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Ball-Bearing.
Patent for a new and useful ball bearing, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 17, 1899
Creator:
Millen, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coupling For Well-Drilling Tools.
Patent for a new and useful coupling for well drilling tools, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 3, 1899
Creator:
Kuehn, Joachim F. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Telephone-Directory.
Patent for a new and useful automatic telephone directory, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 17, 1899
Creator:
Neuendorff, John B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Back-Pedaling Brake.
Patent for a new and improved brake and coasting pocket wheel for velocipedes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 24, 1899
Creator:
Wallerich, Nicholas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Planter.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in corn planters, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 25, 1898
Creator:
Webb, Richard Haywood
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chemical Fire-Extinguisher.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in chemical fire extinguishers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 11, 1898
Creator:
Flatau, Louis S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Show-Case.
Patent for new and useful improvements in combination show cases, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 17, 1899
Creator:
Sanger, Phillip
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Lamp.
Patent for a new and improved acetylene gas lamp, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 10, 1899
Creator:
Josserand, Peter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Claw-Bar.
Patent for a new and useful claw bar, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 18, 1898
Creator:
Wiggs, Zeph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in churns, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 17, 1899
Creator:
Dallin, Bruce
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved car coupling, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 11, 1898
Creator:
Sherrill, John G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a new and useful car coupling, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 11, 1898
Creator:
Riley, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Replacer.
Patent for a car-replacer that is meant to "provide a strong and compact skid of comparatively light weight to form the body portion of the car-replacer and which shall be especially adapted to raise the car-wheels above the track, deflect toward them toward the rails until the tread of the wheels is suspended over the ball of the rails from an inclined surface terminating in a rounded end, over which the wheels move until they meet the track" (lines 12-21). The car-replacer does not have any liability of the skid tilting endwise or sidewise.
Date:
October 15, 1895
Creator:
Ragan, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Door Cleat and Fastener.
Patent for "a simple and comparatively-inexpensive car-door cleat and fastener designed for use on cars for transporting cotton and other highly-inflammable merchandise and capable of effectually excluding sparks from the interior of the car and of preventing the same from entering between the edge of the door and the doorway." (Lines 11-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 22, 1895
Creator:
Woodruff, Hawkins
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Railroad or Farm Gate.
Patent for an improved automatic railroad or farm gate that uses the "weight of the car or wagon upon an operating-board and automatically close[s] after the train has passed, and which can also be opened by hand when it is desired to let a single person pass through, either upon foot or horseback" (lines 20-25).
Date:
October 4, 1892
Creator:
Benson, Joseph Robinson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coin-Operated Boot or Show Blackening Machine
Patent for a shoe or boot blackening machine that operates automatically with the depositing of a coin, and as such drastically decreases labor and time needed for shoe or boot blackening.
Date:
October 11, 1892
Creator:
Knight, Nute B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper and Planter
Patent for a combined cotton chopper and planter, made to be easy to construct and easy to convert between functions.
Date:
October 11, 1892
Creator:
Parker, Francis H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Antifriction Clasp.
Patent for a new and improved anti-friction clasp. This design "is to provide means whereby the wear due to the rubbing of inclosed rods or ropes against an inclosing casing may be reduced to a minimum and whereby the central alignment of the rods or ropes with respect to the inclosing casing may be accurately preserved" (lines 11-17). It consists in "a series of friction balls or rollers mounted therein and projecting from the periphery thereof and being divided into sections adapted to be clamped at any point around the rod or rope" (lines 97-101).
Date:
October 25, 1892
Creator:
Black, William L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard.
Patent for a cattle guard that prevents cattle from blocking railroad tracks. It consists of sharp edged cross ties that sit on the bottom of a shallow pit, guard rails that cover the cross ties, bolts that hold the rails together, and end planks forming v-shaped serrations.
Date:
October 10, 1893
Creator:
Lynch, Michael L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a churn that has a frame supporting the churn and swinging motion mixes the cream. This invention successfully separates oily globules from the cream, thus making churning more effective and easy.
Date:
October 10, 1893
Creator:
Bailey, James Westey & McNorton, John Tomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Atomizer.
Patent for an atomizer meant to distribute liquids, powders, and vapors. Its parts can be easily changed so it can be used in different situations, for cleaning, and to make its use more efficient.
Date:
October 2, 1894
Creator:
Rees, H. Clay
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Car Coupling and Bumper.
Patent for a combined car coupling and bumper. It has a draw-head with a throat, mouth, recess, and coupling pin hole; the recess has a slot that opens into the front of the draw-head; a lock-block that fits in the slot; a pin-seat that receives the lock-block; a spiral spring that holds in the pin-seat; and a coupling pin in the pin seat and a link.
Date:
October 2, 1894
Creator:
Wallace, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cuff-Holder.
Patent for an improved cuff-holder that is simple and inexpensive, and is "adapted to serve as a sleeve button and a cuff support, and capable of read adjustment to enable the wearer to arrange his cuffs as desired, and to show them beyond the coat sleeve to a greater or less extent" (lines 12-16).
Date:
October 2, 1894
Creator:
Shaw, Wilber S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cot.
Patent for a cot that "may be easily and quickly applied to wagons, cars, and to all other places where beds are inconvenient" (lines 8-10). It attaches to a vertical wall.
Date:
October 2, 1894
Creator:
Looney, Joseph H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History