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Chain-Link.
Patent for a harness ring for connecting and disconnecting from other fastening hooks, chains, or rings, including illustration.
Date:
November 13, 1860
Creator:
Kirk, John P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seed-Planters.
Patent for "revolving-cylinder seed-planters; and its object is to furnish a strong and durable implement adapted to plant with precision various kinds of seed, and the wheels of which are not liable to become clogged with earth." (Lines 12-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 13, 1877
Creator:
Burris, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mud Shoe.
Patent for a new and improved mud shoe. This design has for its object "to provide a device adapted to be worn over the ordinary boot or shoe and afford a convenient means for keeping the same out of the mud, dirt, or water; and the novelty consists in the detail of the construction and combination of the several parts" (lines 18-24).
Date:
November 13, 1883
Creator:
Carroll, Samuel T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk Cutter.
Patent for a new and improved stalk cutter. This design "has for its object to produce a machine which shall possess superior advantages in point of simplicity, durability, and general efficiency. To this end it consists in certain improvements in the construction of the same" (lines 10-14).
Date:
November 13, 1883
Creator:
Snider, John J. & O'Bannon, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cactus-Singer.
Patent for a safer design of a portable flame gun, used for burning needles off cactus plants, with illustrations.
Date:
November 13, 1887
Creator:
Vacher, Ernest William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Banana-Case
Patent for a banana case to "provide a case or crate in which bananas may be readily packed and transported without injury to the fruit."
Date:
November 13, 1888
Creator:
Aiken, Robert H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coin Controlled Electrical Weighing Scale.
Patent for a new and improved coin-operated electrical scale. This design "relates to improvements in electrical weighing-scales that may be tripped by electricity; and the main object of [the] invention is to so arrange the electric circuit that it may be closed for tripping the indicator by inserting within the machine a coin or like-shaped metallic piece" (lines 16-22).
Date:
November 13, 1888
Creator:
Smith, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn Planter Attachment.
Patent for a new and improved planter attachment. This design consists "of a suitable hopper which is to be attached to the side of the beam, a spring-actuated seed-slide, an extension or support which projects from one end of the hopper, a pivoted lever placed upon the extension and connected to the seed-slide at one end, a strap connected to the outer end of the lever, and the singletree to which the draft animal is secured . . . to convert any ordinary plow or cultivator into a corn-planter . . . which is operated by the pivoted motion of the singletree as the draft animal moves forward" (lines 14-29).
Date:
November 13, 1888
Creator:
Dean, Robert A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Envelope-Machine
Patent for "a machine for making envelopes, paper bags, and similar receptacles from paper and other like materials" (lines 7-9).
Date:
November 13, 1888
Creator:
Clarke, George R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame.
Patent for a new and improved hame. This design "has relation to hames, and more particularly to the means of securing the hames adjustable to each other, and for connecting the usual parts of the harness thereto; and among the objects in view are to provide an easily-manipulated serviceable hame connection that may be adjusted to fit any sized collars, and which may be constructed at a minimum cost" (lines 11-19).
Date:
November 13, 1888
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Paper Holder and Cutter.
Patent for a new and improved paper cutter. This design "relates to that class of paper holders and cutters in which the paper is drawn through a holder and severed at any desired point. Its objects are to secure a cheap, simple, durable, efficient, and easily-manipulated apparatus capable, if required, of holding several sheets of the same or different widths, which can be fed side by side and cut to the requisite length, leaving a projecting edge behind the cutter to afford ready means of drawing out the succeeding sheet" (lines 9-19).
Date:
November 13, 1888
Creator:
Eberhardt, Theophilus Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sweep for Corn and Cotton Cultivators.
Patent for a new and improved cultivator sweep. This design "compris[es] a long thin blade, having its front end bent downward and rearward, forming a lip adapted to take into the earth . . . [and] the combination of the beam, the standards secured thereto, and the blade having the projections secured to the standards and having the downward and rearward turned lip at its front end" (lines 59-68).
Date:
November 13, 1888
Creator:
Cowan, Elias
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant-Trap.
Patent for an ant-trap with an inflexible bottom with a hole in the middle, a perpendicular section rough on the inside and smooth on the outside, and the perpendicular smooth sides are attached to the edges of the bottom. The trap has a device that prevents the ants from running around the trap.
