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Improvement in Box and Bale Hooks.
Patent for "a guard or shield, of leather or other equivalent material, combined with the handle or shank of the hook used for turning or otherwise handling bales or boxes, &c., to prevent the hands from rubbing or pressing against the bale or box, whereby the are often injured." (Lines 6-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 26, 1874
Creator:
Knight, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Compounds for Destroying Insects on Plants.
Patent for a “combination of flour and cotton-seed meal with paris green, for the destruction of cotton-worms or caterpillars, and other pestiferous insects” (lines 47-50).
Date:
May 26, 1874
Creator:
Royall, William B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed Clothes Clamp.
Patent for a new and improved clamp. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a suitable clasp for holding the bed-clothes and its link, of the means for adjustably securing it to the bed-rail, consisting of a rod, having its lower end screw-threaded and provided with a nut and washer, and having on its upper end a hook-shaped projection that is adapted to pass over and around the upper edge of the bed-rail, and is provided with an eye . . . for connection with the clamp" (lines 65-74).
Date:
May 26, 1885
Creator:
Kiam, Benjamin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Box for Meat and Oil Presses
Patent for box for meat and oil presses. This box prevents meat from adhering to the box by using a lining, preferably sheet metal (p. 2). This keeps the box from breaking.
Date:
May 26, 1885
Creator:
Culberston, John J., of Paris, Texas; O'Connell, John C., of Montgomery, Alabama & Gaston, Bernard, of Paris, Texas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Earth Auger.
Patent for a new and improved auger. This design "relates to a new and improved earth-auger made funnel shaped, with side cutting-edges, and adapted to be inverted for emptying the auger; and the invention consists of the construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 7-12).
Date:
May 26, 1885
Creator:
Porter, Thomas A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saw Jointer.
Patent for a new and improved saw-jointer. This design consists in "two casts having longitudinal triangular grooves upon their inner facing sides, having the lower portions of their inner facing sides cut away to form a longitudinal groove, and having the upper portions of their inner facing sides bulged to form longitudinal halves of a socket, with a screw passing through the castings in the space between the bulged socket portions and the longitudinal grooves, the said grooves being adapted to receive a triangular file having its lower face at right angles to the sides of the groove" (lines 64-76).
Date:
May 26, 1885
Creator:
Fitzpatrick, Francis B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Umbrella.
Patent for a new and improved sun umbrella. This design is "adapted to be attached to the person of the wearer, consisting of the top or cap piece having the projecting studs or pivots, fixed ribs, fastened rigidly in the back part of the cap, fixed supports bent to form the bulge and adapted to be fastened with their lower ends in a suitable brace or support, and moveable ribs arranged in pairs and pivoted upon the studs or pivots" (lines 73-81).
Date:
May 26, 1885
Creator:
Egan, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Account-Book.
Patent for improvement in account-books by “dispensing a multiplicity of books in keeping accounts and to devise means for combining in one book and upon a single page thereof the features of the ledger, day-book, bill-book and bills-receivable book, said page to be so provided with perforation as to admit of the detachment of certain parts, leaving intake theat part of the page that is intended for permanent record.” (Lines 13-22) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 26, 1891
Creator:
Huck, Henry J., Jr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Power.
Patent for improvements in churn-motors by using the combination of an upright supporting frame, “a shaft journaled in the frame, means for rotating the shaft,…..corresponding with the size of the joint between the dasher-staff and pitman, substantially as specified.” (Line 5-15, p.2) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 26, 1891
Creator:
MaGee, William Joseph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Bedder and Planter.
Patent for improvements in cotton bedders and planters in which when the machine “is used for planting, the seeding mechanism will be in place and the plow-beams are placed near together. The plow upon beam A will open a drill to receive the seed from the spout which extends downwardly in rear of the plow.” (Lines 114-121) “When the machine is used for bedding, the plow-beams are opened, and the seed-planting mechanism may be removed or simply thrown out of gear.” (Lines 109-113) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 26, 1891
Creator:
Parris, Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopping Machine.
