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Improvement in Machine for Drawing and Spinning Cotton
Patent for a machine that improves the process of spinning and drawing cotton. The patent includes an illustration and instructions.
Date:
August 25, 1868
Creator:
Fuller, Jim B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Angle-Cock.
Patent for "a new and improved angle-cock so constructed that the plug cannot be turned by an unauthorized person without the knowledge of the engineer in charge of the train." (Lines 8-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 25, 1896
Creator:
Waldron, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wagon-Brake.
Patent for improvements in automatically operated wagon-brakes using the combination of tongue, rods, hook, levers, spring and chains that connected with each other and secured beneath the wagon-bed to operate the wagon-brake. Illustration is included.
Date:
August 25, 1891
Creator:
Garrett, James B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wagon Brake.
Patent for a new and improved wagon brake. This design consists "[i]n a wagon-brake, the combination of the lever, provided with a pawl having the heel, the ratchet-wheel, and the catch, having the projecting portion . . . [and] a break-lever provided with a brake-lock, the ratchet-wheel, [and] barrel connected to the cord by a brake-lever (lines 92-100).
Date:
August 25, 1885
Creator:
Barmore, Albert King
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Handling and Cleaning Seed-Cotton.
Patent for improvements in machines for handling and cleaning seed-cotton by “taking seed-cotton from wagons or storehouses through pneumatic tubes and delivering it freed from dust and other extraneous matter to any number of gins. It includes devices for imparting flexibility to the feed-section of the tube for distributing the cotton and for disposing of the surplus when the cotton is supplied faster than it can be ginned.” (Lines 15-22) Illustration is included.
Date:
August 25, 1891
Creator:
Thomas, Robert Smith; Hardwick, Sauny Warren & Elam, William Erwin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Holding Wall-Paper.
Patent for a wall-paper hanging machine. It has a frame with a handle, a paste-pot, pasting rollers, a paper-holding roll, a pivoted matching-frame, a cutter, and a way of putting the frame out of use.
Date:
August 25, 1896
Creator:
Gowan, Richard H. & Gowan, Louise E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type-Writer Attachment.
Patent for a typewriter attachment that holds and feeds rolls of paper through typewriters. It is inexpensive and fits on several types of typewriters.
Date:
August 25, 1896
Creator:
Baker, Joseph B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Governor for Steam-Engines.
Patent for "a steam engine governor for shutting off the supply of steam to the engine in the event of the governor-belt breaking or slipping from the pulley, which is operatively connected with the weighted arms of the governor, so as to control the motion of the latter." (Lines 9-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 25, 1896
Creator:
Wilcox, Ferdenand, S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric-Railway Conduit.
Patent for an electric railway conduit that is more efficient and durable. It has "guides for the traveling switch, one of said guides being a continuous one and the other a sectional one, one being insulated from the conduit and the other guide-strip (lines 16-20). The traveling switch moves in the conduit and on the sides of the guides. Only one section of the conduit is live at once, the one that a car is passing over.
Date:
August 25, 1896
Creator:
Hull, William Sharkey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Feed-Water Heater.
Patent for a feed-water heater for steam-boilers. It provides "such a heater having an arrangement of distributing-troughs located in such a manner as to evenly distribute the water over tubes in thin streams or a thin sheet, whereby it may be quickly heated, and, furthermore, in so constructing the parts that the interior portions comprising the circulating tubes and troughs may be easily removed for the purpose of cleaning" (lines 10-18).
Date:
August 25, 1896
Creator:
Muday, George T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Planter.
Patent for improvements in seed-planter by using different sizes of disks to construct a hopper that can be revolved, in which it can be adapted to plant cotton, corn or other seeds. Illustration is included.
Date:
August 25, 1891
Creator:
Thompson, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Marking Device.
Patent for a new and improved merchandise tag. This design consists of a stick "provided with means for holding it fixed in its position after it has been inserted and having hinged to its outer end the tag having a strip of suitable material secured around its edges, as shown, so as to form on both sides of the tag the flanges adapted to receive the removable, reversible, and interchangeable cards (lines 1-8).
Date:
August 25, 1885
Creator:
Brown, Sampson Harvey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pinless Clothes-Line.
Patent for "a simple device constructed of connected links and provided with means for engaging articles to be suspended therefrom, such means being so constructed as to prevent displacement when subjected to severe strains." (Lines 9-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 25, 1896
Creator:
Cooper, John A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dress-Chart.
Patent for dress-chart, with illustrations. The purpose of this dress-chart relating to "pattern charts for cutting any and all garments" regardless of man, woman, or child (lines 9-11).
Date:
August 25, 1885
Creator:
Northen, Mary Eva
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saw-Filing Machine
Patent for a Saw-Filing Machine. "This invention relates to saw-filing machines; and the object of the invention is to provide a simple and effective device of this character which is adapted to sharpen with accuracy and rapidity the teeth of different kinds of saws." (lines 8-13) including illustrations.
Date:
August 25, 1903
Creator:
Smith, John D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cooking Utensil.
Patent for a steam cooker with steam tight joints.
Date:
August 25, 1908
Creator:
Daniels, Laura E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Truck.
Patent for a car truck for use on trains, which can withstand heavy loads and high speeds.
Date:
August 25, 1908
Creator:
Mayo, William C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Electroplating Small Metallic Articles.
Patent for "apparatus for electroplating small metallic articles, and more particularly certain small clamps used in building fences" (lines 8-11), including illustrations.
Date:
August 25, 1903
Creator:
Shelton, John F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling Seed-Cotton
Patent for a seed-cotton handling machine for use in cotton gins which as an improved elevator and feeding system.
Date:
August 25, 1908
Creator:
Fuller, James T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator
Makes gas generators more automatic making them less dangerous and less likely to cause an explosion.
Date:
August 25, 1903
Creator:
Summerfield, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Casing Spear
Patent for casing spears. This invention is designed for pulling well tubes or casings that have broken off out of the well. Illustration included.
Date:
August 25, 1908
Creator:
Carroll, Monroe W. & Johnston, H. G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Centrifugal Machine
Patent for centrifugal machine. This invention is specific to centrifugal machines used as sugar-driers to separate the molasses from crystallized sugar.
Date:
August 25, 1903
Creator:
Kennon, James Daniel; Dobbins, G.W. & Shields, L.T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
GATE
Patent for a Gate. "My invention is an improved gate adapted for use as a farm-gate and for other uses." (lines 11-12) and illustrations.
Date:
August 25, 1903
Creator:
BRUCE, ROBERT A
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Making Bats for Mattresses, Pillows, Comforts, &c.
Patent for a machine for making bats for mattresses and related items.
Date:
August 25, 1908
Creator:
Underwood, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History