Resource Type

69 Matching Results

Results open in a new window/tab.

Air-Tight Heating-Stove (open access)

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
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling Seed-Cotton. (open access)

Apparatus for Handling Seed-Cotton.

Patent for an improved cotton elevator, separator, and distributor that is meant to move cotton from a wagon or storage, remove dirt, and deliver it to a gin. The "improved apparatus comprises a pneumatic cotton-conveying tube by which the cotton is lifted or carried to the distributor, a separator for removing the cotton from the air current, and a distributor comprising a trunk for receiving the cotton from the separator extending over the two gin feeders, having openings delivering into the feeders, and an endless chain conveyer moving in said trunk, causing the cotton to travel along therein and drop out therefrom through the delivery openings into the feeders" (lines 16-27).
Date: October 31, 1893
Creator: Bachman, Joseph A. & Clark, Frank S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Removing Cores from Cylindrical Cotton-Bales. (open access)

Apparatus for Removing Cores from Cylindrical Cotton-Bales.

Patent for a "means for removing screw-threaded cores from cylindrical cotton-bales" (lines 12-14). It is made up of a wheeled-truck that is holding the bale, an apparatus that grips the end of the core, a way to revolve the grip, a driven shaft, and a universal joint that connects the shaft with the end of the core.
Date: December 31, 1895
Creator: White, Charles W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Scouring Water-Ways. (open access)

Apparatus for Scouring Water-Ways.

Patent for an improved apparatus for scouring water-ways by using water-discharge pipes and air-discharge pipes arranged at each side of the vessel. When “vessel is slowly moved forward while the water and air forcing pumps are working,..... direct force of the water-jets and air-jets will agitate and scatter and lift the dislodged particles and float them much higher and longer than would be the case were the water-jet pipes alone used.” (Lines 63-75) Illustration is included.
Date: March 31, 1891
Creator: Holden, Elbridge G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Ginning-Machines. (open access)

Attachment for Ginning-Machines.

Patent for improvements in attachment for ginning machines: "provide mechanical means for conveying the cotton and seed that is delivered from the gins through pneumatic tubes to the baling room and see house" (lines 15-19).
Date: August 31, 1897
Creator: Coursey, Netter R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Pianos or Organs. (open access)

Attachment for Pianos or Organs.

Patent for an attachment for pianos or organs that allows for the convenient movement of the instruments that does not damage the instrument or the building.
Date: October 31, 1893
Creator: Carter, James William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Axle. (open access)

Axle.

Patent for improvement in axles by using a “combination of a bar, two skeins and means for holding the skeins in place upon the bar,” (lines 17-18) includes illustration.
Date: March 31, 1891
Creator: Stewart, John A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bottle. (open access)

Bottle.

Patent for "a bottle and stopper whereby the bottle can be filled in the ordinary manner, but after being sealed by the stopper of novel construction it cannot be refilled after once being emptied without breaking or fracturing the bottle." (Lines 12-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 31, 1897
Creator: Stallings, George V.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bracket. (open access)

Bracket.

Patent for improvements in brackets that used to support shelf or for other purposes by using a combination of hinged brackets, a longitudinal wire formed with bends to receive the inclined portions of the brackets, and with hooks at its outer ends; this improved brackets “can be folded in close contact with the shelf, so as to occupy little space for shipment or storage.” (Lines 17-19) Illustration is included.
Date: March 31, 1891
Creator: Porter, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brake and Coasting Sprocket-Wheel for Velocipedes. (open access)

Brake and Coasting Sprocket-Wheel for Velocipedes.

Patent for "a combined coasting and driving wheel with brake attachments for stopping velocipedes, whether coasting or whether the velocipede is being propelled by some kind of motive power, by which a person can coast by simply stopping the motion of the pedals and holding the pedals still with the feet." (Lines 9-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 31, 1897
Creator: Wallerich, Nicholas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Broom-Rack. (open access)

Broom-Rack.

