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Automatic Railway-Gate.
Patent for an automatic railway-gate or cattle-guard for use "at crossings, the entrances to tunnels, bridges or trestles, or at other places where it is desirable to guard the tracks" (lines 11-13). The invention is a simple and effective way for closing gates, can be operated from a distance, and is controlled by the wheels of passing trains.
Date:
August 14, 1894
Creator:
Baade, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Recording Apparatus for Vehicles.
Patent for an improved automatic passenger register and mileage recorder for vehicles that travel on rails. It consists of a roller that is actives by a time motor, a strip that the roller moves, a pressure roller, a pair of rollers that a record sheet is wound between, a mechanism that controls movements of the pair of rollers, electromagnets that are connected to the seats, armature levers that mark the electromagnets current, a bell crank lever that marks the moving record sheet, and a spring that supports the lever.
Date:
October 10, 1893
Creator:
Baade, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Tom Moore]
Photograph of Tom Moore. He wears a suit and a bow tie, and rests his elbow on a fence post. The background behind him is painted.
Date:
[1890..1900]
Creator:
Backstrom
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Convertible Mop and Brush.
Patent for improvements in convertible mops and brushes by using a “combination of the fountain-handle, the bail/frame secured thereto and provided with a rubber strip at its lower edge, and the mop secured to the bail/frame.” (Lines 3-7, p.2) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 7, 1891
Creator:
Bagby, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Tie.
Patent for a new and improved railroad-tie. This design "has for its object the provision of means for broadening the gage of a road at curves thereof and the production of a metallic tie that is extremely simple in construction and by means of which a rail can be readily removed or secured in place and a firm elastic bearing obtained thereof" (lines 19-25).
Date:
January 7, 1890
Creator:
Bagby, William Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for a cotton-press that makes "tightly wound bales from the cotton bats formed upon the condenser, and fed into the press" (lines 13-15).
Date:
January 22, 1895
Creator:
Banister, Charles
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for a cotton press with "a roller bed consisting of a plurality of rollers in conjunction with an overlying pressure roll or cylinder, between which and the roller-bed the bale is formed by winding up the bat, as it comes from the gin-condenser, in the form of a roll" (lines 15-20). The roll-bale is unique in this patent because of its core.
Date:
March 23, 1897
Creator:
Banister, Charles
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for a cotton-press that does not allow the cotton to rebound after the plunger compresses it because of teeth in the box. When the operator wishes to remove the cotton, the teeth automatically disengage in order for the cotton to be removed easily.
Date:
January 22, 1895
Creator:
Banister, Charles & Hollingsworth, Joseph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sofa or Lounge.
Patent for improvements in sofas and similar articles. The improvements have guide-strips on the ends, with blocks that fit over the guide-strips. The upper side has a double set of ratchet-teeth, and they can be used to tighten a woven-wire fabric that sits below the cushions and is held in place by the blocks.
Date:
October 13, 1896
Creator:
Baucum, Samuel C. & Ball, Aaron T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gin-Saw-Filing Machine.
Patent for a mechanism to sharpen the blades of a gin saw. Includes illustrations of the device.
Date:
October 19, 1897
Creator:
Beavers, John M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rock Drill.
Patent for a new and improved rock-drill. This design "is to construct a simple and efficient rock-drill in which the forward feeding and rotating of the drill are accomplished automatically" (lines 15-18). It consists in "the drill-rod, a tappet-plate placed loosely on the drill-rod, clutch mechanism connected with the tappet-plate for engaging the drill-rod, a spring for impelling the drill-rod, a cam provided with conical ends for lifting the tappet-plate, and the guide" (lines 20-26).
Date:
July 26, 1892
Creator:
Belt, Perley P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in machines for baling cotton.
Date:
March 3, 1898
Creator:
Bessonette, Charles L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gin-Feed for Roller-Compresses.
Patent for a machine that carries cotton from the cotton gin to the the cotton compressor, and that cleans and forms the cotton for compression. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 24, 1897
Creator:
Bessonette, Charles L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Baling Cotton.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in processes of baling cotton.
Date:
May 3, 1898
Creator:
Bessonette, Charles L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Roller Cotton-Compress.
Patent for a roller cotton-compress that improves the "apparatus for accomplishing the work of rolling up the bale, of removing same from the position between the rolls, and removing the core" (lines 20-23).
Date:
June 18, 1895
Creator:
Bessonette, Charles L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Roller Cotton-Press.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in roller cotton compresses, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 27, 1899
Creator:
Bessonette, Charles L.
Object Type:
Patent
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.
Object Type:
Patent
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
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for an improved, inexpensive, and simple cotton press that is "adapted to compress cotton at the initial point of ginning and in a continuous operation with that of ginning, whereby [the inventor] avoid[s] the expense and labor occasioned by the handling of the cotton during its storage and transportation to the neighboring compress and the expense of said compression, and at the same time produce such compression or condensation of the cotton that I am enabled to secure the cheap rates of transportation accorded cotton which has been compressed to the standard degree of density" (lines 11-22).
Date:
November 21, 1893
Creator:
Bessonette, William T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire-Grate.
Patent for a simple and efficient fire-grate that is meant "to be set in a wall between two rooms and capable of being reversed to enable either room to be directly heated by a fire" (lines 11-13).
Date:
December 17, 1895
Creator:
Birkhead, James C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Sharpening Gin Saws
Patent for a new and useful improvements in machines for sharpening gin-saws. This invention is to "provide an improved machine of the character described wherein the saws may be sharpened without removing them" (line 10-12).
Date:
December 14, 1897
Creator:
Bradley, James M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dental Bridgework.
Patent for dental bridgework with "an improved slotted crown, cap, or band for attaching the bridges to the natural teeth" (lines 9-10).
Date:
July 2, 1895
Creator:
Bray, Bernard B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cooling and Preserving Apparatus.
Patent for a "cooling apparatus in which a cloth envelops a vertically-disposed series of supports, and has its upper end dipping into a receptacle supplied with water; and the object of the improvement is to secure a uniformity of temperature throughout the structure, and particularly in the several compartments formed between the various supports, as well as to prevent the spoiling of food by foreign matters entering the same by accidental dislodgment from a support immediately thereover." (Lines 8-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 30, 1895
Creator:
Brown, Elijah Clark
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Street-Sprinkling Appratus.
Patent for an inexpensive street-sprinkling apparatus. It can be steam, electric, cable, or horse powered, and can sprinkle a wide or narrow street. "The invention consists in a vehicle preferably running upon a railway-track and provided with a water-tank and with independent sprinklers or final-distributors or sets of distributors, the one located at an end or the ends of the vehicle and discharging by gravity, and the other at the sides thereof, toward an end or the ends, and discharging under pressure or by force" (lines 24-33). Water is pressurized in the tank, and uses the force of gravity to distribute it.
Date:
November 5, 1895
Creator:
Campbell, Louis W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History