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Improvement in Furnaces.
Patent for improvements in furnaces, using steam to create heat. It includes a description and illustration.
Date:
April 12, 1870
Creator:
Morris, Joseph R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Medical Compounds.
Patent for a pill composed of podophyllin, leptandrin, butternut bark extract, rhubarb extract, extract of "jalap," capsicum, quinine sulfate, and salicin. The pill is said to treat a wide variety of diseases.
Date:
April 12, 1874
Creator:
Roberts, Robert R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Corn and Cotton Planter
Patent for a combined corn and cotton planter
Date:
April 12, 1881
Creator:
Hiram H. Carter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Elevating, Distributing, and Feeding Seed-Cotton to Gins
Patent for improvements to cotton gins so that seed cotton can be fed to two gins at the same time, while using the same power as would normally be necessary for one gin.
Date:
April 12, 1892
Creator:
Murray, Stephen D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam Cooking Stove.
Patent for a new and improved steam stove. This design "is to provide a stove . . . that can be used on a gas-stove base, a lamp-stove, an ordinary cooking-stove, or even over a camp-fire, and which when so used will provide an apartment for baking or warming and another apartment for steaming, the steam being generated within a surrounding boiler and by the heat that has been used to heat the oven" (lines 11-20). It consists in "a casing divided vertically by a transverse boiler-body, chambers in the sides of the lower-half of the casing . . . and a transverse pipe" (lines 34-38).
Date:
April 12, 1892
Creator:
James, Will S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Manure Distributer.
Patent for a new and improved fertilizer distributor. This design consists in "the rotating shaft having the stirring apparatus, the wheels loosely mounted on the said shaft, the detent to engage the shaft and prevent it from rotating, and the clutch mechanism to secure one of the wheels to the shaft" (lines 5-10).
Date:
April 12, 1887
Creator:
Harrell, Solomon James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Poison-Distributer
Patent for a distributor for "pulverized paris-green, londonpurple, arsenic, and other poisons in a dry state over cotton and other plants" that is "of exceedingly simple and durable construction and capable of attachment to any form of cultivator, and also to provide a means whereby the poison to be delivered from the machine may be regulated as to quantity in a convenient and expeditious manner, and, further, to provide a means whereby the poison as delivered from the machine will be spread over the plants at each side of the machine" (lines 11-24).
Date:
April 12, 1892
Creator:
Richter, Franz Ludwig
System:
The Portal to Texas History
usp015/00472545
Patent for "a simple and economical device of this character, which shall possess superior advantages with respect to efficiency, and whereby sand and dirt is effectually excluded and the grease or other lubricating material prevented from escaping" (lines 15-21).
Date:
April 12, 1892
Creator:
Miller, William J.; McBean, Robert S. & McBurnett, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stocking
Patent for the invention of stocking manufacture in two section, a leg section and a foot section- susceptible of being connected and disconnected by sewing for the purpose of renewing the foot-section when unduly worn by substituting therefor a new section [5-10].
Date:
April 12, 1882
Creator:
Preston, Leonidus, M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mosquito Bar Frame.
Patent for a new and improved mosquito-bar frame. This design "relates to improvements in that class of mosquito-bar frames which are adapted to be placed above a bed, so as to support the mosquito-netting in a way to cover the bed and guard the occupants thereof; and the object of [the] invention is to produce an extremely simple frame which may be easily dropped into a horizontal position over the bed or as easily tipped up and made to slide behind the head-board, where it will be entirely out of the way" (lines 7-17).
Date:
April 12, 1892
Creator:
Holden, Elbridge G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design consists, "with the beam consisting, essentially, of the forwardly-converging branches at their forward ends and having the downwardly and forwardly curved branches at their rear ends and rack-teeth" (lines 100-104). It further consists "of the feet comprising parallel branches pivotally connected to the ends of the downwardly and forwardly curved branches of the beam branches, the gravitating pawls pivoted between the upper ends of the feet branches and adapted to engage the rack-teeth of the beam branches" (lines 1-8).
Date:
April 12, 1892
Creator:
Ponton, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Checkrein Attachment
Patent for checkrein attachment. This invention is intended for use with harnessed horses. Illustration included.
Date:
April 12, 1904
Creator:
Clary, John A. & Butler, Hard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil Extermination
Patent for a device to exterminate boll-weevils on cotton. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 12, 1910
Creator:
Hebert, Paul E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Armor for Pneumatic Tires.
Patent for a new and useful armor for pneumatic tires.
Date:
April 12, 1898
Creator:
Hansell, Robert Clark
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a churn with a better support device than previous churns.
Date:
April 12, 1910
Creator:
Hyland, George Tolifaro
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed and Cylinder Printing-Machine.
Patent for a new and useful improvements in bed and cylinder printing machines for "operating and controlling the motion of the bed-plate thereof" (line 11 - 13).
Date:
April 12, 1898
Creator:
Murray, George T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant-Trap.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in ant-traps.
Date:
April 12, 1898
Creator:
Selvidge, Charles W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Train-Pipe Coupling
Patent for a train pipe coupling which connects automatically and does not come loose when the train is going around curves.
Date:
April 12, 1910
Creator:
Blair, Oliver C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Conductor's Train-Book
Patent for a conductor's train-book. This invention if for a conductor to log train movements. Illustration included.
Date:
April 12, 1910
Creator:
Crane, James C. A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water - Tank.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in water tanks.
Date:
April 12, 1898
Creator:
Stevenson, William M. & Bailey, William K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Valve.
Patent for a water valve for water delivery systems that does not have standing water around it that can freeze in cold weather.
Date:
April 12, 1910
Creator:
Anthony, Joseph B. & Morris, Robert M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Variable Speed Governor
Patent for a variable speed governor. This invention regulates speed of vehicle without stopping the motor. Illustration included.
Date:
April 12, 1904
Creator:
Casteel, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Top Rest.
Patent for am improved vehicle top rest, which employs two coils of wire to hold up the vehicle-top and increases the strength and durability of the device.
Date:
April 12, 1910
Creator:
Henry, Patrick
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Traction Gang-Plow
Patent for a traction gang-plow. Illustration included.
Date:
April 12, 1910
Creator:
Johnson, Charles J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History