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Car-Door Cleat. (open access)

Car-Door Cleat.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in car door cleats or guards, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 30, 1899
Creator: Miller, William M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Dasher. (open access)

Churn-Dasher.

Patent for a new and useful churn dasher, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 30, 1898
Creator: West, Edward B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Dumping Cage (open access)

Automatic Dumping Cage

Patent for a new and improved automatic dumping cage. This invention is to "use in the shafts of coal and other mines"(line 9-10).
Date: November 30, 1897
Creator: Gordon, William K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Billiard Cue (open access)

Billiard Cue

Patent for an improved billiard cue with a tip that can be quickly and easily removed and replaced by another and that will be adapted to hold a quantity of powdered chalk for use when needed.
Date: August 30, 1898
Creator: Farrand, James W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harness-Hame Attachment. (open access)

Harness-Hame Attachment.

Patent "to provide a hame of strong and durable construction, simple in its arrangement, and having means of ready application of the necessary devices used in connection with harness attachments" (lines 14-18).
Date: August 30, 1898
Creator: Davis, Isaac Polk
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Checking Runaway Horses. (open access)

Apparatus for Checking Runaway Horses.

Patent for a new and useful apparatus for checking runaway horses, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 30, 1898
Creator: Singleton, James M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chimney. (open access)

Chimney.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in chimneys, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 30, 1899
Creator: Glover, William J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Desk. (open access)

Desk.

Patent for a new and useful desk "with depressible leaves or writing bed sections" (line 10)
Date: November 30, 1897
Creator: Welch, James N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator (open access)

Cultivator

Patent for new and useful improvements in cultivators of the "straddle-row" or "sulky" style.
Date: August 30, 1898
Creator: Schofield, James Drommond
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator. (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator.

Patent for a new and useful acetylene gas generator, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 30, 1899
Creator: Camp, Charles M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Dasher. (open access)

Churn-Dasher.

Patent for a new and useful churn dasher, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 30, 1898
Creator: West, Edward B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie. (open access)

Bale-Tie.

Patent for a bale-fastening device that "may be applied with facility to a cotton-bale or to an equivalent package." (lines 9-11) including instructions and illustrations. The tie comprises "a band, a key engaged with the band and rotatable to coil the same therearound, and a lock fitted upon the band and engaged with the key to prevent reverse rotation thereof" (lines 105-109).
Date: August 30, 1898
Creator: Campbell, Douglas M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hose-Coupling. (open access)

Hose-Coupling.

Patent for a new and useful hose coupling, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 30, 1899
Creator: Conley, Andrew Jackson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Staple. (open access)

Design for a Staple.

Design for a staple provided with series of barbs or spurs and intervening corrugations arranged in continuous series at the inner and outer edges of the staple.
Date: May 30, 1899
Creator: La Prelle, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Record, Diary, and Ledger (open access)

Combined Record, Diary, and Ledger

Patent for improvements to books by combining "a general record, a diary, a ledger, and index leaves, including the months and days of the week and alphabetical and numerical indices" (lines 10-12).
Date: August 30, 1892
Creator: Meyer, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cloth-Bolt Clamp. (open access)

Cloth-Bolt Clamp.

Patent for a clamp "to hold the folds of a bolt of cloth in position and to prevent the same form being unwound except when desired." (Lines 23-25) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 30, 1897
Creator: Leveritt, Nicholas T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for an improvement to machinery to wind fibrous materials (e.g., cotton) into cylindrical bales that does not use a core or fixed horizontal rollers.
Date: March 30, 1897
Creator: Ross, William Andrew
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for an improved, simple, and effective car coupling that couples automatically and without anyone having to go between the cars. It consists of a drawhead with a slot on one side, upper and lower slides in the drawhead, a coupling pin that sits in the upper slide, a lever that is connected to the slide, a spring that holds the lower slide in place, and a bolt that connects the lever with the upper slide.
Date: May 30, 1893
Creator: Cundiff, Middleton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fire-Extinguisher for Cotton-Gins. (open access)

Fire-Extinguisher for Cotton-Gins.

Patent for an improved, simple, and durable fire extinguisher that can be used quickly conveniently, and effectively to extinguish a fire in a cotton gin. The extinguisher is built into the gin. The gin has a hole in its top, a lint chute on one side, a valve that closes the hole, a valve that closes the lint chute, a connection between the valves, and a rope that connects the valves to a guide.
Date: May 30, 1893
Creator: Northcraft, Edward
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Elevator and Distributer. (open access)

Cotton Elevator and Distributer.

Patent for a cotton elevator and distributor meant to "provide certain improvements in apparatus of this character whereby cotton may be conveniently and readily elevated from the store house or wagon, and evenly distributed to any number of gins which may be arranged successively in the same row" (lines 11-16).
Date: October 30, 1894
Creator: Moffitt, William E. & Williams, James L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for a car coupling that is simple and can be inexpensively manufactured. The invention's object is "to provide a link controlling device to be used in coupling cars together where the cars have draw-heads of the same or different heights which will render it unnecessary for a person to go between the cars during the operation" (lines 11-16).
Date: January 30, 1894
Creator: Smart, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clevis. (open access)

Clevis.

Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and improved clevis that can be easily manufactured and employed to a draft-beam. It can be used without a lapring in order to connect to a singletree. The singletree can have its "staple or eye...disposed in a plane with the said singletree" (lines 16-17).
Date: January 30, 1894
Creator: Word, Aaron Matthias
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard. (open access)

Cattle-Guard.

Patent for a simple and inexpensive cattle-guard that has comprising rollers which can be independently and easily replaced. The bars that hold the rollers can also be easily removed.
Date: January 30, 1894
Creator: Lefléve, Louis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Back Band Buckle. (open access)

Back Band Buckle.

Patent for a new and improved back-band buckle. This design "is to provide a simple and inexpensive back-band buckle adapted to protect the sides of an animal against rubbing, and capable of enabling the tug-chain to be readily secured thereto and removed therefrom and of securely holding the same without liability of the chain becoming accidentally unfastened" (lines 10-17).
Date: September 30, 1890
Creator: McCall, Dugald B.
System: The Portal to Texas History