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Improved Head-Rest.
Patent for a new and improved head-rest for railroad-car seats and other seats, that can be applied to or removed from the back of seats without the use of clamp-screws, and are adjustable and adaptable to the convenience and comfort of different persons. It includes a description and illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1870
Creator:
Littlepage, Caleb V.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper.
Patent for a new and improved cotton cutter. This design consists in "the combination [of] the two-part shaft having bearings in the frame and supported on the wheels of [a] removable wheel, secured upon the end of [a] portion and having the spokes and cups at the ends thereof, arranged to operate between the adjustable plows" (lines 62-68).
Date:
May 31, 1881
Creator:
Smith, Joseph F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump.
Patent for a new and improved pump. This design utilizes a new combination and arrangement of cylinders, pistons, pipes, chambers, valves, screws, levers, and air and water vessels to pump water more effectively.
Date:
May 31, 1881
Creator:
Maney, Henry, Sr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brace for Bedsteads, Gates, &c.
Patent for a new and improved brace for bed frames. This design consists in "the posts having the hooks or eyes, the head-board, foot-board, and rails, also provided with hooks or eyes, the swivel, the wires, each having one end secured to one of the corner hooks or eyes, passed through the eye-bolt and screw-bolt, respectively" (lines 97-102). Said wires are further "given a half-turn on themselves, and their other ends secured to the opposite corner hooks, and the [other] wire having one end secured to one of the center hooks or eyes and woven in and out over the hooks or eyes" (lines 1-5).
Date:
May 31, 1887
Creator:
Lenix, John M. & Swann, George B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Chair and Sleeping Car.
Patent for railway passenger train combined chair and sleeping car. The combined chair and sleeping car were designed to utilized less space on the train.
Date:
May 31, 1887
Creator:
Goelet, Edward B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for an automatically opening and closing gate including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1887
Creator:
Philpott, Horatio V.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin Attachment.
Patent for a cotton gin attachment that cleans and separates the lint before it reaches the machines condenser.
Date:
May 31, 1892
Creator:
Scott, Eugene C. & Kelly, George A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Extension-Ladder.
Patent for a new extension ladder, including illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1892
Creator:
Crews, Dayton H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fish and Game Trap.
Patent for a design for improvements of fish and game traps, including illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1892
Creator:
Bolling, Allen G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Excavator
Hydraulic dredging machine in which a revolving bucket wheel is used in excavating silt and sand
Date:
May 31, 1892
Creator:
Douglas, William M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive Ash Pan.
Patent for a new and improved locomotive ash pan. This design "relates to ash-pans for locomotive and other fire-boxes; and it has for its object to provide a simple and improved device of this character in which the contents of the pan may be discharged therefrom by a single operation of a controlling-lever. To this end the invention consists . . . in a sliding frame working in guides, a series of slats forming the entire bottom of the pan pivoted to the frame and carried thereby, a lever for operating said frame, and means for sustaining the slats normally in horizontal position" (lines 11-23).
Date:
May 31, 1892
Creator:
Johnson, Charles J. W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mechanical Attachment for Pianos and Organs
Patent for a "mechanical attachment for pianos and organs whereby and musical composition executed upon the instrument shall be automatically recorded upon a travelling strip or band or, if preferred, on the cylindrical surface of a revolving drum" (lines 10-15).
Date:
May 31, 1892
Creator:
Harriman, John Emery, Jr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Roll Box for Cotton Gins.
Patent for a new and improved roll-box for cotton gins. This design "is to provide for a cleaning of the seed-cotton at its first stage of ginning, and thus prepare the same for a more effectual cleaning at the second stage of the process after the same leaves the saws" (lines 24-28). It consists, "with the gin-ribs and the revolving saws working between said ribs, of an unyielding perforated breast-board arranged in front of said ribs and a supplemental perforated cleaning-board above said ribs opposite said breast-board, forming an inclosed seed-cotton chamber" (lines 73-79).
Date:
May 31, 1892
Creator:
Scott, Eugene C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wick Trimmer.
Patent for a new and improved wick trimmer. This design "is to provide a lamp-wick trimmer with adjustable guides that will afford means to retain the implement in correct position for use on lamp-wick tubes of different sizes, and furthermore to furnish the wick-trimmer with blades that will shear the wick from each side edge toward the center simultaneously" (lines 7-14).
Date:
May 31, 1892
Creator:
Andrews, Daniel L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Death Valley Expedition: A Biological Survey of Parts of California, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah, Part 2
Collection of reports on Death Valley, the bordering region of California, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah. Reports include birds, reptiles and Batrachians, fishes, insects, mollusks, trees and shrubs, cactuses and yuccas, and list of localities in the reports.
Date:
May 31, 1893
Creator:
Fisher, A. K.; Stejneger, Leonhard; Gilbert, Charles H.; Riley, C. V.; Stearns, R. E. C.; Merriam, C. Hart et al.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Air-Tight Heating-Stove
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in air tight heating stoves, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1898
Creator:
Wilson, John Wesley & Wilson, William Wharton
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Broom-Rack.
Patent for a new and useful broom rack, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1898
Creator:
Smith, Walter I.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Tool.
Patent for a new and useful combination tool, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1898
Creator:
Karner, Joseph C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Elevated Electric Car-Line.
Patent for a new and useful improvements in "elevated double-track electric car lines and car and electric-wire supports combined, including instructions and illustrations" (line 5 - 7).
Date:
May 31, 1898
Creator:
Cooley, Joe H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a new and useful plow, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1898
Creator:
Ward, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Return-Envelop.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in return envelops, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1898
Creator:
Carter, Jessee M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Garden-Plow.
Patent for a garden plow to till soil.
Date:
May 31, 1899
Creator:
Stove, William A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment For Horse Powers
Patent for attachment for horse powers. This invention is an attachment for the power transmission for hay presses. Illustration included.
Date:
May 31, 1904
Creator:
Gentry, Arthur Q. & Burk, Jasper A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Penholder And Eraser
Patent for a combined penholder and eraser. Illustration included.
Date:
May 31, 1904
Creator:
Tucker, Albert S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History