States
88 Matching Results
Results open in a new window/tab.
Results:
1 - 24 of
88
next
Bolt and Nut-Lock.
Patent for "a nut-lock of such construction that it may be used either as a permanent nut-lock or one in which the locking feature may be thrown out of engagement when it is desired to remove the bolt for any purpose." (Lines 15-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 21, 1896
Creator:
Nevill, William B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Heating up Locomotive-Boilers.
Patent for an "apparatus for kindling fires in locomotives; and it is intended to provide an improved apparatus by which the fires may be rapidly and economically kindled and steam may be gotten up without much of the tedious delay now ordinarily incident to raising steam in a cold locomotive-boiler." (Lines 13-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 21, 1896
Creator:
Connor, John T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Book-Holder for Reading-Stands.
Patent for "a book holder especially designed to receive large books for reference, such as a dictionary for example, and to so construct the mechanism of the holder that a cradle will be provided for the reception of the book, which cradle will be adapted to be carried upward and outward from the holder in a manner which will bring the book in proper position for consultation, and which mechanism will also act to lower the book, without jar or injury to it, within the holder when the book is no longer required." (Lines 14-26) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 21, 1894
Creator:
Anderson, Francis John & Irick, William Madison
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Bag Carrier.
Patent for improved cotton sack carrier: "the object of the present invention is to provide a device whereby cotton sacks may be conveniently carried during the picking of cotton from one portion of the field to another without wearing the sack and with convenience to the picker" (lines 10-15).
Date:
February 21, 1893
Creator:
Laird, Archibald F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed-Brace.
Patent for a bed brace that consists of end-loops that are held by engage hooks at the ends of the bedstead, fixed draw-wires that connect the outer and inner sides of the end-loops, a tension-loop that is connected to the side rails, tightening link with duplicate rings that slide onto the tension loop, and a transverse twisting-bar.
Date:
February 21, 1893
Creator:
Pool, David Preston
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive churn that works efficiently and does not take up much space. It consists of a solid upper portion, a lower portion, a horizontal bar that connects the two, a bracing frame, a shaft, bearings, a band wheel attached to the shaft, an adjustable drive wheel, a crank wheel, and a dasher.
Date:
March 21, 1893
Creator:
Gibson, Wyatt
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beehive.
Patent for a beehive that is meant "to provide for the ready or convenient "robbing" of the hive without subjecting the bees to injury , as experienced in the old way, by smoking the bees out of the hive" (lines 16-20).
Date:
March 21, 1893
Creator:
Hawkins, Jackson D. & Ray, Francis M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adding-Machine.
Patent for an inexpensive, simple, easily operated, and improved registering machine that is meant to add numbers without mistakes. It uses revoluble number wheels and a spring-returned shaft among other materials.
Date:
March 21, 1893
Creator:
Brooks, Augustus J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "relates to hook-and-catch couplers for railroad cars; and it consists in making one which will automatically drop by turning in the quadrant of a circle as soon as the draw-heads of two cars strike together" (lines 15-19).
Date:
January 21, 1890
Creator:
Shelburn, Cephas C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "is to provide means for raising the catch to release it from either side or from the top of the car, and holding it in such raised position" (lines 8-12). It consists, "with the draw-head and the catch pivoted therein and having tip extended vertically through the front end thereof, of eyes in said draw-head, a wire frame journaled in said eyes and having forwardly extending arms above and beneath the body of said catch, and means . . . for turning the frame in said eyes" (lines 85-93).
Date:
October 21, 1890
Creator:
Whatley, Richard I.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Treating Cotton-Seed Hulls
Patent for "a simple and durable plant capable of use in carrying out a dry process of reducing the hulls to a finely-divided condition" (lines 8-13).
Date:
October 21, 1890
Creator:
Bohn, Emil
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compensating Pump-Spring.
Patent for improvements in compensating pump-springs by “storing up in the downward or idle stroke of the suction-rod, a power which is expended during the upward stroke to assist the crank in lifting the rod; and at the same time reducing the power required to drive the pump, equalizing the resistance, increasing the efficiency and generally prolonging the life of the entire mechanism.” (Lines 36-40) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 21, 1891
Creator:
Black, William L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Power.
