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Combined Quilting Frame and Table.
Patent for a quilting frame which can be quickly set up and collapsed, which folds up to occupy a minimum amount of space, and which can be converted for use as cutting and ironing table. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 14, 1896
Creator:
Burns, Robert Llewellwynn
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bank-Protector.
Patent for improvements in bank-protectors by “providing doors, windows, and other openings with suitable metallic shields that may be readily placed in position by a slight movement of the hand or foot of the operator” (lines 19-23), illustration is included.
Date:
March 17, 1891
Creator:
Saxon, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bank-Protector.
Patent for a bank-protector that consists of vertically moving shields arranged just within the cashier's and teller's windows and the outer door of the bank, and a mechanism that allows the cashier to drop the shields and sound an alarm. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 17, 1891
Creator:
Saxon, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant Trap.
Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design "compris[es] the sides adapted to encompass an anthill and composed of a bottom, inclined walls, and horizontal top portions, having depending inclined flanges, one of the sides having an opening in its bottom and provided with ways arranged on opposite sides of the opening, a removable receptacle provided with flanges arranged in said ways and having inwardly-inclined walls, and a discharge-tube arranged at one corner of the trap" (lines 77-87).
Date:
May 3, 1892
Creator:
Royse, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cooking Cotton-Seed Meal.
Patent for an apparatus for cooking cotton-seed meal meant to get the maximum amount of oil for the meal used and puts moisture into dry meal and evaporates excess moisture in meal. Meal is continuously supplied through the machine and water-bath. The steam does not burn or harm the meal.
Date:
August 27, 1895
Creator:
Dabney, Benjamin & Yopp, William I.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water - Tank.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in water tanks.
Date:
April 12, 1898
Creator:
Stevenson, William M. & Bailey, William K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Knee-Pad.
Patent for a simple and expensive knee-pad used while picking cotton, berries, &c. The invention affords "the most perfect protection to the user by protecting his knee against contact with objects which would tend to bruise and injure it, and by preventing the dampness of the ground from being transmitted to the knee, which, as is well known, results in various diseases, such as rheumatism" (lines 13-20).
Date:
August 6, 1895
Creator:
Hamilton, James William & Siebenthall, John Francis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trawl-Line.
Patent for a trawl-line that is supported so that it "can be caused to travel continuously in the same or reversed directions at will" (lines 12-14). The invention prevents "the choking of the line supporting pulleys with grasses and other foreign matter, and also to enable the ready adjustment of the pulley son the posts to change the elevation of the trawl-line and the depth of dip of the hooks in the water" (lines 16-21).
Date:
July 24, 1894
Creator:
White, Warren Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Millstone Dress.
Patent for a new and improved millstone-dress. This design is "to provide a millstone-dress having angular furrows intersecting the main furrows of the stone and of gradually increasing depth from their outward extremities to the point where they intersect the main furrows, said angular furrows being oppositely inclined upon the upper and lower stones to form a perfect cutting system, to discharge the grain over the face of the stone and throw it toward the skirt or edge thereof, thereby giving a good draft" (lines 30-41).
Date:
June 24, 1890
Creator:
Snodgrass, George M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Marker Attachment for Plows.
Patent for an “improved device to be used upon plows, and the objects are to provide means whereby the succeeding row to be plowed may be marked, thereby giving a uniform plowing to the field; furthermore, to provide for an adjustment of the marker, whereby the distance between the rows may be adjusted.” (Lines 8-15) Includes illustration.
Date:
August 11, 1891
Creator:
Marley, James D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tree-Protector.
Patent for "wire fenders or protectors for trees, [the] purpose being to provide a simple and inexpensive guard capable of being readily applied to trees of any size and having such construction that it shall be held by its own elasticity at such a distance from the trunk that rabbits or other rodents shall not be able to gnaw the bark, and the fender shall not chafe or wear the tree by continued use." (Lines 8-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 7, 1896
Creator:
Smith, John Dawson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hobby Horse.
Patent for a new and improved hobby horse. This design "consists in providing a 'hobby-horse' or a 'stick-horse' with a pivoted head, to which is preferably connected a spring, so that the swinging of the head will give the appearance of the horse pulling on the reins held by the operator. The invention comprises a head pivoted at one end, a spring secured thereto and to the horse, and a lip on said head to limit the downward movement thereof" (lines 14-24).
Date:
June 17, 1890
Creator:
Alexander, Horace C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay-Press.
Patent for improvements in baling-presses and is practically adapted to bale hay, in which “the hay may be held at the rear end of the frame against the pressure of the follower and head-blocks or presser-blocks.” (Lines 17-20) Illustration is included.
Date:
August 11, 1891
Creator:
Cox, Benjamin G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Driving Mechanism For Gins.
Patent for a new and improved driving mechanism for gins, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 10, 1899
Creator:
Brown, Colber W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Planter.
Patent for a seed planter which utilizes a dropping-wheel that has pockets. Plungers take in and release a certain number of seeds into the pockets.
Date:
May 11, 1897
Creator:
Pace, Francis W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sliding Gate.
Patent for sliding gates "which will open automatically and close in a like manner after a person, team, or the like has passed through it. A further object of the invention is to provide means whereby the gate will be prevented from being accidentally opened by stock." (Lines 12-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 26, 1896
Creator:
Moss, John O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Telephone-Transmitter.
Patent for a telephone-transmitter "with a diaphragm and carbon button carried thereby, of a spring-supported flaring conical carbon-cell provided with a flange covered with soft material and resting on the carbon button carried by the diaphragm, the carbon-cell being filled with granulated carbon resting in contact with the carbon button" (lines 13-19). This is meant to optimize the volume of sound being transmitted.
Date:
October 20, 1896
Creator:
Alexander, Horace C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Telephone-Transmitter.
Patent for a granulated-electrode phone transmitter that is designed to be simple and "constructed so that the granulated-electrode cannot become displaced from the cell" (lines 10-12).
Date:
May 11, 1897
Creator:
Alexander, Horace C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Telephone-Transmitter.
Patent for "a simple transmitter in which the greatest volume of sound may be transmitted without causing grating or rattling." (Lines 8-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 15, 1897
Creator:
Alexander, Horace C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Foldable Crate or Coop.
Patent for a new and useful fordable crate or coop, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 27, 1898
Creator:
Moss, John O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Extension-Ladder.
Patent for improvements in extension ladder by using two sliding ladder sections, "these two sections can be secured by a windlass and a hook detachably bolted to the upper rung of the upper section." (Lines 38-40, p.3) Illustration is included.
Date:
November 3, 1891
Creator:
Crews, Dayton H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Extension-Ladder.
Patent for a new extension ladder, including illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1892
Creator:
Crews, Dayton H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a new and useful plow, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1898
Creator:
Ward, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horse Detacher.
Patent for a new and improved horse-detacher. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the axle, of the arms attached to the front face thereof and inclined downward and toward each other, the spring-actuated pins within said arms, and the cord attached to adjacent ends of the said pins and passed beneath the axle over guide-rollers and connected with a lever pivoted upon the under side of the reach, said lever being arranged to be actuated from the vehicle" (lines 43-52).
Date:
March 18, 1890
Creator:
Harper, Henry Hughes
System:
The Portal to Texas History