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Improvement in Cultivators.
Patent for an improvement in the design of corn cultivators, including illustrations.
Date:
April 22, 1873
Creator:
Helm, Jack
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Methods of Adjusting Signaling-Mirrors.
Patent for an improvement in the "method of throwing reflected light of a mirror with accuracy upon a distant object in flash-signaling" (lines 5-7), including illustrations.
Date:
April 22, 1873
Creator:
Kenney, Martin M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seed Planters.
Patent for new improvement in seed planting that describes parts of the construction including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 22, 1873
Creator:
Suggs, Isaac T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Reflector Holder for Lamps.
Patent for a new and improved reflector holder for lamps. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a lamp and a lamp-collar, provided with a circumferential flange, of a reflector provided with a keeper, spring-clasp, springing around said collar under the flange at its lower end, and having its free ends bent angularly at their upper ends and secured in said keeper by their tension and slide" (lines 2-9).
Date:
April 22, 1884
Creator:
Williams, Daniel Ruggles
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine.
Patent for improvements to rotary engine designs.
Date:
April 22, 1884
Creator:
Griffin, George L.; Shoup, William A. & Cade, James Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Channel Cleaner.
Patent for a new and improved channel cleaner. This design "is to construct an apparatus which may be anchored in a channel where there are sand-bars, for the purpose of agitating the water and stirring up the sand, so that the current may remove it. [The] invention consists in a trunk or large tube perforated along the bottom and provided at one end with a flaring mouth for concentrating the current within the trunk; also, in the combination, with the trunk, of a stirrer and a motor-screw for driving the same" (lines 17-28).
Date:
April 22, 1890
Creator:
Evans, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Loading Derrick.
Patent for a new and improved cotton-loading derrick. This design consists in "[t]he portable derrick, comprising the barrow-base having the longitudinal handle-bars, the extended longitudinal and transverse base-sills, and the bearings, the rotary shaft or mast having the slot and sheave, the upper shoulder and upward-projecting stud, the cross-head, the oblique braces connecting its rear arm to the mast, and the derrick-pulleys suspended from the free arm of said cross-head, the rope passing through said slot and over said sheave and to said pulleys and windlass" (lines 79-90).
Date:
April 22, 1890
Creator:
Field, Eldon M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fuse for Shells.
Patent for a new and improved shell fuse. This design "relates to that type of percussion-fuses wherein a fuse-tube is secured in the point or end of a shell and contains a plunged connected with a friction-wire embedded in the fulminate in such manner that when the flight of the shell is suddenly arrested the friction-wire is drawn forward by the plunger, thereby igniting the fulminate and setting fire to the powder-charge for bursting the shell. The objects of [the] invention are to . . . provide novel means which not only insure bursting of the shell, but avoid premature bursting at the muzzle of the gun" (lines 8-48).
Date:
April 22, 1890
Creator:
Phillips, George
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pad for the Backs of Horses.
Patent for a new and improved pad for horses. This design consists in "the air-tight cushion composed of opposite blanks of elastic air-tight material secured along their adjacent edges, and a central longitudinally-disposed dividing strip dividing the cushion into opposite compartments, and provided with openings affording communication between the compartments" (lines 62-68).
Date:
April 22, 1890
Creator:
Mudford, Charles
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Veterinary Medicine
Patent for "a compound for the eradication of screw-worms in animals, and it has for its object toprovide a simple and inexpensive compound of this character which will quickly and efficiently destroy the worms, and at the same time serve as both an astringent and antiseptic to the wound" (lines 10-16).
Date:
April 22, 1890
Creator:
Youngkin, John A. & Youngkin, Josiah S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Crude-Oil Burners" (lines 4-5), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 22, 1901
Creator:
Wilson, H.T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for an improved bailing-press.
Date:
April 22, 1902
Creator:
Atkinson, Joseph J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for baling-presses to prevent the inward-drawing or centripetal movement of the fiber in a press of the roller type (lines 96-97) by “disposed intermediate of the rollers and within the plane of the baling-cylinder for opposing resistance to the inward movement of the fiber and overcoming to a greater or less extent the tendency of the upper layer of cotton to form waves or billows in advance of the rollers.” (Page 1, lines 101-102, page 2, lines 1-6.) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 22, 1902
Creator:
Atkinson, Joseph J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bit for Well-Drilling Apparatus.
Patent for a rotary expansion bit for use with well-drilling apparatuses. The bit can be adjusted without removing the well tubing, and can drill a hole large than the tubing in order to insert casing sections.
Date:
April 22, 1902
Creator:
Sloan, James W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Check-Line Buckle.
Patent for "...a novel means for connecting a check-line to the main line..." (lines 11-12) including illustrations.
Date:
April 22, 1902
Creator:
Snell, David C. F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cigar-Cutter and Match-Safe.
Patent for a match-safe and cigar-cutter “receptacle for holding matches from which only one match can be taken at one time and to means for shifting the matches and at the same time cutting a cigar-tip.” (Lines 7-11) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 22, 1902
Creator:
Taylor, James P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Double-Acting Cylinder-Pump.
Patent for improvements in double-acting cylinder-pumps by making “the cages and check-valves detachable from the piston-cylinder without removing or disturbing either the casing or piston-cylinder and can be replaced in the same manner.” (Lines 18-22) Illustration in included.
Date:
April 22, 1902
Creator:
Arnold, Henry B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Destroying Machine.
Patent for improvements in insect-destroying machines to remove and destroy the boll-weevil of cotton plants by “gathering the branches of the plant into position to be effectively operated upon by a revolving brush which sweeps the weevils from the plant into a box carried by the machine without injury to the cotton plants.” (Lines 25 -30)
Date:
April 22, 1902
Creator:
Dyer, Charles V.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Crossing
Patent for a railway crossing which will not sink in mud and will not be as loud as previously.
Date:
April 22, 1902
Creator:
Cooper, William M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shovel-Plow.
Patent for improvements in shovel-plows “by enabling the stock and shoe securely mounted and yet adjusted from one position to another, according to the work to be performed.” (Lines 9-12) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 22, 1902
Creator:
Michalka, Joseph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spring-Scale.
Patent for improvements in spring-scales by providing novel means for measuring and indicating the quality of liquid left in or drawn from a container. (Lines 9-10) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 22, 1902
Creator:
Smith, John D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wind-Wheel.
Patent for "new and useful Invention in Wind-Wheels" (lines 5-6), including illustrations.
Date:
April 22, 1902
Creator:
Cannon, Burrell
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Car-Dump
Patent for automatic dumpers that can be readily and inexpensively fitted and adapted to most forms of dump car.
Date:
April 22, 1913
Creator:
Putnam, John J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin
Patent for new and useful improvement to clothes pins to automatically lock themselves against accidental disengagement from the clothes line.
Date:
April 22, 1913
Creator:
Ingersoll, Charles J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History