Wood-Preservative. (open access)

Wood-Preservative.

Patent for a compound with preservative qualities for protecting submersed wood from the destructive forces of water, whether sea or fresh, and from shipworms.
Date: July 9, 1895
Creator: Gallinowsky, Hugo
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel. (open access)

Vehicle-Wheel.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in the construction of wheels for vehicles, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 12, 1898
Creator: Labatt, Joseph Augustus & Lewis, George Harris
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nailless Horseshoe. (open access)

Nailless Horseshoe.

Patent for a certain new and useful improvement in nailless horseshoes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 4, 1899
Creator: Broers, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stop Attachment for Cotton-Gins. (open access)

Stop Attachment for Cotton-Gins.

Patent for "automatic stop attachments for cotton ginning and condensing apparatus; and it has for its objects to provide a new and useful attachment of this character operated in connection with a gin-condenser and gin-feeder to provide positive means for automatically stopping the ginning operation and the feed of cotton in the event of the condenser becoming choked, which choking often wrecks the gin-brush, ruins the saws, and creates fire by friction." (Lines 9-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 13, 1897
Creator: Rembert, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fire-Escape. (open access)

Fire-Escape.

Patent for improvements in fire-escapes “in which a rope forming part of the device, has its upper end attached within a window or other opening of a building and is connected with apparatus to raise and lower an ascending fireman or other person escaping from the building.” (Lines 16-21) Illustration is included.
Date: July 7, 1891
Creator: Rutledge, William O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rocking-Chair Fan. (open access)

Rocking-Chair Fan.

Patent for a rocking chair fan that spins when the operator begins rocking in the chair. It easily adjusts to any model of rocking chair and is noiseless.
Date: July 21, 1896
Creator: Martyr, Leonard W. & Martyr, Ernest E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Folding Cot or Bedstead. (open access)

Folding Cot or Bedstead.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in folding cots or bedsteads, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 19, 1898
Creator: Rimmelin, Edward H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mosquito Bar Frame. (open access)

Mosquito Bar Frame.

Patent for a new and improved mosquito-bar frame. This design "consist[s], essentially, of the upright bars having their upper ends reduced . . . and provided with staples, the brackets, having loops at opposite ends and a pintle on its lower branch to enter the staples in the posts, the lateral rods carrying the loop brackets at opposite ends, and sockets . . . to receive the upper ends of the posts, the inner cross-bar arranged in the inner brackets of the lateral rods, the outer cross-bar arranged in the outer brackets of said rods, and the longitudinally-adjustable slide-bar carrying guide-eyes" lines 82-95).
Date: July 29, 1890
Creator: Meyers, John Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator. (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator.

Patent for a new and useful acetylene gas generator, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 18, 1899
Creator: Eldridge, Hilliary & Blum, Sylvain
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design for Insect Guard for Furniture (open access)

Design for Insect Guard for Furniture

Design patent for an insect-guard for furniture that is both useful and ornamental.
Date: July 6, 1897
Creator: Collier, John Charlis
System: The Portal to Texas History