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Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a new and useful wire stretcher, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 27, 1899
Creator:
Yankee, Elmer
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve.
Patent for a new and useful valve for "controlling the flow of steam, compressed air, water, or other fluid" (line 12 - 14).
Date:
December 27, 1898
Creator:
Mitchell, Charles Bradley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Protecting Shores.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in protections for river banks and coast washing, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 27, 1898
Creator:
Brooks, Samuel W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thill-Coupling.
Patent for a new and useful thill coupling for "locking the thill-iron to the attached thill in a raised position" (line 8 -9).
Date:
September 27, 1898
Creator:
James, Will S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spring Attachment for Suspenders.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in springs attachments for suspenders, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 27, 1898
Creator:
Lightner, Charles E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Roller Cotton-Press.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in roller cotton compresses, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 27, 1899
Creator:
Bessonette, Charles L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Foldable Crate or Coop.
Patent for a new and useful fordable crate or coop, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 27, 1898
Creator:
Moss, John O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oliver.
Patent for an improved "oliver," a blacksmith's hammer operated by foot power or another mechanism. It provides improved means for mounting the hammer, adjusting the blow of the hammer or cushioning it, and arranging the hammer at different positions when not in use.
Date:
December 27, 1898
Creator:
Raiza, William J. & Souther, Alsom
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Clamp.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in rail clamps or braces, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 27, 1898
Creator:
Henigan, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Portable Folding Mirror-Stand.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements portable folding mirror stands, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 27, 1898
Creator:
Lane, Sophie A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow Stock Or Standard.
Patent for new and useful improvements in plow stocks or standards. including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 27, 1899
Creator:
Armstrong, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cultivators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 27, 1898
Creator:
Owens, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine.
Patent for a new and improved rotary engine, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 27, 1898
Creator:
Walker, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine.
Patent for a new and improved rotary engine, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 27, 1898
Creator:
Walker, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Impelling Device for Bowling-Hoops.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in impelling devices for bowling hoops, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 27, 1898
Creator:
Hefley, Jeff. D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Clothes-Pounder.
Design patent for a clothes-pounder that consists of a hollow conical body provided at an immediate point with a downwardly-dished diaphragm.
Date:
September 27, 1898
Creator:
Crooker, Heman D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Post.
Design for a post with hexagonally woven or meshed wire structure of tubular or cellular form.
Date:
December 27, 1898
Creator:
Flatau, Louis S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for Sugar Cane Hook.
Patent for a sugar cane hook that provides a pair of outwardly-branching and downwardly and inwardly curved hooks.
Date:
July 27, 1897
Creator:
Beall, George Ashcom
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Convertible Churn And Ice-Cream Freezer.
Patent for a new and useful convertible churn and ice cream freezer, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 27, 1899
Creator:
Everhard, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carrier Iron for Draw Bars.
Patent for a new and improved carrier iron for draw-bars. This design "is to provide an improved draw-bar support exceedingly strong and durable in construction and very cheap and simple which will prevent spreading of the draft-timbers or sagging of the draw-bar and which can be reversed" (lines 19-24). It consists in "[t]he combination, in a car, of the draft-timbers, the draw-bar between the same, and the loop-shaped carrier-iron in one piece embracing said timbers and passing above and below and supporting the draw-bar and secured to said timbers by bolts" (lines 78-83).
Date:
September 27, 1892
Creator:
Minton, William Dryden & Douglas, Alexander Stewart
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a mixing machine designed for churns, but can also be used in ice cream freezers. It works by producing a partial vacuum, forcing the liquid to go from the bottom to the top of the vessel. Blades force the liquid to go against "the centrifugal action" (line 21) and towards the center of the vessel.
Date:
April 27, 1897
Creator:
Norcross, George A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picking Machine.
Patent for improvements to cotton picking machines "of that class in which the cotton-boll is caught on the end of a revolving picker" (lines 11-12). Improvements include a combination of a revolving drum with hollow tubular arms attached to the drum, as well as revolving pickers attached to those arms. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 27, 1897
Creator:
Haring, Peter Paul.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Burning Garbage.
Patent for an apparatus for burning garbage that is made up of a roasting chamber, a grate to hold the garbage, two furnaces, a passage for the ashes, a third furnace connected to the passage, flues, a smokestack, non-combustible absorbent material around the flues and beneath the grate, and flues beneath the grate.
Date:
March 27, 1894
Creator:
Risley, Ward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Tooth.
Patent for an artificial tooth with an improved crown so that "it can be attached to the gold cap that has been made to fit the end of the root that is to be crowned, the manner of attaching being materially facilitated" (lines 15-19).
Date:
February 27, 1894
Creator:
Harrell, Hardy B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History