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Acetylene Gas Generator
Patent for "a new and useful acetylene-gas generator" (lines 5-6), including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
April 26, 1898
Creator:
Williams, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Mosquito-Canopy.
Patent for an adjustable, simple, and easily used mosquito-canopy for beds that fits over any style and size of bed, and is easily removed.
Date:
April 25, 1893
Creator:
Eva, Addison H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Advertising-Fan.
Patent for "an attractive sign, which by reason of its revolutions will receive notice from the general public and illustrate business cards or signs, and furthermore to operate the same by and in conjunction with a fan, such as is commonly used in public places." (Lines 15-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 30, 1895
Creator:
Lo Casto, Tony
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aerial Ship
Patent for "a ship for navigating the air, which shall be almost or quite as easily governed and controlled as regards its course of travel, irrespective of the direction of the wind and in other respects, as a ship provided with propelling means, used to sail in or through the water" (lines 9-15).
Date:
April 19, 1892
Creator:
Riddle, William Nelson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap.
Patent for an animal trap meant to trap animals that burrow in the ground, such as prairie dogs. The trap catches the animal when it leaves its den and the animal cannot escape the trap.
Date:
April 25, 1893
Creator:
Manning, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Ant-Trap.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in ant-traps.
Date:
April 12, 1898
Creator:
Selvidge, Charles W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
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
Apparatus for Cooling Milk.
Patent for a new and useful apparatus for regulating the temperature of milk.
Date:
April 26, 1898
Creator:
Porter, Louis H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Elevating, Distributing, and Feeding Seed-Cotton to Gins
Patent for improvements to cotton gins so that seed cotton can be fed to two gins at the same time, while using the same power as would normally be necessary for one gin.
Date:
April 12, 1892
Creator:
Murray, Stephen D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Operating Churns, &c.
Patent for an apparatus for operating churns, ice cream freezers, or the like, and is meant "to produce an apparatus in which there is simultaneously given to the vessel a revolving motion and a revolving or vibrating motion to the agitator working in the vessel" (lines 14-18).
Date:
April 16, 1895
Creator:
Crawford, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Armor for Pneumatic Tires.
Patent for a new and useful armor for pneumatic tires.
Date:
April 12, 1898
Creator:
Hansell, Robert Clark
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Type-Writing Machine.
Patent for improvements to the type writer which allow for automatic, proper spacing between letters and words; will automatically return the carriage to the beginning of the page; and will automatically feed the inking ribbon so that the entire surface is used. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 13, 1897
Creator:
Templeton, Allison
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baby-Walker.
Patent for improvements in baby-walkers by using the combination of a circular base, standards, a rim connecting the tops of the standards, a rotating plate having runners on its lower side engaged with the rim, a guide-flange, a rigid central shaft having a ratchet-wheel, and a pawl for engaging the ratchet. Illustration is included.
Date:
April 28, 1891
Creator:
Lawson, Henry William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Back-Band Buckle.
Patent for an improved back-band buckle and an improved hook that connects the buckle with the trace-chain. The lever-hook snaps "into position and is held secure in a pane substantially flush with the lower portion of the buckle-frame when the buckle is closed by the forcing down of the lever" (lines 15-19).
Date:
April 20, 1897
Creator:
Brown, John Staddart
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for a simple and efficient baling-press that has an improved press-box and plunger-operating power. The connections between the power and the plunger will be lighter and the feed-opening of the press-box will be closed automatically. The machine has a continuously-rotating operating wheel that allows for an easier way to engage and disengage the pitman.
Date:
April 7, 1896
Creator:
Franks, Lewis W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for improvements in baling presses: "This invention relates to baling presses provided with runners, (instead of the usual wheels,) to be removed about the field; and my objects are, to construct such a press in such a manner that it can be readily started down with but few stakes, second; to provide a rigid but removable side brace to prevent the press from canting, and third; to prevent the operating lever from canting or swinging upward or downward when in operation; and to promote simplicity" (lines 17-27).
Date:
April 10, 1894
Creator:
Schubert, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for improvements in baling presses "in which the necessary motion may be imparted to the plunger in a rapid and effective manner, and which shall be productive of considerable saving of labor and power" (lines 15-19)
Date:
April 29, 1890
Creator:
Anderson, Zachariah J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Banker's Daily-Balance Index.
Patent for a banker's daily-balance index meant to "promote the speed and accuracy of book-keepers in keeping the personal daily balance ledger in banking and other like business" (lines 9-12). The patent is for a piece of paper divided with ink into strips on the front and back.
Date:
April 30, 1895
Creator:
Thomas, Thomas Parry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bath-Tub.
Patent for "a super bath-tub of that class in which the small portable or foot tub is provided with a removable shield and seat capable of enlarging the size of the tub and of furnishing a rest for the person using the tub." (Lines 8-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 6, 1897
Creator:
Lacy, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed and Cylinder Printing-Machine.
Patent for a new and useful improvements in bed and cylinder printing machines for "operating and controlling the motion of the bed-plate thereof" (line 11 - 13).
Date:
April 12, 1898
Creator:
Murray, George T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle.
Patent for a bicycle that can be operated by the operator's hands or feet or both, and the motion used to operate the bicycle is that of rowing. "the rider must assume a position upon the machine corresponding to that assumed by an oarsman in a boat, and as the rider can work with both hands and feet all the energy and strength he is capable of exerting can be brought to bear upon the propelling mechanism in a most effective manner, and the seat can be rendered much more comfortable than at present and in no wise interfere with the rider's movements" (lines 18-27).
Date:
April 3, 1894
Creator:
Hyde, Thomas B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History