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Automatic Dumping Cage
Patent for a new and improved automatic dumping cage. This invention is to "use in the shafts of coal and other mines"(line 9-10).
Date:
November 30, 1897
Creator:
Gordon, William K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cloth-Bolt Clamp.
Patent for a clamp "to hold the folds of a bolt of cloth in position and to prevent the same form being unwound except when desired." (Lines 23-25) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 30, 1897
Creator:
Leveritt, Nicholas T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for an improvement to machinery to wind fibrous materials (e.g., cotton) into cylindrical bales that does not use a core or fixed horizontal rollers.
Date:
March 30, 1897
Creator:
Ross, William Andrew
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type Writing Machine
Patent for a new and useful improvement in automatic type-writing machines.
Date:
November 30, 1897
Creator:
Templeton, Allison
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump.
Patent for a "pump for effectively pumping oil or quicksand from wells troubled with quicksand." (Lines 8-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 30, 1897
Creator:
Wintz, James Philip
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mandolin.
Patent for a new and useful improvements in Mandolins to"obtain a tone for mandolins as nearly as possible equal to that of violins and other stringed instruments played by bows"(line 8-10)
Date:
November 30, 1897
Creator:
Simpson, Roy B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hopple.
Patent fora new and useful improvements in anti-chafing hopples for training live stock to "provide hopples which will not injure stock while being trained"(line 9-11).
Date:
November 30, 1897
Creator:
Trice, Sinnette Y.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shot-Carrying Shell.
Patent for "a cartridge-shell which shall clean the barrel of the gun each time one is discharged, thereby preventing the gun becoming foul or clogged," and "which can be employed for shooting shot at long or short range." (Lines 11-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 30, 1897
Creator:
Williams, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ruling Machine
Patent for a new and useful improvements in ruling machines. This invention is to "provide a machine of this character by means of which engravers may cut horizontal, inclined, or circular lines into the plate, or draftsmen draw the same lines upon a sheet of drawing" (line 14-18).
Date:
November 30, 1897
Creator:
Owen, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Non Refillable Bottle
Patent for a new and useful improvements in non-refillable bottles. This invention is to " provide a bottle of this character which can not be refilled and sold as an original package without detection" (line 11-15).
Date:
November 30, 1897
Creator:
Taylor, James Moss
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Desk.
Patent for a new and useful desk "with depressible leaves or writing bed sections" (line 10)
Date:
November 30, 1897
Creator:
Welch, James N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History