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Cigar-Package.
Patent for an improved cigar-package that complies "with all the requirements of the revenue laws, to be retailed to purchasers, who destroy the stamp upon opening the package, the construction being such that the packages thus opened can be used as pocket cases for the protection of the cigars" (lines 21-27).
Date:
June 5, 1894
Creator:
Philipson, Sigmund
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clamp or Fastener for Wire Fences.
Patent for a new and improved clamp for wire fences. This design "is to make a device by which the horizontal rails of a wire fence may be conveniently fastened to the vertical stay-wires" (lines 12-15). It "consist[s] of the metallic disk or plate with the curved cross-groove and prongs to hold the horizontal rail and the perpendicular stay-wire, and the key" (lines 69-73).
Date:
June 7, 1892
Creator:
Rogers, Charles S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clevis.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in clevises, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 14, 1898
Creator:
Taylor, George H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Roller and Protector.
Patent for a new and improved roller and protector for maps and charts. This design consists, "with the case having longitudinal slot at its under side, the caps upon the ends of the case and formed with ears, the springs upon the case having their ends engaging the ends of the caps, metal bearings in the ends of the caps, the roller within the case with its pintles journaled in said bearings, and the cord wound upon the roller at one end in a reverse direction to the article carried by the roller with its free end passed through the opening in the under side of the cap at that end of the roller" (lines 21-32).
Date:
June 24, 1890
Creator:
Turner, Ephraim M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Shade Roller And Lock.
Patent for new and useful improvements in a combination shade roller and lock, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 6, 1899
Creator:
Sturgis, Herbert M
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Tool.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in a combination tool, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 14, 1898
Creator:
McCarty, William N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Automatic Vending and Money-Changing Machine.
Patent for an improved combined automatic vending and money changing machine. It has "a locking mechanism constructed to lock said article and change-delivery mechanisms when a coin inserted by a purchaser is of less value than the article desired by him, and [a] mechanism for unlocking both of said delivery mechanisms while the purchaser's said coin remains in the machine and adjusting bot of said delivery-mechanisms to thereafter deliver an article corresponding to the value of said coin" (line 1-10).
Date:
June 18, 1895
Creator:
Sturgis, Herbert Marshall
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton and Corn Planter.
Patent for an improved combined corn and cotton planters that "effectively carr[ies] out the duplex functions of planters of this class, which will possess advantages in point of simplicity, durability, effectiveness, and general efficiency" (lines 11-14).
Date:
June 5, 1894
Creator:
Wittich, George
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton-Chopper And Cultivator.
Patent for a new and useful combined cotton chopper and cultivator, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 13, 1899
Creator:
Parker, Robert L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Measure and Funnel.
Patent for "a combined measure and funnel, the same being especially designed for dealing out molasses" (lines 13-15), including illustrations.
Date:
June 8, 1897
Creator:
Sevier, Moses Nimrod
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition of Matter for Saving Coal During Combustion.
Patent for cheap, effective compound to sprinkle on coal to render it more combustible so that it burns more cleanly and soot is not emitted.
Date:
June 11, 1895
Creator:
Stokey, David Gray
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compound Engine.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in compound engines, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 20, 1899
Creator:
Johnson, Willie H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compressed-Air Water Elevator.
Patent for a new improvements to compressed-air water-elevators, including illustrations.
Date:
June 1, 1897
Creator:
Bechtol, William S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Convertible Churn And Ice-Cream Freezer.
Patent for a new and useful convertible churn and ice cream freezer, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 27, 1899
Creator:
Everhard, Joseph
Object Type:
Patent
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
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cord-Fastener for Envelopes.
Patent for a device for attaching a chord on a merchandise envelope or a similar package that provides "a means for permanently holding one end of the chord in an improved and secure manner, and adapted for temporarily securing the free end when desired" (lines 11-14).
Date:
June 25, 1895
Creator:
Scougale, Malcom
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Sheller.
Patent for improvements in corn-shellers in which it would be easily-operated and consists of “a semi-cylindrical trough having serrations upon the sides and bottom thereof, so that upon pushing the ear back and forth in the trough the corn will be scraped off.” (Lines 22-25) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 2, 1891
Creator:
Townsley, Christopher C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.
Patent for improvements in cotton choppers and cultivators by using “the shearing action between a rotary hoe and a cutter-bar traveling along beside the row” (lines 20-22) to cut off the cotton. Illustration is included.
Date:
June 2, 1891
Creator:
Ferriott, Charles L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cotton choppers and cultivators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 7, 1898
Creator:
Holland, Joseph J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaner and Condenser.
Patent for a new and improved cotton cleaner and condenser. This design "is to produce a cheap and simple machine of this class which is adapted for use in connection with a cotton-gin and which will rapidly separate the dirt from the cotton and will also condense the cotton, so that it may be easily handled and baled" (lines 10-16). It consists in "[t]he combination of the case or frame having an inlet and its lower end and a hinged downward-curved hood at its upper end with the endless carrier mounted in the said case or frame with its higher end within the curved hood" (lines 47-52).
Date:
June 7, 1892
Creator:
Wherry, William B. & Smith, William F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Harvester.
Patent for improvements to a cotton harvester that uses finger-pickers to harvest cotton into a bag or box with illustrations. The changes are intended to make the harvester more durable, less costly, and operable by non-skilled workers.
Date:
June 17, 1890
Creator:
Loonie, Patrick J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Press
Patent for new and improved plunger to form a compressed bale of cotton.
Date:
June 3, 1899
Creator:
Patterson, Warren A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for a cotton-press that compresses "cotton as it is delivered from the gin into convenient shape and size of bundle, for facilitating the transportation thereof" (lines 12-15).
Date:
June 25, 1895
Creator:
Taylor, George
Object Type:
Patent
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.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History