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Andiron.
Patent for improvement of andirons, to accommodate fuel or sticks of wood and to burn either wood or coal fuel. Includes illustrations.
Date:
December 1, 1891
Creator:
Kimbro, Jeremiah H. & Kimbro, John A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap.
Patent for improvements in bait-trigger traps for catching small animals, with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 25, 1891
Creator:
Edwards, Joseph H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant-Trap.
Patent for a new type of ant trap that captures ants by having them crawl up a wooden central chamber and then fall into a sheer metal pit. Includes illustrations.
Date:
December 8, 1891
Creator:
Walker, Stephen A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Plows.
Patent for "a device whereby the land-bar, which is connected pivotally with the plow stock or standard, may be adjusted vertically at its rear end," (lines 9-12) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 26, 1891
Creator:
Miller, Amanuel M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Plows.
Patent for an attachment for plows, which "may be utilized as a cutter or the plow converted into a double-shovel plow," (lines 18-19) with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 15, 1891
Creator:
Williams, George M. D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed Bottom and Brace.
Patent for an invention to "simplify and improve the construction of bedsteads and provide efficient and durable means for securing the slats to the bedstead and for securing the parts of the bedstead together," (lines 11-15) with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 30, 1891
Creator:
Lightfoot, Walter Hamond
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Brake.
Patent for improvements in car brakes, "wherein the ordinary brake-beams are dispensed with and wherein the several brake-shoe-carrying levers will be self-adjusting." (lines 8 - 11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 17, 1891
Creator:
Braun, Henry F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for an automatic coupling that can be used in any car and without replacing the existing draw-head. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 29, 1891
Creator:
Taylor, Debos & Taylor, William M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Door.
Patent for improvements in car doors. These improvements make the doors fire and water proof and allow the door to be locked. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 23, 1891
Creator:
Moore, Francis A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Cotton-Plow.
Patent for a combination cotton plow that makes hoeing more efficient and profitable. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 10, 1891
Creator:
Williams, Charley Mabry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.
Patent for improved construction and variability of cotton chopping and cultivating devices. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 8, 1891
Creator:
Rains, Columbus R. & Lanier, Madison
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for improvements in cotton choppers and thinners by using a combination of “a rectangular frame having the transverse arch, the axle having the ground-wheels and the drive-gears mounted on the axle, a stirrups shafts, cogs, rotary cutters, and a bifureated cam” (p. 2, lines 85-92) to construct the chopper. This new construction will “provide means for easily adjusting the knives or cutters, and for regulating the distance between the stands of cotton.” (Page 1, lines 12-15) Illustration is included.
Date:
December 1, 1891
Creator:
McCaul, James L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picker Finger.
Patent that improves on existing design of cotton-picking spindles by using an elastic material instead of bristles. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 12, 1891
Creator:
Canuteson, Ole
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a cultivator used for sub-soiling and cultivating small grain.
Date:
December 1, 1891
Creator:
Thomas, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Measuring and Folding Dress Goods, &c.
Patent for a device on which textiles can be "quickly and accurately measured and folded upon a revolving reel." (Lines 14-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 4, 1890
Creator:
Talley, James Milton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drawer.
Patent to "provide the drawers of a bureau, a desk, or other piece of furniture with anti-friction devices to prevent their binding." (Lines 11-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 15, 1891
Creator:
Baldwin, John. H, Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fuel Produced From Lignite.
Patent for the process by which fuel is created from lignite coal.
Date:
March 16, 1891
Creator:
Edelmann, Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fumigator.
Patent for an improved fumigator that's primary purpose is to kill insects within corn storage units without damaging either the corn or the building. Illustration included.
Date:
December 1, 1891
Creator:
Bozarth, Stephen P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate-Latch.
Patent for improvements in gate latches, which "may be adjusted toward or from a gate on a post to be engaged by the latch proper and enable compensation to be made for spreading of the posts upon which the gate is supported and to which it is secured by the latching device." (Lines 14-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 29, 1891
Creator:
Rohrbach, Gabriel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Means for Operating Blowers.
Patent for the improvement and simplification of the construction of blowers and to enable a forge-blower to be readily operated by the foot, to leave the hands of the operator free. Includes illustration.
Date:
December 8, 1891
Creator:
Murphy, Thomas A.; Murphy, John H. & Carroll, J. Y.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Portable Derrick.
Patent for improvements to derricks which make them portable and easily manipulated. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 15, 1891
Creator:
Hurd, George Murray
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Provision-Safe.
Patent for "a pantry and kitchen safe combined and designed to be built apart from the house and constituting a distinct and removable piece of furniture," (lines 11-14) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 15, 1891
Creator:
Jones, Walter Adolphus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Tie
Patent for a railway tie that can be "firmly secured in the road-bed and which will hold single or double rails" (lines 10-11) so that they cannot be accidentally displaced, including illustrations.
Date:
December 1, 1891
Creator:
Budington, Albert G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Planter.
Patent for a more simple and affordable way to make seed planters "in which there is used some sort of opener to make a furrow into which the seed are dropped, and some sort of devices which follow after and cover over the seed," (Lines 11-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 26, 1891
Creator:
Flatau, Louis S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History