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Automatic Stopping Mechanism for Engines.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in automatic stopping mechanism for engines.
Date:
January 11, 1898
Creator:
Hunter, Victor Emmet
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Tooth.
Patent for a new and useful artificial tooth for "supplying missing teeth or crowning roots" (line 10 -11).
Date:
January 11, 1898
Creator:
Carroll, Houston Monroe
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Back-Band Hook.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in back band hooks, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 11, 1898
Creator:
Lynch, John Elbert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle-Holder.
Patent for a bicycle-holder that holds the bicycle upright. It consists of "a pair of plates clamped upon a portion of the frame of a bicycle, two pairs of ears formed integral with and depending from said plates, one pair of ears being formed convcavo-convex to form a socket between them and constructed with semicircular notches in their lower edges, a rod having a ball or spherical body on its upper end that is located and held for movement in the so formed socket, a lug formed integral with the lower end of one of the remaining pair of ears, and an arm pivoted between said remaining pair of ears, said arm having a bifurcated lower end that engages the rim or tire of the front wheel of the bicycle" (lines 40-54).
Date:
February 11, 1896
Creator:
McKanna, John J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper and Planter
Patent for a combined cotton chopper and planter, made to be easy to construct and easy to convert between functions.
Date:
October 11, 1892
Creator:
Parker, Francis H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Billiard-Ball Holder.
Patent for a simple billiard-ball holder that is meant to "provide a means for holding the balls when not in use, so that they will not fall out of the holder to the floor, and means to provide for the tilting of the holder out of line, so that the balls will roll to the opposite end, and out of the opening into the triangle, thereby saving a good part of the time in taking the balls out of the holder" (lines 20-27).
Date:
July 11, 1893
Creator:
Rohrbach, Gabriel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard.
Patent for a cattle-guard that improves on patents previously granted to the inventor (No. 516,307 and No. 501,785). The improvements include "the provision of a counter balance or lever with a weight slidingly thereon, which can be adjusted so as to better regulate the platform (lines 25-28) and perforated guards, which will not get as damaged by the wind as non-perforated guards. The patent also includes springs under the platform instead of springs under the sills.
Date:
September 11, 1894
Creator:
Hills, Lorenzo
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compensating Pump-Spring.
Patent for an improvement on the inventor's previous patent (No. 450,657). The improvements include getting rid of the sleeve, and "employ[ing] volute springs instead of the straight flat springs formerly used; [the inventor] also dispense[s] with the links and connect the inner ends of the springs to long pitmen which have a pivotal connection with the suction rod at a point above the springs; [the inventor] furthermore provide[s] a means for adjusting the tension of the springs without altering the connection of the same with the suction rod" (lines 23-31).
Date:
April 11, 1893
Creator:
Black, William L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Shears.
Patent for new and improved animal shears. This design consists in "mechanism for imparting a combined reciprocating and edgewise play to the cutting knife or knives in order to cause the teeth of said knife or knives to follow or describe a curved or oval path, and thus insure greater efficiency of operation; to provide for the proper lateral contact of the knives in order to insure their proper action and to regulate the pressure or force with which one knife bears on the other; [and] to provide a peculiar form of cutter-teeth which shall be automatic or self-cleaning" (lines 19-30).
Date:
February 11, 1890
Creator:
Bechtol, William S. & Bessonette, William T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition of Matter for Saving Coal During Combustion.
Patent for cheap, effective compound to sprinkle on coal to render it more combustible so that it burns more cleanly and soot is not emitted.
Date:
June 11, 1895
Creator:
Stokey, David Gray
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Axle-Skein.
Patent for an axle-skein. Its purpose is "to improve the construction of axle-skeins, to increase their strength and durability, and to decrease the wear of the same at the bottom thereof" (lines 10-14).
Date:
August 11, 1896
Creator:
Finley, Robert L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Results of a Biological Survey of the San Francisco Mountain Region and Desert of the Little Colorado, Arizona
Brief summary of a biological survey of the Painted Desert, specifically the San Francisco Mountain region, and the Grand Canyon (Cañon).
