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Improvement in Harvesters.
Patent for improvements in reaping and mowing machines.
Date:
May 5, 1868
Creator:
Ramsey, Jo.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Corn-Planters.
Patent for "corn-planters in which the corn is planted in hills or rows; and the particular features of [the] invention consist in the combination, with a pivoted rising and descending charger or cup, of a sleeve-seat for said charger, a charger-carrying stem, and the seed-hopper, whereby the charger is held and carried in position upon a seat to fill, to rise from said seat, and to dump upon its pivot, and to be again brought into and maintained in a vertical position upon said seat while descending through the corn, whereby the charger is held and moved vertically through the grain from the bottom of the hopper to receive and discharge the filled charge above the corn in the hopper." (Lines 7-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 5, 1874
Creator:
Williams, Blasius & Cohn, Morris
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Mechanical Movements.
Patent for a specific arrangement of a single-cylinder engine and two shafts with connecting rods that can be used to drive boat propellers.
Date:
May 5, 1874
Creator:
Franklin, Robert Morris
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ditching-Machines.
Patent for the improvement of ditching-machines by way of new construction techniques.
Date:
May 5, 1876
Creator:
Austin, Matthew J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boot or Shoe Brace.
Patent for a new and improved brace for shoes and boots. This design "relates to a brace adapted to be applied to boots and shoes, and is designed as a brace for the counter, heel, and instep; and it has for its object to provide a brace . . . which shall be simple in its construction, one that may be readily and easily applied, and manufactured and supplied at a slight cost" (lines 9-16).
Date:
May 5, 1885
Creator:
Awalt, Jessee C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "relates to a car-coupling constructed with draw-heads having stationary hooks and recesses in their sides, and provided with pivoted hooks held in place by springs, and provided with a trip plate and lever, and with chains and a lever, whereby the cars will couple themselves when run together, can be readily uncoupled, will uncouple themselves when thrown from the track, and can be prevented from coupling when run together" (lines 23-32).
Date:
May 5, 1885
Creator:
Griffin, James Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a new and improved churn. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a suitable frame having a fly-wheel mounted in bearings thereof, and a wrist-pin on said fly-wheel, of the lever pivoted to the frame at one end" (lines 95-98). Further, it consists in "carrying a pivoted dasher at its other end, said lever having a slot or opening to receive the wrist-pin, a crank-arm, a treadle pivoted to the frame at one end, and carrying a handle at its other end, and a rod connecting the treadle and crank-arm" (lines 1-6).
Date:
May 5, 1885
Creator:
Rogers, William Joseph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn Dasher.
Patent for a new and improved churn dasher. This design, "[a]s an article of manufacture, [consists in] the conical or concavo-convex churn dasher having a circular rim, the air cups or cells, the arms, and the raised nave or center portion, all of concavo-convex shape in their transverse sections" (lines 28-33).
Date:
May 5, 1885
Creator:
Hale, James F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Jointing, Gaging, and Setting Saws.
Patent for a new and improved device for jointing, gauging, and setting saws. This design consists "[i]n a saw-jointer and gage . . . the body-plate or block, having laterally extending arms, a groove extending entirely through the said arms, overhanging flanges extending from the said arms, a slot in the bottom of the groove forming an open space between the flanges, and a flat spring secured in the groove, facing the flanges" (lines 28-35).
Date:
May 5, 1885
Creator:
Cummings, Virgil T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap.
Patent for improvements in animal-traps that would be capable of catching two animals; to set the trap, bait is placed upon the hooked ends of the bait-hooks, the jaws are elevated and retained in a position by the link-catches, which have the lower hooked ends engaging the trigger, which has its free end engaging the eye at the inner end of the bait hooks, thus setting the trap, (lines 66-73) ready to catch animals. Illustration is included.
Date:
May 5, 1891
Creator:
Anderson, Henry Clay
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Balance-Staff for Watches.
