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Abdominal Supporter.
Patent for a new and improved abdominal supporter. This design "consist[s] of the waist-belt, the abdominal sector-shaped pads hung from the waist-belt by elastic straps, the straps buttoned to the belt behind and to the bottom of the abdominal pads in front, the side straps connecting the abdominal pads with the pieces at the back, and the front strap connecting the two abdominal pads together with the shoulder-straps" (lines 70-79).
Date:
December 25, 1888
Creator:
Gray, Harriet N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Abdominal Supporter.
Patent for a new and improved supporter for the abdomen during pregnancy. This design "consists of an abdominal sack for the support of the abdomen in pregnancy, which is contrived with supporting-bands adapted for supporting it from the shoulders of the wearer, where the weight can be best sustained, and so as to entirely avoid the belt commonly used, and thus relieve the stomach and liver from the pressure and irritation which it produces" (lines 7-15).
Date:
September 11, 1883
Creator:
Galney, Augustus
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Account Book
Patent for an account book that is to be used "to receive in condensed form the dates and other particulars when sums are due to and from a person or firm are payable" (p. 2).
Date:
May 21, 1889
Creator:
Goldberg, Samuel W. & Tillmann, Emanuel M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adding-Machine
Patent for "an adding-machine which, while being constructed of but comparatively few parts, will be so adjusted as arranged as to allow an operator to make rapid and correct calculations; furthermore, to produce an adding-machine in which the operator will be enabled to detect immediately any mistake which he may have made, and, finally, to produce a simple, efficient, and effective adding-machine" (lines 13-22).
Date:
June 25, 1889
Creator:
Stinson, James C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adding Machine.
Patent for a new and improved adding machine. This design "consists in the combination, with a box, of a spindle in the same, a sleeve surrounding the spindle, a hand on the spindle, a hand on the sleeve, devices for turning the spindle from the sleeve, a cog-wheel revolving from the spindle, and an extra hand in connection with the cog-wheel" (lines 10-16).
Date:
September 22, 1885
Creator:
McCaleb, John L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adding-Machine.
Patent for a new and improvement in adding-machines in which a mechanical wheel has teeth. " The object of the invention is to provide the means for adding columns of figures by machinery"(lines 13-15), with instruction and illustration
Date:
February 12, 1884
Creator:
Barmore, Albert King
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Addressing-Machine.
Patent for an improved addressing machine, which will "paste, cut, and attach the slip simultaneously, or with one operation" (lines 26-27), with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 27, 1887
Creator:
Eberhardt, Theophilus Charles
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Attachment for Freight-Car Doors.
Patent for a mechanism that creates "an adjustable attachment for freight-car doors, for preventing sparks and other objectionable matter from getting into the cars, and means for operating the attachment that is adapted for use in securing the door in different positions of adjustment, and for connection with the body of the car by means of a seal-support, in order that the fixed adjustment of the door cannot be changed without breaking the seal" (lines 12-21).
Date:
December 28, 1886
Creator:
Duzan, Thomas H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Bench Hook.
Patent for a new and improved bench hook. This design "consists in a bench-hook constructed with a plate carrying a sliding bar, to which is adjustably secured a hook. The sliding bar and hook are locked in place by a clamp and cam attached to the plate, and the plate and its attachments are locked to the bench-front by a stationary lug attached to the plate, and a moveable lug attached to a lever pivoted to the said plate and locked in place by a cam, so that the said hook can be readily adjusted upward, downward, forward, and backward" (lines 20-30).
Date:
July 22, 1884
Creator:
Cooper, Harry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Book Support.
Patent for a new and improved book rest. This design consists "of an upright pivoted in a support or base, a sliding lower supporting cross-bar, an upper sliding supporting-bar, both bars having sockets upon their rear sides sliding upon the upright and provided with set-screws, and leaf-clamps consisting of a piece of spring doubled at one end to form slides sliding upon the arms of the upper cross-bar, forming curved yielding portions, forming transverse eyes at the other ends, having flat blocks hinged at the said eyes, and provided with thumb-pieces" (lines 72-83).
Date:
November 25, 1884
Creator:
Johnson, William Oscar
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Stool.
Patent for an adjustable and foldable stool for but not limited to field workers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 6, 1880
Creator:
Smith, William Alexander & Smith, Robert Toumbleson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Advertising Device.
Patent for a new and improved advertising sign. This design "consist[s] in the fixed staff or upright having pulley, bent rotary vane having the opening, and adapted for the display of advertisements, inside [the] bent rotary vane, and the governor adapted to regulate automatically the speed at which the vanes are to revolve" (lines 68-80).