Date:
November 13, 1894
Creator:
Carter, William B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive automatically car-coupling that holds the link in a horizontal position that the operator does not need to guide the couplings by hand. It can also be uncoupled without going between the cars.
Date:
November 13, 1894
Creator:
Norcross, George A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for a gate that improves "the construction of sliding gates, and to provide a simple and inexpensive one, which will be positive and reliable in its operation, and which may be opened and closed a distance from it approaching it in either direction, without dismounting or leaving a vehicle" (lines 10-16). It also prevents farm animals from passing through when the gate is closed.
Date:
November 13, 1894
Creator:
Smith, Stansbury J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harness-Saddle.
Patent for a harness saddle that has a metallic frame that is hinged with straps, pads, guide straps that are secured to the pads and slide along straps, plates connected to a curved plate in the saddle, plates pivotally connected to the aforementioned plates, cylindrical lugs that are attached to plates, and cylindrical apertures that slip over the lugs.
Date:
November 13, 1894
Creator:
Miller, John A. & Warmoth, James H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut and Bolt Lock.
Patent for "an improved device for fastening a bolt and nut in position, whereby the tendency of the bolt or not to become displaced under jar or strain is obviated." (Lines 7-11) Includes instructions or illustrations.
Date:
November 13, 1894
Creator:
Rush, George L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe-Wrench.
Patent for a pipe-wrench that is a "pair of tongs [made] for holding rods or pipes of different diameter so that, when between the jaws, they will be held by an elastic cam pressure, without any further muscular exertion by the smith or expert mechanic who is about to work upon the rod or pipe" (lines 16-21).
Date:
November 13, 1894
Creator:
Riza, Mike H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ptich-Board.
Patent for pitch-board that is "an instrument adapted for use by carpenters and others, the same being so constructed as to serve as a rule, a square, or angle, and adapted to be arranged for indicating accurately any inclination or bevel that may be desired, and finally that is capable of being folded" (lines 6-12).
Date:
November 13, 1894
Creator:
Frasier, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saw Gummer or Sharpener.
Patent for an apparatus "which may be easily applied to a gang of gin saws, which is arranged in such a manner that the grinder may be quickly and nicely adjusted so as to properly fit the teeth of the saws and to enter between them to any desired distance, also to provide a simple and efficient feed mechanism which moves the saws tooth by tooth as they are ground, to provide a simple means of regulating the pitch of the grinder, and in general to produce a machine which enables the saws to be rapidly and nicely ground so as to leave the teeth their full, original length and openness." (Lines 13-25) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 13, 1894
Creator:
Oglesby, Jerrold E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stamp Sticking or Sealing Machine.
Patent for a stamp sticking or sealing machine that is meant "to provide a device with a moistening pad capable of applying moisture to the mucilage of the stamps, and with a guide or way through which the stamps may be passed, and by which they are guided to and past the moistening pad; and the invention consists in certain novel features of construction whereby the device is made capable of easier manipulation, whereby it may be held in one hand so as to cause the stamps to make contact with the pad, thus leaving the other hand of the operator free to draw the stamps over the pad and to affix them" (lines 8-21).
Date:
November 13, 1894
Creator:
Shaw, James Tyus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Swing.
Patent for a swing that consists of a frame, a wooden horse to ride on, a U-shaped hanger that is attached to the seat in the back and front, a pulley-like rocker attached to the top of the frame, a bolt that is securing the rocker to the hanger, two bars that go from the horse seat to the pulley, and a chord that attaches the two bars and goes around the top of the pulley.
Date:
November 13, 1894
Creator:
Alston, Samuel I.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Telephone.
Patent for a simple and effective magneto telephone with a newly designed apparatus that allows the telephone to better receive and transmit calls and "will receive its magnetism from the magnets of the magneto call" (lines 21-22).
Date:
November 13, 1894
Creator:
Serdinko, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gage Attachment for Bench-Planes.
The invention is "to improve the construction of gages for planes and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device adapted to be readily applied to the stock of the plane and capable of being set at different angles" (lines 10-15) "to enable the face of a board to be accurately planed at the desired angle" (lines 16-17).
Date:
November 13, 1900
Creator:
Smith, Millage M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History