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Revision of the North American Pocket Mice
From introductory remarks: "Classification study of the North American pocket mouse based on about 170 specimens. Results of study increased recognized species to 18 and subspecies to 3 as well as shifting several well known names to other forms."
Date:
October 25, 1889
Creator:
Merriam, C. Hart
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Adding-Machine
Patent for "an adding-machine which, while being constructed of but comparatively few parts, will be so adjusted as arranged as to allow an operator to make rapid and correct calculations; furthermore, to produce an adding-machine in which the operator will be enabled to detect immediately any mistake which he may have made, and, finally, to produce a simple, efficient, and effective adding-machine" (lines 13-22).
Date:
June 25, 1889
Creator:
Stinson, James C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hub for Vehicle Wheels.
Patent for a new and improved wheel-hub. This design "has for its object the provision of a simple and effective separable hub composed of the fewest possible number of parts and capable of resisting strain in every direction. [The] hub is made with a central box for receiving the axle spindle, and having a central enlargement or collar on its outer side. The two body portions of the hub are set upon the box and fit up against the collar. They are provided on their opposing faces with lugs, which form the spoke-mortises, and are made plane and straight on one side, while the other side is inclined" (lines 17-30).
Date:
June 25, 1889
Creator:
Clark, Edward D. & Clark, Simmion C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Abdominal Supporter.
Patent for a new and improved abdominal supporter. This design "consist[s] of the waist-belt, the abdominal sector-shaped pads hung from the waist-belt by elastic straps, the straps buttoned to the belt behind and to the bottom of the abdominal pads in front, the side straps connecting the abdominal pads with the pieces at the back, and the front strap connecting the two abdominal pads together with the shoulder-straps" (lines 70-79).
Date:
December 25, 1888
Creator:
Gray, Harriet N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blind Stop.
Patent for a new and improved blind-stop. This design consists "[i]n blind-stops, the rod, consisting of two parts connected by a thin piece of metal, in combination with a blind provided with a median open-slotted tapering screw and thumb-nut" (lines 49-53).
Date:
December 25, 1888
Creator:
Warren, Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn or Cotton Dropper
Patent for corn or cotton dropper in which improvements are made on general efficiency, "simplicity, expensiveness, [and] durability" (lines 12-13).
Date:
December 25, 1888
Creator:
Brown, William Franklin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gas Compressing Pump for Ice Machines.
Patent for a new and improved pump for refrigerators. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the cylinder, having inlet at or near its lower end, a downward-closing valve at its upper end, an open-ended piston having internal ribs or projections, annular valve-seat around its upper open end, and a centrally-apertured bottom plate, of the valve having vertical movement within the piston and closing upwardly against the valve-seat, said valve being formed of the two sections . . . having hemispherical recesses and the lower section having an aperture, communicating therewith" (lines 30-42).
Date:
December 25, 1888
Creator:
Farnsworth, Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
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
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Poison Distributor
Patent for "new and useful improvements in devices for sprinkling potato-vines and the like with powder - such as paris-green" (lines 15-18).
Date:
December 25, 1888
Creator:
Heaton, Lorenzo D.
Object Type:
Patent
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.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fruit Gatherer.
Patent for a new and improved fruit gatherer. This design consists "[i]n a fruit-gatherer, the combination of the pole, the jaws attached to its upper end, the sliding collar, the links connecting the collar and the sleeve, the rods, the jaws, the ring, the tube attached thereto and encircling the pole below said jaws, and the sleeve which supports the ring and is adjustable on the pole longitudinally for the purpose of adjusting the mouth of said tube in the desired proximity to the said jaws" (lines 13-22).
Date:
September 25, 1888
Creator:
Hall, Francis Asbury
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machinery for Irrigating Purposes
Patent for a machine that irrigates with a water wheel. The water wheel is connected to a float and a rod connected that is connected to a crank on the shaft of the wheel.
Date:
September 25, 1888
Creator:
Owen, Benajah Dotte
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pruning Implement.
Patent for a new and improved pruning implement. This design consists in "the combination, with a staff, of the jaw-arms pivoted to the staff and provided with the upwardly-projecting and curved jaws, the collars fitted loosely on the staff, the rods connecting the said collars, and the link-arms pivoted to the collar and to the jaw-arms" (lines 11-17).
