Resource Type
Frame-Lifting Device for Disk Plows or Similar Implements.
Patent for "improvements in disk plows and similar implements, and especially to means employed for raising and lowering the frames of said plows in order to regulate the depth of the furrow" (lines 9-13).
Date:
October 30, 1900
Creator:
Hendon, Walter Preston
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Key-Bar.
Patent for key-bars for use on type-writers and cash-registers.
Date:
October 30, 1900
Creator:
Irish, Gilbert H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Metallic Brush for Cotton-Gins.
Patent for brush-cylinders in cotton gins, with the purpose of simplifying and cheapening construction while increasing efficiency.
Date:
October 30, 1900
Creator:
Jenkins, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planter and Cultivator.
Patent for "an Improvement in a Combined Planter (cotton and corn) and Cultivator" (lines 5-6).
Date:
October 30, 1900
Creator:
Svensen, Svend G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Mounting Pictures.
Patent for the process of producing and mounting pictures at the highest quality and the lowest cost to provide "the appearance of the highest art" (lines 16-17).
Date:
October 30, 1900
Creator:
Cowan, Mark L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Switch-Locking Device.
Patent for "a switch-locking device comprising a lock contained within the switch-lever of the switch-stand, by the use of which the switch may be more quickly and positively manipulated and finally locked in position" (lines 3-7).
Date:
October 30, 1900
Creator:
Sulfer, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shoe-Lace Fastener.
Patent for a barbed metal clasp designed to hold a shoelace knot together.
Date:
October 30, 1900
Creator:
Kroeninger, Augusta E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
WRENCH.
Patent for an improved wrench "which can be very quickly adjusted for its work" (lines 13-14), including illustrations.
Date:
October 30, 1900
Creator:
Phenix, William Preston
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lid or Plate LIfter
Patent for a device that removes lids from vessels, or moves the vessels themselves.
Date:
October 27, 1900
Creator:
Maddux, Charles D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Low-Pressure Alarm and Indicator for Air-Brakes.
Patent for "air-brake mechanisms in general, and more particularly to the alarms for giving warning when the pressure in the train-pipe drops to a predetermined point and for giving a visual signal when such condition exists" (p. 1, lines 8-13).
Date:
October 25, 1900
Creator:
Parsons, Avery H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Band-Cutter
Patent for band-cutters “designed for facilitating the cutting of bale-bands” (lines 11-12) including illustrations.
Date:
October 23, 1900
Creator:
Manly, James S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Dasher
Patent for an improved churn dasher "to thoroughly agitate the cream at the center of the churn-body and also around the bottom of the walls thereof" (lines 13-15) and "also to cause tangential streams or currents at the bottom of the churn, so as to thoroughly agitate all of the cream and effectively intermingle the air therewith" (lines 18-22), including illustrations.
Date:
October 23, 1900
Creator:
Franklin, Edward R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press
Patent for an improved version of a cotton press that forms cylindrical bales.
Date:
October 23, 1900
Creator:
Bessonette, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dental Plugger.
Patent for a dental plugger which has a movable cylinder on the interior with a "piston-like mallet working in the cylinder and adapted to strike the same, to impart movement to the dental tool" (lines 93-95).
Date:
October 23, 1900
Creator:
Blum, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate-Latch.
Patent for improvement in gate-latches by using a single piece of wire bent and coiled to form a u-shaped latch. Illustration and description of how the latch worked are included.
Date:
October 23, 1900
Creator:
Smyth, Lewis Miller
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump
Patent for a pump to be used for pumping oil and water including instructions.
Date:
October 23, 1900
Creator:
Stukes, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint.
Patent for improvements in rail-joint by providing “a fastening means for rail-joints adapted to embrace the bottom and top sides of the foot and the sides of the web of the rail and to extend along the underside of the head, so as to brace the joint vertically.” (Lines 16-31) Illustration is included.
Date:
October 23, 1900
Creator:
Boyd, Henry M. & Redmon, Hope
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electrically-Actuated Sawmill Set-Works
Patent for an electrically-actuated sawmill set-works that regulates movement of the clutch-stop and set-shaft, which determines the extent of knee-movement including illustrations.
Date:
October 16, 1900
Creator:
Carroll, William M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine.
Patent for an object that simplifies the operation of rotary engines and motors.
Date:
October 16, 1900
Creator:
Baxter, James P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Planter
Patent for a seed-planter, illustrations included.
Date:
October 16, 1900
Creator:
Wright, William L. & Hackler, Andrew J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Closet Flush.
Patent for a siphon flushing apparatus for water-closets in which it will regulate the quantity of the water being discharged at each flushing; at the same time it can prevent water leakage. Illustration is included.
Date:
October 16, 1900
Creator:
Bowman, Jonathan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Gin
Patent for "new and improved Cotton Gin" (line 5).
Date:
October 3, 1900
Creator:
Lumpkin, Robert B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Band Tightener
Patent for a bale-band tightener, illustrations included.
Date:
October 2, 1900
Creator:
Splettstosser, Fritz
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn
Patent for a butter churn with gentle agitation meant to keep butter cells from breaking including illustrations.
Date:
October 2, 1900
Creator:
McCausland, Joseph H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History