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Child's Crib.
Patent for a new and improved child's crib. This design utilizes "a rock-shaft with inward-projecting arms, from the inner ends of which the cords are suspended, [and it] avoid[s] the friction and wear of the cords incident to the carrying of these through the screw-eyes, as shown in [a previous patent], making them last much longer, beside simplifying the construction of the crib" (lines 67-74).
Date:
March 15, 1881
Creator:
Brown, Fred Harvey
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Stalk Puller.
Patent for a new and improved cotton stalk puller. This design utilizes "[a] pulling-wheel having radial jaws that are opened and closed by cam devices" when "[i]t is driven astride the [cotton] row, and will be found to operate rapidly and with absolute certainty. It is simple, durable, and may be constructed at a very small expense" (lines 79-84).
Date:
March 15, 1881
Creator:
Wilson, John C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harness Buckle.
Patent for a new and improved harness buckle. This design calls for a central cross-bar, upon which the frame rests, with fold-able arms that form a loop beneath the side-bars with the assistance of metal pins (lines 57-62). This design eliminates the need for stitching the strap being buckled.
Date:
March 15, 1881
Creator:
Garrett, Charles William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gang Plow.
Patent for a new and improved gang plow. This design consists in "the landside-beam, the front cross-beam, the oblique plow-carrying beam connected at its rear end to the landside-beam and at its front to the front cross-beam, the tubular bearings or boxings on the side of the landside-beam and at the front of the plow-beam, the wheeled cylindrical rods extending through and freely rotatable in the said bearings or boxings, and means . . . for raising and lowering the frame on the cylindrical rods" (lines 17-28).
Date:
March 15, 1887
Creator:
Hinchman, Frank M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe Connection.
Patent for a new and improved pipe connection. This design has for its object "to provide a new and improved pipe connection which permits of swinging the several connected pipe-sections at angles to each other. The invention consists of two pipe-heads fastened together and turning on a spring-bolt, and of a packing placed between the said pipe-heads to prevent leakage" (lines 8-15).
Date:
March 15, 1887
Creator:
Jones, William E. & Winniatt, Harry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Portable Flour and Meal Bin.
Patent for a new and improved bin for flour and meal. This design "consist[s], essentially, of the casing having compartments provided with contracted curved bottoms, the spouts in said bottoms, the spirally-grooved shafts in said spouts, the chambers the bottoms of which are hinged to the casing and provided with the sieves, and the stirrers on the ends of the shafts and within the hinged chambers" (lines 81-89).
Date:
March 15, 1887
Creator:
Cox, Thomas Jefferson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for improvements to a press that bales hay. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 15, 1891
Creator:
Mattijetz, Andreas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Replacer.
Patent for a repairable, sectional car replacer, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 22, 1891
Creator:
Scott, Nelson S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carling-Socket for Car-Frames.
Patent for improvements to "carlings for the roofs of cars, such as used for transporting live or dead freight," (lines 11-13) with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 31, 1891
Creator:
Coffin, Walter E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Harvester.
Patent for improvements to cotton harvesting devices, with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 1, 1891
Creator:
Cunningham, James F. & Dingee, William W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Sack Carrier.
Patent for a device with wheels to prevent sacks used in cotton cultivation from dragging on the ground, with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 15, 1892
Creator:
Warren, John & Johnson, William Oscar
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harness-Pad.
Patent for "an improved fastening for harness pads or housings which is equally adapted for sweat-pads for horse-collars." (Lines 11-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 10, 1891
Creator:
Powell, John S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Milk-Cooler.
Patent for improvements in a device that cools pails of milk by evaporating water. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 4, 1891
Creator:
Ledbetter, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for improvements to plows, including a mechanism to enhance the durability of the parts of the plow that receive the most use. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 30, 1891
Creator:
Flatau, Louis S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash-Fastener.
Patent for a "device which will lock the sashes of a window when they are closed and which will secure them in any desired adjustment," (lines 11-14) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 27, 1891
Creator:
Taber, William M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trace-Carrier.
Patent for improvements to rein buckles allowing them to be attached to a trace-chain, which will adapt them for use with plows and harnesses. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 5, 1891
Creator:
Jackson, Samuel G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cartridge-Loading Machine.
Patent for a certain new and useful improvement in shell-loading machines.
Date:
March 15, 1898
Creator:
Handshy, Henry M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Cuspidor.
Design patent for a cuspidor. The sides of which are nearly perpendicular and the extended base-supporting flange of which is in the form of a rope or cable, while the upper edge is ornamented by milling.
Date:
March 15, 1898
Creator:
Hart, Samuel Harp
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pitman - Coupling.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in "pitman connections for mowing-machines an harvester"(line 10 - 11).
Date:
March 15, 1898
Creator:
Douglass, Samuel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump.
Patent for a new and useful improvements in pumps.
Date:
March 15, 1898
Creator:
Mauldin, Alfred W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway- Rail Joint.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in railway-rail Joints.
Date:
March 15, 1898
Creator:
Mauldin, Doctor Chester
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Registering Voting-Machine.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in registering voting-machines.
Date:
March 15, 1898
Creator:
Woodman, George C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Riveting-Machine.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in riveting-machines.
Date:
March 15, 1898
Creator:
Love, Robert H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine.
Patent for washing machines with "roller-supporting frame for supporting the same either upon a horizontal surface or upon the top of a tub or receptacle in connection with which the machine is used" (lines 10-14) including illustrations.
Date:
March 15, 1898
Creator:
Smith, Henry E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History