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Quilting Attachment for Sewing-Machines.
Patent for an improvement on a quilting attachment for sewing-machines previously granted to the inventors (no. 529,518). This patent is an improvement on "the general construction of the device, to provide simple means for adjusting the elevation of the track at its extremities to vary the inclination thereof and for securing the upper ends of the supporting devices to a stationary object, such as the ceiling, and to provide means for adjusting the inclination of the traveler-bar of the hanger to suit that of the track" (lines 14-23).
Date:
October 10, 1896
Creator:
Click, Washington B. & Click, Isaac A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad-Rail.
Patent for a new and useful railroad rail, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 16, 1898
Creator:
Hariman, George V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pop-Valve For Kilns.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in pop valves for kilns, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 24, 1899
Creator:
Moore, La Fayette
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Picture-Hook.
Patent for a picture-hook that improves on a commonly used picture-hook that easily becomes dislodged. The patented hook fits over molding with spurs that go into the molding.
Date:
February 6, 1894
Creator:
Hall, James B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Docket, Record, or Similar Book
Patent for a docket, record or similar book that places all necessary material together for recording events, adjusting the space for each title head so that it is sufficient, easing the strain on accountants who need to continue entries, and also make sure the book is easy and efficient to make.
Date:
April 19, 1892
Creator:
Fry, Edwin Crittenden
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene Gas Generator.
Patent for a new and useful improvements in apparatus for generating acetylene gas. This design is to "provide with few applicances a simple and compact apparatus requiring little attention for generating acetylene gas for light, heat, and power purposes" (line 11 - 14).
Date:
February 15, 1898
Creator:
Dederick, Zadoc P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Hame Attachment.
Design patent for a hame attachment that is symmetrical in configuration making it adaptable to be used in either the right or left hand.
Date:
May 9, 1899
Creator:
Surghnor, Daniel H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for raising water.
Patent for device for raising water. "Our invention relates to water-elevators in which a bucket or like receptacle is periodically lowered into a well and then raised to be emptied."
Date:
June 1, 1897
Creator:
Poe, Herbert L. & Sparkman, William C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Pocket-Cuspidor.
Design patent for a pocket-cuspidor with a bowl that has an approximately trunco-conical shape.
Date:
August 15, 1899
Creator:
Pollard, Philip D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for Tack or Nail.
Design patent for a tack or nail that is both useful and ornamental.
Date:
August 24, 1897
Creator:
Bogar, Fred A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cradle.
Patent for a new and improved cradle. This design "has for its object to provide a hanging cradle suspended from its [frame] . . . being arranged in such a manner whereby the cradle is capable of being moved . . . in an easy, uniform, and steady motion without the danger of tilting over" (lines 8-16). It consists in "[a] swinging cradle comprising the folding end bars, the cross-bar having a depressed portion and end projections forming the pivotal axes for the bars, the catches pivoted to the end bars and adapted to engage the depressed part of the bar . . . and the spring-suspensions" (lines 12-18).
Date:
July 5, 1892
Creator:
Meek, James H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Distributer for Gin-Feeders.
Patent for a cotton-distributor that moves cotton from a wagon or storage and evenly and quickly distributes it to multiple gin feeders in a line.
Date:
October 17, 1893
Creator:
Davis, Micajah R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History