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Improvement in Sewing-Machine Thread-Guards.
Patent for "a guard attachment to the Wheeler & Wilson sewing-machine for preventing the thread from being thrown off the tension by the work, and for preventing the thread from running off the spool onto the spindle." (Lines 6-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 21, 1875
Creator:
Roosevelt, Lillian
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Train-Indicator
Patent for a train indicator that displays numbers or letters that can be easily changed.
Date:
July 2, 1912
Creator:
Elliott, Claud B. & Clappart, Emile E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Means for Raising Journal-Boxes.
Patent for raising journal-boxes on a railroad car to easily renew the brasses or do other necessary tasks.
Date:
June 8, 1916
Creator:
Hathaway, Charles B. & Elliott, Claud B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pencil Attachment
Patent for device that continuously applies mucilage to the penil without rendering it sticky.
Date:
December 26, 1916
Creator:
Elliott, Claud B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow
Patent for a plow with an adjustable pitch and share.
Date:
October 1, 1912
Creator:
KilPatrick, Robert L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Motor.
Patent for a new and improved motor. This design "has for its object to provide a motor of the class . . . that shall possess superior advantages in point of simplicity, cheapness, durability, and general efficiency; and to these ends [the] invention consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts" (lines 17-23).
Date:
September 30, 1884
Creator:
Chilton, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stock Collar.
Patent for a new and improved stock-collar. This design is "for the purpose of positively and unmistakably identifying cattle and other like stock, and to obviate the necessity of marking and branding cattle, &c., which shall be light, simple, strong, and durable in construction, thoroughly effective for the purposes designed, easily attached to and removed from the necks of cattle, &c., which shall be cheap and inexpensive of manufacture, and not liable to become lost, misplaced, broken, or detached by the animal in its efforts to release itself" (lines 16-26).
Date:
April 6, 1886
Creator:
Roberts, John Harrison
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil Press Mat.
Patent for a new and improved oil press mat. This design "is to flexibly connect the metal plates or leaves of a three-leaved oil-press mat in such manner that when the mat with the bags of meal interposed between its leaves is subjected to pressure for the purpose of expressing the oil the parallelism of the leaves will be maintained and endwise shifting of the same prevented. A further object is to provide a fastening . . . which shall be stronger, more durable, and more positive in its functions" (lines 31-41).
Date:
June 7, 1881
Creator:
Ahrenbeck, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings.
Patent for an improvement in car-couplings with illustrations.
Date:
May 30, 1876
Creator:
Darrow, Nicholas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shovel Plow
Patent for a shovel plow. Illustration included.
Date:
January 8, 1907
Creator:
Kilpatrick, Robert L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spring-Motor Apparatus.
Patent for a spring loaded dasher for use in churns that results in automated turning of the dashers.
Date:
June 4, 1907
Creator:
Elliott, Claude B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Riveting-Mandrel.
Patent for a riveting-mandrel "for riveting the overlapping ends of sheet metal to form pipes, tubes, or the like" (lines 10-12) including illustrations.
Date:
June 1, 1897
Creator:
Mantey, John F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saddle Stirrup
Patent for stirrups. This invention is designed to be automatically detached from the stirrup strap in the case of the rider being thrown. Illustration included.
Date:
November 22, 1910
Creator:
Shultz, James F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe Wrench or Clamp
Patent for a pipe wrench or clamp. Illustration included.
Date:
December 15, 1903
Creator:
Hutchins, Charles N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a plow that can be easily and inexpensively adjusted to plow shallower or deeper.
Date:
August 12, 1919
Creator:
Kilpatrick, Robert L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Means for Automatically Inflating Pneumatic Tires.
Patent for an automatically inflating tire which allows the tires to be inflated evenly at all times. "Should the air escape from the tire due to a puncture or leak the rim will be prevented from injuring the tire casing, as said casing will be prevented from becoming deflated" (lines 17-21). Motorists will no longer need to drive on flat tires waiting for repairs.
Date:
November 9, 1920
Creator:
Cooper, Jowel Cecil
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gage.
Patent for a gage that has a beam with a saw kerf at one end, a clamp made up of a tube with parallel wings that are inserted into the kerf, a scribing point in the tube, "and means for clamping the separated ends of the beam tightly against the parallel wings of the clamp" (lines 57-59).
Date:
November 12, 1895
Creator:
Holmes, Elijah H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cut-Off Valve.
Patent for a new and improved valve. This design consists in "the valve-seat of [the] slide-valve, the entrances of whose steam passages form seats for auxiliary valves pivoted to [the] yoke on a rod, whose stud occupies said slot in upper portion of [the] arm pivoted to [the] pendant from [the] main valve-rod and terminating in [the] tappet, the same being combined with the adjustable stops" (lines 55-63).
Date:
October 1, 1889
Creator:
Moore, Robert B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for an improvement to "shovel-plows" that "is adapted to cultivate between the rows of corn, &c., and one in which the rearwardly-extending moldboards can be adjusted [...] in case the rows are close together or far apart. The cultivator is also arranged so that the depth of the furrow can be regulated" (lines 14-21).
Date:
May 28, 1901
Creator:
Dinkins, James Oscar
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaning Machine.
Patent for an improvement for cotton-cleaning machines that removes harmful debris from cotton before passing the cotton into the cotton gin. The improvement uses brushes and air blowers to collect and divert debris.
Date:
April 11, 1916
Creator:
Davison, Israel D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a cultivator, which can be adjusted to different widths and depths of rows.
Date:
March 15, 1910
Creator:
Kilpatrick, Robert L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History