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Headlight.
Patent for Locomotive-headlights, "and has for its principal object to so construct the lamp and its casing as to permit of the lighting or adjusting the lamp-blaze from the back of the headlight box…” (lines 8-13) including illustrations.
Date:
December 2, 1902
Creator:
Stanton, James Robertson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard.
Patent for an improved cattle-guard by using a guard that has a plurality of spurs, should an animal step thereon its foot will be directed against one or more of these spurs, thus causing the animal to withdraw its foot and not attempt to pass over the rail. This will prevent the animal from crossing railway-tracks, but the spurs will not interfere with the free passage of trains. (Lines 10-20) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 2, 1901
Creator:
Steinmann, Herman Werner
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coffee-Pot.
Patent for coffee pot attachment to prevent coffee grounds from getting into the coffee pot's spout.
Date:
January 2, 1912
Creator:
Voyles, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aerial Vehicle
Patent for an aerial vehicle. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 2, 1912
Creator:
Rex, Cleveland A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Arc-Lamp Headlight
Patent for an electric arc headlight for trains, cars, or boats which produces a steady light and lasts long enough to allow travel over long distances.
Date:
February 2, 1909
Creator:
Lacy, Benjamin B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Air-Brake Appliance
Patent for an automatic air brake appliance for railroad cars that activates if the car derails.
Date:
May 2, 1911
Creator:
Baxter, Joseph Sewell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Advertising Clock
Patent for an advertising clock. This invention is designed to display advertisement at regular intervals. Illustration included.
Date:
March 2, 1909
Creator:
Barnett, John Beverly & Turner, W. N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant-Trap
Patent for "a simple device of this kind which will excel the former traps in depositing the ants within the annular pan and in efficiency for convenient discharge of the trapped insects" (lines 18-22).
Date:
April 2, 1901
Creator:
Inman, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve or Cut-Off for Tanks
Patent for Valve or Cut-off for Tanks. Improved valve or cut-off for tanks especially discharge valves. Few parts, easy to assemble, easy to operate, intended for extended use.
Date:
July 2, 1903
Creator:
Leithauser, Peter Jerome; Leithauser, Peter J. & Leithauser, P. J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Testing Errors of Refraction
Patent for an eye testing device that has a movable lens, a measuring device for correction, and two different cards with test type on them which are fed into the machine during testing for astigmatism and myopia, presbyopia, and hyperopia to determine the level of correction needed in glasses.
Date:
July 2, 1907
Creator:
Bahn, Gustavus Adolphus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard.
Patent for a cattle guard for railroad tracks, which is activated by the pressure of a cow stepping on its platform and raises bars to block the the cow from crossing the track. It goes back down automatically when the pressure is removed off the platform.
Date:
February 2, 1909
Creator:
Crouch, Jim L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Pipe Coupling.
Patent for an improved air-pipe coupling that is airtight and watertight and has a flexible union for railroad cars.
Date:
May 2, 1893
Creator:
Thomas, James Bryant
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compound Tool.
Patent for a new and improved multi-tool. This design "consist[s], essentially, of the lever having a cutter recessed and centrally-perforated enlargement, a notch at the outer end of the said enlargement, and a curved and tapering jaw, and a lever, similarly enlarged and recessed . . . and centrally perforated, and having a head, a notch, and a curved and tapering jaw, and the rivet for uniting the two levers at the recessed enlargement" (lines 73-82).
Date:
October 2, 1888
Creator:
Benson, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Planter.
Patent for a cotton or corn planter with detachable parts.
Date:
August 2, 1887
Creator:
Yarborough, William O.
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.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling Seed Cotton.
Patent for cotton house with bins and conveyors that prevent the cotton from being contaminated.
Date:
December 2, 1884
Creator:
Munger, Robert S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling Seed-Cotton.
Patent for a "mechanism for handling seed-cotton [...] to provide novel means for conveying said cotton directly from the wagon or from the cotton-house to the ginning mechanism, whereby the cotton is cleansed and dried during its passage" (lines 7-13). It also helps to prevent fires and contamination of ginned cotton, and to reduce labor handling seed-cotton.
Date:
December 2, 1884
Creator:
Munger, Robert S.
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.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling and Cleaning Seed-Cotton.
Patent for improvements in apparatus for handling and cleaning seed-cotton by “conveying cotton through a pneumatic tube and for automatically delivering therefrom to each of a series of gins an amount of cleaned cotton graduated at all times to the need of each gin. The flow of the main current in the tube is not interrupted by the several subtractions.” (Lines 17-23) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 2, 1891
Creator:
Elam, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Destroying Insects.
Patent for a new and improved apparatus for killing ants. This design "consist[s] of frame, levers, pivoted arms, piston-rod, piston provided with valves and openings, air-tight iron chamber having opening pipe, furnace provided with double lid, lugs, pipe, clamp, and wedge . . . whereby the flame as well as the poisonous vapors are injected into the insect chambers" (lines 50-58).
Date:
August 2, 1881
Creator:
Gray, Hiram Balderston
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Header.
Patent for a device for the removal of the heads of corn. The device contains a blade and attaches to a person's hand.
Date:
May 2, 1916
Creator:
Hooper, Howard Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Building Circular Walls and Means for Adjusting the Apparatus.
Patent for a "scaffold adjusting apparatus, and particularly to means for elevating and lowering scaffolds for building circular wills or silos, circular tanks, smoke stacks, and similar circular walls "(lines 10-14), including illustrations.
Date:
February 2, 1915
Creator:
Nash, Alexander Q.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Hopple
Patent for certain new improvements in animal hopples. This device prevents animals from rearing up in the front when it is worn. The device consists of several plates and a collar with a connecting chain.
Date:
June 2, 1914
Creator:
Hentschel, Andrew J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Battery Connector
Patent for a battery connector that will bind the, "posts and nuts of batteries."
Date:
March 2, 1915
Creator:
Hale, Noah
System:
The Portal to Texas History