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Automatic Break
Patent for an automatic break that can be applied automatically when going down any kind of hill and would dissengage whenever the vehicle drives on a flat road or up a hill.
Date:
November 29, 1892
Creator:
McKee, James A. & Hatchett, Pink C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blotter.
Patent for "a combined hand-blotter, ruler, paper-cutter, and pen-rack... especially for the use of book-keepers and accountants," (lines 12-15) with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 14, 1891
Creator:
Betts, Walter & Herbert, William B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Convertible Trunk.
Patent for a trunk that converts between luggage (for use while traveling) and a bureau (for use while not traveling), with illustrations.
Date:
March 29, 1892
Creator:
Dwyer, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Condensing Flue-Dust.
Patent for an apparatus for "condensing and saving the flue-dust passing with the waste gases through the chimney of lead-smelting furnaces." (Lines 9-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 3, 1889
Creator:
Hizon, Hiram W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrecking-Frog.
Patent for "an improved frog for use in placing derailed cars or locomotives upon the rails, exceedingly simple and durable in construction, and formed substantially in one piece - that is, not in sections - and having improved means to lock the frog to the rail." (Lines 17-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 11, 1891
Creator:
Wilmore, William Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine
Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Washing-Machines" (lines 4-5) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 29, 1892
Creator:
Wilson, Lucindia Jane
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Conveyer-Gearing for Harvesters
Patent for "... a new and useful Gearing for Harvester-Conveyers..." (lines 4-5) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 29, 1892
Creator:
Schubert, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Milk-Stool.
Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Milk-Stools" (lines 4-5) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 29, 1892
Creator:
Sevier, Moses Nimrod
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Manufacturing Soap.
Patent for an improved process designed "to lessen the time required for the manufacture of soaps and at the same time have all portions of a mass thereof of uniform character, also to make more soap from the same amount of fat or oils than is now done by the ordinary processes." (Lines 8-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 28, 1890
Creator:
Grant, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Poison-Distributer.
Patent for a device that is attached to a saddle in order to distribute insecticide to cotton and other crops while riding through the fields.
Date:
November 28, 1891
Creator:
Pickering, Charles H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut-lock.
Patent for improvements in the means for securing nuts on their bolts. The invention is "especially adapted for use on railway-rails in which the locking devices are subjected to severe and continual jarring" (lines 13-16) including illustrations.
Date:
March 29, 1892
Creator:
Terry, David Crockett
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Support for Electric Lights.
Patent for "supporting devices for electric-arc lamps, the object being to provide a device which will automatically release itself when the lamp is to be lowered and which then the lamp is raised to the point of suspension will automatically catch and hold the lamp in suspended position." (Lines 8-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 15, 1891
Creator:
Walsh, James J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Slate for the Blind.
Patent for a slate that allows the blind to read and write with lettered pegs. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 28, 1891
Creator:
Sthreshley, Elizabeth
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Smoke-Consumer.
Patent for a device used by locomotives that "will cause the smoke to be returned from the stack to the fire-box until it is entirely consumed" (lines 11-13), condenses exhaust steam, and heats the water in the tender. Includes illustrations.
Date:
March 29, 1892
Creator:
Hadlock, Edson J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Whiffletree.
Patent for an all-metal one-piece whiffletree of "strength, economy, durability, and lightness" (lines 21-22) with solid metal ends that interlock with trace-hooks and prevent "the trace-coupling from becoming accidentally disconnected" (lines 26-27), including illustrations.
Date:
November 29, 1892
Creator:
Flatau, Louis S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Construction Car.
Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Construction Cars..." (lines 4-5) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 29, 1892
Creator:
Brown, Carver C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Paper-Perforating Device.
Patent for "a combined gripper-bar and perforator for use on printing-presses." (Lines 8-9) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 15, 1890
Creator:
Wells, William F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Earth-Auger.
Patent for an invention that "relates to an implement designed for boring earth, and may be used for well-boring and also for boring post-holes," (lines 11-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 27, 1891
Creator:
Franks, Madison S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History