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Furniture Brace (open access)

Furniture Brace

This is a patent for a furniture brace. Illustration included.
Date: October 24, 1905
Creator: Nall, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design for Railroad Spike. (open access)

Design for Railroad Spike.

Design patent for a barbed railroad spike.
Date: September 7, 1897
Creator: Banks, Henry N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Destroying Insects (open access)

Apparatus For Destroying Insects

Patent for an apparatus for destroying boll weevils on cotton. Illustration included.
Date: July 26, 1904
Creator: Jones, Albert Lee
System: The Portal to Texas History
Buggy-Top (open access)

Buggy-Top

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in buggy tops, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 16, 1900
Creator: Hughes, James F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Armored Tread for Pneumatic Tires (open access)

Armored Tread for Pneumatic Tires

Patent for an armored tread pneumatic tires to protect from punctures. Illustrations included.
Date: July 23, 1912
Creator: Sims, Bona
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment (open access)

Cultivator Attachment

Patent for a combined cotton chopper and rolling fender to be attached to a cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date: November 21, 1911
Creator: Underwood, Elvy T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn or Cotton Planter. (open access)

Corn or Cotton Planter.

Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the frame, the seed-tube secured therein, the box secured around the upper end of the seed-tube and having the upper beveled edge, the hopper having its lower end resting on the said beveled edge, and the straps secured to the hopper and the box" (lines 52-58).
Date: October 30, 1888
Creator: Womack, George Edwin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dumping-Car. (open access)

Dumping-Car.

Patent for a dumping car in "which contents of the car may be readily discharged" (lines 11-12) including illustrations.
Date: December 3, 1889
Creator: Bogusch, Gustav & Zincke, August
System: The Portal to Texas History
Extensible Trestle. (open access)

Extensible Trestle.

Patent for an improvement to extensible trestles for masonry and carpentryscaffolding and other uses, including both instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 7, 1890
Creator: Bogusch, Robert J.; Bogusch, Gustav & Zincke, August
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flue-Cutter (open access)

Flue-Cutter

Patent for a flue cutter with a pair of pivoted arms, which can be detached, and a cutter-head.
Date: January 14, 1890
Creator: Bogusch, Robert J.; Zincke, August & Bogusch, Gustav
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for a churn with a "perforated dasher and a hollow or tubular dasher-shaft, through which the air passes into the churn-cylinder during the process of churning" (lines 14-17). The churn has a foot-rest and a false-bottom, and is meant to improve on simple and inexpensive churns.
Date: September 22, 1896
Creator: Stukes, John Marion
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for an improved car-coupling that features "a solid block at the back part of the draw-head, which when coupling the cars will come far enough back to hit the solid part in the draw-head and prevent the bent spring from breaking." (Lines 16-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 6, 1896
Creator: Schneider, Adolph F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachement for Cultivators. (open access)

Attachement for Cultivators.

Patent for an attachment for cultivators. The attachment allows for quick attachment and removal of the machinery.
Date: February 10, 1914
Creator: Gage, James J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Water-Pipes (open access)

Attachment for Water-Pipes

Patent for attachment for water pipes to prevent bursting of water pipes due to freezing of water while it passes through the pipes.
Date: April 8, 1913
Creator: Finlay, John K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher and Splicer. (open access)

Wire Stretcher and Splicer.

Patent for "a wire-patcher by which the wire rails of fences may be spliced when broken and stretched when any slack occurs." (Lines 16-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 26, 1896
Creator: Massey, Joseph Borygard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Internal-Combustion Engine. (open access)

Internal-Combustion Engine.

Patent for an internal combustion engine that improves on an explosive engine with two hollow pistons, one of which slides within the other and both are connected to a triple crank shaft, so that they reciprocate simultaneously in opposite directions. The invention improves on the construction, arrangement, and combination of parts of the explosive engine.
Date: October 28, 1913
Creator: Bogusch, Emil Gustave
System: The Portal to Texas History
Windmill (open access)

Windmill

Patent for a new windmill design with improvement with breaking from the wind with new connections.
Date: January 21, 1902
Creator: Bird, Willie G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Splicer. (open access)

Wire Splicer.

Patent for a new and improved wire-splicer. This design "consist[s] of a handle having an integral lateral offset at one end, provided with a transverse perforation formed substantially in line with the handle, a groove being formed in the angle formed by the lateral offset and the handle, and an enlarged recess being formed in the side of the handle and top of the offset concentrically with the groove" (lines 53-61).
Date: December 13, 1887
Creator: Batters, William Francis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Milk-Cooler. (open access)

Milk-Cooler.

Patent for an improvement in milk-coolers “in which water is drawn by capillary attraction from a receptacle placed above the milk-receptacle onto a cloth wrapped around the latter, thus cooling the milk by evaporation.” (Lines 8-12) Illustration is included.
Date: April 7, 1891
Creator: Banks, John F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow (open access)

Plow

Patent for improvements of plows and their agricultural implementation.
Date: July 9, 1901
Creator: Kothmann, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nail Receptacle. (open access)

Nail Receptacle.

Patent for a new and improved nail receptacle. This design consists in "a carrying-frame having a cross-beam provided with a rack, in combination with a swinging receptacle journaled in the frame and having enlarged rear end normally resting against the beam to elevate the discharge end thereof, and a detaining bar or rod pivoted to the under side of and carried by the swinging receptacle, and having a projecting lip adapted to engage the rack and retain the receptacle in its adjusted position" (lines 38-48).
Date: November 23, 1886
Creator: Mathews, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tire Shrinker. (open access)

Tire Shrinker.

Patent for a new and improved tire-shrinker. This design "consist[s] of the block having the perforations . . . mortise-hole, and mortised sockets, [and] curved bar secured to the circular edge of said block" (lines 97-100). Further, it "ha[s] on the outer edge the teeth, the U-shaped clamping-blocks, their bent ends fitting in the mortised sockets and under the curved bar, their mortised ends extending up either side of said bar and beyond its outer edge, keys fitting in the mortise-holes of said U-shaped blocks, [and] kinker-head having the arm extending through the mortise-hole in said bar" (lines 1-10).
Date: January 4, 1887
Creator: Templeton, David Scrivner & Templeton, John Daley
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate. (open access)

Gate.

Patent for construction of cheap gates.
Date: July 30, 1907
Creator: Haile, Lorenzo D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hat and Towel Holder. (open access)

Hat and Towel Holder.

Patent for a new and improved hat and towel holder. This design is "compris[ed of] a base-piece . . . having arms and a cylinder cast in one piece therewith, the arms and cylinder being arranged in a horizontal position near each end of the base-plate, and connected together at their outer ends by the vertical arm, and a plunger provided with the finger-piece having a coiled spring arranged in said cylinder, and adapted to bear against the base-plate to provide a support for the coat or towel" (lines 7-17).
Date: November 24, 1885
Creator: Mathews, William
System: The Portal to Texas History