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Method of Applying a Corn-Shuck Wrapper to a Cigar.
Patent for a "method of applying a protective corn shuck wrapper to a cigar" (lines 97-98) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 6, 1915
Creator:
Rossy, Charles J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of Converting Mesquite Beans.
Patent for a new and improved method of treating mesquite beans. This is a design "whereby they are converted into a healthful easily-digestible article of food . . . or may be infused in liquid for producing a healthful or agreeable drink" (lines 8-13). It consists, "first, in a preliminary drying of the bean as a whole to eradicate moisture; second, breaking the thus-dried bean into short pieces to render it more readily affected by the heat . . . third, roasting the broken particles to render friable or more brittle; fourth, grinding the mass, and fifth, separating the powdered bean and outer pod from the hull" (lines 13-21).
Date:
July 26, 1892
Creator:
Jacobs, Thomas H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe Grip
Patent for pipe grip. Illustration included.
Date:
July 24, 1906
Creator:
Griffin, Claud Champ
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Piano-Key Mounting.
Patent for a piano key mounting with a key pin that makes the "touch" required to depress the keys easily adjustable.
Date:
July 18, 1911
Creator:
Mayor, Enoch Allen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Safety Device for Steam-Boilers
Patent for a safety device designed to cut off steam in the even of an accident.
Date:
July 15, 1902
Creator:
Foskett, Fred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draft Appliance for Agricultural Implements.
Patent for a pivoted draft tongue for farm implements that allows the tongue to move from side to side and be controlled by the driver.
Date:
July 27, 1909
Creator:
Hartman, Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Core-Operating Device
Patent for bale core operating device which improves the bale core quality around which the bale is formed, including illustrations.
Date:
July 16, 1918
Creator:
Taft, John A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Watch Belt-Buckle.
Patent for a watch belt-buckle. This invention allows a novel belt buckle to retain a watch therein so that time can be observed. Additionally, this invention allows for the watch to be readily open or closed with respect to the buckle via a removable hinge.
Date:
July 5, 1921
Creator:
Perry, Charles, Jr. & Currie, Neil
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Implement for Extracting Axle Boxes from Wheel Hubs.
Patent for a new and improved extractor of axle-boxes from wheel hubs. This design is "compris[ed of] screw-threaded rigid portion, elastic bifurcated expansible portion having ledges, abutting frame . . . consisting of bar having central hollow boss and adjustable sliding legs, in combination with the . . . operating nut" (lines 82-91).
Date:
July 5, 1887
Creator:
Geyer, Hermann R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Headlight.
Patent for a headlight, which can have a curtain mounted and drawn across it.
Date:
July 19, 1910
Creator:
Bennack, Frank P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Decorticating Fibrous Leaves of Plants.
Patent for a machine that decorticates fibrous material from leaves and plants designed to be of low manufacturing cost and light enough to be carried on pack animals.
Date:
July 10, 1917
Creator:
Askew, Joel Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dental Clamp
Patent for a dental clamp. Illustration included.
Date:
July 26, 1904
Creator:
Carroll, Houston Monroe
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Desk-Ruler.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in desk-rules, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 4, 1899
Creator:
Connett, Matthew F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dental-Care Attachment.
Patent for a dental-chair attachment mean to support a table to hold instruments, a waste-bowl, a lamp, glasses, and other things a dentist might need. The attachment can easily be separated and adjusted.
Date:
July 2, 1895
Creator:
Mayes, Robert Martin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Handkerchief, &c.
Patent for "a new and original design for handkerchiefs, fans, napkins, cards, and similar articles" (lines 8-10).
Date:
July 7, 1896
Creator:
Bowen, George R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Handkerchief, &c.
Patent for a design for handkerchiefs, cards, napkins, etc., which features an Indian head,, a lion head, unicorns, scrolls, etc. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 7, 1896
Creator:
Bowen, George R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Frame for Motor-Bicycles
Patent for "a strong frame at low cost in which the motor shall be yieldingly supported and wherein by preference the rider may be sustained on an elastic support, so as to maintain a uniform relation with the pedal-shafts, and the movement of the engine properly guided" (lines 11-17).
Date:
July 2, 1901
Creator:
White, Edward Y.
System:
The Portal to Texas History