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Adjustable Table.
Patent for a new and useful adjustable table, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 12, 1899
Creator:
Congour, Presley Alpheus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Boiler-Feeder.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in automatic boiler feeders, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 12, 1898
Creator:
Sharp, Joshua H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Armor for Pneumatic Tires.
Patent for a new and useful armor for pneumatic tires.
Date:
April 12, 1898
Creator:
Hansell, Robert Clark
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed and Cylinder Printing-Machine.
Patent for a new and useful improvements in bed and cylinder printing machines for "operating and controlling the motion of the bed-plate thereof" (line 11 - 13).
Date:
April 12, 1898
Creator:
Murray, George T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin-Saw Cleaner.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cotton gin saw cleaners, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 12, 1899
Creator:
Mapes, Joseph Calvin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Calipers and Dividers.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in measuring instruments, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 12, 1898
Creator:
Taulman, Joseph Edwin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ball-Bearing Axle-Box.
Patent for a new and useful ball bearing axle box, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 12, 1898
Creator:
Hobron, Charles Bingley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant-Trap.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in ant-traps.
Date:
April 12, 1898
Creator:
Selvidge, Charles W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Thinner.
Patent for a machine that thins cotton fibers.
Date:
September 12, 1899
Creator:
Billingsley, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Tool.
Patent for a new and useful combination tool, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 12, 1899
Creator:
Prinzing, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in car coupling devices, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 12, 1899
Creator:
Yeiser, John C.
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
Frame For Slates.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in frames for slates, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 12, 1899
Creator:
Mitchell, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Penholders.
Patent for a simple and effective attachment for penholders. It is "readily and easily attached to a penholder, and which is adapted to protect the fingers of the hand and prevent them from coming in contact with the pen or with the inked portion of the holder" (lines 15-19).
Date:
November 12, 1895
Creator:
McDonald, Michael Shaw
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boot Upper.
Patent for a new and improved boot upper. This design "relates to improvements in boots for use by lumbermen, laborers, miners, and others requiring a stout heavy boot capable of withstanding great strain, water-tight, and durable" (lines 7-11). It "consist[s] of a front and rear section, each of said sections being made in one piece and the edges of the rear section doubled over upon themselves and having their edges secured to the edges of the front section by edge stitches passing through said edges of the front section and said edges of the doubled edges of the rear section" (lines 74-81).
Date:
July 12, 1892
Creator:
Baker, Oscar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for cooling milk, meat, vegetables, &c.
Patent for an early fridge, a device that will cool meat, milk and vegetables. It comprises a container of ice cold water, and a place to store the foodstuffs in.
Date:
July 12, 1892
Creator:
Smart, J. W. & Cheatham, T. C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Elevator and Distributer.
Patent for cotton elevators and distributors "whereby the cotton and air shall be separated in a simple and efficient manner and the air discharged from the suction-fan with the least possible degree of friction and back pressure." (Lines 11-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 12, 1897
Creator:
Griffin, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compress.
Patent for "surgical instruments which are used for stopping the flow of blood during an amputation or other similar operation." (Lines 12-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 12, 1897
Creator:
Burton, Edwin L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a churn that quickly makes butter and has an easily detachable churn body. The churn body sits sideways in a frame, and gears and a hand-operated crank that is built into the removable part of the frame churns the cream.
Date:
September 12, 1893
Creator:
Moon, Richard D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive cotton chopper that is "adapted for simultaneously forming rows and cross-chopping the same, thus bringing plants, such as cotton, &c., to a stand, all in one operation, and thereby avoiding the necessity, as occurs in some cases of plowing or cultivating two ways in a field for the purpose of forming rows and then the stands or for any hand hoeing, as is also commonly done" (lines 12-19).
Date:
September 12, 1893
Creator:
Schofield, James Drommond
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Door.
Patent for "sliding doors for freight cars, stock cars, &c., in which the car door is suspended at its upper end by means of suitable hangers engaging a track or guide rail extended above and to one side of the door-way in such manner that the door, when unfastened, may be made to slide sidewise to give access to the interior of the car." (Lines 8-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 12, 1894
Creator:
Mooney, Patrick T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for a baling press that holds the material in the press while it is being formed into a bale. It consists of a frame with notches in the back, a resistance bar that pivots across the back of the frame, a latch that holds the bar in place, and a pin to pin the bar to the latch.
Date:
December 12, 1893
Creator:
Mealer, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Brake.
Patent for a car brake that has independent brake shoes and brake pressure is equally applied to all the wheels of the truck. The invention is meant to "obtain in a car brake of this class a central transmission of the applied brake power to the different groups of brake mechanism whereby the brake power is distributed equally to each wheel and the brakes are not only rendered more stable and certain in their operation, but are better adapted for the application of either hand or air brake or pressure" (lines 22-31). The brake shoes are operated by a lever that is suspended from the truck body and pivots.
Date:
December 12, 1893
Creator:
McGee, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "relates to car-couplings, more especially of that class known as 'swing-pins;' and the object of the invention is to provide a swinging weight which will press the pin normally into operative position, and which will also support the link" (lines 7-12).
Date:
August 12, 1890
Creator:
Bass, Alonzo T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History