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Apparatus for Raising and Lowering Wagon Bodies. (open access)

Apparatus for Raising and Lowering Wagon Bodies.

Patent for a new and improved wagon jack. This design consists "[i]n a wagon body raiser, the combination of vertical supports, a lever pivotally supported therefrom between its ends and having a roller in one end, a shaft adapted to be secured to one end of the body, a cord having one end connected with the same end of the body as the shaft and passing over the roller and its opposite end attached to the shaft, and a cord attached to the opposite end of the body and to the adjacent end of the lever" (lines 69-78).
Date: December 9, 1890
Creator: Scott, Eugene Edward
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boll Cotton Gin. (open access)

Boll Cotton Gin.

Patent for an improved boll-cotton gin which gathers the cotton bolls without crushing them or intermingling the product with impurities by separating the seed cotton from the bolls and hulls.
Date: June 9, 1914
Creator: Hopper, James F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Hame Attachment. (open access)

Design for a Hame Attachment.

Design patent for a hame attachment that is symmetrical in configuration making it adaptable to be used in either the right or left hand.
Date: May 9, 1899
Creator: Surghnor, Daniel H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Car-Seat Locks. (open access)

Improvement In Car-Seat Locks.

This patent is for the usage of car seats and how they perform. It was created to improve the mechanics of locking a reversible car-seat.
Date: April 9, 1878
Creator: Waddill, Abel K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Liquid-Fuel-Lighting System. (open access)

Liquid-Fuel-Lighting System.

Patent for a liquid fuel lighting system, which supplies a pilot light to lamps or stoves without using a separate torch to light them.
Date: November 9, 1909
Creator: Burton, Arthur
System: The Portal to Texas History
Locking Device for Car-Doors. (open access)

Locking Device for Car-Doors.

Patent for a locking device for a sliding train car capable of locking automatically upon close, including illustrations.
Date: May 9, 1916
Creator: Tierney, Henry J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Can Spout. (open access)

Oil-Can Spout.

Patent for an oil can spout that is used as a connection to a dispensing can which serves as a spout and as a stopper. This spout is easily installed and removed when desired, this spout also prevents accidental removal while handling.
Date: September 9, 1913
Creator: Melvin, Joe D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Quilting - Frame for Sewing - Machines (open access)

Quilting - Frame for Sewing - Machines

Patent for a new and useful improvements in quilting frames for sewing machines. This invention is to " provide a simple, cheap, and efficient quilting frame adapted to be suspended from an overhead support and to be used in connection with an ordinary sewing machine" (line 13-17).
Date: November 9, 1897
Creator: Heacker, Edwin W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Reed-Organ. (open access)

Reed-Organ.

Patent for reed-organs that is needed in the construction of reed-board to improve the quality and volume of the tone, produce a uniform pipe-tone throughout the different registers.
Date: December 9, 1902
Creator: Preston, Percy C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rocking Chair Fan (open access)

Rocking Chair Fan

Patent for a rocking chair fan. Illustration included.
Date: August 9, 1904
Creator: Gilmer, Benjamin F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sewing Machine Attachment (open access)

Sewing Machine Attachment

Patent for a sewing machine attachment that "aims to provide an attachment for use in connection with any sewing machine combining means for hemming, tucking, and braiding, the several parts being adjustable to admit of making hems any width and tucks any size and distance apart, the device being simple and comprising a minimum number of parts" (lines 9-16). Illustration included.
Date: June 9, 1903
Creator: Fain, Eliza Jane
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sliding Door for Railway Freight Cars (open access)

Sliding Door for Railway Freight Cars

Patent for sliding door for frieght cars, rather than doors that open outward.
Date: January 9, 1917
Creator: Tierney, Henry J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Syringe. (open access)

Syringe.

Patent for a new and improved syringe. This design consists in "[a] syringe provided with a reservoir at the end of the piston-rod outside of the syringe-barrel, said reservoir communicating through the piston-rod with a fibrous piston-head and adapted to contain a suitable liquid, whereby said piston-head is kept continually moistened" (lines 62-68).
Date: April 9, 1889
Creator: Glasscock, James H.
System: The Portal to Texas History