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Clothes Pounder (open access)

Clothes Pounder

Patent for a new and useful improvements in Clothes-Pounders. The invention "has its object to provide a simple and effective clothes pounder in which the air as well as the water is used as an agent in removing the dirt from the clothes" (line 12- 16).
Date: November 9, 1897
Creator: Allen, William Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Desulfurizing Matte Or Other Furnace Products (open access)

Apparatus For Desulfurizing Matte Or Other Furnace Products

Patent for a new and improved apparatus for desulfuring matte or other furnace products.
Date: November 9, 1897
Creator: Wells, James L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Barrel Truck and Support. (open access)

Combined Barrel Truck and Support.

Patent for "a combination of devices for hoisting and hauling and supporting barrels and other receptacles for use in stores and other places" (lines 8-11).
Date: February 9, 1897
Creator: Hoff, John P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cradle, Swing, and Clothes-Drier. (open access)

Combined Cradle, Swing, and Clothes-Drier.

Patent for "a cradle which may be easily and quickly converted into a child's swing or into a clothes rack or drier." (Lines 10-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 9, 1897
Creator: McMordie, William Emmett
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper with adjustable choppers and axles, so that the distance between the hills of cotton and between rows of hills of cotton can be variable. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 9, 1897
Creator: Miller, John R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Barreling Soap-Stock. (open access)

Apparatus for Barreling Soap-Stock.

Patent for "an apparatus for filling barrels with soap-stock or other thick liquid of similar consistency, the object being to provide a machine whereby the barrels may be filled quickly through the bung-hole." (Lines 12-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 9, 1897
Creator: Ahrenbeck, William C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton-chopper meant to be the most simply constructed. The hoes are attached to a rotating cylinder in the center of the frame, and the hoes rotating is what chops the cotton.
Date: March 9, 1897
Creator: Hopkins, Benjamin F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bevel. (open access)

Bevel.

Patent for "bevel-squares adapted to be converted into a try-square through the medium of a pivoted and adjustable blade." (Lines 13-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 9, 1897
Creator: Morris, Thomas R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopping wheel which can be attached to any style of plow or cultivator. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 9, 1897
Creator: Rusk, William Thomas.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Weed - Exterminator (open access)

Weed - Exterminator

Patent for a new and useful improvement in Johnson-Grass, other grass and weed extermination.
Date: November 9, 1897
Creator: McBride, Samuel H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive Ash-Pan. (open access)

Locomotive Ash-Pan.

Patent for "locomotive ash-pans which are cleared of ashes and cinders without necessitating the stopping of the engine or requiring the fireman or other person going beneath the engine to relieve the ash-pan of its contents, thereby saving expense in labor and obviating loss of time in long runs." (Lines 8-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 9, 1897
Creator: Cummings, Summer Field
System: The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive Drive-Wheel. (open access)

Locomotive Drive-Wheel.

Patent for "driving-wheels for locomotives; and it has for its object to provide an approximately perfect balanced driving wheel and thereby materially decrease the internal disturbances to the mechanism of the locomotive due to the present methods of counterbalancing in the driving-wheel the reciprocating and revolving parts thereof." (Lines 12-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 9, 1897
Creator: Davis, Philip Z.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive Driving-Wheel. (open access)

Locomotive Driving-Wheel.

Patent for a perfectly balanced wheel for locomotives. It is meant to "materially decrease the internal disturbances to the mechanism of the locomotive due to the present methods of counterbalancing in the driving-wheel" (lines 15-18).
Date: March 9, 1897
Creator: Davis, Philip Z.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel. (open access)

Vehicle-Wheel.

Patent for "driving wheels for locomotives; and it has for its object to provide an approximately perfect balanced driving-wheel and thereby materially decrease the internal disturbances to the mechanism of the locomotion due to the present methods of counterbalancing in the driving-wheel the reciprocating and revolving parts thereof." (Lines 12-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 9, 1897
Creator: Davis, Philip Z.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Tightener. (open access)

Tire-Tightener.

Patent for improved tire-tighteners "capable of ready adjustment to contract and expand a tire, to permit the tire to be tightened when a wheel becomes loose in dry weather, and to expand in wet weather to prevent the same from becoming dished." (Lines 13-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 9, 1897
Creator: Rembert, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Whip-Holder. (open access)

Whip-Holder.

Patent for a whip holder that locks the end of the whip into the holder, and lap-robes and other similar articles can also be held in the invention so they cannot be stolen.
Date: February 9, 1897
Creator: Reeves, Fountain O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Expansion-Cultivator. (open access)

Expansion-Cultivator.

Patent for cultivators "which can be readily expanded or contracted to adapt the device to the distance apart of the rows to be cultivated or to cover a tract or greater or less breadth." (Lines 10-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 9, 1897
Creator: Moore, William M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gas-Generating Machine. (open access)

Gas-Generating Machine.

Patent for "...an improved method of and means for generating hydrocarbon vapors for heating and lighting purposes; and it consists in the novel manner in which the process is carried out and in the novel construction and combination of parts comprising the generating apparatus..." (lines 18-24) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 9, 1897
Creator: Mitchell, Francis L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Molding Sash-Weights. (open access)

Molding Sash-Weights.

Patent for a new mold design for sash-weights which describes "a mold of simple and improved construction whereby a number of weights can be cast at the same time" (lines 14-17), including illustrations.
Date: February 9, 1897
Creator: Mann, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Organ Protector (open access)

Organ Protector

Patent for a new and useful Oran protector "to prevent the entrance of vermin through the Knee-swell slot" ( line 9 - 11).
Date: November 9, 1897
Creator: Oliver, Samuel R.
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
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for a new and useful plow to "provides means whereby a shovel, plow, sweep, or other soil-working device may be connected with the beam or standard of a sulky or walking plow" ( line 7 - 10).
Date: November 9, 1897
Creator: Wells, Louis B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Egg-Case. (open access)

Egg-Case.

Patent for a new and useful improvement in egg case, that "relates to folding boxes or crates such as are usually employed for packing and shipping eggs and various other articles" (line 10-12).
Date: November 9, 1897
Creator: Prechtel, Charles A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Derrick. (open access)

Derrick.

Patent for a portable derrick "in which the derrick-frame is rotatable, the same being especially adapted for use in handling bales of cotton, baggage, ice, and other heavy articles." (Lines 14-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 9, 1897
Creator: Stallings, George V.
System: The Portal to Texas History