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Jack
Patent for a new Jack's that can use in motor cars and other vehicles, It is folded into a compact condition, for storage, within the tool chest of the machine, including illustrations.
Date:
January 11, 1916
Creator:
Abernathy, George J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harness Attachment
Patent for a harness attachment. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 17, 1905
Creator:
Anderson, Samuel C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horse Detacher
Patent for horse detacher. Illustration included.
Date:
January 17, 1905
Creator:
Anderson, Samuel C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock
Patent for device locks a nut to the threaded portion of a bolt.
Date:
January 2, 1917
Creator:
Blackwelder, Charlie A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.
Patent for a combined cotton chopper and cultivator that "consists in providing the main axle with spur-wheels and with depending supports to which are attached the beams of the cultivator shovels and a cutting blade which extends in front of the machine and is adapted to be vibrated by the spur-wheels as the machine moves over the ground, thereby providing means for chopping cotton or other stalks" (lines 17-25).
Date:
January 23, 1894
Creator:
Bosley, Henry C. & Organ, Joseph H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate
Patent for invention of certain new and useful Improvements in Gates. Relates to the improvements in automatic gates, Including annexed drawing which fully illustrate the invetion (5-10).
Date:
January 31, 1893
Creator:
Boyd, Alexander
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner
Patent for a crude oil burner for kitchen use such as cooking. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 25, 1910
Creator:
Brennan, John B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Can Closure
Patent for a can closure. Illustration included.
Date:
January 29, 1907
Creator:
Brundrett, Arnold
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Door Fastening.
Patent for sliding car-door fastening to improve the fastening of said car-door.
Date:
January 20, 1880
Creator:
Buser, William H. & Shaw, Burrell L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Planter.
Patent for a new and improved cotton planter. This design "consists in the combination, with the slotted hopper-bottom, of the hinged and curved cut-offs and their spring, whereby the escape of seed will be prevented, except as forced out by the prongs of the feed-wheel" (lines 19-23).
Date:
January 24, 1882
Creator:
Byers, Anthony Walter & Dorser, James Carrol
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ray Roberts Lake Pre-Construction Landuse, January 1980
Map showing the area around Ray Roberts Lake in Northern Texas. It contains a color coded legend indicating a variety of geographical features.
Date:
January 1980
Creator:
CRSLA
Object Type:
Map
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Apparatus for Washing and Draining Dishes.
Patent for a new and improved dishwasher. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a pan provided near its top on the inner side with rigidly-attached brackets, with a tray in the form of a pan whose side and bottom portions are perforated . . . the tray being of less diameter and height than the pan and provided on its outer side near the bottom with brackets and on its upper edge with handles" (lines 94-101).
Date:
January 14, 1890
Creator:
Caradine, Virginia C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a simple, practical, and reliable car-coupling with a side latch. It is "adapted for automatic connection in pairs, when two cars having the improvements are brought together on the same track, which will be capable of a ready release from the side of either coupled car, and also that will be adapted by its peculiar formation to receive support from one part of the improvements, when a coupled drawhead is partly detached from its connections to the car, and which if not so sustained might fall on the track, derail the car having the disabled coupling, and occasion the wreckage of said car and others of a train" (lines 14-27).
Date:
January 15, 1895
Creator:
Curry, Charles D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churns.
Patent for improvements in churns with specific improvements in dasher-rods and lids. This patent includes illustrations.
Date:
January 1, 1878
Creator:
Davis, Henry T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churns.
Patent for the improved design of churns "in which the dasher-shaft is vertical and receives rotation by gearing at the top of the churn" (2nd para.), including illustrations.
Date:
January 25, 1876
Creator:
Davis, Henry T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Quilting-Frames
Patent for an improved quilting frame that is designed around a folding trestle-frame and two parallel rollers on which a quilt can be rolled, leaving the material between the rollers to be quilted/worked on. Illustration includes a perspective and detail view of the frame.
Date:
January 16, 1877
Creator:
Davis, Henry T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay Press.
Patent for a new and improved hay-press. This design "is to produce a hay-press of simple construction that will work easily and rapidly, that will operate in such a manner that the hay cannot clog in the press, and in which the plunger or follower will be automatically reciprocated by a continuous motion of the main pulley" (lines 9-15). It consists, "with the plunger having a sideways-extending arm, a screw-shaft connected with the plunger and having a sideways-extending arm, the pinion on the screw-shaft, the shaft and pinions . . . of a tilting frame" (lines 113-118).
Date:
January 13, 1891
Creator:
Donald, Frank
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fruit-Gatherer.
Patent for "improving fruit-gatherers designed to be thrust into a tree and cull each fruit separately" (lines 17-20).
Date:
January 20, 1880
Creator:
Eddleman, James P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Starting and Stopping Device for Gas and other Engines.
Patent for an improved starting and stopping mechanism for gas or other engines.
Date:
January 25, 1910
Creator:
Ellis, Thomas William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin
Patent for a cotton gin which removes lint with air pressure. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 26, 1909
Creator:
Epps, Clinton Calvin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Match-Box.
Patent for improvements in match-boxes by constructing the match box “wherein matches will be picked up and delivered no matter at what angle they may be with relation to the delivering device.” (Lines 18-20) Illustration is included.
Date:
January 11, 1910
Creator:
Fleming, Henry C. & Royster, William F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Display-Case.
Patent for a display case for food, which has an improved frame.
Date:
January 17, 1911
Creator:
Folsom, Andrew W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churns
Patent for a geared mechanism to attach to existing churns to aid in the production of cream into butter. Illustrations include front and side elevations.
Date:
January 23, 1877
Creator:
Gray, Whitley F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Suspension-Bridge.
Patent for a suspension bridge that improves on a previous patent granted to the inventor (No. 411,499). This patent is meant to "decrease the vertical motion in floor of min span of bridge, thereby adding stability thereto; to provide for a new and improved anchorage for the suspension cables of the bridge; and, furthermore, to improve certain details of construction" (lines 15-20).
Date:
January 23, 1894
Creator:
Greer, William Henry Clay
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History