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Improvement in Gang-Plows.
Patent for "constructing and arranging a gang or series of plows in one frame that they may have an adjustment on the supporting-runners, and a means of self-adjustment vertically, so that they may be set for furrow-slices of any given depth, and any one of the series may give way to an undue resistance in the line of the furrow without disturbing any other of the plows." (Lines 20-28) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 9, 1869
Creator:
Hall, Thomas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for a bale tie that "form[s] a double lock-tie for securing the ends of baling-hoops, which cannot become detached or tear and whose outer surface face is flush, thereby rendering it impossible to catch against other packages, and thus be broken or torn off" (para. 2).
Date:
November 9, 1875
Creator:
Drake, Simeon N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
Patent for improvement in cotton-presses that relates to a specific combination toggle arms connected to a platen with a ball-and-socket or other joint and sliding guide rods.
Date:
November 9, 1875
Creator:
Bearce, Larned S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent for improving a plow device that is curved and has open grooves.
Date:
September 11, 1875
Creator:
Freeman, Irvin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Screw-Propulsion.
Patent for "a new and useful Improvement in Screw-Propellers and their adaptation to the hulls of vessels" (lines 4-6) including illustrations.
Date:
November 9, 1875
Creator:
Wilson, Joseph Erwin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grinding Planer Knife.
Patent for a new and improved attachment for grinders of wood-planing-machine knives. This design "may be securely attached to the frame of a wood-planing machine for grinding the revolving knives of the planer without removing the knives from its shaft or the shaft from its bearings upon the frame of the machine. . . . in so constructing and combining the parts of the improved device . . . it may be readily adapted to suit various-sized machines" (lines 10-22).
Date:
November 9, 1880
Creator:
Le Roy, Charles Jerome
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant Trap.
Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design "has for its object the production of a simple, cheap, and effective device whereby the ants are confined to a space within the circle of the trap, speedily captured, and exterminated. It consists in a trap constructed with a circular flanged pit provided with tubes leading therefrom to a central ant-receptacle; also, in the details of construction of the trap" (lines 8-16).
Date:
November 9, 1886
Creator:
Barnes, Robert Hanson & Salles, George Camiel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Awning
Patent for an improvement in Awnings, that include interchangeable parts that can be permanent or easily detached pending on the situation. Included are detailed illustrations.
Date:
November 9, 1886
Creator:
Ferrel, Alexander
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Commode.
Patent for an integrated air-venting commode.
Date:
November 9, 1886
Creator:
Bardon, Prosper
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter Combined.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design "is to provide a planter which may be used as a cotton-planter or other small-seed planter, the various parts being so arranged that the number of grains planted in a hill may be regulated as desired, while the depth of the furrow may also be regulated in accordance with the requirements of the case" (lines 8-15).
Date:
November 9, 1886
Creator:
Davis, Joseph Green
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Scraper.
Patent for a new and improved corn and cotton scraper. This design "is to provide an improved corn and cotton scraper for turning or shovel plows for the cultivation of cotton, corn, and other plants, which is adapted to be attached to the beam of the plow without weakening the same by cutting or boring. The scraper is so arranged as to be adjusted either to the right or left, as desired, and up and down, on a central slotted foot-piece, by means of which the line of draft on the blade of the scraper is at all times the same as that on the beam of the plow" (lines 14-25).
Date:
November 9, 1886
Creator:
Adams, William Hinyard
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Planter and Chopper.
Patent for planting and chopping cotton.
Date:
November 9, 1886
Creator:
Pitts, Lee Paschal
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Feed Water Heater.
Patent for a new and improved feed-water heater. This design "is to provide a boiler with a feed-water heater which will serve as a spark-arrester, and which will also purify the water and prevent the formation of scale in the water, and whereby, also, the heating surface will be increased and fuel economized. The invention consists of a feed-water heater composed of a series of pipes attached to half-cylindrical heads, placed diagonally in the fire-box of the boiler, and connected with the water-space of the boiler" (lines 8-19).
Date:
November 9, 1886
Creator:
Green, George
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water Elevator.
Patent for a new and improved water-elevator. This design "has for its object to provide for the escape of the air initially held in the upper bends of the screw, so as to relieve the same of the pneumatic pressure caused thereby in connection with the ascending water, thus causing less resistance to the rotation of the screw, enabling it to be operated by decreased motive power" (lines 11-18).
Date:
November 9, 1886
Creator:
Campbell, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Desulfurizing Matte Or Other Furnace Products
Patent for a new and improved apparatus for desulfuring matte or other furnace products.
Date:
November 9, 1897
Creator:
Wells, James L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pounder
Patent for a new and useful improvements in Clothes-Pounders. The invention "has its object to provide a simple and effective clothes pounder in which the air as well as the water is used as an agent in removing the dirt from the clothes" (line 12- 16).
Date:
November 9, 1897
Creator:
Allen, William Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Egg-Case.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in egg case, that "relates to folding boxes or crates such as are usually employed for packing and shipping eggs and various other articles" (line 10-12).
Date:
November 9, 1897
Creator:
Prechtel, Charles A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Organ Protector
Patent for a new and useful Oran protector "to prevent the entrance of vermin through the Knee-swell slot" ( line 9 - 11).
Date:
November 9, 1897
Creator:
Oliver, Samuel R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a new and useful plow to "provides means whereby a shovel, plow, sweep, or other soil-working device may be connected with the beam or standard of a sulky or walking plow" ( line 7 - 10).
Date:
November 9, 1897
Creator:
Wells, Louis B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting - Frame for Sewing - Machines
Patent for a new and useful improvements in quilting frames for sewing machines. This invention is to " provide a simple, cheap, and efficient quilting frame adapted to be suspended from an overhead support and to be used in connection with an ordinary sewing machine" (line 13-17).
Date:
November 9, 1897
Creator:
Heacker, Edwin W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weed - Exterminator
Patent for a new and useful improvement in Johnson-Grass, other grass and weed extermination.
Date:
November 9, 1897
Creator:
McBride, Samuel H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cactus-Burner.
Patent for a new and useful cactus burner, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 9, 1898
Creator:
Edmunds, Eddie
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Match Box
Patent for automatic match box. This device is designed to eject matches to a suitable distance. Illustration included.
Date:
November 9, 1909
Creator:
Hanna, John Griffin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Churn and Ice Cream Freezer
Patent for a combined churn and ice cream freezer. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 9, 1909
Creator:
Jones, William A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History