convenient in use" (lines 15-21).
Date:
May 10, 1881
Creator:
Brenner, August William & Fraser, James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hunting Lamp.
Patent for a new and improved lantern for hunting. This design "is to produce a light, cheap, and convenient lamp that can be carried upon the head with greater comfort, and at the same time be more efficient than any heretofore known" (lines 10-13).
Date:
December 20, 1881
Creator:
Brittan, Edward H.
Object Type:
Patent
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
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Child's Crib.
Patent for a new and improved child's crib. This design utilizes "a rock-shaft with inward-projecting arms, from the inner ends of which the cords are suspended, [and it] avoid[s] the friction and wear of the cords incident to the carrying of these through the screw-eyes, as shown in [a previous patent], making them last much longer, beside simplifying the construction of the crib" (lines 67-74).
Date:
March 15, 1881
Creator:
Brown, Fred Harvey
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oscillating Cradle.
Patent for a new and improved oscillating cradle. This design utilizes a hand-crank and gears to gently rock the wooden cradle back and forth. Also connected to the crank is a wooden rod at the bottom which gently strikes a xylophone underneath.
Date:
January 11, 1881
Creator:
Brown, Fred Harvey
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway Rail and Chair.
Patent for a new and improved railway rail and chair combination. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the reversible rail and chair-plates . . . so as to leave an open crescent-shaped space below the middle part of the rail and above the inwardly projecting lips" (lines 94-98).
Date:
August 2, 1881
Creator:
Brown, Frederick H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed Attachment for Invalids.
Patent for a new and improved bed attachment for bed-ridden persons. This design "consists, principally, of a frame, hinged between the side boards of the bedstead, said frame having a removable seat and adapted to be brought to a vertical position for supporting the [bed-ridden person] in a sitting position. The invention also consists in the construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 10-16).
Date:
October 11, 1881
Creator:
Brown, Joshua Perry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mold for Earth and Stone Fences.
Patent for a new and improved mold for earth and stone fences. This design "consist[s] of the inclined adjustable sides, having inclined standards, removable boards, and boards, tables, and locking-bolts . . . [and] the sides having lower boards or metallic pieces, upper removable boards or metallic pieces, and inclined standards of the tables, locking-bolts, handles, and stakes" (lines 21-30).
Date:
July 26, 1881
Creator:
Budd, Lewis R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock.
Patent for a new and improved nut lock. This design calls for a grooved nut and bolt to hold a pin between the two while the bolt is screwed onto the nut. Depending on whether or not the pin is in said grooves, the nut may or may not be removed from the bolt, which increases the worker's control over the nut and bolt and prevents unintended loosening.
Date:
March 1, 1881
Creator:
Bunker, John Williamson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buckle.
Patent for a new and improved buckle. This design utilizes two separate tongues that run freely along a middle bar, which lengthens the life of the strap by distributing pressure and allowing for broken out, frayed, or otherwise worn holes to be circumvented for new ones.
Date:
May 3, 1881
Creator:
Burket, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Wrench.
Patent for a new and improved combination wrench. This design "is to provide a wrench whose moveable jaw is adjustable without a screw, and with whose handle are combined several useful tools or instruments" (lines 8-11).
Date:
March 1, 1881
Creator:
Butler, Edward Martin & Campbell, William Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Liquid Cooler.
Patent for a new and improved liquid cooler. This design "provide[s] an apparatus by means of which a variety of liquids may be simultaneously cooled as required for use as beverages, and by which the glasses or drinking vessels may be at the same time cooled and protected from dust and insects" (lines 14-20).
Date:
January 25, 1881
Creator:
Capps, Matterson F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for improvement of plows; and it consists of a combination of two plows, which are attached to separate beams of their own, and which run upon opposite side of the growing plants for the purpose of cutting away weeds and dirt from around them, with two culitivators or shovels, which run immediately in the rear of said plows, and which clutivators are attached to beams of their own and serve to throw the dirt back toward the plants, as will be more fully described hereinafter.
Date:
April 4, 1881
Creator:
Carter, Charles Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Corn and Cotton Planter
Patent for a combined corn and cotton planter
Date:
April 12, 1881
Creator:
Carter, Hiram H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Cork Extractor.
Patent for a new and improved automatic cork extractor. This design "consists, principally, of a vertically-moving and partially-rotating blade having a harpoon-shaped or shouldered head for piercing and drawing the corks; in laterally opening and closing jaws for holding the necks of the bottles; in pivoted and laterally-moving pointed levers for throwing the parts of the corks away from the blade when withdrawn, and in the construction and combination of the parts of the device" (lines 14-23).
Date:
May 24, 1881
Creator:
Clark, Chester Cady
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Cradle.
Patent for a new and improved folding cradle. This design "consists of a cradle formed of two triangular folding end frames provided with folding braces and connected by longitudinal rods, from which the canvas bottom is supported, which frames are pivoted at their apex on the top of two connected triangular folding standards, and are provided with a crank for swinging the cradle. . . . [The cradle] is simple in construction and may be provided with a fan attachment" (lines 10-19).
Date:
February 15, 1881
Creator:
Clark, Chester Cady
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn Power.
Patent for a new and improved motorized butter churn. This design is of "a simple and efficient device for converting a rotary into a reciprocating motion, which may be either vertical or horizontal, and is especially adapted to the various kinds of churns, washing-machines, and the like now in the market" (lines 13-18).
Date:
January 4, 1881
Creator:
Clark, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carriage Wheel.
Patent for a new and improved carriage wheel. This design "consists in so constructing a carriage-wheel that the members thereof may be made interchangeable, and the whole may be made in a factory and shipped thence 'knocked down,' to be assembled and put together at any point to which the same may be shipped, not requiring, as is usual, the aid of a blacksmith or other skilled laborer" (lines 8-15).
Date:
November 8, 1881
Creator:
Clarke, George R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gin Saw Gummer.
Patent for a new and improved gin saw gummer. This design "consists in constructing a gin-saw gummer of a base-block, having a slot to receive the saw, and carrying the dics or stationary cutters, the guide-bar and shoe, the weight-bar, the pivoted bar, carrying the cutter and the gage, the lever and cam for operating the cutter-bar, and the feed mechanism" (lines 23-29).
Date:
March 1, 1881
Creator:
Clopton, John Benjamin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History