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Design for a Lantern-Box.
Design patent for a lantern box with a hexagonal shape and 5 square windows on each side.
Date:
October 31, 1899
Creator:
Rhodes, Omer J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas-Generating Lamp.
Patent for a new and useful acetylene gas lamp, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 5, 1899
Creator:
Eldridge, Hilliary
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cutter Head
Patent for a cutter head. This invention is used for shaping and dressing jambs. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 30, 1906
Creator:
Heckel, Albert F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Enlarging Negatives.
Patent for a new or improved device to enlarge negatives; that is simple, portable, and ready to use, including illustrations.
Date:
February 18, 1902
Creator:
Hutchings, George B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Friction-Clutch
Patent for "a clutch wherein the members composing the clutch are adapted to transmit motion from one to the other by frictional engagement thereof " (lines 12-15) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 19, 1900
Creator:
Ford, James Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Digging-Machine.
Patent for an improved, simple, effective, and durable excavator meant to remove sand-bars. It consists of a hollow drum that is drug across the sandbar, and it picks up sand with shovels on the drum.
Date:
November 21, 1893
Creator:
Bentinck, Eliza J. & Renner, Julia A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Pipe and Bar Cutters
Patent for a new and improved pipe and bar cutter, which cuts metal and steel. This design is simple, convient, and effective, including illustration.
Date:
May 21, 1877
Creator:
Astall, Jesse
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Portable Houses.
Patent for improvements in the construction of portable wooden houses, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 8, 1878
Creator:
Boyd, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements In Bale-Ties
Patent for improved Bale-Ties which is designed to unite the two ends of a binder placed around a compressed mass of cotton, hay, or moss.
Date:
November 24, 1874
Creator:
Reese, John L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Frame House.
Patent for a new and improved frame house. This design consists of "[t]he combination, in a roof, of T-shaped caps or battens having in their depending tongues the transverse dovetail grooves, the roof-boards arranged above the grooves and below the horizontal and lateral arms of the said battens, and the purlins adapted to enter the grooves and grooved longitudinally to engage the said tongues" (lines 23-31).
Date:
January 17, 1882
Creator:
Boyd, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Abdominal Supporter.
Patent for a new and improved supporter for the abdomen during pregnancy. This design "consists of an abdominal sack for the support of the abdomen in pregnancy, which is contrived with supporting-bands adapted for supporting it from the shoulders of the wearer, where the weight can be best sustained, and so as to entirely avoid the belt commonly used, and thus relieve the stomach and liver from the pressure and irritation which it produces" (lines 7-15).
Date:
September 11, 1883
Creator:
Galney, Augustus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Controlling Runaway Horses.
Patent for a new and improved device for controlling runaway horses. This design has for its object "to construct an apparatus whereby such a pressure may be applied by the rider or driver of the animal in connection with which the apparatus is employed, the invention consisting of pads that are supported by lever-arms pivotally connected to a bit, and of a means whereby said pads may be moved toward each other—that is, to a position so that they will bear upon the outer nostril-wall . . . [since horses] may be quickly subdued by bringing continued pressure to bear upon their noses" (lines 9-21).
Date:
August 16, 1887
Creator:
Grumbach, Isaïe
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cable Stopper.
Patent for a new and improved cable or chain stopper. For this design, "the chain-links lie diagonally in opposite directions upon the recessed bottom of the clamping-box, and the clamping-block has a similarly recessed under face . . . and a forked lever is employed to press the clamping-block toward the bottom of the clamping-box, and thereby apply the required force to the chain to lessen its speed as it runs out" (lines 18-32).
Date:
October 18, 1881
Creator:
Lucas, Thomas P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "has for its objects to provide a coupling-pin which can be reversed when one end becomes worn, to provide a reversible pin of novel construction, which is adapted to automatically engage the ordinary coupling-link, and to provide a coupling-pin of novel construction, with a device for holding it elevated when it is not desired to engage a coupling-link" (lines 10-18).
Date:
May 15, 1883
Creator:
Fowler, Joseph C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Camel for Lightening Vessels.
Patent for a new and improved camel. This design "is to provide an apparatus that can be used for lifting or lightening deep-draft ships at sea or in roadsteads, for taking them over bars or through shallow water. To that end [the] invention consists in a floating apparatus or dock constructed so as to be sunk for receiving the vessel, and so as to be afterward raised for lifting and carrying the vessel" (lines 7-16).
Date:
October 23, 1883
Creator:
Peetz, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cabinet for Holding Postage Stamps, &c.
Patent for a new and improved cabinet. This design "consists in a commercial postage-stamp holding, preserving, and denomination-indicating book, the same having its blank leaves formed of paper so prepared that postage-stamps will not adhere to them, and some of said leaves being provided at intervals with exposed tabs which have numerical indices marked upon them and serve for indicating the denomination of the stamps placed between the leaves at different parts of the book. It also consists in . . . a rigid outer supporting-cabinet provided with means for confining the book" (lines 12-27).
Date:
May 24, 1892
Creator:
Exline, Marcus P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cushion-Tire.
Patent for a more durable bicycle tire. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 22, 1897
Creator:
Hayes, Rebecca Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Crab and Fish Trap.
Patent for a new and improved seafood trap. This design consists in "a net or trap for crabs or fish, which comprises flat frame-sections hinged together, netting attached to said sections, and a rod or bar extending across said sections and engaging with suitable devices thereon for holding said sections partly extended until the hinged sides strike bottom and thereby release the rod or bar" (lines 83-90).
Date:
April 1, 1890
Creator:
Franklin, Robert M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for "a compress having a continuous operation, whereby one bale of cotton is being formed by the compress all the time the same is working, and thereby rendering it unnecessary to completely stop the working of the entire press for every single bale made until the bale can be wrapped and discharged out of the press." (Lines 15-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 14, 1896
Creator:
Griffin, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for a cotton-press with "new and useful roller-compresses for making bales of cotton into a cylindrical or roll-form, and also having simple and efficient mechanism for continuously forming a bale all the time the compress is in operation, which result has heretofore been impossible in presses of that character employing only one pair of compressing-rolls" (lines 9-17).
Date:
June 16, 1896
Creator:
Griffin, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History