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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Cotton-Gin.
Patent for "improvements in cotton-gins, and more particularly to that class of saw-gins in which the brush-cylinder is dispensed with and a combined suction-fan and doffer employed to remove the lint from the gin-saws; and the object is to simplify the construction and at the same time increase the effectiveness of this class of gins." (Lines 11-18)
Date:
September 28, 1897
Creator:
Heffner, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Shading Adjuster.
Patent for a car-shade adjuster in passenger-coaches of street-cars that allows shades to "be raised or lowered at will and held firmly in any desired position" (lines 18-19). It is set in tracks in the window frame, held in place by springs, and bearings to keep friction between the shade-roller and track.
Date:
July 28, 1896
Creator:
Smith, Earl W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Construction of Doors or Window-Sashes.
Patent for "improvements in the construction of doors and window-sashes, the object being to provide a door or window-sash which shall be constructed of two pieces of timber united by means of a key to prevent warping or twisting" (lines 8-13). The panel of the door or the pane of glass can also be united by the key. This design lightens and cheapens doors and window-sashes.
Date:
July 28, 1896
Creator:
Cordray, Henry A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
General Index and Alphabetical Record.
Patent for a general index and alphabetical record that organizes records in an index instead of a book.It is a chest of shallow drawers, each having a letter of the alphabet printed on its front. Attached to each drawer is a blank book.
Date:
July 28, 1896
Creator:
Ward, George C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clutch.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive clutch used for transmitting power. The clutch has "independent rotable disks that act on peripheral eccentric proportions, which are so arranged that the said disk will be held free from contact with the drive-shaft and the entire bearing of the clutch mechanism thrown on the grip members, whereby the shaft-apertures in the disks can be made sufficiently large to overcome any irregularity of the bearing-faces of the internal cam portions and obviating the necessity of providing outside collars" (lines 17-27).
Date:
April 28, 1896
Creator:
Carleton, Ernest WIlliam
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
Plow.
Patent for a plow that improves on a previous patent granted to the inventors (No. 507,854). The improvements are that the "stock may be used in connection with any form of share needed for working a crop" (lines 14-16) and the plow provides "a sweep-stock with a point which will be integral with its shoe or foot-bar, and which will assist in holding the share in position" (lines 20-23).
Date:
April 28, 1896
Creator:
Symmank, Herman & Matthijez, Ernst
System:
The Portal to Texas History