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Spring Bed Bottom.
Patent for a new and improved box-spring. This design consists in "[a] main frame having slats and springs and a metallic frame encircling said springs, in combination with the curved brace-springs having the coils and loops pressing on top of the slats, said springs being secured to the slats and metallic frame, and the rods secured to said frame and passing through the ends of the slats" (lines 76-83).
Date:
January 13, 1891
Creator:
Houston, Leonard B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Padlock.
Patent for a new and improved padlock. This design "relates . . . more particularly to those padlocks which are used for locking railway-switches . . . [T]he invention consists in a padlock comprising a bow, or hasp, or shackle, a spring-bolt for engaging the same, tumblers, and a lever connecting the tumblers and bolt, a locking device for the tumblers, and an audible alarm, such as a bell" (lines 9-25).
Date:
January 13, 1891
Creator:
Lucas, George William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sanitary Closet
Patent for "improvements on sanitary closets for destroying the human excrement-s on the premises with little labor and expense" (lines 8-11).
Date:
May 13, 1890
Creator:
McCamant, Theodore F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive automatically car-coupling that holds the link in a horizontal position that the operator does not need to guide the couplings by hand. It can also be uncoupled without going between the cars.
Date:
November 13, 1894
Creator:
Norcross, George A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Keeping Contents of Vessels Beneath The Surface of Liquid Therein Contained.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in devices for keeping the contents of vessels beneath the surface of the liquid therein contained,
Date:
December 13, 1898
Creator:
Schenck, August & Schenck, Adolph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Telephone.
Patent for a simple and effective magneto telephone with a newly designed apparatus that allows the telephone to better receive and transmit calls and "will receive its magnetism from the magnets of the magneto call" (lines 21-22).
Date:
November 13, 1894
Creator:
Serdinko, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Tightener.
Patent for an adjustable tire tightener. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 13, 1897
Creator:
Taylor, William Buford.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in car couplings, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 13, 1898
Creator:
Thompson, George C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History