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Automatic Fire Extinguisher.
Patent for a new and improved fire extinguisher. This design is "to provide for automatically putting out a fire in any building in which [the] apparatus may be located, upon the temperature in said building or room reaching any predetermined degree. This result is accomplished by the action of an expansible fluid—such as mercury—in a contained vessel, which actuates certain . . . mechanism, causing the structure to be flooded with water or with a fire-extinguishing gas or fluid" (lines 22-32).
Date:
December 30, 1890
Creator:
Fuller, Wily Scott
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Reamer.
Patent for a new and improved reamer. This design "relates to reamers for use in boring artesian wells and other similar purposes; and it consists, essentially, of a hollow cylindrical body adapted to be attached to a suitable driving-head and provided with peripheral expansion-cutters operated by an internal plunger" (lines 11-17).
Date:
December 30, 1890
Creator:
Welke, William Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Snap-Hook
Patent for a snap hook in order to "provide a hook of simple construction that shall be securely locked when in use" (p. 2)
Date:
December 30, 1890
Creator:
Adams, Don B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tongs.
Patent for new and improved tongs. This design "is especially adapted for the recovery of tools, broken sections, stones, or débris from artesian-well borings" (lines 54-57). It consists "of a solid or tubular shank provided with spring-metal tines, a ring to slide thereon, and a hollow weight sliding on the tube adapted to drive the ring down upon the tines" (lines 12-16).
Date:
December 30, 1890
Creator:
Welke, William Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trace Carrier.
Patent for a new and improved trace-carrier. This design "consist[s] of a rectangular frame, a central integral transverse bar provided at its upper and lower edges with pairs of spaced-apart superficial ribs having central aligning bores, a spring-pressed bolt mounted in one of said ribs, adapted at its inner end to take into the opposite rib and provided at its outer end with a knob or head, a pintle mounted in the lower pair of ribs, a tongue pivoted upon the pintle, said tongue having its upper end reduced to fit between the upper pair of ribs and provided with an eye for the reception of the bolt" (lines 82-94).
Date:
December 30, 1890
Creator:
Harbour, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type Writing Machine.
Patent for a type writing machine that is small and portable, including illustrations.
Date:
December 30, 1890
Creator:
Depuy, Gilbert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type-Writing Machine for the Blind
Patent for "an improvement in machines for the production of writings for the blind, under what is technically termed the point system" (lines 8-11).
Date:
December 30, 1890
Creator:
Sthreshley, Lizzie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well Drill.
Patent for a new and improved well-drill. This design consists "[i]n a drill, the cylinder closed at its upper end by a head with a stuffing-box and a tapering opening and provided at its lower end with suitable cutters, in combination with an operating-rod passing through the upper head and a weight, said operating-rod being provided with spring-arms adapted to engage and raise said weight within the cylinder and at the top thereof automatically to release it" (lines 27-35).
Date:
December 30, 1890
Creator:
Welke, William Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher
Patent for a wire stretcher for stretching wire to build fences.
Date:
December 30, 1890
Creator:
Burdick, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Riding Saddle.
Patent for an improved design for the riding saddle, including illustrations.
Date:
December 28, 1890
Creator:
Northrup, Julius Don
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planter, Chopper, and Cultivator
Patent for "a combined planter and cultivator, including a cotton-chopper" (lines 11-12).
Date:
December 23, 1890
Creator:
Murdock, Joseph Lafayette
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stock-Car
Patent for an improvement on stock cars to "enable the weight of the water-laden troughs to be overcome and the troughs elevated in position simultaneously through the entire length of the car; second, to regulate the movement of the water-troughs" (lines 16-20).
Date:
December 23, 1890
Creator:
Lazarus, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design is "to provide a coupler . . . capable of being manipulated from the top or side of freight-cars and from the side or platform of passenger-cars" (lines 8-12). It consists, "with a draw-head provided with an upwardly-extending post, and a lever fulcrumed in said post, of a lock-link consisting of a horizontal body portion and a hook-extension at its rear end, and a lift-link provided with a nose at one extremity, the opposite extremity being pivoted to the lever and the nose pivotally connected with the forward end of the lock-link" (lines 55-64).
Date:
December 16, 1890
Creator:
Franks, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design "is to produce . . . cultivators [that] can be adjusted laterally in relation to each other and turned at any desirable angle, and in which the frame and the beam can be made to stand at any desired angle to each other" (lines 17-23). It consists in "a semicircular frame, two vertical plates secured to the ends of the said frame and having their upper edges serrated, blocks placed between the plates, the plates, bolts for clamping them to opposite edges of the vertical plates, and the cultivators which pass through the plates and the beam" (lines 8-15).
