Annunciator. (open access)

Annunciator.

Patent for improvement in annunciator by “providing a circuit-closing attachment for annunciators by means of which an electric lamp will be lit when the annunciator-drop falls.” (Lines 15-18) Illustration is included.
Date: October 20, 1891
Creator: Fouts, Lambert F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Horse-Power Press. (open access)

Horse-Power Press.

Patent for improvements in horse-power presses by using a combination of a “frame and a shaft mounted therein, carrying an eccentric provided with a groove, of a packing-rod having a pivoted arm, carrying a roller working in said groove.” (Lines 87-91) This newly designed press is “reversible—that is to say, the eccentric may be rotated to the right or left and the same result produced on the packing-rods and in equally as effective a manner.” (Lines 75-79) Illustration is included.
Date: October 20, 1891
Creator: Willis, William Beale
System: The Portal to Texas History
Newspaper-File. (open access)

Newspaper-File.

Patent for improvements in newspaper-holders by using a long metallic “piece bent at its upper end to form a spring and a means of suspension for the holder, and also bent at its lower end to form a similar spring and a hand-grasp, an upper and a lower loop connected to the bent ends of the metallic piece, and a retaining-tongue pivotally connected to the lower loop and having a hooked end for engaging the upper loop” (lines 82-89) to hold the newspaper. Illustration is included.
Date: October 20, 1891
Creator: Jaehnig, Charles H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of and Apparatus for Refining Cotton Seed Oil. (open access)

Process of and Apparatus for Refining Cotton Seed Oil.

Patent for improving the refining and purifying cotton-seed oil through a series of refining tanks. A quantity of crude cotton-seed oil is first run into the refining tanks and the oil is heated and thoroughly agitated by means of rotary blades. After a period of settling, the oil is drawn through a purifying tank.
Date: October 20, 1891
Creator: Grant. W. A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump. (open access)

Pump.

Patent for improvements in pumps especially adapted for deep wells by using different approaches to construct and arrange the strainer, the working barrel, the conical valve seat and other parts to pump the water upward. Illustration is included.
Date: October 20, 1891
Creator: Branham, Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History