Resource Type

Life-Insurance Table or Chart. (open access)

Life-Insurance Table or Chart.

Patent for a new and useful life-insurance table of chart.
Date: April 5, 1898
Creator: Neal, Nathan P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Destroyer. (open access)

Insect-Destroyer.

Patent for a new and useful insect - destroyer.
Date: March 22, 1898
Creator: Priest, Eli Thompson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insecticide. (open access)

Insecticide.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in insecticides, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 14, 1898
Creator: Carmichaelm, Joseph B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Instrument for Breaking Car-Seals. (open access)

Instrument for Breaking Car-Seals.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in instruments for breaking car seals, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 14, 1898
Creator: Leyendecker, Thomas A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel. (open access)

Vehicle-Wheel.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in the construction of wheels for vehicles, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 12, 1898
Creator: Labatt, Joseph Augustus & Lewis, George Harris
System: The Portal to Texas History
Umbrella-Holder. (open access)

Umbrella-Holder.

Patent for a new and useful simplicity umbrella holder for "use on sulky-cultivators of that class in which the seat-support is constructed to form a crotch" (line 9-12).
Date: March 8, 1898
Creator: Holcombe, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve. (open access)

Valve.

Patent for a new and useful valve for "controlling the flow of steam, compressed air, water, or other fluid" (line 12 - 14).
Date: December 27, 1898
Creator: Mitchell, Charles Bradley
System: The Portal to Texas History
Invalid's Chair. (open access)

Invalid's Chair.

Patent for a new and improved invalid's chair. This design "relates to an improvement in chairs which will adapt them to the use of invalids and children" (line 7-9).
Date: January 18, 1898
Creator: Yznaga, Juana G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Kitchen-Cabinet. (open access)

Kitchen-Cabinet.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in kitchen cabinets, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 2, 1898
Creator: Lackey, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lock. (open access)

Lock.

Patent for a new and useful combination lock designed for safe.
Date: February 15, 1898
Creator: Wise, Harry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ventilating-Canopy for Cook Stoves Or Ranges. (open access)

Ventilating-Canopy for Cook Stoves Or Ranges.

Patent for a new and useful ventilating canopy for cook stoves or ranges.
Date: May 3, 1898
Creator: Spurlin, Crawford
System: The Portal to Texas History
Store - Fixture. (open access)

Store - Fixture.

Patent for a new and useful store fixture to "provide a support for bins or like receptacles and with improved mechanism for facilitating the withdrawal and weighing of the contents of said bins" (line 9 -13).
Date: March 8, 1898
Creator: Palm, Carl Segerrot
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk - Cutter. (open access)

Stalk - Cutter.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in stalk-cutters to "provide a simple, light, and durable machine by means of which three rows of stalks may be cut in one passage of the machine across the field" (line 13-16).
Date: January 11, 1898
Creator: Acre, William Floyd & Wafford, William Penn
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk - Chopper. (open access)

Stalk - Chopper.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in stalk choppers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 26, 1898
Creator: Upshaw, Foy
System: The Portal to Texas History
Station-Indicator. (open access)

Station-Indicator.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in station indicators for moving vehicles, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 20, 1898
Creator: Barry, Jefferson D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stationary Boiler. (open access)

Stationary Boiler.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in stationary boilers for " marine, locomotive, and stationary purposes" (line 14- 15).
Date: January 4, 1898
Creator: McCallum, Daniel W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Station-Indicator. (open access)

Station-Indicator.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in station indicators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 6, 1898
Creator: Rogers, Alexander Hunter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burning Furnace. (open access)

Hydrocarbon-Burning Furnace.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in hydrocarbon burning furnaces, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 6, 1898
Creator: Gearing, Charles M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stem Winding and Setting Watch. (open access)

Stem Winding and Setting Watch.

Patent for a new and useful winding and setting mechanism for watches, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 1, 1898
Creator: Donnelly, Leo E. & Looney, John H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tool. (open access)

Tool.

Patent for a new and improved tool for "various uses, being especially adapted as a clamp, vise, brace or drill-stock, or wrench" (line 9 -10).
Date: February 15, 1898
Creator: Poor, Morrill Hart
System: The Portal to Texas History
Steering Device for Vehicles. (open access)

Steering Device for Vehicles.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in steering devices for vehicles, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 28, 1898
Creator: Fisher, Charles Nicholas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Means for Transmitting Motion. (open access)

Means for Transmitting Motion.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in means for transmitting motion, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 4, 1898
Creator: Holmgreen, Julius H. & Holmgreen, Eugene A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump. (open access)

Pump.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in pumps.
Date: March 15, 1898
Creator: Mauldin, Alfred W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trolley - Guard (open access)

Trolley - Guard

Patent for a new and useful improvement in trolley-guards to prevent "the trolley - wheel at the top of a trolley - pole from jumping fro the conducting - wire, thus avoiding the stopping of the cars" (line 9 - 11).
Date: January 4, 1898
Creator: Vogler, Herman J.
System: The Portal to Texas History