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Improvement in Cotton-Plows.
Patent for improvements in plows with removable curved flanges.
Date:
July 29, 1873
Creator:
Sims, Zachariah B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Farm-Fences.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in fence including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 29, 1873
Creator:
McKenzie, Winfield S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
Patent for an improvement to cotton presses, including an illustration.
Date:
July 29, 1879
Creator:
Lively, Mark C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Feed Mechanisms for Running Saw-Mills.
Patent for improvement to feed mechanisms in running saw-mills, including illustrations.
Date:
July 29, 1879
Creator:
Fisher, Charles N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Baling Press.
Patent for "an improved construction of hydraulic baling-presses, whereby it is designed to provide simple and more durable and reliable presses of this kind than any now in use" (lines 8-12).
Date:
July 29, 1884
Creator:
Baumgarten, Christian
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saw Tooth.
Patent for a new and improved saw tooth. This design "relates to saws having attachable and detachable teeth held to their places by locking plates or keys inserted, like the teeth, within recesses in the saw-plate; and it consists in a novel construction of the parts, also in combining with the same a spring-bolt, whereby each tooth and its locking key are securely held in position, with facility for detachment when required, and whereby, also, any drawing action, in cutting of the wood on the tooth, tightens the attachment of the tooth" (lines 8-18).
Date:
July 29, 1884
Creator:
Conover, Philip V.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing Machine.
Patent for a new and improved washing machine. This design consists "[i]n a washing-machine, the combination of the suds-box with an open-bottomed perforated inner casing, smaller in dimensions than the suds-box, and having supports to raise it above the bottom of the suds-box, and a perforated rubber, the upper wash-board or rubber provided with flanges fitting over the inner casing, the intermediate frame and operating lever" (lines 12-20).
Date:
July 29, 1884
Creator:
Lee, Joseph Green
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weather Board Gage.
Patent for a new and improved weather-board gauge. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the flat bar having its upper end bent at a right angle, and having the outer end of the said bent end bent upward, and provided with a screw-threaded perforation in its lower portion, the sliding block having a slot near one end, an upwardly-projecting tapering plate at its other end, and having a set-screw entering the slot, and the screw turning in the perforation in the lower portion of the bar, and having its inner end reduced and pointed" (lines 67-77).
Date:
July 29, 1884
Creator:
Stacey, Edward D. & Vance, William K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Seed Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design "consists in, first, a hopper having its rear side or board extended downward so as to form the standard or furrow-opener; second, the combination of two endwise adjustable castings provided with shoulders or offsets, and which are made adjustable in relation to each other, and by means of which the quantity dropped is regulated . . . [An object] of [the] invention [is] to extend the rear side of the seed-box downward, so as to form a furrow-opener or standard, to attach the combined seed-box and standard to the two iron beams" (lines 13-28).
Date:
July 29, 1890
Creator:
Kennedy, David
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire-Extinguishing Apparatus
Patent for "a more simple, efficient, and convenient arrangement than has hitherto been known" for fire extinguishers (lines 16-17).
Date:
July 29, 1890
Creator:
Stamps, William Oscar
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flour-Separator
Patent for "a machine of this class by means of which by a single operation the flour may be separated from the middlings and the tine from the coarser grade of middling-s, thus performing at a single operation that which heretofore has required two separate operations to accomplish" (lines 10-16).
Date:
July 29, 1890
Creator:
Sadravezt, Peter
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mosquito Bar Frame.
Patent for a new and improved mosquito-bar frame. This design "consist[s], essentially, of the upright bars having their upper ends reduced . . . and provided with staples, the brackets, having loops at opposite ends and a pintle on its lower branch to enter the staples in the posts, the lateral rods carrying the loop brackets at opposite ends, and sockets . . . to receive the upper ends of the posts, the inner cross-bar arranged in the inner brackets of the lateral rods, the outer cross-bar arranged in the outer brackets of said rods, and the longitudinally-adjustable slide-bar carrying guide-eyes" lines 82-95).
