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Disk Plow.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements relates to disk or revolving plows.
Date:
December 28, 1897
Creator:
Wolcott, Oliver P.
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
Axle - Nut.
Patent for a new and useful improvements in Axle-Nuts for wagons and carriages.
Date:
November 23, 1897
Creator:
Collins, Corties
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weed - Exterminator
Patent for a new and useful improvement in Johnson-Grass, other grass and weed extermination.
Date:
November 9, 1897
Creator:
McBride, Samuel H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie Machine.
Patent to for a machine to make and count bale-ties, "...to manufacture at small cost machines which will be compact, not taking up much space, and which will e simple in construction and durable" (lines 10-13). It includes an extensive explanation and illustrations.
Date:
August 17, 1896
Creator:
Harry, Owen K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fan Attachment.
Patent for an automatic fan that attaches to a rocking chair or cradle and rotates as the chair or cradle rocks. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 12, 1897
Creator:
Bailey, Israel S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Protecting Alarm-Circuit.
Patent for a circuit to be connected to a security alarm so that when the circuit is broken, the alarm will sound. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 12, 1897
Creator:
Barriclow, Irvin E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grain-Separator.
Patent for improved grain separators or threshing machines "whereby vibrating straw-racks will be entirely dispensed with and the machine so simplified as to obviate the heavy jars and jerks of most grain-separators or threshing machines, while at the same time providing a construction of machine that will effectually separate the grain from the straw and will also keep the feeding end of the machine entirely free from dust, which is often a serious drawback to the operation of most machines of this character." (Lines 11-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 5, 1897
Creator:
McCue, John Marshall
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Marking Tag
Patent for marking tags (price tags) for garments and/or fabrics for sale. The design is meant to reduce missing, torn, or frayed marking tags. Illustrations and instructions included.
Date:
September 14, 1897
Creator:
Winkler, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene Gas Generator
Patent for improving acetylene gas generator designs with the use of an added specification in the form of a new apparatus. Illustrations and instructions are included.
Date:
September 7, 1897
Creator:
Taylor, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Braiding Attachment for Sewing-Machines.
Patent for an "attachment to the pressure-foot of sewing machines to carry a tinsel or braid in proper position relative to the needle" (lines 15-17) to ensure the tinsel or braid is fully attached to the desired outline on the cloth. Patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 7, 1897
Creator:
Tynes, Minor Eugene.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trolley Wheel For Electric Cars
Patent for improvement to trolley wheel design for electric cars, specifically the addition of friction-disks to prevent the wheel from running off the wire while moving. Instructions and illustrations are included.
Date:
September 7, 1897
Creator:
Crawford, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planter.
Patent for the operating gear in planters. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 17, 1897
Creator:
Schofield, James Drommond
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric-Arc-Light Reflector.
Patent for an electric arc light reflector, including an annular band to support the reflector on the arc-light cone, and a reflector with an aperture.
Date:
July 27, 1897
Creator:
Bolles, Charles Morris
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burglar-Alarm.
Patent for an "apparatus for protecting or guarding electric circuits; and it has for its object to protect or guard electric circuits, such as burglar-alarm circuits, from interference by unauthorized or mischievous agencies." (Lines 9-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 22, 1897
Creator:
Sutton, Henry M. & Steele, Walter L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cabinet for Blanks.
Patent for"cabinets, cases, or boxes designed for use in hotels, post-offices, and other places where stationery is required by guests or other portions of the public." (Lines 10-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 22, 1897
Creator:
Kinsel, Abram Myers; Hunter, George Alexander & Nolley, Seth Ballard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Seed Conveyer.
Patent for "an efficient and economical cotton-seed-conveyer system for the removal of cotton-seed from gins or linters by the exclusive and unimpeded action of an air-blast through the exhaust-flue of the fan that is ordinarily employed in connection with the usual elevator from conducting cotton into the gin-feeders." (Lines 9-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 15, 1897
Creator:
Graber, Henry W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Nut Cracker.
Patent for a Nut-Cracker.
Date:
May 25, 1897
Creator:
Collins, Corties
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Primary Battery.
Patent for a simplified primary battery "whereby the parts thereof may be readily removed and replaced without special tools by unprofessional persons, while at the same time providing a construction of primary battery involving new and useful connections for the positive and negative elements thereof." (Lines 10-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 25, 1897
Creator:
Sutton, Henry M. & Steele, Walter L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Separating Decorticated Cotton-Seed.
Patent for a machine dedicated to "increase the capacity of machines for separating decorticated cotton-seed" (lines 9-10) and to "separate the meal from the husks of the decorticated cotton-seed, whereby perfectly clean meal is collected" (lines 12-15)
Date:
May 11, 1897
Creator:
Bell, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pneumatic Apparatus for Handling Seed-Cotton.
Patent for a machine that removes cotton from a "wagon or other vehicle" (line 11), and moving it to a storage facility. It also moves the cotton from the storage facility and into the cotton gin. The cotton is elevated during movement via suction.
Date:
May 11, 1897
Creator:
Murray, Stephen D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock.
Patent for "nut-locks especially adapted for use in securing nuts upon bolts at the joints of railway-rails." (Lines 10-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 13, 1897
Creator:
Dodson, Roy
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine.
Patent for a washing machine with a "revolving drum or clothes-carrier, of a steam-chest" (lines 79-80) surrounding the drum, a removable cover with "perforated steam-pipes" (line 83), which go around the drum.
Date:
April 6, 1897
Creator:
Stallings, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gas-Generating Machine.
Patent for "...an improved method of and means for generating hydrocarbon vapors for heating and lighting purposes; and it consists in the novel manner in which the process is carried out and in the novel construction and combination of parts comprising the generating apparatus..." (lines 18-24) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 9, 1897
Creator:
Mitchell, Francis L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History