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Telephone-Transmitter.
Patent for a telephone-transmitter "with a diaphragm and carbon button carried thereby, of a spring-supported flaring conical carbon-cell provided with a flange covered with soft material and resting on the carbon button carried by the diaphragm, the carbon-cell being filled with granulated carbon resting in contact with the carbon button" (lines 13-19). This is meant to optimize the volume of sound being transmitted.
Date:
October 20, 1896
Creator:
Alexander, Horace C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for improvements in cotton-chopper by using a combination of revolving disk, fender disks, a rotary shaft and cultivator-blades to construct a machine that is able to thin and cultivate cotton. Illustration is included.
Date:
October 6, 1891
Creator:
Allen, George Washington
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sulky-Plow.
Patent for a new and useful sulky plow, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 25, 1898
Creator:
Allen, Jefferson Davis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ink-Bottle.
Patent for improvements in in bottles: "it consists, essentially, of a hexagonal or analogous polygonal shaped body having dip cups arranged adjacent to one and thereof at such angles as to regulate the flow by turning the body and bringing it to bear on different bases." (lines 12-17).
Date:
October 19, 1897
Creator:
Anderson, Alexander C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fencing - Machine
Patent for a new and useful Wire-Fence Machine, including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
October 26, 1897
Creator:
Anderson, Henry C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame-Fastener.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive hame-fastener that has "two adjustable parts, one of which is provided with hooks to be engaged by means on the other part" (lines 11-13). The invention is adjustable and does not unlock or disengage accidentally but can easily be unlocked on purpose.
Date:
October 15, 1895
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Refrigerator Shipping-Box.
Patent for a "new and useful Improvement in Shipping Boxes" (lines 5-6) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 12, 1897
Creator:
Andrews, Otis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Tool.
Patent for a combination tool that is "adapted without changing any of its parts to operate as a nut and pipe wrench, pliers, hammer, screw-driver, and nail-extractor." (Lines 12-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 12, 1897
Creator:
Armstrong, Charles J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a wire-stretcher meant for making barbed wire fences that is more efficient than other wire-stretchers. It has a bent plate, a split hook swiveled to the plate, a rotatable rod that goes through the plate, stretching wire that is secured to the rod, and the split hook is attached to the wire.
Date:
October 9, 1894
Creator:
Austin, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for improvements in gates, including illustrations.
Date:
October 28, 1890
Creator:
Austin, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Recording Apparatus for Vehicles.
Patent for an improved automatic passenger register and mileage recorder for vehicles that travel on rails. It consists of a roller that is actives by a time motor, a strip that the roller moves, a pressure roller, a pair of rollers that a record sheet is wound between, a mechanism that controls movements of the pair of rollers, electromagnets that are connected to the seats, armature levers that mark the electromagnets current, a bell crank lever that marks the moving record sheet, and a spring that supports the lever.
Date:
October 10, 1893
Creator:
Baade, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saw-Gin.
Patent for improvements in cotton-gins by having two compartments, one above the other. “The upper roll-box being especially adapted to raw cotton and the lower one to half-ginned cotton as the lint and seeds are only partially separated in one roll-box and are then delivered into another, where the operation is completed.” (Lines 24-29) This operation used less time to separate the seed and lint. Illustration is included.
Date:
October 27, 1891
Creator:
Bachman, Joseph A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling Seed-Cotton.
Patent for an improved cotton elevator, separator, and distributor that is meant to move cotton from a wagon or storage, remove dirt, and deliver it to a gin. The "improved apparatus comprises a pneumatic cotton-conveying tube by which the cotton is lifted or carried to the distributor, a separator for removing the cotton from the air current, and a distributor comprising a trunk for receiving the cotton from the separator extending over the two gin feeders, having openings delivering into the feeders, and an endless chain conveyer moving in said trunk, causing the cotton to travel along therein and drop out therefrom through the delivery openings into the feeders" (lines 16-27).
Date:
October 31, 1893
Creator:
Bachman, Joseph A. & Clark, Frank S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fan Attachment.
Patent for an automatic fan that attaches to a rocking chair or cradle and rotates as the chair or cradle rocks. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 12, 1897
Creator:
Bailey, Israel S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Roller-Bearing.
Patent for improvements in roller bearing for vehicles.
Date:
October 5, 1897
Creator:
Baker, Joseph B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dental-Plate-Polishing Tool.
Patent for a machine that dresses or reduces dental plates uniformly, and can dress dental plates to any thickness. It also can "provide permanently-exposed means for indicating the thickness to which the plate is being reduced" (lines 16-19). It will not puncture or weaken dental plates.
Date:
October 13, 1896
Creator:
Barnes, Preston B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Protecting Alarm-Circuit.
Patent for a circuit to be connected to a security alarm so that when the circuit is broken, the alarm will sound. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 12, 1897
Creator:
Barriclow, Irvin E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hot Box Alarm.
Patent for a new and improved hot-box alarm. This design "relates to alarms to indicate overheated journal-boxes; and it has for its object to provide a device of this character . . . which will be useful upon boxes of stationary engines, car-wheels, or any style or form of machinery in which shafting or boxes are employed which are liable to get overheated" (lines 8-16). It consists, "with a journal-box, of a cylinder supported upon said box and designed to accommodate a liquefying solid, a perforated plunger supported upon the solid within the cylinder and adapted to work through the solid when melted" (lines 12-17).
Date:
October 4, 1892
Creator:
Basel, John Conrad & Fruehauf, Eduard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sofa or Lounge.
Patent for improvements in sofas and similar articles. The improvements have guide-strips on the ends, with blocks that fit over the guide-strips. The upper side has a double set of ratchet-teeth, and they can be used to tighten a woven-wire fabric that sits below the cushions and is held in place by the blocks.
Date:
October 13, 1896
Creator:
Baucum, Samuel C. & Ball, Aaron T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine
Patent for "a washing-machine which will rapidly wash clothes of coarse or fine texture without injury thereto. This object I accomplish by my improved washing-machine, which consists, essentially, of a cylindrical body, a flexible and adjustable wash-board in the lower half thereof, and a corrugated drum rotating in the body above the wash-board" (lines 9-16).
Date:
October 28, 1890
Creator:
Baugh, Reuben P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Metal Cutter And Roller.
Patent for a new and useful metal cutter and roller, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 4, 1898
Creator:
Beaty, Gilbert M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gin-Saw-Filing Machine.
Patent for a mechanism to sharpen the blades of a gin saw. Includes illustrations of the device.
Date:
October 19, 1897
Creator:
Beavers, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Box-Fastener.
Patent for an improved box-fastener for cases and boxes that hold bottled liquids. The invention allows for the cover to be easily removed, and hangs on the side of the box when not being used. The cover can be used on an ordinary box without altering the box.
Date:
October 9, 1894
Creator:
Beck, Edwin A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History