Resource Type
Collection
Railway Cattle - Guard
Patent for a new and useful railway cattle guard to "improve the construction of cattle-guards and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient one which will eventually prevent stock from passing from one field or in-closure into another by way of a railroad-track, roadway, or the like" (line 10-16).
Date:
November 23, 1897
Creator:
Wiggs, Zeph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
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
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
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
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
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
Sash Fastener
Patent for a new and useful Sash holder and lock to "provide a simple, cheap, and efficient device of this character which may be applied to either the upper or lower sashes of windows in general use at the present time without materially injuring them and without requiring the aid of a skilled mechanic" (line 10 - 15).
Date:
November 16, 1897
Creator:
Tuitte, Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash - Lock
Patent for a new and useful improvements in Sash Locks to "provide a device of this character whereby the sash will be automatically locked in all its adjusted positions, thereby dispensing with the employment of sash cords and weights (line 13-17).
Date:
November 16, 1897
Creator:
Crocker, Lauren A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
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
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
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
Egg-Case.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in egg case, that "relates to folding boxes or crates such as are usually employed for packing and shipping eggs and various other articles" (line 10-12).
Date:
November 9, 1897
Creator:
Prechtel, Charles A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Organ Protector
Patent for a new and useful Oran protector "to prevent the entrance of vermin through the Knee-swell slot" ( line 9 - 11).
Date:
November 9, 1897
Creator:
Oliver, Samuel R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a new and useful plow to "provides means whereby a shovel, plow, sweep, or other soil-working device may be connected with the beam or standard of a sulky or walking plow" ( line 7 - 10).
Date:
November 9, 1897
Creator:
Wells, Louis B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting - Frame for Sewing - Machines
Patent for a new and useful improvements in quilting frames for sewing machines. This invention is to " provide a simple, cheap, and efficient quilting frame adapted to be suspended from an overhead support and to be used in connection with an ordinary sewing machine" (line 13-17).
Date:
November 9, 1897
Creator:
Heacker, Edwin W.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
Railroad - Bed For Trestles.
Patent for a new and useful railroad bed for trestles.
Date:
November 2, 1897
Creator:
Lee, Jacob Martin
System:
The Portal to Texas History