Date:
September 11, 1890
Creator:
Merriam, C. Hart & Stejneger, Leonhard
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for improvements in wire-stretcher for use in fence-building in which wire is secured to a fence-post, using horse power to hitch to the whiffletree and driven along close to the lines of posts. When wires are being leaded out, they are being stretched simultaneously. A lever is inserted in front of the spools as a final additional tension device to tighten and staple the wire to the fence-posts. Illustration is included.
Date:
August 11, 1891
Creator:
Woodward, Edward
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a simple and effective wire-stretcher that stretches wire and attaches it to the same post to which it is applied. It has a frame, a claw, a spool, a crank, a ratchet wheel, a pawl, and and a chain that secures the claw to the frame. The parts fit inside the body portion of the frame, and wire wraps around the spool.
Date:
September 11, 1894
Creator:
Myers, John M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Weaving Device.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in Portable wire-weaving device.
Date:
January 11, 1898
Creator:
Murrah, Louis T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve.
Patent for a new and improved valve. This design is "to provide a . . . valve . . . to cut off the supply of water upon the outside of the induction-port and to drain all water from the valve-body and the connecting-pipes above the same, thereby preventing freezing of the same" (lines 10-15). It consists in "[t]he valve casing or body having oppositely-located ports and provided with a perforated interiorly-threaded lug or projection, in combination with the flanged bushing seated in said valve-casing and having a valve-seat at its outer end, and perforations extending through the flange" (lines 93-99).
Date:
November 11, 1890
Creator:
Morrison, James John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Index.
Patent for "an improved method of indexing books of reference, and more especially city and county records, and the means for carrying over from one line to another where several indexes are to be set opposite one name" (lines 9-14).
Date:
April 11, 1893
Creator:
Heppenstall, James Edward
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Truck or Vehicle for Elevated Railways.
Patent for an improved, strong, simple, inexpensive, and durable truck or vehicle for elevated railways that is meant to throw the lateral force of the car-body is exerted vertically downward onto the car's wheels.
Date:
July 11, 1893
Creator:
Turner, Ephraim M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Pole.
Patent for a simple vehicle-pole that has an improved fastening. It consists of a table with a socket, a pole in the socket, arms connected to the table, singletrees attached to the extending ends of the arms, and a running gear.
Date:
July 11, 1893
Creator:
Rohn, Frank G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Separating Decorticated Cotton-Seed.
Patent for a machine dedicated to "increase the capacity of machines for separating decorticated cotton-seed" (lines 9-10) and to "separate the meal from the husks of the decorticated cotton-seed, whereby perfectly clean meal is collected" (lines 12-15)
Date:
May 11, 1897
Creator:
Bell, Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel.
Patent for improvements “in wheel-tightening arrangements in which a cylinder with a conical-formed end works by means of a thread inside the hub, for the purpose of forcing the spokes to the outside and to tighten by these means the whole wheel, when the wooden parts of the wheel are shrunk together.” (Lines 9-15) Illustration is included.
Date:
August 11, 1891
Creator:
Pluck, James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Cleaning Seed-Cotton.
Patent for an improved machine that cleans and transfers seed cotton to a gin. It combines exhaust fans and a cleaning mechanism, and is less expensive than similar machines.
Date:
April 11, 1893
Creator:
Cannon, Burrell
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Distributing Poison on Plants.
Patent for a new and improved machine for distributing poison on plants. This design consists in "the combination, with a wheeled-frame, a counter-shaft thereon driven from the wheels, a poison-hopper, an air and discharge pipe communicating therewith, a fan giving air-blast through said pipe, and an agitator in the poison-hopper, of wheel and belt-gearing operating the fan and agitator from the counter-shaft on the frame" (lines 112-119).
Date:
March 11, 1890
Creator:
Brown, George R. & Brown, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Fence.
Patent for a new and improved wire fence. This design "relates to wire fencing; and it consists in the construction and combination of devices . . . whereby the wire cables can be conveniently and freely supported at suitable points by spirally-coiled suspension-loops attached to certain fence-posts, so that while securely braced to remain in position the wire cable will not be subjected to chafing or other injury" (lines 8-17).
Date:
March 11, 1890
Creator:
Moran, Horace S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History