Telephone Call Box. (open access)

Telephone Call Box.

Patent for reduction of movements in an improved telephone call box with illustrations.
Date: January 29, 1884
Creator: Oram, John M.; Sutton, Henry M. & Garrett, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Steam Heated Evaporator. (open access)

Steam Heated Evaporator.

Patent for a new and improved steam-heated evaporator. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the receptacle, the chest inclosing the receptacle, the coil surrounding the chest, the vat containing the chest and coil, the pipe having branches communicating, respectively, with chest and coil, and cocks, for controlling the passage of steam to the chest and coil, and the pipe for condensing the vapor from the receptacle" (lines 60-68).
Date: January 29, 1884
Creator: Turner, Robert W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feed Device for Gin-Saw Sharpeners (open access)

Feed Device for Gin-Saw Sharpeners

Patent for "a feeding device for the teeth which is independent of the filing devices, and which shall be so constructed that it will properly feed the teeth of saws of varying diameters, so as to give a regular and uniform size to each tooth without reference to the number of teeth in the saw" (lines 18-24).
Date: January 29, 1889
Creator: Behan, William & Friensehner, Paul
System: The Portal to Texas History
Self Cooling Journal Box. (open access)

Self Cooling Journal Box.

Patent for a new and improved journal-box. This design consists "[i]n a self-cooling journal-box, the combination of the walls having top and bottom supporting the lubricating packing, and the housing forming water-chamber below and at the sides of the chamber formed by the walls and bottom, and [another] water-chamber above the top" (lines 66-72).
Date: January 29, 1889
Creator: Storey, Julius W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gas Retort. (open access)

Gas Retort.

Patent for a new and improved gas-retort. This design "is to provide a new and improved retort for generating gas for illuminating or other purposes from stone coal, and being specially adapted to be used on cooking-stoves. The invention consists of a fire-pot fitting onto the eye of a stove, of a spherical retort held to turn on the said fire-pot and made of two parts, and of a gas outlet formed in one of the trunnions of the retort" (lines 7-16).
Date: January 29, 1889
Creator: Jones, Wesley Corry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dental Chair (open access)

Dental Chair

Patent for "a simple and convenient chair which may be folded to render it portable, so that it may be carried from place to place by the dentist when his practice is away from his office" (lines 9-13).
Date: January 29, 1889
Creator: Moorman, Zach B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Converting Motion. (open access)

Device for Converting Motion.

Patent for device that converts "motion of the piston-rod in steam engines into a rotary motion" (lines 10-11).
Date: January 29, 1884
Creator: Catlin, Eli
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Corn Sheller and Washboard. (open access)

Combined Corn Sheller and Washboard.

Patent for a new and improved corn-sheller and washboard. This design "consist[s] of the frame, the backing, the transverse rods secured to said backing upon one side thereof, the vertical strip upon the opposite side of said strip, and the transverse rods secured to the outer edge of said strip, the pivoted legs, and the bars" (lines 96-102). Said bars are pivoted to "side bars of the frame and at the other provided with elongated slots engaging pins on the legs" (lines 1-3).
Date: January 29, 1889
Creator: Stukes, John Marion & Reid, Oliver Phillip
System: The Portal to Texas History