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States
Decade
Month
Design for a Staple.
Design for a staple provided with series of barbs or spurs and intervening corrugations arranged in continuous series at the inner and outer edges of the staple.
Date:
May 30, 1899
Creator:
La Prelle, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Detachable Overshoe For Horseshoes
Patent for a detachable overshoe for horseshoes. Illustration included.
Date:
June 21, 1904
Creator:
Harmon, William O. & Smith, Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Teaching Penmanship.
Patent for a device for teaching penmanship, which holds the hand in the correct writing position.
Date:
November 23, 1909
Creator:
Smith, Sidney R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Apparatus.
Patent for machines that generate acetylene gas for a "simple and comparatively inexpensive construction, in which the gas is thoroughly washed before entering the service-pipe and in which the water-supply to the generator is controlled by the gas pressure and the carbid kept at all times cooled by surrounding water" (lines 11-17).
Date:
December 4, 1900
Creator:
McGoldrick, William Hamilton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cut-Off
Patent for a shut off for water supply tanks for cutting off the supply of water and preventing freezing. Illustrations included,
Date:
March 26, 1912
Creator:
Wood, William Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drier
Patent for a drier used for drying sugar canes from a sugar mill. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 3, 1908
Creator:
Rayner, Henry William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Measuring Distances.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in devices for measuring distances, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 1, 1898
Creator:
Farrand, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Abdominal Supporter.
Patent for a new and improved abdominal supporter. This design "consist[s] of the waist-belt, the abdominal sector-shaped pads hung from the waist-belt by elastic straps, the straps buttoned to the belt behind and to the bottom of the abdominal pads in front, the side straps connecting the abdominal pads with the pieces at the back, and the front strap connecting the two abdominal pads together with the shoulder-straps" (lines 70-79).
Date:
December 25, 1888
Creator:
Gray, Harriet N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dental Chair
Patent for "a simple and convenient chair which may be folded to render it portable, so that it may be carried from place to place by the dentist when his practice is away from his office" (lines 9-13).
Date:
January 29, 1889
Creator:
Moorman, Zach B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Account Book
Patent for an account book that is to be used "to receive in condensed form the dates and other particulars when sums are due to and from a person or firm are payable" (p. 2).
Date:
May 21, 1889
Creator:
Goldberg, Samuel W. & Tillmann, Emanuel M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Twisting Wire Cables of Suspension Bridges.
Patent for a new and improved cable twister. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the casting having grooves and openings therein, of the semicircular disks . . . having grooves therein and openings extending through the same, the bolt for binding the several parts together, and the arms extending out from the disks" (lines 1-7).
Date:
June 11, 1889
Creator:
Runyon, Edwin Elijah
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dental Drill Attachment.
Patent for a new and improved dental-drill attachment. This design consists in "the combination, with the upper pulley and the supporting pully-frame of a drill, of a rod having hinged to its upper end the clip, having the set-screw, and having at its lower end the frame, having the wheel and the side-spools journaled within it" (lines 25-31).
Date:
August 13, 1889
Creator:
Moyer, Jesse Hechler & Stansell, Jesse Paine
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Removing Broken Screws, &c.
Patent for a new and improved device for removing broken screws. This design "is to provide a . . . bit specially designed for extracting screws, taps, screw-bolts, &c., from iron, marble, or other hard substances in case one of the said articles is broken off in the material into which it is screwed. The invention consists of a bit provided with an internal spiral cutting-thread and external cutters" (lines 7-15).
Date:
September 10, 1889
Creator:
Cahn, Maurice
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Detachable and Adjustable Roller.
Patent for a new and improved hand-truck. This design consists in "the combination, with the sections . . . arranged parallel to each other and adapted to have a combined longitudinal and lateral motion with reference to each other . . . rollers located upon the under side of said sections, and the spurs on the upper faces at each end, of the braces . . . located, respectively, upon the lower and upper faces of the device and diagonally across the same, and pivoted at each end to said sections . . . the openings provided on said sections, and the dowels on said sections" (lines 68-80).
Date:
October 1, 1889
Creator:
Delany, John L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cut-Off Valve.
