Planter Attachment For Cultivators. (open access)

Planter Attachment For Cultivators.

Patent for a new and useful planter attachment for cultivators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 24, 1899
Creator: Collier, Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle-Frame. (open access)

Bicycle-Frame.

Patent for a new and useful bicycle frame, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 23, 1899
Creator: Mills, Virgel H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press. (open access)

Cotton-Press.

Patent for new and useful improvements in cotton presses, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 20, 1898
Creator: Mason, William R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator. (open access)

Cultivator.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cultivators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 27, 1898
Creator: Owens, John H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Rein-Holder. (open access)

Design for a Rein-Holder.

Design patent for a rein-holder that has an arched body with an ornate central-crest piece located on the top.
Date: August 23, 1898
Creator: Gallaway. Perry C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Calipers and Dividers. (open access)

Calipers and Dividers.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in measuring instruments, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 12, 1898
Creator: Taulman, Joseph Edwin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine. (open access)

Rotary Engine.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in rotary engines, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 9, 1898
Creator: Mason, William R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in plows. This improvements are to " render the plow right and strong and easy-running, reducing the effort required by the plowman to handle the plow to a minimum, and to render the handles and beam and plow-plate readily adjustable as regards pitch and height (line 10 - 16).
Date: December 28, 1897
Creator: Kirkpatrick, James M. & Files, Jerry B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Egg-Case. (open access)

Egg-Case.

Patent for a new and useful improvement in egg case, that "relates to folding boxes or crates such as are usually employed for packing and shipping eggs and various other articles" (line 10-12).
Date: November 9, 1897
Creator: Prechtel, Charles A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sad - Iron Attachment For Pressing Seams. (open access)

Sad - Iron Attachment For Pressing Seams.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in Sad-Iron Attachments for pressing Seams to "provide a device of this class which is adapted to be connected with an ordinary sad - iron" (line 12 - 14)
Date: November 2, 1897
Creator: Rice, Margaret Elizabeth
System: The Portal to Texas History
Quilting-Frame. (open access)

Quilting-Frame.

Patent for a quilting frame "pivotally attached to a suspending-bar, whereby either part may be brought beneath the arm of the sewing-machine without requiring the shifting of the goods to bring a new part into position to be quilted until after the exposed portions of the two parts have been quilted." (Lines 24-30) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 29, 1897
Creator: Scoby, William E. & Spoonts, Joseph L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lamp. (open access)

Lamp.

Patent for improvements to headlight lamps used in locomotives, with illustrations.
Date: May 25, 1897
Creator: Pitts, William Wirt
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hay-Press. (open access)

Hay-Press.

Patent for a hay-press that has an easily detachable tie-box and power-head, and the plunger-beam has an improved construction. Loose hay "fed into the feed-box [is] gathered or collected by the plunger through the instrumentality of teeth on a peculiarly-formed power-head engaging teeth on the plunger-beam and then compressed by a finger or arm on the power-head baring against the end of the plunger-beam" (lines 22-28). The press does not need to pinned to the ground.
Date: December 22, 1896
Creator: Jones, Charles E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Telephone Attachment. (open access)

Telephone Attachment.

Patent for "a device which will support the weight of the telephone-receiver on the switch-lever whether the receiver be hung on the hooks of said lever or carelessly dropped, [the] object being to provide against the short-circuiting of the local battery when the telephone is not being used, whereby it would become uselessly exhausted, and also to insure that the signal-bell shall at such times always be in operative circuit with the central station, so that the annoyance to a distant exchange or subscriber by a failure of the call-bell to respond is avoided." (Lines 9-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 22, 1896
Creator: Christopher, William O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Autographic Register. (open access)

Autographic Register.

Patent for a device to register fares in situations where passengers pay to be transported from one location to another, specifically by train. The fare-collector needs a way to have accurate receipts as fares are collected. The invention is a "small portable ticket-holder and registering device (lines 38-39), that issues valid tickets "which will enable a conductor to keep a correct current amount of fares as received as well as a record of tickets sold and mileage traveled on same" (lines 41-45), and prevents dishonesty in fare-collectors.
Date: November 3, 1896
Creator: Bond, George D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dental-Plate-Polishing Tool. (open access)

Dental-Plate-Polishing Tool.

Patent for a machine that dresses or reduces dental plates uniformly, and can dress dental plates to any thickness. It also can "provide permanently-exposed means for indicating the thickness to which the plate is being reduced" (lines 16-19). It will not puncture or weaken dental plates.
Date: October 13, 1896
Creator: Barnes, Preston B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grass and Weed Exterminator. (open access)

Grass and Weed Exterminator.

Patent for a grass and weed exterminator, especially those weeds that roots are a network of runners that can't be pulled up. The destroyer plows them up, ten inches or more, and sifts through the dirt, pulling up the network of plants.
Date: September 29, 1896
Creator: Briggs, George, W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water Elevator and Carrier. (open access)

Water Elevator and Carrier.

Patent for a water elevator and carrier that is designed to quickly and efficiently transport water from a well, spring, or cistern to the operator. A bucket can be quickly transported to the well, spring, or cistern and be filled also.
Date: August 11, 1896
Creator: Wilkerson, Thomas D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Portable Furnace. (open access)

Portable Furnace.

Patent for a furnace adapted for camping and general outdoor use. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 21, 1896
Creator: Underwood, William T. & Underwood, Leroy C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Planter Attachment. (open access)

Seed-Planter Attachment.

Patent for "seed-planter attachments; and it has for its object to provide a new and useful machine of this character adapted to simultaneously plant two rows of corn, cotton, or other seed at any desired distance apart and to also provide means for marking the third row at any width from the planter." (Lines 8-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 14, 1896
Creator: Adkins, Stephen J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Thill-Support. (open access)

Thill-Support.

Patent for an antirattling attachment for thill-couplings or thill-irons. It can attach to any axle and any thill, and causes the device to put constant pressure on the eye of the thill-iron. This prevents rattling where the iron is connected with the axel-clip and puts tension on the front of the thill-iron in a rearward direction. This tension balances the shafts and thills when the horse is attached to the thill. When the horse is unattached, the thill is held in an upright position by the attachment.
Date: February 18, 1896
Creator: Price, Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Metallic Buttonhole-Eyelet. (open access)

Metallic Buttonhole-Eyelet.

Patent for a metallic buttonhole-eyelet that produces a finished appearance that can easily be attached to the fabric. The eyelet can be made bigger or smaller depending on the size of the button.
Date: August 6, 1895
Creator: Wheat, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hay-Rake. (open access)

Hay-Rake.

Patent for an improvement on a revolving hay-rake that is simple, economic, and easily manipulated. It can move backwards as well as forward, and the teeth can turn freely. The ground pressure of the teeth can be adjusted.
Date: April 30, 1895
Creator: Lunday, Isaac G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Steam-Engine. (open access)

Rotary Steam-Engine.

Patent for a rotary steam-engine that provides "a new and useful machine of this character wherein a head or pressure of steam shall be utilized to its fullest extent with a consequent increase in power over other engines worked under the same head or pressure of steam. To this end the main and primary object of the present invention is to provide a simple, economical and durable steam engine of the rotary type having few working parts, but one which shall run easily and steadily and will develop considerable power" (lines 9-19).
Date: March 26, 1895
Creator: Henderson, Robert L.
System: The Portal to Texas History