Apparatus for Cooling Milk. (open access)

Apparatus for Cooling Milk.

Patent for a new and useful apparatus for regulating the temperature of milk.
Date: April 26, 1898
Creator: Porter, Louis H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Butt Board for Grain Binders. (open access)

Butt Board for Grain Binders.

Patent for a new and improved butt board for grain binders. This design "relates to improvements in butt-boards for grain-binders to even the butts of the gavel of grain to be bound and to also adjust said gavel in regard to length so that short grain will be bound near the center as well as long grain . . . [i]t has reference more especially to the construction of the butt-board and operating parts, so as to even the butts of the grain and adjust the same to proper position to the binder at one single movement of the butt-board" (lines 12-27).
Date: April 26, 1892
Creator: Schubert, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate. (open access)

Gate.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in gates.
Date: April 26, 1898
Creator: Gilbert, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate. (open access)

Gate.

Patent for centrally pivoting gates that can "be readily opened and closed from a vehicle or from on horseback" (lines 13-14).
Date: April 26, 1892
Creator: Pearce, William J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gang-Plow. (open access)

Gang-Plow.

Patent for a new and improved gang plow, which employs "disks turning in the soil and serving to form the furrows therein"(line 8 - 10).
Date: April 26, 1898
Creator: Gordon, Frederick W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sash Fastener. (open access)

Sash Fastener.

Patent for a new and improved sash fastener. This design "has for its object to provide a simple and efficient and at the same time cheap and durable sash-locking device which will serve to automatically lock the sash at any desired height. The device is ornamental in appearance, of few parts, and will not be likely to get out of order" (lines 16-22).
Date: April 26, 1892
Creator: Lynch, William Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Provision Safe. (open access)

Provision Safe.

Patent for a new and improved safe. This design "has for its objects, among others, to provide a simple, cheap, and economical safe, in which provisions may be kept cool during the hot season and from freezing during the winter weather. I provide a suitable post or support, from which extend brackets, shelves, or hooks or other provisions for the support of the various articles to be contained therein. [T]he whole [is covered] with a cloth and [has] a water tank or receptacle at the upper end and . . . ha[s] a stream of water flow[ing] or trickl[ing] down upon the cloth to saturate the same" (lines 14-25).
Date: April 26, 1892
Creator: Schrib, Juni
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pouncing-Machine. (open access)

Pouncing-Machine.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in pouncing machines.
Date: April 26, 1898
Creator: Clarke, George R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pouncing-Machine. (open access)

Pouncing-Machine.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in pouncing-machines.
Date: April 26, 1898
Creator: Clarke, George R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Jeweler's Stone-Setting Instrument. (open access)

Jeweler's Stone-Setting Instrument.

Patent for new and useful improvements in Jeweler's Stone Setting instruments.
Date: April 26, 1898
Creator: Owens, John A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene Gas Generator (open access)

Acetylene Gas Generator

Patent for "a new and useful acetylene-gas generator" (lines 5-6), including illustrations and instructions.
Date: April 26, 1898
Creator: Williams, Benjamin F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling (open access)

Car-Coupling

Patent for a simple, inexpensive, durable, and efficient car coupling "which will insure positive automatic coupling when two opposite draw-heads come together" (lines 16-18).
Date: April 26, 1892
Creator: Bird, Robert L. & Bird, John L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Seed Conveyer. (open access)

Cotton-Seed Conveyer.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in cotton seed conveyer systems.
Date: April 26, 1898
Creator: Graber, Henry W.
System: The Portal to Texas History