Resource Type
Collection
Ore Concentrator
Patent for a "machine for separating ores of precious metals, and particularly to that class of machines known as 'dry concentrators or separators,' used for separating fold ore by means of an air-blast over dry sand, gravel, quartz, etc." (lines 10-15). Illustrations and instructions are included.
Date:
August 17, 1897
Creator:
Waer, Luis M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hose-Nozzle.
Patent for "a nozzle by means of which a single condensed stream of water may be thrown to a considerable distance or a widely-diverging spray be projected therefrom or both the central stream and spray be produced at one and the same time." (Lines 11-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 23, 1897
Creator:
Day, Elisha Little
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in plows. This improvements are to " render the plow right and strong and easy-running, reducing the effort required by the plowman to handle the plow to a minimum, and to render the handles and beam and plow-plate readily adjustable as regards pitch and height (line 10 - 16).
Date:
December 28, 1897
Creator:
Kirkpatrick, James M. & Files, Jerry B.
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
Joiner's Floor-Clamp.
Patent for "an improved device for use by joiners in setting tongue-and-groove floor and ceiling boards, whereby the boards are forced in close joining and held while being nailed to the joists." (Lines 8-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 7, 1897
Creator:
White, Able M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Cigar-Lighter.
Patent for a cigar lighter in which the cigar is lit on a glowing surface, improves on the ease of operating a cigar lighter, and provides space for an advertisement.
Date:
May 4, 1897
Creator:
Handshy, Henry M.
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
Easel
Patent for an easel that has a sliding picture-rest, which is has a "clutch mechanism for holding the sliding rest at any desired elevation" (lines 11-14). It also has a "auxiliary folding rest for holding a model or study while the artist is engaged at work" (lines 20-22), which can be folded up when finished.
Date:
January 12, 1897
Creator:
Cooper, Harry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
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
Design for a Knife
Patent for a design for a knife that has a curved terminal that forms a shield.
Date:
May 11, 1897
Creator:
Albert, Alfred K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Game-Board
Patent for a design for a game-board this is both useful and ornamental.
Date:
May 11, 1897
Creator:
Sneddon, Guy Hoyt
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
Design for a Bouquet Holder.
Patent for a new and original bouquet-holder made of ductile wiring.
Date:
January 12, 1897
Creator:
Postert, Alwina D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Curling Iron Holder
Patent for a design for a curling-iron holder.
Date:
June 8, 1897
Creator:
Campbell, Orton G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Derrick.
Patent for a portable derrick "in which the derrick-frame is rotatable, the same being especially adapted for use in handling bales of cotton, baggage, ice, and other heavy articles." (Lines 14-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 9, 1897
Creator:
Stallings, George V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Raising and Transporting Vessels.
Patent for "a new and useful construction of barge having simple and powerful means for raising ships and vessels to a sufficient height so that the same may readily be carried through the water over shallow places or bars, and the barge is also equipped with means for being propelled through the water to carry a ship or vessel, and also for being propelled over a track, so as to act as a combined locomotive and ship-car when carrying a ship or vessel over dry land." (Lines 14-25) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 23, 1897
Creator:
Schramm, Charles J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Preventing Hens from Setting.
Patent for improvements to a hood that prevents hens from flying (by cutting off vision above or to either side) while allowing them to continue scratching and eating.
Date:
May 11, 1897
Creator:
Sparks, Andrew J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for raising water.
Patent for device for raising water. "Our invention relates to water-elevators in which a bucket or like receptacle is periodically lowered into a well and then raised to be emptied."
Date:
June 1, 1897
Creator:
Poe, Herbert L. & Sparkman, William C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Capturing and Destroying Insects.
Patent for "a new and original method of destroying the Mexican cotton-boll weevil (Anthonomus gradis boh) and other insects that damage cotton while growing &c., &c. (lines 5-8) including illustrations.
Date:
June 8, 1897
Creator:
Strouhal, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Feeding Envelops to Type-Writing Machines.
Patent for "a device for feeding envelops to type-writing machines, the object being to construct a device of the character described which is adapted to be mounted on the carriage of the machine and feed envelops to be addressed continuously and automatically to the platen on said machine." (Lines 26-32) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 15, 1897
Creator:
Wash, Benjamin S.
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
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
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