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- Abilene Sheet
- Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
- Account-Book.
- Patent for improvement in account-books by “dispensing a multiplicity of books in keeping accounts and to devise means for combining in one book and upon a single page thereof the features of the ledger, day-book, bill-book and bills-receivable book, said page to be so provided with perforation as to admit of the detachment of certain parts, leaving intake theat part of the page that is intended for permanent record.” (Lines 13-22) Illustration is included.
- Acetylene-Gas-Generating Lamp.
- Patent for a new and useful acetylene gas lamp, including instructions and illustrations.
- Acetylene Gas Generator
- Patent for improving acetylene gas generator designs with the use of an added specification in the form of a new apparatus. Illustrations and instructions are included.
- Acetylene-Gas Generator.
- Patent for a new and improved acetylene gas generator, including instructions and illustrations.
- Acetylene Gas Generator.
- Patent for a new and improved acetylene gas generating machine, including instructions and illustrations.
- Acetylene-Gas Generator.
- Patent for a new and useful acetylene gas generator, including instructions and illustrations.
- Acetylene-Gas Generator.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in acetylene gas generators, including instructions and illustrations.
- Acetylene-Gas Generator.
- Patent for a new and useful improvement in acetylene gas generating and storing apparatus to "provide a simple, compact, and economical means for automatically said gas" (line 10 - 13).
- Acetylene Gas Generator.
- Patent for a new and useful improvements in apparatus for generating acetylene gas. This design is to "provide with few applicances a simple and compact apparatus requiring little attention for generating acetylene gas for light, heat, and power purposes" (line 11 - 14).
- Acetylene - Gas Generator
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in gas generating apparatus, including instructions and illustrations.
- Acetylene Gas Generator
- Patent for "a new and useful acetylene-gas generator" (lines 5-6), including illustrations and instructions.
- Acetylene-Gas Generator.
- Patent for a new and useful acetylene gas generator, including instructions and illustrations.
- Acetylene-Gas Generator.
- Patent for a new and improved gas generator, including instructions and illustrations.
- Acetylene-Gas Generator.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in acetylene gas machines, including instructions and illustrations.
- Acetylene-Gas Lamp.
- Patent for a new and improved acetylene gas lamp, including instructions and illustrations.
- Acetylene Gas Machine
- Patent for a new and useful improvement in gas-machines.
- Adding-Machine
- Patent for "a simple, cheap, and efficient device of this character which may accomplish with facility and case all the purposes for which it is intended" (lines 13-16).
- Adding-Machine.
- Patent for an inexpensive, simple, easily operated, and improved registering machine that is meant to add numbers without mistakes. It uses revoluble number wheels and a spring-returned shaft among other materials.
- Adding-Machine.
- Patent for am adding machine by using two disks, one a units-disk with pins in multiples of ten, one a tens-disk, is an annular disk with pin surrounding the units disk, an outwardly spring-pressed holder having a beveled outer end frictionally engaging the pins of the tens-disk and a carrier having oppositely-beveled ends engaged a supplemental pin and one pin on the tens-disks, teeth in the adjacent faces of the holder and carrier, and an idle-gear between them to enable the adding operation. (Lines 50-62) Illustration is included.
- Adding-Machine.
- Patent for an adding-machine meant to "add fixed amounts of money received or to calculate the number of days a laborer has worked or the number of fractions of days" (lines 14-17). Mounted keys have mechanisms that rotate a ratchet wheel or disk. "Secured to the shaft upon which this ratchet wheel or disk is mounted is a rate-indicator, consisting of a disk divided off into radial sections, and also divided by lines running parallel to the circumference of said disk, dividing the same up into sections, which indicate money advanced on pay-roll, addition column, total amount at a fixed rate, and the number of days worked by any workman" (lines 25-34).
- Adjustable Cultivator-Tooth Seat.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in adjustable cultivator tooth seats, including instructions and illustrations.
- Adjustable Fire Guard and Screen.
- Patent for a new and improved fireplace screen. This design "is to provide a simple and efficient device which may be suspended in front of open fireplaces or grates for the purpose of preventing the frequent and sometimes fatal accidents which are directly due to the absence of reliable safe-guards. The invention consists of a series of shields or plates of suitable size and material, which are so connected that when not in use they may be easily drawn upward in succession side by side and compactly placed in an appropriate receptacle attached to the front of a mantel or to a wall above a fireplace" (lines 16-29).
- Adjustable Grate Attachment.
- Patent for an adjustable grate attachment that is meant to be used with open grates. It prevents "the falling of heated coals therefrom; also to provide for extension of the grate vertically to facilitate making of a larger fire; and further, to provide an attachment which may be used in regulating the draft to the grate proper" (lines 15-20).
