Automatic Dumping Cage (open access)

Automatic Dumping Cage

Patent for a new and improved automatic dumping cage. This invention is to "use in the shafts of coal and other mines"(line 9-10).
Date: November 30, 1897
Creator: Gordon, William K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Type Writing Machine (open access)

Type Writing Machine

Patent for a new and useful improvement in automatic type-writing machines.
Date: November 30, 1897
Creator: Templeton, Allison
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mandolin. (open access)

Mandolin.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in Mandolins to"obtain a tone for mandolins as nearly as possible equal to that of violins and other stringed instruments played by bows"(line 8-10)
Date: November 30, 1897
Creator: Simpson, Roy B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hopple. (open access)

Hopple.

Patent fora new and useful improvements in anti-chafing hopples for training live stock to "provide hopples which will not injure stock while being trained"(line 9-11).
Date: November 30, 1897
Creator: Trice, Sinnette Y.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ruling Machine (open access)

Ruling Machine

Patent for a new and useful improvements in ruling machines. This invention is to "provide a machine of this character by means of which engravers may cut horizontal, inclined, or circular lines into the plate, or draftsmen draw the same lines upon a sheet of drawing" (line 14-18).
Date: November 30, 1897
Creator: Owen, Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Non Refillable Bottle (open access)

Non Refillable Bottle

Patent for a new and useful improvements in non-refillable bottles. This invention is to " provide a bottle of this character which can not be refilled and sold as an original package without detection" (line 11-15).
Date: November 30, 1897
Creator: Taylor, James Moss
System: The Portal to Texas History
Desk. (open access)

Desk.

Patent for a new and useful desk "with depressible leaves or writing bed sections" (line 10)
Date: November 30, 1897
Creator: Welch, James N.
System: The Portal to Texas History