Date:
July 29, 1890
Creator:
Meyers, John Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Paris Green Distributer.
Patent for a new and improved bug sprayer. This design consists in "[t]he combination, in a device for distributing insect-powder, of a blower suspended from the saddle in position to be operated by the foot of the rider, a tube leading from the bellows, and a hopper communicating with the tube" (lines 18-23).
Date:
July 29, 1890
Creator:
Tucker, Joseph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pen Holder.
Patent for a new and improved pen holder. This design "is to provide a pen holder of simple construction that may be easily held between the fingers without cramping the same, that will hold the pen in such a position in relation to the eye as to enable the writer to write well, and that will be adapted to hands of various sizes. To this end [the] invention consists of a curved flat holder having a shank projecting from the end thereof, to which a pen may be attached, said shank being nearly parallel with the straight portion of the holder, and in line with the eye when held in position for writing" (lines 9-22).
Date:
July 29, 1890
Creator:
Palmer, Joshua C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow
Patent for "a plow of simple and inexpensive construction capable of being readily and easily changed from an ordinary plow to a ditching-plow, and vice versa" (lines 10-14).
Date:
July 29, 1890
Creator:
Lesueur, Sam C. & Holsey, Theodric M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sod Cutter.
Patent for a new and improved sod-cutter. This design consists, "with a sod-cutter comprising the frame, the horizontal blade, the beam, the handle-bars, and the brace-rod connecting the said beam with the outer handle-bar . . . of the upwardly and outwardly curved guide-rods secured to the rear of the said blades, the curved cutting-blades secured to said rods for dividing the cut sod into separate portions, and the fender provided with a forwardly-bent flange at its upper edge and secured to the said brace-rod diagonally of the machine and behind and above the said blades" (lines 76-88).
Date:
July 29, 1890
Creator:
White, Maston Timothy
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stem Winding and Setting Watch.
Patent for a new and improved watch. This design "has relation particularly to an improvement in mechanism for winding and setting the watch, so that the 'movement' may be rendered interchangeable for application to a case, whether arranged for a hunting-case watch or an open-face watch. In watches as commonly constructed a different arrangement is made for the winding and setting mechanism for a hunting-case watch from that of one having an open face" (lines 12-21).
Date:
July 29, 1890
Creator:
Heidbrink, Bernard
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire Heater.
Patent for a new and improved tire heater. This design "consists in providing a rotary circular box revolving in a horizontal plane and carrying a rack, upon which is supported the tire, said box having a stationary bottom provided with openings to admit the flames of oil, gas, or vapor burners to immediate contact with a rotated tire. . . . The object of [the] invention is to provide a tire-heater, which shall be simple and economical of construction, adapted to the use of gas, oil, or vapor fuel, but free of all connections for supplying and burning the same" (lines 18-29).
Date:
July 29, 1890
Creator:
Nevill, William Birt
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator.
Patent for an acetylene gas generator, which is chiefly operated by the fall of a gas-bell.
Date:
July 29, 1902
Creator:
Ray, Samuel W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a combined cotton-chopper and cultivator.
Date:
July 29, 1902
Creator:
Forister, John H. & McAda, James N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coupling for Connecting Handles to Tools
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Couplings for Connecting Handles to Tools" (lines 5-7) with description and illustration.
Date:
July 29, 1902
Creator:
Suttle, Willis A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Scraper for Asphalt Cooking Drums
Patent for a tool to facilitate the cleaning of the interior of asphalt cooking drums in order to prevent clogging, with illustrations.
Date:
July 29, 1902
Creator:
Nelson, John P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mechanical Movement
Patent for the invention of certain improvements in mechanical movements.
Date:
July 29, 1910
Creator:
Campbell, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cover for Pass-Books
Patent for a cover for a passbook with a transparent cover to view the book.
Date:
July 29, 1912
Creator:
Exline, Marcus Page
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History