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Can-Opener
Patent for a new and improved can opener. This design "consists of can-opener comprising a blade or cutter vertically adjustable to allow it to be forced into a can-head to be cut" (lines 34-36).
Date:
August 9, 1898
Creator:
Connett, Matthew F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ball-Bearing.
Patent for a new and useful ball bearing, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 17, 1899
Creator:
Millen, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Tooth.
Patent for a new and useful artificial tooth for "supplying missing teeth or crowning roots" (line 10 -11).
Date:
January 11, 1898
Creator:
Carroll, Houston Monroe
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Armor for Pneumatic Tires.
Patent for a new and useful armor for pneumatic tires.
Date:
April 12, 1898
Creator:
Hansell, Robert Clark
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap.
Patent for a new and useful animal trap, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 5, 1899
Creator:
Buckersberg, Simon
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burner.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in burners, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 22, 1899
Creator:
Dickerson, Ernest Clifton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Dispensing Oil, &c.
Patent for a new and useful apparatus for dispensing oil, &c.
Date:
May 17, 1898
Creator:
Haye, August
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Telephone-Directory.
Patent for a new and useful automatic telephone directory, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 17, 1899
Creator:
Neuendorff, John B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Supplying Device For Diving Purposes.
Patent for a new and useful air supplying device for diving purposes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 5, 1899
Creator:
Hensley, Frank A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition Pulp Plaster and Process of Manufacturing Same.
Patent for "a composition pulp plaster designed as a substitute for ordinary lime-plaster and equivalent materials and particularly adapted for use in warm moist climates, where the ordinary lime-plaster lacks durability and is rendered non-adherent. A further objective of the invention is to provide a cheap substitute for plaster which will be not only waterproof, but also fireproof and gas-proof or practically impervious to air" (lines 9-18). It includes instructions for manufacturing the plaster with various proportions of the ingredients depending on the purpose.
Date:
May 9, 1899
Creator:
Blake, David H. & Ray, Jeramiah P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blacking-Brush
Patent for a new and useful improvement in blacking brushes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 18, 1899
Creator:
De Witt, Joseph R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Teeth.
Patent for the lower set of artificial teeth, "and aims to provide retainers and combine them with the plate, so as to hold the denture in place against accidental displacement during the process of articulation, prehension, mastication, and deglutition" (lines 10-15). This invention "provides retainers which fill a vacuum in the mouth never heretofore utilized in the construction of artificial teeth and which form a rest for the muscles in their contraction incident to the movements of the jaws, and these retainers render a lower set of artificial teeth s comfortable and serviceable as if they were natural" (lines 22-29).
Date:
September 17, 1895
Creator:
Johnston, George A. & Carroll, Houston M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Autographic Register.
Patent for an autographic register that provides "improved means for guiding, stamping, cutting, and filling a record-bill and discharging original and duplicate bills; [provides] improved means for guiding the strips of paper and holding the carbon or duplicating paper in operative position; furthermore, [provides] improved means for operating the several parts of the mechanism to insure accuracy and facilitate the subsequent permanent filing of the record-bills" (lines 9-19).
Date:
September 17, 1895
Creator:
Norcross, George A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Repeating Railroad-Signal.
Patent for an automatic repeating railroad-signal designed to be used with semaphore and other train-signaling apparatus. It eliminates mistakes made in notifying the central office and automatically reports "any change in the position or color of the signal to a central office over the ordinary telegraph-wire" (lines 14-16). The signal is a wheel that operates a key to send a message to the central office.
Date:
January 28, 1896
Creator:
Innes, Robert Hayward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Appratus for Treating Refuse Matter.
Patent for "the perfection of an apparatus by the use of which night soil or garbage may be reduced to ashes in the shortest possible time and at a comparatively trivial expense" (lines 20-24).
Date:
August 8, 1893
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composite Lamp-Chimney.
Patent for a lamp chimney that prevents insects from falling into the chimney and keeps the flame inside the chimney.
Date:
October 17, 1893
Creator:
Schwartz, Jacob
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Construction of Privy-Vaults.
Patent for an improvement of privy-vaults using a soil-pipe with sleeve adapted to be connected with the trap-door of the vault-floor into an air-chamber where a ventilating-pipe is placed directly above a furnace; the noxious gases along with the products of combustion in the furnace would be drawn from the air-chamber and carried off to the outer air. Illustration is included.
Date:
February 3, 1891
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Autographic Register.
Patent for an autographic register meant "to provide improved means for guiding, printing, cutting, and filling a record-bill and discharging original and duplicate bills" (lines 9-12). The printing and feeding mechanisms operate independently, bills may be any desired length, and checks may be numbered successively and dated.
Date:
September 29, 1896
Creator:
Norcross, George A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Yardstick Calculator.
Patent for a new and useful yard stick calculator for linear measurement. Yard stick is use in connection with dry goods and or business where items are sold by linear measurement including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 1, 1899
Creator:
Praeger, Ewald
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Yardstick-Calculator.
Patent for "a calculating-yardstick adapted for use in connection with the dry goods or any other business in which goods are sold by linear measurement, the object in view being to provide, in connection with a linear measuring scale or rule, an indicating device provided with a plurality of price-scales having relation to the measuring-scale and adapted to indicate the price of a given length of an article at a given price per unit of measure, and also adapted to indicate the length of an article of a given price which may be sold for a given amount." (Lines 8-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 1, 1896
Creator:
Praeger, Ewald
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for "removable-jaw wrenches which can be converted into a pipe or monkey wrench at will." (Lines 12-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 29, 1896
Creator:
Ezzell, Fletcher
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench and Cutter.
Patent for a simple, durable, and economic wrench and cutter that is easily used to turn nuts, pipes, or to cut pipes. The wrench does not need to be removed while cutting.
Date:
April 18, 1893
Creator:
Fletcher, Theodore
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vault or Cell for Outhouses.
Patent for a new and improved vault or cell for outhouses. This design "consist[s] of the combination of a vault made of impervious material and provided with wheels on its bottom, with a housing and an inclined cover secured above it at the rear and having a seat and hopper in the house, and a receptacle located within the vault and closely fitted to the mouth of the hopper" (lines 5-12).
Date:
August 12, 1890
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Wheel.
Patent for a new and improved vehicle wheel. This design is "to improve the felly-expanding devices, to provide a strong, durable, and efficient metallic connection between the spoke and felly, to provide novel means whereby the expanding movement of the felly is amplified by a partial rotation of a screw, and to otherwise improve vehicle-wheels" (lines 13-20).
Date:
December 16, 1890
Creator:
Ashford James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History