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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.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive cattle-guard that has comprising rollers which can be independently and easily replaced. The bars that hold the rollers can also be easily removed.
Date:
January 30, 1894
Creator:
Lefléve, Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Advertising-Fan.
Patent for "an attractive sign, which by reason of its revolutions will receive notice from the general public and illustrate business cards or signs, and furthermore to operate the same by and in conjunction with a fan, such as is commonly used in public places." (Lines 15-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 30, 1895
Creator:
Lo Casto, Tony
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Banker's Daily-Balance Index.
Patent for a banker's daily-balance index meant to "promote the speed and accuracy of book-keepers in keeping the personal daily balance ledger in banking and other like business" (lines 9-12). The patent is for a piece of paper divided with ink into strips on the front and back.
Date:
April 30, 1895
Creator:
Thomas, Thomas Parry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher
Patent for a wire stretcher for stretching wire to build fences.
Date:
December 30, 1890
Creator:
Burdick, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for an improved, simple, and inexpensive wire-stretcher that enables "one person to stretch fence wires conveniently for the purpose of mending them, or for stapling or otherwise securing them to fence posts in constructing fences" (lines 13-17).
Date:
October 30, 1894
Creator:
Crisp, James E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for "a wrench adapted to engage the nut of the wheel hub, so that on turning the wheel the nut will unscrew from the threaded end of the axle." (Lines 14-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 30, 1894
Creator:
Stambaugh, Julius Locke
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretching and Splicing Tool.
Patent for a wire stretching and splicing tool used when repairing barbed wire and other wire fences. It connects the ends of broken wires by bringing them together and twisting them. It has a wire gripping device, an adjustable end that corresponds to the wire gripper, a way to separate the above listed parts and bring them back together again, and a clamping device.
Date:
April 30, 1895
Creator:
la Bauve, Odelon Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Top.
Patent for a new and improved vehicle-top. This design "is to simplify, improve, and cheapen the construction of vehicle-tops . . . and enable the sliding curtain to be more readily and securely fastened to the standards and bows of the carriage-top" (lines 12-18). To this end, it consists in "[t]he combination of the supporting-bows provided with longitudinal grooves, and the curtain-carrying frame comprising flat flexible strips arranged in the said grooves and provided at intervals with inwardly-extending plates having perforations, and the parallel cross-pieces secured to the plates" (lines 84-90).
Date:
September 30, 1890
Creator:
McCurdy, Thomas B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type Writing Machine.
Patent for a type writing machine that is small and portable, including illustrations.
Date:
December 30, 1890
Creator:
Depuy, Gilbert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type-Writing Machine for the Blind
Patent for "an improvement in machines for the production of writings for the blind, under what is technically termed the point system" (lines 8-11).
Date:
December 30, 1890
Creator:
Sthreshley, Lizzie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well Drill.
Patent for a new and improved well-drill. This design consists "[i]n a drill, the cylinder closed at its upper end by a head with a stuffing-box and a tapering opening and provided at its lower end with suitable cutters, in combination with an operating-rod passing through the upper head and a weight, said operating-rod being provided with spring-arms adapted to engage and raise said weight within the cylinder and at the top thereof automatically to release it" (lines 27-35).
Date:
December 30, 1890
Creator:
Welke, William Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window-Curtain.
Patent for improvements in curtain-fixtures in which it can be “readily applied to a window and capable of enabling its brackets to be readily adjusted to suite a curtain-roller.” (Lines 11-13) It also can prevent the curtain-roller becoming accidentally disengaged from the bracket by reason of one bracket being slightly higher than the other. (Lines 15-17) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 30, 1891
Creator:
Mendenhall, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill.
Patent for a windmill that qualifies as "a substantial and strong machine capable of withstanding the high winds of the Western prairies, which will be at the same time inexpensive and simple in construction, and which will automatically regulate itself in such a manner as to run with a uniform speed in all kinds of winds" (lines 16-22)
Date:
August 30, 1892
Creator:
Campbell, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Instrument for Dividing Angles into Equal Parts.
Patent for an instrument for dividing angles into equal parts and is meant to be used with a beam compass. The "invention consists in a member having a point adapted to be placed at the point of the angle to be divided, and having movable thereon a beam extending horizontally and having at one end a transverse head projecting from each side of the beam and carrying at one end an indicating point and at the other end a marking pencil" (lines 22-29).
Date:
April 30, 1895
Creator:
Cornelius, Francis W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ironing-Table.
Patent for "ironing-tables which are arranged to be capable of folding when not in use and of extending when used." (Lines 8-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 30, 1895
Creator:
Mills, Charles Richmond
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type Writing Machine
Patent for a new and useful improvement in automatic type-writing machines.
Date:
November 30, 1897
Creator:
Templeton, Allison
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in locks, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 30, 1899
Creator:
Katzenberger, Oscar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Elevating Device.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, efficient, and durable water-elevating device meant to be used in collecting water from wells, cisterns, &c., and can be used in domestic and commercial settings. "Power may be increased [in the invention] to enable an operator to raise large quantities of water with facility" (lines 13-15).
Date:
April 30, 1895
Creator:
Taylor, James B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump.
Patent for a "pump for effectively pumping oil or quicksand from wells troubled with quicksand." (Lines 8-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 30, 1897
Creator:
Wintz, James Philip
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thill-Coupling.
Patent for a thill-coupling that has a clip-eye, pivot-bolt, and an open-slotted thill-iron that has flat and extended jaws with a hole. The jaws are lined up with the thill-iron, meant to secure a railroad spike into place. The invention also has a flat bar-spring attached to the thill-iron.
Date:
July 30, 1895
Creator:
Dibrell, Anthony
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Milk-Cooler.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in milk coolers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 30, 1899
Creator:
Nash, William Ashley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trace Carrier.
Patent for a new and improved trace-carrier. This design "consist[s] of a rectangular frame, a central integral transverse bar provided at its upper and lower edges with pairs of spaced-apart superficial ribs having central aligning bores, a spring-pressed bolt mounted in one of said ribs, adapted at its inner end to take into the opposite rib and provided at its outer end with a knob or head, a pintle mounted in the lower pair of ribs, a tongue pivoted upon the pintle, said tongue having its upper end reduced to fit between the upper pair of ribs and provided with an eye for the reception of the bolt" (lines 82-94).
Date:
December 30, 1890
Creator:
Harbour, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History