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Combined Stock and Freight Car
Patent for improved stock-car with provided attachments for conversion to freight-car.
Date:
June 19, 1906
Creator:
Wyatt, Everett
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Anti-Freezing Tank Valve.
Patent for a new and improved tank valve. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the tank, its valve and lever, and valve-rod, of the frost-chamber having an annular space to receive the non-freezing compound, the stuffing-box around the rod and screw-threaded at the ends, and the screw-threaded caps . . . having necks and flanges" (lines 7-13).
Date:
June 11, 1889
Creator:
Barrett, William Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Child's Crib
Patent for new "suspended cribs or cradles for the use of children" (lines 17-18) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 8, 1880
Creator:
Brown, Fred Harvey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie.
Patent for bale ties that "have the securing members permanently connected" (lines 12-13) and do not have projecting ends that could damage cotton bales or other fibrous materials.
Date:
June 9, 1914
Creator:
McFarland, Frank H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Curing Tire-Casings
Patent for an improved apparatus for Curing Tire-Casings (relates to molding devices for curing tire casings) which is easily and quickly set up and knocked down, holds casings safely in position while being cured, and highly efficient in curing tire casings.
Date:
June 17, 1919
Creator:
Bongio, Philip P. & Stephenson Elonzo
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Straightening and Coiling Machine
Patent for a wire straightening and coiling machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 16, 1908
Creator:
Horsley, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Womb-Battery.
Patent for a womb-battery that has "an advantageous electrical or galvanic device adapted, when placed in the womb of a patient where it will be subject to the chemical action of the mucous fluid, to develop a mild electric action and thereby stimulate the generative organs and promote the cure of the various diseases peculiar to the female sex" (lines 13-20). It also is not easily displaced and is easily adjusted.
Date:
June 5, 1894
Creator:
Petit, Julius C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Induction Coil.
Patent for a new and improved induction coil. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the bent core, the primary and secondary coils wound thereon, the adjustable armature connected to one pole (to form an extension thereof) and extending over the opposite pole, and the set-screw for moving the free end of the armature toward or from the disconnected pole to establish or break the magnetic circuit" (lines 5-12).
Date:
June 11, 1889
Creator:
Brown, Fred H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Truck for Railway-Carriages.
Patent for an improved truck for railway carriages that is meant "to construct surface-rollers which have their center of bearing above the center of the traction of surface roller, and which have traction rollers bearing upon the upper portion of the main surface-roller, and upon which the load is supported equally upon two points of the surface or traction roller" (lines 17-23).
Date:
June 27, 1893
Creator:
Turner, Ephraim M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vibrating Churn
Patent for a vibrating churn design meant to improve the process of churning liquids.
Date:
June 3, 1919
Creator:
Yount, J. E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Liquid-Fuel-Measuring Tank
Patent for a liquid fuel measuring tank that accurately measures fuel and can automatically stop accumulating fuel when a certain amount has been reached, including illustrations.
Date:
June 25, 1918
Creator:
Helm, Virgil L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window-Curtain.
Patent for improvements in curtain-fixtures in which it can be “readily applied to a window and capable of enabling its brackets to be readily adjusted to suite a curtain-roller.” (Lines 11-13) It also can prevent the curtain-roller becoming accidentally disengaged from the bracket by reason of one bracket being slightly higher than the other. (Lines 15-17) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 30, 1891
Creator:
Mendenhall, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve-Motion.
Patent for "a valve-motion having simple and positive means for varying the points at which the ports of the engine-cylinder are opened and closed to vary the lap and lead, and while accomplishing this result the invention has especial reference to a form of valve-motion designed for use in connection with that type of locomotive or other engines in which there is a comparatively short space between the drive or driving-shaft and the engine-cylinder." (Lines 11-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 15, 1897
Creator:
Shelb, Peter J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve
Patent for a valve with a peripheral knife edge which allows for fluid tight joints. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 22, 1909
Creator:
Speer, George F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wagon-Brakes.
Patent for a foot operated wagon braking mechanism, including illustrations. Patent for a better alternative to lever brakes on buggies and wagons as the braking mechanism is "out of the way, and not noticeable or prominently visible from the sides of the vehicle".
Date:
June 19, 1877
Creator:
O'Neall, James M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Smoothing and Fluting Irons.
Patent for improvement in smoothing and fluting irons, which combines a sad-iron smoothing-plate and mechanical fluting iron in one device which includes a heat shield and rollers through which fabric is advanced. The rollers are mechanized via a latch and rack-wheel that are actuated by moving the handle of the device up and down.
Date:
June 1, 1875
Creator:
Mayfield, William Dudley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ventilating Attachment to Hearths.
Patent for a new and improved ventilating attachment for hearths. This design "consists in extending the ventilating box or casing . . . sufficiently below the floor of the room to the hearth to which it is applied to allow it to project into the room below" (lines 19-23).
Date:
June 27, 1882
Creator:
Howard, Joshua Eaffrom
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tramping Attachment for Baling Presses.
Patent for a new and improved attachment for baling presses. This design "consists of a contrivance of trampers and a crank with power mechanism for working them, in a simple arrangement for beating in the cotton on the follower preparatory to closing the press and completing the pressing by the follower, the device being calculated to enable the bales of full size to be made in a smaller case, and with less range of movement of the follower and more economically than they can be made without the tramper" (lines 8-18).
Date:
June 10, 1884
Creator:
Thompson, Gedeon Philip
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Machines for Storing the Power of Wind-Engines.
Patent for a machine for storing the power of wind-engines with design specifications and a description of the process and implementation of usage, including illustrations.
Date:
June 25, 1878
Creator:
Everhart, Martin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Dredging-Machine.
Patent for "an improved device for the excavation of material from the bottoms and sides of channels or other water ways; and has for its object to provide a novel machine of the type indicated, which will afford means to rapidly loosen earth or gravel below the surface of a water course, mix it with water, and subsequently transfer and discharge the débris upon the shore of the stream or within a floating receptacle, as may be desired" (lines 8-18).
Date:
June 6, 1893
Creator:
Robbins, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Toy Figure or Doll.
Patent for a new model of doll or toy figure made partially from eggshells. Includes illustration.
Date:
June 2, 1903
Creator:
French, Carrie A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Ginning, Cleaning, and Bleaching Cotton.
Patent for improvements to the processes of ginning, cleaning, and bleaching cotton, and "particularly to stripping the lint cotton from the seed and for treating cotton with an air treatment after it leaves the saws" (lines 10-13), including illustrations.
Date:
June 19, 1917
Creator:
Hodo, Wesley A. J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock.
Patent for a nut lock with a locking plate that can be used for multiple nuts, "particularly those used in securing the joints of railroad rails, frogs, switches, and crossings" (lines 10-12), with illustrations.
Date:
June 19, 1906
Creator:
Taylor, James T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Music-Rest for Pianos.
Patent for a music rest for pianos, which attaches to the piano case and can be adjusted to different heights.
Date:
June 9, 1908
Creator:
Norcross, Levi Watson
System:
The Portal to Texas History