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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
Antifriction-Bearing. (open access)

Antifriction-Bearing.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in anti-friction bearings.
Date: April 5, 1898
Creator: Hobron, Charles B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Dasher. (open access)

Churn-Dasher.

Patent for "reciprocating churn-dashers with rotary heads." (Lines 11-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 5, 1891
Creator: Sterling, Isaac F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal Trap. (open access)

Animal Trap.

Patent for a new and improved animal-trap. This design consists "[i]n a trap comprising a well having ingress-openings in diametrically-opposite sides, the combination, with a cage constructed to move vertically in the said well, of plates mounted in ways and constructed to slide past and cover the said openings and having connection with the cage to counterbalance the same" (lines 86-93).
Date: April 5, 1892
Creator: McLeod, Charlie Mike
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Boring Artesian Wells. (open access)

Apparatus for Boring Artesian Wells.

Patent for a new and improved artesian-well borer. This design "has for its object to furnish a combination tool which will wear or cut the harder grades or rock frequently met with in boring wells of this class, and also to furnish a tool which will be harder than the common steel too or auger, thereby dispensing with the necessity of taking out and sharpening" (lines 13-20). It consists in "[a] fluted hemispherical mass of corundum for boring Artesian wells, said mass being provided with cutting-edges which extend from the apex to the base, [and] a metallic core embedded within the mass" (lines 16-20).
Date: April 5, 1892
Creator: Brown, Frank O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Life-Insurance Table or Chart. (open access)

Life-Insurance Table or Chart.

Patent for a new and useful life-insurance table of chart.
Date: April 5, 1898
Creator: Neal, Nathan P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Post Hole Auger. (open access)

Post Hole Auger.

Patent for a new and improved post-hole auger. This design "is adapted to be attached to a cart or wagon and moved from place to place thereon in line with the proposed operating fence and operated to bore post-holes without the necessity of detaching it from the wagon, whereby the machine may be readily transported and arranged in position for use" (lines 14-20). It consists, "with a wagon having brackets secured to one side thereof, of a vertically-sliding frame moving within said brackets and carrying an earth-auger and gearing for actuating said auger" (lines 14-18).
Date: April 5, 1892
Creator: Cryer, Henry M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine. (open access)

Washing-Machine.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in washing machines.
Date: April 5, 1898
Creator: Turbeville, John B. & Higgs, Marion F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate. (open access)

Gate.

Patent for an improvement to the construction of sliding gates that will "enable them to be readily opened by persons on horses and in vehicles and to be closed by them after passing through the gate." (Lines 12-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 6, 1891
Creator: Shannon, Jefferson C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sewing-Machine Brake. (open access)

Sewing-Machine Brake.

Patent for a new and useful sewing machine brake to "prevent retrograde rotary movement of the shaft" (line 9 - 10).
Date: April 5, 1898
Creator: Weaver, John Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sad Iron Heater. (open access)

Sad Iron Heater.

Patent for a new and improved iron heater. This design "consists of an elliptical iron-receiver adapted to fit within a stove-opening, the upper edge of which is provided with a surrounding flange adapted to rest upon the edge of the opening and thus support the receiver depending below said opening, a pair of openings formed in the top of the receiver, each of said openings being provided at opposite edges with iron handle-receiving pairs of notches, a pin extending from the top of the receiver opposite one of the notches" (lines 90-100).
Date: April 5, 1892
Creator: Thomason, Sue
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pea or Bean Thrasher. (open access)

Pea or Bean Thrasher.

Patent for a new and improved pea or bean thrasher. This design consists, "with the main frame, having a removable top and an inclined bottom containing the thrashing concave and cylinder, of the fan-chamber and fan, the air-chamber having an aperture intermediate of the fan-chamber and concave, and means . . . for rotating said cylinder and fan" (lines 5-12).
Date: April 5, 1892
Creator: Grayson, William Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Cabinet. (open access)

Design for a Cabinet.

Design patent for a cabinet with a rectangular body and an internal horizontal partition.
Date: April 5, 1895
Creator: Carolan, Eugene P.
System: The Portal to Texas History