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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
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
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
Type Writing Machine (open access)

Type Writing Machine

Patent for a new and useful improvement in automatic type-writing machines.
Date: November 30, 1897
Creator: Templeton, Allison
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lock. (open access)

Lock.

Patent for a new and useful improvement in locks, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 30, 1899
Creator: Katzenberger, Oscar
System: The Portal to Texas History
Milk-Cooler. (open access)

Milk-Cooler.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in milk coolers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 30, 1899
Creator: Nash, William Ashley
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mandolin. (open access)

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
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
Hopple. (open access)

Hopple.

Patent fora new and useful improvements in anti-chafing hopples for training live stock to "provide hopples which will not injure stock while being trained"(line 9-11).
Date: November 30, 1897
Creator: Trice, Sinnette Y.
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
Rubber Compound. (open access)

Rubber Compound.

Patent for a new and improved rubber compound, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 30, 1899
Creator: Petmecky, Joseph Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ruling Machine (open access)

Ruling Machine

Patent for a new and useful improvements in ruling machines. This invention is to "provide a machine of this character by means of which engravers may cut horizontal, inclined, or circular lines into the plate, or draftsmen draw the same lines upon a sheet of drawing" (line 14-18).
Date: November 30, 1897
Creator: Owen, Thomas
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
Non Refillable Bottle (open access)

Non Refillable Bottle

Patent for a new and useful improvements in non-refillable bottles. This invention is to " provide a bottle of this character which can not be refilled and sold as an original package without detection" (line 11-15).
Date: November 30, 1897
Creator: Taylor, James Moss
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
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
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
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