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Acetylene Gas Generator
Patent for acetylene gas generator. Illustration included.
Date:
December 11, 1906
Creator:
Hays, Parx Orr
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Teaching Penmanship.
Patent for a device for teaching penmanship, which holds the hand in the correct writing position.
Date:
November 23, 1909
Creator:
Smith, Sidney R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Twisting Wire Cables of Suspension Bridges.
Patent for a new and improved cable twister. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the casting having grooves and openings therein, of the semicircular disks . . . having grooves therein and openings extending through the same, the bolt for binding the several parts together, and the arms extending out from the disks" (lines 1-7).
Date:
June 11, 1889
Creator:
Runyon, Edwin Elijah
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Converting Motion.
Patent for a new and improved motion converter. This design "has relation to mechanical movements for converting a reciprocating into a rotary motion so as to impart a steady and regular motion to such machinery as windmills and engines, churning and washing machines, as well as to all other motors to which it may be applied; and the novelty consists in the construction of the same" (lines 9-16).
Date:
September 19, 1882
Creator:
Brown, James F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Double Foot Plow Stock.
Patent for a new and improved double-foot plow-stock. This design consists "[i]n a double-footed plow, the combination of the beam provided with transverse holes, the cross-bar having slots, the pivot-bolt, and the adjustable braces independently pivoted to the cross-bar . . . [and] [t]he slotted standard having on its front face the notches and the plow-point, in combination with the clip, having a T-head whose lower face is V-shaped to fit in one of the notches of the standard" (lines 83-93).
Date:
March 17, 1885
Creator:
Page, Dyonisius Oliver
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Power.
Patent for a new and improved engine. This design has a "tread-wheel on which the animal is placed, and which is provided with a cog-wheel on its under side to mesh with a pinion placed on one end of the crank-shaft, a connecting-rod which is attached at one end to the crank and at the other to a pivoted lever . . . a second connecting-rod which is fastened to the upper end of the pivoted lever . . . a balance-wheel, and the main driving-shaft provided with a number of arms, each one of which carries a planet-wheel for the purpose of moving around a fixed wheel" (lines 15-29).
Date:
July 7, 1885
Creator:
Yarbrough, Ezekel James & Kyker, John Marshal
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator.
Patent for an acetylene-gas generator that consists of “a suitable frame, a receptacle positioned within said frame, and a gas-bell” (lines 11-13), as well as a gasometer and carbide feed. As a result, the gas generator “will continually furnish dry, cool gas and at a substantially even pressure at all times” (line 22-24). Illustrations included.
Date:
June 4, 1907
Creator:
Hays, Parx Orr
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "having [a] bell-mouthed draw-head, pin, plane-faced link, spring, and slide, having transverse plane face laterally secured in the draw-head by means of side guide-plates, [and] inlet into rabbets" (lines 85-90).
Date:
November 7, 1882
Creator:
Saxon, James W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for improvements in car-couplings known as “automatic” by providing actuate means to “throw the pin downward and locks the link in a horizontal position.” (Lines 24-25) For uncoupling the cars from either the top or either side of the car; “a spring-actuated device is provided for keeping the link in a horizontal position with a yielding force.” (Lines 27-29) Illustration is included.
Date:
August 18, 1891
Creator:
Cole, Henry J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator
Patent for "new and useful improvements in Plows and Cultivators" (lines 5-6), with illustrations.
Date:
April 3, 1883
Creator:
Nutting, James H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Covering-Machine.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in rag joiners, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 4, 1899
Creator:
Vining, Lucinda
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator and Scraper.
Patent for improvements in cultivators and scrapers: "The object of our invention is to provide a cultivator and scraper of simple and economical construction" (lines 15-17).
Date:
October 13, 1891
Creator:
Huneycutt, Noah & Moseley, Thomas Elverton
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Seed Planter.
Patent for a cotton-seem planters that has a frame with a bar bent to make handles, supporting wheels, a hopper, a feed drum, guides, and pins that feed seed along the hopper.
Date:
March 13, 1894
Creator:
Sawyer, Samuel P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Elevator.
Patent for a new and improved cotton elevator. This design "facilitate[s] the delivery of cotton to the gin, and at the same time . . . removes from the cotton the gravel and other foreign substances that may be in it, thereby preventing injury to the gin and causing it to deliver the cotton in a cleaner and better condition" (lines 7-13).
Date:
June 14, 1881
Creator:
Newton, William Frederick
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cultivating Machine
Patent to "provide an implement which, in passing once over the row of cotton, will chop, scrape, and cultivate said row" (lines 10-13).
Date:
October 15, 1889
Creator:
Runyon, Edwin Elijah
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History