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Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a tool that can be used for fence construction by stretching the wires to the desired tension, or for repairing fences by crimping the slack in the wires. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 5, 1897
Creator:
Gardner, Robert J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a fence-wire stretcher with an improved clamping device for holding the wire after it has already been drawn. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 5, 1897
Creator:
Sharpe, Thomas F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Variable-Speed-Transmission Gearing.
Patent for an improved transmission gearing that provides "variable speed transmission gearing" (line 10) which allows for different forward and reverse speeds, including illustrations. The variable speed transmission gearing is designed primarily for automobiles and motor vehicles.
Date:
October 5, 1915
Creator:
Maschek, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock-Nut.
Patent for a new and improved lock nut design, including illustrations, that efficiently and reliably "locks the nut against rotation upon the bolt" (lines 14-15).
Date:
October 5, 1915
Creator:
Mitchell, Thomas T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Building and Rerolling Wire Fences.
Patent for "improvement in machines for building and rerolling wire fences" (lines 4-6), with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 5, 1886
Creator:
Edge, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lantern-Top
Patent for a lantern top that provides sufficient ventilation for the lamp or lantern. The arrangement of the lantern top provides sufficient communication between the interior of the lantern and the surrounding atmosphere to insure steady burning.
Date:
October 5, 1920
Creator:
Moore, Thomas Lindsay
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window Glass Fastener
Patent for window glass fastener. Illustration included.
Date:
October 5, 1909
Creator:
Phinny, Christphee W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lubricator
Patent for a lubricator used for lubricating graphite that is utilized in air brake systems. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 5, 1909
Creator:
Turner, William Orris
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tractor.
Patent for new and improved tractors on farms that are capable of pulling plows, cultivators, seed planters and other similar types of devices.
Date:
October 5, 1920
Creator:
Lindner, Hans
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wash Boiler.
Patent for a new and improved laundry boiler. This design consists in "a partition at its lower end slightly above the bottom formed with a screw-threaded neck at its center, a perforated tube fitting with its lower end upon the neck and having its upper end closed, and a number of perforated triangular tubes upon the side of the boiler provided with stoppers at their upper ends and extending from the partition in the lower end of the boiler, and a rack consisting of rings connected at their upper edges by cross-pieces" (lines 76-86).
Date:
October 5, 1886
Creator:
Fountain, Henry Stephen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hay and Cotton-Presses.
Patent for improvements in presses for hay, cotton and similar substances, by making the machine portable and the box that holds hay or cotton is adjustable vertically and horizontally. Illustration is included.
Date:
October 5, 1869
Creator:
Berkeley, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Propeller for Churns
Patent for propellers for churns, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 5, 1897
Creator:
Bolding, James P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pliers
Patent for pliers. The invention relates to improvements of the pliers, primarily adapted for use by linemen in securing an electric conducting wire upon an insulator, splicing the wire or stretching the same. The construction is to produce a pair of pliers which are simple in construction, cheap to manufacture and which will perform the functions of several ordinary tools.
Date:
October 5, 1915
Creator:
Bryce, William D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Measuring Instrument.
Patent for a measuring instrument that can be used as a protractor, compass, square, level, and bevel.
Date:
October 5, 1909
Creator:
Phenix, William Preston
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Removing Surface Finish
Patent for the process of removing paint, enamel, varnish, and lacquer from the surfaces of coated materials.
Date:
October 5, 1920
Creator:
Cleveland, David P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stock Food
Patent for a food stock product for cows, sheep, goats and other herbivore farm animals.
Date:
October 5, 1915
Creator:
Walker, Thomas Bailey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Swivel for Rotary Drills
Patent for a swivel for rotary drills used for wells of oil, water, and gas. This swivel ensures no substances, such as sand, get into the parts of the drill that move.
Date:
October 5, 1920
Creator:
Humason, Granville A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grain-Separator.
Patent for improved grain separators or threshing machines "whereby vibrating straw-racks will be entirely dispensed with and the machine so simplified as to obviate the heavy jars and jerks of most grain-separators or threshing machines, while at the same time providing a construction of machine that will effectually separate the grain from the straw and will also keep the feeding end of the machine entirely free from dust, which is often a serious drawback to the operation of most machines of this character." (Lines 11-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 5, 1897
Creator:
McCue, John Marshall
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thickener and Means for Removing Settled Solids Therefrom.
Patent for a machine which can automatically and continuously remove thickened material, which is a byproduct of wet milling ores. "The present device has been particularly designed to permit feed and discharge to be on the same level or for that matter the constant density discharge may be above or below the level of the feed stream, as may best fit the conditions of the particular installation" (lines 39-45).
Date:
October 5, 1920
Creator:
Allen, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saw-Filing Device
Patent for an improved saw filing machine. Illustration is included
Date:
October 5, 1920
Creator:
Barger, Bernard J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Roller-Bearing.
Patent for improvements in roller bearing for vehicles.
Date:
October 5, 1897
Creator:
Baker, Joseph B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump-Operating Mechanism.
Patent for Pump-Operating Mechanism designed with an operating lever for automatic engagement and be readily manipulated.
Date:
October 5, 1920
Creator:
Orla L. Huffman
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Metallurgical Process
Patent for a process for reducing minerals to metals, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 5, 1909
Creator:
Dawson, Oliver B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pin-Fastener.
Patent for pin fastener that safely allows for buttons, jewelry and other items to attached to clothes and not pierce the wearer.
Date:
October 5, 1915
Creator:
Towler, Mary E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History