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Improvement in Car-Couplings
Patent for car coupling device that attaches cars automatically when moved together while also detaching if one or more cars come off the tracks.
Date:
May 22, 1877
Creator:
Dobbs, Charles & Robinson, Samuel L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Revolving Conical Mold-Boards
Patent for improvements and new design for a Revolving Conical Mold-Board Plow.
Date:
May 22, 1877
Creator:
Dryer, Charles Valentine
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Vehicle-Springs
Patent for a newly designed vehicle spring that attached to the axle and features an auxiliary spring.
Date:
May 22, 1877
Creator:
Faber, Fredrick W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in fences
Patent for improvement in fences. Inventor created removable, adjustable fences with wire loop hinges.
Date:
May 22, 1879
Creator:
Martin, George S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Harrow, Seed-Planter, and Cultivator
Patent for a combined harrow, seed-planter, and cultivator to increase the speed of planting and cultivating plants, including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
May 22, 1883
Creator:
Ellis, Robert Fuller
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway Steam Car Brake
Patent for improvement in railway car brake by adding a steam actuating device attached to the locomotive.
Date:
May 22, 1883
Creator:
Walker, Fred B. & Lauder, James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Range-Finder for Rifles.
Patent for range-finder for rifles, with illustrations. The invention "is adapted for ready application to a rifle by producing a simple dovetailed groove in the stock or stock-tip, near the front end" (lines 9-12).
Date:
May 22, 1883
Creator:
Ord, Edward O. C., Jr. & Kress, John A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for a new and improved wrench. This design "consists in the combination of the main bar, which is provided with a head having a suitable recess to catch over nuts, with a sliding head, which has two surfaces to act in connection with opposite ends of the head, but out of line with each other, and a spring-actuated catch, which catches in suitable ratchets made in the main bar, so as to hold the sliding head in position" (lines
Date:
May 22, 1883
Creator:
Hamrick, Jerome Miller.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopping, Planting, and Cultivating Machine
Patent for "an improvement in combined cotton chopping, planting, and cultivating machines," (lines 9-11) including illustrations.
Date:
May 22, 1888
Creator:
Pilond, David Winfield
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Revolving Harrow and Cultivator
Patent for a Combined Revolving Harrow and Cultivator that is used to cultivate cotton, corn and nature like plants.
Date:
May 22, 1888
Creator:
Evans,Lucius Sandiford
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Elevator for Cotton-Cleaning Machines
Patent for improvements in the construction and design in elevators for machine for cleaning cotton.
Date:
May 22, 1888
Creator:
Wiggins, Ransome Hundley
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow Point.
Patent for a new and improved plow-point. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the double mold-board rigidly fixed to the curved beam in the rear of the lower end thereof, of the point having symmetrical corners and lugs adapted to pass beneath the front edge of said mold-board and prevent rocking of the point upon the beam, to which alone it is attached, and bolts securing said point in position" (lines 65-73).
Date:
May 22, 1888
Creator:
Martin, Isaac Jasper
Object Type:
Patent
System:
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Apparatus for the Treatment of Cotton.
Patent for a machine that puts gins and condensers in a line, which sit over a flue. "The lint cotton in bat form being delivered from all of the condensers in independent bats to a common conveyer, the bat cotton increasing in thickness upon the common conveyer and in its travel to a press, compress or other receptacle, receiving the different bats from the different condensers, one bat lying smoothly upon the other, until at the discharge end of the common conveyer, the bat in which the lint is evenly distributed and which is of considerable thickness, will be conveniently discharged" (lines 13-24).
Date:
May 22, 1894
Creator:
Zedler, Friedrich
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for an improved car-coupling that consists of a hollow drawhead, a knuckle pivoted in the drawhead, a lock that pivots across the drawhead, a catch on one side of the drawhead, a spring presses on the side of the lock, a lever pivoted in the drawhead, a hand rod connected to the arm, a hand rod connected to the drawhead, and a bell crank lever pivoted in the drawhead.
Date:
May 22, 1894
Creator:
Roosevelt, James A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Fender.
Patent for a simple car-fender that improves on the types of "fenders which are attached to the front end of street and other car trucks for the purpose of saving human life by preventing a body from being thrown under the car wheels" (lines 10-14). The invention does not let a body under the car wheels.
Date:
May 22, 1894
Creator:
Rau, William J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Door-Spring.
Patent for simple, inexpensive, and durable door springs meant to hold a door in place, and can be easily used.
Date:
May 22, 1894
Creator:
Wilson, James L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Uterus-Battery.
Patent for "a simple and compact electrical or galvanic device, adapted, when placed in the womb of a patient, to develop a mild electric action and thereby promote the flow of the menses and render the same regular and painless" (lines 16-19).
Date:
May 22, 1894
Creator:
Hinkley, Charles Samuel Whitney
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Vehicle Running - Gear
Patent for
Date:
May 22, 1900
Creator:
Bassett, Lawrence Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Feed for Saw-Setting Mechanism.
Patent for improvements to Automatic Feed for Saw-Setting Mechanism, "particularly adapted to advance the saw into alinement with a setting-punch by reciprocatory movement of a part of the mechanism" (lines 11-14), including illustrations.
Date:
May 22, 1900
Creator:
Haltom, Samuel & Nadel, Abraham G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press.
Patent for several improvements in baling presses for making cylindrical bales, the machine being able to be set up in both the horizontal and upright positions.
Date:
May 22, 1900
Creator:
Byars, Edgar.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Box And Stock Car
Patent for "a new and improved box and stock car which is simple and durable in construction and arranged to permit of readily transforming the car to carry either box-freight or live stock." (lines 10-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 22, 1900
Creator:
Russell, Charles Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Grinder
Patent for a grinder of ordinary corn
Date:
May 22, 1900
Creator:
Zimmerman, Frank W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fan Attachment for Umbrellas or Parasols.
Patent for a fan attachment for umbrellas or parasols, including illustrations.
Date:
May 22, 1900
Creator:
Beseler, Otto
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire-Escape
Patent for a fire-escape for "people irrespective of age, sex, or condition may be safely carried from any landing or floor of a building to the sidewalk or street" (lines 25-28); including illustration and instructions
Date:
May 22, 1900
Creator:
Thompson, B. W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History