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Machine for Threshing Grain in the Field.
Patent for a machine that collects swaths of grain for threshing using hooked teeth arranged in rows, including illustration.
Date:
April 14, 1857
Creator:
Wilson, J. C. & Wilson, T. G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bungs.
Patent for improvement in bungs for beer and other barrels.
Date:
April 14, 1868
Creator:
Stremme, Conrad C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Animal-Traps
Patent for "traps for catching large and small animals; and it consists in the combination of a number of inclined plates or boards, provided with spurs on their lower ends and hinged to fixed ridges on their upper ends, so arranged as to form ridges or elevations and depressions, and to entrap the animals by holding their legs between the spurred ends of said inclined plates" (lines 15-23).
Date:
April 14, 1874
Creator:
Flournoy, Rice Smith
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Medical Compounds.
Patent for a new medical compound to treat "various diseases, more especially those which affect the bowels and digestive organs" (lines 34-36) which lists the ingredients.
Date:
April 14, 1874
Creator:
Roberts, Robert R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bag Rack.
Patent for a new and improved bag rack. This design "is to provide a new and improved rack adapted to hold a number of paper bags of different sizes, and also adapted to hold samples of groceries, cards, a ball of twine, advertising books, &c.The invention consists of a bag-rack having at one side a case containing a series of shelves and a transparent front, and of the combination therewith of a superposed twine-case having side compartments" (lines 7-16).
Date:
April 14, 1885
Creator:
Williams, Robert E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cartridge Belt.
Patent for a new and improved cartridge belt. This design "is to provide a new and improved cartridge-belt for holding cartridges securely, the said belt being simple in construction, strong, and durable. The invention consists in the combination of a belt, with a strap held on the same by up-right metal fasteners and forming pockets on the belt. The invention also consists in the combination, with the above belt and strap, of a cord passed transversely through the several pockets, and in other combinations of parts" (lines 11-18).
Date:
April 14, 1885
Creator:
Beach, Willie P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Door Check.
Patent for a new and improved door check. This design "consists in a disk pivoted on a plate and provided with a notch for receiving the corner of the door, and with a series of teeth with which a pawl engages for locking the disk in place after it has been adjusted" (lines 11-15).
Date:
April 14, 1885
Creator:
Callaway, James William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Meat-Tenderer
Patent for an improved meat tenderer granted to Francis W. Carter. Improvements include not tearing the meat and self-cleaning upon each rotation.
Date:
April 14, 1885
Creator:
Carter, Francis W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the plow-beam having the hopper provided with two seed-compartments and a discharge compartment, of the oscillating levers fulcrumed in hangers beneath the plow-beam, the rods provided with fixed cups, and the rods provided with the hinged cups, and the cranked wheel for operating the levers" (lines 10-17).
Date:
April 14, 1885
Creator:
Kimbro, Jerrymirah Haden & Kimbro, John Alburt
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Force Pump.
Patent for a new and improved rotary force-pump. This design "consists in a rotary force-pump constructed with a tubular standard provided with one or more flexible tubes having interior half-tubes and an interior cylinder mounted upon a crank-shaft and provided with adjustable bars carrying rollers whereby a liquid can be raised by the successive action of the said rollers upon the said flexible tubes" (lines 22-29).
Date:
April 14, 1885
Creator:
Serdinko, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burglar-Alarm.
Patent for a burglar-alarms by constructing “an alarm which would adapted and arranged to sound and to be operated at and by the raising of the window or opening of the door, and simultaneous with the sounding of the alarm to produce an illumination.” (Lines 10-15) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 14, 1891
Creator:
Canterbury, Crawford R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for improvements in automatic car-couplers by providing "the means for automatically coupling cars without exposing the operator to the risk and danger of going between the cars when coupling,” (lines 12-15) includes illustration.
Date:
April 14, 1891
Creator:
Chandler, Richard
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for improvement in automatic car-couplings “in which the coupling-pin (worked by a rope or chain) is guided in a vertical tube extending upward from the draw-head, and is supported in position for coupling by a block sliding with the draw-head,” (lines 9-14) includes illustration.
Date:
April 14, 1891
Creator:
Angerstein, John F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fish-Harvester.
Patent for a fish-harvester by providing “a floating device adapted to be anchored in a stream or other body of water and carrying the mechanism for taking fish from the water and delivering them to a suitable point on the shore, the whole operating either by steam, by wind, or by the current of the water.” (Lines 10-15) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 14, 1891
Creator:
Yoakum, Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Metallic Railroad-Tie.
Patent for an improvement of metallic railroad ties in which clamp-plates are not needed to hold the longitudinal tension-rods, “instead the heads of the rods bear against the solid outer ends of the rail-seats which are constructed integral with the body of the tie.” (Lines 14-17) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 14, 1891
Creator:
Saunders, Ellison
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for improvements in plows by providing “a reversible colter adapted to be applied to any style of plow; such as shovel-plows, half or turning shovels, bull-tongue, or other forms of plows. Also to provide a convenient means of attaching and detaching the plow” (lines 12-17). Illustration is included.
Date:
April 14, 1891
Creator:
Baker, George Washington
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wagon-Top.
Patent for improvements in wagon-bodies by providing "a simple and effective means for tightening the canvas covering over the bows of wagon or other vehicle-bodies” (lines 17-19), includes illustration.
Date:
April 14, 1891
Creator:
James, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for "a compress having a continuous operation, whereby one bale of cotton is being formed by the compress all the time the same is working, and thereby rendering it unnecessary to completely stop the working of the entire press for every single bale made until the bale can be wrapped and discharged out of the press." (Lines 15-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 14, 1896
Creator:
Griffin, Thomas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Railway.
Patent for "a new and useful improvement in electric railways, and particularly to such railways as are adapted to use underground conduits, and has for its object to so construct such conduit and the line-wire connections therefor as to insure a constant connection between the line-wire and the motor of the car, and, further to greatly simplify and increase the efficiency of such systems." (Lines 8-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 14, 1896
Creator:
Reid, Lemin Wallace
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Log-Loading Mechanism.
Patent for a machine that hauls and loads logs upon cars from either side of the track, or both sides at once. The machine can easily be transported on a car. The machine "consists, essentially, in a platform of about the length of an ordinary log-car and of a height and width to enable it to span the same, mounted upon which are a steam engine and a boiler and a rotating crane, said platform being provided with pivoted legs for holding it above the track, with pivoted legs for holding it above the track, with means for locking said legs in a vertical position" (lines 23-30).
Date:
April 14, 1896
Creator:
Fletcher, William Andrew
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Planter Attachment.
Patent for "seed-planter attachments; and it has for its object to provide a new and useful machine of this character adapted to simultaneously plant two rows of corn, cotton, or other seed at any desired distance apart and to also provide means for marking the third row at any width from the planter." (Lines 8-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 14, 1896
Creator:
Adkins, Stephen J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window-Shade Raiser.
Patent for an improved way of raising, lowering, and locking window shades into place. "The operating-cord passes over a pulley located between two larger disks, one of which is screwed toward the other by a spring to clamp the folds of the cord and is screwed in the opposite direction by means of a lever, upon which the chord itself acts when drawn in the proper direction" (lines 14-20).
Date:
April 14, 1896
Creator:
McCauley, John H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Poke
Patent for an animal-poke.
Date:
April 14, 1903
Creator:
Morris, Rolin G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coupling for Well-Drilling Machines
Patent for coupling for well-drilling machines.
Date:
April 14, 1903
Creator:
Johnston, Horace G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History