Resource Type
States
286 Matching Results
Results open in a new window/tab.
Kitchen Utensil.
Patent for a kitchen utensil that can be used for washing dishes, scraping cooking vessels, and cleaning ornamental glass and silver.
Date:
June 11, 1895
Creator:
Adair, Annie E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mail-Bag.
Patent for a mail-bag meant to "provide such bags or pouches with a secure, efficient, and durable fastening for the mouth which can be easily and quickly opened and closed" (lines 13-16).
Date:
June 18, 1895
Creator:
Knight, Moses G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Kitchen-Cabinet.
Patent for a kitchen-cabinet that is a "simple and convenient portable device provided with the necessary receptacles for flour, meal, spices and other condiments, as well as apparatus for grinding coffee, beating eggs, weighing, &c.; to provide means for adjusting such receptacles upon the frame of the cabinet to secure the desired height or distance from the floor; and furthermore to provide improved means for removing the flour and meal from the bins and sifting the same by the same operation" (line 9-20).
Date:
June 18, 1895
Creator:
Shanley, Michael H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insulator.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and durable insulator meant for protecting wires for telephones and telegraphs. The insulator has two sections with recesses and locking apertures.
Date:
June 18, 1895
Creator:
Patterson, James M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tube-Cutter.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive tube-cutter meant to cut boiler flues or tubes in order to remove or replace the tubes or flues. The tube cutter doesn't spread the tube and allows the tubes to be withdrawn through the holes after cutting them.
Date:
July 2, 1895
Creator:
Fitzpatrick, John James Kelsoe
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Axle Point.
Patent for a vehicle-axle point that does not require repair. The "invention consists of a thimble that is to be shrunk, pressed, or fastened onto the axle by clips, bolts, or set-screws" (lines 20-22), so that the point does not need to be taken off.
Date:
July 16, 1895
Creator:
Ford, William Gardner
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve.
Patent for a valve made up of a shell with a water inlet and a water outlet, a perforation for the valve stem, a gable-shaped seat made from hard metal that is fitted into the shell, a valve stem that works up and down the shell and with a shoulder, a valve with a hollow neck, a soft contact ring between the gable-shaped seat and the face of the valve, a guide and cap that fits in the shell, a stem nut, and a stuffing-box.
Date:
July 23, 1895
Creator:
Speer, George F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Knee-Pad.
Patent for a simple and expensive knee-pad used while picking cotton, berries, &c. The invention affords "the most perfect protection to the user by protecting his knee against contact with objects which would tend to bruise and injure it, and by preventing the dampness of the ground from being transmitted to the knee, which, as is well known, results in various diseases, such as rheumatism" (lines 13-20).
Date:
August 6, 1895
Creator:
Hamilton, James William & Siebenthall, John Francis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lifting-Jack.
Patent for a strong, simple, and easily-operable lifting-jack meant for use in railroad car-axle boxes. It is a lifting bar with ratchet teeth, a lever that pivots against the lifting bar, a mechanism that holds and releases the bar, a pawl, and a double-arm spring connected to the pawl.
Date:
August 13, 1895
Creator:
Hough, William S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lantern.
Patent for an inexpensive, simple, and efficient lantern meant to be used outside in high winds, and can carry a candle or oil light.
Date:
August 20, 1895
Creator:
Seys, Cornelius D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Knee-Pad.
Patent for a simple and efficient knee-pad "made of leather or other pliable material, padded with a yielding lining to give comfort to the wearer" (lines 9-11). It prevents gravel, moisture, and other things from injuring the knee of the user.
Date:
August 27, 1895
Creator:
Dowling, Stonewall Jackson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Turnstile-Gate.
Patent for a turnstile-gate meant "to provide a gate of novel construction to be used at the intersection of a number of fences that access may be had through the gate from one to the other of the inclosures formed by said fences" (lines 13-17). It is especially meant for stockyards when several fences come together in one place.
Date:
September 3, 1895
Creator:
Cowley, Benjamin T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lifting-Jack.
Patent for a lifting-jack that has "strength with durability necessary in this class of devices and that will be simple in construction and easy of operation" (para. 2).
Date:
September 24, 1895
Creator:
Lynn, John McKinzie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Jetty.
Patent for a an inexpensive and durable jetty made from "piles driven in the ground in the ordinary way, but incase them in such a way that they will not be liable to early decay or infested by insects, which cut and destroy them when not protected" (lines 11-15).
Date:
September 24, 1895
Creator:
Bryant, Benjamin N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve-Gear.
Patent for a valve-gear that uses a single eccentric, "together with devices by which such eccentric may be shifted upon the shaft and locked in its various positions to effect either a reversal of the engine or a stoppage thereof with a full head of steam on, and to run the engine in one or the other direction, as may be desired" (lines 10-15).
Date:
September 24, 1895
Creator:
Hill, Millard F. & Easley, Clifton W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lantern.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive oil lantern made to operate in strong winds. It is "easily handled and manipulated for adjusting and fastening the several parts thereof properly in position" (lines 17-19).
Date:
November 12, 1895
Creator:
Holden, William G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Watchmaker's Tool.
Patent for a watchmaker's tool that removes "the collet and hair spring of a watch from the balance wheel arbor, without injuring the hair spring of the watch and at the same time holding the balance wheel secure against accident or injury" (lines 10-14).
Date:
February 12, 1895
Creator:
Seyfriedt, William C.
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
Wheel-Tire.
Patent for "a very cheap and simple tire which may be conveniently applied to any ordinary wheel, but which is especially applicable to wagon wheels, which when applied to the wheel has a perfectly smooth surface, and which has mechanism operated by the simple turning of a nut and adapted to tighten the tire to any desired extent." (Lines 9-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 21, 1895
Creator:
Smith, Samuel A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel.
Patent for an improvement on vehicle wheels to "provide a novel and inexpensive safety-guard for wheels of the above-referred-to class, whereby the wheel will be prevented from entering crevices and cracks" (lines 14-18) and to improve durability.
Date:
July 23, 1895
Creator:
Laube, Godfried
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel.
Patent for a strong, durable, and inexpensive vehicle-wheel in children's carriages with a double-felly wheel meant to broaden "the tread thereof sufficiently to prevent the wheels falling into cracks between boards of board walks, such as are common in the suburbs or rural districts" (lines 15-19). The spokes are like that of a single-felly wheel.
Date:
July 23, 1895
Creator:
Laube, Godfried
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trap.
Patent for a hunting trap that will "effectively prevent the escape of the captives." (Line 17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 15, 1895
Creator:
Wallace, Bar P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Bucket.
Patent for a simple and efficient well-bucket that are used in bored, drilled, and dug wells. This invention will not get caught on things when it is being raised and lowered, can, by design, can withstand wear, and is meant to be automatically filled and emptied of its contents.
Date:
November 5, 1895
Creator:
Goodwin, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thill-Tug.
Patent for a simple thill-tug that can be easily connected and disconnected, and is strong and durable. It does not use spring latches, and the device attaches to the harness.
Date:
January 29, 1895
Creator:
Carton, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History