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Cord-Tying Device.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cord tying devices, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 1, 1899
Creator:
Postley, Charles A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in acetylene gas machines, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 1, 1899
Creator:
Henderson, Thomas & Stapp, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a new and useful car coupling, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 1, 1899
Creator:
Adams, William Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cushion-Tire Retainer for Vehicle-Wheels.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cushion tire retainers for vehicle wheels, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 1, 1898
Creator:
Lyon, Leonidas Nicholas. Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bank - Protecting Device.
Patent for a new and useful bank-protecting device.
Date:
February 1, 1898
Creator:
Hinkle, George J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Knife and Scale.
Patent for a new and useful improvements in a combined knife and scale. This design "has relation to a combined knife and scale, and is particularly adapted for the use of butchers" (line 12 - 14).
Date:
February 1, 1898
Creator:
Herrin, Lemuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Measuring Distances.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in devices for measuring distances, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 1, 1898
Creator:
Farrand, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie Opener.
Patent for "a simple and durable device by means of which the buckles or securing devices on cotton-bale ties or bands may be readily opened and the band removed from the bale without destroying the buckle or the band, so that they may be again used." (Lines 11-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 1, 1897
Creator:
Gaskill, Clinton R.
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
Blind-Slat Fastener.
Patent for blind-salt fastener, with description and illustrations.
Date:
June 1, 1897
Creator:
Wright, John Alexander
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compressed-Air Water Elevator.
Patent for a new improvements to compressed-air water-elevators, including illustrations.
Date:
June 1, 1897
Creator:
Bechtol, William S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for a cotton press that has a stationary plate and a steam or hydraulic powered plate and produces a continuous folded bat. This invention combines "advantages of the quick but not extremely powerful pressure of the ordinary steam press, and the powerful but slow pressure of the hydraulic press" (lines 14-17).
Date:
August 1, 1893
Creator:
McCutcheon, Joshua L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Drop-Lid for Bins or Boxes.
Patent for "boxes or bins for store counters and shelves; and it has for its object to provide certain improvements in the lid devices for boxes or bins, so as to avoid the many objections to hinged lids, which interfere with free access to the interior of the box or bin when the same is used under the counter or on shelves" (lines 8-15).
Date:
August 1, 1893
Creator:
Dailey, Basil
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Band-Cutter and Feeder for Thrashing-Machines
Patent for an attachment for thrashing-machines "for cutting the bands on the sheaves of wheat, rice, or other grain, to spread the loosened bundles out uniformly, and to then feed them thus spread out into the thrashing-machine, whereby the strain on the machine can be made more uniform" (lines 15-20) and the capacity and efficiency can be increased.
Date:
November 1, 1892
Creator:
Hill, Frank R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Measure and Funnel.
Patent for a combined measure and funnel that can be used to fill small-mouthed vessels. It can support itself and is adjustable in order to fit different sized vessels and has "a means for stopping the flow of liquid from the measure whenever so desired and to allow it to flow at will" (lines 26-28).
Date:
November 1, 1892
Creator:
Holt, Dudley T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crate.
Patent for a crate build specifically for shipping bananas "which will be of light weight, and which can be manufactured at slight cost" (lines 16-17).
Date:
November 1, 1892
Creator:
Jeanes, Elisha A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "relates to car-couplings, and more especially to that part or portion of the mechanism usually termed 'link-lifters;' and the object of the invention is to provide means whereby the link can be lifted and caused to enter the draw-head of an approaching car by the operator when standing alongside the stationary car" (lines 7-14).
Date:
April 1, 1890
Creator:
Small, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crab and Fish Trap.
Patent for a new and improved seafood trap. This design consists in "a net or trap for crabs or fish, which comprises flat frame-sections hinged together, netting attached to said sections, and a rod or bar extending across said sections and engaging with suitable devices thereon for holding said sections partly extended until the hinged sides strike bottom and thereby release the rod or bar" (lines 83-90).
Date:
April 1, 1890
Creator:
Franklin, Robert M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design consists in "the combination, with the axle, of the U-frame having bearings at its ends for the axle and a rearwardly-disposed sleeve, a shaft mounted in the sleeve and projecting beyond the same at each of its ends and provided with choppers at its rear end and a gear at its front end, a master-gear splined upon the axle and having a grooved hub, and a pivoted yoke terminating in the hub and a lever for operating the same to throw the gear into contact with that upon the shaft" (lines 1-12).
Date:
April 1, 1890
Creator:
Stanford, Jeff Hillon
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coin Holder of Package.
Patent for improvements in coin holders or packages by using three metallic strips, A, B, and C; the end of strips A and B are bent at right angles to the body portions of coins of a particular denomination. Strip C is “pivoted at its ends to the ends of the strips A and B at their point of attachment and adapted to be turned upon its pivots, so as to embrace the edges of the coins contained in the holder.” (Lines 85-89) Illustration is included.
Date:
September 1, 1891
Creator:
Heim, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Delinting Cotton-Seed.
Patent for improvements in apparatus for delinting cotton seed: " Our invention relates to improvements in apparatus for burning off or removing the lint from cotton seed" (lines 14-16).
Date:
September 1, 1891
Creator:
Hollingsworth, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chimney-Cowl.
Patent for improvements in chimney-cowls by providing a “self-operating smoke-conductor especially adapted for use in all windy climates, to be placed over the discharge-opening of the flues.” (Lines 10-13) So that a “smoke-conductor can be automatically reversed or turned by the wind in any and all directions” (15-18) to carry the smoke away. Illustration is included.
Date:
September 1, 1891
Creator:
Gardner, Perris W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a cultivator used for sub-soiling and cultivating small grain.
Date:
December 1, 1891
Creator:
Thomas, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for improvements in cotton choppers and thinners by using a combination of “a rectangular frame having the transverse arch, the axle having the ground-wheels and the drive-gears mounted on the axle, a stirrups shafts, cogs, rotary cutters, and a bifureated cam” (p. 2, lines 85-92) to construct the chopper. This new construction will “provide means for easily adjusting the knives or cutters, and for regulating the distance between the stands of cotton.” (Page 1, lines 12-15) Illustration is included.
Date:
December 1, 1891
Creator:
McCaul, James L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History