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Windmill.
Patent for an improved design for windmills that are in regular use. The design implements two sets of hinged vanes and uses weights to control the amount power that the windmill can generate. Included are instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 18, 1880
Creator:
Rudolph, Calvin Foster
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Tool.
Patent for a new and improved multi-tool. This design "consists of a tool having a staple-holder, a driver, a chisel, a vise attachment, and a detachable driver adapted to be used with the vise to splice the ends of the wire in building wire fences, in which the tool is used for driving staples, cutting the wire, and splicing the wire, the several devices forming a combination-tool disposed for convenient use upon a stock or holder" (lines 9-17).
Date:
March 3, 1885
Creator:
Archer, Roger Williams
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for "certain new and useful improvements in baling-presses." (Lines 5-6) Illustrations are included.
Date:
April 3, 1888
Creator:
Archer, Roger W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baby Jumper.
Patent for a new and improved baby jumper. This design consists in "the combination, with the vertically-resilient supporting-rod having a frame swiveled on its lower end, of the supporting garment adapted to be fastened around the infant and comprising the waist to be buttoned around the body, the pants depending from the waist and having the front flap and the side flaps adapted to be buttoned together in front of the infant, and the skirt attached to the waist at the top of the pants and hanging around the said pants, the upper edge of the waist being attached to the lower ends of [the] cords" (lines 1-13).
Date:
May 15, 1888
Creator:
Jones, Mary Perciller
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mud Scraper.
Patent for a new and improved mud-scraper. This design consists, "with a vehicle, of the transverse shaft geared to one of the wheels and provided at one of its ends with spiders, having its arms provided with perforations, the approximately U-shaped scrapers arranged to straddle the wheel, and the L-shaped plates or knees having one arm secured to a scraper and the other arm provided with perforations adjustably connected to the spider" (lines 88-102).
Date:
June 3, 1890
Creator:
Mangum, George A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stock-Loader.
Patent for a stock-loader that loads cattle onto locomotive cars and does not use a gangway. It is a "movable floor or platform which, by means of suitable mechanism, is moved toward the car, thus carrying the stock thereinto whether they face in the direction of movement or not, and without effort upon their part" (lines 15-20).
Date:
March 6, 1894
Creator:
Rotzien, Christopher & Arnold, Philip
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for a wrench "that a great number of tools [screw-driver, hammer, hatchet, auger, etc.] may be mounted thereon at one time and each accessible for use without removing any one part and without the various parts mounted thereon interfering with each other." (Lines 30-35) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 4, 1896
Creator:
Rush, William Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Capturing and Destroying Insects.
Patent for "a new and original method of destroying the Mexican cotton-boll weevil (Anthonomus gradis boh) and other insects that damage cotton while growing &c., &c. (lines 5-8) including illustrations.
Date:
June 8, 1897
Creator:
Strouhal, Joseph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Capturing and Destroying Insects.
Patent for a machine that removes insects from cotton plants. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 8, 1897
Creator:
Strouhal, Joseph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hub-Wrench.
Patent for a new and useful hub wrench, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 7, 1899
Creator:
Sauls, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hub-Wrench.
Patent for a new and useful hub wrench, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 27, 1900
Creator:
Sauls, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Measuring Device for Rolled Goods.
Patent for an improved "means for measuring rolled goods while the materials is being unrolled and also to indicate the amount of material remaining in the roll" (lines 10-13).
Date:
February 10, 1900
Creator:
Sauls, Henry & Cook, George S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Suspenders.
Patent for suspender attachment designed to support trousers. Includes Illustration.
Date:
September 3, 1901
Creator:
Dahl, Louis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Work Holder
Patent for a work holder. The invention provides adjustable jaws to clamp the work in position. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 16, 1904
Creator:
Eichblatt, Otto H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horse Detacher
Patent for horse detacher. Illustration included.
Date:
September 27, 1904
Creator:
Chivers, Algernon Sidney
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harvester
Patent for a harvester. Illustration included.
Date:
June 20, 1905
Creator:
Lampton, Flavius J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint.
Patent for improved rail joints that are stronger, more durable, removes the need for "pounding of the rails ends" (lines 14-15) and reducing the loss and displacement of bolts.
Date:
January 23, 1906
Creator:
Hensley, Joseph B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe Clamp
Patent for a pipe clamp. Illustration included.
Date:
March 12, 1907
Creator:
Krueger, Louis; Kinkler, Emil J. & Carmichael, Oscar H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Trap.
Patent for a trap for bedbugs made of pine wood with many nooks and crannies and springs attached to either side of the wooden block. It can be put on the bed frame and bedbugs hide in its dark recesses during the day, and then the trap can either be hit to close the springs and crush the bugs or put into hot water to drown them.
Date:
July 16, 1907
Creator:
Mattingly, Benjamin Joseph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Means for Taking Up Wear on Vehicle-Axles
Patent for an "apparatus for taking up wear upon vehicle axles" (lines 17-18). Illustrations included.
Date:
November 26, 1907
Creator:
Short, William A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Barber's Bottle-Holder
Patent for a bottle holder used for barbers. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 17, 1907
Creator:
Faris, John W. B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hair-Cut Register
Patent for a haircut register. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 17, 1907
Creator:
Faris, John W. B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Register-Operating Device for Massage Treatments
Patent for a device made to deliver massage treatment materials to a barber. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 17, 1907
Creator:
Faris, John W. B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shave-Register-Operating Device
Patent for a shave register operating device, designed for barbers to keep a record of customers desiring a shave. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 17, 1907
Creator:
Faris, John W. B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History