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Artist's Easel and Attachable Rest.
Patent for a new and improved easel and rest. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the rest . . . of the bar pivoted to [a] holder by bolt, the perforated bar pivoted to [another] bar by [another] bolt, and the easel united to the [first] bar by a suitable round bolt" (lines 97-101).
Date:
January 22, 1889
Creator:
Johnson, John Alexander
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant Trap.
Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design calls for a tank of water to be buried in the ground and a collar of cheap material to be attached to the tank and placed over the mouth of an anthill. The concave nature of the collar prevents ants from climbing out of it, so they are forced into the water tank, where they drown; the design is cheaper and less toxic than previous designs.
Date:
November 22, 1881
Creator:
Arnett, Sandridge Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Treating Timber, Railway Ties, &c.
Patent for a new and improved apparatus for treating and preserving. This design "insure[s] the complete and perfect treatment or impregnation of timber of varying hardness and density, and to provide a portable organization of apparatus by which timber at various points or stations along the line of a railroad can be treated with great facility, efficiency, and economy" (lines 12-19).
Date:
November 22, 1881
Creator:
Kreuter, Hugh E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Stalk Cutter and Puller.
Patent for a new and improved cotton-stalk cutter and puller. This design "is to facilitate the removal of cotton-stalks from land in preparing it for subsequent cultivation" (lines 17-19).
Date:
November 22, 1881
Creator:
Richardson, William B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bench Plane.
Patent for a new and improved bench plane. This design "consists in a stirrup pivoted to the sides of the plane in such a manner that the traverse piece of the stirrup passes through a transverse groove in the under surface of the plane, this groove increasing in height toward the rear of the plane, so that when the plane is drawn backward it will be slightly raised by this stirrup, so that the cutting-edge of the plane-iron cannot slide on the board being planed" (lines 10-19).
Date:
November 22, 1881
Creator:
Sawyer, George Frederic
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Gin.
Patent for a new and improved cotton gin. This design calls for the circular saw blades of the gin to pass through two metal ribs, one of which aligns with the tip of the saw teeth, while the other aligns with the root of the saw teeth.
Date:
August 22, 1882
Creator:
Basom, Ransford W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Killing Rodents
Patent for an apparatus for killing rodents "that may be used effectively for the destruction of all animals that burrow in the ground; and it consists in a furnace for the generation of sulphurous odors or other suffocating gases and a pump for forcing the gases into the burrows of the animals . . . ."
Date:
August 22, 1882
Creator:
Palmer, Austin D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved car-coupling. This design calls for two u-shaped metal pieces, one narrower than the other, each with eyes at their ends. A metal rod, which doubles as a handle, threads the eyes, connecting the pieces and allowing for the two loops to butterfly; one car can be bound to each of the loops with a metal pin.
Date:
August 22, 1882
Creator:
Stopple, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Gin Feeder.
Patent for a new and improved cotton-gin feeder. This design consists in "a rectangular inclined box, endless feeding belts having spiked slats, the revolving fan at the upper end of the inclined box, and screen at the opposite end and lower side of the box, through which the sand and dirt from the cotton may escape, the current of air from the revolving fan assisting in expelling the sand and dirt, the latter falling between the slats and down the inclined bottom of the box and out through the screen" (lines 73-83).
Date:
June 22, 1886
Creator:
Wiley, Jesse G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Child's Carriage.
Patent for a new and improved stroller. This design consists in "[a] running-gear, of the vertical hoop secured thereto, the brackets extending outward and upward from the hoop, and notched in their upper ends, the body, the brackets at opposite sides of the body, and the knife edge projections resting on the upper notched ends of the brackets . . . a vertical encircling hoop carrying buffers, standards, and brackets formed with edges, which rest upon the standards . . . an axle, wheels fitted to the axle, a forwardly extending bracket carrying a fixed wheel . . . and a sunshade" (lines 81-98).
Date:
June 22, 1886
Creator:
England, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopping, Planting, and Cultivating Machine
Patent for "an improvement in combined cotton chopping, planting, and cultivating machines," (lines 9-11) including illustrations.
