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Improved Medicinal Preparation.
Patent for improvements made the medicinal preparations generally used for poultices. The patented improvement involves the application of dried and powdered leaves, stalks, and joints of the cactus opuntia or cockinifer.
Date:
April 7, 1868
Creator:
Lege, Charles L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows
Patent for an improvement on plows specifically designed to turn black Texas soil.
Date:
April 7, 1874
Creator:
Payne, Joseph Mott
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fence.
Patent for a new and improved fence. This design consists in "[t]he combination of upright posts having top cross-pieces provided with depending hooks at their ends, hooks pivoted at the bottom portion of the posts and extending laterally in opposite directions, and the panels comprising a series of longitudinal rails, the lower one of which is provided with staples at its ends, and provided with wire strands engaging the ends of the rails and extending longitudinally above the series of rails, the strands being engaged with the hooks upon the cross-pieces" (lines 83-94).
Date:
April 7, 1885
Creator:
Tillman, William A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hearth Guard or Shield.
Patent for a new and improved fireplace cover. This design consists in a "hearth guard or shield, the same consisting of a rectangular plate of sheet metal cut out to form the inside openings of different size, and bent at right angles at the point where the smaller opening in the vertical or upright part opens into the larger opening in the horizontal part, thereby forming projections or inside shoulders having notches adapted to be bent to fit the sides of the grate" (lines 64-73).
Date:
April 7, 1885
Creator:
Sanders, William Jefferson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Indicator for Merchandise.
Patent for a new and improved advertising sign. This design "relates to apparatus or devices for marking or indicating upon the outside of boxes or drawers the names and prices of the merchandise or other articles contained therein; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of a device of the above-mentioned class" (lines 23-29).
Date:
April 7, 1885
Creator:
Brown, Sampson Harvey
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam Boiler Feeder
Patent for improvments in automatic steam-boiler feeders
Date:
April 7, 1887
Creator:
Kelly, George A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Convertible Mop and Brush.
Patent for improvements in convertible mops and brushes by using a “combination of the fountain-handle, the bail/frame secured thereto and provided with a rubber strip at its lower edge, and the mop secured to the bail/frame.” (Lines 3-7, p.2) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 7, 1891
Creator:
Bagby, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Milk-Cooler.
Patent for an improvement in milk-coolers “in which water is drawn by capillary attraction from a receptacle placed above the milk-receptacle onto a cloth wrapped around the latter, thus cooling the milk by evaporation.” (Lines 8-12) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 7, 1891
Creator:
Banks, John F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting-Frame.
Patent for an improvement in quilting-frames by making one roller adjustable in which it can be turned in either direction from the opposite side of the device. Illustration is included.
Date:
April 7, 1891
Creator:
Martin, Enoch
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash-Balance.
Patent for improvements in a combined sash balances and fasteners, using two sashes, a rotatable shaft, a ratchet and a friction-wheel; all these parts work together “to simplify the means whereby one sash is made to balance the other and by which either sash may be adjusted without disturbing the other.” (Lines 16-19) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 7, 1891
Creator:
Ingalls, Alfred
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark-Arrester.
Patent for improvements in spark-arresters for locomotives in “which [it] will prevent the sparks and cinders from falling upon the train and upon surrounding lands and buildings;” (lines 10-12) by using a combination of a curved smoke-stack, a cinder-box, conducting pipes and an ash pen. Illustration is included.
Date:
April 7, 1891
Creator:
Hadlock, Edson J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine.
Patent for improvements in washing-machines by using a combination of adjustable stationary rubbing-board and a rotary rubbing-cylinder to regulate the pressure on the clothes and at the same time, clothes can be cleaned without injury to them. Illustration is included.
Date:
April 7, 1891
Creator:
Polk, Kindrick Ford
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine.
Patent for an improvement in washing-machines by using a novel arrangement of the rollers, the tub-supporting frame, the horizontal swinging rubber, and a series of closely arranged longitudinal spiral springs; so that “the pressure upon each separate article can be adjusted or regulated by the judgment of the [operator].” (Lines 12-14) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 7, 1891
Creator:
Bennington, William J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for a simple and efficient baling-press that has an improved press-box and plunger-operating power. The connections between the power and the plunger will be lighter and the feed-opening of the press-box will be closed automatically. The machine has a continuously-rotating operating wheel that allows for an easier way to engage and disengage the pitman.
