Design for an Insect-Exterminator. (open access)

Design for an Insect-Exterminator.

Design patent for an insect-exterminator that consists of a circular pan and a conical lamp-body arranged centrally within the pan and projecting above the plane thereof.
Date: April 11, 1899
Creator: Hightower, Elijah H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Sharpening Gin-Saws (open access)

Machine for Sharpening Gin-Saws

Patent for "a machine of this class which shall be simple, durable, an d easily manipulated, and by means of which the teeth of gin-saws may be sharpened in a rapid, convenient, and effectual manner" (lines 9-14).
Date: July 1, 1890
Creator: Smith, John Quince
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tool. (open access)

Tool.

Patent for "...a tool embodying certain novel features and details of construction, as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the drawings, and claimed" (lines 7-10) with illustration and descriptions.
Date: April 27, 1897
Creator: Hutchins, John Pearce
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trace Carrier. (open access)

Trace Carrier.

Patent for a new and improved trace-carrier. This design "relates to harness, and is more particularly a trace-carrier connected to the back-band thereof at its point of connection with the traces; and the same consists of a buckle composed of two parts having laterally-extending arms hinged together at their outer ends, whereby an open eye or loop is produced for receiving the trace" (lines 8-15).
Date: June 3, 1890
Creator: Brooks, George Washington
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Cotton Distributer and Cleaner. (open access)

Seed-Cotton Distributer and Cleaner.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in seed cotton distributers and cleaners, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 13, 1898
Creator: Walla, Frank
System: The Portal to Texas History
Quilting Mechanism for Sewing-Machines. (open access)

Quilting Mechanism for Sewing-Machines.

Patent for an improved, simple, inexpensive, and efficient quilting-frame and makes quilting much faster. "The frame is provided with a longitudinal bar having a groove to form a track, in which travels a gage-wheel, which is adjustable and held by a spring-arm, which serves, also, as a means of changing the position of the wheel" (lines 22-26).
Date: August 9, 1892
Creator: Delany, Charles William
System: The Portal to Texas History