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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.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
Object Type:
Patent
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.
Object Type:
Patent
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
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stock Car.
Patent for improvement to stock cars, "so constructed that the hay-racks swing up automatically and the troughs can be lowered to be out of the way when not in use and can easily be swung up when the animals are to be watered" (lines 8-13).
Date:
September 22, 1885
Creator:
Lines, Daniel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Curtain Holder.
Patent for a new and improved curtain-holder. This design "has relation to that class of curtain-holders which are adapted to hold or clasp the lower part of a window-curtain, so as to hold it up against the window frame or casing when it is desired to spread the curtains apart, and has for its object to so construct a device of that class that the holding hook or catch which clasps the folds of the curtain may be turned down so as to be out of the way when the device is not in use" (lines 22-31).
Date:
December 22, 1885
Creator:
Wilson, Nelse
Object Type:
Patent
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
Object Type:
Patent
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.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design consists "[i]n a garden cultivator, the frame having slotted arm [that is] journaled, clevis, standard with plow, slotted arm, and wheels . . . [and] handles, adjusted . . . to lower and raise said handles" (lines 59-67).
Date:
June 22, 1886
Creator:
Miltenberger, Emile Rudolph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Motor.
Patent for a new and improved electric motor. This design "consists, essentially, in such combination of an automatic circuit-breaker with a bar of soft iron secured centrally on a shaft journaled in bearings secured to the motor frame and rotating within a coil or helix that the rotation of said bar will continuously make and break the circuit, and that the action of the circuit-breaker will cause the continuous rotation of the bar" (lines 17-26).
Date:
June 22, 1886
Creator:
Emley, James E.
Object Type:
Patent
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
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Cleaning Gun Barrels, Flues, &c.
Patent for a new and improved gun-barrel cleaner. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a flat shank having a hole in its intermediate portion, a pivot-bolt having its middle round and its ends square, and a cleaning-head secured upon said bolt, said head consisting of two parts, one part being secured upon each end of said bolt" (lines 4-9).
Date:
February 22, 1887
Creator:
Simpson, John Speake
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Splicer and Stretcher.
Patent for a new and improved wire splicer and stretcher. This design "consist[s] of a suitable body . . . provided with a series of perforations and having its ends turned in opposite directions, one end being tapered to an edge and notched and the other end being pointed" (lines 24-28).
Date:
February 22, 1887
Creator:
Lea, John Houston
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher.
Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design consists in "a frame having two arms, one carrying a fixed clamp and the other a roller, a windlass mounted on said frame having a rope passing over said roller and adapted to be fixed to an end of wire, and a central clamp consisting of a rigid bar on the frame between its arms, a notched clamp pivoted thereon, and a ring for retaining the clamp" (lines 6-14).
Date:
February 22, 1887
Creator:
Ainsworth, Phineas Hardaman
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Saw Buck and Drag Saw.
Patent for a new and improved saw-buck and drag-saw. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the saw-buck having cross-piece, the swinging arm pivoted to and laterally movable on said cross-piece, the upper-end of said arm being provided with a slot, the saw, the saw-carriers . . . having spindles, the forward-carrier being provided with a tenon, and the saw-frame pivotally mounted on the spindles of the saw-carriers" (lines 74-82).
Date:
March 22, 1887
Creator:
Nitsche, John Emil & Kowalewsky, August
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Deep Well Pump.
Patent for a new and improved well pump. This design consists in "the timber bed arranged on the bottom of the well, in combination with two superposed metallic cylinders connected by a stock, said stock being provided at the bottom with inwardly-turned flanges made fast to said bed" (lines 55-60).
Date:
March 22, 1887
Creator:
Clark, Alexander Evans
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Metallic Shingle.
Patent for a new and improved metallic shingle. This design calls for "[t]he ends of the shingles adjacent to the groove [to be] turned up to provide a guard which, when the joints are made between the shingles, prevents the water from obtaining access to the roof-boards, and directs it down the shingle to the bead, where the water is drained off" (lines 80-86).
Date:
March 22, 1887
Creator:
Harry, Hugh W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wash Board.
Patent for a new and improved washboard. This design consists in "a suitable base-frame, a series of alternately right and left handed spirally-grooved rollers journaled therein, an inclined forked frame straddling and pivoted to the base-frame, a lever for securing the adjustment of said forked frame on its axis, a rubber, and rocking spring-arms journaled in said forked frame and connecting the same and the rubber" (lines 92-100).
Date:
March 22, 1887
Creator:
Stone, Charles M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harrow.
Patent for a new and improved harrow. This design "consist[s] of a central longitudinal beam having perforations, the jointed toothed frame pivoted to supports on the beam, the handles connected at their forward ends to the said beam, the brace-rods pivoted to the handles and to a cross-bar resting on the beam, and the vertical bolt adapted to the perforations in the beam to adjust the cross-bar thereupon, and thereby raise and lower the handles" (lines 85-94).
Date:
November 22, 1887
Creator:
Wilson, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay-Press
Patent for improvements in the construction and design of hay presses.
Date:
November 22, 1887
Creator:
Flato, Friderich W.
Object Type:
Patent
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
Object Type:
Patent
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
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Elevator for Cotton-Cleaning Machines
Patent for improvements in the construction and design in elevators for machine for cleaning cotton.
Date:
May 22, 1888
Creator:
Wiggins, Ransome Hundley
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow Point.
Patent for a new and improved plow-point. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the double mold-board rigidly fixed to the curved beam in the rear of the lower end thereof, of the point having symmetrical corners and lugs adapted to pass beneath the front edge of said mold-board and prevent rocking of the point upon the beam, to which alone it is attached, and bolts securing said point in position" (lines 65-73).
Date:
May 22, 1888
Creator:
Martin, Isaac Jasper
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History