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Improvement in remedies for constipation, &c.
Patent for a new medical compound to treat constipation and related illnesses which lists the ingredients and dosages.
Date:
August 1, 1876
Creator:
Coleman, George S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plaiting-Irons.
Patent for an improvement to plaiting-irons: "a plaiting-iron composed of a peculiarly-constructed iron or metal plate used in connection with a correspondingly-constructed board" (lines 23-25), with illustrations.
Date:
August 14, 1877
Creator:
Gingras, Joseph E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Kitchen Cabinet
Patent for a knock-down kitchen cabinet.
Date:
August 7, 1882
Creator:
Billington, Theophilus
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Awning Bracket.
Patent for a new and improved awning bracket. This design "relates to awning-brackets of that class which are secured to the wall of the building over the sidewalk, and secure themselves without the use of posts, &c. The invention has for its object to provide a self-sustaining bracket possessing superior advantages in point of simplicity, inexpensiveness, durability, and general efficiency" (lines 9-16).
Date:
August 14, 1883
Creator:
Rodgers, Ranzil H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electrical Alarm for Window Screens.
Patent for a new and improved window alarm. This design consists in "the window-frame, having the contact-springs connected in open circuit with an electrical alarm, with the screen or frame in the window-frame, having the double contact-points, the contact-springs, and the wires, the contact-point bearing against the spring . . . the point, spring, double contact-points, and the contact-springs being connected together in open-circuit, whereby an alarm will be sounded either by raising the screen or frame, by cutting one of the wires, or by pushing one of the wires aside" (lines 76-89).
Date:
August 11, 1885
Creator:
Garrett, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cloth Cutting Apparatus.
Patent for a new and improved cloth-cutting machine. This design "relates to cloth-cutting apparatus, and particularly to that class wherein the fabric or other material to be cut is operated upon by revolving cutters; and it has for its object to provide devices of this character which may be enabled to cut the goods by a continuous forward movement of the said cutters" (lines 9-15).
Date:
August 18, 1885
Creator:
Monday, Robert Owens
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Motor.
Patent for a new and improved motor. This design consists in "[t]he combination, of a clock-work mechanism, of the spring-shaft, the screw geared thereto, whereby the said screw will be rotated simultaneously with the spring-shaft, the friction-drum, and the brake-bar bearing on the said drum and engaging the screw" (lines 90-95).
Date:
August 24, 1886
Creator:
Roberts, Robert Edward Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock.
Patent for a new and improved nut-lock. This design "consists of a slide or continuous collar or ring, made of lead or other soft or compressible metal or material, having a hole so that it will fit or pass over the end of an ordinary bolt, and adapted to be pressed into the threads of the bolt and against the face of an ordinary nut by a suitable die" (lines 16-23).
Date:
August 31, 1886
Creator:
Shellenberger, Samuel L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Copy Holder.
Patent for a new and improved copy-holder. This design "is [for] an improved copy-holder intended especially for holding deeds when being transcribed to the records, and seeks to provide a simple, inexpensive construction by which the deed may be held and to and from which the deed or other paper may be adjusted without difficulty, such construction serving also to mark or indicate the particular line of the paper being copied" (lines 7-15).
Date:
August 2, 1887
Creator:
Adair, Irvine James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Top.
Patent for a new and improved vehicle roof. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the rabbeted vehicle-top-supporting bows, of strips mounted in said rabbets and provided with overlapping upper ends, curtain-supporting frames, and clips carried by said frames and arranged to engage the overlapping strips" (lines 92-97).
Date:
August 2, 1887
Creator:
McCurdy, Thomas B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow
Patent for a plow. It "is to provide an improved plow stock or frame having an adjustable foot to regulate the inclination or pitch of the plow-point" (p. 2).
Date:
August 7, 1888
Creator:
Whatley, George Washington,
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
Combined Bevel, Protractor, Gage, Center-Square, &c.
Patent for "a combination-tool seeking to provide a single implement so constructed and inscribed as to be useful to architects, draftsmen, millwrights, machinists, and all metal and wood workers, and which shall be light and convenient to carry and may be quickly adjusted to its different positions for use" (lines 8-14).
