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Baling-Press
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in baling presses, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 19, 1899
Creator:
Gunlock, William C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed Frame Brace.
Patent for a new and improved brace for bed frames. This design "consists in providing a transverse slat at each of its ends with a pair of diverging hooks, the same to be connected to the rail on each side by means of screw-eyes, and thereby preventing the bedstead from spreading, bracing it transversely and obliquely" (lines 19-25).
Date:
September 19, 1882
Creator:
Clark, Chester Cady
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed Spring.
Patent for a new and improved bed-spring. This design consists in "the adjustable tie that connects the springs beneath the slats. This device is simple, cheap, convenient, and durable. It is adjustable to slats placed at different distances apart, and will remain in position when placed upon the slats, holding the diagonal rows of springs in a straight line, causing the springs to remain uniform all over the bed" (lines 72-80).
Date:
May 19, 1885
Creator:
Davis, Charles Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beehive
Patent for an artificial stone beehive. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 19, 1909
Creator:
Ward, Hugh T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beehive.
Patent for improvements in beehives: "invention is to improve the construction of beehives and to provide a simple and efficient one, which will permit food to be readily supplied to the bees when desired and enable the apiarian to have him to cut bee entrances to the same." (lines 9-15).
Date:
October 19, 1897
Creator:
Tucker, John Q.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle.
Patent for a bicycle that has a drive wheel, a ratchet wheel attached to the drive wheel, a chain that goes around the ratchet wheel, an apparatus for reciprocating the chain, a guideway from the chain to the ratchet wheel, a knob on the chain that engages the guideway, a pair of levers connected to the chain, and a chord that connects the levers to the chain.
Date:
February 19, 1895
Creator:
Williams, Elbert D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bird-Trap.
Patent for improvements to a device used to trap birds, to keep them from damaging or consuming agricultural crops..
Date:
November 19, 1901
Creator:
James B. Barry.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blab or Muzzle for Weaning Calves or Colts, &c.
Patent for weaning young animals and or prevent cows or such from sucking or milking themselves.
Date:
April 19, 1900
Creator:
Seay, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blank Book.
Patent for a new and improved blank book. This design "is an improvement upon the Megee-Miller blank book which adapts it for use of type-writers and others requiring one whose sheets or leaves may be readily detached and again secured together after having been written or printed. The sheets are detachably connected with a binding-strip by means of a cord or cords" (lines 7-14).
Date:
April 19, 1892
Creator:
Burris, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blind Stop.
Patent for a new and improved blind-stop. This design is "to provide a cheap and simple device designed to be secured to a window-casing and be interposed between any two adjacent pivoted slats, and thus support the same and the series in an open position and against accidental closing by their own weight or by the wind" (lines 9-16). It consists in the "holder for slats of blinds, consisting of a spring-metal strip bent at its center to form an eye and opposite terminals, the latter being adapted to be interposed between two adjacent slats, and the ends of the terminals oppositely bent" (lines 72-77).
Date:
April 19, 1892
Creator:
Deats, Wallen S. & Brown, Daniel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blower for Forges
Patent for new and useful improvements in blowers for blacksmiths' forges with the intention of creating less waste and a better economical value.
Date:
June 19, 1902
Creator:
Roach, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Board Roofing.
Patent for a new design of roofing board. The wooden boards are designed to "contract and expand with changes of temperature" (para. 3) and to allow rain to run off without seeping into the joints of the boards.
Date:
December 19, 1876
Creator:
Zimmerman, Arnold W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boiler-Cleaning Compound.
Patent for a boiler-cleaning compound made up of "an improved compound having sodium hydrate for a base, and having certain subordinate ingredients whereby its efficiency is increased, and whereby the action of the sodium hydrate is so modified that no detriment to the boiler iron will result" (lines 10-16).
Date:
February 19, 1895
Creator:
Hill, Martin L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boll Breaker and Cleaner.
Patent for a device that attaches to a cotton gin that cleans and crushes the cotton bolls.
Date:
February 19, 1918
Creator:
Streun, John Arnold
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Breaker and Cotton-Cleaner.
Patent for improvements to the boll breaker and cotton cleaner by changing the construction and arrangement of parts. The patent uses air pressure to move the bolly cotton through the boll breaker and cotton cleaner chambers.
Date:
November 19, 1918
Creator:
Gillespie, Solomon E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil Catcher.
Patent for agricultural devices and more particularly to a device to be attached to a cultivator for catching boll weevil or the like, during the cultivation of cotton.
Date:
October 19, 1920
Creator:
Stanalan, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Book Carriage and Protector.
Patent for a new and improved mobile bookcase. This design is "composed of a base-piece having a longitudinally-central raised table-piece adapted to support the leaves of the book, and a depressed-ledge portion outside thereof adapted to support the cover of the book" (lines 20-25).
Date:
March 19, 1889
Creator:
Leith, Lawrence C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Book-Support.
Patent for a book-support made to hold large, heavy books used in commercial and government offices. The platforms can be moved up and down by a crank on the side of the support.
Date:
January 19, 1897
Creator:
Barnes, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boring-tool.
Patent for a device "designed particularly for boring out cylinders of internal combustion engines" (lines 12–13), includes illustrations.
Date:
August 19, 1919
Creator:
Dedman, Henry W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Box Bull and Calf Wheel Gudgeon.
Patent for protection and strengthening of box bull and calf wheel gudgeons. The purpose is to prevent various troubles with well drilling (oil, etc.).
Date:
July 19, 1921
Creator:
Taylor, James Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Box-Car-Door Fastener
Patent for a box car door fastener.
Date:
March 19, 1912
Creator:
Hooton, Pinkie D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Box Car Door Fastener and Spark Arrester.
Patent for a new and improved box-car door fastener and spark arrester. This design consists in "the door, the screws extending therefrom, the strips having the inclined slots received on the screws, and provided with the projections, the lever pivoted on the screws outside the strip, stops on the lever to engage the projections, and means--such as cord--for locking the lever" (lines 4-11).
Date:
October 19, 1886
Creator:
Lynch, Hubbard Calhoun
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Branding-Chute.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in branding-chutes for "securely holding live stock during the process of branding the same" (line 12 - 14).
Date:
April 19, 1898
Creator:
Bennett, Joe
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bridle.
Patent for a new and improved bridle. This design "consists in a novel manner of constructing driving-bridles, whereby a leverage upon the bit and curb proportionate to the needs of any particular occasion may be drawn up so that it will be impossible to hold the bit out of control of the driver" (lines 7-14).
Date:
August 19, 1884
Creator:
Roeber, Alexander
System:
The Portal to Texas History