Patent for improvement in stalk-choppers particularly adapted for chopping cotton. When the chopper is started the sprocket upon one of the traveling wheels will impart motion to the sprocket through the medium of the sprocket-chain, which will rotate the gear-wheel and in turn the pinion and the crank will impart a reciprocatory motion to the pitman and the horizontal bar, this will give the cutter-blade a reciprocatory motion. The speed of the reciprocatory chopping blade can be regulated. (Lines 45-55) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 26, 1891
Creator:
Guyton, James W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for improvement in plows by using a “combination of mold-board, land-bar, and share, which will effectually shed the land and prevent the latter from adhere to it.” (Lines 15-18) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 26, 1891
Creator:
Brown, William Franklin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash-Balance.
Patent for improvements in window-sash balances, in which the two sashes are connected, “so that they will not only balance but also either may be raised or lowered without affecting the other.” (Lines 17-20) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 26, 1891
Creator:
Christian, James F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine.
Patent for a useful washing machine by providing “a device which will thoroughly cleanse the clothes with a minimum of labor and in which the heavier particles of dirt from the pieces washed will be separated from the main washing-chamber and thus kept out of contact with the clothes.” (Lines 10-15) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 26, 1891
Creator:
Hutcheson, Casey E. & Hutcheson, Franklin L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel.
Patent for "improvements in wheels particularly designed for use on harvesters in heavy or muddy ground." (Lines 8-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 19, 1891
Creator:
Stroud, Wiley N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Caster Attachment for Plows.
Patent for "a simple and practical attachment for a sulky or other plow which will enable the operator to readily turn the plow at any point where this may be desired while the plow is in service, and furthermore, to furnish a device of the above-indicated character which will be especially well adapted to facilitate the turning movement of a disk plow and dispense with the use of a tongue to guide the plow." (Lines 14-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 26, 1896
Creator:
Waters, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Elevator and Gin-Feeder.
Patent for an inexpensive cotton-elevator and gin-feeder that is easy to assemble and have removable screens and suspended chutes and feeders. Suction draws the cotton through the distributing trunk, and gravity drops the cotton into a gin. These concepts are also outlined in the inventor's previous patents, Nos 472,607 and 488,446.
Date:
May 26, 1896
Creator:
Murray, Stephen A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crank-Pin-Box Connection.
Patent for "improvements in the connections of single-acting pistons of compressor-engines and other engines of like character with one common crank-pin of the main shaft where two or more cylinders and pistons are employed." (Lines 13-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 26, 1896
Creator:
Robinson, Charles H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sliding Gate.
Patent for sliding gates "which will open automatically and close in a like manner after a person, team, or the like has passed through it. A further object of the invention is to provide means whereby the gate will be prevented from being accidentally opened by stock." (Lines 12-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 26, 1896
Creator:
Moss, John O.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a wire-stretcher that has "a body portion bifurcated at one end with the rigid integral forks of the bifurcation oppositely notched with said notches arranged in line substantially transverse of the body portion, whereby the device is adapted to operate in holding the wire for stretching" (lines 75-81).
Date:
May 26, 1896
Creator:
Willie, William T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher and Splicer.
Patent for "a wire-patcher by which the wire rails of fences may be spliced when broken and stretched when any slack occurs." (Lines 16-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 26, 1896
Creator:
Massey, Joseph Borygard
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant-Trap
Patent for an ant trap "to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient one of great strength and durability adapted to be place over an ant-hill and capable of capturing the ant in the hill as they leave the same and also of catching the outside ants as they attempt to enter the hill. (line 11-17)
Date:
May 26, 1903
Creator:
Finley, William Frederick
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling
Patent for a car coupling "which greatly facilitate the connection of two car couplings having the improvements and adapt the knuckle of the car coupling to automatically swing open when free to do so." (line 12-16)
Date:
May 26, 1903
Creator:
Yeiser, John Clarke
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard
Patent for a cattle-guard "for preventing cattle from straying from a wagon-road into the inclosures along railroad-tracks." (line 11-13)
Date:
May 26, 1903
Creator:
Welsh, George G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History