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Improvement in Plows.
Patent for an improved plow to turn and reverse the mold-board by using a single bolt to secure the reversible mold-board onto the stock of a plow.
Date:
May 15, 1860
Creator:
Pitts, William C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seed-Planters.
Patent for the improvement of planting seeds using a single seed-slide and double tubes from seed box to distribute seeds to planting point in a more direct route than other seed-planters, including illustration.
Date:
May 15, 1860
Creator:
Pitts, W. C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Electric Foot Warmers.
Patent for adjustments in the mechanics of electric foot warmers.
Date:
May 17, 1870
Creator:
Littlepage, Caleb
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings.
Patent for "a new and improved Car-Coupling"
Date:
May 11, 1875
Creator:
Shelley, Nathan G.; Bozarth, Stephen P. & Spring, David V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Well-Augers.
Patent for an improved well-auger, includes instruction and illustration.
Date:
May 21, 1878
Creator:
Glass, James T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam, Air, or Water Engine.
Patent for simplifying the construction of steam-engines allowing them efficiently use the power of steam" gas, vapor or air in varying positions, vertical, horizontal, or inclined.
Date:
May 9, 1882
Creator:
Adams, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Barrel Cover.
Patent for a new and improved cover for barrels. This design calls for downward-extending flanges with wings along the perimeter of the cover. These flanges hold the cover in place over the barrel opening, but they also allow for the cover to rest at an angle on the upper rim of the barrel so that one has access to the contents of the barrel without the cover touching the ground.
Date:
May 29, 1883
Creator:
Lane, Fernando Gustavous
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil Can.
Patent for a new and improved oil can. This design "has for its object to provide a can of improved construction, whereby the liability of foreign matter in the oil will be prevented from clogging the escape-tube, and thus rendering the flow of oil impossible until the spout of the same has been freed from such obstruction" (lines 10-18).
Date:
May 6, 1884
Creator:
English, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a new and improved churn. This design "consists, primarily, in the combination, with a suitable bucket, of a removable stationary dasher and a staff loosely mounted to turn on said stationary dasher, said shaft having a series of radial wings or dashers at its lower end" (lines 15-21).
Date:
May 12, 1885
Creator:
McRae, James Armstrong
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Engine
Patent for improvements to be made upon steam engines, with description of parts and use and illustrations.
Date:
May 25, 1886
Creator:
Cross, David L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Money Changer and Counter.
Patent for a new and improved money changer and counter. This design "is to provide novel means for automatically assorting coins of different denominations . . . [and] to provide a series of graded pockets for the reception and retention of different coins of different denominations, and which will receive the coin only of the denomination for which it is provided; to provide novel means for discharging a coin of a given denomination from its pocket in order to make the proper change, and which will only discharge one coin at a time to prevent too much money from being delivered" (lines 15-30).
Date:
May 10, 1887
Creator:
Greer, John William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Street Car Motor.
Patent for a new and improved street-car motor. This design consists in "the shaft geared to an axle of the car, the friction-wheels free to slide on the said shaft and having the annular collars, the rods . . . connected to the said annular collars, and the lever connected to the said rods to move the friction-wheels toward or from each other" (lines 16-22).
Date:
May 10, 1887
Creator:
Sparks, John Parks
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machinery For Pressing Cotton.
Patent for improvements in machinery for facilitating the pressing of cotton; and it relates particularly to mechanism in which cylinders and pistons are used, under the influence of fluid or liquid, such as steam, air, water, or gas under pressure to operate the follower-block of a bailing-press. (Lines 12-18) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 5, 1891
Creator:
Bachman, Joseph A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stringed Instrument
Patent for "an instrument that may be conveniently supported upon the lap of the player without any supporting-bands, that is of unique and handsome appearance, that is strong and durable, not liable to be injured by ordinary falls, in which the bridge is secure, the neck properly braced, and to give to the body such shape as will increase its resonance, while at the same time preserving the musical sweetness inherent in instruments of this class" (lines 13-22).
Date:
May 3, 1892
Creator:
Ganss, Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Side Guide for Printing and Lithographic Presses.
Patent for a new and improved side guide for printing and lithographic presses. This design consists "in a novel construction of . . . feed-guides . . . and a double guide on a single support . . . which may be adjusted a short distance or entirely across the feed board or base of a printing or other press and can be used either on the right or left hand side of the press" (lines 13-23).
Date:
May 24, 1892
Creator:
Davis, Frederick C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Line.
Patent for a clothes line that improves on a clothes line previously granted to Lane and Kelly (No. 449,480) that improves how the wire sections connect so that the clothes can be easily attached and detached because there will be less pressure on the clamping loops.
Date:
May 9, 1893
Creator:
Lane, Fernando G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pinless Clothes-Line.
Patent for "a new and useful improvement in pinless clothes lines" (lines 10-11) that uses spring-clamping fingers that are part of the line instead of detachable pins; including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 9, 1893
Creator:
Lane, Fernando G. & Kelly, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for an improved car-coupling that consists of a hollow drawhead, a knuckle pivoted in the drawhead, a lock that pivots across the drawhead, a catch on one side of the drawhead, a spring presses on the side of the lock, a lever pivoted in the drawhead, a hand rod connected to the arm, a hand rod connected to the drawhead, and a bell crank lever pivoted in the drawhead.
Date:
May 22, 1894
Creator:
Roosevelt, James A.
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.
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.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-and-Picket-Fence Machine.
Patent for a machine that secures "pickets in wire fencing, the wires having been secured to and stretched between the fence-posts and the machine applied to the wires and operated by hand to secure the pickets to the wires by an operation which places them in crossed relation to form loops within which the pickets are secured at the proper distance apart" (lines 9-16). The machine works on wires that have already been stretched.
Date:
May 12, 1896
Creator:
Rice, Elisha A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil Substitute.
Patent for an oil paint substitute consisting of furniture glue, water, soda ash, and salicylic acid, rosin, and pigment. Includes instructions for three different formulas.
Date:
May 18, 1897
Creator:
Reynolds, Walter James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ditching-Machine.
Patent for a certain new, useful, and valuable improvement in ditching machines for cutting ditches.
Date:
May 3, 1898
Creator:
Dillahay, John G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History