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Toy Wagon
Patent for "invented a new and useful Toy Wagon" (lines 5-6) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 6, 1892
Creator:
Douthit, Albert Gilbert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Measuring and Drawing Tool.
Patent for an improved, simple, and durable measuring and drawing tool that is easily adjusted and used to find bevels, pitches, degrees, and lengths in framing roofs. It has other purposes as well. "The invention consists of a plate in the shape of an eighth of an octagon having four sides, and a straight edge pivoted on the side plate and indicating thereon" (lines 14-17).
Date:
May 2, 1893
Creator:
Allred, Lemuel O.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planter, Chopper, and Cultivator
Patent for "a combined planter and cultivator, including a cotton-chopper" (lines 11-12).
Date:
December 23, 1890
Creator:
Murdock, Joseph Lafayette
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil Expressing Box.
Patent for a new and improved oil-expressing box. In this design, "the follower is adapted to fit the box, so as to obviate the need of any joint-closing device, and the face of the follower at its side edges is raised to better confine the bag in place, and at its center or central portion is channeled and provided with a false bottom to provide for the escape of the oil" (lines 24-31).
Date:
June 23, 1885
Creator:
Cathcart, Rodney S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil Expressing Box Package Shaping Machine.
Patent for a machine which shapes boxes for packaging extracted oils, with description of parts and illustrations.
Date:
June 23, 1885
Creator:
Cathcart, Rodney S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hoe.
Patent for improvements in hoes, the inventor designed the handle of the hoe to carry two shanks; the shanks diverging form the handle and bent to be parallel with each other. A connecting-rod at the end of two shanks is being threaded and provided with locking-nuts, which used to secure the hoe blades. The hoe blades can be adjusted laterally. Illustration is included.
Date:
May 19, 1891
Creator:
Brown, Henry M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hand Car.
Patent for a new and improved hand-car. This design has "such construction and arrangement of the cranks and levers of hand-cars that the maximum amount of the power exerted upon the levers by the operators will be applied to the propulsion of the car" (lines 7-12).
Date:
March 28, 1882
Creator:
Sessions, Henry H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hand Car.
Patent for a new and improved hand car. This design consists in "[a] hand-car constructed with a frame-work . . . and provided with a propelling mechanism consisting of the bent pipe-lever in combination with the rocking lever, provided with the socket, the connecting-rod, driving wheel, and pinion" (lines 92-98).
Date:
January 16, 1883
Creator:
Johnson, Roberto H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hoop Fastening for Buckets, &c.
Patent for a new and improved fastener for barrels and buckets. This design "consists of a metal strap provided with side tongues and having its ends bent around the upper and lower hoops and the side tongues bent around the intermediate hoops. . . . to prevent them from dropping off when the vessel dries and shrinks" (lines 10-17).
Date:
February 20, 1883
Creator:
Phillips, Hiram B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hoop-Fastening for Buckets, &c.
Reissued patent for a a hoop fastening "to hold the hoops on buckets, barrels, kegs, and other like vessels in an effective manner, and to prevent them from dropping off when the vessel dries and shrinks" (lines 8-12).
Date:
June 5, 1883
Creator:
Phillips, Hiram B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Reel for Measuring Bagging, &c.
Patent for a new and improved cloth-measuring machine. This design "consists in the peculiar arrangement of a spool or roller from which the stock is taken, a wheel upon which it is wound from the roller, a cutting board or table, and a measuring-wheel, whereby . . . handling, measuring, and cutting bagging, matting, carpets, and other goods . . . may be effected in a simple and convenient method" (lines 11-19).
Date:
December 7, 1880
Creator:
Le Roy, Charles Jerome
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shovel-Plow.
Patent for the improvement of shovel plows "to so construct and arrange the several parts of the device that they may be easily and quickly adjusted to adapt the implement to different kinds of work," (lines 17-20) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 9, 1890
Creator:
Kersh, Thomas E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway Cattle-Guard.
Patent for a railway cattle-guard meant to be used "where the track of a railroad passes between the adjacent ends of fence-sections; and the invention seeks to provide elevated pricking-points in connection with adjacent guides inclining toward such points to direct the legs of the stock to such points so the latter will prick the lags at or above the top of the hoof" (lines 9-16).
Date:
December 3, 1895
Creator:
Jack, Harvey M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Frame or Support for Mosquito Canopies.
