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Reversible Gutter.
Patent for a simple and durable reversible gutter for houses and other buildings that can be easily cleaned and painted.
Date:
April 23, 1895
Creator:
Freeze, John Andy
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Decorticating Jute, Ramie, and Other Fibrous Plants
Patent for "a machine for separating the valuable fibrous portions of the stems of the plants of the jute, ramie, flax, and hemp, and like varieties from refuse matter and preparing the same for use with the least possible injury and waste" (lines 10-15).
Date:
April 19, 1892
Creator:
Fremery, Felix 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
Saddle Jack.
Patent for a new and improved saddle-jack. This design consists in "the combination, with a support, of a post having a hollow trunnion and carrying a saddle-tree support on its upper end, and a bolt passing through the hollow trunnion and carrying hooks on its upper end for engaging a saddle-tree to hold it on its support" (lines 84-90).
Date:
April 1, 1890
Creator:
Garrett, Richard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a car coupling that "couples automatically and by which a brakeman on a single car can uncouple one or more cars and to provide pipe connections between the cars for this and other purposes" (lines 9-13). It has a pivoted drawhead with lever connections to a piston head and uses steam connections with the cylinder in the piston head to couple.
Date:
April 25, 1893
Creator:
Gebhardt, William Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mirror Attachment for Dressers.
Patent for a mirror attachment for dressers with an improved clamping mechanism so that it can be easily adjusted when in use and easily put to the side when not in use. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 7, 1896
Creator:
Gibson, Lizzie & Crank, Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in gates.
Date:
April 26, 1898
Creator:
Gilbert, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gang-Plow.
Patent for a new and improved gang plow, which employs "disks turning in the soil and serving to form the furrows therein"(line 8 - 10).
Date:
April 26, 1898
Creator:
Gordon, Frederick W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Seed Conveyer.
Patent for a new and useful improvements in cotton seed conveyer systems.
Date:
April 26, 1898
Creator:
Graber, Henry W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pendulum-Scale.
Patent for "a self-registering scale which shall be composed of but a few parts, and which will be accurate and reliable in use, and not liable to get out of repair from constant employment" (lines 10-14).
Date:
April 17, 1894
Creator:
Graves, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Cotton-Gin.
Patent for a saw-cleaning attachment for cotton gins. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 20, 1897
Creator:
Griffin, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for "a compress having a continuous operation, whereby one bale of cotton is being formed by the compress all the time the same is working, and thereby rendering it unnecessary to completely stop the working of the entire press for every single bale made until the bale can be wrapped and discharged out of the press." (Lines 15-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 14, 1896
Creator:
Griffin, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Music-Holder.
Patent for an adjustable, simple, inexpensive, and light music-holder that does not let the music slip and does not damage the music. The clamps will not get in the way of the music, and holds a book as easily as a sheet of music. Springs are not used, the staff is telescopic, and should be made from aluminum.
Date:
April 30, 1895
Creator:
Gross, Frederick D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark-Arrester.
Patent for improvements in spark-arresters for locomotives in “which [it] will prevent the sparks and cinders from falling upon the train and upon surrounding lands and buildings;” (lines 10-12) by using a combination of a curved smoke-stack, a cinder-box, conducting pipes and an ash pen. Illustration is included.
Date:
April 7, 1891
Creator:
Hadlock, Edson J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Cooling Milk and Butter.
Patent for improvements in devices for cooling milk and butter by using textile materials to cover the buckets or pails that contain milk or butter or other food articles, then saturated these textile covered buckets or pails with water; thus reducing the temperature of the articles contained in the buckets or pails, owing to evaporation. Illustration is included.
Date:
April 21, 1891
Creator:
Hall, Charles T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tool for Tightening Wheel Tires.
Patent for a new and improved tire tightener. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a tubular member having having one end beveled and provided with a transverse hole and provided at its other end with an interiorly-arranged annular shoulder, a set-screw passing through the tubular member and arranged near the shoulder, a nut resting on the tubular member and provided with an extension projecting into the same and bearing on the shoulder and provided with an annular groove receiving the set-screw, and a screw passing through the nut into the tubular member" (lines 28-39).
Date:
April 19, 1892
Creator:
Hamblen, William Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vault Cash-Indicator.
Patent for a vault cash-indicator meant to "provide a new and improved indicator, designed for indicating an amount of money, commercial articles, &c.; for instance, indicating the amount of money contained in a safe or vault" (lines 7-11).
Date:
April 23, 1895
Creator:
Hamilton, Samuel R.
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
Post-Driver.
Patent for a machine that drives posts and "can be placed on the running gear of a vehicle in such a manner that it can be readily adjusted to operate on posts at either side of the longitudinal axis of the vehicle" (lines 14-18). It can be easily adjusted and is simply constructed.
Date:
April 18, 1893
Creator:
Harris, Stephen G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wagon Attachment.
Patent for a new and improved wagon attachment. This design "relates to hay frames or racks for use with the ordinary box wagon-bodies; and it has for its object to provide a light frame or rack of simple construction adapted for adjustment to wagon boxes or bodies of different width and so constructed as to be folded in a compact form. To these ends the invention consists in a foldable hay frame or rack adapted to fit into a wagon-body and adapted for adjustment to such body; also, in structural features and combination of parts" (lines 19-30).
Date:
April 8, 1890
Creator:
Haupt, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Means for Making Bats for Mattresses.
Patent for a simple means for making bats for mattresses, and is an improvement on a previous patent (No. 399,041). "I gin into a room or place having the width or the length of the average width or length of a mattress, but extending the necessary length-say twenty or twenty-five feet, more or less to allow the cotton or material used to settle uniformly across it, the top at the extreme end preferably covered with wire-gauze to assist the draft from the gin. The floor and sides of this box or room or other receptacle into which the material for the mattress-bats is falling from the gin is provided with a means to carry the ginned material along from the gin as fast as it is worked. The bats may be formed in one long continuous web,from which the desired length may be cut" (lines 19-34)
Date:
April 7, 1896
Creator:
Haynes, Daniel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Index.
Patent for "an improved method of indexing books of reference, and more especially city and county records, and the means for carrying over from one line to another where several indexes are to be set opposite one name" (lines 9-14).
Date:
April 11, 1893
Creator:
Heppenstall, James Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mining Sulfur.
Patent for a method of mining sulfur and other things that have similar melting points that is less expensive and more efficient than previous methods. A machine sprays hot fluid at fissures where the mineral exists, melts it, and carries it away in the stream.
Date:
April 27, 1897
Creator:
Higgins, Pattillo & Carroll, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History