Resource Type
Country
Dish Drier.
Patent for a new and improved dish-drier. This design consists in "[t]he body having perforations and having side projection and spout, in combination with the cover, false bottom supported from the main bottom of the drier, and having the uprights and cross-pieces" (lines 75-80).
Date:
September 10, 1889
Creator:
Wilson, Alice J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gas Generator and Burner.
Patent for a new and improved gas generator. This design "has for its object to improve the efficiency of that type of vapor generators and burners wherein oil and air pipes enter a casing having burner orifices and filled with an incombustible substance, which when heated vaporizes the oil" (lines 8-13).
Date:
September 10, 1889
Creator:
Street, Joseph G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for a new and improved gate. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the gate and the horizontally-swinging arm arranged above the gate and provided in its free end with a longitudinal slot and a series of transverse perforations and engaging the lever, the vertical latch, also pivoted on the gate, and the horizontally-sliding connecting bar between the lower ends of the latch and the lever" (lines 90-101).
Date:
September 10, 1889
Creator:
Lively, Robert M. & Lively, Louis P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed Cotton Cleaner and Distributer.
Patent for a new and improved cotton cleaner and distributor. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the cylinder and drum, of a shaft mounted in bearings on the frame and extending through the said cylinder and provided with blades of varying length, a fan located in the drum, a pipe leading tangentially out from said drum, said pipe having openings formed therein, and guides secured on said pipe over said openings, said guides having wire sides" (lines 46-54).
Date:
September 10, 1889
Creator:
Elliott, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stone-Sawing Machine
Patent for new and unique improvements to stone-sawing machines.
Date:
September 10, 1889
Creator:
Ferguson, James Crawford
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bent for Suspension-Bridges.
Patent for improvements in bents for suspension-bridges by securing the columns with wire braces, cross-bar and anchor-pins. Illustration is included.
Date:
September 3, 1889
Creator:
Runyon, Edwin Elijah
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bird-Cage
Patent for "bird-cages of the circular kind, wherein the main-frame wires have a band at their lower ends and a single tie-wire arranged diametrically across the band. . .to utilize the single diametrical tie-wire as a support for an inverted interiorly screw-threaded connecting-cap, and to combine with such a device a pan" (lines 10-12 and 17-23).
Date:
September 3, 1889
Creator:
Coffield, Charles Hunter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fence-Building Machine
Patent for providing "for the weaving or construction of a picket fence by means of a simple and inexpensive machine, but one which will insure a proper binding of the pickets between the several strands of supporting-wire" (lines 10-14).
Date:
September 3, 1889
Creator:
Kline, John B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fence Wire Tightener.
Patent for a new and improved wire-tightener. This design "relates to devices for tightening the wires of a wire fence whether in the act of building the latter or after it has been put up and the wire is stretched thereon; and the invention consists of a metallic lever-arm adapted to be seated and adapted to turn in a hole in the fence-post, and upon whose body the wire is tightened as the arm is revolved" (lines 9-16).
Date:
September 3, 1889
Creator:
Jinkins, Thomas William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gunpowder Canister.
Patent for a new and improved canister. This design "consists in the combination of a suitable supporting cone-shaped frame provided with a supporting flange at its top and an opening through one side, with the can or case for holding the powder, and which is also provided with a supporting-flange near its lower end, a suitable cover, and a spring-actuated perforated slide . . . to provide a case for holding gunpowder, and from which the powder can be drawn into a suitable measuring-receptacle without the trouble of having to weigh it or having to expose it . . . where it is liable to catch fire" (lines 14-28).
Date:
September 3, 1889
Creator:
Stopple, John J. & Harigel, Emil
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay-Press
Patent for improvements in hay presses "to simplify and cheapen the construction and render it more efficient in the formation of the hay into bales" (lines 16-18).
Date:
September 3, 1889
Creator:
McNeill, Charles De Witte
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mail Bag Fastening.
Patent for a new and improved mail-bag fastener. This design "is to provide a fastening for mail-bags, which may be quickly manipulated to fasten or unfasten the bag. To this end the invention consists, essentially, of a slide formed with key-hole slots and carried by an overlapping flap, the said slide being adapted to engaged headed studs that are secured to one side of the main portion of the pouch and passed through apertures formed in the other side of the pouch" (lines 7-16).
