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Coffee and Spice Mill.
Patent for a new and improved mill for coffee and spices. This design "consists in constructing a coffee and spice mill with a hopper having arms for attaching the mill to a wall and for supporting the gear-wheel formed upon it, an inner cone-burr formed solid with the hopper, an outer shell-burr suspended from and swiveled to the inner burr by a cross-bar, rod, and hand-nut, and the gear-wheels and crank for rotating the outer-burr" (lines 22-30).
Date:
March 28, 1882
Creator:
Andrews, Thomas A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Whiffletree.
Patent for a new and improved whiffletree. This design "compris[es] a front rod and a back rod or spring united together by welding, said whiffletree having its ends rounded to form shoulders and provided with hooks fitting upon the rounded ends and prevented from slipping inward by the shoulders, and disks placed upon said rounded ends and attained thereon by swaging the latter" (lines 6-13).
Date:
May 28, 1889
Creator:
Black, William Jackson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Whiffletree.
Patent for a new and improved whiffletree. This design "compris[es] a front bar, a back rod or spring united to the front bar by welding, the ends of both said bar and rod being bent upon themselves and the parts welded together to construct an eye or opening, whereby both bar and rod are bent around the latter . . . a strengthening-piece placed between the front bar and the back rod or spring, and a casing secured to the back rod and adapted to hold the strengthening-piece in place" (lines 8-18).
Date:
May 28, 1889
Creator:
Black, William Jackson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton, Corn, And Sorghum Planter
Patent for improvements to a previously made patent serial no. 287,764: the improvements would include adjustable feed disks, simple and adjustable means of regulating the feed of the seed, bracing rods for the drill, and improvements in construction of the frame and hopper.
Date:
May 28, 1889
Creator:
Schofield, Jake Drommond
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Door.
Patent for a new and improved door for railroad cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the car having the door-opening with its upper and lower edges parallel and inclined upward and inward, and the bolt-keeper secured to the sill of the car, of the door having correspondingly-inclined upper and lower edges, the guide-staple and fulcrum-bracket secured to the door at proper points, the operating-lever pivoted to said bracket, the link-rods and bolt, the [other] link-rod pivoted at its lower end to the operating-lever" (lines 4-14).
Date:
May 28, 1889
Creator:
Charlton, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Can Opener.
Patent for a new and improved can opener. This design consists "[i]n a can-opener, the combination, with a radius-bar having a handle at one end and a vertical fulcrum or pivot-pin, of an adjustable sleeve mounted on the bar and carrying two cutters, one being adapted to act as a guide and the other as a cutter" (lines 27-32).
Date:
July 28, 1885
Creator:
Misener, Richard Oliver
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a new and improved churn. This design consists in "the staff-head having the slot . . . and opposite inside grooves, in combination with a dasher-stem head conforming to the recesses in the head and carrying a spring in an upper cavity thereof, a plunger having its toe resting upon said spring, and operative mechanism" (lines 77-83).
Date:
June 28, 1887
Creator:
Catchings, Thomas Jefferson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant Trap.
Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design consists in "the combination of a tube having a longitudinal slot in its top at one end and a transverse slot in the bottom near the other end, the top of the tube on each side of the longitudinal slot bent downward, a pen secured to the end of the tube having the longitudinal slot, a portion of one side piece of the pen forming an end for the tube and the other side piece being cut away and secured to the tube, and a receptacle under the end of the tube having the transverse slot, the upper edges of the pen and of the receptacle being bent" (lines 65-77).
Date:
February 28, 1888
Creator:
Miller, Marshall Crittenden
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Box for Washing Gravel, &c.
Patent for washing gravel and other material for making concrete.
Date:
February 28, 1888
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the draw-head, of an upright or standard secured thereto, a lever pivoted to said upright or standard, a coupling-pin pivoted to said lever, a flat spring secured to the underside of the draw-head and extending outwardly beyond the same, and a chain connecting said lever and spring" (lines 16-22).
Date:
October 28, 1884
Creator:
Pritchett, William Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Buncher.
Patent for an implement to thin and bunch young cotton plants, including illustrations.
Date:
April 28, 1885
Creator:
Tynes, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Fan Combination Stand.