Date:
September 25, 1888
Creator:
Hall, Francis Asbury
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brake for Vehicles
Patent for "a brake which shall be easy in operation, cheap in construction, and not liable to get out of order" (lines 13-17).
Date:
October 25, 1887
Creator:
Bacon, Edward Hamlin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the frame and the operating-gearing, of the vertical shaft, supported by the frame and acted on by the operating-gearing, the horizontal plate rigidly secured to the lower end of the shaft and provided with radial grooves, and slots in said grooves, the feet having their upper ends bent at right angles, fitted in said grooves and adjustably secured therein by bolts passing through the radial slots, the lower ends of the feet carrying choppers" (lines 39-49).
Date:
October 25, 1887
Creator:
Ballard, John J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Seed Dropper.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "the frame, the roller journaled in the rear side thereof and having the crank, the seed-spout, the supporting bars on opposite sides of the frame, the rigid shaft connecting the said bars, the seed-disk rigidly secured to the said shaft and having the curved fingers or teeth, the hopper journaled on the shaft and adapted to oscillate thereon, the said hopper having the discharge-opening in its lower side, through which the lower edge of the seed-disk connects, and the pitman connecting the crank with the hopper" (lines 26-37).
Date:
October 25, 1887
Creator:
Ballard, John J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Truss.
Patent for a new and improved truss. This design consists in "the body-band consisting of a front piece adapted to fit around the abdomen, and a wire attached to each end of said front piece, shaped to conform to the body and spread apart to receive and rest upon the hip-bone, and straps secured to the opposite ends of said wires for fastening the band in place" (lines 43-50).
Date:
October 25, 1887
Creator:
Davis, Andrew P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling-press. This design consists in "the ordinary framing, shell, or case for containing the material and stationary lower platen or bed are used, the upper platen being the movable one to effect the compression. This upper platen is brought down upon the material for its compression by the lowering of screw-threaded rods to which it is attached, such lowering being effected by the rotation of rotating nuts in fixed bearings taking on such screw-threaded rods" (lines 25-35).
Date:
January 25, 1887
Creator:
Brown, Maurice T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fare Box.
Patent for a new and improved fare-box. This design consists in "three resting-places for the fares before they enter the final receptacle or drawer provided at the bottom of the case, and the windows in front are so arranged that the fares may be observed at each change until they enter their final receptacle. All lights of glass employed are held in grooves in the upright sides of the case or in a frame secured in grooves of the said sides, so that by no possibility can they be displaced unless the entire box is taken to pieces" (lines 25-35).
Date:
January 25, 1887
Creator:
Greer, John William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boot Cleaner.
Patent for a new and improved boot cleaner. This design "affords facilities for readily and conveniently scraping all parts of the boot or shoe. The heel is scraped on [a] semicircular portion located at the top of the arch, the sides of the sole by the arms, the upper hollow of the foot by the projections, [and] the toe by the lower side of the arch or bow" (lines 38-45).
Date:
May 25, 1886
Creator:
Scovel, Purley A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator
Patent for an improvement for the Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator by removing dirt, weeds, and grass from the sides of the row. Included with this are detailed illustrations.
Date:
May 25, 1886
Creator:
Flewellen, Anthony, Sr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Door Check.
Patent for a new and improved door-check. This design "relates to improvements in devices for checking the movements of a door to prevent its forcible contact with a wall or other object, and for automatically fastening it in an open position, so that it will not be accidentally closed. The invention consists of a check or catch plate adapted to be secured to the floor or wall and provided with an inclined track for the passage of a spring-bolt on the door, a transverse projection being arranged vertically at the rear end of said inclined track and formed into a seat for the spring-bolt" (lines 8-20).
Date:
May 25, 1886
Creator:
Cevor, Charles
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Garden Tile.
Patent for a new and improved garden tile. This design "is to provide a . . . garden-tile which can be used as a plant-protector or as a curbing for walks, &c. The invention consists in a tile having a semicircular or U-shaped cross-section and open at the bottom and provided on its top with one or more necks through which the plants can grow" (lines 7-15).
Date:
May 25, 1886
Creator:
Flatau, Louis S.
Object Type:
Patent
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
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History