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Back or Lining for Fireplaces.
Patent for improvement linings of fireplaces including the cost for creation, the adaption to fireplaces of different sizes, the expansion and contraction of parts under the influence of heat.
Date:
August 9, 1898
Creator:
Dickson, John Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Desulfurizing Matte Or Other Furnace Products
Patent for a new and improved apparatus for desulfuring matte or other furnace products.
Date:
November 9, 1897
Creator:
Wells, James L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition Pulp Plaster and Process of Manufacturing Same.
Patent for "a composition pulp plaster designed as a substitute for ordinary lime-plaster and equivalent materials and particularly adapted for use in warm moist climates, where the ordinary lime-plaster lacks durability and is rendered non-adherent. A further objective of the invention is to provide a cheap substitute for plaster which will be not only waterproof, but also fireproof and gas-proof or practically impervious to air" (lines 9-18). It includes instructions for manufacturing the plaster with various proportions of the ingredients depending on the purpose.
Date:
May 9, 1899
Creator:
Blake, David H. & Ray, Jeramiah P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Advertising Device.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in advertising device, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 9, 1898
Creator:
Hefley, Jefferson D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compound For Treating Seeds.
Patent for a new and useful composition of matter to be used for killing weevils in corn, beans, or peas, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 9, 1898
Creator:
Thiele, Gustav
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Pianos or Organs
Patent for "an attachment that can be used on pianos or organs, whereby the manipulation of the keys is greatly facilitated and playing upon the instrument greatly simplified, and the attachment is especially designed for those who do not to any great extent understand music or beginners who find it difficult to make the several chords in any particular key, the device being capable of ready attachment to the keyboard of any piano or organ and removed when not required for use" (lines 27-37).
Date:
August 9, 1892
Creator:
Stukes, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Barreling Soap-Stock.
Patent for "an apparatus for filling barrels with soap-stock or other thick liquid of similar consistency, the object being to provide a machine whereby the barrels may be filled quickly through the bung-hole." (Lines 12-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 9, 1897
Creator:
Ahrenbeck, William C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Freezing Wine.
Patent for a device that cools wine and liquor. The device "will produce the desired results in much shorter time than is now employed by the common method and apparatus" (lines 11-14).
Date:
May 9, 1893
Creator:
Wadhams, Arthur
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Raising and Lowering Wagon Bodies.
Patent for a new and improved wagon jack. This design consists "[i]n a wagon body raiser, the combination of vertical supports, a lever pivotally supported therefrom between its ends and having a roller in one end, a shaft adapted to be secured to one end of the body, a cord having one end connected with the same end of the body as the shaft and passing over the roller and its opposite end attached to the shaft, and a cord attached to the opposite end of the body and to the adjacent end of the lever" (lines 69-78).
Date:
December 9, 1890
Creator:
Scott, Eugene Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Weighing-Scale.
Patent for an automatic weighing-scale meant to be connected to a pneumatic conveyer to weigh cotton, grain, or other products. The invention weighs "any amount to which its scale may be set, and then cutting off the supply and emptying itself, when it may be reset, preferably by hand, to repeat the weighing operation" (lines 18-22).
Date:
July 9, 1895
Creator:
Schulze, Andrew
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Cotton-Weighing Scale.
Patent for an automatic cotton-weighing scale that is designed "to be used in connection with pneumatic conveyers, and it is of such construction that it will automatically weigh any amount that its scale may be set at, cut off the supply from the conveyer, empty itself, and immediately reset itself, the resetting of the machine opening the supply-valve from the conveyer, so that the weighing operation can be repeated" (lines 13-21).
Date:
July 9, 1895
Creator:
Schulze, Andrew
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Tightener.
Patent for a new and improved wire-tightener. This design consists, "with a curved metallic bar having a central groove in its convex side, and aligned openings of different diameters in the sides of the groove, of the looping-pin having two tapering arms at an angle to each other and of different sizes" (lines 78-83).
