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Improvement in Lamps
Patent for the construction of a combined oil burning lamp and candlestick.
Date:
August 3, 1869
Creator:
Richer, F. C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Reversible Sad-Irons.
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Irons" (lines 4-5) including illustrations.
Date:
August 3, 1875
Creator:
Smothers, Thomas T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Destroying the Cutting Ant.
Patent for "an improved apparatus for destroying the cutting ants in their nests." (Lines 9-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 3, 1875
Creator:
Fenner, Ferdinand A. & Power, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cloth-Measuring Machine.
Patent for for a new cloth-measuring machine design, including illustrations.
Date:
August 3, 1880
Creator:
Dodson, Orson W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bedstead Fastener.
Patent for a new and improved bedstead-fastener. This design "relates to the construction of a fastener for bedsteads, the object of the invention being to provide a fastener by which the parts are firmly held together and prevented from springing; and to these ends the invention consists of certain details of construction and combination of parts" (lines 8-14).
Date:
August 3, 1886
Creator:
Dickey, John S. & McKinney, William P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lubricated Bullet.
Patent for lubricated lead bullets to prevent the deterioration and rusting of the inner barrel of rifled firearms, so as to maintain their accuracy. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 3, 1897
Creator:
Stewardson, Samuel Clinton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Means for Opening or Closing Elevator-Doors.
Patent for a device which is mounted upon the traveling car and automatically opens and closes elevator doors. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 3, 1897
Creator:
Bell, Chester L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Engine
Patent for "a new and improved steam-engine, in which the pressure of the live steam is completely and very advantageously utilized," (lines 8-10) including illustrations.
Date:
August 3, 1886
Creator:
Rush, Peter S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mold-Board For Plows
Patent for an improvement for the mold boards for plows, adapted for cultivation of sandy soil to disarrange and break the furrow slice on and over the mold board. Included are detail illustrations.
Date:
August 3, 1886
Creator:
Kelly, George A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for an improved turning plow. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 3, 1897
Creator:
Sevier, Samuel G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam Plow
Patent for Steam-Plow. "The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved steam-plow, which is simple in construction, has great tractive force, can-not slip, and plows very rapidly and perfectly." (lines 7-10)
Date:
August 3, 1886
Creator:
Lay, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Car-Step.
Patent for "a supplemental folding step which may be lowered into position for use when passengers are boarding or leaving a [railway] car and which may be folded back out of the way when the train is about to leave the station." (Lines 12-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 3, 1897
Creator:
Hamilton, Samuel R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Crate.
Patent for a crate that is "readily folded into a small compass when not in use and easily unfolded and adjusted, so as to serve the purpose of an ordinary crate, and when so adjusted it will be as rigid as though of ordinary construction." (Lines 11-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 3, 1897
Creator:
Hausmann, Otto
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Head Rest for Chairs.
Patent for a new and improved head-rest for chairs. This design consists in "[a] head-rest for chairs, comprising a top support . . . a plate fixed thereto and provided with a socket and guides . . . a ball, fitting socket, and retaining-jaws held in the guide of the plate around the ball" (lines 81-86).
Date:
August 3, 1886
Creator:
Ashby, Daniel S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "[t]he combination . . . of the hopper having the bottom board provided with the slot and the groove, the slide bearing on the bottom board and having the slot, the depending stud engaging the groove, and the oscillating stirrer above the slide and having the arm engaging the slide" (lines 46-53).
Date:
August 3, 1886
Creator:
Whitehurst, Esir David
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for a new and improved gate. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the suspended rolling gate [and] the toggle-jointed levers . . . connecting the gate with a fixed point" (lines 102-104). It further consists in a lever "pivoted at one end to a fixed point, the lever pivoted to [another] lever near the outer end of the latter, the lower end of the lever being attached to the free end of the lever, the pivoted hand-levers fulcrumed on opposite sides of the gate, and the rod connecting the inner ends of the said hand levers with the connected ends of the [other] levers" (lines 1-8).
Date:
August 3, 1886
Creator:
Lewis, John Coleman & Rainey, Willain Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drag-Sawing Machine.
Patent for improvements in "sawing-machines adapted for using both circular and reciprocating saws, and especially designed for general sawing in cabinet-makers’ and carpenters’ shops, its object being to provide for the proper guiding and support of the reciprocating saw and for the ready adjustment and firm maintenance of the articles to be sawed in proper position.” (Lines 9-16) Illustration is included.
Date:
August 3, 1880
Creator:
Gardner, Robert J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bat-Making Machine.
Patent for a cotton bat making machine which allows the cotton lint to be positioned better on the press and the outer bag material covering the cotton lint to be attached together quickly. Illustration is included.
Date:
August 3, 1909
Creator:
Haynes, Daniel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a cotton chopper attachment, which can be connected to a cultivator to thin cotton.
Date:
August 3, 1909
Creator:
Joiner, Preston
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Core-Drill.
Patent for a core drill for making bore holes in rocks to get out solid samples of the inside of rocks, which has an improved grabbing method for retrieving the piece of rock inside the hole.
Date:
August 3, 1909
Creator:
McLoughlin, Malacha J. & Wynn, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Baling-Press
Patent for an automatic hay baling press which has more packing devices for feeding the hay into the press than previous versions.
Date:
August 3, 1909
Creator:
Rahm, Robert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Stalk-Cutter and Plow.
Patent for a combined stalk cutter and plow, which has a stalk cutter on the front and a plow on the back.
Date:
August 3, 1909
Creator:
Peeples, Rufus P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lumber-Dolly.
Patent for a lumber dolly, which has an anti-tilting device that can be used while loading or unloading the dolly.
Date:
August 3, 1909
Creator:
Lott, Andrew Gains
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock.
Patent for a combined nut lock and washer for use on railroad track joints.
Date:
August 3, 1909
Creator:
Garner, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History