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Improvement in Breech-Loading Fire-Arms.
Patent for improved maneuvering and loading of firearms while riding horseback.
Date:
July 20, 1878
Creator:
Morrison, John T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clutch Clamp.
Patent for a new and improved clutch-clamp. This design "is to provide a simple and effective device for lowering or hoisting the pipe or rods of pumps into bored wells or other places, such as mines or shafts, and without injury to the pipe or rod, such device being not only readily and easily handled in connecting it to or disconnecting it from the object to be raised or lowered, but capable of being manufactured at comparatively small cost" (lines 20-29).
Date:
August 16, 1887
Creator:
McCoy, John William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting Attachment for Sewing-Machines.
Patent for a new removable quilting frame for sewing machines. Patent for "improvements in sewing-machine attachments for quilting designed to support a quilting frame that can be moved from place to place" (lines 14-21) including instructions and illustrations. Patent for a new quilting attachment for sewing-machine design with, including illustrations.
Date:
January 3, 1888
Creator:
Clark, Chester Cady
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Self-Registering Target
Patent for "new and useful improvements in self-registering targets, whereby the shots are plainly indicated, the parts are readily returned to their normal position after the shot is fired, and the whole combining simplicity, cheapness, and durability" (lines 13-18).
Date:
April 17, 1888
Creator:
Wright, Walter K. & Brown, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well Drill.
Patent for a new and improved well drill. This design "consists in a novel construction of a tool for boring or drilling wells, which tool has the drill-bit and the reamer so united as to operate simultaneously, and thus serve the functions of the so-called "Z-bit" and effectually prevent the tool from being thrown laterally out of the line of cutting when striking bowlders; and the invention also consists in an improved construction of the coupling of the tool to the sinker-bar or drill-bar" (lines 9-18).
Date:
July 17, 1888
Creator:
Titus, Silas W. & Clark, Chester C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe Wrench.
Patent for a new and improved pipe wrench. This design consists, "with the stationary jaw provided with a shank and an inclined portion on the shank, of a movable jaw, also provided with a shank, having an inclined portion on it and pivotally connected to the stationary jaw, and a loop pivoted to the stationary jaw and engaging with the shank of the movable jaw, whereby the said two inclined portions are retained in working position" (lines 85-94).
Date:
February 11, 1890
Creator:
Bartlett, William George & McCoy, John William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hayrick Sheet
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date:
1891
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Angelo Sheet
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date:
1892
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "is in couplers adapted to use a link of ordinary form and to be so set that coupling may be automatic or not, as desired" (lines 15-17). It consists, "with the draw-head having lugs upon each side of the same, of the vertical coupling-pin, the pivoted pin-supporting arms arranged to contact with the lugs, and tripping arms adapted to be operated by the centering-link and throw the arms from the lugs" (lines 23-29).
Date:
June 28, 1892
Creator:
Callaway, William H. & West, Charles C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill.
Patent for an improved wind wheel that has "every other blade...has a right angled extension or cup to catch the wind, the blades thus formed being set in the hub and rim of the wheel so as to have said right angled portions where they will receive the full force of the wind" (lines 17-22). A ring supports the angled portions of the windmill blades.
Date:
March 7, 1893
Creator:
Bowman, Charles R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap.
Patent for an animal trap meant to trap animals that burrow in the ground, such as prairie dogs. The trap catches the animal when it leaves its den and the animal cannot escape the trap.
Date:
April 25, 1893
Creator:
Manning, James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flooring or Ceiling Jack.
Patent for a flooring or ceiling jack that is meant to "provide a device, whereby the laying of the flooring, and the fitting of siding and ceiling strips are greatly facilitated, and enables one carpenter to do the work that ordinarily requires two" (lines 14-18).
Date:
August 22, 1893
Creator:
Holiman, William Moses
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hoisting Device.
Patent for an inexpensive device that is meant to hoist, lift, or extract stumps, stones, or other heavy objects. It also stretches wire and can act as a vehicle jack.
Date:
December 19, 1893
Creator:
Hagelstein, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hayrick Sheet
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date:
1894
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Power.
Patent for a water-power. It consists of a dam built halfway across a stream, a power-house with its upper end closed and inclined towards the upstream, gated inlet openings on the side of the power-house, gates that control the inlet openings, and a water-wheel on the stream side of the power-house.
Date:
December 4, 1894
Creator:
Vernon, William E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sherwood Sheet
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date:
1895
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tag.
Patent for an inexpensive and simple tag to label bolts of cloth that is "a convenient means for fastening the [tag] in such position upon a bolt of goods as to prevent it from becoming twisted or turned, and so that the tag will always be held or supported so as to exhibit the markings thereon" (lines 12-16).
Date:
March 19, 1895
Creator:
Winkler, Charles
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for "an automatic link-coupler which shall embody strength, simplicity, certainty of action, and adaptability for manipulation without entering between the cars and without necessity of relieving strain." (Lines 9-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1897
Creator:
Martin, David D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling
Patent for a new and useful improvements in Car couples. This invention "relates to automatic car couples, and more particularly to that class known as " swing-pin" couples" (line 11 - 13).
Date:
November 16, 1897
Creator:
Gillespie, Charles W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
San Angelo Sheet
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date:
1898
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of Collecting and Conveying Water.
Patent for a new and useful method of collecting and conveying water.
Date:
March 1, 1898
Creator:
Manning, James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump-Rod-Operating Device for Windmills.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in pump rod operating devices for windmills, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 9, 1899
Creator:
Vernon, William E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed-Robe For Invalids.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in bed robes for invalids, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 27, 1900
Creator:
Sims, Mary E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ventilating Apparatus.
Patent for a ventilating apparatus "adapted for use in connection with buildings, storehouses, and school and other buildings, both public and private" (lines 9-12).
Date:
March 26, 1901
Creator:
Vernon, William E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History