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Improvement in Hoe-Handles.
Patent for the improvement of hoe-handle tightening devices, including illustrations.
Date:
July 17, 1877
Creator:
Littleton, W. R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in fences
Patent for improvement in fences. Inventor created removable, adjustable fences with wire loop hinges.
Date:
May 22, 1879
Creator:
Martin, George S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed Bottom Spring.
Patent for new and improved bed springs. Due to this design's construction, "in addition to the support furnished by the top spirals, the platform furnishes a broad level bearing for the mattress and prevents sagging between the springs or injury to the mattress itself. Also, the parallels, being springs in themselves, additional comfort and elasticity are added to the bed, and the springs themselves are more readily adapted to the varying width of the slats of different beds" (lines 25-34).
Date:
January 17, 1882
Creator:
Jarrett, Joshua V.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper and cultivator. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the chopper-handle, of the notched-roller, the mortised cross-beam, having the pivot across its mortise or hole, and the spring, attached to an upright, and the handle, whereby the chopper may be operated" (lines 73-78).
Date:
May 15, 1883
Creator:
Pettitt, Francis Alexander.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bridle.
Patent for a new and improved bridle. This design "consists in a novel manner of constructing driving-bridles, whereby a leverage upon the bit and curb proportionate to the needs of any particular occasion may be drawn up so that it will be impossible to hold the bit out of control of the driver" (lines 7-14).
Date:
August 19, 1884
Creator:
Roeber, Alexander
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Shears.
Patent for new and improved animal shears. This design is "to secure an equal wear of the teeth of the stationary and the revolving cutter-plates . . . whereby the instrument may be run double the usual time before it is necessary to grind the plates, and enabling the tool to be used as a right or a left hand cutter; also, to render the cutters separable without arresting the motion of the rotary blade . . . also, to provide means whereby the rotation of the cutter may be reversed . . . finally, to provide a simple device for throwing the miter-gears into and out of mesh" (lines 15-29).
Date:
December 9, 1884
Creator:
Carter, Francis W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Meat-Tenderer
Patent for an improved meat tenderer granted to Francis W. Carter. Improvements include not tearing the meat and self-cleaning upon each rotation.
Date:
April 14, 1885
Creator:
Carter, Francis W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Surgical Instrument.
Patent for a new and improved surgical tool. This design consists "[i]n a surgical instrument, the combination, with the rod having the stepped head provided with grooves, of the springs, the pin, the stepped shell having offsets, the sliding sleeve, and the [other] pin" (lines 14-18).
Date:
July 14, 1885
Creator:
Poynor, John S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tug and Hip Strap Attachment for Harness.
Patent for a new and improved tug and hip strap attachment for harnesses. This design "relates to an improved tug and hip strap attachment for harness which shall admit of the rapid and convenient attachment or detachment of the horse or horses to or from the vehicle, and which, in case the animal becomes unruly, shall enable it to be instantly detached, thereby avoiding danger of accidents; and it has for its object to provide a device of this class which shall possess superior advantages in point of simplicity, durability, and general efficiency" (lines 22-32).
Date:
September 1, 1885
Creator:
Lain, John James
Object Type:
Patent
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.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Egg-Preserving Compound.
Patent for a new compound to be used for the preservation of eggs which lists the ingredients and proportions.
Date:
March 29, 1887
Creator:
Jurgens, Nils Colling.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Show-Case
Patent for "improvements in show-cases for displaying ribbons and in devices for measuring the same; and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination of devices" (lines 10-13)
Date:
October 19, 1887
Creator:
McNeill, Alexander
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Meridian Sheet
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date:
1888
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sulky Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved sulky cultivator. This design consists in "the beam having the cross-bar at its rear end, and the rearward-diverging brace-arms connecting the beam to the ends of the cross-bar, the links hinged to the rear ends of the brace-arms and pivoted to the sulky-frame, the hand lever fulcrumed on the frame, and the rod connecting the hand-lever to the front end of the beam" (lines 40-48).
Date:
July 24, 1888
Creator:
Hazlewood, James Allan
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Show-Case
Patent for novel improvements in the construction and design of show cases.
Date:
October 23, 1888
Creator:
McNeil, Alexander
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Granbury Sheet
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date:
1889
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design consists in "the combination, with the axle, of the U-frame having bearings at its ends for the axle and a rearwardly-disposed sleeve, a shaft mounted in the sleeve and projecting beyond the same at each of its ends and provided with choppers at its rear end and a gear at its front end, a master-gear splined upon the axle and having a grooved hub, and a pivoted yoke terminating in the hub and a lever for operating the same to throw the gear into contact with that upon the shaft" (lines 1-12).
Date:
April 1, 1890
Creator:
Stanford, Jeff Hillon
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windlass.
Patent for a new and improved windlass. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a frame having the cross-bars near its lower and upper ends, the windlass-shaft journaled in the side pieces of the frame and having the balance-wheels and the pinion, the operating-gears mounted in one side of the frame and one of said gears meshing with said pinion, an upright mounted upon the lower front cross-piece of the frame and having a guide-pulley at its upper end, arms extending laterally from said upright, and a guide-roller journaled in said arms" (lines 11-21).
Date:
April 1, 1890
Creator:
Bridges, Thomas H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a new and improved churn. This design "ha[s] a curved bottom and rounded ends and consisting of the bottom, the sides, the partitions . . . similar to the sides and arranged adjacent to the latter" (lines 101-104). Said partitions "[form] water compartments, the transverse partition providing a communication between the water compartments and being formed by a plate bent longitudinally at an angle and having its apex extending across the body of the churn, and the dasher arranged above the partition and suitably secured in place" (lines 1-8).
Date:
August 26, 1890
Creator:
Day, William Howel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam Cooker.
Patent for a new and improved steam cooker. This design consists, "with a water-holder and a funnel-shaped reservoir provided with dependent lugs superimposed thereon, of an open-ended foraminous cylinder fitting within said water-holder, a circular foraminous disk fitting within said cylinder, said disk having a raised rim or flange adapted when the disk is lifted to engage the lugs on the reservoir, and a cover for said water-holder, with means for securing said cover within the reservoir" (lines 31-41).
Date:
October 21, 1890
Creator:
Thomason, Gustave
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cleburne Sheet
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date:
1891
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grain-Conveyer for Binders, &c.
Patent for improvements in grain conveyers by using a slotted platform with parallel walls on the sides, a conveyer-block having arms and friction-rollers that is moved by an endless chain in between the walls, a lever keyed on a shaft and two gears in constant mesh with each other; all these parts working together to creating a mechanism that drives the conveyers in either direction to accomplish the binding of the grains. Illustration is included.
Date:
February 17, 1891
Creator:
Schubert, George
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Marking Live Stock.
Patent for improvement in devices for marking livestock by using steel blades either to cut or heated to burn the surface of livestock’s skin. (Lines 71-73) There is no mistaking the marks of one owner from those of another. (Lines 85-86) Illustration is included.
Date:
October 27, 1891
Creator:
Conine, Frederick B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Waco Sheet
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date:
1892
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History