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Improvement in Cultivators.
Patent for changes in the construction of a cultivator.
Date:
May 23, 1871
Creator:
Walker, Leander
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Devices for Attaching Napkins to the Person
Patent for the improvement of attaching napkins to people in which a flexible ring is ensleeved with a napkins and stretched around the neck of a person.
Date:
May 23, 1871
Creator:
Raiford, Philip H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Heating Frame for Lamps.
Patent for a new and improved heating frame for lamps. This design seeks to "simplify and improve the adjustable supports for the top plate upon which the vessel [to be heated] is supported; secondly, to improve the construction of said top plate . . . allowing the warm air to circulate both under and around the vessel . . . thirdly, to construct and combine the top plate and a base-ring with the supporting-rods in a firm, durable, and efficient manner" (lines 27-38).
Date:
May 23, 1882
Creator:
Melvin, Josiah W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Provision Safe.
Patent for a new and improved safe. This design "provide[s] a household safe that will prevent rats and mice from gaining access thereto, and at the same time allow a ready handling of the articles contained in it; and the novelty consists in the construction of the same," utilizing jointed covers, spring-locks, metallic bottoms, caster-rollers, and a clasp (lines 11-15).
Date:
May 23, 1882
Creator:
Sykes, Robert R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wagon Brake.
Patent for a new and improved wagon-brake. This goal of this design "is to provide an automatic brake for wagons and other wheeled vehicles running on dirt roads" (lines 11-13).
Date:
May 23, 1882
Creator:
Le Roy, Charles Jerome & Henson, John Wesley
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Grate Attachment.
Patent for an adjustable grate attachment that is meant to be used with open grates. It prevents "the falling of heated coals therefrom; also to provide for extension of the grate vertically to facilitate making of a larger fire; and further, to provide an attachment which may be used in regulating the draft to the grate proper" (lines 15-20).
Date:
May 23, 1893
Creator:
Hutton, Milton Calhoun
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for a baling press that has a rebounding plunger and is meant to have "an effective and substantial tripping and catching mechanism, simple in construction, low of production, and durable and easy to trip" (lines 22-25).
Date:
May 23, 1893
Creator:
Schubert, George
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a plow that has an improved land-slide that can be "expeditiously and conveniently removed from the shank plate of the plow, and to so construct the shank plate that the share when placed thereon will be firmly held in position and be prevented from slipping vertically" (lines 10-15). The land-slide and shank-plate are firmly interlocked.
Date:
May 23, 1893
Creator:
Wherry, William B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pneumatic Cotton-Picker.
Patent for an improved pneumatic cotton-picker that is meant "to produce a simple machine having a cotton receiving box or vacuum box and arranged to use both a blast and suction pipe, these pipes being oppositely arranged and the suction pipe being made to deliver into the cotton box" (lines 10-17). The cotton is sucked from the plants and delivers it into a cotton box. A guide lines the machine up with the row of cotton.
Date:
May 23, 1893
Creator:
Mauermann, Gustav A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle-Frame.
Patent for a new and useful bicycle frame, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 23, 1899
Creator:
Mills, Virgel H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dipping-Vat.
Patent for a certain new and useful improvement in dipping vats or tanks, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 23, 1899
Creator:
Skinner, William E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horse-Power And Pumping-Jack.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in a horse power and jumping jack, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 23, 1899
Creator:
Darlington, Benjamin F. & Clary, Edwin P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lumber-Stacker.
Patent for a certain new and useful improvement in lumber stackers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 23, 1899
Creator:
Coleman, Thomas A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling
Patent for rail car coupling. Illustration included.
Date:
May 23, 1905
Creator:
Rowell, Charles W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Check Book Cover
Patent for a check book cover. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 23, 1905
Creator:
Templeton, David A.; Exline, Marcus P. & Bourke, Edmund
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Grubbing, Subsoiling, and Turning Plow
Patent for a combined grubbing, subsoiling, and turning plow. Illustration included.
Date:
May 23, 1905
Creator:
Toler, Henry Wilson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Whip Socket and Rein Holder
Patent for a combined whip socket and rein holder. Illustration included.
Date:
May 23, 1905
Creator:
Jacobs, Phillip
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.
Date:
May 23, 1905
Creator:
Fikes, Bosiar Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner.
Patent for new and useful improvements in Crude-Oil Burners which provide a novel constructions that may be utilized in many locations.
Date:
May 23, 1905
Creator:
Pippin, John William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fishing Float
Patent for a fishing float. Illustration included.
Date:
May 23, 1905
Creator:
Jones, Daniel M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Generating Oil Burner
Patent for generating oil burner. This invention "relates to apparatus by which steam is generated and petroleum or a hydrocarbon reduced to vaporous condition and mixed or combined with the steam" (line 8-12). Illustrations included.
Date:
May 23, 1905
Creator:
Spiller, Philip Samuel & Haldeman, Horace P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Cleaning Vegetable Fiber
Patent fora machine for cleaning vegetable fiber. Illustration included.
Date:
May 23, 1905
Creator:
McCauley, John H. & Winfrey, Edgar M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Moistening and Sprinkling Attachment for Brooms.
Patent for attachment to brooms which enables the moistening of the broom during use to prevent the spreading of dust. One part regulates the flow of liquid to the broom and another provides a container for the liquid. In effect the attachment to the broom makes it into a convertible mop.
Date:
May 23, 1905
Creator:
Taylor, James P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Destroying Insects
Patent for an apparatus for destroying insects. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 23, 1911
Creator:
Crow, William M. & Crow, Levi H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History