Patent for a new and improved automatic-fan combination-stand. This design "relates to an improved stand or support for an automatic fan, which said stand shall be portable, so as to be conveniently set up wherever desired, and which shall contain various hooks, brackets, shelves, and other conveniences" (lines 17-22).
Date:
November 28, 1882
Creator:
McKeehan, Charles Houston
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel
Patent for improvements to vehicle wheels including a detailed explanation and illustrations.
Date:
November 28, 1882
Creator:
Wolff, Arthur J. & Miltimore, Alonzo E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn Planter and Dropper.
Patent for a new and improved seed planter or dropper. This design utilizes a hopper, a shaft provided with cups, a bevel having a countersunk opening provided with a recess, a gate hinged in said recess and held in contact with the cups on the shaft by a spring, and a concave partition fitting the periphery of the shaft, all constructed and arranged in a novel way (lines 68-75). Additionally, this design utilizes a wheel, the motion of which dispenses the seed.
Date:
June 28, 1881
Creator:
Dawson, John Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Sweep.
Patent for a new and improved corn and cotton sweep. This design "is to provide an improved sweep for the cultivation of corn, cane, and cotton plants while they are young, which shall be capable of adjustment to plow-stocks of any class; to provide removable wings which can be applied or detached when it is desired to throw the dirt or soil to either the right or left; and to provide a removable point which can be replaced when it is worn out with another point of similar construction and thus render the sweep as good as new and save the farmer the cost of a new sweep" (lines 16-27).
Date:
September 28, 1886
Creator:
Lewis, Samuel Timothy & Babb, John Hendrick
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition For Preserving Food
Patent for an improvement in the Fumigating Composition for Preserving and Purifying Purposes using combustible compositions.
Date:
September 28, 1886
Creator:
Radam, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed Bottom.
Patent for an improved bed bottom consisting of a series of hooks and eyes and wires with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 28, 1886
Creator:
Peacock, John Calvin; Graves, James Beard & Huffor, George Allin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Wheel Cultivator And Plow
Patent for improvements to a combined wheel cultivator and plow, "whereby either mold-board plows or shovel-cultivators may be used upon a common frame" (lines 16-18). Includes illustrations.
Date:
December 28, 1886
Creator:
Wahrmund, Charles, Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Attachment for Freight-Car Doors.
Patent for a mechanism that creates "an adjustable attachment for freight-car doors, for preventing sparks and other objectionable matter from getting into the cars, and means for operating the attachment that is adapted for use in securing the door in different positions of adjustment, and for connection with the body of the car by means of a seal-support, in order that the fixed adjustment of the door cannot be changed without breaking the seal" (lines 12-21).
Date:
December 28, 1886
Creator:
Duzan, Thomas H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wagon Bow Socket.
Patent for new and improved wagon-bow sockets. This design "furnishes a firm support for the [wagon] bow at both top and bottom of the socket, by which it is evident it will be rigidly secured against all lateral motions" (lines 38-41). This eliminates the "unsightly appearance, leaking, and other defects of the uneven height of bows so often resulting from the use of ordinary staples" (lines 44-47).
Date:
December 28, 1880
Creator:
Williams, Richard P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lining for Tin Cans.
Patent for a new and improved method of canning seafood with tin cans. This design calls for perforated paper to line the cans, which prevents the discoloration of the seafood inside.
Date:
December 28, 1880
Creator:
Bartlett, Frederick W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wagon Jack.
Patent for a new and improved wagon jack. This design "relates to wagon-jacks, the object being to provide a jack of simple and economical construction which will be applicable alike to light and heavy vehicles. The invention consists in [an] improved construction" (lines 9-14).
Date:
March 28, 1882
Creator:
Clark, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Building and Rerolling Wire Fences.
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Machines for Building and Rerolling Wire Fences"(lines 5-7), including instructions and illustration.
Date:
July 28, 1885
Creator:
Edge, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water Elevator.
Patent for a new and improved water elevator. This design "is to provide each bucket with a weighted back; also, in the manner of connecting the chains thereto, so that the necessity of the employment of a weighted wheel is obviated" (lines 20-24). This means that individual buckets may be removed and replaced, and construction becomes more durable and simple.
Date:
December 28, 1880
Creator:
Mayfield, William D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History