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Improvement in Speed-Measures.
Patent for a "means for indicating the degree of speed with which an engine or train of cars is passing over a rail-road, and for enabling an engineer to regulate the speed of his engine to conform to the 'time' enjoined by his table, so that he will run at an even degree of speed, and be required neither to 'slow down' to save his schedule nor quicken the pace of his engine to make up lost time." (Lines 15-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 22, 1875
Creator:
Minton, Stephen F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Cotton-Gins
Patent for improvement in the Cotton-Gin with moveable brushes. This object is designed to make the brushes on the cotton machine move closer to the saw when they become shortened from constant use. This will improve the quality of the machine like a brand new equipment.
Date:
June 22, 1875
Creator:
Koehl, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for new bale-tie formed from a single metal piece where the locking side (B) can be fastened to a rounded eye (C) on the opposite end.
Date:
June 22, 1878
Creator:
Anderson, William G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Game-Board
Patent for "a game-board having a trough at its head and squared apertures near said head, and numbered cubical blocks adapted to be revolved in said apertures" (lines 18-21) and "has relation to games to be played on bowling-alleys or boards with balls" (lines 16-17) including illustrations.
Date:
June 22, 1880
Creator:
Thompson, James Whiteford.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mechanical Telegraph-Sounder
Patent for "a sounder wherein a finger-lever and sounding-lever are combined together with a spring" (lines 13-15) and is "adapted for the use of learners for practicing the manipulation of a telegraph finger-key" (lines 8-10) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 22, 1880
Creator:
Clopton, John B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Plow
Patent for "rotary plows for plowing land, preparing the land to receive the seed and cultivating the plants, which shall be convenient in use, effective in operation, and not liable to get out of order" (lines 19-23) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 22, 1880
Creator:
Tally, Thomas Jackson.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spinning-Wheel
Patent for "an improvement in domestic spinning wheels; and it consists in the combination of parts whereby the spindle or whirl is supported from above so as to hang down within the operator's reach, and is made to constantly revolve at the same time that the whirl is moved from and toward the operator" (lines 12-19) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 22, 1880
Creator:
Church, Joshua G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Spring
Patent for the "improved construction of elliptical steel springs" (lines 7-8) in "carriage and car springs" (line 5) including instructions and illustration.
Date:
June 22, 1880
Creator:
Custer, George
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Child's Carriage.
Patent for a new and improved stroller. This design consists in "[a] running-gear, of the vertical hoop secured thereto, the brackets extending outward and upward from the hoop, and notched in their upper ends, the body, the brackets at opposite sides of the body, and the knife edge projections resting on the upper notched ends of the brackets . . . a vertical encircling hoop carrying buffers, standards, and brackets formed with edges, which rest upon the standards . . . an axle, wheels fitted to the axle, a forwardly extending bracket carrying a fixed wheel . . . and a sunshade" (lines 81-98).
Date:
June 22, 1886
Creator:
England, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Gin Feeder.
Patent for a new and improved cotton-gin feeder. This design consists in "a rectangular inclined box, endless feeding belts having spiked slats, the revolving fan at the upper end of the inclined box, and screen at the opposite end and lower side of the box, through which the sand and dirt from the cotton may escape, the current of air from the revolving fan assisting in expelling the sand and dirt, the latter falling between the slats and down the inclined bottom of the box and out through the screen" (lines 73-83).
Date:
June 22, 1886
Creator:
Wiley, Jesse G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design consists "[i]n a garden cultivator, the frame having slotted arm [that is] journaled, clevis, standard with plow, slotted arm, and wheels . . . [and] handles, adjusted . . . to lower and raise said handles" (lines 59-67).
Date:
June 22, 1886
Creator:
Miltenberger, Emile Rudolph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Motor.
Patent for a new and improved electric motor. This design "consists, essentially, in such combination of an automatic circuit-breaker with a bar of soft iron secured centrally on a shaft journaled in bearings secured to the motor frame and rotating within a coil or helix that the rotation of said bar will continuously make and break the circuit, and that the action of the circuit-breaker will cause the continuous rotation of the bar" (lines 17-26).
Date:
June 22, 1886
Creator:
Emley, James E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burglar-Alarm.
Patent for an "apparatus for protecting or guarding electric circuits; and it has for its object to protect or guard electric circuits, such as burglar-alarm circuits, from interference by unauthorized or mischievous agencies." (Lines 9-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 22, 1897
Creator:
Sutton, Henry M. & Steele, Walter L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cabinet for Blanks.
Patent for"cabinets, cases, or boxes designed for use in hotels, post-offices, and other places where stationery is required by guests or other portions of the public." (Lines 10-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 22, 1897
Creator:
Kinsel, Abram Myers; Hunter, George Alexander & Nolley, Seth Ballard
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Seat.
Patent for improvements to the "Scarritt-Forney" seat so that the seat body and frame are detachable from each other. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 22, 1897
Creator:
Meier, Hermann
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cushion-Tire.
Patent for a more durable bicycle tire. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 22, 1897
Creator:
Hayes, Rebecca Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tellurian.
Patent for a device "which shall illustrate the axial and orbital movements of the earth and the directions of the sun's rays upon our globe... by simple and effective means of automatic character." (Lines 17-24) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 22, 1897
Creator:
McArthur, Neel John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Auger-Bit
Patent for an auger bit used for boring holes. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 22, 1909
Creator:
Harris, Lawrence P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Cotton-Tramper
Patent for an automatics cotton presser. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 22, 1909
Creator:
Campbell, Edgar Howard
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper that operates by loosening the earth around the cotton plants and chopping them by row. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 22, 1909
Creator:
Gesche, Eugene C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Filtering-Machine
Patent for a filtering machine which operates centrifugally to filter out solid matter from liquids. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 22, 1909
Creator:
Wilder, Richardson Timothy
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Crate and Coop
Patent for a crate that can be compactly folded and locked together, and may also be used as a coop.
Date:
June 22, 1909
Creator:
Jennings, Charles E. & Shuptrine, Orlander D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gearing
Patent for a gearing to be used as an attachment for the driving axle of a cotton chopper. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 22, 1909
Creator:
Gesche, Eugene C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Letter-Tying Device
Patent for a package tie. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 22, 1909
Creator:
Greenwood, Bluford Preston
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History