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Eight-Lens Telescope.
Patent for improvements in refracting-telescopes in which the instrument may be readily and accurately focused by adjustment of the lenses within the telescoping sections; and by having one or more perforated diaphragms for avoiding errors due to spherical aberration, an adjustable and removable transmitter for the light passing through the object-glass, for the purpose of toning the quantity of light. Illustration is included.
Date:
April 28, 1891
Creator:
Riddle, William Nelson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Egg-Case Fastener.
Patent for a fastener that is used in "egg-cases and packages of similar character designed for shipping goods and which are required to be returned to the consignor to be again used" (lines 8-11). The top of the case has a plate securing it so that it is "secured by positive means against accidental displacement" (lines 23-24).
Date:
August 4, 1896
Creator:
Mayfield, William Dudley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dipping-Vat.
Patent for a certain new and useful improvement in dipping vats or tanks, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 23, 1899
Creator:
Skinner, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in acetylene gas generators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 25, 1899
Creator:
Bateman, Talbot O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for an Advertising-Banner.
Design patent for an advertising banner that has a decorative border around the edge and bangles suspended from the lower edge.
Date:
October 28, 1890
Creator:
Higby, Luther L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Display-Banner.
Design patent for an advertising display banner with "an absolutely-smooth uniformly-level surface ornamented by series of horizontal and vertical lines thereon, forming rectangular spaces, whereof the larges space is at the center with a series of smaller rectangular spaces at each side thereof, and series of other rectangular spaces above and below said central rectangular space" (para. 4).
Date:
July 30, 1895
Creator:
Higby, Luther L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Frame for Trunks, Valises, &c.
Patent for frames for trunks, boxes, vehicle-bodies, etc., which requires no bolts and can be cast in a single piece of metal. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 17, 1897
Creator:
Turner, Ephraim M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for improvements in car-couplings in which it can be adapted “to the draw-heads of car-couplings that is already in used and that there need not be two similar couplings of this character in order to permit the device to operate successfully.” (Lines 74-78) Illustration is included.
Date:
October 13, 1891
Creator:
Yates, Junius E. M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Self Cigar-Lighter.
Patent for a new and improved self-lighting cigar that has "[a]n attachment for cigars, consisting of a metallic holder having spring-arms . . . and a projecting portion adapted to hold the igniting composition, and a disk adapted to bear upon the outer end of the cigar" (lines 6-11).
Date:
June 3, 1890
Creator:
West, Thomas & Turner, Ephraim M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Curling-Iron Heater.
Patent for "an improved attachment for gas burners or lamps, which will be adapted to facilitate the heating of curling irons or other light articles" (lines 8-11).
Date:
March 6, 1894
Creator:
Fowler, Samuel O. & Taylor, Walter R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History