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Bottle
Patent for a new and useful improvements in bottles. This invention is to "provide an improved vessel of this class the neck of which is formed in such manner and provided with attachments so constructed that when the vessel has been filled and the attachment applied the vessel may be emptied of its contents, but cannot be refilled or reused" (line 12- 18).
Date:
December 14, 1897
Creator:
Saunders, David Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crayon Holder
Patent for a new and useful improvements in crayon holders. This design is to "provide an improved device which may be constructed cheaply, be light, and have a neat appearance" (line 13-14).
Date:
December 14, 1897
Creator:
Rugeley, Fannie M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene Gas Machine
Patent for a new and useful improvement in gas-machines.
Date:
December 14, 1897
Creator:
Bryant, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pounder
Patent for a new and useful improvements in Clothes-Pounders. The invention "has its object to provide a simple and effective clothes pounder in which the air as well as the water is used as an agent in removing the dirt from the clothes" (line 12- 16).
Date:
November 9, 1897
Creator:
Allen, William Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Axle - Nut.
Patent for a new and useful improvements in Axle-Nuts for wagons and carriages.
Date:
November 23, 1897
Creator:
Collins, Corties
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale Tie
Patent for a new and improved bale tie. This invention is to "provide a new and improved bale-tie which is simple and durable in construction, not liable to become accidentally unlocked, and arranged to permit its use on ordinary compresses" (line 7 - 11).
Date:
December 14, 1897
Creator:
Edmonston, Thomax Cole
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baking, Cooking, and Heating Furnace
Patent for a new and useful improvement in baking, cooking, and heating furnaces. This invention "consists in the mechanism and peculiar arrangements of parts, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings and particularly pointed out in the claims" (line 13-16).
Date:
December 7, 1897
Creator:
Harry, Owen K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Dumping Cage
Patent for a new and improved automatic dumping cage. This invention is to "use in the shafts of coal and other mines"(line 9-10).
Date:
November 30, 1897
Creator:
Gordon, William K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Convertible Package - Carrying Bicycle.
Patent for a convertible package carrying bicycle.
Date:
November 2, 1897
Creator:
Sanders, Ira B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bolt Lock for Railways
Patent for a new and useful improvements in bolt locks for railways. This invention is to "provide a simple, durable, and effective device of this class" (line 13-14).
Date:
December 21, 1897
Creator:
Herrin, Lemuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Planter.
Patent relating to "a novel corn-planter, and has for its object the production of a simple, durable, and efficient planting attachment which may be applied to an ordinary plow and which when so applied will automatically effect the distribution of corn or other grain at desired intervals" (lines 12-18).
Date:
December 21, 1897
Creator:
Ellis, William Wesley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn - Motor.
Patent for a new and useful Churn-Motor to "provide a simple and efficient from a wind-motor adapted for use in connection with churns, the wind-wheel blades being so constructed as to adapt them to expose the necessary surface for efficient operation under the conditions" (line 9- 14).
Date:
November 2, 1897
Creator:
Staples, John & Spake, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coin Controlled Tire Inflater
Patent for a new and useful improvements in coin controlled tire inflaters. This invention is to "provide an apparatus to be operated through the introduction of a coin of predetermined value of inflating pneumatic tires to any pressure desired automatically" (line 15 - 19).
Date:
December 14, 1897
Creator:
Ligon, John Barrows
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Biblical Game Apparatus
Patent for a new and useful game apparatus. This design is to "provide a biblical game apparatus adapted to be employed in play by two or more persons" (line 8-10).
Date:
December 14, 1897
Creator:
James, Will S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Desulfurizing Matte Or Other Furnace Products
Patent for a new and improved apparatus for desulfuring matte or other furnace products.
Date:
November 9, 1897
Creator:
Wells, James L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling
Patent for a new and useful improvements in Car couples. This invention "relates to automatic car couples, and more particularly to that class known as " swing-pin" couples" (line 11 - 13).
Date:
November 16, 1897
Creator:
Gillespie, Charles W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pounder
Patent for a new and useful improvements in clothes pounders, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 7, 1897
Creator:
Schofield, Frank B. & Schofield, Joseph L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Check - Book
Patent for a new and useful improvements in check-book for " customer's use, such as are employed by banks for free distribution" (line 11 - 13).
Date:
November 2, 1897
Creator:
Exline, Marcus P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Antirefilling Bottle.
Patent for a bottle that can be easily sealed but cannot be resealed after opened. There is a groove in the neck of the bottle, and the cork is placed below the groove. The cork is hollowed out and a plug is placed in the cork. The cork is hollowed out and a plug with a groove around it is placed in the cork.An elastic compressible locking-ring fits in the gap the groove in the bottle and the groove in the plug create.
Date:
January 5, 1897
Creator:
Nevill, William B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard.
Patent for a railway cattle-guard that is simple, inexpensive, and efficient. It prevents the cattle "from traversing a railway-track in order to pass form one field or inclosure to another" (line 12-14). It has spurred rollers, and has a unique way of mounting rollers or rotary ties, in that they do not block the track.
Date:
January 5, 1897
Creator:
Nevill, William Birt
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Hatchet and Wire-Tightener.
Patent for a device that operates as a hatchet and as a wire-twisting device, so that "slack may be taken up in fence-wires as fast as it occurs" (lines 11-12). The wire-tightener is two triangles stick out from the side of the hatchet, where the operator can pinch the wire.
Date:
January 5, 1897
Creator:
Keck, Edgar A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chopping-Ax.
Patent for an ax that is "provided with a poll made in two sections adapted to be clamped or secured to the handle and receive a removable bit or hardened section presenting the cutting edge" (lines 16-20).
Date:
January 5, 1897
Creator:
Crabtree, James G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for a baling-press meant to bale cotton. In this machine, "the power as applied to the plunger is increased in proportion to the resistance offered by the material being baled and whereby the forward movement of the plunger is automatically checked at the limit of its path and is returned to its initial positioin without effort upon the part of the operator" (lines 10-17).
Date:
January 5, 1897
Creator:
Anderson, Alva E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for "baling-presses of that class wherein motion is communicated to the plunger from a sweep operated by horse or similar power, and the object in view is to improve the construction of the baling-chamber and attachments, and, furthermore, to provide a simple and efficient construction of plunger-operating mechanism" (lines 8-15)
Date:
January 5, 1897
Creator:
Pearce, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History