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Convertible Case.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in convertible cases, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 8, 1899
Creator:
Turner, Ephraim M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boiler-Flue-Cleaning Device.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in boiler flue cleaning devices, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 8, 1899
Creator:
Kitchen, George C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopping Machine
Patent for a cotton chopping machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 8, 1911
Creator:
Lynn, Walter Hugh
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Canopy
Patent for a portable canopy to be used over beds, cribs, or chairs. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 8, 1905
Creator:
Eichenberg, Carl
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Railway-Switch Operating Mechanism
Patent for an automatic railway switch operating mechanism with improved levers and controls.
Date:
August 8, 1911
Creator:
Hoffmann, Laniel F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Trunk And Dressing-Case.
Patent for a new and useful combined trunk and dressing case. This design is to "provide a simple and efficient device of the character specified having a large amount of space for receiving different articles of wearing-apparel and for inclosing various kinds of toilet appliances" (line 9 - 14).
Date:
August 8, 1899
Creator:
Carraway, Esther P. H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coffee-Pot.
Patent for new and useful improvements in coffee plots for "hot water to drain through the coffee" (line 11 - 12).
Date:
August 8, 1899
Creator:
Cummings, Jas. P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Couch and Bath-Tub.
Patent for a new and useful combined couch and bath tub, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 8, 1899
Creator:
Smith, Samuel Jackson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the rotary chopping-shaft, provided with the sliding gear-collar, the inner face of which is beveled round to form a shoulder, of a cross-piece, having a downwardly-extending perpendicular stop-piece" (lines 88-93).
Date:
August 8, 1882
Creator:
Rains, William O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the rounded meeting ends of the main levers and the equalizing-link connecting the same; the rounded meeting ends of the toggle-levers concentrically arranged with reference to the sill-bearings; the perforated connecting-pin for the upper ends of each pair of toggle-levers, and the securing-bolts thereof passed through the heads of the toggle-levers; the end openings in the lower portion of the baling-box and the vertically-reciprocating doors in connection therewith" (lines 19-30).
Date:
August 8, 1882
Creator:
Stopple, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cart-Scale.
Patent for light, strong, and inexpensive bale weighing scales that "employ a truck or sulky frame, suitable for transporting goods; furthermore, means combined with said frame whereby the goods may be readily weighed; furthermore, means for supporting the goods on the truck independent of the weighing mechanism" (lines 13-19).
Date:
August 8, 1893
Creator:
Coupland, Benjamin C. & Hough, Franklin T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Copy-Holder.
Patent for an inexpensive and simple copy, record, or book holder stand that is easily adjustable. It sits on a table, and the stand is two horizontal plates that are positioned next to each other.
Date:
August 8, 1893
Creator:
Phillips, James M.
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
Belt Elevator and Conveyer.
Patent for bucket conveyers to maximize the frictional engagement between the transverse curvature of the inner surface of the belt and the periphery of the pulley.
Date:
August 8, 1916
Creator:
Marston, Frederick
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-tie
Patent for improvement in the construction of hooks used to join the ends of ties "for packages or bales of cotton, hemp, rags, or other substances in which a divided metallic band or hoop encircling the package or bale is used, and the ends whereof are joined by a hook at one end of said band, arranged to interlock with any one of a series of mortises in the other end of the band" (para. 2).
Date:
August 8, 1876
Creator:
Davis, Waters S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Detachable Washer
Patent for a detachable Washer which can be applied or removed from a bolt, without having to remove the bolt itself.
Date:
August 8, 1922
Creator:
Dubbs, Sylvester S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window Shutter Worker And Latch
Patent for a window shutter and latching system. Illustration included.
Date:
August 8, 1905
Creator:
Richardson, Horace G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trunk.
Patent for traveling trunk "in which all the conveniences of home are embodied. The trunk is especially adapted to the use of tourists remaining abroad for a great length of time" (lines 13-17) and includes spaces for books, clothes, hats, a writing desk, special locking mechanisms, and other features.
Date:
August 8, 1916
Creator:
Traweek, Katie L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Turfing And Embroidering Fabrics.
Patent for new and useful improvements in machines for turfing and embroidering fabrics, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 8, 1899
Creator:
Henry, Jennie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel-Holding Device.
Patent for a device to hold a wheel during construction and repair.
Date:
August 8, 1911
Creator:
Gallagher, Harve H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Winding-Tool For Bale-Fastenings.
Patent for a new and useful winding tool for bale fastenings.
Date:
August 8, 1899
Creator:
Campbell, Douglas M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Liquid - Dispensing Apparatus.
Patent for invention of liquid dispensing especially kerosene and gasoline. For this the air for feeding pressure is manually supplied.
Date:
August 8, 1916
Creator:
Hamilton, Coy. E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Intrenching-Tool.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in intrenching tools, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 8, 1899
Creator:
Hoffmann, Arnold G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for an improved quarter circular baling press that forms "a catching and tripping mechanism simple in construction and low of production; and second, to retain the plunger-bar within its proper limits to again come in proper position on the other catch or set block after being tripped, independent of any vertical or horizontal guides as hereinafter fully described" (lines 19-26).
Date:
August 8, 1893
Creator:
Schubert, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History