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Fence-Wire Fastener
Patent for a fastener for wire fences. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 25, 1913
Creator:
Arnwine, Charles L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fan-Hanger.
Patent for a ceiling fan hanger that allows the fan to be moved higher or lower in the room as needed and stays firmly in place at each height setting.
Date:
March 12, 1907
Creator:
McBee, Marshall E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fence-Post.
Patent for a fence-post for wire fences and allows for the wires to be removed once secured. This invention allows for the fenced-in area to be changed and adjusted.
Date:
April 2, 1895
Creator:
Pryor, Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Safety-Valve
Patent for a safety valve that can be used on water and gas boilers.
Date:
June 21, 1892
Creator:
Ball, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Safety-Valve.
Patent for an improved safety valve for boilers that consists of a valve chamber with a socket at its bottom, a valve seat with a steam outlet, a valve in the socket, a steam inlet tube that passes through and below the valve, a piston mounted in a guide chamber, a spring that holds the piston, a guide chamber with a valve seat, and a steam cylinder.
Date:
October 10, 1893
Creator:
Cameron, Charles Hoyle
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shaking Churn
Patent for a shaking churn. Illustration included.
Date:
July 19, 1904
Creator:
Park, Reece W. & Arnwine, Charles L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Beverages and Sirups from Mustang Grapes.
Patent for manufacturing a syrup by mixing brown sugar, water, and Mustang grapes.
Date:
June 11, 1872
Creator:
Wood, Joshua C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Propelling Devices for Street-Cars and the Like
Patent for and improvement in propelling devices for street cars and the like, includes illustration.
Date:
February 16, 1875
Creator:
Trible, Herndon & Davis, Nicholas A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horse Detacher.
Patent for a new and improved device for detaching animals from vehicles. This design "relates to horse detaching devices, the object being to provide a device of this character of simple, inexpensive, and durable construction, and adapted to readily disengage the traces from the single tree. [The] invention consists in the improved construction and combination of parts" (lines 10-16).
Date:
February 13, 1883
Creator:
Willson, Sam A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Handling Machine for Baskets
Patent for a handling machine for baskets. This invention is designed to form wire handles to baskets. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 4, 1910
Creator:
Haberle, Fred Leopold
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Messenger's Picket.
Patent for a new and improved messenger's picket. This design "is an improvement in means of protection for express-[people] or express-messengers on railway-trains from successful attack by robbers. In other words, it is an improved form of bullet-proof cage or miniature fort in which the express-[person] or messenger may lock himself [or herself] in case of danger and from which he [or she] may watch and fire upon his [or her] assailants with almost perfect safety" (lines 7-15).
Date:
August 30, 1892
Creator:
Hays, James C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plant-Supporting Device
Patent for a simple form of a plant supporting and sticking device for gardeners and agriculturalists, with illustration (lines 10-15).
Date:
March 2, 1915
Creator:
Allen, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow
Patent for a plow. Illustration included.
Date:
February 26, 1907
Creator:
Nunnally, Bruce
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dumping-Car.
Patent for a dumping-car that "can be operated by two men to discharge its contents with a comparatively small amount of exertion on the part of the operators" (lines 14-17). The car is developed to hold gravel, &c., and can be easily dumped.
Date:
August 6, 1895
Creator:
Dunman, William M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Derrick.
Patent for improvements in derricks or machines for hoisting heavy objects, which can be easily erected and operated; this device “can be manipulated with ease and by which the article being elevated or lowered may be changed in position without moving the support.” (Lines 20-23) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 21, 1891
Creator:
Lindsey, William E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Loading Baggage
Patent for the description and illustration of an "improved device for lifting baggage such as trunks or other articles, in loading and unloading them form cars, platforms or other locations"(lines 11-14) including instructions and illustrations. Patent for a new lifting device design with different size baggage, including illustrations.
Date:
January 3, 1893
Creator:
Samuel Richard Heidelberg
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device For Illustrating the Transposition of Musical Scales
Patent for an improvement in machines for transposing musical scales in which a marked and perforated original scale is run over the machine and automatically transported, with levers and rods to mark the sharps, flats, and other information.
Date:
July 28, 1885
Creator:
Neill, John, Frances
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Planter and Chopper
Patent for improvements in "combined cotton planters and choppers; and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination of devices" (line 9-12), includes detailed illustration.
Date:
July 3, 1888
Creator:
Lester, Isaac L. & Whittly, Josiah
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Band Tightener
Patent for a bale-band tightener, illustrations included.
Date:
October 2, 1900
Creator:
Splettstosser, Fritz
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Feeder and Cleaner.
Patent for feeders and cleaners for cotton gins: "provide a combined feeder and cleaner for cotton gins which is not only thoroughly and effectually cleans cotton before it passes to the gin, but at the same time it regularly and positively feeds the cotton to the gin in such cleaned condition" (lines 10-15).
Date:
April 25, 1893
Creator:
Oliphint, Alfred
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaner.
Patent for a machine that cleans cotton by placing the seed into a rotating cylinder it is carried and removed using air presser through spiral fan blades and pins to rid impurities, including illustrations.
Date:
September 11, 1860
Creator:
Smith, Charles
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a cotton-chopper that cultivates "the rows of plants simultaneously with thinning them out; and a further object of the invention is to provide such a machine which will be durable and simple" (lines 11-14).
Date:
February 12, 1895
Creator:
Newton, Nicholas H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History