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Can-Opener
Patent for a new and improved can opener. This design "consists of can-opener comprising a blade or cutter vertically adjustable to allow it to be forced into a can-head to be cut" (lines 34-36).
Date:
August 9, 1898
Creator:
Connett, Matthew F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ball-Bearing.
Patent for a new and useful ball bearing, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 17, 1899
Creator:
Millen, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Tooth.
Patent for a new and useful artificial tooth for "supplying missing teeth or crowning roots" (line 10 -11).
Date:
January 11, 1898
Creator:
Carroll, Houston Monroe
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in car couplings, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 13, 1898
Creator:
Thompson, George C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Armor for Pneumatic Tires.
Patent for a new and useful armor for pneumatic tires.
Date:
April 12, 1898
Creator:
Hansell, Robert Clark
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Check - Spring.
Patent for a new and improved check-spring. This design "relates to check reins; and its object is to provide a new and improved check-spring for preventing sudden jars to a horse's mouth when the animal throws his head forward" (line 7 - 11).
Date:
January 18, 1898
Creator:
Walker, Fred B. & Reid, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boiler-Flue Cleaner.
Patent for a new and useful boiler flue cleaner, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 4, 1898
Creator:
Hamilton, Ninian B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coupling For Well-Drilling Tools.
Patent for a new and useful coupling for well drilling tools, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 3, 1899
Creator:
Kuehn, Joachim F. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap.
Patent for a new and useful animal trap, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 5, 1899
Creator:
Buckersberg, Simon
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cartridge-Loading Machine.
Patent for a certain new and useful improvement in shell-loading machines.
Date:
March 15, 1898
Creator:
Handshy, Henry M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burner.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in burners, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 22, 1899
Creator:
Dickerson, Ernest Clifton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Dispensing Oil, &c.
Patent for a new and useful apparatus for dispensing oil, &c.
Date:
May 17, 1898
Creator:
Haye, August
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Telephone-Directory.
Patent for a new and useful automatic telephone directory, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 17, 1899
Creator:
Neuendorff, John B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in baling presses.
Date:
May 17, 1898
Creator:
Holmgreen, Julius H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Supplying Device For Diving Purposes.
Patent for a new and useful air supplying device for diving purposes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 5, 1899
Creator:
Hensley, Frank A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition Pulp Plaster and Process of Manufacturing Same.
Patent for "a composition pulp plaster designed as a substitute for ordinary lime-plaster and equivalent materials and particularly adapted for use in warm moist climates, where the ordinary lime-plaster lacks durability and is rendered non-adherent. A further objective of the invention is to provide a cheap substitute for plaster which will be not only waterproof, but also fireproof and gas-proof or practically impervious to air" (lines 9-18). It includes instructions for manufacturing the plaster with various proportions of the ingredients depending on the purpose.
Date:
May 9, 1899
Creator:
Blake, David H. & Ray, Jeramiah P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bottle - Stopper.
Patent for a new and useful bottle-stopper. This design is to "improve the construction of bottle-stoppers and to enable a metallic sealing-cap to be readily removed from the neck of a bottle without the use of an instrument" (line 11 - 14).
Date:
February 15, 1898
Creator:
Neuendorff, John B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a new and useful churn to "provide a simple and inexpensive construction of dasher adapted to supply air to the bottom of a churn-receptacle" (line 7 - 9).
Date:
March 29, 1898
Creator:
Burke, Henry A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blacking-Brush
Patent for a new and useful improvement in blacking brushes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 18, 1899
Creator:
De Witt, Joseph R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Canopy For Beds, Couches, &C.
Patent for a new and useful canopy for beds, couches, and analogous furniture, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 7, 1899
Creator:
Owen, Peer M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a new and useful churn, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 14, 1899
Creator:
Neuendorff, John B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Teeth.
Patent for the lower set of artificial teeth, "and aims to provide retainers and combine them with the plate, so as to hold the denture in place against accidental displacement during the process of articulation, prehension, mastication, and deglutition" (lines 10-15). This invention "provides retainers which fill a vacuum in the mouth never heretofore utilized in the construction of artificial teeth and which form a rest for the muscles in their contraction incident to the movements of the jaws, and these retainers render a lower set of artificial teeth s comfortable and serviceable as if they were natural" (lines 22-29).
Date:
September 17, 1895
Creator:
Johnston, George A. & Carroll, Houston M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Autographic Register.
Patent for an autographic register that provides "improved means for guiding, stamping, cutting, and filling a record-bill and discharging original and duplicate bills; [provides] improved means for guiding the strips of paper and holding the carbon or duplicating paper in operative position; furthermore, [provides] improved means for operating the several parts of the mechanism to insure accuracy and facilitate the subsequent permanent filing of the record-bills" (lines 9-19).
Date:
September 17, 1895
Creator:
Norcross, George A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Repeating Railroad-Signal.
Patent for an automatic repeating railroad-signal designed to be used with semaphore and other train-signaling apparatus. It eliminates mistakes made in notifying the central office and automatically reports "any change in the position or color of the signal to a central office over the ordinary telegraph-wire" (lines 14-16). The signal is a wheel that operates a key to send a message to the central office.
Date:
January 28, 1896
Creator:
Innes, Robert Hayward
System:
The Portal to Texas History