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Improvement in Cotton-Cultivators.
Patent for a new improvement for a cotton-cultivator with different tools and connections, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 6, 1873
Creator:
Bates, Finis L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Excavators.
Patent for improvement in earth excavators combining a plow, rotating cylinder, and helical plate.
Date:
May 6, 1873
Creator:
Smith, Amroy B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Teeth for Cotton-Gin Saws.
Patent for new useful improvement of the cotton-gin saws that consists of the dress or shape of the teeth, includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 6, 1873
Creator:
Oglesby, Thomas B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Turpentine-Stills.
Patent for improvement in turpentine distillation and purification with bleaching and refinement.
Date:
May 6, 1873
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Dumping-Cars.
Patent for improvements to Dumping-Cars used for loading locomotives with wood or coal, including illustrations.
Date:
May 6, 1879
Creator:
Johnson, Stephen.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fences.
Patent for improvement in fences using wire rails, including illustrations.
Date:
May 6, 1879
Creator:
Temby, Joseph W.
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 car-couplings of that class which have a sliding spring-actuated pin-support, against which the link comes to drive the support back and permit the pin to fall and effect an automatic coupling" (lines 9-13).
Date:
May 6, 1884
Creator:
Mayfield, Samuel Brooks
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive Wheel.
Patent for a new and improved train wheel. This design "relates to locomotive drive-wheels; and it has for its object to so construct the same so as to avoid all slipping of the wheel upon the rail, as is usually the case when the locomotive is first started. A further object of the invention is to provide a wheel which shall be simple in its construction and durable in use" (lines 9-16).
Date:
May 6, 1884
Creator:
Mann, John H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil Can.
Patent for a new and improved oil can. This design "has for its object to provide a can of improved construction, whereby the liability of foreign matter in the oil will be prevented from clogging the escape-tube, and thus rendering the flow of oil impossible until the spout of the same has been freed from such obstruction" (lines 10-18).
Date:
May 6, 1884
Creator:
English, Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Picture Case for Tombstones.
Patent for a new and improved picture frame for tombstones. This design, "it will be seen . . . is cheap and strong, and will perfectly protect the picture or memento, and that when in place in the tombstone its outer surface will stand flush with the outer surface of the stone, and by securing the case or frame in the stone by means of the metal or cement cast around the case, it will be seen that the case cannot be removed from the stone without breaking the stone, so that there will be no danger of the memento or picture being meddled with or taken out of the picture or frame" (lines 78-89).
Date:
May 6, 1884
Creator:
Holloman, Harvey Allen & Green, William Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper, Scraper, and Cultivator
Patent for improvements so that the "choppers may be raised, in order to leave standing such of the growth of the cotton as is necessary, or while turning corners; third, in means hereinafter to be described, by which the depth at which the scrapers and choppers run into the ground maybe adjusted" (lines 16-22).
Date:
May 6, 1890
Creator:
Ellis, David P,
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow Cleaning Attachment.
Patent for a new and improved plow cleaner. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the mold-board of a plow, having parallel longitudinal slots . . . of upper and lower rollers, belts passing around the same beneath the mold-board, scrapers connected to said belts in line with the slots and adapted to pass over said mold-board, and means for rotating said belts" (lines 93-99).
Date:
May 6, 1890
Creator:
Dyer, Charles Valentine.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fence
Patent for
Date:
May 6, 1900
Creator:
Titsworth, Dock Lee Marion
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
CAR - SEAT CLEANER.
Patent for new and improved car-seat cleaners, including illustrations.
Date:
May 6, 1902
Creator:
Ridd, John A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ice-Tray
Patent describing a "combined water-cooler and ice tray [...for] the cooling of water by ice without the ice coming in contact with the water" (lines 9-12).
Date:
May 6, 1902
Creator:
Henning, Thomas W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Packing Compound for Eggs.
Patent for a mixture of shale dust, gypsum, wood ash, sulfur, borax, saltpeter, and salicylic acid. This compound is to be layered around eggs, fruits, or vegetables for the purpose of preserving them.
Date:
May 6, 1902
Creator:
Stukes, John Marion
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash-Fastener.
Patent for new and improved sash-fastener so as to "lock the sash when elevated as well as closed" (line 15 & 16), including illustrations.
Date:
May 6, 1902
Creator:
Neher, John F. & Neher, Noah N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Signal-Lantern.
Patent for a gas-burner signal lantern, instead of an oil-burner signal lantern, that indicates whether or not the track is all clear of trains; includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 6, 1902
Creator:
Ruebel, C. A. Ernst
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type-Writer.
Patent for a new device for typewriters which allows for shifting from lower case to upper case by means of "the one set of keys ordinarily employed, but of modified construction" (lines 14-15) including descriptions of the device, operation, and illustrations
Date:
May 6, 1902
Creator:
Austin, Thomas R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type-Writer.
Patent for "attachments for returning the carriages of type-writers to the place of starting and for automatic spacing; and the object is to construct a device that will accomplish these results without in any way interfering with the working of a type-writer and by which the type-writer carriage can be sent back to the first position from any point without the necessity of going to the end of its beat" (lines 7-16).
Date:
May 6, 1902
Creator:
Fry, Fred H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gearing
Patent for an invention of a new and useful improvements in gearing for controlling the log carriage of a portable sawmill. The detail of how this machine be built comes in the drawing or diagram that illustrate it.
Date:
May 6, 1911
Creator:
Martin, Whitley E. & Bryan, Gordon
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Poultry Feeding and Watering Device
Patent for "new and useful poultry feeding and watering device" (lines 5-7), including illustration and instructions.
Date:
May 6, 1911
Creator:
Wilson, W. C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Card Game
Patent for an invention of a new card game to assist with arithmetical computations and outlines of different objects, including illustrations.
Date:
May 6, 1913
Creator:
Hobbs, James Joseph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for Churn for mixing liquids. The invention's construction includes a sturdy stand with a crank handle, that when rotated, allows a wheel to turn on the shaft. The simple design allows for inexpensive construction.
Date:
May 6, 1913
Creator:
Burns, John F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History