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Placket - Fastener.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in placket holders.
Date:
February 22, 1898
Creator:
McCauley, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sewing-Machine Attachment.
Patent for a sewing machine attachment "which can be used for the purpose of sharpening any instrument of small size - such as needles, scissors, knives, &c.;" (lines 11-13) with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 11, 1891
Creator:
McDowell, Anthony B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ballast-Scraper.
Patent for new and useful improvements in ballast scrapers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 22, 1899
Creator:
McElvaney, Charles T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Seat.
Patent for improvements to the "Scarritt-Forney" seat so that the seat body and frame are detachable from each other. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 22, 1897
Creator:
Meier, Hermann
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Safety-Truck for Cars
Patent for safety trucks for railway cars to help prevent the derailment of cars.
Date:
November 22, 1892
Creator:
Moore, George Wash.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Piano Attachment.
Patent for "an attachment for upright pianos designed to produce a harp, mandolin, of cithern tone, and the object in view is to provide an attachment having an improved construction of strikers." (Lines 8-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 22, 1896
Creator:
Moyer, Jesse Hechler
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Piano Attachment.
Patent for a new and useful piano attachment.
Date:
March 22, 1898
Creator:
Moyer, Jesse Hechler
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Piano Attachment.
Patent for a new and useful piano attachment for "facilitating the adjustment of the means employed for producing said tones and for locking said means in operative position" (line 11 - 14).
Date:
March 22, 1898
Creator:
Moyer, Jesse Hechler
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pad for the Backs of Horses.
Patent for a new and improved pad for horses. This design consists in "the air-tight cushion composed of opposite blanks of elastic air-tight material secured along their adjacent edges, and a central longitudinally-disposed dividing strip dividing the cushion into opposite compartments, and provided with openings affording communication between the compartments" (lines 62-68).
Date:
April 22, 1890
Creator:
Mudford, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric-Circuit -Closing Device.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in electric circuit closing devices.
Date:
March 22, 1898
Creator:
Newman, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Truss.
Patent for a new and improved truss for relieving or supporting hernia, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 22, 1899
Creator:
Oliver, Zebulon
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fuse for Shells.
Patent for a new and improved shell fuse. This design "relates to that type of percussion-fuses wherein a fuse-tube is secured in the point or end of a shell and contains a plunged connected with a friction-wire embedded in the fulminate in such manner that when the flight of the shell is suddenly arrested the friction-wire is drawn forward by the plunger, thereby igniting the fulminate and setting fire to the powder-charge for bursting the shell. The objects of [the] invention are to . . . provide novel means which not only insure bursting of the shell, but avoid premature bursting at the muzzle of the gun" (lines 8-48).
Date:
April 22, 1890
Creator:
Phillips, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Destroyer.
Patent for a new and useful insect - destroyer.
Date:
March 22, 1898
Creator:
Priest, Eli Thompson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tool for Cleaning Out Nuts.
Patent for a tool for cleaning out internally-threaded apertures. This removes rust and dirt from screw-threads without damaging the threads, and is much less destructive than acid baths, heat, and screw-taps.
Date:
September 22, 1896
Creator:
Rall, Frederick A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame-Fastener.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in hame fasteners, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 22, 1899
Creator:
Rankin, Frank N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Fender.
Patent for a simple car-fender that improves on the types of "fenders which are attached to the front end of street and other car trucks for the purpose of saving human life by preventing a body from being thrown under the car wheels" (lines 10-14). The invention does not let a body under the car wheels.
Date:
May 22, 1894
Creator:
Rau, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Music-Case.
Patent for a "music case or holder for carrying, protecting, and using sheet-music, and is so constructed that by its use the music is not rolled nor creased, is held in place, and it is not necessary to take the music from the case when it is to be used." (Lines 8-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 22, 1895
Creator:
Ray, Theodore
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Means for Operating Swinging Gates.
Patent "to simplify and improve the construction of means for opening and closing swinging gates," (lines 10 - 12) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 12, 1892
Creator:
Rhodes, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for an improved car-coupling that consists of a hollow drawhead, a knuckle pivoted in the drawhead, a lock that pivots across the drawhead, a catch on one side of the drawhead, a spring presses on the side of the lock, a lever pivoted in the drawhead, a hand rod connected to the arm, a hand rod connected to the drawhead, and a bell crank lever pivoted in the drawhead.
Date:
May 22, 1894
Creator:
Roosevelt, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench
Patent for "new and useful improvements in Wrenches" consisting of "several novel features" including a "revoluble head" (lines 4-5,12, 16-17) with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 22, 1891
Creator:
Rosenburg, Helfred, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cistern.
Patent for an upright cylindrical cistern made from sheet-metal. This patent "consists in the application to and around the upper open end of the cistern and also if desired at different places around the body of the cistern, of a strengthening ring made of either wrought iron or steel or other suitable metal tubing or piping, to stiffen the cylindrical cistern, said piping or tubing being suitably fastened to the cistern and being arranged around the outside or inside of the same, but preferably around the outside and closely hugging said cistern" (lines 10-20).
Date:
January 22, 1895
Creator:
Schaefer, Henry P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gear-Shifting Mechanism for Conveyers for Harvesters.
Patent for the combination of parts in gear-shifting mechanisms in harvesters and binders, making construction cheaper and simpler. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 15, 1891
Creator:
Schubert, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Follower For Barrels.
Patent for a new and useful follower for barrels, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 22, 1899
Creator:
Shanks, David Willis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Cotton Distributer and Feeder.
Patent for a new and useful seed cotton distributer and feeder.
Date:
March 22, 1898
Creator:
Simington, Charley M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History