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Combination Steel Bar. (open access)

Combination Steel Bar.

Patent for a combination steel bar meant to easily remove nails and spikes from board without bending the nails or spikes and without splitting the board. It can also be used to remove siding from houses and ships.
Date: July 23, 1895
Creator: Brooks, Jesse S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vault Cash-Indicator. (open access)

Vault Cash-Indicator.

Patent for a vault cash-indicator meant to "provide a new and improved indicator, designed for indicating an amount of money, commercial articles, &c.; for instance, indicating the amount of money contained in a safe or vault" (lines 7-11).
Date: April 23, 1895
Creator: Hamilton, Samuel R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tuning Device for Pianos. (open access)

Tuning Device for Pianos.

Patent for "a means whereby the strings of a piano may be easily and deliberately tuned, and when tuned they will be held absolutely rigid and unyielding under all circumstances while the pins are set in wood, thus avoiding any possibility of the jarring of the parts." (Lines 36-42) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 23, 1895
Creator: Orser, Levi
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve. (open access)

Valve.

Patent for a valve made up of a shell with a water inlet and a water outlet, a perforation for the valve stem, a gable-shaped seat made from hard metal that is fitted into the shell, a valve stem that works up and down the shell and with a shoulder, a valve with a hollow neck, a soft contact ring between the gable-shaped seat and the face of the valve, a guide and cap that fits in the shell, a stem nut, and a stuffing-box.
Date: July 23, 1895
Creator: Speer, George F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel. (open access)

Vehicle-Wheel.

Patent for an improvement on vehicle wheels to "provide a novel and inexpensive safety-guard for wheels of the above-referred-to class, whereby the wheel will be prevented from entering crevices and cracks" (lines 14-18) and to improve durability.
Date: July 23, 1895
Creator: Laube, Godfried
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel. (open access)

Vehicle-Wheel.

Patent for a strong, durable, and inexpensive vehicle-wheel in children's carriages with a double-felly wheel meant to broaden "the tread thereof sufficiently to prevent the wheels falling into cracks between boards of board walks, such as are common in the suburbs or rural districts" (lines 15-19). The spokes are like that of a single-felly wheel.
Date: July 23, 1895
Creator: Laube, Godfried
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nail-Holding Attachment for Hammers. (open access)

Nail-Holding Attachment for Hammers.

Patent for a durable and simple nail-holding attachment for hammers that can be used with any hammer. It holds the nail in place to drive it home.
Date: July 23, 1895
Creator: Lewis, Harry J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gearing for Windmills. (open access)

Gearing for Windmills.

Patent for gearing for windmills that "is more particularly designed to provide an improved construction of gearing by which the movement of the wind wheel is transmitted to the pump rod, whereby [the inventor] secures superior advantages with respect to efficiency in use" (lines 14-19).
Date: April 23, 1895
Creator: Keys, Milton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fence-Making Machine. (open access)

Fence-Making Machine.

Patent for a simple, portable fence-making machine meant to separate crossed wires, re-utilizes old wires, and has "a wedge being employed in the twisting-head for the purpose of separating the old twists and causing them to pass through the twisting-eye" (lines 22-25). The machine allows the wires to be equally spaced apart, and the space is adjustable. A picket-gage is included in the invention, which regulates the space between pickets.
Date: July 23, 1895
Creator: Briney, Benjamin C. & Geron, Solomon C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Garbage-Furnace. (open access)

Garbage-Furnace.

Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and durable garbage-furnace that can be easily operated, the moisture from the garbage completely evaporates, and the material before and after can be easily handled.
Date: July 23, 1895
Creator: Hull, William S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Reversible Gutter. (open access)

Reversible Gutter.

Patent for a simple and durable reversible gutter for houses and other buildings that can be easily cleaned and painted.
Date: April 23, 1895
Creator: Freeze, John Andy
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method of and Apparatus for Protecting Electric Circuits. (open access)

Method of and Apparatus for Protecting Electric Circuits.

Patent for a method of and apparatus for protecting electric circuits from unauthorized use. The inventor uses the arrangement of circuits described in an expired patent (No. 110,362).
Date: April 23, 1895
Creator: Oram, John M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dilator. (open access)

Dilator.

Patent for a dilator meant to enlarge the urethral and other canals of the human body. It is meant of "elastic material and capable of distention, or dilation, under the pressure of air, water, or other fluid introduced and to combine with said dilator means whereby its uniform enlargement under internal pressure shall take place without increase of length, thereby avoiding the objection common to all, rubber and similar structures heretofore, that interior pressure produced elongation at the expense of increase in diameter, while any inequality of strength, or thickness, caused unequal expansion" (lines 13-24).
Date: April 23, 1895
Creator: Parker, Elisha J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Placing Torpedoes. (open access)

Device for Placing Torpedoes.

Patent for "a device especially adapted for placing torpedoes on railroad tracks and at the same time fixing the torpedo in position, the work being accomplished in a simple and expeditious manner while the train is in motion, whereby one train following another may be signaled without stopping the first train, thus preventing rear end collisions." (Lines 7-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 23, 1895
Creator: Seamands, James D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cut-Off Valve. (open access)

Cut-Off Valve.

Patent for a cut-off valve meant to improve shut-off valves with "valve-plugs mechanically actuated by rotary valve-stems provided with cranks or eccentric pins which loosely engage the valve-plugs and serve to shift the latter longitudinally to or from the valve-seats when the stems are rotated" (lines 9-14).
Date: June 23, 1895
Creator: Melvin, Josiah W.
System: The Portal to Texas History