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Improvement in Two-Horse Equalizers.
Patent for an adjustable device that redistributes weight so that two animals of unequal strength can perform their equal share of work. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 2, 1870
Creator:
Sims, Zachariah B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Destroying Insects.
Patent for a new and improved apparatus for killing ants. This design "consist[s] of frame, levers, pivoted arms, piston-rod, piston provided with valves and openings, air-tight iron chamber having opening pipe, furnace provided with double lid, lugs, pipe, clamp, and wedge . . . whereby the flame as well as the poisonous vapors are injected into the insect chambers" (lines 50-58).
Date:
August 2, 1881
Creator:
Gray, Hiram Balderston
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of Working Hydrated Volatile Refrigerating Agents, and Apparatus for Ice Making and Refrigeration.
Patent for a new method of working hydrated volatile refrigerating agents and a new refrigerator. This design "involve[s] the use of such highly volatile matters as are capable of hydration — as, for instance, ammonia, that being the refrigerating agent preferable to all others . . . [and] is a simplification in the mode of operation, and in apparatus which enables the employment of comparatively unskilled labor, the production of apparatus at comparatively low cost, and the working of the ammonia-gas at comparatively low pressure, thus obviating the dangers" (lines 13-24).
Date:
August 2, 1881
Creator:
Rose, Thomas
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.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway Switch Lock.
Patent for a new and improved railway-switch lock. This design "consists in a novel construction and arrangement of parts whereby an independent key is used to unlock the latch or bolt of the bolt-case" (lines 14-17).
Date:
August 2, 1881
Creator:
Angus, Alexander & Phillips, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher.
Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design "facilitate[s] the building of wire fences; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the transporting bed or wagon, its spindles for the spools of wire, and its transverse windlass-rollers and their ratchets and pawls" (lines 16-21).
Date:
August 2, 1881
Creator:
Morter, John Letcher
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air Compressor for Deep Well Pumps.
Patent for a new and improved air-compressor. This design "relates to improvements in air-compressing mechanism for the purpose of pumping for forcing from deep wells and performing similar work; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of a larger and smaller air-cylinder, and the combination therewith of mechanism to force the air from the larger into the smaller cylinder to increase the air-pressure in the latter" (lines 22-30).
Date:
August 2, 1887
Creator:
Adams, John R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blacking Brush.
Patent for a new and improved blacking brush. This design "relates to an improvement in boot-blacking brushes so disposed that fluid blacking may be used; and to this end [the design] provide[s] a reservoir at one end with a forwardly-projecting tube or nozzle therefrom, the said reservoir having a disk at one side, so that when pressed the liquid will be forced through the nozzle upon the boot" (lines 13-20).
Date:
August 2, 1887
Creator:
England, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Copy Holder.
Patent for a new and improved copy-holder. This design "is [for] an improved copy-holder intended especially for holding deeds when being transcribed to the records, and seeks to provide a simple, inexpensive construction by which the deed may be held and to and from which the deed or other paper may be adjusted without difficulty, such construction serving also to mark or indicate the particular line of the paper being copied" (lines 7-15).
Date:
August 2, 1887
Creator:
Adair, Irvine James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Planter.
Patent for a cotton or corn planter with detachable parts.
Date:
August 2, 1887
Creator:
Yarborough, William O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Door Check.
Patent for a new and improved door check. This design "is to provide a means for preventing the jarring and noise incident to the sudden stoppage of a door or window-blind in closing . . . and to this end it consists of a hinge having one leaf provided with a case or box extending laterally from the back thereof, the said case or box inclosing a spring-actuated bolt which normally projects beyond the point of the leaf, and is arranged to engage with the other leaf of the hinge when the door is closed" (lines 7-19).
Date:
August 2, 1887
Creator:
Byrne, Matthew Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Switch
Patent for "automatic switches wherein the operative devices are under the control of the engineer, brake-man, or other authorized person on the train or a portion thereof" (lines 12-16).
Date:
August 2, 1887
Creator:
Robberson, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Standard for Logging Cars.
