Improvement in Medical Compounds. (open access)

Improvement in Medical Compounds.

Patent for a medical compound of alcohol (or "good brandy"), asafetida, camphor, laudanum, yellow jessamine, sassafras, and water.
Date: July 14, 1874
Creator: Dixon, Shadrach
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insulator (open access)

Insulator

Patent for Insulator
Date: November 14, 1916
Creator: Williams, Roger A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Polish for Woodwork and Method of Preparing the Same. (open access)

Polish for Woodwork and Method of Preparing the Same.

Patent for a polish for varnished woodwork
Date: September 14, 1914
Creator: Hancock, John Benjamin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Quilting-Frame for Sewing-Machines. (open access)

Quilting-Frame for Sewing-Machines.

Patent for improvement in quilting-frames by providing “screw-eyes on the end pieces of the frame for the purpose of holding the frame together and at the same time serving to run in the rollers to carry the frame along,” (Lines 25-31) and an interchangeable roller-gages would enable either straight or curved or fancy quilting to be done. Illustration is included.
Date: July 14, 1891
Creator: Stukes, John Marion
System: The Portal to Texas History
Toy Cannon (open access)

Toy Cannon

Patent for an improvement to toy cannons to enable marbles and other spherical objects can be fed into cannon and fired providing a varied range of distance.
Date: March 14, 1916
Creator: Osborn, Carl B.
System: The Portal to Texas History