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Washing-Machine.
Patent for a boiler washing machine that uses a stove and a hand-operated pounder attachment. This invention makes these types of washing machines more efficient.
Date:
September 1, 1896
Creator:
Arnold, Isaac Hill
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Roller-Bearing Well-Wheel Pulley.
Patent for an improved design for the roller-bearing well-wheel pulley.
Date:
September 1, 1896
Creator:
Taylor, John C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Fence Tool.
Patent for a device "that will combine in one all the tools actually necessary in building or repairing an ordinary wire fence." (Lines 14-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 1, 1896
Creator:
Orton, Lewis W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Riveting-Mandrel.
Patent for a riveting-mandrel "for riveting the overlapping ends of sheet metal to form pipes, tubes, or the like" (lines 10-12) including illustrations.
Date:
June 1, 1897
Creator:
Mantey, John F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fan Attachment for Sewing-Machines.
Patent for fan attachment for sewing machines: "adapted to be readily applied to a machine and capable of family an operator effectively without interfering with the work of the machine" (lines 12-15).
Date:
November 1, 1892
Creator:
Miller, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mosquito-Canopy for Folding Bed
Patent for an improvement "to provide a folding bed of any variety with a canopy-frame for suspending a netting which will both fold up when the bed is closed and open when the bed is opened automatically" (lines 9-13).
Date:
November 1, 1892
Creator:
Eva, Addison H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Journal-Bearing.
Patent for a journal-bearing that has an open spring ring that contains the journal and antifriciton devices in its center. The spring ring contracts to its minimum circumference when the journal and antifriciton devices are worn out. There is also a bearing-ring seat that allows contractions "without altering the disposition of the load" (lines 61-62).
Date:
December 1, 1896
Creator:
Woodworth, Charles H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horse Collar Fastener.
Patent for a new and improved horse-collar fastener. This design "relates to certain new and useful improvements in horse-collar fastenings of that class designed to lock the two sides of the horse-collar and to permit of the ready separation thereof to facilitate the placing and removal of the collar when desired; and it has for its object to provide a simple and cheap device of this character wherein provision shall be made for the retention of the lever against the catch, and also means for preventing the drawing of the screws" (lines 15-26).
Date:
April 1, 1890
Creator:
Bomar, Thomas B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Refuse-Carrier Frame.
Patent for a support frame for devices that carry refuse from the saw mill to the burning pile, with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 19, 1891
Creator:
Zimmerman, Joseph W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow Stock.
Patent for a new and improved plow-stock. This design "has for its object to provide an implement of peculiar novel construction, whereby the different forms of plowshares, shovels, or other cultivating implements or combinations of different cultivating instrumentalities may be varied, interchanged, and adjusted at will to suit the character of the soil, the nature of the crop, or the requirements of the occasion" (lines 8-16).
Date:
November 1, 1892
Creator:
Brooks, Texas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Reading-Stand.
Patent for a simple, durable, and economic reading stand that has two desks, one of which is adjustable so that a person can read while sitting at any angle. The second desk is capable of holding heavy books. Both stands are vertically adjustable. The stand can be constructed to hold a lamp in addition to books.
Date:
August 1, 1893
Creator:
Anderson, Francis John & Irick, William Madison
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Portable Dairy.
Patent for a portable dairy that consists of a frame with legs, a pan at the top of the frame, a tube that goes from the bottom of the pan and through the middle of the frame, a perforated bottom for the dairy, a cloth that surrounds the dairy while still allowing for air circulation, and the cloth goes into the pan.
Date:
May 1, 1894
Creator:
McIlveen, James H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Refrigerator.
Patent for a refrigerator especially designed to cool meat, dairy, and other farm products. It uses little ice and cools using vaporization.
Date:
October 1, 1895
Creator:
Elder, Philip T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Penholder.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in penholders, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 1, 1899
Creator:
Thurman, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of Collecting and Conveying Water.
Patent for a new and useful method of collecting and conveying water.
Date:
March 1, 1898
Creator:
Manning, James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Report of the Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas: 1889
Annual report of the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts documenting financial records including disbursements and transactions made by the office during fiscal year 1889. Index starts on page 3.
Date:
January 1, 1890
Creator:
Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pedal Attachment for Velocipedes.
Patent for a new and useful safety attachment “for the pedals of bicycles, tricycles, and other wheeled vehicles operated by the feet through the medium of pedals.” (Lines 9-11) This attachment will form a long bearing for the foot of the rider, thus avoiding dead-centers in the revolutions of the cranks, and to provide means for preventing any slipping of the pedals.” (Lines 12-16) Illustration is included.
Date:
September 1, 1891
Creator:
Wheeler, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horse-Detacher.
Patent for a new and useful horse detacher, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 1, 1899
Creator:
Haines, Samuel Alfred
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Elevated Railway, &c
Patent for improvements "to provide an improved track having provisions for readily tightening the track, each span or section being tightened by means of a single tightening device arranged, preferably. . . second, to provide an improved truck with guiding rollers or pulleys, the weight of the truck being carried upon yielding supports; third, a simple and improved swivel or turning device or connection between the car and track, whereby the turning of curves is more easily accomplished with a minimum of friction; fourth, to so mount the truck upon the track that displacement or removal thereof sidewise is impossible fifth, to provide an improved switch; sixth, to provide for a road-bed upon a span in crossing a stream or other analogous obstruction" (lines 14-31).
Date:
April 1, 1890
Creator:
Turner, Ephraim M. & Taylor, James P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crab and Fish Trap.
Patent for a new and improved seafood trap. This design consists in "a net or trap for crabs or fish, which comprises flat frame-sections hinged together, netting attached to said sections, and a rod or bar extending across said sections and engaging with suitable devices thereon for holding said sections partly extended until the hinged sides strike bottom and thereby release the rod or bar" (lines 83-90).
Date:
April 1, 1890
Creator:
Franklin, Robert M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a cultivator used for sub-soiling and cultivating small grain.
Date:
December 1, 1891
Creator:
Thomas, James C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for a cotton press that has a stationary plate and a steam or hydraulic powered plate and produces a continuous folded bat. This invention combines "advantages of the quick but not extremely powerful pressure of the ordinary steam press, and the powerful but slow pressure of the hydraulic press" (lines 14-17).
Date:
August 1, 1893
Creator:
McCutcheon, Joshua L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saddle Jack.
Patent for a new and improved saddle-jack. This design consists in "the combination, with a support, of a post having a hollow trunnion and carrying a saddle-tree support on its upper end, and a bolt passing through the hollow trunnion and carrying hooks on its upper end for engaging a saddle-tree to hold it on its support" (lines 84-90).
Date:
April 1, 1890
Creator:
Garrett, Richard
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Single-Delivery Match-Safe.
Patent for a new and useful match safe, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 1, 1898
Creator:
Shipman, Samuel H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History