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Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for an improved, simple, and inexpensive wire-stretcher that enables "one person to stretch fence wires conveniently for the purpose of mending them, or for stapling or otherwise securing them to fence posts in constructing fences" (lines 13-17).
Date:
October 30, 1894
Creator:
Crisp, James E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window-Curtain.
Patent for improvements in curtain-fixtures in which it can be “readily applied to a window and capable of enabling its brackets to be readily adjusted to suite a curtain-roller.” (Lines 11-13) It also can prevent the curtain-roller becoming accidentally disengaged from the bracket by reason of one bracket being slightly higher than the other. (Lines 15-17) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 30, 1891
Creator:
Mendenhall, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trolley-Catcher.
Patent for a simple and efficient trolley pole that can be "dropped to a position of safety when the trolley wheel leaves the wire, whereby the pole is prevented from coming in contact with the supports of the trolley wire, the feeders, &c." (lines 10-14). The pole is easily re-engaged.
Date:
October 30, 1894
Creator:
Cobb, Woodson D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Snap-Hook
Patent for a snap hook in order to "provide a hook of simple construction that shall be securely locked when in use" (p. 2)
Date:
December 30, 1890
Creator:
Adams, Don B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Piano-Action.
Patent for a new and useful piano-action in which the so-called hammers is "pivotally connecting the hammers to the rail by a specific means." (Lines 11-12) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 30, 1891
Creator:
Norcross, Levi W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Display-Banner.
Design patent for an advertising display banner with "an absolutely-smooth uniformly-level surface ornamented by series of horizontal and vertical lines thereon, forming rectangular spaces, whereof the larges space is at the center with a series of smaller rectangular spaces at each side thereof, and series of other rectangular spaces above and below said central rectangular space" (para. 4).
Date:
July 30, 1895
Creator:
Higby, Luther L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mandolin.
Patent for a new and useful improvements in Mandolins to"obtain a tone for mandolins as nearly as possible equal to that of violins and other stringed instruments played by bows"(line 8-10)
Date:
November 30, 1897
Creator:
Simpson, Roy B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History