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Peg for Violins.
Patent for a new and improved violin peg. This design "has for its object to dispense with the usual string-aperture in the peg and to so construct the peg that a string may be expeditiously, conveniently, and securely attached thereto and as readily and conveniently removed therefrom, as desired, and to accomplish these objects without disfiguring the peg" (lines 11-18).
Date:
April 19, 1892
Creator:
Rowe, George H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fuse for Shells.
Patent for a new and improved shell fuse. This design "relates to that type of percussion-fuses wherein a fuse-tube is secured in the point or end of a shell and contains a plunged connected with a friction-wire embedded in the fulminate in such manner that when the flight of the shell is suddenly arrested the friction-wire is drawn forward by the plunger, thereby igniting the fulminate and setting fire to the powder-charge for bursting the shell. The objects of [the] invention are to . . . provide novel means which not only insure bursting of the shell, but avoid premature bursting at the muzzle of the gun" (lines 8-48).
Date:
April 22, 1890
Creator:
Phillips, George
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Elevated Railway, &c
Patent for improvements "to provide an improved track having provisions for readily tightening the track, each span or section being tightened by means of a single tightening device arranged, preferably. . . second, to provide an improved truck with guiding rollers or pulleys, the weight of the truck being carried upon yielding supports; third, a simple and improved swivel or turning device or connection between the car and track, whereby the turning of curves is more easily accomplished with a minimum of friction; fourth, to so mount the truck upon the track that displacement or removal thereof sidewise is impossible fifth, to provide an improved switch; sixth, to provide for a road-bed upon a span in crossing a stream or other analogous obstruction" (lines 14-31).
Date:
April 1, 1890
Creator:
Turner, Ephraim M. & Taylor, James P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Battery.
Patent for a new and improved electric battery. This design consists "[i]n an electric generator, a receptacle for steam, and means for admitting steam thereto, in combination with electrodes consisting of two parallel disks suspended within said steam-receptacle, electrodes of opposite polarity to the aforesaid electrodes arranged between the disks of the first-named electrodes, a shaft extending through the said receptacle upon which the latter electrodes are mounted, and means for rotating the said shaft" (lines 41-50).
Date:
April 19, 1892
Creator:
Emley, James Edward
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Elevated Railway.
Patent for improvements in elevated railways: "provide simple means for regulating and adjusting the weight of the car so as to throw the preponderence thereof upon either the upper or the lower track or to equally divide the weight so that each track bear a like proportion" (lines 12-17).
Date:
April 10, 1894
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Docket, Record, or Similar Book
Patent for a docket, record or similar book that places all necessary material together for recording events, adjusting the space for each title head so that it is sufficient, easing the strain on accountants who need to continue entries, and also make sure the book is easy and efficient to make.
Date:
April 19, 1892
Creator:
Fry, Edwin Crittenden
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Eight-Lens Telescope.
Patent for improvements in refracting-telescopes in which the instrument may be readily and accurately focused by adjustment of the lenses within the telescoping sections; and by having one or more perforated diaphragms for avoiding errors due to spherical aberration, an adjustable and removable transmitter for the light passing through the object-glass, for the purpose of toning the quantity of light. Illustration is included.
Date:
April 28, 1891
Creator:
Riddle, William Nelson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Earth-Auger.
Patent for an earth-auger that is more effective than other augers and can be constructed to make different sized holes. It is operated by moving two blades back and forth.
Date:
April 16, 1895
Creator:
Smith, Wiston Allin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Disk Plow.
Patent for "a new and useful improvement in disk plows, the object being to construct a plow of the kind described in which the resistance encountered by the main cutting or master disk in operation is counteracted by oppositely-disposed disks, one of which acts as a subspoiler, the other as a jointer, making a partial penetration of the land, which is followed by the master-disk in the succeeding furrow." (Lines 24-33) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 7, 1896
Creator:
Stewart, John A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crab and Fish Trap.
Patent for a new and improved seafood trap. This design consists in "a net or trap for crabs or fish, which comprises flat frame-sections hinged together, netting attached to said sections, and a rod or bar extending across said sections and engaging with suitable devices thereon for holding said sections partly extended until the hinged sides strike bottom and thereby release the rod or bar" (lines 83-90).
