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Feeding Chute for Stoves.
Patent for a new and improved feeding chute for stoves. This design "is to provide the chute with a pivoted latch or other like device that will securely hold the door closed, the device operating automatically in locking the door closed. A further object of the invention is to provide a pivoted chute with a swinging door, so that the two will act conjointly with each other" (lines 36-43).
Date:
February 24, 1885
Creator:
Mayfield, William Dudley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draft-Equalizer
Patent for an improved three-horse equalizer for draft horses.
Date:
February 20, 1883
Creator:
Kerby, George M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Door Check.
Patent for a new and improved door-check. This design consists in "the combination, with a sliding-bolt provided with a wedge-plate, of the catch or slide mounted on the bolt and capable of a limited longitudinal movement, and the adjustable bar arranged between the adjacent edges of the wedge-plate and the catch or slide and tapered toward its lower end to fit the edges of the wedge-plate and catch or slide, the said adjustable bar being provided with a stud which operates in a suitable transverse guide-slot, whereby the bar is held from longitudinal movement" (lines 26-37).
Date:
February 26, 1889
Creator:
Baker, Owen T.
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
Dental Chair
Patent for improved dental chair with foot-rest, head set, and swiveled post.
Date:
February 26, 1884
Creator:
Stiles, Edmund P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Cleaning Gun Barrels, Flues, &c.
Patent for a new and improved gun-barrel cleaner. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a flat shank having a hole in its intermediate portion, a pivot-bolt having its middle round and its ends square, and a cleaning-head secured upon said bolt, said head consisting of two parts, one part being secured upon each end of said bolt" (lines 4-9).
Date:
February 22, 1887
Creator:
Simpson, John Speake
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design is of a car-coupling with a bumper having recesses and slots, "having [a] lip and transverse inner wall, the hook pivoted therein, the bumper, the stirrup suspended beneath the bumper, vertical rods or connections, levers pivoted in suitable bearings on the car-roof, locking-plate, and the [additional] levers" (lines 1-6).
Date:
February 20, 1883
Creator:
Hawkins, William A. & Hawkins, Charlie S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "is to provide a . . . car-coupling link which automatically uncouples cars in case one or more of the cars runs off the track" (lines 7-10).
Date:
February 27, 1883
Creator:
Keller, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Current Regulator for Dynamo Electric Machines.
Patent for a new and improved current regulator. This design "pertains to that class of regulators in which the collecting brushes of the commutator are automatically moved around the commutator and caused to occupy different positions relatively to the maximum lines of the magnetic field between the poles and the armature; and it embraces a novel method of controlling the movement of the brushes to compensate for variations in the speed of the machine and regulate the current in accordance with the work to be done" (lines 11-21).
Date:
February 14, 1888
Creator:
Crowdus, Walter A. & Sutton, Henry M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Stalk Cutter.
Patent for a new and improved cotton stalk cutter. This design "is to facilitate the operation of cutting down of cotton-stalks in preparing the ground for a new crop. The invention consists in the combination, with the sled provided with a series of holes, in its upper surface, of the hinged perforated bars, the cross-bar, the pins, and the knives; also, in the combination, with the sled carrying the hinged perforated bars, cross-bar, and knives, of the platform secured to the rear part of the sled and the standards secured to a cross-bar of the sled in front of the platform" (lines 17-29).
Date:
February 28, 1882
Creator:
Thompson, Francis Marion
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Scraper.
Patent for a new and improved cotton-scraper. This design "is to produce a cotton-scraper of economical construction that will cut a wider furrow with lighter draft, do the work more perfectly, and at the same time be more easily held to the row than the scrapers in the present general use" (lines 11-16).
Date:
February 2, 1886
Creator:
Cooper, Richard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton or Corn Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists "[i]n combination with the hopper of a corn or cotton planter, a vibrating sector provided with two median pins . . . and a seed-slide having the vertical stud projecting up between said pins, whereby the seed-slide will be intermittently and alternately struck by the two pins and reciprocated in opposite directions" (lines 58-65).
Date:
February 19, 1889
Creator:
Stone, Josephus; Watson, Thomas & Watson, Branch Archer
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin Building
Patent for improvements to cotton gin buildings granted to Benjamin F. Ferguson to reduce the risk of fire and the cost of ginning cotton.
Date:
February 27, 1883
Creator:
Ferguson, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator Combined.
Patent for improvement to a cotton-chopper with a "mechanism for cultivating the soil between the hills as well as for bringing the said hills to a regular form" (lines 18-20).
Date:
February 23, 1886
Creator:
Muray, Joseph L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper and cultivator. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a cotton cultivator and chopper, of the usual frame, a pair of guiding-handles pivoted thereto, a chopping-knife hinged to said frame, and links forming a loose connection between said blade and handles, whereby the blade is raised and lowered" (lines 26-31).
Date:
February 1, 1887
Creator:
Schaumleffel, John A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaner
Patent for the invention of a machine used to clean cotton. The Machine employed for cleaning cotton in which the object of the invention is to produce a machine wherein the cotton may be thoroughly and effectively cleaned without damage to the staple or fiber of the material (10)
Date:
February 1, 1885
Creator:
Ralston, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a sulky having a loop secured to its axle, of a pair of hoes secured to a pair of pivoted bars, which are adapted to slide up and down in the loop, and a spring arranged between the bars to hold the hoes in a closed position . . . [and] provided with foot-rests for the driver, whereby the hoes may be forced into the ground" (lines 55-67).
Date:
February 6, 1883
Creator:
Craig, William Sinclair
System:
The Portal to Texas History