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Improvement in Medical Compounds.
Patent for a new medical compound to remedy chills and fever.
Date:
February 7, 1871
Creator:
Lister, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Car and Air-Brake Coupling.
Patent for the connection between two railway cars.
Date:
February 7, 1893
Creator:
Smith, Jacob C.; Golfin, John H.; Hardeman, Eammanuel J.; McNeal, Thomas. & Love, W.G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition of Matter for Removing Grease, &c.
Patent for a compound that is meant to remove grease, oil, paint, and similar things from delicate cloth. It is composed of gasoline, chloroform, sulfuric ether, alcohol, spirits of ammonia, powdered borax, powdered carbonate of soda, and saltpeter in lumps.
Date:
February 7, 1893
Creator:
Ehman, Benedickt
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chain-Steamer.
Patent for a chain steamer that has an improved means of propulsion with a uniform speed despite a changing current. It does not allow the boat to laterally deflect. It is especially meant to be used with tow boats that travel on fast-moving, shallow streams. It can be used to move ferry boats across fast-moving rivers as well.
Date:
February 7, 1893
Creator:
Pfeifer, Edmund I. & Pfeifer, Eduard A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine.
Patent for an improved, simple, and efficient washing machine that consists of a casing, ribbed rollers, a belt with slats that is mounted on the rollers, a rubbing board, cross pieces on the rubbing board, and a counter-acting tension spring that holds a chord that is secured to the end of the board.
Date:
February 7, 1893
Creator:
Haydon, William Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive.
Patent for a new and improved locomotive. This design "relates to a locomotive running-gear and motive-power connection; and the novelty consists in the construction, arrangement, and adaptation of parts" (lines 15-18).
Date:
February 7, 1882
Creator:
Hudson, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Swing.
Patent for improvement in swings, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 7, 1888
Creator:
Goebel, Herman A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grain-Planter.
Patent for an inexpensive, simple, and durable grain planter that plants large grains like corn, peas, and wheat. The improved machine is perfectly timed and does not crush the seeds.
Date:
February 7, 1893
Creator:
Yarbrough, Orceneth Fisher
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Piston Packing.
Patent for a new and improved piston packing. This design consists in a "piston head cast entire and having radial arms bored out, in combination with the piston-segments, the steam-ports in the piston-plates, and stems of said segments, packing expansible rings on said stems, and the expansible packing-rings inclosing the said piston-segments" (lines 87-93).
Date:
February 7, 1888
Creator:
St. James, Henry L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fence.
Patent for a new and improved fence. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the fence-wires, the stay-rods having their lower ends fitted in the ground and provided with a series of steps or rests fitted to the fence wires, a series of tie-wires securing the fence-wires to said steps, and braces twisted around the stay-rods near the upper ends thereof and having their ends secured to buried anchors" (lines 59-66).
Date:
February 7, 1888
Creator:
Lott, Arthur
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Coup
Patent for "a folding coop or crate, which may be readily folded into a compact form for transportation or storage when empty, and which may be conveniently adjusted to open position for use and secured in such position when so desired" (lines 7-12).
Date:
February 7, 1888
Creator:
Tate, William Elbert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hedge.
Patent for a new way to plant hedges, which "consists in an improved method of planting and training the cactus-plant (preferably of the species known as the 'scabbard' or 'brush cactus') to adapt it to form a thick and impenetrable fence which shall resist the attacks of cattle, and will grow regularly and evenly after the young plants have been properly trained" (lines 13-20).
Date:
February 7, 1882
Creator:
Fleming, Edward H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Furnace.
Patent for improvements in furnaces. Patent for "a new and improved design for furnaces for returning smoke and gas to the ash pit" (lines 11-13) including instructions and illustrations. Patent for a new furnace design, including illustrations.
Date:
February 7, 1893
Creator:
Keene, Milton Walter & Henkle, Louis R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rat Trap.
Patent for a new and improved rat trap. This design consists of "the pendulum bait-frame, in combination with triggers and attached to cam-springs and weighted trap-doors and rollers" (lines 59-62).
Date:
February 7, 1882
Creator:
Younger, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting Frame.
Patent for a new and improved quilting frame. This design "is a quilting-frame for use with sewing machines, consisting of rollers adapted to stretch the quilt or cloth in customary manner and running in bearings in a frame which is mounted on a suitable stand, which adapts it for lateral movement to follow the feed of the sewing machine" (lines 8-15).
Date:
February 7, 1882
Creator:
Davis, Henry T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Tie.
Patent for a new and improved railroad tie. This design "has reference to improvements in railroad-ties of that class in which two metallic pot-sleepers connected transversely by a brace-rod are employed in place of wooden ties for supporting the rails; and the invention consists of two transversely-connected iron pot-sleepers, which are provided with a longitudinal box-shaped center portion, upon which the rail rests, said center portion being made in one piece with the sleeper, and adapted for storing therein signal telegraph wires" (lines 7-17).
Date:
February 7, 1882
Creator:
Herbst, Charles F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Earth Borer and Excavator
Patent for an earth borer and excavator machine
Date:
February 7, 1882
Creator:
Carley, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.
Date:
February 7, 1905
Creator:
Woods, John Bell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a wire stretcher that is safer to use than other wire stretchers.
Date:
February 7, 1911
Creator:
Stewart, James Andrew
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Trap.
Patent for an insect trap that attracts insects with a light.
Date:
February 7, 1911
Creator:
Wood, Robert N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Storage-Tank
Patent for a food storage tank with ventilation. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 7, 1911
Creator:
Harry, Owen K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oxygen-Generator
Patent for an oxygen generator that refills as it is emptied.
Date:
February 7, 1911
Creator:
Bradley, Richard Clinton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tool-Handle.
Patent for tool handles relating to "improvements in handles for hoes, rakes, and similar agricultural or mechanical implements; and it consists in the novel devices hereinafter described and claimed (lines 10-15).
Date:
February 7, 1898
Creator:
Barry, Jefferson D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Post-Hole Auger.
Patent for a post hole auger that is easy to operate.
Date:
February 7, 1911
Creator:
Mahon, John G. & Olschner, Clarence E.
System:
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