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Acetylene Gas Generator.
Patent for a acetylene gas generator which combines "both a generator and a gasometer the parts of which are so arranged as to render the machine efficient and entirely automatic in action, as well as inexpensive of production." (lines 16-20) including illustrations.
Date:
October 14, 1902
Creator:
Reynolds, Pearl P. & Reynolds, Jerry J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Woodworking-Clamp.
Patent for woodworking clamp that is adjustable so that it can be used with many different shapes and sizes.
Date:
October 14, 1913
Creator:
Seidel, Emil K. F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock
Patent for a general lock but made especially for trunk locks. It adds a spring lock and preventative measures against lock picking.
Date:
October 14, 1902
Creator:
Kirk, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Picket-Fences.
Patent for secure, inexpensive picket-fence construction using various sizes of wood pieces and wire. It is meant for situations in which wood is scarce. Illustration included.
Date:
October 14, 1873
Creator:
McGinty, Robert H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hay and Cotton Presses.
Patent for an improvement of a baling press where the upright framing timbers allows any quantity of cotton to be placed in the bale and creates a uniformity of weight.
Date:
July 5, 1873
Creator:
Müller, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Policemen's Batons.
Patent for an improved policemen's baton made of flexible material, such as india-rubber or gutta-percha, and sometimes an interior metal stem. Using a flexible material makes the baton elastic enough so that no serious injury can be caused, yet it is still effective. Illustration included.
Date:
October 14, 1873
Creator:
Beery, Simon & McDonald, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plates for Holding Screw-Cutting Dies.
Patent for plates to hold screw-cutting dies, which allows the threads to be more accurately placed. Dies are also able to work for left handed dies as well as right handed dies.
Date:
October 14, 1879
Creator:
Geiser, Johan G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hand Cotton Pickers.
Patent for a new method of picking cotton by hand, whereby 3 spindles remove the fibers from the bolls.
Date:
October 14, 1879
Creator:
Ham, Thomas William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner.
Patent for a hydrocarbon burner that has plurality of nozzles from which hydrocarbon is discharged by steam pressure to collide at common point before combustion.
Date:
October 14, 1913
Creator:
Wall, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pumping Attachment.
Patent is for "new and useful Improvements in Pumping Attachments" (lines 5&6) with illustration and instructions on how it works.
Date:
October 14, 1913
Creator:
York, John B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Subsoil Attachment for Plows.
Patent for a subsoil attachment for plows in which the attachment can be “held fixedly relative to the plow so as to be maintained constantly at the desired depth without pushing upwardly under the resistance offered by the soil. This attachment can also be adjusted easily to plow to the desired depths.” (P. 1, lines 15-22.) Illustration is included.
Date:
October 14, 1913
Creator:
Mathis, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Switch-Throwing Mechanism for Railway-Cars.
Patent for improvements in switch-throwing mechanism for railway-cars in which the motor operator can throw a switch without stopping the car and it will be accurate. Illustration is included.
Date:
October 14, 1913
Creator:
Slate, William L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washer.
Patent for improvements in washers by providing a washer with “two pivoted members, which can be swung open to insert the washer without removing the bolt or spoke upon when the washer needed to be replaced.” (Lines 10-13, p. 1) Illustration is included.
Date:
October 14, 1913
Creator:
Bulter, Joseph F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tool For Withdrawing Casings From Wells.
Patent for tool for withdrawing casings from wells that is "easy to apply and convenient to manipulate while in use" (lines 15-17).
Date:
October 14, 1902
Creator:
Bennison, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lamp Holder.
Patent for a new and improved lamp-holder. This design relates to "brackets for supporting lamps and other like articles; and it has for its object to provide a device of this character which shall be adjustable in various directions and extensible" (lines 15-19). It consists "of a casting having a rectangular portion provided with holes and from which extend parallel horizontal ears, the horizontal tubular arm formed at its inner end with enlargement arranged between the ears, the vertical pin passed through holes in said ears and a coincident hole in said enlargement intersecting the bore of the arm" (lines 18-26).
Date:
October 14, 1890
Creator:
Jefferson, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bed-Plates for Steam-Engines.
Patent for the invention of a new improvement in bed plates for steam engines, allowing improved water-feeding and venting of exhaust steam.
Date:
October 14, 1874
Creator:
Richardson, John Dunn
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Toy Dish.
Patent for a toy dish that is lightweight, attractive, durable, and cheap to manufacture. The design utilizes celluloid coverings.
Date:
October 14, 1919
Creator:
Luthy, Joseph O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gun.
Patent for an artillery gun which can be moved in any direction due to improvements in its base.
Date:
October 14, 1919
Creator:
Collier, William Reid
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Unloading and Feeding Apparatus.
Patent for improvements in Unloading and Feeding Apparatus, which improves the handling of fodder in a simple, practical, and cost effective way.
Date:
October 14, 1919
Creator:
Pierson, Ludvig B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stirrup Leather Stay.
Patent for a new and improved stirrup-leather stays. This design "is to provide a stay which will cause the stirrup to hang in proper position for insertion of the rider's foot in the mounting; and the invention consists in a stay the body of which is U-shaped in cross-section to receive the stirrup cross-bar and provided with a loop on its convex side at the bottom for the stirrup leather or strap" (lines 13-20).
Date:
October 14, 1890
Creator:
Padgitt, Jesse D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grading-Machine.
Patent for improvement in grading machines in which the speed of the drum, the speed of the drive wheels and the distance of the axis of the drive wheels can all be adjusted. Illustration is included.
Date:
October 14, 1913
Creator:
Foley, Charles H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Engine-Starter.
Patent for an internal combustion engine starter that is operated using compressed air. Compressed fluid can be used for other purposes such as inflating tires.
Date:
October 14, 1913
Creator:
Hume, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Swinging Gate
Patent for an improved swinging gate "which shall be simple in construction, chap to manufacture, durable in use, and shall be effectual in all respects in the performance of its functions" (lines 12-15)
Date:
October 14, 1902
Creator:
Holland, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sanitary Closet
Patent for an improvement upon sanitary water closets with a removable receptacle for excrement with a firebox for sanitation of the receptacle.
Date:
October 14, 1913
Creator:
Foster, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History