Patent for a new and improved frame for mosquito canopies. This design consists in "the combination, with the fixed standards and the forwardly-projecting bearings, of the braces pivoted to [the] bearings and united by cross-bar, the short arms pivoted to the upper ends of the fixed standards, and parallel side-bars connected by cross-bars to form a rectangular frame to support the canopy or curtain and pivoted intermediate, respectively, in the outer ends of the short arms and brace" (lines 22-31).
Date:
March 25, 1890
Creator:
Bailey, Alfred Holt
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Marking-Tag.
Patent for a marking-tag that is clamped around the edge of the merchandise that is being labeled. This tag is secure at its four corners "so as to obviate curling of the corners and to protect the ends of the fastener employed for securing the tag to the goods, whereby scratching of the hands and injurious contact of the points of the said fastener with the goods or merchandise are wholly obviated" (lines 12-18).
Date:
March 24, 1896
Creator:
Winkler, Charles
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grinding Planer Knife.
Patent for a new and improved attachment for grinders of wood-planing-machine knives. This design "may be securely attached to the frame of a wood-planing machine for grinding the revolving knives of the planer without removing the knives from its shaft or the shaft from its bearings upon the frame of the machine. . . . in so constructing and combining the parts of the improved device . . . it may be readily adapted to suit various-sized machines" (lines 10-22).
Date:
November 9, 1880
Creator:
Le Roy, Charles Jerome
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Furnace.
Patent for a simple, durable, and effective furnace that uses fuel economically and does not release smoke and gases besides out of the chimney. The furnace has a suction fan that draws the gases into the chimney.
Date:
April 2, 1895
Creator:
Wainright, Walter Wallace
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad-Rail Joint.
Patent for a specialized railroad joint that has a "novel combination of a T-shaped splice rail" (lines 12-13) in combination with other parts, "connected with downwardly-curved truss-bolts passing through the vertical member of the splice-rail in such matter as to hold all of the parts firmly together..." (lines 19-23).
Date:
March 16, 1897
Creator:
Trammell, Jefferson D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rack and Spool for Holding Rope Coils.
Patent for a new and improved rack for ropes. This design "consists in a peculiar construction of frame and arrangement of the spools or reels upon the frame to secure a light and compact structure of sufficient stability to support the required number of rope-coils" (lines 15-19).
Date:
September 28, 1880
Creator:
Le Roy, Charles Jerome
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rack and Spool for Holding Rope Coils.
Patent for a new and improved rack for spools of rope. This design "consists in a particular construction of frame adapted for supporting spools of different lengths, as well as an improved construction of spool for expanding and holding the coil of rope in the center of the reel while being used, and improved hangers for the wheels, whereby the latter may be arranged within the frame to accommodate the different sizes of coils now manufactured" (lines 14-23).
Date:
March 29, 1881
Creator:
Le Roy, Charles Jerome
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Stock-Guard.
Patent for "a guard which will effectually prevent cattle from entering adjoining fields to which ingress is afforded by means of a railroad traversing them and to provide means for preventing the guards being injured by trains passing over the road," (lines 11-16) with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 6, 1891
Creator:
Bridges, William J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pilot-Coupling.
Patent for "an automatic pilot coupling, which will enable the pilot bar of a locomotive to be coupled with a car by a brakeman while standing to the side of the locomotive out of the way of all danger, from which position he can accurately operate the device, thus doing away with all necessity for going between the moving engine and the car to which it is to be coupled." (Lines 15-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 4, 1895
Creator:
Heidelberg, Samuel R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mosquito Netting Frame.
Patent for a new and improved mosquito netting frame. This design "consists of a mosquito-netting frame formed of two longitudinal rods removably fastened to uprights attached to the bedposts, and held by cords or wires passing from the outer ends of each of said longitudinal rods to the top of each upright. A transverse rod or bar is removably attached to the outer ends of said longitudinal bars or rods. . . . [The design] is simple in construction, light, durable, and convenient" (lines 9-18).
Date:
March 8, 1881
Creator:
Bailey, Alfred H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draw Bar for Locomotives.
Patent for a new and improved draw-bar for locomotives. This design consists, "with the frame of the locomotive and pilot mounted thereon, of the draw-bar connected to the frame, devices for locking and holding the draw-bar on the pilot, and a counter-weight for automatically elevating the draw-bar when released" (lines 97-102).
Date:
August 16, 1892
Creator:
Heidelberg, Samuel H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History