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Bale Tie
Patent for a new and improved bale tie. This invention is to "provide a new and improved bale-tie which is simple and durable in construction, not liable to become accidentally unlocked, and arranged to permit its use on ordinary compresses" (line 7 - 11).
Date:
December 14, 1897
Creator:
Edmonston, Thomax Cole
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire - Stretcher.
Patent for a new and improved wire-stretcher to "attached to the wires direct or have bearing against the post, as stated, but wherein when the device is placed in engagement with the post it need not be secured thereto" (line 22 - 26).
Date:
December 28, 1897
Creator:
McNeill, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Tightener
Patent for a new and useful improvements in wire tighteners. This design "consists in features of construction and novel combinations of parts in a wire tightening device for repairing wire fences and attaching wires to fence-posts" (line 13-16).
Date:
December 7, 1897
Creator:
Short, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Fence
Patent for a new and useful improvements in wire fences. This invention is to "make a cheap and efficient post to which fence-wires may be quickly and durable stapled" (line 15-17).
Date:
December 21, 1897
Creator:
Johnson, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lubricator.
Patent for a new and useful lubricator. This invention "relates to certain improvements in lubricators, such as are adapted for use in connection with the wheels of wagons, carriages, and other vehicles" (line 8 -11).
Date:
December 28, 1897
Creator:
McCall, Duncan D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in monkey-wrenches to "provide an improved construction of the same whereby the clamping-jaws may be quickly and readily adjusted to the nut or tap which is to be engaged thereby" (line 19-23).
Date:
December 28, 1897
Creator:
Antony, Edwin Le Roy
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Sharpening Gin Saws
Patent for a new and useful improvements in machines for sharpening gin-saws. This invention is to "provide an improved machine of the character described wherein the saws may be sharpened without removing them" (line 10-12).
Date:
December 14, 1897
Creator:
Bradley, James M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Knee-Pad.
Patent for knee pads that are "simple, inexpensive, and durable, and which is so constructed as to hold the knee of the user in an elevated position above the ground or other surface upon which the pad may be placed, thereby preventing the knee contacting with the ground or other surface and causing injury to the knee (lines 10-17).
Date:
December 29, 1897
Creator:
Rice, John T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock for Firearms
Patent for a new and useful improvements in locks for firearms. This invention is to "provide a simple and effective lock mechanism for a firearm" (line 15-17).
Date:
December 7, 1897
Creator:
Oritciiett, James Clyde
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Turn Table
Patent for a new and improved turn table. This invention "relates to an improvement in turn-tables, and its an improvement on that particular kind of turn-table shown and described in Patent NO.517,304" (line 7-9).
Date:
December 28, 1897
Creator:
Rohrbach, Gabriel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Letter Copying Roller
Patent for a new and useful letter copying roller. This invention is to "provide a simple device for facilitating the copying of letters without the use of a press, blotters, pads, and similar appliances usually employed for this purpose (line 9 - 13).
Date:
December 28, 1897
Creator:
Roux, Harry L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stirrup
Patent for a new and useful improvement in stirrup. This design is " an improvement in stirrups, and has for an object to so construct the stirrup as to prevent the strap-bar" (line 7-9).
Date:
December 7, 1897
Creator:
Wilson, William Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Multiple Gearing
Patent for a new and useful improvements in multiple gearing. This invention "relates to improvements in a multiple gearing for bicycles, vehicles, locomotive-engines, traction devices" (line 11-13).
Date:
December 21, 1897
Creator:
Cary, Lewis C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mechanism for Cleansing Clothing for Textile Fabrics
Patent for a new and useful improvements in mechanism for cleansing clothing or textile fabrics. This invention is to "provide a simple and economical construction and combination of parts whereby the clothes or fabrics operated upon shall be disturbed and displaced at each successive stroke of a pump forming part of the mechanism" (line 11-16).
Date:
December 21, 1897
Creator:
Wright, John W. & Burkes, Howell H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Support for Carriage Tops
Patent for a new and useful improvements in supports for carriage tops. This invention "consists in the features of construction hereinafter more particularly set forth and specifically claimed" (line 19-21).
Date:
December 7, 1897
Creator:
Gallaway, Edgar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Door-Hanger.
Patent for a new and useful door hanger. This invention is to "provide a simple and inexpensive device so constructed as to avoid dismounting and at the same time enable a door, window, or an equivalent device to be operated with the minimum friction" (line 9-13).
Date:
December 21, 1897
Creator:
Masterson, Bernard W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate Latch
Patent for a new and useful improvements in gate latches.
Date:
December 7, 1897
Creator:
Turley, John Breckinridge
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Roller Press for Extracting Oil From Cotton Seed, & c.
Patent for a roller press for the extraction of oil from cotton and other seeds.
Date:
December 7, 1897
Creator:
Lelardoux, Pierre
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fluid - Pressure Regulator.
Patent for a new and useful Gas pressure regulator. This invention "relates to gas pressure regulators especially adapted for use with gas stored under high pressure in a cylinder or similar portable storage vessel" (line 8-10).
Date:
December 7, 1897
Creator:
Clark, George Greenleaf
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fluid Pressure Regulator
Patent for a new and useful gas pressure regulator. This invention "relates to gas-pressure regulators especially adapted for use with gas stored under high pressure in a cylinder or similar portable storage vessel" (line 8 - 11).
Date:
December 28, 1897
Creator:
Clark, George Greenleaf
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in plows. This improvements are to " render the plow right and strong and easy-running, reducing the effort required by the plowman to handle the plow to a minimum, and to render the handles and beam and plow-plate readily adjustable as regards pitch and height (line 10 - 16).
Date:
December 28, 1897
Creator:
Kirkpatrick, James M. & Files, Jerry B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Disk Plow.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements relates to disk or revolving plows.
Date:
December 28, 1897
Creator:
Wolcott, Oliver P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Stalk Puller
Patent for a new and useful cotton stalk puller.
Date:
December 14, 1897
Creator:
Harwood, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Revolving Sand Drag
Patent for a new and useful improvements in revolving sand drags. This design is to "provide a machine of this character by means of which the sand-bars in formed in rivers" (line 12-14)
Date:
December 14, 1897
Creator:
Murphy, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History