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Ice-Cream Freezer.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive combined ice cream freezer and milk shaker that makes different flavors of ice cream at the same time and can also make a milk shake or lemonade. The machine consists of five receptacles lined up on a frame, with a crank going through the middle of each. The crank mixes the contents of the receptacles.
Date:
January 30, 1894
Creator:
Harton, Thomas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dredging Apparatus.
Patent for an improved dredging apparatus that plows or scoops, and has "an endless traveling elevator, the latter, being arranged in a rigid frame that is supported at a suitable angle, and the scoop being hinged to the lower end of said frame so that it works horizontally, or practically so" (lines 9-14).
Date:
October 30, 1894
Creator:
Hyatt, Frank A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Exercising Device.
Patent for an "exercising device for teaching beginners the correct touch on the piano to systematically develop finger [technique]." (Lines 9-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 30, 1895
Creator:
Felden, Oscar
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fiber Unwinder and Mixer.
Patent for a fiber unwinder and mixer meant to pick apart, unroll, and mix lint-cotton or other similar material. It then presses the lint-cotton into cylindrical bales "in order to restore the cotton or similar material in such bales to the loose condition requisite for the usual process of manufacture in mills, and to mix different grades of cotton or like fibrous material, when desired" (lines 17-22).
Date:
July 30, 1895
Creator:
Patterson, Warren A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rod for End Gates.
Patent for a new and improved rod for wagon gates. This design is "first, to provide a rod that can be readily attached or detached to the end-gate of any wagon or vehicle; second, to provide a rod that will effectually and rigidly hold the end-gate in position and afford practical facility whereby the end-gates of vehicles can be quickly opened or closed and detached from the wagon-bed or placed in their normal position therein" (lines 15-23).
Date:
September 30, 1890
Creator:
Coyle, Dan
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grindstone Attachment.
Patent for improvements in grindstone attachments by providing a tool-holder that is capable of adapt to different-sized stones and for various tools when applied to the frame of a grindstone of a given size.” (Lines 13-16) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 30, 1891
Creator:
Rainey, John Calvin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harness-Hame Attachment.
Patent "to provide a hame of strong and durable construction, simple in its arrangement, and having means of ready application of the necessary devices used in connection with harness attachments" (lines 14-18).
Date:
August 30, 1898
Creator:
Davis, Isaac Polk
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Reamer.
Patent for a new and improved reamer. This design "relates to reamers for use in boring artesian wells and other similar purposes; and it consists, essentially, of a hollow cylindrical body adapted to be attached to a suitable driving-head and provided with peripheral expansion-cutters operated by an internal plunger" (lines 11-17).
Date:
December 30, 1890
Creator:
Welke, William Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Piano-Action.
Patent for a new and useful piano-action in which the so-called hammers is "pivotally connecting the hammers to the rail by a specific means." (Lines 11-12) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 30, 1891
Creator:
Norcross, Levi W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Plow.
Patent for improvements in rotary plows which can be used as a subsoil-plow or it can be converted into a cultivator. The “purpose is to provide a novel gang-plow capable of cutting the soil at different depths, as circumstances may require, and in which the angle at which the plows enter the soil may be varied.” (Lines 18-23) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 30, 1891
Creator:
Cleveland, George P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Piano-Tuning Hammer.
Patent for "a combination tool adapted for turning, driving, extracting, and otherwise manipulating tuning-pegs and other parts of a piano-action, whereby one tool is capable of performing the functions of a series of ordinarily independent instruments." (Lines 10-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 30, 1894
Creator:
Fuchs, Benjamin F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow-Stock.
Patent for a simply, durably, and efficiently constructed plow-stock that "will admit of changes being made in an expeditious and convenient manner to facilitate the grouping of the shares or plows to be carried by the stock" (lines 11-14).
Date:
July 30, 1895
Creator:
Abbott, Joseph W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad-Tie.
Patent for a "simple and effective railroad tie for supporting the rails and rigidly holding them in the position of use" (lines 19-21).
Date:
January 30, 1894
Creator:
Lee, John Chester
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail Bond.
Patent for improved track circuit rail joints designed to withstand heavy usage and convey electrical currents between rails, including illustrations.
Date:
August 30, 1898
Creator:
Talley, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Non Refillable Bottle
Patent for a new and useful improvements in non-refillable bottles. This invention is to " provide a bottle of this character which can not be refilled and sold as an original package without detection" (line 11-15).
Date:
November 30, 1897
Creator:
Taylor, James Moss
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Messenger's Picket.
Patent for a new and improved messenger's picket. This design "is an improvement in means of protection for express-[people] or express-messengers on railway-trains from successful attack by robbers. In other words, it is an improved form of bullet-proof cage or miniature fort in which the express-[person] or messenger may lock himself [or herself] in case of danger and from which he [or she] may watch and fire upon his [or her] assailants with almost perfect safety" (lines 7-15).
Date:
August 30, 1892
Creator:
Hays, James C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Permutation-Padlock.
Patent for a permutation-padlock that "has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient construction and arrangement of parts whereby the bolt is firmly held in its locked position, and whereby the combinations may be changed with facility, and without opening the lock-casing" (lines 8-14).
Date:
June 30, 1896
Creator:
Wilcox, Ferdenand S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pickle-Lifter.
Patent for improvements in pickle lifters: "provide a device of the character set forth which is adapted for culinary as well as table use in lifting pickles, olives, or other edibles of a similar nature from bottles or jars, the parts of the same being simple and effective in the construction and operation" (lines 13-19).
Date:
August 30, 1892
Creator:
Currie, John A., Jr. & Currie, Jose W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hose-Coupling.
Patent for a new and useful hose coupling, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 30, 1899
Creator:
Conley, Andrew Jackson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dry-Kin Furnace.
Patent for a dry-kiln furnace meant to improve the "heating and hot-air circulating devices for such structures, whereby all or nearly all the heat generated is utilized, thereby effecting an economy in the use of fuel and also increasing the capacity of the kiln" (lines 15-19).
Date:
July 30, 1895
Creator:
Ketcham, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design "relates to cultivators; and it has for its object to construct a device of this class . . . in which the blades or shovels shall be attached to the standards in such a manner that in the event of obstacles such as rocks or stumps being encountered during the operation of [the] machine the blades shall become detached, thereby avoiding injury to the machine" (lines 9-18).
Date:
September 30, 1890
Creator:
Messer, Jeremiah Clark; Garner, Allen & Williams, John Winn
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator
Patent for new and useful improvements in cultivators of the "straddle-row" or "sulky" style.
Date:
August 30, 1898
Creator:
Schofield, James Drommond
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Elevator and Distributer.
Patent for a cotton elevator and distributor meant to "provide certain improvements in apparatus of this character whereby cotton may be conveniently and readily elevated from the store house or wagon, and evenly distributed to any number of gins which may be arranged successively in the same row" (lines 11-16).
Date:
October 30, 1894
Creator:
Moffitt, William E. & Williams, James L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rubber Compound.
Patent for a new and improved rubber compound, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 30, 1899
Creator:
Petmecky, Joseph Charles
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History