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Acetylene Gas Generator
Patent for improving acetylene gas generator designs with the use of an added specification in the form of a new apparatus. Illustrations and instructions are included.
Date:
September 7, 1897
Creator:
Taylor, George
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene Gas Generator.
Patent for a new and improved acetylene gas generating machine, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 12, 1899
Creator:
Miller, Frank A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Cultivator-Tooth Seat.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in adjustable cultivator tooth seats, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 7, 1898
Creator:
Shofield, James Drummond
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Rack for Railway-Cars.
Patent for improvements on racks in railway-cars including more storage for smaller items, an adjustable rack for children or elderly persons to be able to reach without needing to stand on the car seat, a titled hinge that allows a rack to be pulled for ward and pushed back, and other improvements.
Date:
August 2, 1898
Creator:
Butler, Michael
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Compressor for Water-Elevators.
Patent for "an improvement in air-compressors for water-elevators, and it consists in the novel mechanism for compressing air, by which water is designed to be raised from a cistern, or other reservoir." (Lines 13-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 10, 1895
Creator:
Warren, Governor D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Tight Heating-Stove
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in air tight heating stoves, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1898
Creator:
Wilson, John Wesley & Wilson, William Wharton
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Boring Artesian Wells.
Patent for an improved and simple apparatus for boring wells that is easily adjustable. The drill head will stay intact in most drilling situations with this apparatus.
Date:
February 28, 1893
Creator:
Brown, Frank O.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Boring Artesian Wells.
Patent for a new and improved artesian-well borer. This design "has for its object to furnish a combination tool which will wear or cut the harder grades or rock frequently met with in boring wells of this class, and also to furnish a tool which will be harder than the common steel too or auger, thereby dispensing with the necessity of taking out and sharpening" (lines 13-20). It consists in "[a] fluted hemispherical mass of corundum for boring Artesian wells, said mass being provided with cutting-edges which extend from the apex to the base, [and] a metallic core embedded within the mass" (lines 16-20).
Date:
April 5, 1892
Creator:
Brown, Frank O.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Burning Garbage, &c.
Patent for an improved apparatus for burning refuse and consists of a roasting chamber, a garbage grate, grates that slope and carry the product away after combustion, flues that open above the grates, and the wall partly closes on one end to let the products away after combustion.
Date:
August 22, 1893
Creator:
Garretson, William H. & Tainter, Silas B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Elevating, Distributing, and Feeding Seed-Cotton to Gins
Patent for improvements to cotton gins so that seed cotton can be fed to two gins at the same time, while using the same power as would normally be necessary for one gin.
Date:
April 12, 1892
Creator:
Murray, Stephen D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Feeding Seed-Cotton to Gins
Patent for an improvement to seed feeders "to improve and simplify the feed mechanisms of such machines or apparatus and provide means whereby a number of rigidly depending chutes
Date:
December 20, 1892
Creator:
Murray, Stephen D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling and Cleaning Seed-Cotton.
Patent for improvements in apparatus for handling and cleaning seed-cotton by “conveying cotton through a pneumatic tube and for automatically delivering therefrom to each of a series of gins an amount of cleaned cotton graduated at all times to the need of each gin. The flow of the main current in the tube is not interrupted by the several subtractions.” (Lines 17-23) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 2, 1891
Creator:
Elam, William E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling and Cleaning Seed-Cotton.
Patent for improvements in apparatus for handling and cleaning seed-cotton that “use a pneumatic tube, through which cotton is drawn by an exhaust-current.” (Lines17-19) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 16, 1891
Creator:
Thomas, Robert S.; Hardwick, Saunie W. & Elam, William E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Protecting Electrical Circuits.
Patent for an apparatus for protecting electrical circuits, and is an improvement on a previous patent (No. 537,932) issued to the inventor. This patent consists of "an electrical circuit, an alarm or indicator, a continuously-operating signal-transmitter at the protected structure operating to affect or influence the alarm or indicator, and a second or duplicate continuously-operating signal-transmitter located at the watchman's station, operating in unison with the first-named signal-transmitter to affect the alarm or indicator equally and oppositely as regards the first-named transmitter, whereby a signal is sounded or an alarm given only when the two transmitters are out of unison or when one is changed, varied, or interfered with in an unauthorized manner" (lines 72-86).
Date:
January 7, 1896
Creator:
Oram, John M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Leg.
Patent for an artificial leg that has an improved ankle joint and a socket for the stump. It is also more comfortable than other artificial legs.
Date:
February 12, 1895
Creator:
Chapman, Edward
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Sewing Machines.
Patent for a new and improved attachment for sewing machines. This design "is to prevent the presser-foot from catching in the fibers of the material as the same is being sewed" (lines 13-15). It is "composed of a sheet-metal plate bent upon itself to form a loop and having an integral arm extending from the upper edge of the loop out of the plane thereof and having its free end concaved" (lines 93-97).
Date:
November 18, 1890
Creator:
Tynes, Minor E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Cotton Elevator and Distributer.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in automatic cotton elevators and distributes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 6, 1898
Creator:
Wheeler, Houston J
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Cotton or Corn Planter.
Patent for an automatic cotton or corn planter that is simple and inexpensive, and is a line of planters that sows in parallel rows that does not need to be guided by hand. The devices are independently adjustable.
Date:
March 13, 1894
Creator:
Nehrmeyer, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Railway-Gate.
Patent for an automatic railway gate that consists of a picket shaft under the rails, cranks between the rails that are connected to the picket shaft, springs holding the shaft, tread rails that run along the rails and join the cranks, and guide blocks along each tread rail.
Date:
February 13, 1894
Creator:
Warren, Governor D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Track Sweeping and Oiling Attachment for Street-Cars.
Patent for improvements in automatic track sweeping and oiling attachments to street cars by having a transverse shaft carries a hub which has a series of brushes. When “the street car moves forward, the brushes on the transverse shaft are revolved, which sweep the rails and keep them clean.” (Lines 90-93) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 12, 1891
Creator:
Nesmith, Robert Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Awning-Bracket.
Patent for a rigid, strong, and adjustable to different inclinations awning-bracket meant to be permanently attached to a building. It can be folded for shipment or storage.
Date:
January 14, 1896
Creator:
Harry, Owen K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Axle - Nut.
Patent for a new and useful improvements in Axle-Nuts for wagons and carriages.
Date:
November 23, 1897
Creator:
Collins, Corties
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Baby Anson Holley]
Photograph of Anson Holley as an infant. He wears a white garment trimmed with lace.
Date:
1896~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History