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Brick-Machine.
Patent for a machine, which the inventor calls "The Concussion Brick-Machine", that makes bricks using molds, including illustrations.
Date:
May 30, 1848
Creator:
Wilson, Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings.
Patent for an improvement in car-couplings with illustrations.
Date:
May 30, 1876
Creator:
Darrow, Nicholas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Double-Bitted Drills.
Patent for "an easy mode of straightening wells while drilling them through rock or earth, and also for enlarging the same into a cistern when it is desired to keep on hand a large supply of water." (Lines 8-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 30, 1876
Creator:
Yarbrough, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Axle Box.
Patent for a new and improved car-axle box. This design "consists in an improved cap for the box, a dust guard or plate, and packing for the same, the object being to render the axle-box dust and oil tight" (lines 14-17).
Date:
May 30, 1882
Creator:
Scott, James O.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Circular Railroad or Round About.
Patent for novel improvements on circular railroads, and also to means for propelling a turn-table on which the carriages are secured.
Date:
August 22, 1882
Creator:
Sturm, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saddle Pad.
Patent for a new and improved saddle pad. This design "consists of a saddle-pad formed of an upper and lower cover connected by lacing, provided with pockets, and filled intermediately with layers of felt or cloth" (lines 13-16). The saddle pad was designed to increase comfort for the rider while maintaining comfort for the animal.
Date:
May 30, 1882
Creator:
Hake, Francis Anton
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing Machine.
Patent for a new and improved washing machine. This design consists of "the rotating disk or circular-washboard, faced with radial ribs and operated by a crank which is supported in a plane parallel to the bottom of the box, so that the circular board shall rotate at a right angle thereto; the galvanized-sheet-iron inner box, made with a semi-cylindrical bottom to receive the circular wash-board; and the separate detachable wash-board, provided with a semicircle of radial ribs, and which fits into the sheet-iron box opposite to the circular rotating board" (lines 18-28).
Date:
May 30, 1882
Creator:
Fuchs, Benjamin F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for an improved, simple, and effective car coupling that couples automatically and without anyone having to go between the cars. It consists of a drawhead with a slot on one side, upper and lower slides in the drawhead, a coupling pin that sits in the upper slide, a lever that is connected to the slide, a spring that holds the lower slide in place, and a bolt that connects the lever with the upper slide.
Date:
May 30, 1893
Creator:
Cundiff, Middleton
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire-Extinguisher for Cotton-Gins.
Patent for an improved, simple, and durable fire extinguisher that can be used quickly conveniently, and effectively to extinguish a fire in a cotton gin. The extinguisher is built into the gin. The gin has a hole in its top, a lint chute on one side, a valve that closes the hole, a valve that closes the lint chute, a connection between the valves, and a rope that connects the valves to a guide.
Date:
May 30, 1893
Creator:
Northcraft, Edward
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fruit-Gatherer and Pruning Implement.
Patent for a combination orchard tool that gathers fruit, holds it in a bag, and can sever fruit stems in order to pick them. After severing, the fruit falls into the bag. The operator pulls a string that falls along the long handle, and the knife springs up from the bag so that it can sever the stems.
Date:
May 30, 1893
Creator:
Chambers, Silas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
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Snuff-Box.
Patent for a snuff box "in which the snuff may be conveniently packed for shipment and sale; and which is also adapted to carry the brush so that it is kept out of contact with the snuff and with the clothing, and to provide means for ejecting the brush handle when the box is open so that it may be conveniently grasped and used" (lines 20-27).
Date:
May 30, 1893
Creator:
Powell, Charles L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator.
Patent for a new and useful acetylene gas generator, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 30, 1899
Creator:
Camp, Charles M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Door Cleat.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in car door cleats or guards, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 30, 1899
Creator:
Miller, William M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chimney.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in chimneys, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 30, 1899
Creator:
Glover, William J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Staple.
Design for a staple provided with series of barbs or spurs and intervening corrugations arranged in continuous series at the inner and outer edges of the staple.
Date:
May 30, 1899
Creator:
La Prelle, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hose-Coupling.
Patent for a new and useful hose coupling, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 30, 1899
Creator:
Conley, Andrew Jackson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in locks, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 30, 1899
Creator:
Katzenberger, Oscar
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Milk-Cooler.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in milk coolers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 30, 1899
Creator:
Nash, William Ashley
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rubber Compound.
Patent for a new and improved rubber compound, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 30, 1899
Creator:
Petmecky, Joseph Charles
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Street Car Coupling
Patent for automatic street car coupling.
Date:
May 30, 1905
Creator:
Cary, Lewis C.; Caldwell, Julia & Swiney, Everett E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cloth Measuring Device
Patent for a cloth measuring device. Illustration included.
Date:
May 30, 1905
Creator:
Taylor, Wiliam A. & Churchwell, Theodric R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Press
Patent for a cotton press. Illustration included.
Date:
May 30, 1905
Creator:
Stephens, Louis K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Door Stop
Patent for a door stop. Illustration included.
Date:
May 30, 1905
Creator:
Roe, John Taylor
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Coop
Patent for a folding coop. Illustration included.
Date:
May 30, 1905
Creator:
Yoakum, Robert & McKee, Patrick C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History