Date:
August 20, 1889
Creator:
Meek, Alphonso Eugene
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire Kindler.
Patent for a new and improved fire-kindler. This design "consist[s] of a tapered tube having lap-jointed edges, a retaining or clamping collar to hold said edges in position, perforations near the larger end, and the overbent flexible strips, said tube being packed with asbestus or other absorbent" (lines 77-82).
Date:
August 12, 1890
Creator:
Denton, Winfield Scott
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Belt and Appliances
Patent for a more comfortable electrical belt with adjustable electrodes and an improved battery.
Date:
August 19, 1890
Creator:
Williams, Robert E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Figure Toy.
Patent for a new and improved toy. This design consists in "a pedestal or support and mount[ed] on the upper end thereof a vertically disposed rod having its upper end tapered or reduced, so as to afford the least possible friction to the whirling figure mounted thereon" (lines 16-21). In practice, "the toy is placed in a position to be struck by wind, and as the same comes in contact with the blades the object will simultaneously be whirled upon the rod and its arms move rapidly around its shoulders, thereby affording amusement" (lines 54-59).
Date:
August 19, 1890
Creator:
Herron, James & Swaden, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vapor Burner.
Patent for a new and improved vapor burner. This design consists, "with the mixing-chamber having a burner connected therewith, of a water chamber and an oil chamber arranged beneath the said mixing chamber, the threaded tube seated in the bottom wall of the water-chamber and extending up into the mixing-chamber, and the air-induction tube leading from beneath the oil-chamber up through the threaded connecting-tube to the mixing chamber" (lines 112-121).
Date:
August 19, 1890
Creator:
Kirkpatrick, Drury T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Handling and Cleaning Seed-Cotton.
Patent for improvements in machines for handling and cleaning seed-cotton by “taking seed-cotton from wagons or storehouses through pneumatic tubes and delivering it freed from dust and other extraneous matter to any number of gins. It includes devices for imparting flexibility to the feed-section of the tube for distributing the cotton and for disposing of the surplus when the cotton is supplied faster than it can be ginned.” (Lines 15-22) Illustration is included.
Date:
August 25, 1891
Creator:
Thomas, Robert Smith; Hardwick, Sauny Warren & Elam, William Erwin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Separable Button.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, strong, and durable separable button that does not accidentally separate or unfasten. It consists of two disks connected with a stem, and the disks are different sizes.
Date:
August 9, 1892
Creator:
Monday, Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Portable Scale.
Patent for an improved, simple, and inexpensive portable scale meant for weighing cotton, corn, and other similar produce. It folds compactly when not in use, and has a tally device.
Date:
August 8, 1893
Creator:
Storey, Julius W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for an improved, simple, and efficient car coupling that is reliable and automatically couples cars together. The invention provides "a car-coupling which will not necessitate persons going between cars, and which will, should a car be overturned, become automatically uncoupled to prevent a derailed car dragging others after it down an embankment" (lines 16-20).
Date:
August 15, 1893
Creator:
Hausam, Daniel Whitfield
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Forge-Tray.
Patent for "an improved forge tray, and it has for its object to provide means for preventing the loss or waste of fuel incident to the use of the ordinary forms of forges; and to provide means for concentrating the heat without interfering with the operations of the smith and without intercepting his view of the irons" (lines 8-15).
Date:
August 15, 1893
Creator:
Burnett, Rufus Samuel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Burning Garbage, &c.
Patent for an improved apparatus for burning refuse and consists of a roasting chamber, a garbage grate, grates that slope and carry the product away after combustion, flues that open above the grates, and the wall partly closes on one end to let the products away after combustion.
Date:
August 22, 1893
Creator:
Garretson, William H. & Tainter, Silas B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric-Railway Conduit.
Patent for an electric railway conduit that is more efficient and durable. It has "guides for the traveling switch, one of said guides being a continuous one and the other a sectional one, one being insulated from the conduit and the other guide-strip (lines 16-20). The traveling switch moves in the conduit and on the sides of the guides. Only one section of the conduit is live at once, the one that a car is passing over.
Date:
August 25, 1896
Creator:
Hull, William Sharkey
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History