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Baking, Cooking, and Heating Furnace (open access)

Baking, Cooking, and Heating Furnace

Patent for a new and useful improvement in baking, cooking, and heating furnaces. This invention "consists in the mechanism and peculiar arrangements of parts, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings and particularly pointed out in the claims" (line 13-16).
Date: December 7, 1897
Creator: Harry, Owen K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pounder (open access)

Clothes Pounder

Patent for a new and useful improvements in clothes pounders, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 7, 1897
Creator: Schofield, Frank B. & Schofield, Joseph L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design for Bed Spring. (open access)

Design for Bed Spring.

Design patent for bed spring comprised of twin spirally-coiled bodies with straight horizontal arm extending from upper coils.
Date: December 7, 1897
Creator: Rigg, Elmer E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fluid - Pressure Regulator. (open access)

Fluid - Pressure Regulator.

Patent for a new and useful Gas pressure regulator. This invention "relates to gas pressure regulators especially adapted for use with gas stored under high pressure in a cylinder or similar portable storage vessel" (line 8-10).
Date: December 7, 1897
Creator: Clark, George Greenleaf
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate Latch (open access)

Gate Latch

Patent for a new and useful improvements in gate latches.
Date: December 7, 1897
Creator: Turley, John Breckinridge
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lock for Firearms (open access)

Lock for Firearms

Patent for a new and useful improvements in locks for firearms. This invention is to "provide a simple and effective lock mechanism for a firearm" (line 15-17).
Date: December 7, 1897
Creator: Oritciiett, James Clyde
System: The Portal to Texas History
Roller Press for Extracting Oil From Cotton Seed, & c. (open access)

Roller Press for Extracting Oil From Cotton Seed, & c.

Patent for a roller press for the extraction of oil from cotton and other seeds.
Date: December 7, 1897
Creator: Lelardoux, Pierre
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stirrup (open access)

Stirrup

Patent for a new and useful improvement in stirrup. This design is " an improvement in stirrups, and has for an object to so construct the stirrup as to prevent the strap-bar" (line 7-9).
Date: December 7, 1897
Creator: Wilson, William Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Support for Carriage Tops (open access)

Support for Carriage Tops

Patent for a new and useful improvements in supports for carriage tops. This invention "consists in the features of construction hereinafter more particularly set forth and specifically claimed" (line 19-21).
Date: December 7, 1897
Creator: Gallaway, Edgar
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Tightener (open access)

Wire Tightener

Patent for a new and useful improvements in wire tighteners. This design "consists in features of construction and novel combinations of parts in a wire tightening device for repairing wire fences and attaching wires to fence-posts" (line 13-16).
Date: December 7, 1897
Creator: Short, William A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene Gas Machine (open access)

Acetylene Gas Machine

Patent for a new and useful improvement in gas-machines.
Date: December 14, 1897
Creator: Bryant, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale Tie (open access)

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: The Portal to Texas History
Biblical Game Apparatus (open access)

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
Bottle (open access)

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
Coin Controlled Tire Inflater (open access)

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
Cotton Stalk Puller (open access)

Cotton Stalk Puller

Patent for a new and useful cotton stalk puller.
Date: December 14, 1897
Creator: Harwood, Benjamin F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crayon Holder (open access)

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: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Sharpening Gin Saws (open access)

Machine for Sharpening Gin Saws

Patent for a new and useful improvements in machines for sharpening gin-saws. This invention is to "provide an improved machine of the character described wherein the saws may be sharpened without removing them" (line 10-12).
Date: December 14, 1897
Creator: Bradley, James M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Revolving Fan (open access)

Revolving Fan

Patent for a new and useful revolving fan. This design "relates to certain improvements in revolving fans, such as are employed especially in connection with tables and the like for fanning the persons seated thereat" (line 8-11).
Date: December 14, 1897
Creator: Gibson, Levi A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Revolving Sand Drag (open access)

Revolving Sand Drag

Patent for a new and useful improvements in revolving sand drags. This design is to "provide a machine of this character by means of which the sand-bars in formed in rivers" (line 12-14)
Date: December 14, 1897
Creator: Murphy, James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bolt Lock for Railways (open access)

Bolt Lock for Railways

Patent for a new and useful improvements in bolt locks for railways. This invention is to "provide a simple, durable, and effective device of this class" (line 13-14).
Date: December 21, 1897
Creator: Herrin, Lemuel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Planter. (open access)

Corn-Planter.

Patent relating to "a novel corn-planter, and has for its object the production of a simple, durable, and efficient planting attachment which may be applied to an ordinary plow and which when so applied will automatically effect the distribution of corn or other grain at desired intervals" (lines 12-18).
Date: December 21, 1897
Creator: Ellis, William Wesley
System: The Portal to Texas History
Door-Hanger. (open access)

Door-Hanger.

Patent for a new and useful door hanger. This invention is to "provide a simple and inexpensive device so constructed as to avoid dismounting and at the same time enable a door, window, or an equivalent device to be operated with the minimum friction" (line 9-13).
Date: December 21, 1897
Creator: Masterson, Bernard W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mechanism for Cleansing Clothing for Textile Fabrics (open access)

Mechanism for Cleansing Clothing for Textile Fabrics

Patent for a new and useful improvements in mechanism for cleansing clothing or textile fabrics. This invention is to "provide a simple and economical construction and combination of parts whereby the clothes or fabrics operated upon shall be disturbed and displaced at each successive stroke of a pump forming part of the mechanism" (line 11-16).
Date: December 21, 1897
Creator: Wright, John W. & Burkes, Howell H.
System: The Portal to Texas History