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Adjustable Handle-Bar for Bicycles.
Patent for adjustable handle bar for bicycles, including illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1897
Creator:
Winfrey, Edgar, M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Bicycles.
Patent for a package-carrying device that attaches to the frame of a bicycle. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1897
Creator:
Saunders, David Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bit-Brace.
Patent for "an improved form of brace having a V-guide which is substantially right-angled and mechanism mounted therein for driving a bit so arranged that the crank-arm of the handle may turn in a corner without striking the wall or without striking the wall or without striking a plane support should the guide rest thereon when boring a hole." (Lines 12-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1897
Creator:
McClellan, Stephen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Calipers.
Patent for calipers that can be adjusted micrometrically to within one five-thousandth of an inch. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1897
Creator:
Clarke, George R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for "an automatic link-coupler which shall embody strength, simplicity, certainty of action, and adaptability for manipulation without entering between the cars and without necessity of relieving strain." (Lines 9-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1897
Creator:
Martin, David D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Display-Rack.
Patent for..." a rack for displaying cakes, crackers, nuts, dried fruits, and like commodities in whole or half boxes, so as to admit of access being readily had to the contents of the boxes or the boxes being quickly removed and replaced for any pur pose, and to devise a rack for the purposes aforesaid which will be compact and occupy a minimum amount of room compared with the display-surface and which provides for the adjustment of the brackets or supports so as to receive boxes of different size and make" (lines 8-20) with descriptions and illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1897
Creator:
Jordan, George M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting-Frame.
Patent for a quilting frame "pivotally attached to a suspending-bar, whereby either part may be brought beneath the arm of the sewing-machine without requiring the shifting of the goods to bring a new part into position to be quilted until after the exposed portions of the two parts have been quilted." (Lines 24-30) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1897
Creator:
Scoby, William E. & Spoonts, Joseph L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Screen Attachment for Suction or Exhaust Fans.
Patent for a screen attachment that protects fan blades from damaging and being damaged by debris. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1897
Creator:
Davis, Micajah R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trace-Fastener.
Patent for improvements in trace fasteners, with illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1897
Creator:
Brownwell, John A. F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for a wrench that can be adjusted without the use of screws. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1897
Creator:
Thomas, Theodore G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burglar-Alarm.
Patent for an "apparatus for protecting or guarding electric circuits; and it has for its object to protect or guard electric circuits, such as burglar-alarm circuits, from interference by unauthorized or mischievous agencies." (Lines 9-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 22, 1897
Creator:
Sutton, Henry M. & Steele, Walter L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cabinet for Blanks.
Patent for"cabinets, cases, or boxes designed for use in hotels, post-offices, and other places where stationery is required by guests or other portions of the public." (Lines 10-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 22, 1897
Creator:
Kinsel, Abram Myers; Hunter, George Alexander & Nolley, Seth Ballard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Seat.
Patent for improvements to the "Scarritt-Forney" seat so that the seat body and frame are detachable from each other. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 22, 1897
Creator:
Meier, Hermann
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cushion-Tire.
Patent for a more durable bicycle tire. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 22, 1897
Creator:
Hayes, Rebecca Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tellurian.
Patent for a device "which shall illustrate the axial and orbital movements of the earth and the directions of the sun's rays upon our globe... by simple and effective means of automatic character." (Lines 17-24) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 22, 1897
Creator:
McArthur, Neel John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-press.
Patent for a baling press intended to work with hay, cotton and similar material, and form bales of many different sizes.
Date:
June 18, 1897
Creator:
Murphy, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window-blind and awning
Patent for a pair of swinging window blinds.
Date:
June 18, 1897
Creator:
Gluck, Solomon & Keach, George D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Balanced-Valve Testing and Locking Device.
Patent for "a simple testing and locking device for balanced valves of locomotives, the testing device being so placed with relation to the valve that it may be accurately determined whether the valve on one or the other side of the engine is leaking without removing the outer plates form the valve-casing or removing the covers from the steam-chest." (Lines 8-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 15, 1897
Creator:
Sadler, James Alexander
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for "car-couplings; and the object is to provide an improved automatically-tripped pin-supporting mechanism, and also to provide an improved device for holding the link in proper position for coupling, whereby the couplers of adjoining cars may be arranged to interlock automatically before coming together, thus avoiding the extreme danger incident to coupling cars." (Lines 12-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 15, 1897
Creator:
Robertson, Isaac N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Seed Conveyer.
Patent for "an efficient and economical cotton-seed-conveyer system for the removal of cotton-seed from gins or linters by the exclusive and unimpeded action of an air-blast through the exhaust-flue of the fan that is ordinarily employed in connection with the usual elevator from conducting cotton into the gin-feeders." (Lines 9-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 15, 1897
Creator:
Graber, Henry W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Feeding Envelops to Type-Writing Machines.
Patent for "a device for feeding envelops to type-writing machines, the object being to construct a device of the character described which is adapted to be mounted on the carriage of the machine and feed envelops to be addressed continuously and automatically to the platen on said machine." (Lines 26-32) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 15, 1897
Creator:
Wash, Benjamin S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hand-Car.
Patent for "a hand-car with an auxiliary spring-actuated mechanism which can be used with or without the lever mechanism to propel at a rapid rate of speed." (Lines 12-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 15, 1897
Creator:
Rousey, William N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Exterminator.
Patent for a red ant exterminator that works by "withdrawing the air from an ant-nest and substituting therefor a fluid or gas which may be ignited and thereby destroy the lives of the insects." (Lines 18-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 15, 1897
Creator:
Schindler, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Telephone-Transmitter.
Patent for "a simple transmitter in which the greatest volume of sound may be transmitted without causing grating or rattling." (Lines 8-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 15, 1897
Creator:
Alexander, Horace C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History