Date:
December 9, 1890
Creator:
Austin, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for an improved wrench that has two movable jaws and can separate about the length of the handle. The wrench's "head or nut for operating the upper jaw is swiveled and forms a part of the handle" (lines 14-15). The wrench can be converted into a pipe-wrench.
Date:
May 9, 1893
Creator:
King, Will Henry Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive wire-stretcher that can easily stretch a wire in a series on a fence in such a way that the stretcher doesn't need to brace against a post.
Date:
January 9, 1894
Creator:
Sparkman, James S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Coiling Machine.
Patent for a wire-coiling machine that improves on a previous patent (No. 296,806), that was granted to Wildermuth. The improvement allows for either left- or right-handed use, by making the crank movable to either side and by "providing the upper end of the post at opposite sides with stationary cutter blades and a single movable cutter adapted to be shifted for operation with either one of the said fixed cutters" (lines 28-32).
Date:
October 9, 1894
Creator:
Crowder, George Washington
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a wire-stretcher meant for making barbed wire fences that is more efficient than other wire-stretchers. It has a bent plate, a split hook swiveled to the plate, a rotatable rod that goes through the plate, stretching wire that is secured to the rod, and the split hook is attached to the wire.
Date:
October 9, 1894
Creator:
Austin, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wood-Preservative.
Patent for a compound with preservative qualities for protecting submersed wood from the destructive forces of water, whether sea or fresh, and from shipworms.
Date:
July 9, 1895
Creator:
Gallinowsky, Hugo
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weed - Exterminator
Patent for a new and useful improvement in Johnson-Grass, other grass and weed extermination.
Date:
November 9, 1897
Creator:
McBride, Samuel H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive Ash-Pan.
Patent for "locomotive ash-pans which are cleared of ashes and cinders without necessitating the stopping of the engine or requiring the fireman or other person going beneath the engine to relieve the ash-pan of its contents, thereby saving expense in labor and obviating loss of time in long runs." (Lines 8-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 9, 1897
Creator:
Cummings, Summer Field
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive Drive-Wheel.
Patent for "driving-wheels for locomotives; and it has for its object to provide an approximately perfect balanced driving wheel and thereby materially decrease the internal disturbances to the mechanism of the locomotive due to the present methods of counterbalancing in the driving-wheel the reciprocating and revolving parts thereof." (Lines 12-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 9, 1897
Creator:
Davis, Philip Z.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive Driving-Wheel.
Patent for a perfectly balanced wheel for locomotives. It is meant to "materially decrease the internal disturbances to the mechanism of the locomotive due to the present methods of counterbalancing in the driving-wheel" (lines 15-18).
Date:
March 9, 1897
Creator:
Davis, Philip Z.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Pulling Stumps.
Patent for a new and improved stump-puller. This design consists, "with the main beam, of the rigid crosstree arranged transversely of the same and provided at its end with loose casters, and a pivoted axle or tree terminating in axle-bearings and provided with wheels, and means for adjusting the pivoted crosstree with relation to the beam and rigid crosstree" (lines 11-18).
Date:
December 9, 1890
Creator:
Perkins, Jesse Isaac
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drilling Apparatus.
Patent for a well-drilling apparatus that easily attaches drill-bits to the ends of drill-tubes without removing the tubes from the well. It is meant for Artesian well-boring machines.
Date:
April 9, 1895
Creator:
Horton, Stephen A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Tufting Mattresses.
Patent for a machine for tufting mattresses "whereby the tufts or washers are periodically fed to and affixed upon the feed-wheels between which the mattresses is intermittently advanced and compressed, said tufts being placed upon the mattress by the periodical fractional revolution of the feed-wheels and secured by stitching the entire transverse series of tufts by the automatic action of a series of needles, and a lower corresponding series of knotter-heads and devices co-operating therewith" (lines 11-21).
Date:
July 9, 1895
Creator:
Stephenson, Edwin N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History