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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.
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
Car-coupling.
Patent for a new and improved car coupling of the Janney type that increases "efficiency in service and enable[s] an operator at the side of the train to readily and with safety set the improved car-coupling to disconnect it from another of the same style" (lines 11-14), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 21, 1897
Creator:
Smith, Thomas Henry.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Fence
Patent for a new and useful improvements in wire fences. This invention is to "make a cheap and efficient post to which fence-wires may be quickly and durable stapled" (line 15-17).
Date:
December 21, 1897
Creator:
Johnson, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock.
Patent for a new and improved lock which includes "certain novel constructions, combinations, and arrangement of parts" (lines 11-13) as well as illustrations and instructions.
Date:
September 21, 1897
Creator:
Peterson, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Multiple Gearing
Patent for a new and useful improvements in multiple gearing. This invention "relates to improvements in a multiple gearing for bicycles, vehicles, locomotive-engines, traction devices" (line 11-13).
Date:
December 21, 1897
Creator:
Cary, Lewis C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Muzzle for Stock.
Patent for "weaning and grazing muzzles for stock, the object in view being to provide a muzzle adapted when the head of the animal is elevated to remain closed and when the head of the animal is lowered to open, and thereby permit grazing." (Lines 9-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 21, 1897
Creator:
Wingrove, Franklin R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Moldboard
Patent for a new and useful improvement in moldboards.
Date:
December 21, 1897
Creator:
Smith, Samuel A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling
Patent for automatic car-couplings, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 21, 1897
Creator:
Yarnell, Leon, J. & Schmidt, Joseph H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for Kitchen Cabinet
Design patent for a kitchen cabinet that is useful and ornamental. Leading feature includes rectangular upright position that has a framework of strips provided with a longitudinal beading or ribs.
Date:
September 21, 1897
Creator:
Ferguson, John F. G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History