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Bale-Band Tightener
Patent for a bale-band tightener, for "baling-presses; and its object is to provide a new and improved bale-band tightener which is simple and durable in construction and arranged to permit the operator to conveniently place the bands in position and fasten the ends together after the bale is pressed." (Lines 7-13)
Date:
October 5, 1897
Creator:
Duval, John L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a new and improved plow. This design "relates to plows; and it consists in certain improvements of construction of the same, having for its object to admit of the adjustment of the heel-bar of the plow with relation to the standard of the same, and also to provide the said heel-bar with an adjustable knife or cutter which shall serve as a rudder to prevent the plow from swerving to either side during operation" (lines 8-16).
Date:
October 7, 1890
Creator:
Echols, Christopher Columbus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Refrigerator.
Patent for a refrigerator especially designed to cool meat, dairy, and other farm products. It uses little ice and cools using vaporization.
Date:
October 1, 1895
Creator:
Elder, Philip T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine
Patent for improvements on washing machines in order "to simplify and improve the construction of washing-machines and to provide one which will remove the dirt from fabrics without inj uring the latter and which may be conveniently operated with a minimum amount of exertion on the part of the operator" (lines 10-16).
Date:
October 4, 1892
Creator:
Elkins, William Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Prickly-Pear Or Cactus Burner.
Patent for a new and useful prickly pear or cactus burner, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 3, 1899
Creator:
Ellison, Jeff Storey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wooden Bridge
Patent for a wooden bridge with a focus on increased durability of the structure and effective drainage for moisture from the timbers and for the free circulation of air between, around, or through the structure.
Date:
April 9, 1891
Creator:
Ferguson, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shuttle Operating Mechanism for Looms.
Patent for a new and improved shuttle-operator for looms. This design "has for its objects to provide novel, simple, and efficient mechanism for actuating the picking-sticks which effect the flight of the shuttles; to avoid the use of the ordinary lower picker-shaft; to avoid lateral angles in the picking-levers, which actuate the picking-sticks to throw the shuttles, and to otherwise improve the picking motion of looms for obtaining simplicity, strength, durability, power, and efficiency" (lines 8-18).
Date:
October 21, 1890
Creator:
Fisher, Finis E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Wire-Looping Tool.
Patent for improvements in wires tightening tool by using a frame in the shape of a lyre and a hollow screw-shaft mounted on the frame. A twister-rod arranged within the shaft which having a hook at one end and a polygonal head at the other. A hand-lever is adapted to operate the shaft and rod in order to twist a wire. Illustration is included.
Date:
October 6, 1891
Creator:
Flatau, Louis S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire-Kindling Cartridge.
Patent for an improved fire-kindling cartridge which "consists, essentially, in a cartridge made in two sections, each composed of coiled wire, with their outer end tapering or contracted, forming a conical point, a sleeve of coiled wire with which the inner ends of said sections engage, and a filling of asbestos or other material." (Lines 25-31) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 8, 1895
Creator:
Flatau, Louis Spencer
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Annunciator.
Patent for improvement in annunciator by “providing a circuit-closing attachment for annunciators by means of which an electric lamp will be lit when the annunciator-drop falls.” (Lines 15-18) Illustration is included.
Date:
October 20, 1891
Creator:
Fouts, Lambert F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vine Cutter.
Patent for a new and improved vine-cutter. This design "is to provide a suitable device . . . whereby a sweet-potato vine may be severed from the main stalk on each side of a ridge, the parts of the same being of simple and effective construction and operation" (lines 12-17). It consists in "a post or support, divergent elongated horizontally-arranged cutters secured to the opposite sides thereof and having their lower rear sides formed into cutting-edges of concave form, said cutters being deflected downward at a slight angle of inclination" (lines 66-72).
Date:
October 4, 1892
Creator:
Francis, Samuel H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Spraying Liquids And Powders.
Patent for a new and useful machine for spraying liquids and powers for " destroying insects and capable of spraying both liquid and powder separately or simultaneously" (line 13 - 16).
Date:
October 10, 1899
Creator:
Franklin, Edward A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Music-Holder.
Patent for an improved music-holder. The music-holder is comprised of a base adapted to be secured to a music rest with a standard pivoted on the base. The standard is fixed with a spring-pressed shaft in order to press the book to the music stand.
Date:
October 27, 1891
Creator:
French, Clarence E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Piano-Tuning Hammer.
Patent for "a combination tool adapted for turning, driving, extracting, and otherwise manipulating tuning-pegs and other parts of a piano-action, whereby one tool is capable of performing the functions of a series of ordinarily independent instruments." (Lines 10-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 30, 1894
Creator:
Fuchs, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grate-Bar.
Patent for an improved grate-bar that has a "semicylindrical journal rounded below, and its upper surface forming part of the grate-surface, with draft-spaces between the cross-walls forming the bearing portions, in combination with a supporting bar matching with said cross-walls and open under said draft-spaces, substantially as described" (lines 13-19). It is meant to sift ashes.
Date:
October 13, 1896
Creator:
Fuller, James T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment For Wheeled Plows Or Cultivators.
Patent for certain new and useful improvement sin attachments for wheeled plows or cultivators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 24, 1899
Creator:
Fullerton, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting Attachment for Sewing Machines.
Patent for a new and improved quilting attachment for sewing machines. This design "is to provide a device . . . adapted to be adjustable in any manner desired over the leaf, table, or arm of a sewing-machine" (lines 14-17). It consists in "a standard supporting a track-bar, a bar swiveled to said hanger and having end journals, and curved end yokes or arms movably connected to said end journals of the latter bar and supporting-rollers, said curved end yokes or arms having the said bar connected to the central part of the upper portions of the same and open at their lower ends" (lines 15-24).
Date:
October 25, 1892
Creator:
Galloway, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing Machine.
Patent for a new and improved washing-machine. This design "is to simplify and improve the construction of washing machines and to enable clothes to be thoroughly washed without liability of injuring them" (lines 10-14). This design consists in "a frame comprising the legs, the rounds connecting the legs, and the parallel horizontal side bars connecting the upper ends of the legs at each side of the frame, the ends of the frame being open at the top, a diamond-shaped washing-machine body journaled between the sides of the frame, the spiral springs arranged at each end of the horizontal bars" (lines 89-98).
Date:
October 25, 1892
Creator:
Gardner, David
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a tool that can be used for fence construction by stretching the wires to the desired tension, or for repairing fences by crimping the slack in the wires. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 5, 1897
Creator:
Gardner, Robert J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Exhibitor.
Patent for a new desk intended to support calculating tables. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 27, 1891
Creator:
Garner, William R.; Tengelsen, James T. & Castberg, John.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for an inexpensive, strong, and simple wire stretcher that can be used quickly to stretch and secure wires. It also connects wires of different heights, and stretches wires to different tensions.
Date:
October 17, 1893
Creator:
Gillis, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of Baling Cotton.
Patent for a method of baling cotton. The cotton is taken direct from the gin, condensed, compressed progressively into a thin sheet of suitable density, and baled, the bale being formed previous to the expansion of the fiber.
Date:
November 5, 1890
Creator:
Goldthwaite, Joseph G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for improvement in car-couplings by using many separate parts to work together to connect cars; and it can be operated without the operator going between the cars. Illustration is included.
Date:
October 6, 1891
Creator:
Goss, Wilson Lumpkin
System:
The Portal to Texas History