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Improvement in Propelling Vessels.
Patent for a hydraulic propeller that uses a current of water and steam power, including illustrations.
Date:
August 26, 1846
Creator:
Fulton, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Weeding-Hoes.
Patent for improvment of "the construction of weeding-hoes; and it consists in providing the same with an inclined cutting-edge, in such a way that they will enter and pass through the ground more easily than hoes constructed in the ordinary manner." (11-16)including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 26, 1873
Creator:
Crossland, Henry S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Iron Saddle-Tree Forks
Patent for an improvement in iron saddle-tree forks that are cheaper to construct as well as light and durable. Includes illustration and description.
Date:
August 26, 1879
Creator:
Wood, John McLane & Bellah, William Newton
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Street-Cars
Patent for an improvement to Street Cars to better navigate curves. Includes description and illustrations.
Date:
August 26, 1879
Creator:
Towell, Isaac
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Shears
Patent for an improvement in animal shears to "simplify and improve the construction of animal-shears, and render their operation more positive and reliable" (lines 11-13).
Date:
August 26, 1890
Creator:
Monday, Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a new and improved churn. This design "ha[s] a curved bottom and rounded ends and consisting of the bottom, the sides, the partitions . . . similar to the sides and arranged adjacent to the latter" (lines 101-104). Said partitions "[form] water compartments, the transverse partition providing a communication between the water compartments and being formed by a plate bent longitudinally at an angle and having its apex extending across the body of the churn, and the dasher arranged above the partition and suitably secured in place" (lines 1-8).
Date:
August 26, 1890
Creator:
Day, William Howel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pin.
Patent for a new and improved clothespin. This design "has for its object to provide an improved pin that can be readily adjusted to any desired position upon the line, and which can be turned at any desired angle to clamp the clothes. The pin is constructed, preferably, of resilient wire—preferably galvanized or otherwise treated to prevent rusting of the same—and may be made in various sizes. [The design] form[s] the pin with an eye or ring portion, through which the line is passed, and with two sets of arms—one set having its two portions parallel with each other" (lines 11-22).
Date:
August 26, 1890
Creator:
Turner, Ephraim M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a new and improved plow. This design "has for its object to construct a plow with a detachable point, which may be removed from the plow in an easy and convenient manner and which may be held securely attached to the plow without the use of bolts" (lines 8-13). It consists in "the combination of a pair of clamping-plates, a seat or base-plate having a downwardly-extending flange secured between the front ends of said plates, said base-plate being provided with a transverse slot, the mold-board and point provided at their meeting edges with flanges" (lines 85-91).
Date:
August 26, 1890
Creator:
Messer, Jeremiah C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for improvements in plows so that it can be adjusted more easily while being overall easy to operate.
Date:
August 26, 1890
Creator:
Muesse, Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rack for Holding and Exhibiting Rolls of Goods.
Patent for a new and improved rack. This design consists in "[t]he rack comprising the sills, the crossed bars secured thereto and to each other at their intersecting parts and forming triangular sides, said crossed bars having the projecting ends, the cross-slats connecting the crossed bars and arranged in the angles thereof, and the extension comprising the inclined bars, the short crossed bars secured at right angles thereto, and the slats connecting the bars at the angles formed thereby, the said bars being detachably bolted to the projecting ends of the inclined bars of the rack" (lines 16-28).
Date:
August 26, 1890
Creator:
Chapman, Luna F. & Montgomery, James A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Refrigerator.
Patent for a new and improved refrigerator. This design is "for use without ice, the cooling effect being secured by the evaporation of water. Consequently the apparatus will be most effective when exposed to a current of air. The apparatus is formed with a suitable framing, having its sides closed in with wire-gauze to permit the free circulation of air, and at the same time exclude insects and the like. At one side a door affords access to the interior of the refrigerator, and legs serve to hold its bottom above the floor or other support on which the refrigerator stands" (lines 16-28).
Date:
August 26, 1890
Creator:
Laman, Nancy A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press
Patent for "a new and Improved Baling-Press" (lines 7-8) with description and illustrations.
Date:
August 26, 1902
Creator:
Goodwyn, Thadeus A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ballast Spreading Car
Patent for improvements on the ballast spreading car, including plows placed underneath for more efficient spreading of ballast material.
Date:
August 26, 1902
Creator:
Scott, William R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Compress
Patent for "an improved cotton-compress adapted to be used in connection with a cotton-baling press for increasing the density and reducing the size of the bales formed in the press."
Date:
August 26, 1902
Creator:
Denton, John L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fuel Compound.
Patent for "Ricker's Crude-Oil Brick Fuel," a petroleum compound meant to replace coal.
Date:
August 26, 1902
Creator:
Ricker, James Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil Heater, Strainer, and Separator
Patent for purifying oil by removing all impurities. It is meant to prepare the oil for fuel burning purposes.
Date:
August 26, 1902
Creator:
Burrow, Edgar A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weed-Cutting Attachment for Plows.
Patent is for "weed cutting devices for plows, and has for its object to provide the shovel of a plow or cultivator with blades or knives, which are adapted to enter the soil a slight distance and cut down or uproot all weeds or grass and at the same time to smooth or pulverize the soil" (lines 12-18).
Date:
August 26, 1902
Creator:
Robinson, John M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Fire-Escape.
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Automatic Fire-Escapes" (lines 5-6), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 26, 1913
Creator:
Thompson, Herman E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Lock and Circuit-Breaker.
Patent for a combination lock used to protect automobile circuit breakers from unauthorized use.
Date:
August 26, 1913
Creator:
Buckeye, George J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Plow and Scraper
Patent for "a combined plow and scraper, which may be employed to alternately break or loosen a surface that is being graded or lowered, and to scrape the loosened material from said surface." (lines 14-18)
Date:
August 26, 1913
Creator:
Reese, Edwin M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a cotton chopper that is meant to "provide an improved means for controlling the position of the chopper blades." (lines 17-19) It is designed to make the action of cutting cotton more stable and precise.
Date:
August 26, 1913
Creator:
Woodrom, George A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dip for Animals.
Patent for a non-poisonous antiseptic and parasiticide dip to cure animal's skin diseases (including mange and Spanish itch) and stimulate the growth of wool or hair.
Date:
August 26, 1913
Creator:
Carpenter, Earl Collins
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Door-Operator.
Patent for a device that is a means of mounting a train car door by which it may be easily opened or closed, and especially easily fixed when stuck.
Date:
August 26, 1913
Creator:
Gradick, Wiley, Sr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dry-Closet Commode.
Patent for a sanitary dry closet commode for areas that do not have a sewerage or water works system. The commode is "readily cleaned, simple in construction, practically odorless, and adapted to be emptied with facility" (lines 15-18). The patent includes illustrations.
Date:
August 26, 1913
Creator:
Mershon, John Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History