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Car-Coupling.
Patent for an inexpensive, simple, and efficient improved twin-jaw coupling that couples automatically and easily uncouples. Operators do not need to go between cars to uncouple the cars. "A further object of the invention is in the operation of uncoupling to open the knuckle after releasing the same in order to have the knuckle in position predatory to coupling" (lines 16-19).
Date:
September 26, 1893
Creator:
Anderson, Anders Peder
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lifting-Jack.
Patent for "an improved lifting-jack designed expressly for track-levelers, although the construction may be varied for other purposes." (Lines 9-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 12, 1896
Creator:
Arnold, Raiford A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Wheel.
Patent for a new and improved vehicle wheel. This design is "to improve the felly-expanding devices, to provide a strong, durable, and efficient metallic connection between the spoke and felly, to provide novel means whereby the expanding movement of the felly is amplified by a partial rotation of a screw, and to otherwise improve vehicle-wheels" (lines 13-20).
Date:
December 16, 1890
Creator:
Ashford James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drawer.
Patent to "provide the drawers of a bureau, a desk, or other piece of furniture with anti-friction devices to prevent their binding." (Lines 11-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 15, 1891
Creator:
Baldwin, John. H, Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Treating Ores.
Patent for "an improved method of reducing gold and silver ores and recovering their metals." (Lines 10-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 17, 1896
Creator:
Barbour, Thomas P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Duplex Menu.
Patent for new and useful improvements in duplex menus, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 12, 1899
Creator:
Billow, Sherman
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition Pulp Plaster and Process of Manufacturing Same.
Patent for "a composition pulp plaster designed as a substitute for ordinary lime-plaster and equivalent materials and particularly adapted for use in warm moist climates, where the ordinary lime-plaster lacks durability and is rendered non-adherent. A further objective of the invention is to provide a cheap substitute for plaster which will be not only waterproof, but also fireproof and gas-proof or practically impervious to air" (lines 9-18). It includes instructions for manufacturing the plaster with various proportions of the ingredients depending on the purpose.
Date:
May 9, 1899
Creator:
Blake, David H. & Ray, Jeramiah P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for an improved plow that consists of a plow beam, a horizontal shoulder and a loop in its front, a clamp that adjusts the loop, a screw in the clamp and the vertical bar, and draft appliances. It is especially designed to easily connect to the animal that is drawing it.
Date:
August 8, 1893
Creator:
Blunck, John
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
Plant for Generating Electricity.
Patent for a "simple, durable, compact, and reliable plant, house, or means operated by the force and energy of the wind without supervision or attention, and generating electricity and storing the same for use" (lines 10-14).
Date:
August 20, 1895
Creator:
Bowen, George R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Road-Pavement.
Patent for "an improvement in the construction of road pavements, and has for its objects to provide a novel, simple, and comparatively inexpensive method and means for the speedy and convenient construction of a road bed, which will be smooth, durable, easy to travel upon, be readily repaired, avoid becoming slippery, that will not cut into ruts but preserve its normal condition, that will shed water in a large degree but retain a proper amount of moisture, and be non-liable to displacement by the action of frost." (Lines 7-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 12, 1894
Creator:
Bowen, George R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric-Current Controller.
Patent for a new and improved electric current controller for "use in connection with incandescent electric lamps" (line 10 - 11).
Date:
April 18, 1899
Creator:
Breeding, James Bouldin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Padlock.
Patent for a new and improved padlock. This design "has for its object to provide an improved lock which, while simple in construction and operation, is at the same time so constructed as to be proof against the possibility of picking by unauthorized persons, and one which when unlocked will automatically release itself from the object and which locks of itself when sprung together" (lines 7-15). It consists in "a locking-lever pivoted at its center in said casing and provided with a locking-pin at one end, adapted to engage the shackle-perforation, [and] a leaf-spring arranged within the casing" (lines 1-5).
Date:
September 6, 1892
Creator:
Brown, Vories P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thill-Coupling.
Patent for improvements in thill-couplings by using a combination of forward extension arms, having each near its forward end, circular shoulders, adapted to engage the ends of the shaft-iron; the spring-catch for holding the lever arm in locking position and, for retracting arm when the catch is released. Illustration is included.
Date:
March 17, 1891
Creator:
Bryan, William L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap.
Patent for a new and useful animal trap, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 5, 1899
Creator:
Buckersberg, Simon
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a car coupling that operates automatically and without causing danger to the railway employees. It operates by a lever on the side or top of the car.
Date:
December 5, 1893
Creator:
Burglin, Bernhard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a new and useful churn to "provide a simple and inexpensive construction of dasher adapted to supply air to the bottom of a churn-receptacle" (line 7 - 9).
Date:
March 29, 1898
Creator:
Burke, Henry A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Toy.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in toys, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 12, 1898
Creator:
Busse, Annie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lantern.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in lanterns, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 25, 1898
Creator:
Cadwallader, Aldes H. & Carolan, Eugene P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cabinet.
Patent for a cabinet meant to contain "screws, bolts, rivets, and similar articles, and has for its object to provide a case for the storage of such articles by means of which the different articles are kept separate one from another, while at the same time ready access may be had to any one of the storage-compartments" (lines 9-15). It is circular and has a wheeled base.
Date:
October 27, 1896
Creator:
Caplinger, Joseph E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Paper-Folder.
Patent for a rotary paper folder meant to fold newspapers as they come from the press in a web. The invention is simple, and cuts the paper into sheets of the desired length. Its folding attachment folds the paper in parallel columns, and the knives do not move in relation to the cylinders.
Date:
January 23, 1894
Creator:
Carr, Elijah W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dry-Earth Closet
Patent for "a commode which may be placed in a bed-room or other suitable place in a house without .danger to occupants on account of disease which would be superinduced by the presence of impure odors, as would be the case where an ordinary receptacle is used" and where the solid and liquid waste would be separated (lines 26-36).
Date:
January 28, 1890
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Appratus for Treating Refuse Matter.
Patent for "the perfection of an apparatus by the use of which night soil or garbage may be reduced to ashes in the shortest possible time and at a comparatively trivial expense" (lines 20-24).
Date:
August 8, 1893
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History