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Bottle
Patent for a new and useful improvements in bottles. This invention is to "provide an improved vessel of this class the neck of which is formed in such manner and provided with attachments so constructed that when the vessel has been filled and the attachment applied the vessel may be emptied of its contents, but cannot be refilled or reused" (line 12- 18).
Date:
December 14, 1897
Creator:
Saunders, David Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crayon Holder
Patent for a new and useful improvements in crayon holders. This design is to "provide an improved device which may be constructed cheaply, be light, and have a neat appearance" (line 13-14).
Date:
December 14, 1897
Creator:
Rugeley, Fannie M.
System:
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Acetylene Gas Machine
Patent for a new and useful improvement in gas-machines.
Date:
December 14, 1897
Creator:
Bryant, Henry
System:
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Bale Tie
Patent for a new and improved bale tie. This invention is to "provide a new and improved bale-tie which is simple and durable in construction, not liable to become accidentally unlocked, and arranged to permit its use on ordinary compresses" (line 7 - 11).
Date:
December 14, 1897
Creator:
Edmonston, Thomax Cole
System:
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Animal-Trap.
Patent for a new and useful animal trap, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 14, 1899
Creator:
Johnson, Joshua J.
System:
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Clevis.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in clevises, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 14, 1898
Creator:
Taylor, George H.
System:
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Ball-Caster.
Patent for a new and useful ball caster, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 14, 1899
Creator:
Carraway, Esther P. H.
System:
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Coin Controlled Tire Inflater
Patent for a new and useful improvements in coin controlled tire inflaters. This invention is to "provide an apparatus to be operated through the introduction of a coin of predetermined value of inflating pneumatic tires to any pressure desired automatically" (line 15 - 19).
Date:
December 14, 1897
Creator:
Ligon, John Barrows
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Biblical Game Apparatus
Patent for a new and useful game apparatus. This design is to "provide a biblical game apparatus adapted to be employed in play by two or more persons" (line 8-10).
Date:
December 14, 1897
Creator:
James, Will S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bridge Construction.
Patent for a new and useful bridge construction, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 14, 1898
Creator:
Davidson, James Allen
System:
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Churn.
Patent for a new and useful churn, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 14, 1899
Creator:
Neuendorff, John B.
System:
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Combination-Tool.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in a combination tool, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 14, 1898
Creator:
McCarty, William N.
System:
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Cloth Bucket or Vessel.
Patent for a cloth bucket or vessel to place milk or water in to keep it cool when ice is not available. One places the bucket in the shade and the air circulates freely through the bucket. The bucket is thick enough that it will not drip, but is breathable to allow aeration and evaporation.
Date:
January 14, 1896
Creator:
Slack, Robert A.
System:
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Bicycle-Wheel.
Patent for an improved rear bicycle-wheel. It has one hub, two rims, two sets of spokes and tires. This invention is meant to be safer and has the qualities of a tricycle. It is meant for a woman's bicycle.
Date:
January 14, 1896
Creator:
Broers, Henry
System:
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Awning-Bracket.
Patent for a rigid, strong, and adjustable to different inclinations awning-bracket meant to be permanently attached to a building. It can be folded for shipment or storage.
Date:
January 14, 1896
Creator:
Harry, Owen K.
System:
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Cotton Cleaner and Feeder.
Patent for "a machine especially adapted for cleaning cotton and distributing the same to one or more gins; and it has for its object to so construct the machine that it will receive the cotton from the usual suction-pipe or equivalent supply, will clean the cotton, shred or separate the same and deliver it to a carrier, which in its turn will distribute the cotton to the hoppers of one or more gins, the distribution being evenly and expeditiously accomplished; and a further object of the invention is to provide for a steady feed of the cotton at the delivery end of the carrier, said device effectually preventing choking at that point." (Lines 7-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 14, 1896
Creator:
Moore, Martin L.
System:
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Clothes-Pounder.
Patent for a clothes pounder used in washing clothes. It is a pyramidal vessel that is open in the bottom and has perforations on the top of the inside of the vessel, a cap covering the top of the pyramid with an air-hole, a sleeve that goes through the top of the vessel and through the cap, a handle in the upper portion of the sleeve, a diaphragm with perforations in the base of the vessel, a rectangular box secured beneath the diaphragm, and inclined tubes open at both ends of the angles of the vessel.
Date:
January 14, 1896
Creator:
Leddy, Owen
System:
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Combined Quilting Frame and Table.
Patent for a quilting frame which can be quickly set up and collapsed, which folds up to occupy a minimum amount of space, and which can be converted for use as cutting and ironing table. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 14, 1896
Creator:
Burns, Robert Llewellwynn
System:
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Car-Coupling
Patent for "car-couplers of the class known as 'link-and-pin' couplers, and has for its object the provision of means whereby the coupling is effected automatically and whereby the coupling-pin is made to actuate the brake-shaft" (lines 14-19).
Date:
June 14, 1892
Creator:
Acuff, John
System:
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Cabinet-Bed
Patent for "a cheap and simple construction of bed of this class, adapted to be readily folded or unfolded and to provide means for automatically folding and unfolding the legs for supporting the foot of the bed-frame when said frame is raised or lowered" (lines 9-15)
Date:
June 14, 1892
Creator:
Hayton, John. W. & Swift, Samuel H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blank Book.
Patent for a new and improved blank book. This design "consists in securing blank sheets to a binding forming the back of the book . . . so that the attachment and detachment of the sheets may be conveniently effected. Thus [the design] produce[s] a blank book which is particularly adapted for use of type-writers and other copyists" (lines 11-18).
Date:
June 14, 1892
Creator:
Burris, James W.
System:
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Clothes-Pounder.
Patent for an improved clothes washer that is made up of a cylinder, a piston that is two disks attached together with notches and flared edges, and a packing strip in the groove of the disk edges.
Date:
August 14, 1894
Creator:
Lewis, Nathan D.
System:
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Automatic Railway-Gate.
Patent for an automatic railway-gate or cattle-guard for use "at crossings, the entrances to tunnels, bridges or trestles, or at other places where it is desirable to guard the tracks" (lines 11-13). The invention is a simple and effective way for closing gates, can be operated from a distance, and is controlled by the wheels of passing trains.
Date:
August 14, 1894
Creator:
Baade, John
System:
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Combined Car and Air-Brake Coupling.
Patent for a simple, practical, and easy to use car coupling and in air brake coupling that automatically couples cars together. It can be easily uncoupled from the top or sides of cars. When it couples, it also connects the cars' air pipes together.
Date:
November 14, 1893
Creator:
Rohrbach, Gabriel
System:
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