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Railway Rail and Chair.
Patent for a new and improved railway rail and chair combination. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the reversible rail and chair-plates . . . so as to leave an open crescent-shaped space below the middle part of the rail and above the inwardly projecting lips" (lines 94-98).
Date:
August 2, 1881
Creator:
Brown, Frederick H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway Switch Lock.
Patent for a new and improved railway-switch lock. This design "consists in a novel construction and arrangement of parts whereby an independent key is used to unlock the latch or bolt of the bolt-case" (lines 14-17).
Date:
August 2, 1881
Creator:
Angus, Alexander & Phillips, George
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher.
Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design "facilitate[s] the building of wire fences; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the transporting bed or wagon, its spindles for the spools of wire, and its transverse windlass-rollers and their ratchets and pawls" (lines 16-21).
Date:
August 2, 1881
Creator:
Morter, John Letcher
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Plow, Harrow, and Cultivator.
Patent for improvement in the construction of combined plows, harrows, and cultivators.
Date:
May 2, 1882
Creator:
Moss, John Carlton
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sulky Plow.
Patent for a new and improved sulky plow. This design "obviate[s] certain minor defects of the sulky-carriage for plows" (lines 15-17). More specifically, it "provide[s] simple and effective means for properly balancing the plow-carriage or frame and taking the weight off the horses' necks, provision being also made for using plows with or without guide-handles and of varying heights" (lines 39-44).
Date:
May 2, 1882
Creator:
Ward, James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Implement for Sealing Packages and Railroad Cars.
Patent for a new and improved implement for the sealing of railroad cars and packages. This design "consists of an implement combining all the tools necessary for rapidly and easily sealing railroad-cars and packages with the ordinary wire or tin seals, and of the [novel] particular construction" (lines 9-13).
Date:
January 2, 1883
Creator:
Miller, Theodore E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compound for the manufacture of artificial stone.
Patent for "Compounds for the Manufacture of Artificial Stone...and it consists in composition formed by mixing certain materials in solution and treating them in further solutions" (lines 5-15).
Date:
January 2, 1883
Creator:
Greer, Joseph A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fan Attachment.
Patent for a new and improved fan attachment. This design "consists of an attachment for rocking-chairs, cradles, &c., and having an oscillatory arm adapted to hold a fan" (lines 9-11).
Date:
January 2, 1883
Creator:
Cohen, Moses
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fiber-Machine.
Patent for an improvement in fiber machines that is "adaptable to fibers of various plants; but it is especially designed for separating the fiber of plants found in Mexico--such as lechugilla, Spanish dagger, and similar plants" (lines 28-32). The machine is used to separate the usable fiber from the leaves, stalks, and other parts of the plants.
Date:
September 2, 1884
Creator:
Worthington, George & Parvin, Enoch, J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fiber machine.
Patent for the improvement of fiber-machines, using rolls, bearings, wheels, brushes, racks and pinions.
Date:
September 2, 1884
Creator:
Worthington, George & Parvin, Enoch J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fleece Binder.
Patent for a new and improved fleece-binder. This design "consists in a fleece-binder constructed with a box attached to a supporting-frame, and having inclined flanges upon its side edges, and provided with hinged press-boards and fingers operated by push-bars, a cord, and a treadle, whereby the fleece can be compressed and held while being tied. To the ends of the sides of the box is attached a knife, so that all the twines of the bundle can be cut at a time" (lines 20-29).
Date:
September 2, 1884
Creator:
Krueger, Theodore C. H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Needle Threader for Sewing Machines.
Patent for a new and improved sewing-machine needle-threader. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the slide-bearing of the needle-bar, of the slide, its stop and spring, and the pivoted funnel-guide having a squared bearing to engage the spring, and a face-groove in its small end to engage the needle" (lines 73-78).
Date:
September 2, 1884
Creator:
Bellah, William N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spring for Riding Saddles.
Patent for a new and improved saddle spring. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a riding-saddle, of the series of transverse bridge-springs extending over the saddle-opening and having spiral ends bearing on the tree, and the longitudinal springs at the sides of said traverse springs" (lines 52-57).
