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Snap-Hook
Patent for a snap hook in order to "provide a hook of simple construction that shall be securely locked when in use" (p. 2)
Date:
December 30, 1890
Creator:
Adams, Don B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Planter, Chopper, And Cultivator.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in "combined cotton planters, choppers, and cultivators" (line 9-11).
Date:
December 6, 1898
Creator:
Albreekt, Niklaus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Cutting Stick-Candy.
Patent for a simple and durable machine for cutting stick-candy that is "capable of traveling over a table or other support upon which stick candy in given lengths may be laid, and to so travel over the table that the lengthy sticks of candy will be made to slide over the bed of the machine, under a knife or its equivalent; and a further object of the invention is to provide a means whereby the knife may be manipulated at predetermined points in the travel of the machine to cut the lengthy sticks into shorter predetermined lengths" (lines 11-21).
Date:
December 18, 1894
Creator:
Allardyce, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Field Thrashing-Machine.
Patent for a field thrashing-machine that can be carried into a field and harvests the tops of standing grain as it is carried forward. The machine also thrashes the grain, separates the grain from the chaff, and delivers the grain in a receptacle.
Date:
December 18, 1894
Creator:
Anderson, Axel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cylindrical-Bale Cotton-Press.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cylindrical bale cotton presses, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 19, 1899
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Twine-Holder.
Patent for certain new and useful improvement in twine holders, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 26, 1899
Creator:
Andrews, Otis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in monkey-wrenches to "provide an improved construction of the same whereby the clamping-jaws may be quickly and readily adjusted to the nut or tap which is to be engaged thereby" (line 19-23).
Date:
December 28, 1897
Creator:
Antony, Edwin Le Roy
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Wheel.
Patent for a new and improved vehicle wheel. This design is "to improve the felly-expanding devices, to provide a strong, durable, and efficient metallic connection between the spoke and felly, to provide novel means whereby the expanding movement of the felly is amplified by a partial rotation of a screw, and to otherwise improve vehicle-wheels" (lines 13-20).
Date:
December 16, 1890
Creator:
Ashford James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Tightener.
Patent for a new and improved wire-tightener. This design consists, "with a curved metallic bar having a central groove in its convex side, and aligned openings of different diameters in the sides of the groove, of the looping-pin having two tapering arms at an angle to each other and of different sizes" (lines 78-83).
Date:
December 9, 1890
Creator:
Austin, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drawer.
Patent to "provide the drawers of a bureau, a desk, or other piece of furniture with anti-friction devices to prevent their binding." (Lines 11-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 15, 1891
Creator:
Baldwin, John. H, Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lifting-Jack.
Patent for a simple and durable lifting jack for wagons that is easily operated and does not move the hoisting lever in the post.
Date:
December 5, 1893
Creator:
Ball, Charles W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Station-Indicator.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in station indicators for moving vehicles, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 20, 1898
Creator:
Barry, Jefferson D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Doubletree.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and durable double tree that utilizes the entire force of the strain and divides it equally between the animals.
Date:
December 11, 1894
Creator:
Beaver, Francis Marion
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Show-Globe.
Patent for "a globe adapted to serve simply for the purpose of illumination and furnishing a pure white bright light for general purposes, or to serve as an illuminated show-globe for druggists," (lines 10-14) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 4, 1891
Creator:
Berger, Otto & Eldridge, Hilliary
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire-Grate.
Patent for a simple and efficient fire-grate that is meant "to be set in a wall between two rooms and capable of being reversed to enable either room to be directly heated by a fire" (lines 11-13).
Date:
December 17, 1895
Creator:
Birkhead, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for an improved car-coupling that automatically couples cars by "striking together adjacent couplers of the same class, and which may be conveniently uncoupled by a person standing at a distance from the coupler without going between the cars, as with the ordinary couplers" (lines 10-15).
Date:
December 4, 1894
Creator:
Bishop, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chain Pipe-Wrench.
Patent for certain new and improvements in chain pipe wrenches, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 26, 1899
Creator:
Bohner, Philip Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Fence Tool.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in wire fence tools, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 5, 1899
Creator:
Boynton, John Blijah
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fumigator.
Patent for an improved fumigator that's primary purpose is to kill insects within corn storage units without damaging either the corn or the building. Illustration included.
Date:
December 1, 1891
Creator:
Bozarth, Stephen P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Sharpening Gin Saws
Patent for a new and useful improvements in machines for sharpening gin-saws. This invention is to "provide an improved machine of the character described wherein the saws may be sharpened without removing them" (line 10-12).
Date:
December 14, 1897
Creator:
Bradley, James M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Brake.
Patent for improvements in car brakes, "wherein the ordinary brake-beams are dispensed with and wherein the several brake-shoe-carrying levers will be self-adjusting." (lines 8 - 11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 17, 1891
Creator:
Braun, Henry F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Minnow-Net.
Patent for "improvements in fishing-nets, and particularly to frames for nets which can be set up in the water in various places where other nets cannot be used and which can be folded up into a small package for convenient carrying." (Lines 8-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 8, 1896
Creator:
Breeding, Enoch
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Logging-Truck.
Patent for a logging-truck that is a "simple and convenient apparatus which is operated by a team to raise the logs from the ground, and which thus obviates the necessity of using a hand windlass as is usually done" (lines 14-18). This is used in countries where it does not snow often.
Date:
December 25, 1894
Creator:
Brough, William, Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sliding Weather-Strip for Doors.
Patent for a device "which, in addition to excluding wind and rain from beneath the bottom of the door, shall also serve to bind or hold the door open to any position to which it may be brought," (lines 29-32) with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 21, 1891
Creator:
Brown, Josiah T. & Garret, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History