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Artificial Tooth.
Patent for a new and useful artificial tooth for "supplying missing teeth or crowning roots" (line 10 -11).
Date:
January 11, 1898
Creator:
Carroll, Houston Monroe
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard.
Patent for a cattle-guard that improves on patents previously granted to the inventor (No. 516,307 and No. 501,785). The improvements include "the provision of a counter balance or lever with a weight slidingly thereon, which can be adjusted so as to better regulate the platform (lines 25-28) and perforated guards, which will not get as damaged by the wind as non-perforated guards. The patent also includes springs under the platform instead of springs under the sills.
Date:
September 11, 1894
Creator:
Hills, Lorenzo
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Shears.
Patent for new and improved animal shears. This design consists in "mechanism for imparting a combined reciprocating and edgewise play to the cutting knife or knives in order to cause the teeth of said knife or knives to follow or describe a curved or oval path, and thus insure greater efficiency of operation; to provide for the proper lateral contact of the knives in order to insure their proper action and to regulate the pressure or force with which one knife bears on the other; [and] to provide a peculiar form of cutter-teeth which shall be automatic or self-cleaning" (lines 19-30).
Date:
February 11, 1890
Creator:
Bechtol, William S. & Bessonette, William T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition of Matter for Saving Coal During Combustion.
Patent for cheap, effective compound to sprinkle on coal to render it more combustible so that it burns more cleanly and soot is not emitted.
Date:
June 11, 1895
Creator:
Stokey, David Gray
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Results of a Biological Survey of the San Francisco Mountain Region and Desert of the Little Colorado, Arizona
Brief summary of a biological survey of the Painted Desert, specifically the San Francisco Mountain region, and the Grand Canyon (Cañon).
Date:
September 11, 1890
Creator:
Merriam, C. Hart & Stejneger, Leonhard
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for improvements in wire-stretcher for use in fence-building in which wire is secured to a fence-post, using horse power to hitch to the whiffletree and driven along close to the lines of posts. When wires are being leaded out, they are being stretched simultaneously. A lever is inserted in front of the spools as a final additional tension device to tighten and staple the wire to the fence-posts. Illustration is included.
Date:
August 11, 1891
Creator:
Woodward, Edward
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a simple and effective wire-stretcher that stretches wire and attaches it to the same post to which it is applied. It has a frame, a claw, a spool, a crank, a ratchet wheel, a pawl, and and a chain that secures the claw to the frame. The parts fit inside the body portion of the frame, and wire wraps around the spool.
Date:
September 11, 1894
Creator:
Myers, John M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Weaving Device.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in Portable wire-weaving device.
Date:
January 11, 1898
Creator:
Murrah, Louis T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve.
Patent for a new and improved valve. This design is "to provide a . . . valve . . . to cut off the supply of water upon the outside of the induction-port and to drain all water from the valve-body and the connecting-pipes above the same, thereby preventing freezing of the same" (lines 10-15). It consists in "[t]he valve casing or body having oppositely-located ports and provided with a perforated interiorly-threaded lug or projection, in combination with the flanged bushing seated in said valve-casing and having a valve-seat at its outer end, and perforations extending through the flange" (lines 93-99).
Date:
November 11, 1890
Creator:
Morrison, James John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Index.
Patent for "an improved method of indexing books of reference, and more especially city and county records, and the means for carrying over from one line to another where several indexes are to be set opposite one name" (lines 9-14).
Date:
April 11, 1893
Creator:
Heppenstall, James Edward
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Truck or Vehicle for Elevated Railways.
Patent for an improved, strong, simple, inexpensive, and durable truck or vehicle for elevated railways that is meant to throw the lateral force of the car-body is exerted vertically downward onto the car's wheels.
Date:
July 11, 1893
Creator:
Turner, Ephraim M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Pole.
Patent for a simple vehicle-pole that has an improved fastening. It consists of a table with a socket, a pole in the socket, arms connected to the table, singletrees attached to the extending ends of the arms, and a running gear.
