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Improvement in Refining and Ageing Liquors.
Patent for improvement in refining and ageing liquors, including an illustration. The process includes expelling air from distilled liquors, heating them to a boiling point and then cooling them in a waterbath, through the use of a closed, air-tight vessel surrounded by an open water-vessel.
Date:
May 10, 1870
Creator:
Gilman, Samuel H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Steaming and Cleansing Barrels, & c.
Patent for an improved apparatus for steaming and cleaning barrels for the reception of resin, turpentine, oils, molasses, sirups, and other like liquids.
Date:
May 5, 1873
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Turpentine-Stills.
Patent for improvement in turpentine distillation and purification with bleaching and refinement.
Date:
May 6, 1873
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Mechanical Movements.
Patent for a specific arrangement of a single-cylinder engine and two shafts with connecting rods that can be used to drive boat propellers.
Date:
May 5, 1874
Creator:
Franklin, Robert Morris
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Insect-Destroying Compounds.
Patent for "a mixture of the arseniate of soda and water, or arseniate of soda, dextrine, and water, prepared in certain proportions of the respective ingredients, for the purpose of destroying cotton-worms." (Lines 7-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 19, 1874
Creator:
Braman, John D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bleaching Resins.
Patent for a process to "bleach, clarify, and refine the commonest and lowest grade of resin, and such is now known to the trade as black resin, as to produce therefrom, by a cheap and simple means or process, an article as pure as extra pale, or resin which is the product of the virgin dip, and which for use in all the arts where the finest quality of resin is desirable or required, is equally as valuable." (Lines 14-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 27, 1873
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Box and Bale Hooks.
Patent for "a guard or shield, of leather or other equivalent material, combined with the handle or shank of the hook used for turning or otherwise handling bales or boxes, &c., to prevent the hands from rubbing or pressing against the bale or box, whereby the are often injured." (Lines 6-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 26, 1874
Creator:
Knight, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Resin Boxes and Coolers.
Patent for improvement in receptacle for oils, molasses, or thick liquid that permit liquid to be surrounded by steam or water and changeable temperature.
Date:
May 13, 1873
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton Presses.
Patent for the improvement of cotton presses to bale cotton and other materials, including illustrations.
Date:
May 12, 1874
Creator:
Brown, Bartlett W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Pipe and Bar Cutters
Patent for a new and improved pipe and bar cutter, which cuts metal and steel. This design is simple, convient, and effective, including illustration.
Date:
May 21, 1877
Creator:
Astall, Jesse
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition For Roofing And Paving.
Patent for a process "to produce a compound which is strong, tenacious, and pliable, which will not be affected by climatic changes, and which will resist the corrosive action of acids and alkalies; and to this end my invention consists in a compound composed of asphaltum, pine-tar, and oxide of iron, as will more fully hereinafter appear.” (Lines 8-15) Includes instructions.
Date:
May 9, 1882
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
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
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bottle.
Patent for a bottle that has a mechanism near its opening, and when the cork is pulled out, it becomes impossible to refill the bottle and use it again. The point of this bottle is so that after it has been sealed, it cannot be opened and emptied without apparent evidence that it has been opened.
Date:
May 4, 1897
Creator:
Phillips, George C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Freezing Wine.
Patent for a device that cools wine and liquor. The device "will produce the desired results in much shorter time than is now employed by the common method and apparatus" (lines 11-14).
Date:
May 9, 1893
Creator:
Wadhams, Arthur
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blind Slat Adjuster.
Patent for a new and improved blind adjuster. This design consists in "[a] shutter-stop consisting of a slotted bar linked to the end of the slat-actuating rod of a shutter, in combination with a plate having a spur on one side and a screw-threaded stud on the other, a washer, and a thumb-nut" (lines 93-97).
Date:
May 4, 1886
Creator:
Lewis, Paulinus Aloysius
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Lock.
Patent for improvement upon a combination-lock.
Date:
May 1, 1888
Creator:
Bergman, John
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.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mailing-Box.
Patent for a mailing box with curves and grooves to fit the cover and securing string with illustrations and assembly instructions.
Date:
May 11, 1880
Creator:
Sabin, Chauncey Brewer
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vegetable Grater and Slicer.
Patent for an improvement on vegetable graters or slicers. The design allows for more efficient cutting of the vegetables and allows for gravity to feed the vegetables through the slicer and avoiding injury to the operator. Included are instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 25, 1880
Creator:
Weitzel, Jacob F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Laundry-Iron
Patent for improvements to heating and use of irons used for laundry.
Date:
May 15, 1883
Creator:
Pedder, James Nagel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Cutting off the Soiled Butts of Grain Stalks.
Patent for a new and improved cutting machine for grain stalks. This design consists in a "table slotted in its middle part and slotted and recessed at or near one edge, the parallel endless bundle-carrying chains working in said slots and having arms, the chain-wheels, the shafts thereof and their supports, the circular saw in the recess at the edge of the table, the mandrel and the gage-plate" (lines 98-105).
Date:
May 3, 1887
Creator:
Becker, Lothar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Spurs.
Patent for improvements in spurs that permanently attaches the spur to the boot, including illustrations.
Date:
May 20, 1879
Creator:
Brown, John S.
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
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Split Switch
Patent for a split switch, with illustrations. The "invention relates to split switches; and the object of our invention is to provide a switch which will be normally in condition to prevent a train from running on the main track from the siding, and yet always keep the main track in condition for the rapid movement of trains, and at the same time allow the shunting of a train from the main track to the side track" (lines 16-24).
Date:
May 15, 1883
Creator:
Crowley, John Henry & Temple, Bernard Moore
System:
The Portal to Texas History