Resource Type
Collection
Tongue-Bar-Supporting Clamp.
Patent for a clamp that holds the hammers in a piano. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 24, 1897
Creator:
Moyer, Jesse Hechler
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tool-Holder.
Patent for "a holder for any class of tools, but being especially adapted for hatchets, garden-tools, and tools of like character." (Lines 7-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 31, 1897
Creator:
Richardson, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Propeller for Churns
Patent for propellers for churns, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 5, 1897
Creator:
Bolding, James P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mucilage-Bottle.
Patent for a mucilage-bottle that has a brush which stays in the bottle, and is held in place with a cork. A spring is in the neck, and is compressed when the cork is inserted. This mucilage-bottle will not get clogged with dried mucilage.
Date:
January 12, 1897
Creator:
Taylor, George Watson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Engine.
Patent for "a high-speed rotary engine wherein the steam-impelled wheel shall revolve in a horizontal plane within an upright open cylinder." (Lines 10-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 19, 1897
Creator:
Slaughter, Joel C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Engine.
Patent for a steam engine which is more economical than other steam engines. "Steam is cut off in the earlier or later part of the stroke, according to the conditions of the work" (lines 15-17), according to a governor or engineer.
Date:
February 2, 1897
Creator:
Dickson, Henry L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Cutter.
Patent for a rotary-blade stalk cutting machine. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 23, 1897
Creator:
Evridge, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hub.
Patent for a wheel hub that "provides for preventing circumferential movement of the inner ends of the spokes, for bracing the spoke-engaging spider, and for locking the spoke-tightening device for preventing the accidental loosening thereof." (Lines 13-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 2, 1897
Creator:
Millen, George
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
Stirrup
Patent for a new and useful improvement in stirrup. This design is " an improvement in stirrups, and has for an object to so construct the stirrup as to prevent the strap-bar" (line 7-9).
Date:
December 7, 1897
Creator:
Wilson, William Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Multiple Gearing
Patent for a new and useful improvements in multiple gearing. This invention "relates to improvements in a multiple gearing for bicycles, vehicles, locomotive-engines, traction devices" (line 11-13).
Date:
December 21, 1897
Creator:
Cary, Lewis C.
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
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
Mechanism for Cleansing Clothing for Textile Fabrics
Patent for a new and useful improvements in mechanism for cleansing clothing or textile fabrics. This invention is to "provide a simple and economical construction and combination of parts whereby the clothes or fabrics operated upon shall be disturbed and displaced at each successive stroke of a pump forming part of the mechanism" (line 11-16).
Date:
December 21, 1897
Creator:
Wright, John W. & Burkes, Howell H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Puzzle.
Patent for a simply constructed puzzle with a difficult solution, "but may be accomplished by the exercise of care, skill, and ingenuity in the manipulation of the device" (lines 15-18). It is a rectangular box with eight balls, four of which fit into holes in the corners of the box. There are segmented walls surrounding the holes.
Date:
January 5, 1897
Creator:
Collis, Michael Francis
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
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
Plow-Beam.
Patent for "effective means whereby the component parts of a plow-beam can be relatively adjusted according to the nature of the work in hand or to meet certain conditions, thereby facilitating the work and increasing or decreasing the draft." (Lines 8-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 25, 1897
Creator:
Miller, Henry A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for regulating the width of the furrow-slice of a "sulky" or "wheel" plow, with illustration.
Date:
June 8, 1897
Creator:
Gauntt, Granville B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for the improvement on plows so that the operator can "readily adjust the moldboard or shovel into any desired inclination" (lines 14-15). The clamp is also adjustable.
Date:
June 8, 1897
Creator:
Baker, Jessie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for an improved turning plow. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 3, 1897
Creator:
Sevier, Samuel G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow Attachment for Planters.
Patent for an invention "to equip any style of planter with a plow attachment for breaking and opening the soil in advance of the furrow-opener and seeding mechanism." (Lines 8-11). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 7, 1897
Creator:
Conoley. Malcom C.
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