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Improvement in Threshing-Machine.
Patent for improvements in threshing-machine for threshing grain, with the improved machine, “grain may be threshed and separated from the straw in a very rapid and perfect manner, and without bruising or injuring the straw in any way.” (Lines 13-16) Illustration is included.
Date:
February 9, 1869
Creator:
Fuos, Matthias
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Folding Store-Shelves.
Patent for "a new and useful improvement in Folding and Portable Store-Shelving" (lines 3-5), including illustrations.
Date:
February 9, 1875
Creator:
Key, Minter P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Saw-Mills
Patent for an improvement in saw mills, with illustration.
Date:
February 9, 1875
Creator:
Linder, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Compositions for Filling Teeth.
Patent for a new compound for use as a tooth filling as related to dentistry. Names all of the ingredients forming the compound and lists the necessary proportions of each ingredient.
Date:
February 9, 1875
Creator:
Erlenmeyer, Erwin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Barrel Truck and Support.
Patent for "a combination of devices for hoisting and hauling and supporting barrels and other receptacles for use in stores and other places" (lines 8-11).
Date:
February 9, 1897
Creator:
Hoff, John P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cradle, Swing, and Clothes-Drier.
Patent for "a cradle which may be easily and quickly converted into a child's swing or into a clothes rack or drier." (Lines 10-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 9, 1897
Creator:
McMordie, William Emmett
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Barreling Soap-Stock.
Patent for "an apparatus for filling barrels with soap-stock or other thick liquid of similar consistency, the object being to provide a machine whereby the barrels may be filled quickly through the bung-hole." (Lines 12-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 9, 1897
Creator:
Ahrenbeck, William C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cane Mill.
Patent for a new and improved sugarcane mill. This design "consist[s] of the frame composed of [a] bed-piece, vertical standards, and horizontal pieces, [one] piece having [a] trough, the vertical shaft, horizontally movable . . . and provided with the gear, the roller having stationary shaft provided with pinion, the [other] roller having stationary shaft provided with pinion, boxes, and screw-threaded rods" (lines 81-89).
Date:
February 9, 1886
Creator:
Webb, John T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "the combination of two sliding draw-heads, each provided with a shank having coiled around it a spring and a nut secured thereto, an upper sliding supporting-plate for the pin, having a tripping device, a lower sliding supporting-plate for the link, having a catch, a latch with a trip-arm for holding and releasing said plate, and a spring for drawing it back to its normal position" (lines 11-20).
Date:
February 9, 1886
Creator:
Ballentine, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grain-Binder.
Patent for "an improvement in grain-binders... which can be so constructed as to receive the grain direct from the platform of the reaper without the assistance of elevating mechanism." (Lines 8-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 20, 1889
Creator:
Schubert, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Press.
Patent for a new and improved press. This design "consists in compressing-rollers placed in suitable bearings, so as to coincide with an inlet-channel which receives and guides the fibrous substance to be baled into the baling-box of a press after the compressing-rollers have given it a preparatory pressing" (lines 10-16).
Date:
February 9, 1886
Creator:
Holmgreen, Julius H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Holder for Shades and Reflectors.
Patent for a new and improved holder for shades and reflectors. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a lamp-burner and its reflector, of a collar having the female threads, the radial arms, correspondingly threaded at the inner end, and having eyes at the outer end, and the spring-wire or cut ring carrying the reflector on one end" (lines 56-61).
Date:
February 9, 1886
Creator:
Vestal, Addison F. & Vestal, Charles A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Honey Extractor.
Patent for a new and improved honey extractor. This design "consists in, first, the combination, in a honey-extractor, of the pail, a suitable support for the revolving frame, a revolving frame which is made widest at its top, a perforated cross-piece which extends across the pail, and a spool or drum which is attached to the top of the vertical shaft . . . [and] second, the support which extends across the top of the pail or can, and which is provided with a series of holes so that it can be adapted to cans of different sizes" (lines 13-24).
Date:
February 9, 1886
Creator:
Melcher, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame Lock.
Patent for a new and improved lock for hames. This design "consist[s] of the coupling branches . . . [one] being composed of the two pivoted sections forming the bell-mouth, the section having the slot and spring secured to its opposite end and pressing against the underside of the section, and the branch having the catch-tooth adapted to enter the bell-mouth and engage the slot" (lines 67-75).
Date:
February 9, 1886
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed planter.
Patent for the improvement of seed planters, according to the inventor, "by providing the hopper of the same with regulating devices, whereby the seed may be planted in desired quantities and at desired intervals".
Date:
February 9, 1886
Creator:
Ratliff, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sign.
Patent for signs that are to be mounted to the roof of a car, and can be illuminated and read from any angle. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 1, 1891
Creator:
Garner, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Whip-Holder.
Patent for a whip holder that locks the end of the whip into the holder, and lap-robes and other similar articles can also be held in the invention so they cannot be stolen.
Date:
February 9, 1897
Creator:
Reeves, Fountain O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seeder.
Patent for a new and improved seed-planter. This design "consists in the combination of the seed-hopper, the reciprocating seed-slide, and a sieve or screen suspended from the seed-slide and reciprocating therewith for sowing the seeds broadcast" (lines 10-14).
Date:
February 9, 1886
Creator:
Lovin, William Milton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Molding Sash-Weights.
Patent for a new mold design for sash-weights which describes "a mold of simple and improved construction whereby a number of weights can be cast at the same time" (lines 14-17), including illustrations.
Date:
February 9, 1897
Creator:
Mann, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a cultivator implement "that is adapted in the event of meeting any impassable obstruction in the soil to turn backward at its lower end and permit the cultivator implement to ride through the action of the draft-power and, with the assistance of the attendant, so as to pass over such immovable obstruction and thereafter perform its intended cultivating function." (Lines 18-25) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 21, 1891
Creator:
Flatau, Louis S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Handling Device.
Patent for "an apparatus for elevating and distributing cotton from wagons or other receptacles and feeding the same to cotton-gins or storage-bins." (Lines 9-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 27, 1891
Creator:
Moffitt, William E.; Williams, James L. & Bennett, Levi W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a cotton chopper with adjustable choppers and axles, so that the distance between the hills of cotton and between rows of hills of cotton can be variable. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 9, 1897
Creator:
Miller, John R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Turning and Leveling Plow.
Patent for an improved combined turning and leveling plow.
Date:
February 9, 1901
Creator:
Collins, Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Fish-Hook
Patent for a fish hook designed to catch the fish by its head when it takes the bait. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 9, 1909
Creator:
Timmons, Benjamin
System:
The Portal to Texas History