Hydraulic Compresor. (open access)

Hydraulic Compresor.

Patent for a hydraulic compressor meant to press cotton using the minimum amount of weight and the maximum amount of strength.
Date: September 24, 1895
Creator: Reisel, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Strap and Buckle Shield. (open access)

Strap and Buckle Shield.

Patent for an improvement in strap and buckle shields by having a flat elongated plate which has a longitudinally slot in the center. This shield can be movebly secured on to the strap to admit the tongue of a buckle thus the cross-bar of the buckle will rest upon the shield. By having this shield, the strap is protected from wear that would result from a direct contact with the buckle. Illustration is included.
Date: February 24, 1891
Creator: Nicholls, George H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flue for Cotton-Condensers (open access)

Flue for Cotton-Condensers

Patent for a flue to be used in the Rembert system of bailing cotton. The flue is comprised of a series of valves to help regulate air flow in the condenser so as to aid in the uniform deposit of fibers maintaining a uniform shape throughout.
Date: January 24, 1893
Creator: Crooks, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cabinet for Holding Postage Stamps, &c. (open access)

Cabinet for Holding Postage Stamps, &c.

Patent for a new and improved cabinet. This design "consists in a commercial postage-stamp holding, preserving, and denomination-indicating book, the same having its blank leaves formed of paper so prepared that postage-stamps will not adhere to them, and some of said leaves being provided at intervals with exposed tabs which have numerical indices marked upon them and serve for indicating the denomination of the stamps placed between the leaves at different parts of the book. It also consists in . . . a rigid outer supporting-cabinet provided with means for confining the book" (lines 12-27).
Date: May 24, 1892
Creator: Exline, Marcus P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bottle-Filling Machine. (open access)

Bottle-Filling Machine.

Patent for a bottle-filling machine in which "a number of bottles of equal capacity may be simultaneously filled from a common reservoir by the single movement of a lever" (lines 13-16), illustration is included.
Date: February 24, 1891
Creator: Baldinger, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History