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Improvement in Magazine Fire-Arms.
Patent for an "improved repeating fire-arm... contrived with a sliding breech-block, which is drawn back by crank on the right-hand side of the gun" (lines 6-9) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 14, 1875
Creator:
Toepperwein, Emil A. F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent for "a new and Improved Plow" (lines 4-5) including illustrations.
Date:
September 14, 1875
Creator:
Freeman, Irvan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Baling Apparatus.
Patent for the "improvements in cotton-baling apparatus or compresses of that type in which the cotton is received directly from the gin or gins" (lines 13-16) including illustrations.
Date:
September 14, 1897
Creator:
Melcher, Charles L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Stretching Fence-Wires.
Patent for a portable manually operated apparatus that is designed to stretch wire-fence strands at right angles to tighten the full length of the strand without "kinking or twisting the fence-strand or driving staples or analagous fastenings into the fence-post" (lines 16-21) while the fence strand is tight. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 14, 1897
Creator:
Pyeatt, Jessie Newton.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Forcing Beer from Kegs.
Patent for a new and improved apparatus for forcing beer from kegs. This design "relates to an improved method of keeping atmospheric pressure upon beer or other aerated liquid contained in a keg or similar receptacle, so as to prevent the same from becoming stale or flat from the evaporating of its dissolved gas. It consists in improvements in the apparatus by means of which the above-stated result is accomplished; and it further consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts" (lines 16-25).
Date:
September 14, 1886
Creator:
Surratt, George & Heyman, Harry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coffee Mill Attachment.
Patent for a new and improved coffee-mill attachment. This design "is to provide an attachment for coffee-mills whereby a cup or other receptacle can be suspended beneath the discharge-spout of the mill to receive the ground coffee therefrom, and which vessel can also be easily and readily fitted or adjusted beneath or removed from the discharge-spout, and to provide means which can be applied very easily and readily to hand coffee-mills of any class, and which shall be simple in construction and inexpensive" (lines 16-26).
Date:
September 14, 1886
Creator:
Wiesendanger, Emil Ulrich
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper and Scraper.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper and scraper. This design consists of "the frame, the arms or standards pivoted to the said frame and carrying the chopping hoes or plows, the rock-shafts having the arms connected to the standards or [other] arms, and the [third] arms, and the rotating crank-shaft connected to the [third] arms, whereby the standards or arms will be caused to alternately approach and recede from each other as the machine advances" (lines 52-61).
Date:
September 14, 1886
Creator:
Basham, Wesley Houston
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for improvements in wire stretchers: "provide a wire stretcher of simple, durable, and economic construction, capable of being applied to a wire and supported upon s post or maintained in working position between posts or uprights" (lines 8-13).
Date:
September 14, 1897
Creator:
Brannon, Walter Zebulin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Mixing Mortar.
Patent for a new and improved machine for mixing mortar. This design "consists in a cylinder composed of bars set into open heads and rotating beneath a hopper . . . so that the material to be mixed rests upon the cylinder, and is rasped or grated off by the motion of the cylinder and received on the inside of the cylinder between the bars. . . . When the material is received inside the cylinder it is carried around by the rotary motion, and is turned over and forced out" (lines 7-22).
Date:
September 14, 1880
Creator:
Schellenberger, Samuel L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Primer for Cannon.
Patent for a new and improved primer for cannons. This design corrects the loosening of primers in their vent-holes by way of "a spring combined with the priming tube, which spring expands to the size of the vent" (para. 3). This eliminates blowouts and premature breakage.
Date:
September 14, 1880
Creator:
Rodman, John Black
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spoke Socket.
Patent for a new and improved vehicle wheel for "preventing the tire from becoming loose" and "preventing the loosening and rattling of the spokes" (lines 8-11). This design achieves these feats with conically-tipped spokes encased by rubber cushions.
Date:
September 14, 1880
Creator:
Harrington, John A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Support for Coffee Mills.
Patent for a new and improved support for coffee grinders. This design consists in "the combination of the base having the socket and the projecting bracket-lug provided with the binding-screw, and the standard adapted to carry the mill and removably fitted in the bracket-lug and held therein by the screw" (lines 8-13).
Date:
September 14, 1886
Creator:
McCarty, Benjamin Wells & Gagne, Fabius Peter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Motor.
Patent for a new and improved motor. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the spring-actuated mechanism, of the ratchet-wheel, the spring-detent, and the lever to operate a rod" (lines 55-58).
Date:
September 14, 1886
Creator:
Houston, George W. & Mulkey, Elijah F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trolley Wire Hanger.
Patent for new and improved trolley wire hangers to "provide a clamp for trolley-wires which may be easily and quickly adjusted by one not particularly skilled in the art" (lines 24-27), including instructions and illustrations. This clamp is also designed to keep broken insulator bolts from damaging the trolley and span wires.
Date:
September 14, 1897
Creator:
Faulkner, John F. & Campbell, Royer
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spring Socket Iron for Vehicles.
Patent for a new and improved spring socket-iron for vehicles. This design "relates to thills and thill-couplings by means of which a more convenient and safe fastening for the thills or pole of a carriage or wagon are provided, whereby the thills are readily attached to or detached from spring-socket thill-irons, and the irons are securely locked in the ears of the axle-clips by means of flanged bolts working in recessed movable bushings in the ears of the clips and in the eye of the thill-irons" (lines 14-23).
Date:
September 14, 1886
Creator:
Horrne, Henry Monroe
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rein Holder.
Patent for a new and improved rein-holder. This design consists in an "improved rein-holder formed of the bifurcated standard having clamp-screws, the stationary cylinder, and the movable cylinder, pivoted eccentrically and at a point above the stationary cylinder" (lines 67-71).
Date:
September 14, 1886
Creator:
Gooch, Harold
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Finger-Exercising Machine.
Patent for a finger-exercising machine that is meant to improve the finger strength and flexibility of musicians. "A cylinder provided with friction-rollers imparts motion to a set of keys upon which the fingers are placed; and the object of [the invention] is to impart flexibility to the fingers, and to overcome the otherwise difficult motion" (lines 11-16).
Date:
September 14, 1880
Creator:
Becker, Francis L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Marking Tag
Patent for marking tags (price tags) for garments and/or fabrics for sale. The design is meant to reduce missing, torn, or frayed marking tags. Illustrations and instructions included.
Date:
September 14, 1897
Creator:
Winkler, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Needle.
Patent for improvements in needles: "is to provide a ready means for cutting to the twine, thread, or cord carried by a needle" (lines 15-17).
Date:
September 14, 1897
Creator:
Posey, Robert H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for a new and improved gate. This design consists in "the sill-beams, grooved . . . the trip-bars secured in said grooves and pivotally supported at one end, and connections between the opposite ends of the trip-bars and the gate" (lines 83-87).
Date:
September 14, 1886
Creator:
Tipton, Phylander S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crate
Patent for a cylindrical crate. Illustration included.
Date:
September 14, 1909
Creator:
Burwell, Charles B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chicken-Roost.
Patent for a chicken roost, which has a receptacle for droppings that is easily cleaned.
Date:
September 14, 1909
Creator:
Kaneaster, Henry R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cross-Head
Patent for a cross-head for piston pumps which helps prevent breakage of the other pump parts.
Date:
September 14, 1909
Creator:
Dubuque, Arthur
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Lift.
Patent for a water lift for wells, which can be easily removed from the well for cleaning.
Date:
September 14, 1909
Creator:
De Hymel, Franklin Oscar
System:
The Portal to Texas History