Automatic Vehicle - Brake. (open access)

Automatic Vehicle - Brake.

Patent for a new and improved automatic vehicle brake.
Date: May 10, 1898
Creator: Elliott, Joseph Samuel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaning and Mattress - Stuffing Machine. (open access)

Cotton Cleaning and Mattress - Stuffing Machine.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in cotton-cleaning and mattress-stuffing machines. This design "relates to improved machinery for cleaning cotton, forming it into bats, and discharging the bats into mattress-sticks" (line 8 to 10).
Date: February 15, 1898
Creator: White, Charles W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cloth Measuring and Cutting Device. (open access)

Cloth Measuring and Cutting Device.

Patent for a new and improved cloth measuring device.
Date: April 5, 1898
Creator: Hood, William B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in machines for baling cotton.
Date: March 3, 1898
Creator: Bessonette, Charles L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Wheel. (open access)

Car-Wheel.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in car wheels, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 5, 1899
Creator: Clark, Fred
System: The Portal to Texas History
Biblical Game Apparatus (open access)

Biblical Game Apparatus

Patent for a new and useful game apparatus. This design is to "provide a biblical game apparatus adapted to be employed in play by two or more persons" (line 8-10).
Date: December 14, 1897
Creator: James, Will S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pounder (open access)

Clothes Pounder

Patent for a new and useful improvements in clothes pounders, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 7, 1897
Creator: Schofield, Frank B. & Schofield, Joseph L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cotton pressing and baling, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 29, 1899
Creator: White, Charles W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Tabled, Copy, and Bill Holder. (open access)

Combined Tabled, Copy, and Bill Holder.

Patent for a combined tablet, copy, and bill holder meant to hold "file-pins in their operative and inoperative positions, to provide simple and improved means whereby a tablet or bills may be covered when not in use or when carrying the device, to protect the same from dirt, &c. and, furthermore, to provide improved means for supporting the holder in position for transcribing" (lines 12-18).
Date: November 26, 1895
Creator: Stuart, Benjamin Franklin & Willson, Frederick WIlliam
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Removing Cores from Cylindrical Cotton-Bales. (open access)

Apparatus for Removing Cores from Cylindrical Cotton-Bales.

Patent for a "means for removing screw-threaded cores from cylindrical cotton-bales" (lines 12-14). It is made up of a wheeled-truck that is holding the bale, an apparatus that grips the end of the core, a way to revolve the grip, a driven shaft, and a universal joint that connects the shaft with the end of the core.
Date: December 31, 1895
Creator: White, Charles W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator. (open access)

Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.

Patent for an improved combined cotton chopper and cultivator.
Date: December 15, 1896
Creator: Summers, Dewett C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Wagon-Brake. (open access)

Automatic Wagon-Brake.

Patent for a new wagon brake design which allows the break to be automatically set, with illustrations.
Date: February 2, 1897
Creator: Elliot, Joseph Samuel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coat-Adjuster. (open access)

Coat-Adjuster.

Patent for a machine that holds a coat for a person and puts it on that person, thus avoiding the need to personally put on a coat. Pivoted arms hold on to the coat and clamps are connected to the arms which hold on to the coat.
Date: May 11, 1897
Creator: Spoon, William L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for an operating mechanism relating to baling-presses, with illustrations.
Date: July 13, 1897
Creator: Lane, Jefferson D. & James, Will S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Mop and Window-Cleaner. (open access)

Combined Mop and Window-Cleaner.

Patent for an improved mop and rubber holder meant to clean windows, walls, and similar surfaces. It is adjustable, and the operator can put the mop or the rubber on the end of the handle.
Date: August 22, 1893
Creator: Wiebush, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Railway-Gate. (open access)

Automatic Railway-Gate.

Patent for an automatic railway-gate or cattle-guard for use "at crossings, the entrances to tunnels, bridges or trestles, or at other places where it is desirable to guard the tracks" (lines 11-13). The invention is a simple and effective way for closing gates, can be operated from a distance, and is controlled by the wheels of passing trains.
Date: August 14, 1894
Creator: Baade, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Separator and Distributer. (open access)

Combined Cotton Separator and Distributer.

Patent for a simple and efficient cotton separator and distributor that elevates and moves cotton from a wagon into a gin. It has supply and suction pipes, an air-tight cotton distributing box with an opening on one side and a gravity drop door on the other, a mechanism that moves the box in and out of the line of suction of the pipes, and a group of circular distributing boxes that rotate between the pipes.
Date: September 4, 1894
Creator: Paine, Herbert A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Atomizer. (open access)

Atomizer.

Patent for an atomizer meant to distribute liquids, powders, and vapors. Its parts can be easily changed so it can be used in different situations, for cleaning, and to make its use more efficient.
Date: October 2, 1894
Creator: Rees, H. Clay
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Recording Apparatus for Vehicles. (open access)

Automatic Recording Apparatus for Vehicles.

Patent for an improved automatic passenger register and mileage recorder for vehicles that travel on rails. It consists of a roller that is actives by a time motor, a strip that the roller moves, a pressure roller, a pair of rollers that a record sheet is wound between, a mechanism that controls movements of the pair of rollers, electromagnets that are connected to the seats, armature levers that mark the electromagnets current, a bell crank lever that marks the moving record sheet, and a spring that supports the lever.
Date: October 10, 1893
Creator: Baade, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Desk and Copy-Holder. (open access)

Combined Desk and Copy-Holder.

Patent for a desk with an attached paper-holder that allows for easier transcription.
Date: December 19, 1893
Creator: Stuart, Benjamin Franklin & Willson, Frederick William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Copy-Holder and Tablet. (open access)

Combined Copy-Holder and Tablet.

Patent for a combined copy-holder and tablet meant for record keeping. The invention's purposes are to "produce a convenient device designed to be employed ether upon the lap of the operator or upon a counter or other convenient support, and to maintain in position for writing a web of paper, thus requiring no holding of the same by the operator; to provide means for conveniently paying out said web of paper as the same is used or consumed; to provide for conveniently tearing the paper from the web into lengths convenient to the operator; to provide for a simple retention and support in a removable manner of the roll upon which the web is mounted; and finally for a support of the device in an inclined position convenient for transcribing notes therefrom" (lines 13-28).
Date: December 19, 1893
Creator: Stuart, Benjamin F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Stalk-Cutter and Cultivator. (open access)

Combined Stalk-Cutter and Cultivator.

Patent for "a combined stalk cutter and cultivating machine comprising a rotary stalk cutter and a gang of plows and it consists in the features of construction and novel combination of devices in a machine adapted for the various kinds of agricultural work" (lines 9-15).
Date: December 26, 1893
Creator: Snodgrass, George Melvin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Band-Cutter and Feeder for Thrashing-Machines (open access)

Band-Cutter and Feeder for Thrashing-Machines

Patent for an attachment for thrashing-machines "for cutting the bands on the sheaves of wheat, rice, or other grain, to spread the loosened bundles out uniformly, and to then feed them thus spread out into the thrashing-machine, whereby the strain on the machine can be made more uniform" (lines 15-20) and the capacity and efficiency can be increased.
Date: November 1, 1892
Creator: Hill, Frank R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "a draw-head provided with a recess having an enlargement at its central portion, a series of vertical jaws on each side of said enlarged portion of the recess pivotally mounted at their lower end in the draw-head, springs connecting each jaw with its corresponding jaw in the opposite series, and means for opening the jaws" (lines 13-20).
Date: September 23, 1890
Creator: Hooks, Bentley Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History