Design for a Pocket-Cuspidor. (open access)

Design for a Pocket-Cuspidor.

Design patent for a pocket-cuspidor with a bowl that has an approximately trunco-conical shape.
Date: August 15, 1899
Creator: Pollard, Philip D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Saddle-Pad. (open access)

Design for a Saddle-Pad.

Design patent for a saddle-pad with longitudinal rows of scalloped ribs.
Date: August 15, 1899
Creator: Padgitt, Tom
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner. (open access)

Hydrocarbon-Burner.

Patent for a new and useful hydrocarbon burner, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 15, 1899
Creator: Jordan, John J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Cutter. (open access)

Stalk-Cutter.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in stalk cutters to "product chopper in which the cutter-wheels may be adjusted with relation to each other to accommodate rows of varying widths" (line 13 - 16).
Date: August 15, 1899
Creator: Terrell, Joseph E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve. (open access)

Valve.

Patent for an improvement in valves which "is adapted for connection with pipes or conduits for conducting water, steam, or other fluids; and the object of the invention is to provide a simple and efficient appliance of this character possessing the functions of both a globe and a check valve; and it is adapted to advantageously control the flow of liquid no matter what position or its casing may occupy" (lines 7-15). It includes instructions and illustrations..
Date: August 15, 1899
Creator: Thummel, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clamp. (open access)

Clamp.

Patent for a new and useful clamp, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 15, 1898
Creator: Hauff, Isaac F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Folding Bedstead. (open access)

Folding Bedstead.

Patent for a new and useful improvement in folding bedsteads, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 15, 1898
Creator: Evans, Joseph W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Governor. (open access)

Governor.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in governors, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 15, 1898
Creator: Hunter, Victor E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cartridge-Loading Machine. (open access)

Cartridge-Loading Machine.

Patent for a certain new and useful improvement in shell-loading machines.
Date: March 15, 1898
Creator: Handshy, Henry M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Cuspidor. (open access)

Design for a Cuspidor.

Design patent for a cuspidor. The sides of which are nearly perpendicular and the extended base-supporting flange of which is in the form of a rope or cable, while the upper edge is ornamented by milling.
Date: March 15, 1898
Creator: Hart, Samuel Harp
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pitman - Coupling. (open access)

Pitman - Coupling.

Patent for a new and useful improvement in "pitman connections for mowing-machines an harvester"(line 10 - 11).
Date: March 15, 1898
Creator: Douglass, Samuel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump. (open access)

Pump.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in pumps.
Date: March 15, 1898
Creator: Mauldin, Alfred W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway- Rail Joint. (open access)

Railway- Rail Joint.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in railway-rail Joints.
Date: March 15, 1898
Creator: Mauldin, Doctor Chester
System: The Portal to Texas History
Registering Voting-Machine. (open access)

Registering Voting-Machine.

Patent for a new and useful improvement in registering voting-machines.
Date: March 15, 1898
Creator: Woodman, George C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Riveting-Machine. (open access)

Riveting-Machine.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in riveting-machines.
Date: March 15, 1898
Creator: Love, Robert H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine. (open access)

Washing-Machine.

Patent for washing machines with "roller-supporting frame for supporting the same either upon a horizontal surface or upon the top of a tub or receptacle in connection with which the machine is used" (lines 10-14) including illustrations.
Date: March 15, 1898
Creator: Smith, Henry E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene Gas Generator. (open access)

Acetylene Gas Generator.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in apparatus for generating acetylene gas. This design is to "provide with few applicances a simple and compact apparatus requiring little attention for generating acetylene gas for light, heat, and power purposes" (line 11 - 14).
Date: February 15, 1898
Creator: Dederick, Zadoc P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cleansing and Preparing Cotton for Ginning and Baling. (open access)

Apparatus for Cleansing and Preparing Cotton for Ginning and Baling.

Patent for a new and useful apparatus for cleansing and preparing cotton for baling and ginning.
Date: February 15, 1898
Creator: Orden, Charles Van
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bottle - Stopper. (open access)

Bottle - Stopper.

Patent for a new and useful bottle-stopper. This design is to "improve the construction of bottle-stoppers and to enable a metallic sealing-cap to be readily removed from the neck of a bottle without the use of an instrument" (line 11 - 14).
Date: February 15, 1898
Creator: Neuendorff, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaning and Mattress - Stuffing Machine. (open access)

Cotton Cleaning and Mattress - Stuffing Machine.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in cotton-cleaning and mattress-stuffing machines. This design "relates to improved machinery for cleaning cotton, forming it into bats, and discharging the bats into mattress-sticks" (line 8 to 10).
Date: February 15, 1898
Creator: White, Charles W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lock. (open access)

Lock.

Patent for a new and useful combination lock designed for safe.
Date: February 15, 1898
Creator: Wise, Harry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for a new and useful plow to "provide a plow which by slight alterations, shifting, and leaving off of some of the parts can be made to break ground, bed the land, list, or perform any required work" (line 7 - 11).
Date: February 15, 1898
Creator: Ingram, John R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tool. (open access)

Tool.

Patent for a new and improved tool for "various uses, being especially adapted as a clamp, vise, brace or drill-stock, or wrench" (line 9 -10).
Date: February 15, 1898
Creator: Poor, Morrill Hart
System: The Portal to Texas History
Balanced-Valve Testing and Locking Device. (open access)

Balanced-Valve Testing and Locking Device.

Patent for "a simple testing and locking device for balanced valves of locomotives, the testing device being so placed with relation to the valve that it may be accurately determined whether the valve on one or the other side of the engine is leaking without removing the outer plates form the valve-casing or removing the covers from the steam-chest." (Lines 8-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 15, 1897
Creator: Sadler, James Alexander
System: The Portal to Texas History