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Artificial Teeth. (open access)

Artificial Teeth.

Patent for the lower set of artificial teeth, "and aims to provide retainers and combine them with the plate, so as to hold the denture in place against accidental displacement during the process of articulation, prehension, mastication, and deglutition" (lines 10-15). This invention "provides retainers which fill a vacuum in the mouth never heretofore utilized in the construction of artificial teeth and which form a rest for the muscles in their contraction incident to the movements of the jaws, and these retainers render a lower set of artificial teeth s comfortable and serviceable as if they were natural" (lines 22-29).
Date: September 17, 1895
Creator: Johnston, George A. & Carroll, Houston M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Gate. (open access)

Automatic Gate.

Patent for an improved automatic gate with levers, cam-blocks, camways, and cam-rods. It is centrally pivoting, uses a pulley, a cam groove, a forked bearing, chains, and chords.
Date: September 17, 1895
Creator: Everton, David Marion
System: The Portal to Texas History
Autographic Register. (open access)

Autographic Register.

Patent for an autographic register that provides "improved means for guiding, stamping, cutting, and filling a record-bill and discharging original and duplicate bills; [provides] improved means for guiding the strips of paper and holding the carbon or duplicating paper in operative position; furthermore, [provides] improved means for operating the several parts of the mechanism to insure accuracy and facilitate the subsequent permanent filing of the record-bills" (lines 9-19).
Date: September 17, 1895
Creator: Norcross, George A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Engine Valve. (open access)

Steam-Engine Valve.

Patent for a steam-engine valve that has an "improved rotary valve capable of feeding and exhausting one end of a steam-cylinder, and easily controlled and operated" (lines 18-20). This makes the engine easily controllable.
Date: September 17, 1895
Creator: Ford, Andrew H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Propeller-Wheel. (open access)

Propeller-Wheel.

Patent for a propeller-wheel for steam and other vessels. This invention is meant "to provide a propeller by which a maximum speed may be obtained without a proportionate increase in toe motive power employed" (lines 15-18). It doesn't have a lateral resistance of water and does not diffuse water in all directions.
Date: December 17, 1895
Creator: Parker, Elisha J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Distributer. (open access)

Oil-Distributer.

Patent for simple and efficient oil-distributor that is meant to calm the water next to a ship. It also takes up little space and can easily be launched over the side of the ship and is insured so that oil is automatically distributed into the water.
Date: September 17, 1895
Creator: Ericson, John & Phinney, Adelbert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harvester-Platform and Carrier. (open access)

Harvester-Platform and Carrier.

Patent for a harvester-platform and carrier that carries forward and elevates the grain. It has toothed bars, a framed, a crank-shaft that is connected to the toothed bars, a cross-rod loosely connected to the crank-shaft, and it is pivotally mounted on grain.
Date: September 17, 1895
Creator: Compton, Silas T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fire-Grate. (open access)

Fire-Grate.

Patent for a simple and efficient fire-grate that is meant "to be set in a wall between two rooms and capable of being reversed to enable either room to be directly heated by a fire" (lines 11-13).
Date: December 17, 1895
Creator: Birkhead, James C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Screen-Operating Mechanism for WIndow-Screens. (open access)

Screen-Operating Mechanism for WIndow-Screens.

Patent for a screen-operating mechanism for window-screens. It is meant to hide the mechanism from view and to improve the way the screen is raised and lowered. It also moves the "upper sash in one direction moves the screen in the reverse direction, the construction being such that the motion-transmitting gearing does not in any manner interfere with the use of ordinary window-sashes balanced by weights or springs, or the use of sashes of which the upper one only is movable" (lines 24-30).
Date: December 17, 1895
Creator: Leary, Frank S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Signal. (open access)

Signal.

Patent for a railroad-signal that "moves automatically with the semaphore in an improved, simple and efficient manner" (lines 17-19).
Date: December 17, 1895
Creator: Ward, Thomas E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flour-Bin. (open access)

Flour-Bin.

Patent for a flour-bin that keeps the flour and meal separated and sifts them separately. This patent has "a novel formation of a stirrer to prevent the banking of the flour or meal in the bin, and which can be cheaply manufactured and when in use will offer a minimum amount of resistance to the contents of the bin agitated thereby" (lines 16-21). The bin is easily cleaned.
Date: September 17, 1895
Creator: Patton, James Monre
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fence-Wire Stretcher. (open access)

Fence-Wire Stretcher.

Patent for a simple and practical fence-wire stretcher that stretches "fence-wire in the construction of fences and also taking up the slack in the wire when it sags at any point throughout the line of fence, the device being simple in construction and easily connected and disconnected from the post, as circumstances require" (lines 14-20).
Date: September 17, 1895
Creator: Baugh, Edward Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gas-Generator. (open access)

Gas-Generator.

Patent for a gas generator "which will be entirely automatic in its action so long as the supply of oil is kept up and thereby render the use of weights and winding apparatus unnecessary." (Lines 21-24) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 17, 1895
Creator: Henderson, Thomas & Stapp, William A.
System: The Portal to Texas History