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Improved Cosmetic.
Patent for improvement in cosmetics by using various chemicals to enhance the cosmetics in which it “can remove freckles or tan-discoloration from the skin, and for improving the complexion.” (Line 5-6) Formula for the improved cosmetic is included. Instructions on how to prepare the cosmetic and how to use the cosmetic are described. There is no illustration.
Date:
February 25, 1868
Creator:
Wilson, I. M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seed Planters
Patent for "improvement in Seed Planters as herein described and pointed out in the claim..."(paragraph 4 contains instructions and references to the illustration Fig 1 and Fig 2 as well as these illustrations labeled parts)
Date:
February 25, 1873
Creator:
Friday, Reuben
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Running-Gears for Vehicles.
Patent for vehicle running gear improvements consisting of two piece head-block, central eye, groove for king bolt, and wrought-iron brackets for parts.
Date:
February 25, 1873
Creator:
Meddows, Isaac O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent for an improvement in plow design, including illustrations.
Date:
February 25, 1873
Creator:
Nichols, James R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Chairs.
Patent for a new and improved chair. This design consists "[i]n a reading and writing attachment for chairs, the combination of a bail-shaped clamp adapted to be applied to a chair-arm, an upright slotted arm, a set-screw passing through said slotted arm and engaging the clamp, a plate carried by the upper end of said slotted arm, and a table pivotally connected to said plate, whereby the table may be adjusted vertically, horizontally, and obliquely" (lines 66-75).
Date:
February 25, 1890
Creator:
Hutton, Milton C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for "an exceedingly rapid baling of the hay, to provide for the easy transportation of the press and the power employed in connection therewith, and to provide for the adjustment of the size of the baling-chamber" (lines 9-13).
Date:
February 25, 1890
Creator:
Mattijetz, Andreas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Binder for Paper Tablets.
Patent for improvements for tablets for blank paper, leterheads, etc. that holds content securely, including illustrations.
Date:
February 25, 1879
Creator:
Murray, Bredett C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Bending and Embossing Sheet Metal
Patent for "new and improved machine which is simple and durable in construction, very effective in operation, and especially designed for simultaneously curving and embossing sheet-metal plates for use as cornices, metal shingles, &c" (lines 8-13).
Date:
February 25, 1890
Creator:
Baldwin, Benjamin J., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wagon Spring.
Patent for a new and improved wagon spring. This design "is to provide a vehicle in which springs of great strength may be employed which will not require stay-chains, and which will not increase the height of the wagon-body and cause inconvenience in loading and unloading the vehicle and in getting in and out, and, furthermore, to provide a vehicle in which the wagon-body may be but slightly elevated above the axles, and in which the springs will have great play" (lines 17-26).
Date:
February 25, 1890
Creator:
Conley, Miles D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lumber-Kiln
Patent for a "kiln proper . . . constructed with special reference to combustion of cinders or sparks, and thereby preventing their escape into the chamber containing the lumber" (lines 7-10)
Date:
February 25, 1890
Creator:
Anderson, Andrew T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Making Tablets
Patent for a machine for making tablets. This patent describes improvements in tablet-making machines or molds, which will be simple in construction and which will make tablets of different sizes, there being provided plates which are perforated and of different sizes whereby the thickness which it is desired to mold the tablets may be regulated.
Date:
February 25, 1896
Creator:
Loving, Joseph H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Storage-Condenser and Lint-Cotton Conveyer.
Patent for a storage-condenser and lint-cotton conveyor. It forms lint-cotton into a bat so it can be delivered to a baling machine. with this invention, "a battery or batteries of gins can continuously discharge lint-cotton to a mechanism for conveying the same to a point in juxtaposition to cotton baling or pressing mechanism, and the necessity of stopping the gins during the time the bale is being tied, where a single press-box, or single pressing mechanism is used, is avoided, thus enabling the gins to continuously operate even when a single press-box or single baling or pressing mechanism is employed" (lines 18-28). Lint-cotton discharged from a gin is stored while a bale is being tied or pressed, and the bat the lint-cotton conveyor produces is even so the density of the bale is even. Air can escape from the bat-forming apparatus, eliminating dust from the cotton.
Date:
February 25, 1896
Creator:
Tennison, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trace Carrier.
Patent for a new and improved trace carrier. This design consists, "with the back-band and its depending loop, of the . . . improved trace-carrier, consisting of the inverted-U-shaped carrier-frame terminating in opposite trace-receiving eyes, and the V-shaped bifurcating tongue, the lower end of which is adapted to engage a link of the trace-chain and the upper branches or bifurcations of which are bent to form eyes, loosely receiving the frame intermediate its terminals and at each side of the loop" (lines 72-82).
Date:
February 25, 1890
Creator:
Strole, James P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing Machine.
Patent for a new and improved washing machine. This design consists in "a boiler, a cylinder journaled therein and having closed ends, its outer periphery composed of a series of open troughs arranged in pairs, the troughs in each pair opening toward each other, a series of open-ended funnel-shaped tubes arranged in a line drawn centrally around the periphery of the cylinder, [and] the said tubes extending inwardly from the outer face of the cylinder and having their contracted discharge ends near the center of the cylinder" (lines 22-32).
Date:
February 25, 1890
Creator:
Rose, Horatio
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Ringing Bells.
Patent for improvements in the construction of devices for ringing bells, including illustrations.
Date:
February 25, 1879
Creator:
Perry, Elton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Harvester.
Patent for a cotton-harvester meant to pick the ripe cotton but leaves the plants or unripe cotton and to improve the construction of cotton-harvesters.
Date:
February 25, 1896
Creator:
Pickering, Charles H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Bleaching Cotton
Patent for an apparatus for treating lint cotton as it passes from the gin for bleaching. Illustration included.
Date:
February 25, 1908
Creator:
Brennan, John B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap
Patent for a cylinder shaped animal trap for small furry animals.
Date:
February 25, 1913
Creator:
Fikes, Benjamin M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Canopy.
Patent for a canopy for beds and sofas to keep out insects.
Date:
February 25, 1908
Creator:
Swanwick, Harry C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for an improvement to churns. "The purpose of the invention is to provide a novel churn structure embodying a pair of oppositely reciprocating dashers mounted in a common churn receptacle or body and operated from a single crank wheel" (lines 15-19).
Date:
February 25, 1913
Creator:
Burdeaux, Carey E. & Burdeaux, Charley W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Cutting Bagging.
Patent for a cutting machine for cloth bags for cotton presses, which has cloth continuously being fed into it and cuts it at predetermined lengths which can be adjusted as needed.
Date:
February 25, 1908
Creator:
Clark, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tobacco-Stemming Machine
Patent for a machine for stemming tobacco.
Date:
February 25, 1902
Creator:
Bush, Andrew J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Track-Oiling Device
Patent for a track oiling device that is operated by a train car. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 25, 1913
Creator:
Jones, Oscar W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hair-Singer
Patent for a hair singer that contains the odor and smoke produced by singed hair.
Date:
February 25, 1913
Creator:
Eldridge, Edward H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History