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Combination-Tool.
Patent for a new and useful combination tool, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 12, 1899
Creator:
Prinzing, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Grate Attachment.
Patent for an adjustable grate attachment that is meant to be used with open grates. It prevents "the falling of heated coals therefrom; also to provide for extension of the grate vertically to facilitate making of a larger fire; and further, to provide an attachment which may be used in regulating the draft to the grate proper" (lines 15-20).
Date:
May 23, 1893
Creator:
Hutton, Milton Calhoun
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Drier
Patent for a clothes drier. Illustration included.
Date:
April 19, 1910
Creator:
Bird, Fred E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn Popper
Patent for corn-popper improvement by connecting to the cover of the popper a rotating agitating blade which would prevent the corn within from burning.
Date:
April 10, 1917
Creator:
Zschiesche, William H. M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn
Patent for a vertical dash butter churn with a frame that allows for removal of the receptacle with dash parts still attached to the frame, including illustrations.
Date:
March 25, 1913
Creator:
Collins, Edward L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pounder
Patent for a new and useful improvements in clothes pounders, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 7, 1897
Creator:
Schofield, Frank B. & Schofield, Joseph L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chuck for Coiling Stud-Spirals
Patent for a specially designed tool "to provide an improved chuck for jewelers' use and for coiling stud-spirals and the like" (lines 9-11).
Date:
February 12, 1901
Creator:
Uerckert, John R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a churn with a better support device than previous churns.
Date:
April 12, 1910
Creator:
Hyland, George Tolifaro
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a churn in which a can has an opening in the center of its lid, in which a dasher-staff fits. The can fits in a frame. There are two parts to the frame, the part that rotates the can, and the part that holds the churn in place. The frame also holds the dasher-staff and a crank to rotate the can's frame.
Date:
February 2, 1897
Creator:
Everhard, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed-Brace.
Patent for a bed brace that consists of end-loops that are held by engage hooks at the ends of the bedstead, fixed draw-wires that connect the outer and inner sides of the end-loops, a tension-loop that is connected to the side rails, tightening link with duplicate rings that slide onto the tension loop, and a transverse twisting-bar.
Date:
February 21, 1893
Creator:
Pool, David Preston
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle.
Patent for a bicycle that can be operated by the operator's hands or feet or both, and the motion used to operate the bicycle is that of rowing. "the rider must assume a position upon the machine corresponding to that assumed by an oarsman in a boat, and as the rider can work with both hands and feet all the energy and strength he is capable of exerting can be brought to bear upon the propelling mechanism in a most effective manner, and the seat can be rendered much more comfortable than at present and in no wise interfere with the rider's movements" (lines 18-27).
Date:
April 3, 1894
Creator:
Hyde, Thomas B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burglar-Alarm
Patent for improvements in burglar alarms, with horns and sirens.
Date:
March 8, 1921
Creator:
Sefcik, Francis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Replacer.
Patent for a repairable, sectional car replacer, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 22, 1891
Creator:
Scott, Nelson S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cabinet-Bed
Patent for "a cheap and simple construction of bed of this class, adapted to be readily folded or unfolded and to provide means for automatically folding and unfolding the legs for supporting the foot of the bed-frame when said frame is raised or lowered" (lines 9-15)
Date:
June 14, 1892
Creator:
Hayton, John. W. & Swift, Samuel H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a new and improved churn. This design consists in "the staff-head having the slot . . . and opposite inside grooves, in combination with a dasher-stem head conforming to the recesses in the head and carrying a spring in an upper cavity thereof, a plunger having its toe resting upon said spring, and operative mechanism" (lines 77-83).
Date:
June 28, 1887
Creator:
Catchings, Thomas Jefferson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "is to provide means for raising the catch to release it from either side or from the top of the car, and holding it in such raised position" (lines 8-12). It consists, "with the draw-head and the catch pivoted therein and having tip extended vertically through the front end thereof, of eyes in said draw-head, a wire frame journaled in said eyes and having forwardly extending arms above and beneath the body of said catch, and means . . . for turning the frame in said eyes" (lines 85-93).
Date:
October 21, 1890
Creator:
Whatley, Richard I.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Attachment
Patent for an automobile attachment designed to utilize the power produced by motorized engines for various farming implements.
Date:
September 23, 1919
Creator:
Klima, J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History