- Adjustable Handle-Bar for Bicycles.
- Patent for adjustable handle bar for bicycles, including illustrations.
- Adjustable Mosquito-Canopy.
- Patent for an adjustable, simple, and easily used mosquito-canopy for beds that fits over any style and size of bed, and is easily removed.
- Adjustable Pipe-Wrench.
- Patent for an adjustable pipe wrench "in which the opposing jaws of the wrench are maintained at an angle to each other, so hat they converge toward their extremities, thus enabling a firmer hold to e obtained upon the pope or other article to be gripped by said jaws." (Lines 15-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Adjustable Rack for Railway-Cars.
- Patent for improvements on racks in railway-cars including more storage for smaller items, an adjustable rack for children or elderly persons to be able to reach without needing to stand on the car seat, a titled hinge that allows a rack to be pulled for ward and pushed back, and other improvements.
- Adjustable Shade or Curtain Support.
- Patent for adjustable and curtain supports, including instructions and illustrations.
- Adjustable Standard for Plows.
- Patent for improvements to foot pieces that allow for easy adjustment of plowing depth. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Adjustable Table.
- Patent for a new and useful adjustable table, including instructions and illustrations.
- 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.
- Advertising Device.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in advertising device, including instructions and illustrations.
- Advertising Device.
- Patent for "a simple and inexpensive advertising device adapted to be placed on street corners and other public places and capable of exciting the curiosity and attracting attention, and thereby directing the attention of persons to the advertisement" (lines 11-16).
- Advertising-Fan.
- Patent for "an attractive sign, which by reason of its revolutions will receive notice from the general public and illustrate business cards or signs, and furthermore to operate the same by and in conjunction with a fan, such as is commonly used in public places." (Lines 15-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Aerial Ship
- Patent for "a ship for navigating the air, which shall be almost or quite as easily governed and controlled as regards its course of travel, irrespective of the direction of the wind and in other respects, as a ship provided with propelling means, used to sail in or through the water" (lines 9-15).
- Agricultural Implement.
- Patent for "agricultural implements to be used for tilling the soil and planting, either separately or at one and the same operation, and has for its object to reduce the expense incurred by the general practice of first preparing the land for planting and subsequently sowing the seed. By this inventions the land can simultaneously prepared and the grain deposited therein." (Lines 8-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Agricultural Implement.
- Patent for a new and improved sweep. This design consists "in a sweep of a suitable shape and construction having attached to each of its rear corners a vertical bar or wings, which extends parallel to the course of the plow and backward a suitable distance beyond the sweep proper . . . The object of [the] invention is to attach to the rear corners or wings of a sweep bars or runners, which rest upon the ground and steady the sweep and prevent it from wabbling or dodging while in use" (lines 14-25).
- Air-Brake.
- Patent for "a direct air brake system [that is] adapted to be used in combination with an automatic system, whereby the brakes can be applied by either the automatic or quick system, or the direct, or by both, as the conditions may require" (lines 8-13).
- Air-Compressor for Water-Elevators.
- Patent for "an improvement in air-compressors for water-elevators, and it consists in the novel mechanism for compressing air, by which water is designed to be raised from a cistern, or other reservoir." (Lines 13-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Air-Pipe Coupling.
- Patent for an improved air-pipe coupling that is airtight and watertight and has a flexible union for railroad cars.
- Air-Ship.
- Patent for a self-propelled, navigable air ship. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Air-Supplying Device For Diving Purposes.
- Patent for a new and useful air supplying device for diving purposes, including instructions and illustrations.
- Air-Tight Heating-Stove
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in air tight heating stoves, including instructions and illustrations.
- Albany Sheet
- Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
- Albany Sheet
- Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
- Alpine Sheet
- Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
- Anal Speculum.
- Patent for a new and improved anal speculum. This design is "to so construct the several parts that there will be no rough or raised edges to interfere with its insertion in the anal passage; secondly, to so construct [the] improved speculum that it may be readily used as a bi-valve or dilator; thirdly, to form a locking-joint on the meeting edges of the shells forming the speculum, whereby the sections are prevented from overlapping each other to avoid pinching or injury to the walls of the anal passage while the instrument is being inserted; fourthly, to provide a plug for [the] improved speculum" (lines 17-29).
- Andiron.
- Patent for a simple and inexpensive andiron that can easily be moved and holds the logs in place. "The invention consists of an andiron having two dogs or members connected together and a fender removably connected to the front of said dogs and extending over the intervening space or opening" (lines 9-14).
- Andiron.
- Patent for improvement of andirons, to accommodate fuel or sticks of wood and to burn either wood or coal fuel. Includes illustrations.