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Improvement in Elevated Cable-Railways.

Patent for an "elevated propelling cable-track for the rapid transit of cars in cities" (lines 6-7) including illustrations.

Date: December 16, 1879

Creator: Reager, Francis M.

Item Type: Patent

Ventilator.

Patent for a new and improved ventilator. This design is "to provide a ventilator which shall automatically accommodate or turn the collecting-hood thereof to the direction in which the wind is blowing, to collect and conduct fresh pure air into buildings, cars, &c.; to provide means for regulating the distribution of the air to the compartments or different parts of the buildings, &c.; to diminish the friction and wear between the swiveled collecting-hood and its supporting devices whereby sai… more

Date: April 27, 1886

Creator: Sellars, James K.

Item Type: Patent

Improvement in Safety-Guards for Cars.

Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Safety-Guards for Cars" (lines 5-6) intended to pervent derailment of railway cars, including a detailed explanation and description of the illustration.

Date: February 5, 1878

Creator: Harding, John W. & Towell, Issac

Item Type: Patent

Tool.

Patent for "...a tool embodying certain novel features and details of construction, as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the drawings, and claimed" (lines 7-10) with illustration and descriptions.

Date: April 27, 1897

Creator: Hutchins, John Pearce

Item Type: Patent

Improvement In Bale-Ties.

This patent was created for free ends of wire to be united and form a circular shape. The wire is then interconnected with a loop that has been doubled by the device.

Date: April 16, 1878

Creator: Knipscheer, John

Item Type: Patent

Improvement in Bale-Ties

Patent for improvement in cotton bale-ties, with illustration.

Date: August 13, 1878

Creator: Roeber, Alexander

Item Type: Patent

Trace Carrier.

Patent for a new and improved trace-carrier. This design "relates to harness, and is more particularly a trace-carrier connected to the back-band thereof at its point of connection with the traces; and the same consists of a buckle composed of two parts having laterally-extending arms hinged together at their outer ends, whereby an open eye or loop is produced for receiving the trace" (lines 8-15).

Date: June 3, 1890

Creator: Brooks, George Washington

Item Type: Patent

Gate.

Patent for a new and improved gate. This design "has for its object to provide a device of this character which shall be cheap and simple in its construction, one that may be easily operated, and yet be positive in its engagement with the latch to prevent it from being opened by cattle, &c." (lines 8-14).

Date: December 8, 1885

Creator: Dunn, Henry Frankling.

Item Type: Patent

Street Car.

Patent for a new and improved street car. This design "has reference to the construction of steam and other street-cars, whereby the same can be readily turned around corners, having for its object the simplifying of the construction and lessening the cost of construction" of previous street cars (lines 22-27).

Date: August 9, 1881

Creator: Towell, Isaac

Item Type: Patent

Seed Planter

Patent for...a seed planting machine which improves upon an earlier cotton seed planting machine. The improved apparatus can be substituted for corn and other seeds. It may also be utilized for ground cultivation.

Date: July 15, 1884

Creator: Pietzsch, Louis; Armstrong, John J. & Lowrey, Joseph R.

Item Type: Patent

Barrel

Patent for ventilated barrels for shipment of fruits, vegetables, meat, and other articles in order to remain fresh

Date: February 28, 1882

Creator: McCormick, Willis B.

Item Type: Patent

Seed Planter.

Patent for a new and improved seed planter. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the seed-hopper and seed-slide, of the stationary catch and elastic spring-catch, both secured to the hopper and arranged to grasp the head of the brush" (lines 60-64).

Date: October 25, 1881

Creator: Brooks, James Madison

Item Type: Patent

Seed Cotton Cleaner and Distributer.

Patent for a new and improved cotton cleaner and distributor. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the cylinder and drum, of a shaft mounted in bearings on the frame and extending through the said cylinder and provided with blades of varying length, a fan located in the drum, a pipe leading tangentially out from said drum, said pipe having openings formed therein, and guides secured on said pipe over said openings, said guides having wire sides" (lines 46-54).

Date: September 10, 1889

Creator: Elliott, James W.

Item Type: Patent

Plow

Patent for a new type of plow granted to Anton Schindler.

Date: November 25, 1884

Creator: Schindler, Anton

Item Type: Patent

Post Hole Digger.

Patent for a new and improved post-hole digger. This design "has for its object to provide a simple, durable, inexpensive, and efficient device, the levers of which can be readily separated, so that either of them can be used as a spade or shovel to fill in the earth around the post after it is placed in the hole" (lines 14-19).

Date: November 21, 1882

Creator: Armstrong, John J.

Item Type: Patent

Quilting Mechanism for Sewing-Machines.

Patent for an improved, simple, inexpensive, and efficient quilting-frame and makes quilting much faster. "The frame is provided with a longitudinal bar having a groove to form a track, in which travels a gage-wheel, which is adjustable and held by a spring-arm, which serves, also, as a means of changing the position of the wheel" (lines 22-26).

Date: August 9, 1892

Creator: Delany, Charles William

Item Type: Patent

Motor.

Patent for a new and improved motor. This design consists "[i]n a fan motor, the V-shaped frame, the shafts journaled in the upper corners thereof, the ratchet-wheels and spur-wheels secured to said shafts, the spring-actuated pawls pivoted to the frame and engaging the ratchet-wheels, sleeves loose on shafts, and having the spur-wheels fast to said sleeves, the volute springs with their inner ends fast to shafts and their outer ends fast to wheels, the winding-shafts having the pinions engagin… more

Date: February 5, 1889

Creator: Heinsohn, Ernst Theodor & Hoffmann, John

Item Type: Patent

Sawmill Branch Quadrangle

Satellite image topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000

Date: 2010

Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)

Item Type: Map

Location: 29.56 -96.69