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Pyrometer.
Patent for a new and useful pyrometers "in which the motive power is a column of metallic balls of high expansive quality inclosed in a metallic tube of less expansive power" (line 9 - 12).
Date:
November 21, 1899
Creator:
Von Koehring, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mattress-Press.
Patent for a new and useful mattress-press by deriving from presses that have the “toggle-joint” characteristic, in which mattresses can be made. Illustration is included.
Date:
July 21, 1891
Creator:
Ridley, Eugene Chilton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dish-Cleaner.
Patent for a dish-cleaner that is used in a sink or another container. Its object is to force "air through the water and in contact with the submerged dishes" (lines 17-18). The invention also has "a water-agitator surrounded with supports for holding the dishes or other articles in a vertical position in close proximity to the outlet-ports of the agitator" (lines 20-23).
Date:
January 21, 1896
Creator:
Bond, William Beebe
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Boomerang.
Design patent for a boomerang.
Date:
November 21, 1899
Creator:
Berry, James H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device For Forcing Water Out Of Wells.
Patent for new and useful improvements in devices for forcing water out of wells, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 21, 1899
Creator:
Baca, August
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Derrick.
Patent for improvements in derricks or machines for hoisting heavy objects, which can be easily erected and operated; this device “can be manipulated with ease and by which the article being elevated or lowered may be changed in position without moving the support.” (Lines 20-23) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 21, 1891
Creator:
Lindsey, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Cooling Milk and Butter.
Patent for improvements in devices for cooling milk and butter by using textile materials to cover the buckets or pails that contain milk or butter or other food articles, then saturated these textile covered buckets or pails with water; thus reducing the temperature of the articles contained in the buckets or pails, owing to evaporation. Illustration is included.
Date:
April 21, 1891
Creator:
Hall, Charles T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Delivery Apparatus for Printing-Presses.
Patent for "an endless band or apron paper-delivery apparatus, for printing presses, which will automaticall take the sheets of paper from the cylinder and deliver them upon the usual table, in an orderly pile" (lines 24-28).
Date:
February 21, 1893
Creator:
Sandel, Sam D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Digging-Machine.
Patent for an improved, simple, effective, and durable excavator meant to remove sand-bars. It consists of a hollow drum that is drug across the sandbar, and it picks up sand with shovels on the drum.
Date:
November 21, 1893
Creator:
Bentinck, Eliza J. & Renner, Julia A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling
Patent for automatic car-couplings, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 21, 1897
Creator:
Yarnell, Leon, J. & Schmidt, Joseph H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for Kitchen Cabinet
Design patent for a kitchen cabinet that is useful and ornamental. Leading feature includes rectangular upright position that has a framework of strips provided with a longitudinal beading or ribs.
Date:
September 21, 1897
Creator:
Ferguson, John F. G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cactus-Burner.
Patent for "a new and useful improvement in cactus burners" (lines 4-5), including illustration and instructions.
Date:
October 21, 1899
Creator:
Snowden, Lewis W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fumigator.
Patent for an improved fumigator that has a furnace, a fan casing, a fan inside the casing, a discharge in the casing, an air chamber with dampered openings between the furnace and the casing, a perforated partition between the furnace and the chamber, and a nozzle and hose coming from the driving device.
Date:
August 21, 1894
Creator:
Horne, Edward G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive cotton press that gets cotton from a gin, forms it into a soft bat, and compresses it into a bale. The operator can tie a band around the bale. It consists of a frame, rollers, and gears.
Date:
February 21, 1893
Creator:
Bessonette, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for an improved, inexpensive, and simple cotton press that is "adapted to compress cotton at the initial point of ginning and in a continuous operation with that of ginning, whereby [the inventor] avoid[s] the expense and labor occasioned by the handling of the cotton during its storage and transportation to the neighboring compress and the expense of said compression, and at the same time produce such compression or condensation of the cotton that I am enabled to secure the cheap rates of transportation accorded cotton which has been compressed to the standard degree of density" (lines 11-22).
Date:
November 21, 1893
Creator:
Bessonette, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin Brush.
Patent for a gin brush that operates at high speeds with a large diameter. "Centrifugal force exerts a great strain tending to dismember it, and further, if it be not at all times accurately balanced there is a tendency to spring the shaft and cause rattling in the bearings which results in rapid wear and failure to work well" (lines 13-19).
Date:
March 21, 1893
Creator:
Elam, William E. & Thomas, Robert S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History