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Adjusting Device for Compressing-Rolls.
Patent for adjusting devices for compressing rolls which “employed for compressing into a continuous thin sheet cotton fiber; and the objects in view are to provide a simple and convenient means for binding the rolls in contact, and when so bound to prevent any undesired yielding.” (Lines 10-15) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 16, 1891
Creator:
Goldthwaite, Joseph G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bootjack.
Patent for a new and improved boot-jack. This design is for an addition to existing boot-jacks that allows for wet or tight boots to be removed completely after the heel of the foot is loosened, all without the use of hands. This additional apparatus can be adjusted to different angles by way of eye-holes and screws.
Date:
June 16, 1896
Creator:
Ulferts, Ulfert Harms
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cooking-Stove.
Patent for a cooking stove that uses heat from a charcoal furnace efficiently, which increases the length the stove is hot and decreases the risk of suffocation from the gas given off by the furnace.
Date:
June 12, 1894
Creator:
Hayes, Rebecca Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for a cotton-press with "new and useful roller-compresses for making bales of cotton into a cylindrical or roll-form, and also having simple and efficient mechanism for continuously forming a bale all the time the compress is in operation, which result has heretofore been impossible in presses of that character employing only one pair of compressing-rolls" (lines 9-17).
Date:
June 16, 1896
Creator:
Griffin, Thomas 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
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
Funnel.
Patent for an improved funnel that is meant to transfer liquids into receptacles with small openings, "the object being to provide a novel construction whereby a valve is automatically closed when the receptacle is full or the liquid has reached the proper level, so as to cut off the supply and prevent overflow which frequently occurs in using the ordinary funnels, resulting in loss and waste" (lines 16-23).
Date:
June 27, 1893
Creator:
Wright, George H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint.
Patent for a rail joint that consists of a chair with a base plate and inwardly projecting flanges, a rail web, two plates that hook under the flanges and hold the rail in place, and two bolts that go through the plates and the rail.
Date:
June 19, 1894
Creator:
Perkins, Miles O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vacuum Electric-Arc Furnace.
Patent for "an improved electric furnace having means to positively insure the thorough fusion or reduction of the substances placed therein without loss due to combustion or the oxidation of such substances, while at the same time providing an effective distribution of the heat and the prevention of the loss of carbon by combustion" (lines 17-25). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 1, 1897
Creator:
Eldridge, Hilliary; Wright, George Hudson & Clark, Daniel J.
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