Patent for a new and improved valve. This design consists in "the valve-seat of [the] slide-valve, the entrances of whose steam passages form seats for auxiliary valves pivoted to [the] yoke on a rod, whose stud occupies said slot in upper portion of [the] arm pivoted to [the] pendant from [the] main valve-rod and terminating in [the] tappet, the same being combined with the adjustable stops" (lines 55-63).
Date:
October 1, 1889
Creator:
Moore, Robert B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Digging Wells or Post Holes.
Patent for a new and improved post-hole digger. This design consists in "the combination, with an annular head carrying cutters, of the block or bar, the arms secured at their upper ends to the bar or block and at their opposite ends to the head, the cylinder, and the yielding arms secured at one end to said bar and their opposite ends adapted to engage the upper edge of the cylinder" (lines 34-41).
Date:
November 12, 1889
Creator:
Stephenson, Elam Grigory
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Holding Paper over Cakes in Ovens.
Patent for a new and improved paper-holder for cake baking. With this design, "[a] cake is placed in the oven, the holder placed in position over it, the hoop or frame raised, and a paper placed upon [another] hoop. The [first] hoop is then pressed down upon it, when the cake may be baked without the top being scorched" (lines 40-45).
Date:
December 3, 1889
Creator:
Balfour, Emma
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Distributer for Cotton Gin Feeders.
Patent for a new and improved cotton-gin distributor. This design consists in "the combination, with the casing having an upper vertical portion and chutes diverging from the lower end of the same, of an oscillating valve mounted in the said upper portion, the rotary fans or knockers mounted in the upper ends of said chutes, and mechanism for simultaneously operating said fans or knockers and valve" (lines 16-23).
Date:
December 10, 1889
Creator:
Williams, James Leonhard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dredging Scraper.
Patent for a new and improved dredging-scraper. This design "has for its object the production of a marine plow which shall serve to raise and remove obstructions and accumulations from the beds or channels of rivers, bays, harbors, and other water-courses; and the invention consists in a device for this purpose of novel construction . . . The plow, which is to be drawn over the bed of the water-course to be cleared—as, for instance, by drag chain or cable attached to a steamboat—operates to raise a few inches in depth of the deposit each time it passes over the bed or bottom of the water-course" (lines 9-22).
Date:
December 10, 1889
Creator:
Coult, Joseph C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Double-Mold-Board Plow
Patent for "a plow of simple and durable construction,capable of easy manipulation, and wherein the point may be expeditiously removed or replaced when necessary. A further object of the invention is to provide a means whereby the plow-beam maybe raised or lowered at will" (lines 10-16).
Date:
December 24, 1889
Creator:
Weber, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Distributing Insect Powder.
Patent for a new and improved bug sprayer. This design consists in "the combination of the body of the bellows and the perforate wall or sieve arranged longitudinally therein, dividing the bellows into two compartments, with a nozzle or an air-outlet communicating with one compartment, whereby material placed in the other compartment on the opposite side of the sieve is agitated by the operation of the bellows and delivered to the air-blast in a comminuted state" (lines 25-35).
Date:
December 24, 1889
Creator:
Hogarth, William H. J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Attaching Horseshoes.
Patent for a new and improved device for attaching horseshoes. This design "relates to improvements in means for attaching shoes to the hoofs of horses or mules without the use of nails; and the invention consists in . . . a nailless shoe [that] can be firmly and securely attached to the foot and detached therefrom without requiring the services of a smith" (lines 9-18). To this end, it consists in "the combination, with the shoe-plate and the toe-plate, of the toe-bar having a flange to engage the toe-plate, the bits, half-bands, and clamping-bolts" (lines 61-65).
Date:
November 4, 1890
Creator:
Mayow, Daniel L. & Castle, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dress Stay.
Patent for a new and improved dress-stay. This design "is to avoid the use of paste or stitches in connection with the application of the stay, as well as to provide a stay which may be readily detached and reattached in case it be desired to change the location of the seam in order to make the garment either larger or smaller. To this end the invention consists in a stay-body of steel, whalebone, or some other resilient material inclosed within a suitable casing, and wire fasteners passing through said body, through the outer side of said casing, and through the edges of the seam at either side" (lines 10-23).
Date:
November 11, 1890
Creator:
Dacus, Augusta
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for an Advertising-Banner.
Design patent for an advertising banner that has a decorative border around the edge and bangles suspended from the lower edge.
Date:
October 28, 1890
Creator:
Higby, Luther L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History