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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
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
Easel
Patent for an easel that has a sliding picture-rest, which is has a "clutch mechanism for holding the sliding rest at any desired elevation" (lines 11-14). It also has a "auxiliary folding rest for holding a model or study while the artist is engaged at work" (lines 20-22), which can be folded up when finished.
Date:
January 12, 1897
Creator:
Cooper, Harry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dry-Press Brick-Machine.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in dry press brick machines, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 7, 1899
Creator:
Frank, Samuel B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Disk-Hoe and Cotton-Chopper
Patent for a self-adjusting machine to uneven ground, that is gentle when cultivating around plants, and can be used as an attachment to a wheeled cultivator.
Date:
January 14, 1890
Creator:
Hurd, Judson B. & McLane, Hiram H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Binder for Plaster.
Design patent for a binder for plaster with parallel corrugations forming reversely-arranged dovetailed ribs.
Date:
November 7, 1899
Creator:
Ettler, John Adolph
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
Dress Stay.
Patent for a new and improved dress-stay. This design "is to avoid the use of paste or stitches in connection with the application of the stay, as well as to provide a stay which may be readily detached and reattached in case it be desired to change the location of the seam in order to make the garment either larger or smaller. To this end the invention consists in a stay-body of steel, whalebone, or some other resilient material inclosed within a suitable casing, and wire fasteners passing through said body, through the outer side of said casing, and through the edges of the seam at either side" (lines 10-23).
Date:
November 11, 1890
Creator:
Dacus, Augusta
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Detachable Handle and Spring-Catch.
Patent for improvements in detachable handles and spring-catches for valises, satchels, traveling-bags, and the like in which a handle “may be readily detached from the valise, and devices for automatically engaging and locking the handle to the valise when the handle is replaced.” (Lines 16-19) Illustration is included.
Date:
August 18, 1891
Creator:
Epstein, George B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Placing Torpedoes.
Patent for "a device especially adapted for placing torpedoes on railroad tracks and at the same time fixing the torpedo in position, the work being accomplished in a simple and expeditious manner while the train is in motion, whereby one train following another may be signaled without stopping the first train, thus preventing rear end collisions." (Lines 7-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 23, 1895
Creator:
Seamands, James D.
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
Design for Overalls.
Patent for a design for a pair of overalls that has a lengthened apron over the pant legs. This apron is fastened from its center down to its crotch.
Date:
August 11, 1896
Creator:
Lightner, Charles Eugene
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
Cactus-Burner.
Patent for a new and useful cactus burner, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 9, 1898
Creator:
Edmunds, Eddie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator and Cotton-Chopper
Patent for improvements "to provide flexible revolving knives or hoes, and, second, to afford facilities for supporting the cultivating and chopping device when out of the ground without throwing more weight behind the axle on the main wheels to tip the end of the pole against the horses necks" (lines 13-19).
Date:
January 14, 1890
Creator:
Hurd, Judson B. & McLane, Hiram H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History