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Compound Engine.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in compound engines, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 20, 1899
Creator:
Johnson, Willie H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Safety-Razor.
Patent for new and improved safety razor, which will be similar to an ordinary razor, and "can be used either in its safety form or in the ordinary manner" (lines 15-16) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 20, 1897
Creator:
Bradley, Richard Sherman.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Poke.
Patent for "a light and effective head-frame for horned cattle, designed to prevent their going through or injuring wire fences or from goring persons or animals." (Lines 14-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 20, 1897
Creator:
Moore, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric motor.
Patent for improved electric motor used in motor vehicles "which may be associated directly with the driving-wheel of a motor-vehicle" (lines 40-41), bypassing the need for other power-transmitting mechanisms. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 20, 1897
Creator:
Perret, Frank A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Advertising Device.
Patent for "a simple and inexpensive advertising device adapted to be placed on street corners and other public places and capable of exciting the curiosity and attracting attention, and thereby directing the attention of persons to the advertisement" (lines 11-16).
Date:
March 20, 1894
Creator:
Attaway, Henry F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard.
Patent for a simple cattle-guard that provides an unstable footing for the cattle without injuring them, and thus preventing the cattle from going onto train tracks. The cattle do not get injured when stepping on this device.
Date:
February 20, 1894
Creator:
Brady, Peter L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Feeding Seed-Cotton to Gins
Patent for an improvement to seed feeders "to improve and simplify the feed mechanisms of such machines or apparatus and provide means whereby a number of rigidly depending chutes
Date:
December 20, 1892
Creator:
Murray, Stephen D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Annunciator.
Patent for improvement in annunciator by “providing a circuit-closing attachment for annunciators by means of which an electric lamp will be lit when the annunciator-drop falls.” (Lines 15-18) Illustration is included.
Date:
October 20, 1891
Creator:
Fouts, Lambert F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretching and Staple-Pulling Device.
Patent for a tool "which is adapted for stretching wire for fencing purposed and which may also be used for drawing the staples from the posts and splicing between posts when such action is necessary." (Lines 9-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 20, 1897
Creator:
McElroy, Jesse Roberts
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type.
Patent for a new and improved type. This design "relates to printing, and more especially to the type used therein; and the object of the same is to provide a substitute for the large wood type now extensively used on poster and other large work. To this end the invention consists in a type-face and a type-base each of metal" (lines 7-13).
Date:
September 20, 1892
Creator:
Coleman, Allison
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ironing-Table.
Patent for an improved folding ironing-table that has "its top pivoted to the longer of two pairs of legs, the shorter pair designed to hold a cross bar which is adapted to support the table top about midway its length, when the table is opened and set up for use" (lines 18-22).
Date:
November 20, 1894
Creator:
Coleman, Robert Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lantern.
Patent for an inexpensive, simple, and efficient lantern meant to be used outside in high winds, and can carry a candle or oil light.
Date:
August 20, 1895
Creator:
Seys, Cornelius D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trousers-Protector.
Patent for trousers protectors "designed to uphold the bottom edge of the trousers, either at the side or at the rear, for preventing the same from becoming wet or soiled with mud, slush, &c." (Lines 9-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 20, 1897
Creator:
Neuendorff, John B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Brake.
Patent for a new and useful vehicle brake, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 20, 1898
Creator:
Ramage, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel-Plow.
Patent for a wheel-plow that is meant for southern states. All the parts of this plow are adjustable in order to adapt to different sizes of bedding.
Date:
November 20, 1894
Creator:
Bunjes, Friederick
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel Scraper.
Patent for a "device adapted to be readily applied to a vehicle to prevent mud from clinging to the wheels, and thereby make the draft lighter on a horse or team, and at the same time prevent mud from being thrown upon the body of a vehicle and the occupants thereof." (Lines 12-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 20, 1897
Creator:
Taylor, Mascener
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Station-Indicator.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in station indicators for moving vehicles, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 20, 1898
Creator:
Barry, Jefferson D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stirrup.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in stirrups, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 20, 1899
Creator:
Dickerman, Daniel Frederick.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Top Prop.
Patent for a new and improved top-props for carriages. This design consists "[i]n combination with an arm having perforations and slot, plate provided with arm, pin, and bolt, and arms . . . secured, respectively, to the arm and the carriage-top" (lines 76-80).
Date:
May 20, 1890
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump.
Patent for improvements in pumps especially adapted for deep wells by using different approaches to construct and arrange the strainer, the working barrel, the conical valve seat and other parts to pump the water upward. Illustration is included.
Date:
October 20, 1891
Creator:
Branham, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of and Apparatus for Refining Cotton Seed Oil.
Patent for improving the refining and purifying cotton-seed oil through a series of refining tanks. A quantity of crude cotton-seed oil is first run into the refining tanks and the oil is heated and thoroughly agitated by means of rotary blades. After a period of settling, the oil is drawn through a purifying tank.
Date:
October 20, 1891
Creator:
Grant. W. A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tongue-Support.
Patent for an improved wagon tongue spring that weighs less and wears less on the horse's neck than other tongue-supports.
Date:
February 20, 1894
Creator:
Savage, Thomas N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Metal-Cutting Shears.
Patent for simple and effective metal-cutting shears that cuts hot or cold metals. The shears are mounted on a frame, and a hand-operated lever forces the upper shear down.
Date:
November 20, 1894
Creator:
Autrey, Benjamin P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Treating Slag and Furnace Therefor.
Patent for a process of treating slag and furnace therefore. It has an improved method for separates melted metals produced during smelting and extracting the precious metals from slag. The richer matte and base-bullion run off separately and into separate taps.
Date:
August 20, 1895
Creator:
van Cleve, Charles M. & Rhodes, Robert D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History