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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
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Two-Piece Box.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in two piece boxes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 28, 1899
Creator:
Armstrong, Martin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a cultivator that has its frame and attachments are mounted on carrying-wheels, and the plows depend on the wheels. It is operated more easily than other cultivators.
Date:
May 28, 1895
Creator:
Aubrey, Henry W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for improvements in gates, including illustrations.
Date:
October 28, 1890
Creator:
Austin, Thomas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine
Patent for "a washing-machine which will rapidly wash clothes of coarse or fine texture without injury thereto. This object I accomplish by my improved washing-machine, which consists, essentially, of a cylindrical body, a flexible and adjustable wash-board in the lower half thereof, and a corrugated drum rotating in the body above the wash-board" (lines 9-16).
Date:
October 28, 1890
Creator:
Baugh, Reuben P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Desk or Cabinet.
Patent for a simple and economical desk that is designed to be completely sealed and protected when it is closed. When the cabinet is opened, "the machine may be operated with as much ease as though the machine were placed upon an ordinary table, and whereby further, when the cabinet is opened, an extensive table will be provided at each side of the machine for the reception of work which is to be performed or which has been executed, or for any purpose that the operator may desire" (lines 20-28).
Date:
March 28, 1893
Creator:
Billington, Theophilus
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial-Stone Composition
Patent for "an artificial stone adapted for all purposes to which natural stone can be applied, and which can be given any desired shape while in a plastic state, or carved and polished after hardening" (lines 12-18).
Date:
January 28, 1890
Creator:
Blackmon, Albert M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine-Brake.
Patent for a break that "the device may be brought to a stop either gradually or instantaneously as may be desired. The break is a reciprocative one and comprises a rubber or other elastic or yielding wheel designed to engage the periphery of the fly wheel of the motor and a lug, tooth or analogous provision for engagement with a tooth of a ratchet wheel on the said fly wheel; in operating the break the rubber wheel is first brought into contact with the fly wheel and then by continued movement of the brake lever the said lug or projection enters a tooth of the ratchet wheel and stops the revolution of the same" (lines 14-27).
Date:
March 28, 1893
Creator:
Boulte, Adolph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for an automatic car-coupling that is designed to be operated from either side of the car. The danger of an operator passing between cars to couple or uncouple the cars is avoided in this invention, and the coupling can be adapted to couple cars that have draw-bars to unequal height. The coupling can be manually operated if wished.
Date:
January 28, 1896
Creator:
Boyd, James S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for "car-couplers of the link-and-pin type which couple automatically and are provided with unlocking-levers operated from the top and side of a car, and designed to avoid the necessity of passing between the cars to couple or uncouple the same." (Lines 11-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 28, 1896
Creator:
Boyd, James S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Kitchen-Cabinet.
Patent for "a more complete and convenient kitchen cabinet... with an effective and desirable sink attachment, whereby dirty water may be easily disposed of." (Lines 9-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 28, 1895
Creator:
Brooks, John M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stove.
Patent for "a stove in which the heat may be shifted to various parts thereof to the exclusion of other parts," and "wherein the radiation of the heat from the bottom of the heat-passage is made to heat a secondary or supplemental oven, thereby making use of heat which is otherwise lost." (Lines 19-30) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 28, 1895
Creator:
Brooks, John M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Boring Artesian Wells.
Patent for an improved and simple apparatus for boring wells that is easily adjustable. The drill head will stay intact in most drilling situations with this apparatus.
Date:
February 28, 1893
Creator:
Brown, Frank O.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Foot for Plow-Stocks.
Patent for improvements in plows by using the combination of “two forwardly-curved bars which clamped to a plow-beam, and the heel having its forward end rigidly secured between the lower ends of the bars and its rear portion bent upwardly and forwardly and secured between the bars.” (Lines 94-100) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 28, 1891
Creator:
Brown, William B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clevis.
Patent for improvements in clevises in which a clevis can be used upon plows or harrows. When it is used, it “will obviate the necessity of using links or open rings in connection with the clevis and the singletree, as well as enable the plowman to cause his plow to run in the soil any desired depth or to cut a narrow or wide furrow.” (Lines 16-20) Illustration is included.
Date:
July 28, 1891
Creator:
Bruton, Alonzo D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "is in couplers adapted to use a link of ordinary form and to be so set that coupling may be automatic or not, as desired" (lines 15-17). It consists, "with the draw-head having lugs upon each side of the same, of the vertical coupling-pin, the pivoted pin-supporting arms arranged to contact with the lugs, and tripping arms adapted to be operated by the centering-link and throw the arms from the lugs" (lines 23-29).
Date:
June 28, 1892
Creator:
Callaway, William H. & West, Charles C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Disk Plow.
Patent for a revolving disk plow that pulverizes the soil. The plow is especially designed to prepare the soil for cotton and cultivating between rows of crops. It has a tongue, a cross-bar with a sloping edge, spindles set at an angle to the cross-bar, disks mounted on the spindles, a double scraper for the disks, a gage-wheel, and a pivoting and locking lever on the tongue.
Date:
January 28, 1896
Creator:
Campbell, Singleton
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clutch.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive clutch used for transmitting power. The clutch has "independent rotable disks that act on peripheral eccentric proportions, which are so arranged that the said disk will be held free from contact with the drive-shaft and the entire bearing of the clutch mechanism thrown on the grip members, whereby the shaft-apertures in the disks can be made sufficiently large to overcome any irregularity of the bearing-faces of the internal cam portions and obviating the necessity of providing outside collars" (lines 17-27).
Date:
April 28, 1896
Creator:
Carleton, Ernest WIlliam
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dry-Earth Closet
Patent for "a commode which may be placed in a bed-room or other suitable place in a house without .danger to occupants on account of disease which would be superinduced by the presence of impure odors, as would be the case where an ordinary receptacle is used" and where the solid and liquid waste would be separated (lines 26-36).
Date:
January 28, 1890
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grate.
Patent for an improved grate that is adapted "for use in stoves as well as in fire paces, and which, being composed of separate bars, may be repaired by inserting new bars, thus saving that portion of the grate which remains intact, as cannot be done with grates formed of a single casting" (lines 18-23).
Date:
March 28, 1893
Creator:
Chollar, Benjamin Franklin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fluid Pressure Regulator
Patent for a new and useful gas pressure regulator. This invention "relates to gas-pressure regulators especially adapted for use with gas stored under high pressure in a cylinder or similar portable storage vessel" (line 8 - 11).
Date:
December 28, 1897
Creator:
Clark, George Greenleaf
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Construction of Doors or Window-Sashes.
Patent for "improvements in the construction of doors and window-sashes, the object being to provide a door or window-sash which shall be constructed of two pieces of timber united by means of a key to prevent warping or twisting" (lines 8-13). The panel of the door or the pane of glass can also be united by the key. This design lightens and cheapens doors and window-sashes.
Date:
July 28, 1896
Creator:
Cordray, Henry A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin.
Patent for a simple, metallic, and inexpensive clothes pin that can be used with a rope or wire line. It can be attached easily but will not blow off. It does not rust or tear the clothes.
Date:
March 28, 1893
Creator:
Crump, William E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark-Arrester
Patent for "improvements whereby the sparks from a locomotive will be passed directly from the flues through the stack and the outer air will be admitted, which will keep the cinders in motion and force them through fine perforations and against the hard surfaces until they are thoroughly pulverized and all the fire therein is extinguished, and which .will thereby prevent the danger to combustible products by fire thrown from an engine and which will not in any way decrease or interfere with the efficient work of the locomotive" (lines 17-29).
Date:
June 28, 1892
Creator:
Curran, John William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History