Date:
April 1, 1890
Creator:
Franklin, Robert M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design consists, "with the beam consisting, essentially, of the forwardly-converging branches at their forward ends and having the downwardly and forwardly curved branches at their rear ends and rack-teeth" (lines 100-104). It further consists "of the feet comprising parallel branches pivotally connected to the ends of the downwardly and forwardly curved branches of the beam branches, the gravitating pawls pivoted between the upper ends of the feet branches and adapted to engage the rack-teeth of the beam branches" (lines 1-8).
Date:
April 12, 1892
Creator:
Ponton, William E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a cultivator that is easily adjustable and works between rows of plants. It consists of two expansible side-beams, a fixed cross bar, sliding cross bars, pivoted rods, and a toothed lever latch.
Date:
April 11, 1893
Creator:
Robinson, Nelson B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Scoop.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive cotton scoop and is "adapted to have its tines yield to facilitate its insertion in a mass of cotton" (lines 13-14).
Date:
April 18, 1893
Creator:
Brown, William C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and powerful plunger for a cotton-press that is directly controlled by the operator. The plunger is hydraulically powered, the pressure being created by steam.The plunger's parts are arranged so the power is multiplied.
Date:
April 24, 1894
Creator:
Williams, Silas Jackson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for "a compress having a continuous operation, whereby one bale of cotton is being formed by the compress all the time the same is working, and thereby rendering it unnecessary to completely stop the working of the entire press for every single bale made until the bale can be wrapped and discharged out of the press." (Lines 15-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 14, 1896
Creator:
Griffin, Thomas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Loading Derrick.
Patent for a new and improved cotton-loading derrick. This design consists in "[t]he portable derrick, comprising the barrow-base having the longitudinal handle-bars, the extended longitudinal and transverse base-sills, and the bearings, the rotary shaft or mast having the slot and sheave, the upper shoulder and upward-projecting stud, the cross-head, the oblique braces connecting its rear arm to the mast, and the derrick-pulleys suspended from the free arm of said cross-head, the rope passing through said slot and over said sheave and to said pulleys and windlass" (lines 79-90).
Date:
April 22, 1890
Creator:
Field, Eldon M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Feeder and Cleaner.
Patent for feeders and cleaners for cotton gins: "provide a combined feeder and cleaner for cotton gins which is not only thoroughly and effectually cleans cotton before it passes to the gin, but at the same time it regularly and positively feeds the cotton to the gin in such cleaned condition" (lines 10-15).
Date:
April 25, 1893
Creator:
Oliphint, Alfred
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin.
Patent for a saw-cleaning attachment for cotton gins. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 20, 1897
Creator:
Griffin, Thomas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sack-Tie.
Patent for sack-ties that consist of a brace with a wire that folds in with the upper edges of the mouth of the sack and hold it into position, by hooking around the ends of the brace.
Date:
April 27, 1897
Creator:
Driffill, Frederick
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saddle Jack.
Patent for a new and improved saddle-jack. This design consists in "the combination, with a support, of a post having a hollow trunnion and carrying a saddle-tree support on its upper end, and a bolt passing through the hollow trunnion and carrying hooks on its upper end for engaging a saddle-tree to hold it on its support" (lines 84-90).
Date:
April 1, 1890
Creator:
Garrett, Richard
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sad Iron Heater.
Patent for a new and improved iron heater. This design "consists of an elliptical iron-receiver adapted to fit within a stove-opening, the upper edge of which is provided with a surrounding flange adapted to rest upon the edge of the opening and thus support the receiver depending below said opening, a pair of openings formed in the top of the receiver, each of said openings being provided at opposite edges with iron handle-receiving pairs of notches, a pin extending from the top of the receiver opposite one of the notches" (lines 90-100).
Date:
April 5, 1892
Creator:
Thomason, Sue
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sad-Iron Heater.
Patent for sad iron heaters: "a device for heating sad irons, and it has for its object to provide a heater adapted to receive a plurality of irons" (lines 8-11).
Date:
April 17, 1894
Creator:
Lee, William R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shoe for Bridges.
Patent for a new and improved bridge shoe including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 10, 1894
Creator:
Seaman, George S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Garbage-Furnace.
Patent for a garbage-furnace that relates to a patent that was previously granted to the inventor (No. 448,115). This invention provides "a new and improved garbage furnace, which is comparatively simple and durable in construction, and very effective for burning all kinds of dry and wet garbage, kitchen refuse, animal matter, excrements, &c. (lines 12-16).
Date:
April 9, 1895
Creator:
Brownlee, Alexander
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History