Patent for improvements in churns is to “simplify and improve the construction of the means for operating vertically-reciprocating churn-dashers and to enable the dasher to be adjusted vertically, according to the amount of lacteal fluid to be churned.” (Lines 11-15) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 21, 1891
Creator:
Dickey, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for improvements in baling-presses by using a four-sided baling box/chamber with supporting-upright doors arranged at the top, at the front and one of the sides of the box. These doors can be hinged at diagonally-opposite corners of the box; locking-bolts are pivoted at the free end of the each door, the top door with locking-bar sliding through apertures in the uprights and the lever for operating the top door. Illustration is included.
Date:
April 21, 1891
Creator:
Klockmann, Henry G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Atomizer.
Patent for improvements in atomizers or instruments for distributing powders or liquids in which it provided “provision for closing the exit-passage and preserve the strength of the medicated powders or fluid and permit of the carrying of the same within the body of the device without danger of spilling.” (Lines 17-21) The rubber bulb is detachable and is used as a powder-box or as a bottle for fluid. Illustration is included.
Date:
July 21, 1891
Creator:
Robinson, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-coupling.
Patent for a new and improved car coupling of the Janney type that increases "efficiency in service and enable[s] an operator at the side of the train to readily and with safety set the improved car-coupling to disconnect it from another of the same style" (lines 11-14), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 21, 1897
Creator:
Smith, Thomas Henry.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Button.
Patent for a button that can fit in any buttonhole. It is "a bar having a button or know affixed thereto and having key-hole-slots, of a button attached to an arm having a tongue and a contracted offset portion adjacent thereto and between the same and the button carried thereby, the said tongue being of a thickness substantially the same as the width of the slot" (lines 55-62).
Date:
July 21, 1896
Creator:
Burroughs, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Motive-Power Machines
Patent for an attachment for motors "designed to prevent the loss of leverage and power which ordinarily obtains in such motors and in all machinery where the power is taken from cranks, and also to overcome what is known as the dead-center, and thus to greatly increase the power of the machine to which the attachment is applied" (lines 12-18).
Date:
June 21, 1892
Creator:
Weaver, John L. & Brenke, Henry, Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for improvements in wire stretchers by using a T-shaped lever “to stretch the wire readily to the desired tension, and is capable of maintaining the wire at that tension until after stapling or otherwise fastening the same to a post.” (Lines 61-65) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 21, 1891
Creator:
Kennedy, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ironing Table.
Patent for a new and improved ironing board. This design consists, "with the supporting-frame and hinged board, of the inclined bar pivoted to the under side of said board, the lever hinged at one end to the lower end of the bar and fulcrumed . . . to the under side of the cross-bar, and the treadle hinged to one bottom rail and passing under the other" (lines 75-82).
Date:
October 21, 1890
Creator:
Wagnon, Andrew W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Two Wheeled Vehicle.
Patent for a new and improved two-wheeled vehicle. This design consists, "with the vehicle-body, the side springs secured thereto, and the bow-shaped brackets secured to said springs, of the axle and the shafts secured to the axle, the links pivoted to the axle and the said brackets and suspending the vehicle-body from the axle, the spring having its rear end secured to the vehicle body and provided with an eye at its front end, the cross-bar connecting the shafts, an eyebolt depending from the said cross-bar, and the adjustable link adapted to be lengthened or shortened" (lines 53-64).
Date:
October 21, 1890
Creator:
Harper, William D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Turping Implement.
Patent for a new and improved turfing implement. This design "is to produce a . . . handle . . . together with improved means for threading the needle (lines 10-12). It consists "with a tubular needle having a longitudinal slit, the outer end of the needle being open and its upper side being formed into a tongue near its inner end, which is bent upwardly and whose extremity projects into the needle, of a handle into which the needle is passed and a presser-foot adjustably connected at its inner end to the handle and having its outer end turned up and provided with an opening" (lines 85-93).
Date:
June 21, 1892
Creator:
Robinson, Laurence Benjamin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wagon Attachment.
Patent for an improved wagon seat for a wagon that carries butter, eggs, or other salable commodities. The seat folds forward and has double-bottomed seats, and things can be stored inside the seat.
Date:
February 21, 1893
Creator:
Piper, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine.
Patent for an improved washing machine that consists of a sheet-metal body with two tubs, rubbing-boards, a fire-box under the body, bails, and springs with hooks.
Date:
March 21, 1893
Creator:
Conner, Joshua Harley
System:
The Portal to Texas History