Date:
September 3, 1889
Creator:
Roosevelt, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Screw and Slide Valve.
Patent for a combination of a screw and slide valve that can be closed by a lever or screw. It is also designed to stop air and liquid from flowing in either direction.
Date:
September 3, 1889
Creator:
Davis, De Leon
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burglar Alarm.
Patent for a new and improved burglar alarm. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the casing, the shaft having the winding-drum, the rope connected to the latter passing over a pulley and having a weight attached thereto, a ratchet-wheel at one end of the shaft, a pitman connecting said ratchet-wheel with the alarm-sounding mechanism, a spring-latch engaging the ratchet-wheel and having a cam-lever pivoted in a notch at its front end, the lamp having a scratch-plate attached to its burner, and the lamp-chimney having a vertical slot in its lower end" (lines 39-50).
Date:
August 27, 1889
Creator:
Carter, Elmira
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pin.
Patent for a new and improved clothespin. This design consists in "[a] wire clothes-pin composed of a pair of spring-coils connected by a loop, the free ends of the wire forming said spring-coils being extended in the direction of said loop and connected by a ring or link which affords a bearing for the said loop when the latter is inserted between the free ends of the wire" (lines 79-85).
Date:
August 27, 1889
Creator:
Stewart, John Adkerson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Bucket Bail and Lid Fastener.
Patent for a new and improved bucket-bail and lid-fastener. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the bucket and the ears, of the wires pivotally connected to said ears, the links pivotally connected to said wires, the cross-wire connecting the said links, and the bail loosely connected with the ends of the said wire" (lines 92-97).
Date:
August 27, 1889
Creator:
Stukes, John Marion & Reid, Oliver Phillip
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper
Patent for "a machine of this class which chall be simple, inexpensive, and efficient in operation" (lines 9-11).
Date:
August 27, 1889
Creator:
Chambers, Abram
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Belt.
Patent for an electric belt producing "an exceedingly gentle and moderate [current], so as to insure the precise remedial results desired" (lines 91-93) including illustrations.
Date:
August 27, 1889
Creator:
Everett, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insecticide.
Patent for a compound to kill insects, formula and instruction on how to mix the ingredients are included. No illustration.
Date:
August 27, 1889
Creator:
Smith, Byrd
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lamp Attachment.
Patent for a new and improved lamp attachment. This design "is to provide sewing-machine tables with lamp attachments applied in such manner as that the lamp will cast its light upon the presser-foot and needle from the back and will not obstruct the table or interfere with the work, and when not in use may be swung underneath the table out of the way" (lines 7-14).
Date:
August 27, 1889
Creator:
Walker, Catharine S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Padlock.
Patent for a new and improved lock. This design is "to provide a padlock having a two-part locking-bolt, each member thereof having separate and independent action and being operated by different means, each unlocking device being guided by a scale . . . [Also,] to so construct and organize the parts of a key padlock that the combination upon which it is operated may be readily and quickly changed, and to provide the key with a simple movable index which may be shifted to . . . indicate the proper point to which the key must be turned in order to successfully operate the lock" (lines 13-29).
Date:
August 27, 1889
Creator:
Richards, Augustus, Sr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Press
Patent for a press that is related to "letter or book presses" and it has "a simple and comparatively inexpensive construction, and which shall at the same time be effective and strong and convenient for use" (p. 2).
Date:
August 27, 1889
Creator:
Kay, William V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk Cutter and Mower.
Patent for a new and improved stalk-cutter and mower. This design consists, "with the shaft, having pulley and means . . . to rotate the same, of the pivoted links, the reel having its shaft journaled in said links and provided with the longitudinal cutters and with the pulley, the endless belt connecting the said pulleys . . . and the lever connected to the reel to raise and lower the same" (lines 9-17).
Date:
August 27, 1889
Creator:
Knox, Washington Irvin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Bevel, Protractor, Gage, Center-Square, &c.
Patent for "a combination-tool seeking to provide a single implement so constructed and inscribed as to be useful to architects, draftsmen, millwrights, machinists, and all metal and wood workers, and which shall be light and convenient to carry and may be quickly adjusted to its different positions for use" (lines 8-14).
Date:
August 20, 1889
Creator:
Meek, Alphonso Eugene
System:
The Portal to Texas History