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Rotary Pump.
Patent for a "submerged pump of very simple construction... one which will be efficient in its operation and not liable to get out of repair" (lines 16-20), illustration included.
Date:
March 8, 1859
Creator:
Fagan, James L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mill-Stone Dress.
Patent for Mill Stone Dressing- the pattern on a mill stone for the better grinding of grains into flour. The furrows and grooves of the new design allow grain to be "milled... at greater speed (and)even distribution."
Date:
March 8, 1870
Creator:
Loy, G. W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mosquito Netting Frame.
Patent for a new and improved mosquito netting frame. This design "consists of a mosquito-netting frame formed of two longitudinal rods removably fastened to uprights attached to the bedposts, and held by cords or wires passing from the outer ends of each of said longitudinal rods to the top of each upright. A transverse rod or bar is removably attached to the outer ends of said longitudinal bars or rods. . . . [The design] is simple in construction, light, durable, and convenient" (lines 9-18).
Date:
March 8, 1881
Creator:
Bailey, Alfred H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Spading Machine.
Patent for a new and improved rotary spading machine. This design "consists in the combination of a cylinder or drum armed with a series of spades or teeth, and mounted on a revolving shaft having a bearing or ground wheel, and a series of cleaning fingers or disks, which operate between the teeth of a second cylinder or drum which is mounted in a frame hung loosely on the main shaft of the machine, so as to rise and fall and adapt itself to the inequalities of the ground" (lines 21-30).
Date:
March 8, 1881
Creator:
Schuchard, Julius
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "the combination, with a draw-bar, a sliding box, a movable eccentric secured therein, a coupling-rod, and a pivoted locking-jaw, of a locking-plate secured to said box and adapted to lock the jaw against movement" (lines 84-89).
Date:
March 8, 1887
Creator:
Zedler, Fridrick
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists "in combination with the jaws . . . which are arranged to move laterally and simultaneously . . . each having two side hooks combined with the bar and springs . . . the levers, shaft, pulleys, and the chains which pass over the pulleys and connect the rollers with the jaws" (lines 86-96).
Date:
March 8, 1887
Creator:
Neal, Adam Sylvester
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Arc Lamp.
Patent for a new and improved electric-arc lamp. This design consists in "the combination of a single horseshoe electro-magnet in the circuit of a main line, connected on the positive side to a binding-post having shunt material as a bushing around it, an armature hinged at its center and free to vibrate throughout its length with a carbon-rod holder, which it is adapted to clutch at the hinged part, said magnet acting upon the ends of the armature only, and an adjustable trip and limiting-stops, and means permitting both to be readily adjusted upon the outside of the casing to regulate the lamp" (lines 46-58).
Date:
March 8, 1887
Creator:
McDill, Henry C. & Gaston, James E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire-Arm.
Patent for an improvement to adjusting rifle barrels and holding those adjustments in place. Includes illustrations.
Date:
March 8, 1887
Creator:
Alston, William F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spring Saddle.
Patent for a new and improved spring-saddle. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the saddle-tree, the spiral springs secured in pairs under the lateral halves of the saddle-tree, and the stirrup-straps, of the metallic plates each provided with a series of holes about its edge for securing padding thereto, and with a notch and a slit at the middle of one side for the passage of the stirrup-straps" (lines 57-64).
Date:
March 8, 1887
Creator:
Quintero, Antonio Hidalgo
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Fluid
Patent for invention has relation to improved detergent and it consists in combining certain ingredients and the manner and proportions as will be here in after fully set forth, and particular pointed out in the claim appended.[10]
Date:
March 8, 1887
Creator:
Mnnick, Maggie, E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Standard for Plows.
Patent for improvements to foot pieces that allow for easy adjustment of plowing depth. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 1, 1891
Creator:
Teague, Jasper K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Elevating and Cleaning Seed-Cotton.
Patent for a steam-powered device for cleaning seed-cotton. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 10, 1891
Creator:
Robinson, Albert S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for temporary, easily attachable and detachable coupling devices that rejoin draw-heads that have been broken or disabled in cars. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 13, 1891
Creator:
Wallis, Fuller W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grain-Conveyer for Binders, &c.
Patent for improvements in grain conveyers, making the folding arms of the conveyer automatic. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 20, 1891
Creator:
Schubert, George
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stirring-Machine.
Patent for "agitating-machines adapted to be used for various purposes," (lines 8-10) including washing clothes and freezing ice cream. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 15, 1890
Creator:
Crawford, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Arm for Telegraph - Poles.
Patent for a new and useful arm for telegraph poles.
Date:
March 8, 1898
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car - Coupling.
Patent for a new and useful car coupler.
Date:
March 8, 1898
Creator:
Parks, Thomas W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clock Attachment.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in clock attachments.
Date:
March 8, 1898
Creator:
Schindler, Joseph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Plow and Planter.
Patent for a new and useful improvements in a combined plow and planter which "can be readily adapted for planting different kinds of seed, such as corn, cotton, cane, and the like" (line 21 - 23).
Date:
March 8, 1898
Creator:
Franklin, George
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for Cam Wheel.
Patent for A Cam-Wheel that has opposite reversely disposed duplicate lobes of segmental form.
Date:
March 8, 1898
Creator:
Wheeler, Andrew Jackson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drinking-Goblet, &c.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in drinking goblets and other similar glassware.
Date:
March 8, 1898
Creator:
Jones, Edward Culliett, Jr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fist-Blow Tester.
Patent for a new and useful fist blow tester, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 8, 1898
Creator:
Lee, Charles
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horse-Detacher.
Patent for improvements in horse-detachers by engaging “straps or chains spring-actuated bolts to the free ends of the pivoted levers; and on the opposite ends of said levers hooks are attached for securing trace or tug straps.” (Lines 21-25) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 8, 1898
Creator:
Napier, John S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horse - Releaser.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in "devices for releasing fractious animals from vehicles" (line 15 -16).
Date:
March 8, 1898
Creator:
Grossman, Amanda I.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History