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Improvement in Cotton-Choppers.
Patent for improvements in cotton choppers.
Date:
April 28, 1868
Creator:
Kidd, I. J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Scrapers.
Patent for improvement in cotton-scrapers by using the combination of horizontal bars, cams, and a beam which consist of ploughs to construct the cotton-scraper; when the “cams revolve and give a lateral and forward motion to the horizontal bars, the beam and the ploughs. As it works backward and forward, the ploughs each describe a zigzag line which cross and leave a hill in diamond-shape undisturbed.” (Lines 21-24) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 28, 1868
Creator:
Kidd, I. J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Road-Scrapers.
Patent for road scrapers, illustration included.
Date:
April 28, 1874
Creator:
Mayfield, William Dudley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mill-Carriage-Wheel Guard.
Patent for a new mill-carriage-wheel guard "to prevent obstruction falling on the wheels or on the [railroad] track, this guard also carries scrapers in front and in rear and on each side of the wheel, whereby the obstructions are scraped off the track." (Lines 23-28) This guard can be used with a wood-working machine carriages and/or rail.” Illustration is included.
Date:
April 28, 1891
Creator:
Zimmerman, Joseph W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Music Holder.
Patent for a new and improved sheet-music holder. This design consists "[i]n a music-holder, the combination of the base-board, the tension arms, the frictional spiral-swings, the plates perforated to receive the screw, and having the countersunk perforation to receive the knots in the ends of the elastic cords, and the knot receiver" (lines 50-55).
Date:
April 28, 1885
Creator:
Frampton, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a plow that improves on a previous patent granted to the inventors (No. 507,854). The improvements are that the "stock may be used in connection with any form of share needed for working a crop" (lines 14-16) and the plow provides "a sweep-stock with a point which will be integral with its shoe or foot-bar, and which will assist in holding the share in position" (lines 20-23).
Date:
April 28, 1896
Creator:
Symmank, Herman & Matthijez, Ernst
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Refrigerating Apparatus.
Patent for a refrigerating apparatus that consists of a circular table that has a reservoir in its middle and jars mounted on fibrous mats and secured in a grid around the reservoir. Fibrous bags surround the jars and the excess material is gathered and goes into the reservoir.
Date:
April 28, 1896
Creator:
Dodge, Israel A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Refrigerating Apparatus.
Patent for "improvements in refrigerating apparatuses, more particularly to those for the purpose of hardening ice cream" (lines 8-11) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 28, 1914
Creator:
Mackin, Sam
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Riding-Saddle.
Patent for a ridding-saddle that is an improvement previously granted to Jesse D. Padgitt (No. 540,940). The improvements include increasing the strength to the flexible rear portion of the saddle. The first patent was for a saddle "distinguished by a tree or frame formed of a short rigid fork and a flexible body or rear portion, including a seat and cantle, constructed of leather or other suitable flexible material" (lines 10-14).
Date:
April 28, 1896
Creator:
Padgitt, William C. & Padgitt, Jesse D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Silo-Chute.
Patent for "a chute that may be readily attached to or detached from a silo" (lines 14-15).
Date:
April 28, 1914
Creator:
Latimer, James H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Snap-Hook.
Patent for improvements in snap-hooks by using just one “single piece of wire, having a stationary arm that bent to form an inwardly-extending shank with its extremity bent in a reverse direction upon itself to form a bearing; the spring-arm and the spring-loop formed by coiling the wire upon itself and crossing, and extending outward at an angle to form shoulders to strengthen the hook immediately in front of the spring-loop.” (Lines 61-70) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 28, 1891
Creator:
Stukes, John Marion
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Boiler Indicator.
Patent for an improvement in steam boiler indicators to alert when the water has dropped below a specified threshold, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 28, 1914
Creator:
Marrs, Vollie B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stirrup.
Patent for a light and durable stirrup that can be used in light and heavy saddles and has an improved construction.
Date:
April 28, 1896
Creator:
Turner, Ephraim M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stirrup
Patent for a stirrup.
Date:
April 28, 1903
Creator:
Hollicott, John & Gillespie, Charles W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stump-Puller
Patent for stump puller.
Date:
April 28, 1903
Creator:
Garrett, Irvin H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Suspension-Bridge.
Patent for improvements in suspension-bridge by using a combination of upper main cables reached from one pillar to the opposite pillar and anchored in the rear side of the pillars. A pair of lower cables at each side of the bridge; each pair being crossed at the center of the A-shaped or angular girders, these girders are bent for use as receiving hooks to form vertical stays. A series of girders hold the upper and lower cables in position thus making the bridge strong, light and rigid span. Illustration is included.
Date:
April 28, 1891
Creator:
Tucker, Argyle W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Switch Cord Plug
Patent for a switch cord plug that can be adapted to cords and used with telephone switchboards. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 28, 1908
Creator:
Smith, Eugene Lamar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thermostat.
Patent for a thermostat that automatically regulates temperatures and is operated "in conjunction with an electric current or the like" (lines 12-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 28, 1914
Creator:
Hinson, Robert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trolley-Wheel
Patent for a trolley wheel. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 28, 1908
Creator:
Neighbour, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tub Holder
Patent for improvements made to tub holders, primarily to suit tubs of various sizes for heating water. Purposes for holding tubs include boiling water for clothes and food. The improvements focus on support of the tubs, and allow for rotation of tubs with ease and efficiency.
Date:
April 28, 1914
Creator:
Dullnig, Adolph Cleveland
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ventilating Cover.
Patent for a new and improved ventilating cover. This design "consists in the detailed construction of the same . . . whereby the contents of . . . vessels are protected from dust, insects, and all kinds of impurity, and at the same time are thoroughly ventilated by free communication with the atmosphere, and so that any gases arising from the contents of said vessels will not be confined with the contents, but will pass off through the ventilating-cover into the surrounding air" (lines 16-26).
Date:
April 28, 1885
Creator:
Smith, Ralph Julius
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washboiler
Patent for a wash boiler used to wash clothes with steam and water. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 28, 1908
Creator:
Morton, Milo A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weeder.
Patent for a new adjustable-height weeder that attaches to a cultivator or lister and cultivates, weeds, or cuts field vegetation quickly.
Date:
April 28, 1914
Creator:
Geurin, Henry E. & Dean, Walter D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drilling Apparatus.
Patent for drilling well apparatuses that approximate the weight imposed so that the weight can be regulated to improve efficiency, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 28, 1914
Creator:
Hughes, Howard R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History