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Coffee and Spice Mill.
Patent for a new and improved mill for coffee and spices. This design "consists in constructing a coffee and spice mill with a hopper having arms for attaching the mill to a wall and for supporting the gear-wheel formed upon it, an inner cone-burr formed solid with the hopper, an outer shell-burr suspended from and swiveled to the inner burr by a cross-bar, rod, and hand-nut, and the gear-wheels and crank for rotating the outer-burr" (lines 22-30).
Date:
March 28, 1882
Creator:
Andrews, Thomas A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Stilts
Patent for improved stilts "whereby a stilt-stirrup may be quickly, easily, and securely fastened at different elevations on the standard" (para. 3).
Date:
March 28, 1876
Creator:
Beaumont, Franklin, Jr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Seed Cleaner
Patent for a cotton seed cleaner. Illustration included.
Date:
March 28, 1905
Creator:
Benefield, Chauncey R.
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
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
Weather-Strip.
Patent for an improved door weather strip and stop. The device atuates to be both a door stop and a weather strip.
Date:
May 28, 1919
Creator:
Campbell, Thomas M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Processes of Refining Crude Cotton-Seed Oil
Patent for a process to refine oil, specifically crude, cotton-seed oil, using caustic soda. Includes an explanation of how the process works.
Date:
November 28, 1911
Creator:
Chisholm, Jesse C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Producing Confections.
Patent for a novelty method of packaging confections and similar snacks in an edible packaging resembling a baseball.
Date:
July 28, 1919
Creator:
Cressey, John A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Printer's Cabinet
Patent for a printer's cabinet. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 28, 1905
Creator:
Dorsey, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock and Key.
Patent for a lock which requires a key that is adjustable and difficult to duplicate in order to prevent lock picking.
Date:
June 28, 1921
Creator:
Dove, Bascom A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draft-Equalizer
Patent relating to improvements to draft appliances for tractors. Illustration is included.
Date:
September 28, 1920
Creator:
Dudley, Thomas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for a new and improved gate. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the gate composed of the latch-upright, hinge-upright, longitudinal wires and cross-braces, of the spring-depressed latch, pivoted to the brace just in front of the crossing part of the opposite brace, the double-armed lever pivoted through its center to the inner surface of the top of the latch-upright, and the cords connecting said arms to a proper point of the latch" (lines 82-90).
Date:
August 28, 1888
Creator:
England, David
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Account-Book.
Patent for improvements in account books to "facilitate the identification of pass books and to expedite the keeping of accounts by enabling the cashier, or bookkeeper, or other clerk concerned, to readily identify the book of the depositor or other owner and thereby more readily post the entries from one book to another in keeping accounts" (lines 16-22); includes illustration.
Date:
August 28, 1917
Creator:
Exline, Marcus, P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for the invention of gate which can be opened inward and outward by certain features such as supporting brackets and a spirally grooved shaft that can rotate between brackets.
Date:
August 28, 1906
Creator:
Gilbert James Madison
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Permutation-Lock.
Patent for an improvement in permutation-locks with illustrations.
Date:
December 28, 1886
Creator:
Haley, Auslem Jayne
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Separator
Patent for separating oil or grease, grit and water of condensation from steam, either live steam or exhausted-steam, as it passes to or from an engine or steam-pump (lines 10-14).
Date:
May 28, 1901
Creator:
Hanson, Frank
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Signal
Patent for automatic railroad signals that emit sound and lights.
Date:
December 28, 1920
Creator:
Harrell, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Hairbrush
Patent for an improved electric hairbrush having an insulated electrical heating element and separately charged electrically conductive metallic bristles. The hairbrush is designed to straighten hair and/or to electrically treat a user's hair and scalp with a low-voltage current. A device in the handle allows the user to regulate the heating of the element.
Date:
November 28, 1922
Creator:
Harvey, Birdie
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Heater
Patent for an electric heater that is insulated from foreign bodies or fluids. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 28, 1911
Creator:
Harvie, Arthur H. & Davis, William G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clevis
Patent for "improvements in clevises or draw-bars for plows and other similar implements" (Lines 8 – 10) including illustrations.
Date:
August 28, 1900
Creator:
Hendon, Walter Preston
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nailless Horseshoe.
Patent for a nailless horseshoe made of adjustable metallic straps, including illustrations.
Date:
August 28, 1900
Creator:
Hughes, John V.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Garment-Waist Adjuster.
Patent for improvements made to a garment-waist adjuster including specifications and illustrations. This patent describes improvements made to the device outlined in a previous patent associated with the same inventor, Albert K. Hurst.
Date:
April 28, 1914
Creator:
Hurst, Albert K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ventilated Body-Garment.
Patent for new ventilated body-garments "known as union-oversuits or "unionalls"" (lines 15-16) which improves the shoulder coverings and open armpit areas, allowing the passage of air but covering the area from rain.
Date:
December 28, 1920
Creator:
Jenkins, William M. & Vaughan, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Bed.
Patent for Automobile-Bed which creates a bed space in the back of automobiles for users to comfortably sleep on roll-out mattresses in their vehicles.
Date:
December 28, 1920
Creator:
John S. Turner
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History