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Trolley-Catcher.
Patent for a simple and efficient trolley pole that can be "dropped to a position of safety when the trolley wheel leaves the wire, whereby the pole is prevented from coming in contact with the supports of the trolley wire, the feeders, &c." (lines 10-14). The pole is easily re-engaged.
Date:
October 30, 1894
Creator:
Cobb, Woodson D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for an improved, simple, and inexpensive wire-stretcher that enables "one person to stretch fence wires conveniently for the purpose of mending them, or for stapling or otherwise securing them to fence posts in constructing fences" (lines 13-17).
Date:
October 30, 1894
Creator:
Crisp, James E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Piano-Tuning Hammer.
Patent for "a combination tool adapted for turning, driving, extracting, and otherwise manipulating tuning-pegs and other parts of a piano-action, whereby one tool is capable of performing the functions of a series of ordinarily independent instruments." (Lines 10-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 30, 1894
Creator:
Fuchs, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Slat-and-Wire Fence-Machine.
Patent for a simple and compact wire-fence machine that can be hand operated and aids in the construction of a wire fence. The machine stretches and maintains tension while twisting and securing the wire to a post. The machine also twists wires together.
Date:
January 30, 1894
Creator:
Haley, Anslem J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ice-Cream Freezer.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive combined ice cream freezer and milk shaker that makes different flavors of ice cream at the same time and can also make a milk shake or lemonade. The machine consists of five receptacles lined up on a frame, with a crank going through the middle of each. The crank mixes the contents of the receptacles.
Date:
January 30, 1894
Creator:
Harton, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dredging Apparatus.
Patent for an improved dredging apparatus that plows or scoops, and has "an endless traveling elevator, the latter, being arranged in a rigid frame that is supported at a suitable angle, and the scoop being hinged to the lower end of said frame so that it works horizontally, or practically so" (lines 9-14).
Date:
October 30, 1894
Creator:
Hyatt, Frank A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad-Tie.
Patent for a "simple and effective railroad tie for supporting the rails and rigidly holding them in the position of use" (lines 19-21).
Date:
January 30, 1894
Creator:
Lee, John Chester
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive cattle-guard that has comprising rollers which can be independently and easily replaced. The bars that hold the rollers can also be easily removed.
Date:
January 30, 1894
Creator:
Lefléve, Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Elevator and Distributer.
Patent for a cotton elevator and distributor meant to "provide certain improvements in apparatus of this character whereby cotton may be conveniently and readily elevated from the store house or wagon, and evenly distributed to any number of gins which may be arranged successively in the same row" (lines 11-16).
Date:
October 30, 1894
Creator:
Moffitt, William E. & Williams, James L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cultivator.
Patent for a cotton-cultivator that brings unevenly planted cotton plants to "stand" quickly, effectively, and without much effort. "Five or more stands can be obtained at one operation of the machine" (lines 23-25).
Date:
January 30, 1894
Creator:
Nehrmeyer, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a car coupling that is simple and can be inexpensively manufactured. The invention's object is "to provide a link controlling device to be used in coupling cars together where the cars have draw-heads of the same or different heights which will render it unnecessary for a person to go between the cars during the operation" (lines 11-16).
Date:
January 30, 1894
Creator:
Smart, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for "a wrench adapted to engage the nut of the wheel hub, so that on turning the wheel the nut will unscrew from the threaded end of the axle." (Lines 14-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 30, 1894
Creator:
Stambaugh, Julius Locke
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clevis.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and improved clevis that can be easily manufactured and employed to a draft-beam. It can be used without a lapring in order to connect to a singletree. The singletree can have its "staple or eye...disposed in a plane with the said singletree" (lines 16-17).
Date:
January 30, 1894
Creator:
Word, Aaron Matthias
System:
The Portal to Texas History