Resource Type
Collection
Bicycle Alarm
Patent for a "simple and cheap as well as ornamental bicycle-whistle...of novel and peculiar construction, adapted for attachment to the bicycle and made to sound at pleasure" (lines 14-18). Illustrations and instructions are included.
Date:
July 13, 1897
Creator:
Crump, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Door-Saddle.
Patent for new and improved door saddles, which consists "of a longitudinal and cross-grooved arrangement of parts coacting with inclined surfaces and shields to cause a perfect drainage of water" (lines 11-15), including instructions and illustration.
Date:
July 13, 1897
Creator:
Vogel, Thomas.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Releasing Device For Brakes Of Drive-Wheels.
Patent for "releasing devices for the brakes of drive-wheels of locomotives, whereby the brakes are instantaneously released at the time the train is in motion and before the braked drive-wheels are on the point of sliding on the rails, also before the triple valve acts to release the brakes." (Lines 15-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 13, 1897
Creator:
Pelham, Walter O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stop Attachment for Cotton-Gins.
Patent for "automatic stop attachments for cotton ginning and condensing apparatus; and it has for its objects to provide a new and useful attachment of this character operated in connection with a gin-condenser and gin-feeder to provide positive means for automatically stopping the ginning operation and the feed of cotton in the event of the condenser becoming choked, which choking often wrecks the gin-brush, ruins the saws, and creates fire by friction." (Lines 9-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 13, 1897
Creator:
Rembert, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cutting Attachment For Plows.
Patent for cutting attachment for a plow, including illustrations.
Date:
July 6, 1897
Creator:
Stone, Umphry M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for Insect Guard for Furniture
Design patent for an insect-guard for furniture that is both useful and ornamental.
Date:
July 6, 1897
Creator:
Collier, John Charlis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric-Arc Lamp.
Patent for improvements to electric-arc lamps to regulate the feed of the carbon-carrying rod, with illustrations.
Date:
July 6, 1897
Creator:
Walsh, James J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hitching Device.
Patent for "a hitching device which can be applied to a strap between its ends and which is freely adjustable back and forth upon the strap without wearing or injuring the strap in any manner and to form a hitching device which consists of two entirely separate and distinct pieces, thus doing away with all joints, pivots, or other connections, and the necessity for forming holes or perforations of any kind in the strap." (Lines 22-31) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 6, 1897
Creator:
King, Sandy & Myers, Marshall
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Handle-Bar for Bicycles.
Patent for adjustable handle bar for bicycles, including illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1897
Creator:
Winfrey, Edgar, M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Bicycles.
Patent for a package-carrying device that attaches to the frame of a bicycle. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1897
Creator:
Saunders, David Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bit-Brace.
Patent for "an improved form of brace having a V-guide which is substantially right-angled and mechanism mounted therein for driving a bit so arranged that the crank-arm of the handle may turn in a corner without striking the wall or without striking the wall or without striking a plane support should the guide rest thereon when boring a hole." (Lines 12-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1897
Creator:
McClellan, Stephen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Calipers.
Patent for calipers that can be adjusted micrometrically to within one five-thousandth of an inch. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1897
Creator:
Clarke, George R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for "an automatic link-coupler which shall embody strength, simplicity, certainty of action, and adaptability for manipulation without entering between the cars and without necessity of relieving strain." (Lines 9-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1897
Creator:
Martin, David D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Display-Rack.
Patent for..." a rack for displaying cakes, crackers, nuts, dried fruits, and like commodities in whole or half boxes, so as to admit of access being readily had to the contents of the boxes or the boxes being quickly removed and replaced for any pur pose, and to devise a rack for the purposes aforesaid which will be compact and occupy a minimum amount of room compared with the display-surface and which provides for the adjustment of the brackets or supports so as to receive boxes of different size and make" (lines 8-20) with descriptions and illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1897
Creator:
Jordan, George M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting-Frame.
Patent for a quilting frame "pivotally attached to a suspending-bar, whereby either part may be brought beneath the arm of the sewing-machine without requiring the shifting of the goods to bring a new part into position to be quilted until after the exposed portions of the two parts have been quilted." (Lines 24-30) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1897
Creator:
Scoby, William E. & Spoonts, Joseph L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Screen Attachment for Suction or Exhaust Fans.
Patent for a screen attachment that protects fan blades from damaging and being damaged by debris. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1897
Creator:
Davis, Micajah R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trace-Fastener.
Patent for improvements in trace fasteners, with illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1897
Creator:
Brownwell, John A. F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for a wrench that can be adjusted without the use of screws. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1897
Creator:
Thomas, Theodore G.
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
Car-Seat.
Patent for improvements to the "Scarritt-Forney" seat so that the seat body and frame are detachable from each other. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 22, 1897
Creator:
Meier, Hermann
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cushion-Tire.
Patent for a more durable bicycle tire. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 22, 1897
Creator:
Hayes, Rebecca Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tellurian.
Patent for a device "which shall illustrate the axial and orbital movements of the earth and the directions of the sun's rays upon our globe... by simple and effective means of automatic character." (Lines 17-24) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 22, 1897
Creator:
McArthur, Neel John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-press.
Patent for a baling press intended to work with hay, cotton and similar material, and form bales of many different sizes.
Date:
June 18, 1897
Creator:
Murphy, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History