Date:
February 19, 1884
Creator:
Carly, John Wesly
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Agricultural Implement.
Patent for a device related to plows, with a corn-planter and a cotton-planter attachments, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 23, 1880
Creator:
Chapman, William Arnol
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Compressor.
Patent for "new and useful improvements for air-compressors" (lines 5-6), with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 20, 1886
Creator:
Harrold, Mahlon
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air Compressor for Deep Well Pumps.
Patent for a new and improved air-compressor. This design "relates to improvements in air-compressing mechanism for the purpose of pumping for forcing from deep wells and performing similar work; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of a larger and smaller air-cylinder, and the combination therewith of mechanism to force the air from the larger into the smaller cylinder to increase the air-pressure in the latter" (lines 22-30).
Date:
August 2, 1887
Creator:
Adams, John R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air Motor.
Patent for a new and improved air-motor. This design is of an "air-motor, consisting of an engine, single-acting air-pump, air-receiver, and the double-acting exhaust-pump, with the valves and connections . . . [and] the levers and segments" (lines 81-87).
Date:
July 21, 1885
Creator:
Koniakowsky, Alois M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air Ship.
Patent for air ship design lifted by balloon with vertical adjustable sails. Accompanied with illustrations.
Date:
November 23, 1886
Creator:
Appling, Marby P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Amalgamator.
Patent for a new and improved amalgamator. This design "consists in placing in the bottoms of the chambers a number of iron balls or other suitable-shaped pieces of amalgamated iron, which have sufficient room to move freely among themselves, and then forcing up through the balls or pieces of iron, in contradistinction to forcing it down over their tops, the amalgamated ore and water, so as to cause the pieces of iron to vibrate, and thus to grind and break the pieces of quartz passing up through them" (lines 14-24).
Date:
September 12, 1882
Creator:
Schmidt, Erich Franz & Streernwitz, William Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Analyses of Waters of the Yellowstone National Park With an Account of the Methods of Analyses Employed
A report about 43 different waters made up of geysers, hot springs, mud springs, cold springs, and surface waters found within the limits of Yellowstone Park.
Date:
1888
Creator:
Gooch, Frank Austin & Whitefield, James Edward
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Andiron
Patent for improvements to andiron or "fire-dogs".
Date:
July 5, 1887
Creator:
Steele, Oliver
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Power.
Patent for a new and improved animal power (engine). This design "consists in an animal-power constructed with a small wheel placed loosely upon a stationary upright shaft, and connected by hinges with the inner ends of arms and sweeps attached to the main wheel, which is mounted upon caster-wheels to support the weight of the wheel and its attachments. . . . The object of this invention is to economize power and promote convenience" (lines 16-25).
Date:
October 31, 1882
Creator:
Knox, William Curtis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Power.
Patent for a new and improved engine. This design has a "tread-wheel on which the animal is placed, and which is provided with a cog-wheel on its under side to mesh with a pinion placed on one end of the crank-shaft, a connecting-rod which is attached at one end to the crank and at the other to a pivoted lever . . . a second connecting-rod which is fastened to the upper end of the pivoted lever . . . a balance-wheel, and the main driving-shaft provided with a number of arms, each one of which carries a planet-wheel for the purpose of moving around a fixed wheel" (lines 15-29).
Date:
July 7, 1885
Creator:
Yarbrough, Ezekel James & Kyker, John Marshal
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Shears.
Patent for new and improved animal shears. This design is "of a platinum or other wire or conductor heated to a high temperature, sufficient to burn through the fibers of the wool or hair, and [is] passed over the surface of the body as close as may be deemed desirable to the roots. No injurious effects are produced upon the animal or upon the wool or hair removed, while at the same time the same may be removed with great uniformity and expedition" (lines 28-36).
Date:
June 8, 1886
Creator:
Harrell, Joseph J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Shears.
Patent for new and improved animal shears. This design is "to secure an equal wear of the teeth of the stationary and the revolving cutter-plates . . . whereby the instrument may be run double the usual time before it is necessary to grind the plates, and enabling the tool to be used as a right or a left hand cutter; also, to render the cutters separable without arresting the motion of the rotary blade . . . also, to provide means whereby the rotation of the cutter may be reversed . . . finally, to provide a simple device for throwing the miter-gears into and out of mesh" (lines 15-29).
Date:
December 9, 1884
Creator:
Carter, Francis W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History