Date:
May 22, 1888
Creator:
Pilond, David Winfield
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Revolving Harrow and Cultivator
Patent for a Combined Revolving Harrow and Cultivator that is used to cultivate cotton, corn and nature like plants.
Date:
May 22, 1888
Creator:
Evans,Lucius Sandiford
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design "relates to a combined corn and cotton planter; and it has for its object to provide an improved hopper for containing the seed, and an improved slide or cut-off, and means for automatically operating the same" (lines 9-14).
Date:
September 22, 1885
Creator:
Wear, William Foster
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Seed Planter and Guano Distributer.
Patent for a new and improved planter and fertilizer distributor. This design "consists in the combination and arrangement of parts, whereby the machine can be readily attached to and removed from a cultivator of any suitable description and used for planting seeds of different kinds and distributing guano at the same time that the seeds are being planted" (lines 15-22).
Date:
September 22, 1885
Creator:
Hood, Calvine B.
System:
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Combined cotton and corn planter
Patent for new and useful improvement Combined cotton and corn planter to provide at a slight cost a machine which will be simple in its construction
Date:
September 22, 1885
Creator:
Loafman, John E.
System:
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Adding Machine.
Patent for a new and improved adding machine. This design "consists in the combination, with a box, of a spindle in the same, a sleeve surrounding the spindle, a hand on the spindle, a hand on the sleeve, devices for turning the spindle from the sleeve, a cog-wheel revolving from the spindle, and an extra hand in connection with the cog-wheel" (lines 10-16).
Date:
September 22, 1885
Creator:
McCaleb, John L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clock Striking Mechanism.
Patent for a new and improved clock-chimes. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the chime of bells in the clock case, of the wheel having the lateral pins, the rock-shaft, a lever extending from the rock-shaft and engaging the said pins, and the hammer arms respectively connected with the rock-shaft by the short arm" (lines 21-26).
Date:
September 22, 1885
Creator:
Witherspoon, Frank.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Washer.
Patent for a new and improved clothes washer "in which air is driven by the action of a piston through the clothing and the water surrounding it"(lines 9-11), includes instruction and illustration
Date:
September 22, 1885
Creator:
Gardner, James D. & Brumbelow, James N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coin Sorter.
Patent for a new and improved coin sorter. This design "consists of a cabinet or coin-receptacle divided horizontally by a vertical series of drawers, each of which, except the lower one, is formed with a bottom that is provided with closely-set rows of circular openings that communicate with the drawers beneath, the openings in the bottom of each drawer being smaller than those in the bottom of the next drawer above, whereby the larger coins are retained in the upper drawer or drawers, while the smaller coins will pass successively through the several drawers to the bottom" (lines 15-27).
Date:
September 22, 1885
Creator:
Harcourt, Guy M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brace Wire Fastening for Wire Fences.
Patent for a new and improved brace-wire fastening for wire fences. This design consists "[i]n a fence, the combination, with the panel wires, of the braces with their ends hooked upon one and the same side of the upper and lower panel-wires, and said braces being stepped to receive and applied to the opposite side of the intermediate panel-wires, and the tri-armed or T-shaped clasps with their arms embracing the panel-wires and the braces at their points of intersection" (lines 81-89).
Date:
September 22, 1885
Creator:
Lott, Arthur
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn
Patent for improvements in the construction of churns.
Date:
October 22, 1889
Creator:
Crawford, William H.
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 the transverse pivot-pin in the top of the draw-head, the coupling-pin provided with a longitudinal slot engaging said pivot-pin, and the weights mounted on said pivot-pin and adapted to bear on the end of the link" (lines 76-81).
Date:
October 22, 1889
Creator:
Hodges, Clemont Clay
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Planter
Patent for improvements in the construction of corn planters.
Date:
October 22, 1889
Creator:
Williams, James T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant Trap.
Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design consists in "[a]n ant-trap, comprising the body and the inward-projecting tubes having the protecting-caps on their inner ends, the outer faces of the caps being convex and provided with apertures of greater diameter than the bore of the inner end of the tube" (lines 90-95).
Date:
February 22, 1887
Creator:
McCallum, Walter Randolph
System:
The Portal to Texas History