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Improvement in Car-Couplings.
Patent for "a new and improved Car-Coupling"
Date:
May 11, 1875
Creator:
Shelley, Nathan G.; Bozarth, Stephen P. & Spring, David V.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rotary Cultivators and Choppers
Patent for an improvement to the design of a rotary cultivator and chopper, including illustrations.
Date:
May 11, 1875
Creator:
Fenley, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mailing-Box.
Patent for a mailing box with curves and grooves to fit the cover and securing string with illustrations and assembly instructions.
Date:
May 11, 1880
Creator:
Sabin, Chauncey Brewer
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Billiard Table Leveler.
Patent for a new and improved billiard-table leveler. This design consists in "the vertical case having the closed bottom, the open upper end, and provided with the removable plate, the vertical guide-rods extending through openings in the plate, the follower in the upper end of the case and having openings to receive the guide-rods, and provided with an interiorly-threaded opening, the vertical shaft having its lower end stepped in the bottom of the case and journaled in the plate, the said shaft having the miter-pinion and the threaded upper end working in the threaded opening of the follower" (lines 58-70).
Date:
May 11, 1886
Creator:
Himes, Frank
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Motor.
Patent for a hydraulic motor designed for water intake through top ring.
Date:
May 11, 1886
Creator:
Cooper, Benjamin F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Medicine Case.
Patent for a new and improved medicine case. This design is "to provide a series of receptacles for the medicine to be taken or administered, said receptacles being of different colors, to avoid mistakes or errors in the distributions of the medicines; to provide means for accurately indicating the medicine to be taken; to indicate the time which said medicine shall be taken; to provide means for holding a spoon or other article within the cases for taking the medicine when in a liquid or powder form" (lines 15-25).
Date:
May 11, 1886
Creator:
Zanetti, Fortonato Clemente
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Safety Valve Attachment for Lamps.
Patent for a new and improved safety attachment for oil lamps. This design is "to permit of the escape of any gas which may be formed in the upper part of the oil-reservoir by the evaporation of its contents; and the object thereof is to provide a simple form of valve stamped from a single piece of sheet metal, with a shank adapted to be inserted through a slot in the lamp-collar and the valve afterward bent down over the valve-opening, thus presenting a valve that will be sensitive to the pressure of gas within the reservoir, and consequently insure its successful operation at all times" (lines 18-29).
Date:
May 11, 1886
Creator:
Ingle, Ezra William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Two Wheeled Vehicle.
Patent for a new and improved vehicle. This design "is to provide a vehicle in which a person can ride over rough ground without serious inconvenience or discomfort incident to travel over such roads. . . . [and] to so construct a gig that a person can get into the same without serious inconvenience, and to this end it is made low, the rear of the shafts being extended in line with the axle and the step secured to the shaft and extending somewhat below it. . . . [and] to provide a gig with springs that will work in two directions—laterally and vertically" (lines 20-34).
Date:
May 11, 1886
Creator:
Buckel, Charles
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle Attachment.
Patent for "a new and improved bicycle attachment arranged to serve as a foot-rest for the feet of the rider while coasting and adapted to be lowered to support the bicycle in a vertical position when not in use and to securely lock the wheel and support together to prevent the machine from being stolen" (lines 7-14), including illustrations.
Date:
May 11, 1897
Creator:
Zintgraff, August
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coat-Adjuster.
Patent for a machine that holds a coat for a person and puts it on that person, thus avoiding the need to personally put on a coat. Pivoted arms hold on to the coat and clamps are connected to the arms which hold on to the coat.
Date:
May 11, 1897
Creator:
Spoon, William L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Game-Board
Patent for a design for a game-board this is both useful and ornamental.
Date:
May 11, 1897
Creator:
Sneddon, Guy Hoyt
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Knife
Patent for a design for a knife that has a curved terminal that forms a shield.
Date:
May 11, 1897
Creator:
Albert, Alfred K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Preventing Hens from Setting.
Patent for improvements to a hood that prevents hens from flying (by cutting off vision above or to either side) while allowing them to continue scratching and eating.
Date:
May 11, 1897
Creator:
Sparks, Andrew J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hand Seed-Planter.
Patent for an improvement in hand-seed planters, designed especially for cotton-seed. The seeds are spit out the bottom through a series of springs, pins, and plungers.
Date:
May 11, 1897
Creator:
Merwin, Charles F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Separating Decorticated Cotton-Seed.
Patent for a machine dedicated to "increase the capacity of machines for separating decorticated cotton-seed" (lines 9-10) and to "separate the meal from the husks of the decorticated cotton-seed, whereby perfectly clean meal is collected" (lines 12-15)
Date:
May 11, 1897
Creator:
Bell, Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pneumatic Apparatus for Handling Seed-Cotton.
Patent for a machine that removes cotton from a "wagon or other vehicle" (line 11), and moving it to a storage facility. It also moves the cotton from the storage facility and into the cotton gin. The cotton is elevated during movement via suction.
Date:
May 11, 1897
Creator:
Murray, Stephen D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Weed-Burner
Patent for "a railroad weed-burning device in which a large sheet-iron shield is suspended underneath and between the trucks of any ordinary railroad car for the purpose of confining the flame and heat produced by oil-atomizing burners or other means to direct and maintain continued contact with grass and weeds on the ground between and along the outside of the rails" (lines 9-18).
Date:
May 11, 1897
Creator:
Hancock, Geroge A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Planter.
Patent for a seed planter which utilizes a dropping-wheel that has pockets. Plungers take in and release a certain number of seeds into the pockets.
Date:
May 11, 1897
Creator:
Pace, Francis W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Telephone-Transmitter.
Patent for a granulated-electrode phone transmitter that is designed to be simple and "constructed so that the granulated-electrode cannot become displaced from the cell" (lines 10-12).
Date:
May 11, 1897
Creator:
Alexander, Horace C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed Rail Fastener
Patent for a bed rail fastener. "The purpose of this invention is to provide novel features of construction for a bed rail fastener, which afford a very secure connection of the ends of the side rails of a metal bedstead with the head and foot posts of the bed." (lines 9-14). Illustration included.
Date:
May 11, 1909
Creator:
Berry, Thomas O.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buckle
Patent for a buckle. Illustration included.
Date:
May 11, 1909
Creator:
Allen, Orcenith F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cabinet
Patent for a cabinet for storing lace or ribbons.
Date:
May 11, 1909
Creator:
Hayden, Frank A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.
Date:
May 11, 1909
Creator:
Dewald, Louis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Double-Row Stalk-Cutter.
Patent for a double row stalk cutter, which has rotating stalk cutters.
Date:
May 11, 1909
Creator:
Peden, Francis M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History