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
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
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
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
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
Windmill. (open access)

Windmill.

Patent for a windmill that qualifies as "a substantial and strong machine capable of withstanding the high winds of the Western prairies, which will be at the same time inexpensive and simple in construction, and which will automatically regulate itself in such a manner as to run with a uniform speed in all kinds of winds" (lines 16-22)
Date: August 30, 1892
Creator: Campbell, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Medical Compound. (open access)

Medical Compound.

Patent for improvements in medical compounds: "provide a new and useful preparation for the treatment and cure of kidney and bladder affections" (lines 9-11).
Date: August 30, 1892
Creator: Page, Thomas L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Throttle-Lever. (open access)

Throttle-Lever.

Patent for a new and improved throttle lever, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 30, 1898
Creator: Canday, Lorin Winfield
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow (open access)

Plow

Patent for a "new and useful plow"(line 5). The plow is of "durable construction and adapt the same for a convenient adjustment of the standard, whereby the plow may be adapted to run deep or shallow"(Lines 10-14). Illustration Included.
Date: August 30, 1892
Creator: Jensen, Ole T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soap. (open access)

Soap.

Patent for a system of making soap and the amount of the ingredients therein.
Date: August 30, 1892
Creator: Gray, John & Simmons, Abner
System: The Portal to Texas History
Screw-Jack Head. (open access)

Screw-Jack Head.

Patent for a new and improved screw jack head, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 30, 1898
Creator: Glenn, Daniel
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
Rail Bond. (open access)

Rail Bond.

Patent for improved track circuit rail joints designed to withstand heavy usage and convey electrical currents between rails, including illustrations.
Date: August 30, 1898
Creator: Talley, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Messenger's Picket. (open access)

Messenger's Picket.

Patent for a new and improved messenger's picket. This design "is an improvement in means of protection for express-[people] or express-messengers on railway-trains from successful attack by robbers. In other words, it is an improved form of bullet-proof cage or miniature fort in which the express-[person] or messenger may lock himself [or herself] in case of danger and from which he [or she] may watch and fire upon his [or her] assailants with almost perfect safety" (lines 7-15).
Date: August 30, 1892
Creator: Hays, James C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pickle-Lifter. (open access)

Pickle-Lifter.

Patent for improvements in pickle lifters: "provide a device of the character set forth which is adapted for culinary as well as table use in lifting pickles, olives, or other edibles of a similar nature from bottles or jars, the parts of the same being simple and effective in the construction and operation" (lines 13-19).
Date: August 30, 1892
Creator: Currie, John A., Jr. & Currie, Jose W.
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