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Cutting Implement (open access)

Cutting Implement

Patent for a cutting tool which can be attached to the bottom of a shoe in order to chop cotton or other plants and pulverize ground. It is a sharp, flat, knife blade that affixes to the shoe with straps across the bridge and toe sections.
Date: May 4, 1915
Creator: Brigance, Alice O.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dental Instrument. (open access)

Dental Instrument.

Patent for a new dental instrument that extracts "swollen portions of the gum where it extends over the tooth" (lines 11-13), including illustration. Use of the instrument is meant to replace the common, but "objectionable" (line 56), practice of lancing the gum.
Date: April 4, 1916
Creator: Knox, Eldon Lemoin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dental Tool (open access)

Dental Tool

Patent for a series of dental cleaning tools to remove deposits from teeth and smooth rough surfaces. This design inflicts minimal damage to the gum tissue while both a guide and blade are in contact with the tooth.
Date: May 4, 1915
Creator: Carr, Cassius M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Preventing Overflow of Tanks. (open access)

Device for Preventing Overflow of Tanks.

Patent for preventing the "repeated discharge of the contents of a flush tank" (lines 10-11) and enhance overall utility that require a flush tank. Information and illustration provided.
Date: April 4, 1916
Creator: Logan, Paul H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Account-Index. (open access)

Account-Index.

Patent for an account index card holder with “superposed parallel arms” (lines 111-112) that allow portions of the front and reverse side of each card to be visible. The holder and its supports may be used with a system for organizing, tracking, and indexing accounts.
Date: November 4, 1913
Creator: Roach, William Eli
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Heating and Applying Coating Material (open access)

Device for Heating and Applying Coating Material

Patent for a device for heating and applying coating materials, and more particularly for applying asphalt to surfaces, which it is desirable to coat therewith.
Date: July 4, 1916
Creator: Seale, Elbert E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Displaying Merchandise. (open access)

Device for Displaying Merchandise.

Patent for improvement in devices for displaying merchandise by providing a portable display device comprising a horizontally disposed frame removably secured to and supported upon standards and from which the merchandise is suspended for display. (Lines 17-21) Illustration is included.
Date: January 4, 1910
Creator: Binford, Jackson S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Deposit File (open access)

Deposit File

Patent for a deposit file. Illustration included.
Date: April 4, 1905
Creator: Anderson, Samuel C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cutting Mechanism for Corn-Harvesters (open access)

Cutting Mechanism for Corn-Harvesters

Patent for a cutting mechanism for corn harvesters that allows the stalks to be cut more effectively while the corn is being harvested.
Date: June 4, 1912
Creator: Tilson, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Fence-Post (open access)

Design for a Fence-Post

Patent for a new, original, and ornamental design for fence posts.
Date: December 4, 1906
Creator: Jasper, Tolbert Fanning
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene Gas Generator (open access)

Acetylene Gas Generator

Patent for an acetylene gas generator. Illustrations included.
Date: April 4, 1905
Creator: Wallace, William A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Desk-Ruler. (open access)

Desk-Ruler.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in desk-rules, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 4, 1899
Creator: Connett, Matthew F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device For Educational, Amusement, Or Other Purposes (open access)

Device For Educational, Amusement, Or Other Purposes

Patent for a device for educational, amusement, or other purposes. Illustration included.
Date: October 4, 1904
Creator: Robertson, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dental - Chair. (open access)

Dental - Chair.

Patent for a new and useful dental chair to "easily adjust to various positions and be folded into very compact form for transportation or storage" (line 13-14).
Date: January 4, 1898
Creator: Rose, Nicholas M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Railroad-Brace. (open access)

Design for a Railroad-Brace.

Design patent for a railroad brace that has an essential feature of possessing peculiar shape and configuration.
Date: October 4, 1898
Creator: Cater, Daniel
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Cotton-Picker. (open access)

Design for a Cotton-Picker.

Design patent for a cotton-picker that is designed to be fitted over the fingers of the operator.
Date: July 4, 1899
Creator: Richards, Ruben F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Jar. (open access)

Design for a Jar.

Patent for ornamental design on jar depicting the logo for the Jersey-Creme drink company
Date: May 4, 1909
Creator: Jersey-Creme Company
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Apparatus. (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Apparatus.

Patent for machines that generate acetylene gas for a "simple and comparatively inexpensive construction, in which the gas is thoroughly washed before entering the service-pipe and in which the water-supply to the generator is controlled by the gas pressure and the carbid kept at all times cooled by surrounding water" (lines 11-17).
Date: December 4, 1900
Creator: McGoldrick, William Hamilton
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Attaching Horseshoes. (open access)

Device for Attaching Horseshoes.

Patent for a new and improved device for attaching horseshoes. This design "relates to improvements in means for attaching shoes to the hoofs of horses or mules without the use of nails; and the invention consists in . . . a nailless shoe [that] can be firmly and securely attached to the foot and detached therefrom without requiring the services of a smith" (lines 9-18). To this end, it consists in "the combination, with the shoe-plate and the toe-plate, of the toe-bar having a flange to engage the toe-plate, the bits, half-bands, and clamping-bolts" (lines 61-65).
Date: November 4, 1890
Creator: Mayow, Daniel L. & Castle, John M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Direct-Acting Steam-Engine (open access)

Direct-Acting Steam-Engine

Patent for improvements in the construction of direct-acting steam-engines.
Date: December 4, 1888
Creator: Winn, Frank
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator. (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator.

Patent for an acetylene-gas generator that consists of “a suitable frame, a receptacle positioned within said frame, and a gas-bell” (lines 11-13), as well as a gasometer and carbide feed. As a result, the gas generator “will continually furnish dry, cool gas and at a substantially even pressure at all times” (line 22-24). Illustrations included.
Date: June 4, 1907
Creator: Hays, Parx Orr
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Display Cabinet (open access)

Display Cabinet

Patent for display cabinet. Illustration included.
Date: April 4, 1905
Creator: Douglass, John A. & Fagg, Carye A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dressing Millstones. (open access)

Dressing Millstones.

Patent for "a new and improved mode of dressing millstones for the purpose of grinding every kind of grain into meal flour &c., &c." (lines 4-7) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 4, 1851
Creator: Gaines, Edmund P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Frio-Nueces Current (Pearsall, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 4, 1992 (open access)

Frio-Nueces Current (Pearsall, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 4, 1992

Weekly newspaper from Pearsall, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 4, 1992
Creator: Fair, Wilton H., Jr.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History