Cotton Cleaning and Mattress - Stuffing Machine. (open access)

Cotton Cleaning and Mattress - Stuffing Machine.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in cotton-cleaning and mattress-stuffing machines. This design "relates to improved machinery for cleaning cotton, forming it into bats, and discharging the bats into mattress-sticks" (line 8 to 10).
Date: February 15, 1898
Creator: White, Charles W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cleansing and Preparing Cotton for Ginning and Baling. (open access)

Apparatus for Cleansing and Preparing Cotton for Ginning and Baling.

Patent for a new and useful apparatus for cleansing and preparing cotton for baling and ginning.
Date: February 15, 1898
Creator: Orden, Charles Van
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cartridge-Loading Machine. (open access)

Cartridge-Loading Machine.

Patent for a certain new and useful improvement in shell-loading machines.
Date: March 15, 1898
Creator: Handshy, Henry M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pitman - Coupling. (open access)

Pitman - Coupling.

Patent for a new and useful improvement in "pitman connections for mowing-machines an harvester"(line 10 - 11).
Date: March 15, 1898
Creator: Douglass, Samuel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bottle - Stopper. (open access)

Bottle - Stopper.

Patent for a new and useful bottle-stopper. This design is to "improve the construction of bottle-stoppers and to enable a metallic sealing-cap to be readily removed from the neck of a bottle without the use of an instrument" (line 11 - 14).
Date: February 15, 1898
Creator: Neuendorff, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clamp. (open access)

Clamp.

Patent for a new and useful clamp, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 15, 1898
Creator: Hauff, Isaac F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lock. (open access)

Lock.

Patent for a new and useful combination lock designed for safe.
Date: February 15, 1898
Creator: Wise, Harry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tool. (open access)

Tool.

Patent for a new and improved tool for "various uses, being especially adapted as a clamp, vise, brace or drill-stock, or wrench" (line 9 -10).
Date: February 15, 1898
Creator: Poor, Morrill Hart
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump. (open access)

Pump.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in pumps.
Date: March 15, 1898
Creator: Mauldin, Alfred W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Governor. (open access)

Governor.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in governors, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 15, 1898
Creator: Hunter, Victor E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine. (open access)

Washing-Machine.

Patent for washing machines with "roller-supporting frame for supporting the same either upon a horizontal surface or upon the top of a tub or receptacle in connection with which the machine is used" (lines 10-14) including illustrations.
Date: March 15, 1898
Creator: Smith, Henry E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Folding Bedstead. (open access)

Folding Bedstead.

Patent for a new and useful improvement in folding bedsteads, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 15, 1898
Creator: Evans, Joseph W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Registering Voting-Machine. (open access)

Registering Voting-Machine.

Patent for a new and useful improvement in registering voting-machines.
Date: March 15, 1898
Creator: Woodman, George C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Riveting-Machine. (open access)

Riveting-Machine.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in riveting-machines.
Date: March 15, 1898
Creator: Love, Robert H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for a new and useful plow to "provide a plow which by slight alterations, shifting, and leaving off of some of the parts can be made to break ground, bed the land, list, or perform any required work" (line 7 - 11).
Date: February 15, 1898
Creator: Ingram, John R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway- Rail Joint. (open access)

Railway- Rail Joint.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in railway-rail Joints.
Date: March 15, 1898
Creator: Mauldin, Doctor Chester
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Cuspidor. (open access)

Design for a Cuspidor.

Design patent for a cuspidor. The sides of which are nearly perpendicular and the extended base-supporting flange of which is in the form of a rope or cable, while the upper edge is ornamented by milling.
Date: March 15, 1898
Creator: Hart, Samuel Harp
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene Gas Generator. (open access)

Acetylene Gas Generator.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in apparatus for generating acetylene gas. This design is to "provide with few applicances a simple and compact apparatus requiring little attention for generating acetylene gas for light, heat, and power purposes" (line 11 - 14).
Date: February 15, 1898
Creator: Dederick, Zadoc P.
System: The Portal to Texas History