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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
Cotton-Seed Separator.
Patent for a new and useful cotton seed separator, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 28, 1898
Creator:
Garrett, James Andis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Stalk-Breaking Machine.
Patent for a simple and economical stalk breaking machine "which shall admit of the team straddling the adjoining row, and the driving wheel to run in the furrow or stubble" (lines 11-13). The driver sits on one side so they do not get hit with debris. The frame and stalk breakers mechanism are mounted on the running gear of a mower or reaper, and is easily disconnected.
Date:
June 26, 1894
Creator:
Grimland, Yeren & Ringness, John J.
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
Cut-Off Valve.
Patent for a cut-off valve meant to improve shut-off valves with "valve-plugs mechanically actuated by rotary valve-stems provided with cranks or eccentric pins which loosely engage the valve-plugs and serve to shift the latter longitudinally to or from the valve-seats when the stems are rotated" (lines 9-14).
Date:
June 23, 1895
Creator:
Melvin, Josiah W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cutter.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cutters.
Date:
June 14, 1898
Creator:
Macke, Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Bridle-Bit.
Design patent for a bride-bit that contains a novel design within the cheeks.
Date:
June 20, 1899
Creator:
Jackson, Claude D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Curling Iron Holder
Patent for a design for a curling-iron holder.
Date:
June 8, 1897
Creator:
Campbell, Orton G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Fence-Post.
Design patent for a fence-post that has a tapering post-body with a step series adjoining true cylindrical portions of gradually increasing diameter.
Date:
June 6, 1899
Creator:
Brooks, Jesse W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Fire-Screen
Design patent for a fire-screen that has vertical bars decorated with balls or spherical ornaments.
Date:
June 5, 1894
Creator:
Gist, John A. L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Water-Grate for Cooking-Stoves.
Patent for a water-grate for cooking stoves.
Date:
June 13, 1899
Creator:
Spencer, Jesse Peter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Detergent Compound.
Patent for an all-purpose detergent composed of water, lye, ammonia, borax, indigo, and mountain balm. Includes instructions.
Date:
June 11, 1895
Creator:
Fair, William Brownlow
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Capturing and Destroying Insects.
Patent for "a new and original method of destroying the Mexican cotton-boll weevil (Anthonomus gradis boh) and other insects that damage cotton while growing &c., &c. (lines 5-8) including illustrations.
Date:
June 8, 1897
Creator:
Strouhal, Joseph
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
Device for raising water.
Patent for device for raising water. "Our invention relates to water-elevators in which a bucket or like receptacle is periodically lowered into a well and then raised to be emptied."
Date:
June 1, 1897
Creator:
Poe, Herbert L. & Sparkman, William C.
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
Dog or Stop Device for Baling-Presses.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and durable stop-device or dog used in baling presses with a pressure-chamber in a plunger or traverser reciprocates. The invention operates automatically and retaines the material being pressed inside the pressure-chamber. The dog pivots on the side of the pressure-chamber and is enabled to move freely.
Date:
June 19, 1894
Creator:
Schulze, Andrew
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Door-Check.
Patent for an improvement on door-stops meant to "check the door at any point in its traverse and at the same time serve as a door fastening and stop" (lines 14-16). It is hand adjustable operating-rod.
Date:
June 2, 1896
Creator:
Campbell, Thomas Jefferson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dredge For Hard Or Soft Mud.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in dredges for hard or soft mud, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 6, 1899
Creator:
Ford, James Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electrode for Secondary Batteries.
Patent for improvements in the manufacture of electrodes for storage batteries or accumulators by using “two corresponding plates, each having flanges on three sides of one face, said plates being united to form a central space open at top by securing together corresponding flanges on the respective plates.” (Lines 5-9, page 2) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 23, 1891
Creator:
Anderson, Boyd
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Elevated Railroad
Patent for "improvements in elevated railways; and the object of my invention is to produce an elevated-railway system which is comparatively cheap, which is absolutely safe, and in which the cars are arranged so that they ride very easily and can be readily adapted for both passenger and freight traffic" (lines 8-15).
Date:
June 7, 1892
Creator:
Arnold, Eliphalet L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Envelope or Bag Machine
Patent for a machine "for making envelopes, paper bags, and the like wherein the blank which is to form the envelope or bag is automatically fed into the machine at its receiving end by a suitable feeder and is folded and gummed on its way through the machine, being finally delivered in a marketable condition at the delivery end of the machine" (lines 10-17).
Date:
June 24, 1890
Creator:
Clarke, George R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fabric-Turfing Implement.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in fabric turfing implements, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 5, 1898
Creator:
Connett, Matthew F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Facing-Slip and Label Holder.
Patent for improvements “in facing-slip and label holders to be used by mailing and postal clerks” (lines 13-14) “by providing a convenient and readily-accessible means in applying the facing-slips to packages of mail-matter and to adapt such holders for placement with respect to a case of letter-box as to always have such slips and labels with the receptacle containing the letters to receive a slip corresponding with such mail-matter.” (Lines 16-23) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 16, 1891
Creator:
Gaines, Thomas W., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History