Patent for a new and improved standard for logging-cars. This design "consists of a pivoted standard connected by links to a lever a short distance from its pivot, so that when the lever is turned out of alignment with the links the standard will be firmly locked in position. . . . The object of [the] invention is to provide a standard for cars and wagons which can be readily turned down out of the way when loading, and which, when turned up into position, will be firmly and securely held" (lines 7-16).
Date:
August 2, 1887
Creator:
Minnock, Edmund Junius
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Top.
Patent for a new and improved vehicle roof. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the rabbeted vehicle-top-supporting bows, of strips mounted in said rabbets and provided with overlapping upper ends, curtain-supporting frames, and clips carried by said frames and arranged to engage the overlapping strips" (lines 92-97).
Date:
August 2, 1887
Creator:
McCurdy, Thomas B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wagon Brake
Patent for an improvement in wagon brakes
Date:
August 2, 1887
Creator:
Templeton, Absalom
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Caster.
Patent for a new and improved caster. This design consists in "the combination of a caster having an elongated stem provided with upper and lower annular supporting-shoulders, a poison-receptacle having a central opening in its bottom to receive the stem and provided with a central vertical tube having a top provided with an opening receiving the stem, said receptacle being supported by the lower shoulder, and a concavo-convex shield supported by the upper shoulder and arranged over the mouth of the receptacle and provided with a filling-orifice and having a pivoted cover" (lines 82-93).
Date:
August 2, 1892
Creator:
Gordon, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate Latch.
Patent for a new and improved gate-latch. This design is "so constructed as to permit of its ready adjustment to different gates, and also its adjustment, as may be required, subsequent to its attachment to the gate, without necessitating its removal" (lines 20-24). It "compris[es] the latch-bar having therein a longitudinal slot, the arm connected to the intermediate portion of said bar by a bolt or pin passing adjustably through said slot, said arm being curved forwardly at its upper portion, and a transverse handle-bar rigidly secured to the upper end of said arm" (lines 84-91).
Date:
August 2, 1892
Creator:
Fox, James T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ironing Board.
Patent for a new and improved ironing-board. This design "is to provide a simple and inexpensive ironing-table adapted to be readily attached to the edge of a table or to a cleat on the wall and capable of being adjusted vertically to accommodate itself to the height of the table or other support" (lines 10-15). It consists in "[a]n ironing-table comprising an ironing-board provided at its rear end with parallel slots . . . the ribs secured to the lower face of the ironing-board and forming grooves or ways, a prop or leg composed of parallel bars adapted to fold in said grooves or ways" (lines 68-73).
Date:
August 2, 1892
Creator:
Chapin, Frederick N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Listing-Plow
Patent for a new listing plow that is "cheap and simple construction and readily adjustable to form wide or narrow beds and to be used in bedding of cotton or corn" (lines 11-13).
Date:
August 2, 1892
Creator:
Leatherwood, Calvin Nathaniel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mechanism for Harvester-Reels
Patent for change to harvester reels so that the "reel can be moved to any desired position and by which, also, to support the reel after it has been moved into the desired position" (lines 9-12).
Date:
August 2, 1892
Creator:
Schubert, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Rack for Railway-Cars.
Patent for improvements on racks in railway-cars including more storage for smaller items, an adjustable rack for children or elderly persons to be able to reach without needing to stand on the car seat, a titled hinge that allows a rack to be pulled for ward and pushed back, and other improvements.
Date:
August 2, 1898
Creator:
Butler, Michael
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cook-Stove.
Patent for "improvements in cook stoves or ranges; and the object of the invention is to provide a simple construction in which two oven-chambers are employed, arranged one above the other in the same vertical plane, and in which the draft and products of combustion are caused to circulate beneath, around one end, and above each of the oven-chambers to thoroughly heat the same." (lines 7-16).
Date:
August 2, 1898
Creator:
Turbeville, John B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire-Escape.
Patent for a new and useful fire escape, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 2, 1898
Creator:
Buck, Sterling P. & Meaker, Charles L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Kitchen-Cabinet.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in kitchen cabinets, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 2, 1898
Creator:
Lackey, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History