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Cattle-Yoke. (open access)

Cattle-Yoke.

Patent for a new and useful cattle yoke for preventing them from breaking, tearing down, jumping over, or crawling through the openings in fences (line 6 -8).
Date: March 22, 1898
Creator: Kirk, Robert S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clock Attachment. (open access)

Clock Attachment.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in clock attachments.
Date: March 8, 1898
Creator: Schindler, Joseph
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Antifriction-Bearing. (open access)

Antifriction-Bearing.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in antifriction bearings for " the ends of the hub and means for eluding dust fro the bearings" (line 11 -13).
Date: May 10, 1898
Creator: Hobron, Charles B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaning and Mattress - Stuffing Machine. (open access)

Cotton Cleaning and Mattress - Stuffing Machine.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in cotton-cleaning and mattress-stuffing machines. This design "relates to improved machinery for cleaning cotton, forming it into bats, and discharging the bats into mattress-sticks" (line 8 to 10).
Date: February 15, 1898
Creator: White, Charles W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Arm for Telegraph - Poles. (open access)

Arm for Telegraph - Poles.

Patent for a new and useful arm for telegraph poles.
Date: March 8, 1898
Creator: Anderson, Lee
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Antifriction-Bearing. (open access)

Antifriction-Bearing.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in anti-friction bearings.
Date: April 5, 1898
Creator: Hobron, Charles B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Tight Heating-Stove (open access)

Air-Tight Heating-Stove

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in air tight heating stoves, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 31, 1898
Creator: Wilson, John Wesley & Wilson, William Wharton
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Tooth. (open access)

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
Armor for Pneumatic Tires. (open access)

Armor for Pneumatic Tires.

Patent for a new and useful armor for pneumatic tires.
Date: April 12, 1898
Creator: Hansell, Robert Clark
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Colter Attachment for Plows. (open access)

Colter Attachment for Plows.

Patent for a new and useful colter attachment for plows, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 19, 1898
Creator: Haynes, Thomas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clevis. (open access)

Clevis.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in clevises, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 14, 1898
Creator: Taylor, George H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cleansing and Preparing Cotton for Ginning and Baling. (open access)

Apparatus for Cleansing and Preparing Cotton for Ginning and Baling.

Patent for a new and useful apparatus for cleansing and preparing cotton for baling and ginning.
Date: February 15, 1898
Creator: Orden, Charles Van
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bathing-Suit. (open access)

Bathing-Suit.

Patent for a new and useful improvement in bathing suits.
Date: March 29, 1898
Creator: Davis, Jesse W D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Dispensing Oil, &c. (open access)

Apparatus for Dispensing Oil, &c.

Patent for a new and useful apparatus for dispensing oil, &c.
Date: May 17, 1898
Creator: Haye, August
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Checking Runaway Horses. (open access)

Apparatus for Checking Runaway Horses.

Patent for a new and useful apparatus for checking runaway horses, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 30, 1898
Creator: Singleton, James M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Plow and Planter. (open access)

Combined Plow and Planter.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in a combined plow and planter which "can be readily adapted for planting different kinds of seed, such as corn, cotton, cane, and the like" (line 21 - 23).
Date: March 8, 1898
Creator: Franklin, George
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ant-Trap. (open access)

Ant-Trap.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in ant-traps.
Date: April 12, 1898
Creator: Selvidge, Charles W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cleaner for Seed-Cotton. (open access)

Cleaner for Seed-Cotton.

Patent for a new and improved cleaner for seed cotton, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 8, 1898
Creator: Hart, Edward
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bank - Protecting Device. (open access)

Bank - Protecting Device.

Patent for a new and useful bank-protecting device.
Date: February 1, 1898
Creator: Hinkle, George J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie. (open access)

Bale-Tie.

Patent for a bale-fastening device that "may be applied with facility to a cotton-bale or to an equivalent package." (lines 9-11) including instructions and illustrations. The tie comprises "a band, a key engaged with the band and rotatable to coil the same therearound, and a lock fitted upon the band and engaged with the key to prevent reverse rotation thereof" (lines 105-109).
Date: August 30, 1898
Creator: Campbell, Douglas M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Advertising Device. (open access)

Advertising Device.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in advertising device, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 9, 1898
Creator: Hefley, Jefferson D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compound For Treating Seeds. (open access)

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
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cooling Milk. (open access)

Apparatus for Cooling Milk.

Patent for a new and useful apparatus for regulating the temperature of milk.
Date: April 26, 1898
Creator: Porter, Louis H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Earthquakes in California in 1896 and 1897 (open access)

Earthquakes in California in 1896 and 1897

A report that contains the records of all the shocks observed or felt on Mount Hamilton and all those reported to the Lick Observatory by letter, as well as newspaper reports of such earthquakes.
Date: 1898
Creator: Perrine, Charles D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library