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Bicycle
Patent for device for improvement of speed of bicycle, including illustrations.
Date:
March 28, 1896
Creator:
Schooler, Joseph P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Canopy
Patent for an invention that relates to certain improvements in carriage-covers; and it consists in the peculiar construction of the frame and cover and the manner of operating the same; and the object of the invention is to produce a cover for the protection of carriages while standing idle (Winants, 1902).
Date:
September 28, 1899
Creator:
Winants, Frank C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire - Stretcher.
Patent for a new and improved wire-stretcher to "attached to the wires direct or have bearing against the post, as stated, but wherein when the device is placed in engagement with the post it need not be secured thereto" (line 22 - 26).
Date:
December 28, 1897
Creator:
McNeill, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a certain new and useful wire stretcher, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 28, 1899
Creator:
Hancock, Benjamin Columbus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lubricator.
Patent for a new and useful lubricator. This invention "relates to certain improvements in lubricators, such as are adapted for use in connection with the wheels of wagons, carriages, and other vehicles" (line 8 -11).
Date:
December 28, 1897
Creator:
McCall, Duncan D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in monkey-wrenches to "provide an improved construction of the same whereby the clamping-jaws may be quickly and readily adjusted to the nut or tap which is to be engaged thereby" (line 19-23).
Date:
December 28, 1897
Creator:
Antony, Edwin Le Roy
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Two-Piece Box.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in two piece boxes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 28, 1899
Creator:
Armstrong, Martin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Turn Table
Patent for a new and improved turn table. This invention "relates to an improvement in turn-tables, and its an improvement on that particular kind of turn-table shown and described in Patent NO.517,304" (line 7-9).
Date:
December 28, 1897
Creator:
Rohrbach, Gabriel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Letter Copying Roller
Patent for a new and useful letter copying roller. This invention is to "provide a simple device for facilitating the copying of letters without the use of a press, blotters, pads, and similar appliances usually employed for this purpose (line 9 - 13).
Date:
December 28, 1897
Creator:
Roux, Harry L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway - Switch.
Patent for a new and improvement in automatic safety railway-switches to "enable the motorman or conductor to conveniently and accurately insure the proper setting of the switch without leaving this position" (line 16 - 19).
Date:
December 28, 1897
Creator:
Girardeau, St. Julien & Murray, Richard James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steering Device for Vehicles.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in steering devices for vehicles, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 28, 1898
Creator:
Fisher, Charles Nicholas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stovepipe.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in stovepipes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 28, 1898
Creator:
Riviere, Walter P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Food Compound and Method of Making Same.
Patent for a new and useful food compound for use in cooking as condiments.
Date:
June 28, 1898
Creator:
Gebhardt, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fluid Pressure Regulator
Patent for a new and useful gas pressure regulator. This invention "relates to gas-pressure regulators especially adapted for use with gas stored under high pressure in a cylinder or similar portable storage vessel" (line 8 - 11).
Date:
December 28, 1897
Creator:
Clark, George Greenleaf
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in plows. This improvements are to " render the plow right and strong and easy-running, reducing the effort required by the plowman to handle the plow to a minimum, and to render the handles and beam and plow-plate readily adjustable as regards pitch and height (line 10 - 16).
Date:
December 28, 1897
Creator:
Kirkpatrick, James M. & Files, Jerry B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Disk Plow.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements relates to disk or revolving plows.
Date:
December 28, 1897
Creator:
Wolcott, Oliver P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fruit-Jar And Can Opener.
Patent for a new and improved fruit jar and can opener, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 28, 1898
Creator:
Schairer, John Jacob
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Seed Separator.
Patent for a new and useful cotton seed separator, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 28, 1898
Creator:
Garrett, James Andis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for an automatic car-coupling that is designed to be operated from either side of the car. The danger of an operator passing between cars to couple or uncouple the cars is avoided in this invention, and the coupling can be adapted to couple cars that have draw-bars to unequal height. The coupling can be manually operated if wished.
Date:
January 28, 1896
Creator:
Boyd, James S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for "car-couplers of the link-and-pin type which couple automatically and are provided with unlocking-levers operated from the top and side of a car, and designed to avoid the necessity of passing between the cars to couple or uncouple the same." (Lines 11-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 28, 1896
Creator:
Boyd, James S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Repeating Railroad-Signal.
Patent for an automatic repeating railroad-signal designed to be used with semaphore and other train-signaling apparatus. It eliminates mistakes made in notifying the central office and automatically reports "any change in the position or color of the signal to a central office over the ordinary telegraph-wire" (lines 14-16). The signal is a wheel that operates a key to send a message to the central office.
Date:
January 28, 1896
Creator:
Innes, Robert Hayward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "is in couplers adapted to use a link of ordinary form and to be so set that coupling may be automatic or not, as desired" (lines 15-17). It consists, "with the draw-head having lugs upon each side of the same, of the vertical coupling-pin, the pivoted pin-supporting arms arranged to contact with the lugs, and tripping arms adapted to be operated by the centering-link and throw the arms from the lugs" (lines 23-29).
Date:
June 28, 1892
Creator:
Callaway, William H. & West, Charles C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Convertible Corn and Cotton Planter, Stalk-Cutter, and Roller.
Patent for a convertible corn and cotton planter, stalk-cutter, and roller. It has a main frame, a supplemental frame that has its front end hinged to the front of the main frame, a roller with circular journaled in the supplemental frame, transverse segment-plates with removable blades attached to the supplemental frame, spaces between the segment-plates, an axle, driving-wheels, a sprocket wheel and chain, feed-boxes, means for feeding the grain, and wheels for laying the ground and the coverers.
Date:
April 28, 1896
Creator:
Mauldin, Columbus Scott
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Andiron.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive andiron that can easily be moved and holds the logs in place. "The invention consists of an andiron having two dogs or members connected together and a fender removably connected to the front of said dogs and extending over the intervening space or opening" (lines 9-14).
Date:
August 28, 1894
Creator:
Grogan, John Richard
System:
The Portal to Texas History