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Elevated Railway.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in elevated railways, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 6, 1900
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel
Patent for an improved wheel for vehicles, with description of parts and illustrations.
Date:
April 6, 1886
Creator:
Horrne, Henry M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Wheel
Patent for Vehicle-Wheel. "I am enabled to produce a wheel which can be put together, taken apart, repaired, renewed or tightened, with no tools or appliances other than a wrench, and by persons wholly unskilled in the manufacture of wheels in the ordinary way." (lines 13-18)
Date:
April 6, 1886
Creator:
Horrne, Henry M. & Rutherford, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fastener
Patent for improved fastener for boxes.
Date:
February 6, 1917
Creator:
Lewis, Alfred M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a mechanism that aims "to promote convenience in adjusting and regulating cotton choppers" (line 44-46), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 6, 1883
Creator:
Mowrey, Ephraim L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash Holder.
Patent for a new and improved sash holder. This design "relates to that class of sash-holders in which the sash is held at any desired height, and locked when held down by means of a latch pivoted to angular upright wings which are integral with side plates securing the elastic cam, and adapted to impinge and bind upon the window-frame; and the novelty consists, in connection with the elastic cam, of the metallic plates arranged one upon each side of the said cam, and secured thereto by means of a pivotal device" (lines 17-27).
Date:
February 6, 1883
Creator:
Nix, Manning L. & McClelland, Stephen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Piano
Patent for an improved upright piano that eliminates the need to cut away a portion of the treble soundboard bridge, with illustrations.
Date:
January 6, 1903
Creator:
Norcross, Levi Watson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in churns, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 6, 1899
Creator:
O'Marrow, Mattie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher.
Patent for a new and improved wire-stretcher. This design "has reference more particularly to that class of devices which are adapted to be applied to and removed from the wires at will" (lines 9-11). It consists in "the rigid bar, hooks . . . pivoted to the bar, and a laterally projecting arm" (lines 69-71).
Date:
January 6, 1891
Creator:
Reed, Francis O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric-Arc Lamp.
Patent for improvements to electric-arc lamps to regulate the feed of the carbon-carrying rod, with illustrations.
Date:
July 6, 1897
Creator:
Walsh, James J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History