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Spark-Arrester
Patent for new and useful device capable of arresting sparks and returning them to the smoke arch.
Date:
April 25, 1882
Creator:
Lochner, Casper F.
System:
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Spark Arrester.
Patent for a new and improved spark arrester. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the stack, of the upper and lower portions . . . of the inner cylinder, separated by the annular opening, the spiral wing-guide, the collar-flange, between the stack-wall and [a] section, and the cylindrical partition below said collar-flange in the flue" (lines 73-79).
Date:
November 25, 1884
Creator:
Jones, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Primary Battery.
Patent for a simplified primary battery "whereby the parts thereof may be readily removed and replaced without special tools by unprofessional persons, while at the same time providing a construction of primary battery involving new and useful connections for the positive and negative elements thereof." (Lines 10-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 25, 1897
Creator:
Sutton, Henry M. & Steele, Walter L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow-Beam.
Patent for "effective means whereby the component parts of a plow-beam can be relatively adjusted according to the nature of the work in hand or to meet certain conditions, thereby facilitating the work and increasing or decreasing the draft." (Lines 8-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 25, 1897
Creator:
Miller, Henry A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pumping-Engine.
Patent for a pumping engine that uses a "combined piston rod and plunger acting in the same vertical line and carrying a crank pin box and cross heads for driving the governing fly wheel" (lines 12-15). Mounting and dismounting this engine is simple, and the engine has easily accessible packing ends of the steam and water cylinders. Also, the adjustable yoke is improved in this engine.
Date:
April 25, 1893
Creator:
Clarkson, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trolley-Finder.
Patent for a simple, durable, and easily constructed trolley guide that can be easily attached to an above or below ground trolley that is already in use.
Date:
June 25, 1895
Creator:
Taylor, James P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gunpowder Can.
Patent for new container for holding and dispensing gunpowder with illustrations consisting of "glass vessel incased within a metallic jacket and having an exteriorly-screw-threaded neck, in combination with a cap or cover" (page 2, lines 1-3) to increase safety and prevent corrosion of vessel.
Date:
March 25, 1890
Creator:
Lee, Newton M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hoof-Cleaning Tool.
Patent for an improved farriers tool that cleans animals' hoofs that is a specially designed hook. It works quickly, thoroughly, and easily.
Date:
July 25, 1893
Creator:
Jenner, Robert C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Governor for Steam-Engines.
Patent for "a steam engine governor for shutting off the supply of steam to the engine in the event of the governor-belt breaking or slipping from the pulley, which is operatively connected with the weighted arms of the governor, so as to control the motion of the latter." (Lines 9-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 25, 1896
Creator:
Wilcox, Ferdenand, S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for a new and improved gate. This design "consists in the novel construction and arrangement of the posts, the latch-bar pivoted to the main rail by inclined braces and operated by a rock-shaft and push-arms inclined in a direction opposite to that of the inclined braces, weight-box, and cranks for operating the rock-shaft to open and close the gate" (lines 19-25).
Date:
October 25, 1881
Creator:
Smith, Robert B. & Curry, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sweat Leather for Riding Saddles.
Patent for a new and improved sweat-leather for saddles. This design "has for its object to construct sweat-leathers which shall be absolutely impervious to the sweat and moisture exuding from the animal, and thus serve to protect the rider's clothes. Sweat-pads, as ordinarily constructed of leather, are liable to be permeated with moisture, by which their efficiency as protectors is not only impaired, but they are liable to curl up . . . To avoid this . . . [the] improved sweat-pads [have] linings of India-rubber" (lines 20-31).
Date:
December 25, 1883
Creator:
Harriss, James Wilson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thill-Coupling.
Patent for a strong, durable, and simple thill coupling that does not need a spring connection in order to maintain a flexible connection between the thill and axle.
Date:
July 25, 1893
Creator:
Cobb, Woodson D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate-Latch.
Patent for an improved gate-latch for swinging gates that is especially simple, economic, and efficient.
Date:
December 25, 1894
Creator:
Wilson, James L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric-Railway Conduit.
Patent for an electric railway conduit that is more efficient and durable. It has "guides for the traveling switch, one of said guides being a continuous one and the other a sectional one, one being insulated from the conduit and the other guide-strip (lines 16-20). The traveling switch moves in the conduit and on the sides of the guides. Only one section of the conduit is live at once, the one that a car is passing over.
Date:
August 25, 1896
Creator:
Hull, William Sharkey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Feed-Water Heater.
Patent for a feed-water heater for steam-boilers. It provides "such a heater having an arrangement of distributing-troughs located in such a manner as to evenly distribute the water over tubes in thin streams or a thin sheet, whereby it may be quickly heated, and, furthermore, in so constructing the parts that the interior portions comprising the circulating tubes and troughs may be easily removed for the purpose of cleaning" (lines 10-18).
Date:
August 25, 1896
Creator:
Muday, George T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drill.
Patent for a simple, durable, and effective drill that "automatically expand[s] in the bottom of the well below the tubing, to cut a hole sufficiently large for the tubing without requiring a second drilling or reaming process" (lines 11-15).
Date:
September 25, 1894
Creator:
Lindholm, Charlie M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire Kindler.
Patent for a new and improved fire-kindler. This design is for "[a] fire-kindling torch consisting of two perforated sections, each having an exterior longitudinal ridge, and angular side flanges, and provided at one end with lugs which bear flatly against each other, a pivot-pin passing transversely through the lugs to permanently connect the sections and form a pintle on which they can turn, and a handle connecting the other ends of the sections together, said sections having an interposed filling of mineral wool" (lines 1-11).
Date:
December 25, 1883
Creator:
Osborn, Adelbert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ice-Making Apparatus.
Patent for an ice maker that more effectively handles the chemicals used to freeze water. Use of a more strategically placed condenser keeps steam and liquids separate.
Date:
March 25, 1879
Creator:
Lee, Charles B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ice-Machine.
Patent for the improvements of ice machine gas compressors and its adjuncts.
Date:
May 25, 1886
Creator:
Schuehle, Jacob
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate for Railway Tracks.
Patent for a new and improved gate. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a shaft crossing a railway-track and provided with weighted depending ends, with rollers connected eccentrically to said ends, a gate connected to said shaft, and lever and bar apparatus for operating said weighted ends from the vicinity of the rails" (lines 41-47).
Date:
December 25, 1888
Creator:
Jacobs, William Ramsey & Houston, Samuel Callahan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Scuffle-Hoe
Patent for a garden hand tool for destroying weeds and stirring, or aerating, soil. Used for garden crops.
Date:
March 25, 1879
Creator:
Munson, T. V. (Thomas Volney), 1843-1913
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Self Packing Cotton Press.
Patent for a new and improved self-packing cotton press. This design "consists in a cotton-press constructed with a pivoted double baling-box, a pair of rolls and their driving mechanism for packing the cotton into the baling-box automatically, and a screw-driven follow-block for compressing the cotton into bales" (lines 22-27).
Date:
September 25, 1883
Creator:
Rummel, Louis C. & Fielder, Emil J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Planter
Patent for a seed planter so that the distances between seeds can be changed from equidistant to a continuous row and vice versa and so that it can be adapted to sew both seeds and grains.
Date:
December 25, 1888
Creator:
Leamon, John B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Planter.
Patent for improvements in seed-planter by using different sizes of disks to construct a hopper that can be revolved, in which it can be adapted to plant cotton, corn or other seeds. Illustration is included.
Date:
August 25, 1891
Creator:
Thompson, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History