Date:
April 7, 1896
Creator:
Franks, Lewis W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brake-Lever.
Patent for a brake lever that is locked by an arc-shaped ratchet-bar. There is "a pawl loosely mounted on the rear side of said lever and bearing against said side when the brake is set, said pawl being spring-actuated to move parallel with said side and project beyond the same and contact radially with the ratchet-teeth between said yoke" (lines 25-30).
Date:
April 7, 1896
Creator:
Burkett, Joseph B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a car-coupling that has a "hollow draw-head provided with a horizontal chamber, a vertical pin-hole near the forward end of said chamber, and a slot in the lower part of said draw-head opening into said chamber, of a sliding latch mounted in said chamber and provided with a lip projecting beyond the outer end of said latch and curved downward as shown, and with a groove on the lower side of said latch, of a pivoted arm engaging in said groove, and a weight integral with said arm and wholly inclosed within said slot and adapted to move said sliding latch forward beneath the lower end of the pin when the latter is raised" (lines 5-18). A coupling pin is mounted in the pin-hole.
Date:
April 7, 1896
Creator:
Barry, Jefferson D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crate.
Patent for "a crate for packing and transporting bottles of such material and such form of construction as will present a minimum liability to breakage of the contents." (Lines 9-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 7, 1896
Creator:
Riviere, Richard Andrew
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Disk Plow.
Patent for "a new and useful improvement in disk plows, the object being to construct a plow of the kind described in which the resistance encountered by the main cutting or master disk in operation is counteracted by oppositely-disposed disks, one of which acts as a subspoiler, the other as a jointer, making a partial penetration of the land, which is followed by the master-disk in the succeeding furrow." (Lines 24-33) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 7, 1896
Creator:
Stewart, John A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Means for Making Bats for Mattresses.
Patent for a simple means for making bats for mattresses, and is an improvement on a previous patent (No. 399,041). "I gin into a room or place having the width or the length of the average width or length of a mattress, but extending the necessary length-say twenty or twenty-five feet, more or less to allow the cotton or material used to settle uniformly across it, the top at the extreme end preferably covered with wire-gauze to assist the draft from the gin. The floor and sides of this box or room or other receptacle into which the material for the mattress-bats is falling from the gin is provided with a means to carry the ginned material along from the gin as fast as it is worked. The bats may be formed in one long continuous web,from which the desired length may be cut" (lines 19-34)
Date:
April 7, 1896
Creator:
Haynes, Daniel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mergenthaler Linotype-Machine.
Patent for an improvement "to the elevator-arm of the Mergenthaler linotype-machine, and its object is to prevent the rubbing of the matrices against the inner walls of the channel-plates when being raised therefrom." (Lines 9-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 7, 1896
Creator:
Sundstrom, Herman Theodor
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mirror Attachment for Dressers.
Patent for a mirror attachment for dressers with an improved clamping mechanism so that it can be easily adjusted when in use and easily put to the side when not in use. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 7, 1896
Creator:
Gibson, Lizzie & Crank, Albert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Reaping-Machine.
Patent for a reaping-machine that has grooved rollers spread throughout a recess in the base, slides where the rollers are mounted, horizontal movable shafts with pinions, racks on the slides that engage the pinions, a ring-driver wheel that surrounds the rollers and fits in the rollers with interior flanges, cutters, a belt extending from the rollers to the mechanism that operates the cutters, and a belt that connects the rolls. The cutter is a series of knives on a bar and springs that prevents the cutter from moving independently.
Date:
April 7, 1896
Creator:
Rich, Benjamin F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stump-Puller.
Patent for a stump-puller that "can be quickly assembled and taken apart, to devise a device which will admit of the rope being quickly paid off from the capstan after the stump has been uprooted, and, finally, to provide a machine which can be easily handled and which will perform the required work in a rapid and satisfactory manner and which can be transported from one stump to the other by being dragged upon the ground" (lines 10-19).
Date:
April 7, 1896
Creator:
Widmer, Louis J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tree-Protector.
Patent for "wire fenders or protectors for trees, [the] purpose being to provide a simple and inexpensive guard capable of being readily applied to trees of any size and having such construction that it shall be held by its own elasticity at such a distance from the trunk that rabbits or other rodents shall not be able to gnaw the bark, and the fender shall not chafe or wear the tree by continued use." (Lines 8-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 7, 1896
Creator:
Smith, John Dawson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History