Patent for a new and useful broom rack, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 31, 1898
Creator: Smith, Walter I.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for a car-coupling that has a draw-bar attached to the car, a hollow draw-head with a flaring opening that sits horizontally to the draw-bar, a spring that holds the draw-head in the horizontal position, a bar that raises and lowers the forward end of the draw-head against the spring, a coupling-pin that sits in the draw-head, a chain that connects the draw-head to the bell-crank lever, a cam that supports the chain, and a device that turns the cam in either direction in order to tighten the chain.
Date: March 31, 1896
Creator: Epps, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for a simple and efficient car coupling that easily couples by impact, and can uncouple without going between cars.
Date: July 31, 1894
Creator: Kirk, John P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chemical Fire-Extinguisher. (open access)

Chemical Fire-Extinguisher.

Patent for chemical fire extinguishers "in which the acid-bottle consists of two concentric cylinders, the inner one of which is open at top and bottom, and which, when the bottle is placed in the cylinder containing the water and soda, potash, or other material, a compressed-air seal will be formed, preventing the acid and water from commingling; but when the bottle is inverted the seal will be broken, and the water and acid coming together will generate the gas." (Lines 18-28) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 31, 1895
Creator: Flatau, Louis Spencer
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chemical Fire-Extingusiher. (open access)

Chemical Fire-Extingusiher.

Patent for a chemical fire-extinguisher meant to "provide an improved acid-receptacle which will obviate the objects to the ordinary acid-bottles now in use" (lines 15-18).
Date: December 31, 1896
Creator: Flatau, Louis, S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin. (open access)

Clothes-Pin.

Patent for a clothes pin made from spring metal that "automatically adapt[s] itself to lines of different thicknesses, and whereby the pin may be used to retain an exceedingly thin article in engagement with the line as effectually as an exceedingly thick article, the pin being capable of holding a bit of lace and likewise a heavy blanket or quilt" (lines 11-18). It is especially designed for use with metal clothes lines.
Date: October 31, 1893
Creator: Jones, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pounder. (open access)

Clothes-Pounder.

Patent for "an automatic clothes washer and soaper whereby the clothes are soaped and cleansed by one and the same operation." (Lines 18-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 31, 1897
Creator: Rylander, William P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Tool. (open access)

Combination-Tool.

Patent for a new and useful combination tool, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 31, 1898
Creator: Karner, Joseph C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Horse-Detacher and Brake. (open access)

Combined Horse-Detacher and Brake.

Patent for a simple and durable combined horse-detacher and brake that stops the car after releasing the animal. This patent simplifies a previous patent application (Serial No. 565,581). Both the horse-detacher and brake are activated at the same time by pulling one lever. The brake sits under the car and can hardly be seen.
Date: March 31, 1896
Creator: Friedlander, Joseph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Compress. (open access)

Cotton-Compress.

Patent for a new and useful cotton compress, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 31, 1899
Creator: Brady, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin Attachment. (open access)

Cotton-Gin Attachment.

Patent for a cotton gin attachment that cleans and separates the lint before it reaches the machines condenser.
Date: May 31, 1892
Creator: Scott, Eugene C. & Kelly, George A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator and Harrow. (open access)

Cultivator and Harrow.

Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and efficient cultivator and harrow. The cultivator beam has a v-shaped tooth, arms extending forward.
Date: December 31, 1895
Creator: White, William C. & Stevens, John C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Lantern-Box. (open access)

Design for a Lantern-Box.

Design patent for a lantern box with a hexagonal shape and 5 square windows on each side.
Date: October 31, 1899
Creator: Rhodes, Omer J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Link for Clothes-Lines. (open access)

Design for a Link for Clothes-Lines.

Design patent for a link for clothes-lines of a useful and novel design.
Date: October 31, 1899
Creator: Irvine, John F.
System: The Portal to Texas History