Date:
December 16, 1890
Creator:
Ford, John Owen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Liniment
Patent for "improvements in that class of topical remedies which are compounded for the purpose of relieving rheumatism, neuralgia, gout, toothache, sprains, swellings, bruises, sores, and similar afflictions. . .To these I add cotton-seed oil in sufficient quantity to make one quart of the medicine, the root and bark of the trumpet flower and the root of the pokeberry being boiled in the latter and the ammonia and turpentine being added on the cooling of the mixture" (lines 11-16, 31-37).
Date:
December 16, 1890
Creator:
Meinen, Diedrich
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shirt Bosom.
Patent for a new and improved shirt bosom. This design "is to provide an improved 'dickey' adapted to be worn either with or without an ordinary shirt" (lines 9-11). It consists in a "dickey, the same comprising a bosom divided down its center, a box-plait at the inner edge of each section of the divided bosom, said plaits registering with each other and the two faces of the bosom being finished alike, cross-straps at the lower ends of the sections, a tab depending from each strap, a flap between said tabs, and a collar-band connected to the upper ends of both sections" (lines 66-75).
Date:
December 16, 1890
Creator:
Mistrot, Felix E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Wheel.
Patent for a new and improved vehicle wheel. This design is "to improve the felly-expanding devices, to provide a strong, durable, and efficient metallic connection between the spoke and felly, to provide novel means whereby the expanding movement of the felly is amplified by a partial rotation of a screw, and to otherwise improve vehicle-wheels" (lines 13-20).
Date:
December 16, 1890
Creator:
Ashford James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Raising and Lowering Wagon Bodies.
Patent for a new and improved wagon jack. This design consists "[i]n a wagon body raiser, the combination of vertical supports, a lever pivotally supported therefrom between its ends and having a roller in one end, a shaft adapted to be secured to one end of the body, a cord having one end connected with the same end of the body as the shaft and passing over the roller and its opposite end attached to the shaft, and a cord attached to the opposite end of the body and to the adjacent end of the lever" (lines 69-78).
Date:
December 9, 1890
Creator:
Scott, Eugene Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Evaporator.
Patent for a new evaporator design used for evaporating cane-juice, including illustrations.
Date:
December 9, 1890
Creator:
Johnson, William Oscar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fly Wheel.
Patent for a design for "improvements in balance or fly wheels, and is adapted to be applied to many different classes of machinery" (lines 15-17). Includes illustrations.
Date:
December 9, 1890
Creator:
Cameron, Neill A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gage for Job Printing Presses.
Patent for a new and improved gage. This design consists in "the gage-bar provided at both ends with spring-clasps for engaging the platen, combined with gage-pins doubled upon themselves at their inner ends and engaging the gage bar and adjustable laterally" (lines 83-88).
Date:
December 9, 1890
Creator:
Jones, Charles E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Pulling Stumps.
Patent for a new and improved stump-puller. This design consists, "with the main beam, of the rigid crosstree arranged transversely of the same and provided at its end with loose casters, and a pivoted axle or tree terminating in axle-bearings and provided with wheels, and means for adjusting the pivoted crosstree with relation to the beam and rigid crosstree" (lines 11-18).
Date:
December 9, 1890
Creator:
Perkins, Jesse Isaac
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mosquito Net Frame.
Patent for a new and improved mosquito-net frame. This design "has for its object to provide a frame . . . capable of convenient attachment to or of detachment from any bedstead, and which when attached will be firmly braced and firmly held against lateral movement" (lines 9-14). It consists, "with the standards having tenons at their upper ends, the rear and side bars having eyes receiving said tenons, and a front bar connecting the front ends of bars, of the horizontal angle-plates mounted at their rear ends on the ends of the bar" (lines 22-28).
Date:
December 9, 1890
Creator:
Lottman, Albert C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a new and improved plow. This design is "to provide a plow adapted for steady and easy running, capable of combining therewith various styles of shovels or shears, and so constructing said plow as to be readily adjusted to form furrows of varying depths" (lines 9-14). This design consists, "with the beam and the loosely-depending standard provided at its lower end with a shovel, of the angular brace pivoted at its angle to the standard, adjustably connected at its upper end or branch to the beam, and having its lower end adapted to travel along the furrow in rear of the shovel" (lines 7-14).
Date:
December 9, 1890
Creator:
Peterson, Hans
System:
The Portal to Texas History