Clock Attachment. (open access)

Clock Attachment.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in clock attachments.
Date: March 8, 1898
Creator: Schindler, Joseph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Composition Railroad-Tie And Means For Securing Rails Thereto. (open access)

Composition Railroad-Tie And Means For Securing Rails Thereto.

Patent for new and useful improvements in composition railroad ties and means for securing rails thereto, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 19, 1899
Creator: Baca, August
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Cementing Wells. (open access)

Apparatus For Cementing Wells.

Patent for new and useful improvements in processes of and apparatus for cementing wells, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 21, 1899
Creator: Baca, August
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Replacer. (open access)

Car-Replacer.

Patent for a car-replacer that is meant to "provide a strong and compact skid of comparatively light weight to form the body portion of the car-replacer and which shall be especially adapted to raise the car-wheels above the track, deflect toward them toward the rails until the tread of the wheels is suspended over the ball of the rails from an inclined surface terminating in a rounded end, over which the wheels move until they meet the track" (lines 12-21). The car-replacer does not have any liability of the skid tilting endwise or sidewise.
Date: October 15, 1895
Creator: Ragan, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton and Corn Planter. (open access)

Combined Cotton and Corn Planter.

Patent for an improved combined corn and cotton planters that "effectively carr[ies] out the duplex functions of planters of this class, which will possess advantages in point of simplicity, durability, effectiveness, and general efficiency" (lines 11-14).
Date: June 5, 1894
Creator: Wittich, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for improvements in baling-presses by using a four-sided baling box/chamber with supporting-upright doors arranged at the top, at the front and one of the sides of the box. These doors can be hinged at diagonally-opposite corners of the box; locking-bolts are pivoted at the free end of the each door, the top door with locking-bar sliding through apertures in the uprights and the lever for operating the top door. Illustration is included.
Date: April 21, 1891
Creator: Klockmann, Henry G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Baling Apparatus. (open access)

Cotton-Baling Apparatus.

Patent for the "improvements in cotton-baling apparatus or compresses of that type in which the cotton is received directly from the gin or gins" (lines 13-16) including illustrations.
Date: September 14, 1897
Creator: Melcher, Charles L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cistern. (open access)

Cistern.

Patent for an upright cylindrical cistern made from sheet-metal. This patent "consists in the application to and around the upper open end of the cistern and also if desired at different places around the body of the cistern, of a strengthening ring made of either wrought iron or steel or other suitable metal tubing or piping, to stiffen the cylindrical cistern, said piping or tubing being suitably fastened to the cistern and being arranged around the outside or inside of the same, but preferably around the outside and closely hugging said cistern" (lines 10-20).
Date: January 22, 1895
Creator: Schaefer, Henry P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Replacer. (open access)

Car-Replacer.

Patent for a car-replacer that has a stronger construction and is more efficient than other car-replacers. It has two skids, one on each side of the rail, the inside skid meant to deflect car-wheels to the rail, and the outside skid meant to slu "the truck in line with the track, and at the same time cause the wheels to be forced sideways on the rails" (lines 27-29).
Date: August 11, 1896
Creator: Ragan, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Liniment (open access)

Liniment

Patent for "improvements in that class of topical remedies which are compounded for the purpose of relieving rheumatism, neuralgia, gout, toothache, sprains, swellings, bruises, sores, and similar afflictions. . .To these I add cotton-seed oil in sufficient quantity to make one quart of the medicine, the root and bark of the trumpet flower and the root of the pokeberry being boiled in the latter and the ammonia and turpentine being added on the cooling of the mixture" (lines 11-16, 31-37).
Date: December 16, 1890
Creator: Meinen, Diedrich
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Exterminator. (open access)

Insect-Exterminator.

Patent for a red ant exterminator that works by "withdrawing the air from an ant-nest and substituting therefor a fluid or gas which may be ignited and thereby destroy the lives of the insects." (Lines 18-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 15, 1897
Creator: Schindler, Joseph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Truck-Lifter. (open access)

Truck-Lifter.

Patent for a new and useful improvement in truck lifters, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 6, 1898
Creator: Donaldson, William John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Staple-Setting Implement. (open access)

Staple-Setting Implement.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in staple setting implements, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 25, 1899
Creator: Schmidt, Charles Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Topical Remedy (open access)

Topical Remedy

Patent for a topical remedy for the local treatment of rheumatism, neuralgia, paralysis and gout.
Date: September 9, 1890
Creator: Blume, John H. & Loving, Christopher
System: The Portal to Texas History
Poison Distributer. (open access)

Poison Distributer.

Patent for a new and improved poison distributor. This design "relates to improvements in machines for exterminating insects . . . the application of poisons in solutions . . . cannot be brought into contact with every part of an infested plant. They furthermore invariably retard the growth and often kill the plant. . . . The object of [the] invention is to obviate the defects referred to . . . whereby pulverized poisons may be rapidly ejected, not directly upon the plants, but mainly into the surrounding atmosphere. . . . and produce the desired effect upon every object within a wide range" (lines 14-44).
Date: March 18, 1890
Creator: Richards, Henry B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for improvements in plows so that it can be adjusted more easily while being overall easy to operate.
Date: August 26, 1890
Creator: Muesse, Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Poison-Distributer (open access)

Poison-Distributer

Patent for a distributor for "pulverized paris-green, londonpurple, arsenic, and other poisons in a dry state over cotton and other plants" that is "of exceedingly simple and durable construction and capable of attachment to any form of cultivator, and also to provide a means whereby the poison to be delivered from the machine may be regulated as to quantity in a convenient and expeditious manner, and, further, to provide a means whereby the poison as delivered from the machine will be spread over the plants at each side of the machine" (lines 11-24).
Date: April 12, 1892
Creator: Richter, Franz Ludwig
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tie-Plate Machine. (open access)

Tie-Plate Machine.

Patent for "a machine for properly positioning and securing metal plates to the cross-ties in the construction of railways, and which will obviate the coupling, buckling, or warping of the said plates when applying them to the wooden ties." (Lines 8-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 8, 1896
Creator: Greenshield, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Endless Band or Cord. (open access)

Endless Band or Cord.

Patent for a new and improved endless band or cord, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 5, 1898
Creator: Murphy, Jeremiah H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Road Graveling and Grading Machine. (open access)

Road Graveling and Grading Machine.

Patent for "an improved machine which will distribute gravel upon the road and level the same at one time," (lines 9-11) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 25, 1891
Creator: Huebner, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sawing-Machine. (open access)

Sawing-Machine.

Patent for a new and useful sawing machine, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 26, 1899
Creator: Krenek, Ignatz
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dividers or Compasses. (open access)

Dividers or Compasses.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in dividers or compasses, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 8, 1898
Creator: Benes, Francis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Fence-Post. (open access)

Design for a Fence-Post.

Design patent for a fence-post which consists of flanges at the edges of the post, with their openings, and the base-piece turned at right angles to the post.
Date: November 7, 1899
Creator: Tabken, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Frame for Spools or Reels. (open access)

Design for a Frame for Spools or Reels.

Design patent for a frame for spools or reels.
Date: February 8, 1898
Creator: Scherrer, August
System: The Portal to Texas History