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Tamping Machine
Patent for the invention of a new and useful improvement in Tamping-Machines. Includes full, clear, and exact description and illustration. Invention relates to an improvement in machines for tamping, intended for tamping dirt under railway-ties (20).
Date:
August 24, 1886
Creator:
Carley, John, W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Unloading Device.
Patent for "improvements in envelopes or packing bags, adapted to be placed in an ordinary wagon, to receive seed cotton and similar products, so as to be transported from place to place, and means for elevating or removing the bag from the wagon and dumping the contents when destination is reached" (lines 12-19).
Date:
September 11, 1894
Creator:
Flaniken, Wallace T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sulky-Plow
Patent for a new and useful improvement in Sulky-Plows. The invention utilizes "a novel construction-levers, and arrangement of hangers, braces, and levers, whereby provision is made for the attachment of plow-beams of different sizes, and for adjusting the parts" (lines 7-11)
Date:
July 20, 1880
Creator:
Powell, Louis W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hoisting Attachment for Wagon-Beds.
Patent for a low cost, removable hoisting attachment for wagon beds, including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
May 2, 1893
Creator:
Baugh, Edward H. & Selvidge, Charles W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hog-Trough.
Patent for an improved and durable pig trough, one that stays clean and can be filled and eaten out of easily without wasting feed.
Date:
April 27, 1897
Creator:
Neill, George A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hitching Device.
Patent for "a hitching device which can be applied to a strap between its ends and which is freely adjustable back and forth upon the strap without wearing or injuring the strap in any manner and to form a hitching device which consists of two entirely separate and distinct pieces, thus doing away with all joints, pivots, or other connections, and the necessity for forming holes or perforations of any kind in the strap." (Lines 22-31) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 6, 1897
Creator:
King, Sandy & Myers, Marshall
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soil Pulverizer.
Patent for a new and improved soil pulverizer. This design consists in "the combination of rotating blades on a shaft adjustable forward and backward, the driving wheel shaft, the intermediate operating mechanism, and the two transverse shafts . . . the driving-wheels, the multiplying gear-wheels, the two shafts, blades, [the] shaft adjustable forward and backward by means of a lever, frame having recesses for journal-boxes, the lugs on the latter, and the connecting rod" (lines 84-95).
Date:
February 5, 1884
Creator:
Rankin, John Dake & Knox, William Custis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Feed Governor for Cotton Gins.
Patent for a new and improved feed governor for cotton gins. This design "provide[s] means whereby the rate of feeding will be automatically decreased when the cotton is fed into the roll-box faster than it is being ginned, and whereby the feed will be finally stopped when the roll increases to a certain limit, and will be again started when the roll is reduced to a size previously fixed upon, and will be actuated to feed faster as the roll decreases in size" (lines 17-25).
Date:
June 12, 1883
Creator:
Flannagan, John D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spring Bed Bottom.
Patent for a new and improved box-spring. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the main frame, the springs having their connecting pieces curved or coiled to form double heart-shaped configurations, the hinged head-rests, the wide bails, movably attached at the ends of their side pieces to the connecting-pieces of the springs at the side edges of the head-rests, and having their middle pieces curved or coiled to form heart-shaped configurations resting upon the tops of the springs of the head-rest, and the coiled wire coiled around all the portions of the springs" (lines 76-87).
Date:
September 29, 1885
Creator:
Bunnell, James F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Head Protector.
Patent for a new and improved head protector. This design utilizes a wire "skeleton mask" and corresponding cap that holds the former in place. These are "designed to be covered with netting and to be worn as a protection against mosquitoes and other poisonous insects, and which is also applicable to bee-keepers' use, thrashers, gunners, railroad brakemen, &c." (lines 14-19).
Date:
July 18, 1882
Creator:
Turner, Robert W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing Machine.
Patent for a new and improved washing machine. This design consists "in a washing-machine, the combination, with the furnace, of the box, having the semicircularly-curved top, of the cylindrical cage and the flues in the box" (lines 87-90).
Date:
November 10, 1885
Creator:
Richardson, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saw-Sharpening Tool
Patent for a saw-sharpening tool granted to Robert S. Munger. The tool may also be used for sharpening cotton gin blades.
