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Hay-Press.
Patent for an inexpensive and efficient hay-press that has an improved plunger mechanism. The mechanism is simple, inexpensive, durable, and easily operated.
Date:
May 1, 1894
Creator:
Pearce, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay Press.
Patent for a new and improved hay-press. This design consists, "in combination with the plungers and their rack-stems, the cog, the brackets . . . curved as described, and having the flange, combined with the ways . . . and the anti-friction rolls, operating each on the rear of one of the rack-stems . . . [which are] combined with the brackets, detachably secured to the press, their forward ends constituting in connection with the rear plate of the press guide-ways for said stems" (lines 80-100).
Date:
June 14, 1887
Creator:
Cope, Mason L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate
Patent for an improvement to gates. This model consists of a gate mounted at the middle on a vertical post pivoted at top and bottom.
Date:
July 10, 1883
Creator:
Cope, Mason L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Suspension-Bridge.
Patent for a suspension-bridge “which will permit the main cable to expand and contract in different temperatures without materially affecting the principal parts and causing them to become displaced by reason of the slack of increased camber” (line 24-29, p.1), illustration is included.
Date:
February 10, 1891
Creator:
Runyon, Edwin Elijan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for centrally pivoting gates that can "be readily opened and closed from a vehicle or from on horseback" (lines 13-14).
Date:
April 26, 1892
Creator:
Pearce, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Feeder for Cotton Presses.
Patent for a new and improved feeder for cotton presses. This design is "constructed with a receiving-box and a feed-box separated by a sliding plate attached to a follower secured to the piston-rod of a steam-cylinder, to adapt the said feeder to be interposed between a cotton-gin and a baling-press. The inlet and outlet valves of the steam-cylinder are connected by two pairs of connecting-rods with two levers, so that the movements of the piston can be readily controlled" (lines 19-28).
Date:
March 10, 1885
Creator:
Selz, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed planter.
Patent for the improvement of seed planters, according to the inventor, "by providing the hopper of the same with regulating devices, whereby the seed may be planted in desired quantities and at desired intervals".
Date:
February 9, 1886
Creator:
Ratliff, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash-Holder.
Patent for improved sash-fasteners, which relates to sash-fasteners, the object being to furnish a simple and effective substitute for the ordinary sash weights and locks.
Date:
September 13, 1881
Creator:
Barb, Gustavas Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Strainer for Coffee-Pots.
Patent for a strainer "by which the steam from the fluid coffee which has passed through the percolating-cloth to the base of the coffee-pot can rise above the strainer, there condense, and then return again through the strainer, thus causing a thorough extraction of the strength of the coffee" (lines 9-15).
Date:
May 5, 1896
Creator:
Massey, Andrew J. & Stallings, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway Stock-Guard.
Patent for railroad stock guard "which when stopped upon will rise up from the center in front of the stock, scare them off, and prevent them from passing over it." (Lines 15-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 23, 1897
Creator:
Wiggs, Zeph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Side Rail for Suspension-Bridges.
Patent for a side rail for suspension bridges that is meant "to provide an improved side railing constituting a truss, which will be light, durable, and of structural simplicity" (lines 20-23).
Date:
March 21, 1893
Creator:
Runyon, Edwin Elijah
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fence.
Patent for a new and improved fence. This design "is to provide a simple and improved fence which can be built with superior facility and economy, and utilize trees in range with the fence, and which will furthermore possess advantages in point of inexpensiveness, durability, and general efficiency" (lines 12-17).
Date:
July 28, 1885
Creator:
Ferguson, John Stephenson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fence.
Patent for a new and improved fence. This design "relates to that class of farm-fences embodying upright posts and suspended panels comprising rails and suspending-wires; and its object is to provide a simple and improved fence of this character wherein rails of any length may be used, in which but one suspending-wire to each panel is employed, in lieu of at both ends of the same, as commonly constructed, and in which one or more damaged posts may be replaced without interfering with the fence proper" (lines 8-18).
Date:
December 10, 1889
Creator:
Manry, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow Slide.
Patent for a new and improved plow slide. This design consists in "[a] combination tool for use with plows, consisting of a suitable bar having one end turned upward, provided with a beveled edge at the other end, a suitable cross-strap, and having openings at the sides, and bent ends adapted to the nuts used in a plow" (lines 70-75).
Date:
October 7, 1890
Creator:
Bowers, Thomas Martin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Photographer's Changing and Developing Box.
Patent for an apparatus that aids in changing and developing photographic plates. It is portable, convenient, easy to use, and safety.
Date:
October 10, 1893
Creator:
Snapp, James F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pulverizing Attachment for Plows
Patent for improvements in pulverizing attachments for plows used for furrow-slices as they are turned by plows.
Date:
September 13, 1881
Creator:
Maddux, Tapley, B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Open Fire-Place
Patent for improvements to an open fireplace making the different sections of the fireplace detachable and replaceable individually. Patent granted to Daniel E. Jones.
Date:
September 25, 1885
Creator:
Jones, Daniel E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pie Safe or Refrigerator.
Patent for a new and improved refrigerator. This design consists in "[t]he improved portable pie-safe . . . comprising the body, the guide-rods arranged vertically in the said body, near the corners thereof, and extended through the top of the same to form the loops, the bail or handle secured to said loops, the cross-bars secured to said guide-rods, and the spring-actuated shelves mounted on the said cross-bars" (lines 78-86).
Date:
October 4, 1887
Creator:
Holt, Lucy Jane
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Belt.
Patent for an electric belt producing "an exceedingly gentle and moderate [current], so as to insure the precise remedial results desired" (lines 91-93) including illustrations.
Date:
August 27, 1889
Creator:
Everett, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draft Equalizer.
Patent for an improved double tree adapted to be used without single-trees designed to equalize the draft in case on horse gets ahead of the other in a draft team.
Date:
July 18, 1882
Creator:
Jones, Jeremiah C. & Robertson, Alexander W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draft-Equalizer
Patent for an improved three-horse equalizer for draft horses.
Date:
February 20, 1883
Creator:
Kerby, George M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a cultivator used for sub-soiling and cultivating small grain.
Date:
December 1, 1891
Creator:
Thomas, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Curtain-Fixture.
Patent for an improved method of hanging and supporting window shades. It consists of a bracket with overlapping portions that form a sleeve, lugs that hold a roller, and end pieces to cover the end of the bar in the sleeve.
Date:
October 10, 1893
Creator:
Snapp, James F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Planter.
Patent for an improvement in cotton-planters.
Date:
April 5, 1881
Creator:
McFall, Mark M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History