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Improvement in Cotton and Hay Presses.
Patent for the "improvement in Horizontal Cotton - Presses for compressing cotton, hay, and other articles and substances for baling; ..." (lines 3-6), including illustrations.
Date:
July 5, 1859
Creator:
Stockbridge, Elam
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Machines for Planting Cotton-Seed.
Patent for a machine to clear top soil and dispense seed into soil when moving forward, including illustration.
Date:
July 5, 1859
Creator:
Morrel, Z. N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gopher Trap.
Patent for a new and improved trap for gophers and other subterranean animals. This design utilizes for the first time the combination of spring, jaw, treadle, trigger, and baseboard to ensnare gophers and other varmints.
Date:
July 5, 1881
Creator:
Norris, Abram
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Andiron
Patent for improvements to andiron or "fire-dogs".
Date:
July 5, 1887
Creator:
Steele, Oliver
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cultivator and Corn-Planter
Patent for improvements in the design and construction of combined cultivators and planters.
Date:
July 5, 1887
Creator:
Wright, Samuel Winfield
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Scraper
Patent for new "construction and combination of devices" (lines 10-11) to improve cotton choppers and scrapers, with illustrations.
Date:
July 5, 1887
Creator:
Rouse, Samuel James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Belt
Patent for improvements in electric belts.
Date:
July 5, 1887
Creator:
Williams, Robert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Implement for Extracting Axle Boxes from Wheel Hubs.
Patent for a new and improved extractor of axle-boxes from wheel hubs. This design is "compris[ed of] screw-threaded rigid portion, elastic bifurcated expansible portion having ledges, abutting frame . . . consisting of bar having central hollow boss and adjustable sliding legs, in combination with the . . . operating nut" (lines 82-91).
Date:
July 5, 1887
Creator:
Geyer, Hermann R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a new and improved plow. This design "may be detached and used independent of the frame or carriage; also, that the tongue or pole may be detached and removed from the axle, and such axle, together with the bolster and hounds, may be applied to and used with the farm or other wagon. Thus by means of the attachments described a farmer can, by providing himself [or herself] with the pole and the attachments thereto . . . readily convert his [or her] ordinary walking plow into a wheel-plow by the aid of the hind wheels, axle, and hounds of his [or her] ordinary farm-wagon" (lines 72-84).
Date:
July 5, 1887
Creator:
Green, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Self-Feeding Cotton-Press
Patent for a self feeding cotton press.
Date:
July 5, 1887
Creator:
Davis, Micajah R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Cutting Machine.
Patent for a machine to cut corn and other stalk vegetables and plants.
Date:
July 5, 1887
Creator:
Killingsworth, Thomas H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stock Chute
Patent for Stock-Chute. "The object of my invention is to supply railroads with a cattle-chute which not only require less work and fewer laborers to operate it, but will afford a perfectly safe means of transferring stock without liability of injury to the stock during the act of transfer." (lines 56-62) With Illustrations.
Date:
July 5, 1887
Creator:
Hess, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bridge.
Patent for a bridge of "simple and strong construction in metal of very low cost and light weight, using only such materials as are easily available, being also of easy construction and well adapted to resist washouts" (lines 9-13).
Date:
July 5, 1892
Creator:
Kosure, Thomas H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cradle.
Patent for a new and improved cradle. This design "has for its object to provide a hanging cradle suspended from its [frame] . . . being arranged in such a manner whereby the cradle is capable of being moved . . . in an easy, uniform, and steady motion without the danger of tilting over" (lines 8-16). It consists in "[a] swinging cradle comprising the folding end bars, the cross-bar having a depressed portion and end projections forming the pivotal axes for the bars, the catches pivoted to the end bars and adapted to engage the depressed part of the bar . . . and the spring-suspensions" (lines 12-18).
Date:
July 5, 1892
Creator:
Meek, James H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mechanical Motor.
Patent for a new and improved motor. This design "is to produce a simple, convenient, and efficient foot-power having a single pedal accessible from each side of the motor or a double pedal accessible at the end to an operator facing the machine" (lines 14-19). It consists "of a horizontal rock-shaft extending lengthwise of the machine, a horizontal connecting-piece running diagonally of and rigidly secured to said shaft, a seat for the operator, a pedal rigidly secured to said rock-shaft, said pedal serving as a single or double pedal and so arranged that the operator shall face the device" (lines 94-101).
Date:
July 5, 1892
Creator:
Cochins, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rein Holder.
Patent for a new and improved rein holder. This design consists in "[a] rein-holder made from a piece of spring sheet metal, having a base-plate provided with means for attachment to a flat surface and having projections struck up at each side of the tongue and extending lengthwise the base, and a spring tongue bent upward from the lower end of the plate and normally lying between the line of the projections to hold a rein" (lines 56-64).
Date:
July 5, 1892
Creator:
Shurmon, James D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash Fastener.
Patent for a new and improved sash fastener. This design consists, "with the sliding latch provided with a handle, of a pivoted stop having a portion to engage said handle and a cam portion at its pivot end and an elongated hole in which the pivot works" (lines 18-22).
Date:
July 5, 1892
Creator:
Bomar, Thomas B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Cotton Receiver
Patent for seed cotton receivers so that each gin receives a specific amount of cotton, allowing it to self-regulate.
Date:
July 5, 1892
Creator:
Schulze, Andrew
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene - Gas Generator
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in gas generating apparatus, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 5, 1898
Creator:
Lewis, Thomas E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car - Coupling.
Patent for a new and useful car coupling, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 5, 1898
Creator:
Oden, Joshua K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Quilting-Frame Stand.
Design patent for a quilting-frame stand that has U-shaped legs leading up to a horizontal stand with an ornate frame.
Date:
July 5, 1898
Creator:
Overton, Benjamin F. & Bryant, Louis E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Endless Band or Cord.
Patent for a new and improved endless band or cord, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 5, 1898
Creator:
Murphy, Jeremiah H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Liquid for Exterminating Grass or Similar Growths.
Patent for a new and useful liquid for exterminating grass or similar growths, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 5, 1898
Creator:
Chapman, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Box Cellar and Dust-Guard.
Patent for certain new and improvements in oil box cellars and dust guards, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 5, 1898
Creator:
Scrogin, John Moore
System:
The Portal to Texas History