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Beauty-Pillow.
Patent for improvement in beauty pillow which is slanted to draw the skin back toward the scalp to prevent wrinkling. Illustration is included.
Date:
May 4, 1909
Creator:
Fitze, Eloise
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Barrel-Shelf
Patent for barrel shelves which attach to barrels to hold up sacks during filling and fold up when out of use.
Date:
May 4, 1909
Creator:
Hughes, Alonzo
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Extermination of Boll-Weevil.
Patent for Apparatus for Extermination of Boll Weevil. A vehicle which can carry a furnace to generate noxious fumes with insecticides and cool those fumes to produce a toxic atmosphere around effected plants.
Date:
May 4, 1903
Creator:
Taylor, James Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Antispreading Attachment for Rails.
Patent for the improvement of antispreading attachments for rails. The attachments provide a structure comprising a span tie located between the rails and is adapted to connect with dogs, one dog being connected with each of the rails.
Date:
May 4, 1915
Creator:
Simpson, Mary E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Battery-Plate and Terminal Connection
Patent for improvements on a battery plate and terminal connections. Plate lugs and the terminal for the battery are a solid piece to fit more battery sizes and prevent the lugs from breaking off.
Date:
May 4, 1920
Creator:
Hawkins, Alda F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve for Pneumatic Tires
Patent for a valve for pneumatic tires. The design is to keep the valve cap from becoming unsecured and to keep air from escaping.
Date:
May 4, 1915
Creator:
McCall, Jacob Capshaw
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Magneto-Telephonic Apparatus
Patent for an invention to improve transmitting vocals and other sounds. It is a magneto telephonic system based on an magnetic field of high intensity.
Date:
May 4, 1886
Creator:
Brown, Fred. H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve-Flushing Means
Patent for a method of expelling debris and deposits in a foot valve, including illustrations.
Date:
May 4, 1920
Creator:
Coulson, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window Attachment.
Patent for a sash attachment that steadies the movement of the window sash within a window frame and prevent rattling.
Date:
May 4, 1920
Creator:
Dysart, Marby P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive Driving-Box.
Patent for improvements in locomotive driving boxes. Designed to "eliminate the necessity of removing the driving wheels" (lines 13-14) to replace the crown brasses, "eliminate the necessity of removing the driving box" (lines 16-17) to avoid lateral wear, and eliminates the necessity of expensive machine work.
Date:
May 4, 1920
Creator:
Simmons, Arthur, W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel-Fender
Patent for fenders for truck wheels using hoods and reinforcing bands, including illustrations.
Date:
May 4, 1915
Creator:
Leach, Felix
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle.
Patent for a vehicle that is "designed particularly for travel through the water but adapted through the peculiarity of its construction for travel with practically equal facility on the land." (p. 1, lines 9-12), including illustrations.
Date:
May 4, 1915
Creator:
Ramsey, Frank T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher.
Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design is "for stretching and repairing wire, the combination of a main bar having a longitudinal slot, and having an upwardly-facing shoulder provided with a groove, a guide-block in the lower end of the slot, a shaft journaled in the sides of the slot and having a pinion within the slot and a ratchet handle at its outer end for revolving it, a spring pawl engaging the pinion, a cam-lever pivoted upon the upper end of the main bar and engaging the grooved shoulder with its cam end, [and] a rack-bar sliding in the lower end of the slot upon the guide-block" (lines 43-55).
Date:
May 4, 1886
Creator:
La Bauve, Odelon Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Index for Books.
Patent for "... improvements in indexes for books which receive the freight tariffs or schedules of railroads and the agreements between one road and others a to division of freight charges where the traffic is handled by more than one" (lines 11-16 ) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 4, 1897
Creator:
Kerr, Warren Dunlop
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lifting-Frame.
Patent for a lifting frame for hoisting engines, which allows a car to be put under the engine easily.
Date:
May 4, 1909
Creator:
Knox, Hiram
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements In Ironing-Machines
Patent for new and useful improvements in the ironing machine. Machine has carrying case that is mounted on wheels and allows the iron to move over garments as it straightens out wrinkles.
Date:
May 4, 1875
Creator:
Perrenot, George F
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Machine for Cutting Stalks in the Field Preparatory to Plowing.
Patent for improvement in machine for clearing cotton and corn-fields of the stalks after the crops have been gathered by “providing a revolving drum or roller with knives, set spirally around it, which cut the stalks of cotton or corn-fields into pieces of any desired length, for the purpose of being plowed under the surface for fertilizing, by rolling it over them.” (Lines 14-19) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 4, 1869
Creator:
Wright, Reuben
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Bolting Machine
Patent for new tire-bolting machine with "a unique assemblage of component parts, to enhance the utility of the structure, and the apparatus being improved generally to increase the efficiency thereof." (lines 16-19) , including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 4, 1915
Creator:
McCullough, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire
Patent for tires for vehicle wheels carcasses built-up with metallic reinforcing inlays which are provided with internal air tubes to improve on use and less expensive to produce.
Date:
May 4, 1915
Creator:
Varnell, Clyde
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stamp Canceler.
Patent for a new and improved stamp canceler. This design "is to provide a . . . stamp-canceler, which is so constructed that it punctures or perforates the stamp and inks it at the same time, but does not mutilate the letter or other contents of the envelope" (lines 7-12).
Date:
May 4, 1886
Creator:
Luzenberg, Edward A. & Sachs, Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark Arrester.
Patent for a new and improved spark-arrester. This design consists in "[t]he combination of an inverted-U-shaped pipe joined to the smoke-stack of an engine, a suitable damper located at the junction, a water receptacle suspended from the free end of said pipe, and a water-pipe leading into said end from the boiler of the engine" (lines 85-90).
Date:
May 4, 1886
Creator:
Ledbetter, William Hughes
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Obtaining a Lubricant From the Cactus- Plant
Patent for as a new article of manufacture gelatinous material or product obtained from the cactus-plant suitable for use as a lubricant.
Date:
May 4, 1886
Creator:
Marshall, Edward, S. & Savage, Robert W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump-Piston.
Patent for an improved pump piston used to pump oil from deep wells. The main improvement in this piston is that it is less susceptible to damage from sand or sediment by keeping sediment out of the piston valve, thus preventing it from accruing any long term damage that may render the piston irreparable. This design is also capable of fixing any wear due to sand or grit without removing the piston from the well.
Date:
May 4, 1920
Creator:
Coulson, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stamping Machine.
Patent for improvements to stamping-machines used for the purposes of marketing nuts. The device can efficiently perform the laborious act of stamping individual nuts with a trademark. It can be adjusted to stamp nuts of any size, along with other similar objects, without breaking or injuring the nut.
Date:
May 4, 1920
Creator:
Wischhesen, Frederick B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History