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Clothes Pounder (open access)

Clothes Pounder

Patent for a new and useful improvements in Clothes-Pounders. The invention "has its object to provide a simple and effective clothes pounder in which the air as well as the water is used as an agent in removing the dirt from the clothes" (line 12- 16).
Date: November 9, 1897
Creator: Allen, William Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Axle - Nut. (open access)

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
Automatic Dumping Cage (open access)

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
Convertible Package - Carrying Bicycle. (open access)

Convertible Package - Carrying Bicycle.

Patent for a convertible package carrying bicycle.
Date: November 2, 1897
Creator: Sanders, Ira B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton - Chopper. (open access)

Cotton - Chopper.

Patent for a new and useful improvement in cotton choppers machine as the attachment to cultivators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 16, 1897
Creator: Richter, Frank L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn - Motor. (open access)

Churn - Motor.

Patent for a new and useful Churn-Motor to "provide a simple and efficient from a wind-motor adapted for use in connection with churns, the wind-wheel blades being so constructed as to adapt them to expose the necessary surface for efficient operation under the conditions" (line 9- 14).
Date: November 2, 1897
Creator: Staples, John & Spake, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Desk. (open access)

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
Apparatus For Desulfurizing Matte Or Other Furnace Products (open access)

Apparatus For Desulfurizing Matte Or Other Furnace Products

Patent for a new and improved apparatus for desulfuring matte or other furnace products.
Date: November 9, 1897
Creator: Wells, James L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator. (open access)

Cultivator.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in Cultivators to "provide improved means for pivoting the main standards to the plow-beams together"(line 17-20).
Date: November 16, 1897
Creator: Ward, Lee
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling (open access)

Car Coupling

Patent for a new and useful improvements in Car couples. This invention "relates to automatic car couples, and more particularly to that class known as " swing-pin" couples" (line 11 - 13).
Date: November 16, 1897
Creator: Gillespie, Charles W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Calculating - Machine (open access)

Calculating - Machine

Patent for an improvements in calculating machines. This invention "relates to machines for making rapid and accurate calculations" (line 8-9).
Date: November 16, 1897
Creator: Minnis, Henry M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Check - Book (open access)

Check - Book

Patent for a new and useful improvements in check-book for " customer's use, such as are employed by banks for free distribution" (line 11 - 13).
Date: November 2, 1897
Creator: Exline, Marcus P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Sprayer Attachment for Washing-Machines. (open access)

Design for a Sprayer Attachment for Washing-Machines.

Design patent for a sprayer attachment for washing machines that includes a conical base-plate with a circular spout projection at its apex.
Date: November 16, 1897
Creator: Bessonette, William T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Weed - Exterminator (open access)

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
Type Writing Machine (open access)

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
Ironing - Machine (open access)

Ironing - Machine

Patent for a new and useful improvements in ironing machines for household use to"produce a simple, effective, and inexpensive ironing-machine especially adapted for household or family use" (line 27 - 29).
Date: November 2, 1897
Creator: Walter, George P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Station - Indicator (open access)

Station - Indicator

Patent for a new and useful improvements in automatic station-indication.
Date: November 16, 1897
Creator: Garner, William R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Medicine - Glass. (open access)

Medicine - Glass.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in medicine-glasses.
Date: November 23, 1897
Creator: Jenkins, John Marshall
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tool for Type - Writers (open access)

Tool for Type - Writers

Patent for a new and useful improvements in tools for type writers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 16, 1897
Creator: Vidor, Charles Shelton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mandolin. (open access)

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
Portable Gold - Washer (open access)

Portable Gold - Washer

Patent for a new and improved portable gold-washer. This invention is to "provide an improved substitute for the crude forms of portable good-washing apparatus frequently employed" (line 8-10).
Date: November 23, 1897
Creator: Kahn, Felix
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stenographer's Note - Book (open access)

Stenographer's Note - Book

Patent for a new and useful Stenographer's Blank Book to "provide a connection for the covers whereby they may be automatically secured at the desired relative inclination without fastening the tape, cord, or ribbon forming the connection" (line 20 -24).
Date: November 2, 1897
Creator: Stuart, Benjamin F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a new and useful cotton chopper. The invention "relates to cotton-choppers, and has for its object to provide a simple and efficient device of this class whereby grass, weeds, and the like may be removed from the spaces between stands of cotton, corn, and similar vegetation" (line 8 - 13).
Date: November 2, 1897
Creator: Taylor, William Harlow
System: The Portal to Texas History
Generator for Acetylene Gas (open access)

Generator for Acetylene Gas

Patent for a new and improved generator for acetylene gas.
Date: November 16, 1897
Creator: Williams, Benjamin F.
System: The Portal to Texas History