Date:
September 2, 1884
Creator:
Reason, Thomas & Crenshaw, Marcus L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling Seed Cotton.
Patent for cotton house with bins and conveyors that prevent the cotton from being contaminated.
Date:
December 2, 1884
Creator:
Munger, Robert S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling Seed-Cotton.
Patent for a "mechanism for handling seed-cotton [...] to provide novel means for conveying said cotton directly from the wagon or from the cotton-house to the ginning mechanism, whereby the cotton is cleansed and dried during its passage" (lines 7-13). It also helps to prevent fires and contamination of ginned cotton, and to reduce labor handling seed-cotton.
Date:
December 2, 1884
Creator:
Munger, Robert S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn Power.
Patent for a new and improved churn-power. This design "consists in the combination, with a vertically-moveable carriage provided with a drum, of a rope wound on the same, and having its upper end secured, from which drum a wheel on the carriage is operated by suitable gearing, the said wheel being connected with the dasher-staff. When the carriage descends under the action of its own weight and of the weight of the parts on it, the drum is revolved and the dasher rod or staff operated" (lines 11-21).
Date:
December 2, 1884
Creator:
Williams, Fredrick Fitz
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton or Other Press.
Patent for "that class of cotton-presses in which duplex bale or press boxes arranged to swing upon centers are adapted to be brought in line with a stationary platen and a movable follower" (lines 7-11), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 2, 1884
Creator:
Munger, Robert S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mechanism for Handling Lint Cotton.
Patent for a new and improved mechanism for handling lint-cotton. This design "has for its object to avoid the accumulation of dust and light particles of fiber in the atmosphere of the gin-house, to greatly reduce the dangers of destructive conflagrations in ginning establishments, to avoid the repeated handling of the cotton between the gins and the press, and to secure a more perfect separation from the cotton of dust and other foreign substances" (lines 8-16).
Date:
December 2, 1884
Creator:
Munger, Robert S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe Wrench.
Patent for a new and improved pipe wrench. This design consists "[i]n a pipe-wrench, the bar or lever having a lower curved and serrated end, in combination with the pivoted arm having reversely-hooked ends, one of said curved ends having a greater curvature than the other said hooked end" (lines 59-64).
Date:
December 2, 1884
Creator:
Morrison, William S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire Place Heater.
Patent for a new and improved fire-place heater. This design "is to provide an inexpensive fire-place heater, constructed so that it may heat two or more rooms on the same floor of a building, and with a single fire, so as to economize fuel and labor of attendance" (lines 7-11).
Date:
June 2, 1885
Creator:
Bartlett, Thomas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pantaloons and Overalls.
Patent for new and improved overalls and pants. This design "consists in a garment cut in four pieces of peculiar form united in a peculiar manner, whereby the seat and crotch and the inner sides of the legs are made of double thickness and the leg and crotch both rendered seamless, in order that they may be worn without the discomfort attending the use of garments in which heavy seams or welts exist in the middle" (lines 10-18).
Date:
June 2, 1885
Creator:
Blake, Samuel Diggs
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Making Concrete Walls, Blocks, & c.
Patent for a new and improvement Process of Making Concrete Walls, Blocks for sills, steps, and walks
Date:
June 2, 1885
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stove Pipe Joint.
Patent for a new and improved joint for stove pipes. This design has for its object "to secure a firm and safe connection between the sections of pipe, and at the same time to protect the joint so that the pipe is not liable to crack or split at that point. [The] invention consists in combining with the threaded sections of a stove-pipe, a cap or band secured to one of the sections and overlapping the other, so as to inclose and protect the joint" (lines 9-17).
Date:
June 2, 1885
Creator:
Laughlin, William N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Construction of Privy-Vaults and Apparatus for Use Therewith.
Patent for "a new and useful Improvements in the Construction of Privy-Vaults and Apparatus for Use Therewith"(lines 4-6)" to insure cleanliness in around privy-vaults and to prevent accumulations therein, especially in localities where water is not easily available"(lines 9-12), instructions and illustrations included.
Date:
February 2, 1886
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History