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Grindstone Attachment.
Patent for improvements in grindstone attachments by providing a tool-holder that is capable of adapt to different-sized stones and for various tools when applied to the frame of a grindstone of a given size.” (Lines 13-16) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 30, 1891
Creator:
Rainey, John Calvin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Reamer.
Patent for a new and improved reamer. This design "relates to reamers for use in boring artesian wells and other similar purposes; and it consists, essentially, of a hollow cylindrical body adapted to be attached to a suitable driving-head and provided with peripheral expansion-cutters operated by an internal plunger" (lines 11-17).
Date:
December 30, 1890
Creator:
Welke, William Robert
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
Rotary Plow.
Patent for improvements in rotary plows which can be used as a subsoil-plow or it can be converted into a cultivator. The “purpose is to provide a novel gang-plow capable of cutting the soil at different depths, as circumstances may require, and in which the angle at which the plows enter the soil may be varied.” (Lines 18-23) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 30, 1891
Creator:
Cleveland, George P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Piano-Tuning Hammer.
Patent for "a combination tool adapted for turning, driving, extracting, and otherwise manipulating tuning-pegs and other parts of a piano-action, whereby one tool is capable of performing the functions of a series of ordinarily independent instruments." (Lines 10-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 30, 1894
Creator:
Fuchs, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow-Stock.
Patent for a simply, durably, and efficiently constructed plow-stock that "will admit of changes being made in an expeditious and convenient manner to facilitate the grouping of the shares or plows to be carried by the stock" (lines 11-14).
Date:
July 30, 1895
Creator:
Abbott, Joseph W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad-Tie.
Patent for a "simple and effective railroad tie for supporting the rails and rigidly holding them in the position of use" (lines 19-21).
Date:
January 30, 1894
Creator:
Lee, John Chester
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
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
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
Permutation-Padlock.
Patent for a permutation-padlock that "has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient construction and arrangement of parts whereby the bolt is firmly held in its locked position, and whereby the combinations may be changed with facility, and without opening the lock-casing" (lines 8-14).
Date:
June 30, 1896
Creator:
Wilcox, Ferdenand S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
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
Dry-Kin Furnace.
Patent for a dry-kiln furnace meant to improve the "heating and hot-air circulating devices for such structures, whereby all or nearly all the heat generated is utilized, thereby effecting an economy in the use of fuel and also increasing the capacity of the kiln" (lines 15-19).
Date:
July 30, 1895
Creator:
Ketcham, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
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.
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
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
Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design "relates to cultivators; and it has for its object to construct a device of this class . . . in which the blades or shovels shall be attached to the standards in such a manner that in the event of obstacles such as rocks or stumps being encountered during the operation of [the] machine the blades shall become detached, thereby avoiding injury to the machine" (lines 9-18).
Date:
September 30, 1890
Creator:
Messer, Jeremiah Clark; Garner, Allen & Williams, John Winn
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
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