Patent for improvements in balance-staffs for watches by “strengthen and increase the durability of the pivots or journals of the staff while reducing the friction to a minimum” (lines 16-19), included illustration.
Date:
May 5, 1891
Creator:
Cooper, Jonathan H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Conveying and Cleaning Apparatus.
Patent for improvements in cotton conveying and cleaning apparatus by using the combination of “a rearwardly-open feeder and a conveyer in position to receive cotton discharge at the rear of the feeder” (lines 103-105), as a result when a conveyer bring “cotton to the feeder, it would provide a branch in position to take up the cotton delivered by the conveyer” (lines 106-108) thus preventing undue accumulation of excess cotton and continuous movement of the cotton in all the parts. Illustration is included.
Date:
May 5, 1891
Creator:
Elam, William E.; Thomas, Robert S. & Hardwick, Saunie W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machinery For Pressing Cotton.
Patent for improvements in machinery for facilitating the pressing of cotton; and it relates particularly to mechanism in which cylinders and pistons are used, under the influence of fluid or liquid, such as steam, air, water, or gas under pressure to operate the follower-block of a bailing-press. (Lines 12-18) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 5, 1891
Creator:
Bachman, Joseph A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for an improved plow which is attached in the usual manner to the standard of a suitable beam, when the device is used for cultivating young crops, the fender is place in position and will serve to prevent the loose, dirt from tumbling over upon the growing plants. When the plants grew larger, the fender can be removed and a portion of the loose soil will thus be permitted to cover. (Lines 65-73) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 5, 1891
Creator:
Haynes, Leonard Franklin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Propeller for Boats.
Patent for improvements in propellers for boats by “having a pair of hinged propeller-blades adapted to swing toward and away from each other, combined with fixed prongs; which are engaged with the propeller blades and hold them from displacement.” (Lines 60-65) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 5, 1891
Creator:
Gillespie, Lewis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Filling Bottles.
Patent for an "apparatus for filling bottles with crude petroleum, turpentine, and other liquids; and its object is to provide an improved construction which shall possess superior advantages with respect to efficiency in operation" (lines 14-19).
Date:
May 5, 1896
Creator:
McKay, Felix Early
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Measuring and Proportioning Machine.
Patent for "a device by which the mixing of various ingredients in certain desired proportions may be easily and accurately accomplished" (lines 8-11). It is meant for industrial measuring.
Date:
May 5, 1896
Creator:
Collins, Alonzo G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Speed-Recorder.
Patent for an improvement in speed-recorders or device meant especially for street-cars, meant to protect the streets from reckless driving. The machine punches tape, recording the time the trolly takes to travel each block and how long the trolly takes at each stop.
Date:
May 5, 1896
Creator:
Spence, James, Jr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Strainer for Coffee-Pots.
Patent for a strainer "by which the steam from the fluid coffee which has passed through the percolating-cloth to the base of the coffee-pot can rise above the strainer, there condense, and then return again through the strainer, thus causing a thorough extraction of the strength of the coffee" (lines 9-15).
Date:
May 5, 1896
Creator:
Massey, Andrew J. & Stallings, James W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Copy-Holder
Patent for a copy holder.
Date:
May 5, 1903
Creator:
Hoyle, Samuel Cook
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner
Patent for an oil feeder designed to burn crude oil. It features a carbon deposit chamber and a vent pipe.
Date:
May 5, 1903
Creator:
Hartung, Theodore A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Painter's Elevator
Patent for painter's elevator.
Date:
May 5, 1903
Creator:
Murphy, Ewell H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Paper-Bag Machine.
Patent for improvements in the paper-bag machine (related to author's previous Patent No. 689,441, December 24, 1901) for the purpose of improving the mechanism for forming the primary fold of the bag-bottom in the bag-folding process, including descriptions of the machinery, parts, and illustrations.
Date:
May 5, 1903
Creator:
Tyson, Frank
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Riding-Saddle
Patent for a riding saddle.
Date:
May 5, 1903
Creator:
Beckerman, Fred John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History