Attachment for Type-Writing Machines. (open access)

Attachment for Type-Writing Machines.

Patent for a new and useful attachment for type writing machines, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 19, 1899
Creator: Pribyl, Frank G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tightening Device For Spring Bed-Bottoms. (open access)

Tightening Device For Spring Bed-Bottoms.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in tightening devices for spring bed bottoms, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 10, 1899
Creator: Lottman, Albert C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Parcel-Delivery Apparatus. (open access)

Parcel-Delivery Apparatus.

Patent for improvements in mail and parcel delivery apparatus: "is designed particularly for use at suburban residences, or where the distance from the house to the street is considerable" (lines 11-14).
Date: September 29, 1891
Creator: Gieseke, Otto
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stem for Tobacco-Pipes or Cigar-Holders. (open access)

Stem for Tobacco-Pipes or Cigar-Holders.

Patent for a stem for tobacco-pipes and cigar-holders designed to prevent nicotine from being inhaled. "The object in view is to provide a stem consisting of detachable members to facilitate cleansing when foul" (lines 11-14). The pipe is a serpentine shape and contains cotton filters in its crooks.
Date: September 29, 1896
Creator: Sjolander, Eric O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ratchet-Wrench. (open access)

Ratchet-Wrench.

Patent for a wrench that uses friction-rollers to clamp the thing that is being turned. A rotary ring-shaped cam is what actually turns the wrench's object, and there are teeth that surround the outside of the cam. A pawl, when turning the handle, turns the teeth. This is what makes the cam rotate.
Date: September 15, 1896
Creator: Fisk, Marston
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling (open access)

Car-Coupling

Patent for automatic car-couplings, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 21, 1897
Creator: Yarnell, Leon, J. & Schmidt, Joseph H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coin Holder of Package. (open access)

Coin Holder of Package.

Patent for improvements in coin holders or packages by using three metallic strips, A, B, and C; the end of strips A and B are bent at right angles to the body portions of coins of a particular denomination. Strip C is “pivoted at its ends to the ends of the strips A and B at their point of attachment and adapted to be turned upon its pivots, so as to embrace the edges of the coins contained in the holder.” (Lines 85-89) Illustration is included.
Date: September 1, 1891
Creator: Heim, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History