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Axle - Nut.
Patent for a new and useful improvements in Axle-Nuts for wagons and carriages.
Date:
November 23, 1897
Creator:
Collins, Corties
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Book-Support.
Patent for improvements in book support: "book are held in an upright position on the shelves" (lines 9-10).
Date:
August 23, 1892
Creator:
Muir, James Alfred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coffee-Pot.
Patent for a coffee pot "wherein the water is forced to percolated through a body of coffee or tea held in a holder or receptacle near the top of the vessel." (Lines 12-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 23, 1897
Creator:
Royer, Lemon S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Wire-Fence Tool.
Patent for a tool that combines pincers, a hammer head, jaws, etc., to be used for fence construction. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 23, 1897
Creator:
Rubarth, Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Grate Attachment.
Patent for an adjustable grate attachment that is meant to be used with open grates. It prevents "the falling of heated coals therefrom; also to provide for extension of the grate vertically to facilitate making of a larger fire; and further, to provide an attachment which may be used in regulating the draft to the grate proper" (lines 15-20).
Date:
May 23, 1893
Creator:
Hutton, Milton Calhoun
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for an improved, strong, durable, and simple churn that produces butter quickly and with much use of power. It has a slide rest with a rotary driving spindle on one end and guide pulleys on the other end, a slide-block that slides on the end of the slide rest, a turn-peg with a ratchet-head on the slide-block, a pawl, and a chord that attaches all these parts.
Date:
October 23, 1894
Creator:
Roark, Calvin M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buckle Attachment.
Patent for a buckle attachment for buckles that do not use riveting, sewing or other fastening, "and when so placed together, and the strap inserted and buckled, the whole is as firmly held together as if riveted, sewed or fastened with any of the ordinary methods" (lines 13-16).
Date:
January 23, 1894
Creator:
Anderson, Samuel C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.
Patent for a combined cotton chopper and cultivator that "consists in providing the main axle with spur-wheels and with depending supports to which are attached the beams of the cultivator shovels and a cutting blade which extends in front of the machine and is adapted to be vibrated by the spur-wheels as the machine moves over the ground, thereby providing means for chopping cotton or other stalks" (lines 17-25).
Date:
January 23, 1894
Creator:
Bosley, Henry C. & Organ, Joseph H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "is to provide means for setting and supporting the pin and link of the ordinary car-coupler, so that cars will be automatically coupled when brought together; and it consists in a frame or holder for the coupling-pin and a frame or holder for the coupling-link" (lines 11-17).
Date:
September 23, 1890
Creator:
Godsey, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "a draw-head provided with a recess having an enlargement at its central portion, a series of vertical jaws on each side of said enlarged portion of the recess pivotally mounted at their lower end in the draw-head, springs connecting each jaw with its corresponding jaw in the opposite series, and means for opening the jaws" (lines 13-20).
Date:
September 23, 1890
Creator:
Hooks, Bentley Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for improvements to churns, "and has special reference to what are known as 'vibrating-dasher' churns." (lines 11-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 3, 1891
Creator:
Anderson, Henry C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Wrench.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements to wrenches for removing nuts from vehicle-axles.
Date:
August 23, 1898
Creator:
Haines, Samuel Alfred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vibrating Churn.
Patent for improvements in vibrating churns in which the dasher is given a rapid rotary vibrating movement and with but very little exertion to the operator. (Lines 30-32) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 23, 1891
Creator:
Miller, Luther Alison
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine.
Patent for a washing machine that has an improved construction, is more efficient, and one that quickly and thoroughly washes clothes without damaging the clothes. The machine is a cylinder that has a crank-operated inner scrubbing cylinder. The machine has a spout in order to drain the cylinder.
Date:
January 23, 1894
Creator:
Walter, George P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lumber-Stacker.
Patent for a certain new and useful improvement in lumber stackers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 23, 1899
Creator:
Coleman, Thomas A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
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.
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
Leg-Protector.
Patent for leg-protectors or overalls for cotton-pickers to wear to protect them from the ground. Waterproof material covers the legs of the wearer with leather reinforcement outside the knees. There is spacing around the waste for a belt, and regular fabric forms the rest of the overalls.
Date:
June 23, 1896
Creator:
Herbelin, Alfred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vertical Steam-Pump.
Patent for improvements in steam-pumps, of which “are adapted to compress a liquefiable gas—such as that of ammonia—to a state of partial liquefaction, the pressure being subsequently removed and the liquefied refrigerating agent expanding through tubes and chambers, and the cooling effect produced by the volatile liquid again assuming its gaseous state is utilized for the absorption of heat.” (Lines 10-17) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 23, 1891
Creator:
Robinson, Charles H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
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