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Ball-Bearing. (open access)

Ball-Bearing.

Patent for a new and useful ball bearing, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 17, 1899
Creator: Millen, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coupling For Well-Drilling Tools. (open access)

Coupling For Well-Drilling Tools.

Patent for a new and useful coupling for well drilling tools, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 3, 1899
Creator: Kuehn, Joachim F. W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cultivator Wheel. (open access)

Cotton-Cultivator Wheel.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cotton cultivator wheels, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 24, 1899
Creator: Holloway, Willis W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Telephone-Directory. (open access)

Automatic Telephone-Directory.

Patent for a new and useful automatic telephone directory, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 17, 1899
Creator: Neuendorff, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Back-Pedaling Brake. (open access)

Back-Pedaling Brake.

Patent for a new and improved brake and coasting pocket wheel for velocipedes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 24, 1899
Creator: Wallerich, Nicholas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Planter. (open access)

Corn-Planter.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in corn planters, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 25, 1898
Creator: Webb, Richard Haywood
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chemical Fire-Extinguisher. (open access)

Chemical Fire-Extinguisher.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in chemical fire extinguishers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 11, 1898
Creator: Flatau, Louis S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Compress. (open access)

Cotton-Compress.

Patent for a new and useful cotton compress, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 31, 1899
Creator: Brady, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Show-Case. (open access)

Combination Show-Case.

Patent for new and useful improvements in combination show cases, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 17, 1899
Creator: Sanger, Phillip
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Lamp. (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Lamp.

Patent for a new and improved acetylene gas lamp, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 10, 1899
Creator: Josserand, Peter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Claw-Bar. (open access)

Claw-Bar.

Patent for a new and useful claw bar, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 18, 1898
Creator: Wiggs, Zeph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in churns, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 17, 1899
Creator: Dallin, Bruce
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved car coupling, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 11, 1898
Creator: Sherrill, John G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for a new and useful car coupling, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 11, 1898
Creator: Riley, Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaning Apparatus. (open access)

Cotton-Cleaning Apparatus.

Patent for a cotton-cleaning apparatus made up of "a stationary foraminous case or drum having an inlet-opening in the upper side of its small end, a rotary shaft extending centrally through the case or drum and having a plurality of spirally-arranged at the large end of the foraminous case and having a discharge-pipe for conveying the cotton to the point where it is to be deposited or discharged - as, for instance, into gins or gin-feeders" (lines 9-19). The cotton goes in one end, the cotton is elevated, beater-arms move the cotton along, and fans drive the cotton to the gins.
Date: October 8, 1895
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Replacer. (open access)

Car-Replacer.

Patent for a car-replacer that is meant to "provide a strong and compact skid of comparatively light weight to form the body portion of the car-replacer and which shall be especially adapted to raise the car-wheels above the track, deflect toward them toward the rails until the tread of the wheels is suspended over the ball of the rails from an inclined surface terminating in a rounded end, over which the wheels move until they meet the track" (lines 12-21). The car-replacer does not have any liability of the skid tilting endwise or sidewise.
Date: October 15, 1895
Creator: Ragan, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Door Cleat and Fastener. (open access)

Car-Door Cleat and Fastener.

Patent for "a simple and comparatively-inexpensive car-door cleat and fastener designed for use on cars for transporting cotton and other highly-inflammable merchandise and capable of effectually excluding sparks from the interior of the car and of preventing the same from entering between the edge of the door and the doorway." (Lines 11-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 22, 1895
Creator: Woodruff, Hawkins
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Railroad or Farm Gate. (open access)

Automatic Railroad or Farm Gate.

Patent for an improved automatic railroad or farm gate that uses the "weight of the car or wagon upon an operating-board and automatically close[s] after the train has passed, and which can also be opened by hand when it is desired to let a single person pass through, either upon foot or horseback" (lines 20-25).
Date: October 4, 1892
Creator: Benson, Joseph Robinson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coin-Operated Boot or Show Blackening Machine (open access)

Coin-Operated Boot or Show Blackening Machine

Patent for a shoe or boot blackening machine that operates automatically with the depositing of a coin, and as such drastically decreases labor and time needed for shoe or boot blackening.
Date: October 11, 1892
Creator: Knight, Nute B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper and Planter (open access)

Combined Cotton Chopper and Planter

Patent for a combined cotton chopper and planter, made to be easy to construct and easy to convert between functions.
Date: October 11, 1892
Creator: Parker, Francis H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Antifriction Clasp. (open access)

Antifriction Clasp.

Patent for a new and improved anti-friction clasp. This design "is to provide means whereby the wear due to the rubbing of inclosed rods or ropes against an inclosing casing may be reduced to a minimum and whereby the central alignment of the rods or ropes with respect to the inclosing casing may be accurately preserved" (lines 11-17). It consists in "a series of friction balls or rollers mounted therein and projecting from the periphery thereof and being divided into sections adapted to be clamped at any point around the rod or rope" (lines 97-101).
Date: October 25, 1892
Creator: Black, William L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaner. (open access)

Cotton-Cleaner.

Patent for a cotton cleaner that provides "certain improvements in machines for cleaning lint cotton, and especially to provide a machine of this character which is intended to be arranged in the common lint flue, so as to occupy a position between the ordinary condenser in the lint room, and the nearest gin thereto" (lines 9-16). The cotton is thoroughly cleaned after leaving the gin, so that motes, stems, sticks, dry leaves, sand, &c. will be separated from the cotton.
Date: October 3, 1893
Creator: Rembert, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard. (open access)

Cattle-Guard.

Patent for a cattle guard that prevents cattle from blocking railroad tracks. It consists of sharp edged cross ties that sit on the bottom of a shallow pit, guard rails that cover the cross ties, bolts that hold the rails together, and end planks forming v-shaped serrations.
Date: October 10, 1893
Creator: Lynch, Michael L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for a churn that has a frame supporting the churn and swinging motion mixes the cream. This invention successfully separates oily globules from the cream, thus making churning more effective and easy.
Date: October 10, 1893
Creator: Bailey, James Westey & McNorton, John Tomas
System: The Portal to Texas History