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Apparatus for Burning Garbage.
Patent for an apparatus for burning garbage that is made up of a roasting chamber, a grate to hold the garbage, two furnaces, a passage for the ashes, a third furnace connected to the passage, flues, a smokestack, non-combustible absorbent material around the flues and beneath the grate, and flues beneath the grate.
Date:
March 27, 1894
Creator:
Risley, Ward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Tooth.
Patent for an artificial tooth with an improved crown so that "it can be attached to the gold cap that has been made to fit the end of the root that is to be crowned, the manner of attaching being materially facilitated" (lines 15-19).
Date:
February 27, 1894
Creator:
Harrell, Hardy B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Baling Machine.
Patent for an effective cotton-baling machine that improves on how cotton is compressed and fed into the rotary, that stretches the cotton to its thinnest, that improves on how the core is carried, that raises and lowers the compressor roller, that improves on the rack-and pinion mechanism, that improves on how the ends of the cotton roll are pressed, and that quickly and easily finishes each bale.
Date:
November 27, 1894
Creator:
Smith, Hamilton E. & Dare, Benjamin A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for a baling press made up of a vertically movable core that moves up as it gets wrapped up in the internet, supporting drums, a feed apron that presses the material to the core, a pivoted swinging frame with a compression roller, a bale support, a mechanism that lifts the frame when the bale is finished, and a rack-and-pinion mechanism that raises the compression roller that moves up to let the bale get bigger, and a mechanism that rotates the rack-and-pinion.
Date:
November 27, 1894
Creator:
Smith, Hamilton E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Baling Machine.
Patent for a cotton-baling machine that compresses cotton between two pressure-rolls and rolls it around a core. This invention improves "the mode of applying pressure to the pressure rolls, and [improves] the manner of mounting the core-roll in position within the compress, and for facilitating the removal of said core-roll; and the elevation therefrom of the compress-roll" (lines 15-21).
Date:
November 27, 1894
Creator:
Bessonette, Charles Lewis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insecticide.
Patent for an insecticide that uses an arsenic compound to kill insects instead of Paris green or London purple, and can easily be made into a beautiful green powder that may be used as a pigment.
Date:
November 27, 1894
Creator:
Brumleu, Ludwig & Brumleu, Ernest
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lantern.
Patent for a lantern related to a patent previously granted to the inventor (No. 522,062). This patent has a more simple design and improved means for keeping the chimney on the base of the lantern. The base has a pivoted main-bail that extends above the chimney, and the bail has hinged to a handle-bail.
Date:
November 27, 1894
Creator:
Jarmin, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for an inexpensive and simple plow that has an improved braces placement which makes the plow very rigid. The blade angle is also adjustable and the plow can be a single or double plow.
Date:
March 27, 1894
Creator:
Edge, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pumping Apparatus.
Patent for a pumping apparatus that has "certain improvements in that class of pumps known as ejectors for raising liquids out of wells by means of compressed air or stream" (lines 9-12). The pump quickly and easily raises large amounts of water and is an improvement on a patent previously granted to the inventor (No. 474,819).
Date:
March 27, 1894
Creator:
Nevill, William Birt
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Music-Leaf Turner.
Patent for an automatic page turner for an organ or piano. The pages can be turned right or left, and the mechanism is operated using foot pressure.
Date:
February 27, 1894
Creator:
Stinson, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for an inexpensive, simple, and improved construction for sliding gates that is easily opened and closed with minimal effort. The gate slides back and forth on a track which is set in a frame above the gate.
Date:
March 27, 1894
Creator:
Smith, Stansbury J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soil-Breaking Machine.
Patent for a soil-breaking machine that breaks soil, plows and grades, cuts clods, and other things. The invention has a main frame, a drum that has heads and separated cutters that connect the heads, soil-ejector bars that eject dirt, and a carrier that deposits dirt at a desired point.
Date:
November 27, 1894
Creator:
Ross, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire-Extinguisher.
Patent for a fire extinguisher that "reliev[es] water or stream, or both, into pipes from which it discharges at different points in a building" (lines 14-17). The invention operates automatically, and is especially designed for gin houses.
Date:
March 27, 1894
Creator:
Prosser, Daniel F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine.
Patent for a stably constructed and effective rotary engine in which "the full effect of live steam under a full head can be attained at all times on the drive shaft" (lines 12-14).
Date:
February 27, 1894
Creator:
Walker, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Releasing Device for Brakes of Locomotive Drive-Wheels.
Patent for a simple and durable improved releasing device for brakes of locomotive drive-wheels that prevents "the drive wheels from being locked and sliding on the track rails, to obviate the uneven wear on the wheel tire" (lines 15-18). The invention has an auxiliary piston connected to the triple valve piston and is controlled by back pressure in the steam chest.
Date:
November 27, 1894
Creator:
Pelham, Walter O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Railway-Switch and Car-Replacing Mechanism.
Patent for a combined railway-switch and car-replacing mechanism that is meant to "provide certain improved devices which can be arranged to operate as a switch mechanism, or as car replacing means, which can be easily manipulated, are of a simple construction and which will effectively serve for their intended purposes" (lines 11-16). It can be easily assembled and dissembled.
Date:
November 27, 1894
Creator:
Debose, Albert S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting-Frame for Sweing-Machines.
Patent for a quilting-frame for sewing-machines that "a folding tripod which is adapted to support the quilting frame, by means of a swiveled pulley connected to the handle of the frame carrying the rollers, the said pulley running backward and forward on the upper surface of a horizontal shaft which is held by means of adjustable rods, to a parallel shaft which is slidingly held to the upper surfaces of two of the tripod strips" (lines 18-26). The invention can fold compactly for storage.
Date:
November 27, 1894
Creator:
Parsons, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Compress.
Patent for a cotton-compress in which the "cotton is fed to the compress direct from the gin, and is wound into a dense cylindrical bale, and the said invention consists in certain novel means for adding additional pressure to the bale as it is being rolled up, in readily detaching the finished bale from the machine, in providing a reservoir for the surplus cotton, when the gin is running and the machine has stopped" (lines 14-22).
Date:
November 27, 1894
Creator:
Bessonette, Charles L. & Bessonette, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Turn-Table.
Patent for a turn table that is "used for turning locomotives engines end to end; and the object of [the] invention is to provide a simple lever attachment for an ordinary turn-table, by which one man may easily turn the table and its load, and also to arrange the lever mechanism so that it may be easily locked in place when not in use and will not be likely to get out of order" (lines 8-16).
Date:
March 27, 1894
Creator:
Rohrbach, Gabriel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for an automatic car-coupler that operates without someone having to go to between the cars. It is simple and compact.
Date:
February 27, 1894
Creator:
Calhoun, Cloud B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History