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Improvement in Transplanters
Patent for an improvement in transplanters, intended for use in transplanting cotton or other plants.
Date:
May 28, 1872
Creator:
Cook, Henry C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Joints for Railway Rails
Patent for improvements in box or "fish" joints for railroad rails.
Date:
May 28, 1872
Creator:
Wells, Jephthah
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for an improved bale-tie which is to be used especially with cotton, includes instructions and illustration.
Date:
May 28, 1878
Creator:
Arnold, Lloyd
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Worm Destroyers.
Patent for an improvement in cotton worm destroyer, includes instructions and illustration.
Date:
May 28, 1878
Creator:
Yeager, George
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent for an improvement in plows, includes instruction and illustration.
Date:
May 28, 1878
Creator:
Moore, Thomas M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent for an improvement in plows, includes instruction and illustration.
Date:
May 28, 1878
Creator:
Nitschmann, Franz
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Railway-Gates.
Patent for "automatically operating slide-gates which are operated by pressure on treadles, and are suitable for use either as farm-gates or railroad-gates." (Lines 15-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 28, 1878
Creator:
McCaffrey, James M. & Larkin, James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Door.
Patent for a new and improved door for railroad cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the car having the door-opening with its upper and lower edges parallel and inclined upward and inward, and the bolt-keeper secured to the sill of the car, of the door having correspondingly-inclined upper and lower edges, the guide-staple and fulcrum-bracket secured to the door at proper points, the operating-lever pivoted to said bracket, the link-rods and bolt, the [other] link-rod pivoted at its lower end to the operating-lever" (lines 4-14).
Date:
May 28, 1889
Creator:
Charlton, James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton, Corn, And Sorghum Planter
Patent for improvements to a previously made patent serial no. 287,764: the improvements would include adjustable feed disks, simple and adjustable means of regulating the feed of the seed, bracing rods for the drill, and improvements in construction of the frame and hopper.
Date:
May 28, 1889
Creator:
Schofield, Jake Drommond
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin Brush
Patent for "a cheap, durable, efficient, and simple brush adapted for use in cotton-gins, the parts of which may readily be assembled or detached for purposes of construction, renewal, replacement, or repair" (lines 9-14).
Date:
May 28, 1889
Creator:
Swann, Warner Minor & Swann, Richard Tompkins
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drilling Tool for Wells.
Patent for a new and improved drilling tool for wells. This design "relates to tools for drilling or boring Artesian, oil, and other deep wells; and it has for its object to prevent the loss of drill or auger or any portion of the drill-rods. With this end in view the invention consists in the improved means for connecting the tool to the lower end of the drill-rod" (lines 9-15).
Date:
May 28, 1889
Creator:
McLane, Hiram H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a new and improved plow. This design "relates to double-mold-board plows, such as lister or middle-breaking plows. Its principle features are the depressed center bar, the removable point upon the center bar, and the removable shares" (lines 8-12).
Date:
May 28, 1889
Creator:
Tebbetts, Lewis B.; Pope, Charles H. & Stewart, John A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Whiffletree.
Patent for a new and improved whiffletree. This design "compris[es] a front rod and a back rod or spring united together by welding, said whiffletree having its ends rounded to form shoulders and provided with hooks fitting upon the rounded ends and prevented from slipping inward by the shoulders, and disks placed upon said rounded ends and attained thereon by swaging the latter" (lines 6-13).
Date:
May 28, 1889
Creator:
Black, William Jackson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Whiffletree.
Patent for a new and improved whiffletree. This design "compris[es] a front bar, a back rod or spring united to the front bar by welding, the ends of both said bar and rod being bent upon themselves and the parts welded together to construct an eye or opening, whereby both bar and rod are bent around the latter . . . a strengthening-piece placed between the front bar and the back rod or spring, and a casing secured to the back rod and adapted to hold the strengthening-piece in place" (lines 8-18).
Date:
May 28, 1889
Creator:
Black, William Jackson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a car-coupling which is an improvement on a patent (No. 520,380) previously granted to the inventor. It has two jaws that are used with a combination of other parts to couple cars.
Date:
May 28, 1895
Creator:
Roosevelt, James A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Truck Bolster.
Patent for a car-truck bolster "made of cast steel or malleable iron, cast in one piece, and provided with a plurality of corrugations running longitudinally or in an approximately longitudinal direction along the girders which form the sides of the said bolster" (lines 15-20).
Date:
May 28, 1895
Creator:
Maher, John N. & Wheless, Thomas H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a cultivator that has its frame and attachments are mounted on carrying-wheels, and the plows depend on the wheels. It is operated more easily than other cultivators.
Date:
May 28, 1895
Creator:
Aubrey, Henry W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Detachable Rubber Heel.
Patent for "a rubber heel tap adapted for detachable connection to the heel of a boot or shoe, and which shall serve to cushion the fall of the heel," and "to provide a corrugated surface upon the face of the heel which shall adapt the same for service as an ice creeper." (Lines 14-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 28, 1895
Creator:
Williams, Thomas Jackson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Kitchen-Cabinet.
Patent for "a more complete and convenient kitchen cabinet... with an effective and desirable sink attachment, whereby dirty water may be easily disposed of." (Lines 9-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 28, 1895
Creator:
Brooks, John M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump-Strainer.
Patent for a pump-strainer that cleans and separates water or other liquid that is drawn from wells or reservoirs.
Date:
May 28, 1895
Creator:
Durant, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stove.
Patent for "a stove in which the heat may be shifted to various parts thereof to the exclusion of other parts," and "wherein the radiation of the heat from the bottom of the heat-passage is made to heat a secondary or supplemental oven, thereby making use of heat which is otherwise lost." (Lines 19-30) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 28, 1895
Creator:
Brooks, John M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Regulator for Pneumatic Flues
Patent for a regulated valve to automatically maintain air pressure in a pneumatic conveyor flue. Excessive air pressure causes a secondary valve to open and vent the pressure while at the same time impeding air flow downstream.
Date:
May 28, 1901
Creator:
Caffey, Charles B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bottle-Vent
Patent for "an open-sided vent-passage at the neck of the bottle, thus permitting the formation thereof at the time the bottle is blown and rendering the construction more simple and economically produced" (lines 16-20).
Date:
May 28, 1901
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Brake
Patent for an invention that relates to innovations and improvements to railroad car-brakes.
Date:
May 28, 1901
Creator:
Boyers, Thomas Albert.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History