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Improvement in Plows.
Patent for improvements in adjusting devices and attachments for sulky plows, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 1, 1878
Creator:
Payne, Joseph Mott
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in remedies for constipation, &c.
Patent for a new medical compound to treat constipation and related illnesses which lists the ingredients and dosages.
Date:
August 1, 1876
Creator:
Coleman, George S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bellows Attachment for Barrels.
Patent for a new and improved bellows attachment for barrels. This design "provide[s] means for securely attaching the bellows to the barrels, so as to exclude the admission of air, except such as is forced in by the bellows; and a further object of the same provides for the shutting off the flow of liquid, as desired" (lines 13-18).
Date:
July 1, 1884
Creator:
Park, Hardy B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wood Pavement.
Patent for a new and improved wood pavement. This design "consists in a pavement consisting of wooden blocks stripped of bark, cylindrical in shape, and sawed at right angles to the axis of the blocks. Said blocks of live bois d'arc or other hard timber, about six inches long, and placed on ends on a road-bed of bank sand and gravel after the same has been well and compactly rolled, and the spaces between the blocks filled with screened gravel and rammed until solid, and then coated with tar and pitch" (lines 12-22).
Date:
July 1, 1884
Creator:
Johnson, William M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thill Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for thills. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the clip having the ears provided with the openings of the draft-iron having the eye at its inner end adapted to be inserted between the ears of the clip and having the transverse central opening" (lines 94-98). Further, it has "the coupling-bolt having the inclined shoulder and the nut provided with the [other] inclined shoulder and the sleeves having the inclined inner ends adapted to enter the inclines of the draft-iron and provided at their outer ends with the inclined recesses" (lines 1-7).
Date:
March 1, 1887
Creator:
Findley, James W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Roller-Bearing Well-Wheel Pulley.
Patent for an improved design for the roller-bearing well-wheel pulley.
Date:
September 1, 1896
Creator:
Taylor, John C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drag Saw.
Patent for a new and improved drag saw. This design "is to provide a simple, inexpensive, durable, and easily-operated machine for cross-cutting timber for railway-ties and material, or for cord-wood, stove-wood, or other uses" (lines 7-11).
Date:
January 1, 1884
Creator:
Bennett, William A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Arc Amp
Patent for electric arc lamp.
Date:
October 1, 1886
Creator:
Crowdus, Walter A. & Sutton, Henry M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design "relates to that class of walking-cultivators or shovel-plows which are drawn by a single horse between two rows of plants, and which are frequently called 'double-shovel plows.' The leading object of the invention is to provide such a cultivator with two beams, each carrying a shovel, which beams are independently capable of vertical and lateral movements, whereby the operator can guide or lift the beams and shovels to avoid plants or obstacles" (lines 11-22).
Date:
January 1, 1889
Creator:
Jones, Fred B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Fifth Court of Appeals Requests for Legislative Appropriations: Fiscal Years 2014 and 2015
Report submitted by the Texas Fifth District Court of Appeals at Dallas, Texas containing summaries of requests for appropriations and expenditures for the fiscal years 2014 and 2015 with supporting documentation.
Date:
August 1, 2012
Creator:
Texas. Court of Appeals (5th)
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Applying Dry Hot Air to the Face
Patent for a hot air blowing device for blowing on the face that has adjustable temperature settings.
Date:
October 1, 1907
Creator:
Smith, William Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cold-Tire-Shrinking-Machine
Patent for a device that accomplishes cold-tire shrinking, in order to assure a snug tire fit onto any size cart wheel.
Date:
July 1, 1902
Creator:
House, Samuel N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brush
Patent for improved functions of bath-brushes, with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 1, 1905
Creator:
Williams, Robert E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aerating Churn
Patent for aerating churn. This design of churn is designed to aerate milk as it churns. Illustration included.
Date:
August 1, 1905
Creator:
O'Neall, James M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wall Construction
Patent for a wall construction with metallic column casings and reinforced rods. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 1, 1911
Creator:
Harry, Owen K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Inking-Roller for Printing-Presses.
Patent for an inking roller for printing presses, which reduces ink waste by only putting ink on the type.
Date:
December 1, 1908
Creator:
Munzesheimer, Adolph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Internal-Combustion Engine.
Patent for an internal combustion engine, which can be run with less fuel and better control of the engine.
Date:
February 1, 1910
Creator:
Reaugh, Frank
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lifting-Jack.
Patent for an improved lifting jack, which "can be quickly placed beneath the axle of a vehicle and easily removed therefrom" (lines 14-16).
Date:
September 1, 1903
Creator:
Adair, Benjamin Lockett
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Chopper Attachment.
Patent for rotating stalk-chopper attachment, including illustrations.
Date:
May 1, 1900
Creator:
Nix, Spencer W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Land Boller
Patent for a land roller. Illustration included.
Date:
December 1, 1908
Creator:
Harry, Owen K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Speed-Gearing.
Patent for improvements in “gearing mechanism in which the speed or rotation of a drum or wheel is greatly increased through the intervention of gearing-wheels mounted upon a single shaft.” (Lines 11-14) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 1, 1898
Creator:
Scofield, John R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame Fastener
Patent for a hame fastener. The function of this invention is to permit ready attachment to and the removal of. Illustration included.
Date:
December 1, 1903
Creator:
Dodson, Roy
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Four-Horse Evener for Wheel-Plows
Patent for a four horse evener for wheel plows that improves disk or moldboard. It corrects the plows tendency to swing when met with the ground and utilizes the same force to relieve strain from the horses.
Date:
August 1, 1905
Creator:
Wolcott, Oliver P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electrically Energized Fence
Patent for an electrically energized fence. Illustration included.
Date:
August 1, 1905
Creator:
McNair, Albert Duy
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History