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Mosquito Bar Frame.
Patent for a new and improved mosquito-bar frame. This design "relates to improvements in that class of mosquito-bar frames which are adapted to be placed above a bed, so as to support the mosquito-netting in a way to cover the bed and guard the occupants thereof; and the object of [the] invention is to produce an extremely simple frame which may be easily dropped into a horizontal position over the bed or as easily tipped up and made to slide behind the head-board, where it will be entirely out of the way" (lines 7-17).
Date:
April 12, 1892
Creator:
Holden, Elbridge G.
System:
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Plow.
Patent for a plow that has a revolving moldboard and parts for using and cleaning the moldboard.
Date:
November 12, 1895
Creator:
Sevier, Samuel G.
System:
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Marking Attachment.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in marking attachments, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 12, 1898
Creator:
Lane, Sampson W.
System:
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Rod-Coupling Device.
Patent for a rod-coupling device, "to provide a simple, convenient, and effective device for the pump plunger-rods of windmills and the like" (lines 12-15). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 12, 1897
Creator:
Ponkney, August C.
System:
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Planter
Patent for "a machine of this class which shall be simple, durable, and inexpensive, which may be readily converted from a corn into a cotton planter, and vice versa, which may be easily and effectively adjusted so as to plant the corn in hills at any desired distance apart, and which shall be in every respect convenient and efficient" (lines 10-17).
Date:
August 12, 1890
Creator:
Schofield, James Drommond
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad-Gate.
Patent for improvements in automatic railway and farm gates by using a combination and arrangement of two supporting-frames, two sliding gates, a diagonal rod to secure the gates; with three levers each having its own functions, and two friction rollers. Illustration is included.
Date:
May 12, 1891
Creator:
Wood, Horace Overall & Smith, Sanford Sanders
System:
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Powder-Duster
Patent for a device that will grind poison to a fine powder, and can mounted on a wagon for distribution onto plants.
Date:
July 12, 1892
Creator:
Wright, John P.
System:
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Pruning Implement.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and efficient pruning implement meant to prune trees, cutting brush, and trimming hedges. It has a reciprocating knife, an improved hatchet-blade, and an extensible saw-blade "which is seated within a groove or recess in the shank of the implement and capable of being extended and held in operative position by means of a retaining-spring" (lines 16-20).
Date:
November 12, 1895
Creator:
Baiey, George M.
System:
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Railroad-Bicycle.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in railroad bicycles, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 12, 1899
Creator:
Turner, William B.
System:
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Motor.
Patent for "a motor of cheap and simple construction that may be stopped and started readily, that is automatically governed, that may be operated continuously or without losing time for rewinding or hoisting the weight, and the power of which may be doubled or decreased one-half, as desired, and in accordance with the mechanism to be operated" (lines 10-17).
Date:
July 12, 1892
Creator:
Wheat, Edmond C.
System:
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Refrigerator Shipping-Box.
Patent for a "new and useful Improvement in Shipping Boxes" (lines 5-6) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 12, 1897
Creator:
Andrews, Otis
System:
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Planter.
Patent for a planter "especially designed for planting seed and preparing the ground in advance of the opener, so as to remove weeds, trash, and other foreign matter from the path of the shovel preparing the furrow to receive the seed." (Lines 9-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 12, 1897
Creator:
Tinning, James D.
System:
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Quilting Attachment for Sewing-Machines.
Patent for a support for quilting frames that can be attached to a sewing machine. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 12, 1897
Creator:
Obuch, William
System:
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Plow-Set.
Patent for a new and useful plow set, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 12, 1899
Creator:
Clark, Samuel Houston
System:
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Planter.
Patent for a new and useful improvements in cotton-planters.
Date:
April 12, 1898
Creator:
Schofield, James Drommond
System:
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Gage.
Patent for a gage that has a beam with a saw kerf at one end, a clamp made up of a tube with parallel wings that are inserted into the kerf, a scribing point in the tube, "and means for clamping the separated ends of the beam tightly against the parallel wings of the clamp" (lines 57-59).
Date:
November 12, 1895
Creator:
Holmes, Elijah H.
System:
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Plow.
Patent for a new and useful plow, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 12, 1898
Creator:
Ankarstolpe, Nels.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Insulator.
Patent for a new and improved electric insulator. This design "comprises a pair of fixed metal jaws or flanges having a common base of the same material integral therewith, and having between them a recess or groove for the reception of a wire, a key seat or slot passing through both jaws near their point of permanent union, and rounded off or made with a concave surface at its outer side, and a key or wedge convexly rounded on one side of its surface to correspond with said slot and adapted to be driven therein and to pass through both jaws and thereupon to hold the wire in said recess" (lines 27-38).
Date:
August 12, 1890
Creator:
Dunbar, John K.
System:
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Felly for Wheels.
Patent for a felly for wheels designed to be used for a heavy wagon or cultivators. It consists of malleable iron with the inside edge being smaller than the outside, an indentation in the center going around the outside surface, and conical spoke sockets.
Date:
June 12, 1894
Creator:
Mosely, Jeremiah Thomas
System:
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Duplex Menu.
Patent for new and useful improvements in duplex menus, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 12, 1899
Creator:
Billow, Sherman
System:
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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:
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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:
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Acetylene Gas Generator.
Patent for a new and improved acetylene gas generating machine, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 12, 1899
Creator:
Miller, Frank A.
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:
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