Date:
July 11, 1893
Creator:
Rohn, Frank G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Separating Decorticated Cotton-Seed.
Patent for a machine dedicated to "increase the capacity of machines for separating decorticated cotton-seed" (lines 9-10) and to "separate the meal from the husks of the decorticated cotton-seed, whereby perfectly clean meal is collected" (lines 12-15)
Date:
May 11, 1897
Creator:
Bell, Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel.
Patent for improvements “in wheel-tightening arrangements in which a cylinder with a conical-formed end works by means of a thread inside the hub, for the purpose of forcing the spokes to the outside and to tighten by these means the whole wheel, when the wooden parts of the wheel are shrunk together.” (Lines 9-15) Illustration is included.
Date:
August 11, 1891
Creator:
Pluck, James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Cleaning Seed-Cotton.
Patent for an improved machine that cleans and transfers seed cotton to a gin. It combines exhaust fans and a cleaning mechanism, and is less expensive than similar machines.
Date:
April 11, 1893
Creator:
Cannon, Burrell
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Distributing Poison on Plants.
Patent for a new and improved machine for distributing poison on plants. This design consists in "the combination, with a wheeled-frame, a counter-shaft thereon driven from the wheels, a poison-hopper, an air and discharge pipe communicating therewith, a fan giving air-blast through said pipe, and an agitator in the poison-hopper, of wheel and belt-gearing operating the fan and agitator from the counter-shaft on the frame" (lines 112-119).
Date:
March 11, 1890
Creator:
Brown, George R. & Brown, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Fence.
Patent for a new and improved wire fence. This design "relates to wire fencing; and it consists in the construction and combination of devices . . . whereby the wire cables can be conveniently and freely supported at suitable points by spirally-coiled suspension-loops attached to certain fence-posts, so that while securely braced to remain in position the wire cable will not be subjected to chafing or other injury" (lines 8-17).
Date:
March 11, 1890
Creator:
Moran, Horace S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Log-Car Attachment.
Patent for "an improvement in log-car attachments, and has for its object to provide, in connection with the bolsters or bunks thereof, adjustable pins or standards for engaging the lower tier of logs and preventing their escape." (Lines 8-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 11, 1896
Creator:
Johnson, Benjamin W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water Elevator and Carrier.
Patent for a water elevator and carrier that is designed to quickly and efficiently transport water from a well, spring, or cistern to the operator. A bucket can be quickly transported to the well, spring, or cistern and be filled also.
Date:
August 11, 1896
Creator:
Wilkerson, Thomas D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Log-Loader.
Patent for improvements in a machine that hauls logs and loads them on railways, based on a patent application submitted by the inventor previously (serial no. 563,242). A swinging crane loads and unloads the logs.
Date:
August 11, 1896
Creator:
Fletcher, William A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lifting-Jack.
Patent for a simple, strong, and inexpensive lifting-jack used in railroads, mills, and similar things that is "capable of manipulation by a single operator and adapted to elevate loads to various heights according to the size of the structure and support the same at the desired elevation" (lines 12-16).
Date:
September 11, 1894
Creator:
Foix, Louis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Axle Bearing.
Patent for a strong and durable vehicle-axle bearing that reduces friction. "Oil may be admitted to the bearings [in the axle] without removing the wheel or exposing said bearings, thus preventing accumulations of dust or other foreign substance" (lines 17-20).
Date:
June 11, 1895
Creator:
Falk, Franz
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Kitchen Utensil.
Patent for a kitchen utensil that can be used for washing dishes, scraping cooking vessels, and cleaning ornamental glass and silver.
Date:
June 11, 1895
Creator:
Adair, Annie E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ventilator for Refrigerators.
Patent for an improved, simple, and inexpensive ventilator for large refrigerators. It "can be readily applied to an ice box or refrigerator and so constructed that the hot air which is pressed upward is forced through the ventilator and thereby lowering the temperature of the ice box and a consequent saving of ice" (lines 23-28). The ventilator has a valve that releases hot air and automatically closes after the air is released.
Date:
July 11, 1893
Creator:
Netzer, Joseph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History