Date:
October 10, 1882
Creator:
Munger, Robert S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fence-Wire Stretcher.
Patent for a simple and practical fence-wire stretcher that stretches "fence-wire in the construction of fences and also taking up the slack in the wire when it sags at any point throughout the line of fence, the device being simple in construction and easily connected and disconnected from the post, as circumstances require" (lines 14-20).
Date:
September 17, 1895
Creator:
Baugh, Edward Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay-Rack.
Patent for a hay-rack meant to "provide an improved device for holding or clamping hay within reach of livestock, and which while not impairing the feeding of the stock will prevent them from pulling the hay down beneath their feet" (lines 14-19).
Date:
April 16, 1895
Creator:
Erskine, William James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for improvements in plows: "This invention relates more particularly to double mold board plows, but it is applicable to ordinary sulky and other plows having a rotary colter over the plowshare and friction wheel with acts as a rotating support or sole in rear of the plow" (lines 8-13).
Date:
September 15, 1891
Creator:
Wilson, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Provision-Safe.
Patent for a provision safe that keeps food cool that uses "a jacket of absorbent material inclosing a suitable frame provided with shelves for supporting the articles of food, and a vat for containing water and supplying it to the jacket by capillary action whereby the temperature is reduced through the process of evaporation" (lines 15-21). This patent improves the design of provision safes.
Date:
November 21, 1893
Creator:
Stephens, James Howell
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harrow.
Patent for a new and improved harrow. This design "consist[s] of a central longitudinal beam having perforations, the jointed toothed frame pivoted to supports on the beam, the handles connected at their forward ends to the said beam, the brace-rods pivoted to the handles and to a cross-bar resting on the beam, and the vertical bolt adapted to the perforations in the beam to adjust the cross-bar thereupon, and thereby raise and lower the handles" (lines 85-94).
Date:
November 22, 1887
Creator:
Wilson, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dish-Cleaner.
Patent for a dish-cleaner that is used in a sink or another container. Its object is to force "air through the water and in contact with the submerged dishes" (lines 17-18). The invention also has "a water-agitator surrounded with supports for holding the dishes or other articles in a vertical position in close proximity to the outlet-ports of the agitator" (lines 20-23).
Date:
January 21, 1896
Creator:
Bond, William Beebe
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device-for-Cooling-Milk-or-Butter
Patent for a device used for cooling milk or butter by means of evaporation so that there is a constant circulation of cool air around the milk or butter.
Date:
January 17, 1893
Creator:
Wilder, Joseph L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Kitchen-Cabinet.
Patent for a new design of kitchen cabinets with doors that open downward. Includes illustrations.
Date:
December 1, 1896
Creator:
Webb, Samuel Baxtern
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a flat shovel and a shank, of the bead on said shovel having a transverse slot therethrough, a slotted wedge inserted between said shovel and shank, and a bolt passing through said bead, wedge, and shank" (lines 95-100).
Date:
April 10, 1888
Creator:
East, Elias
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton or Other Press.
Patent for "that class of cotton-presses in which duplex bale or press boxes arranged to swing upon centers are adapted to be brought in line with a stationary platen and a movable follower" (lines 7-11), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 2, 1884
Creator:
Munger, Robert S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator-Harrow.
Patent for improvements in cultivator-harrows in which an adjustable “harrow-frame is adapted to the ready attachment of cultivators, plows, sweeps, scrapers, and various forms of cultivating devices which are interchangeable with each other and can be used either with or without the harrow-teeth, according to the character of work to be done.” (Lines 80-86) Illustration is included.
Date:
September 29, 1891
Creator:
Wilson, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Sack Carrier.
Patent for a carrying sack meant to carry cotton to and from the field. It is not carried on a worker's back or dragged on the ground. The sack is on an adjustable axle and "may be arranged at an inclination to cause the truck to travel upon a curved line to facilitate the guiding of the same in operation; and furthermore, to provide a fender to prevent objects from falling between the cotton sacks and the wheels of the truck" (lines 14-20).
Date:
November 28, 1893
Creator:
Laird, Archibald F. & Hill, John M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History