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Means for Transmitting Motion.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in means for transmitting motion, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 4, 1898
Creator:
Holmgreen, Julius H. & Holmgreen, Eugene A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trolley - Guard
Patent for a new and useful improvement in trolley-guards to prevent "the trolley - wheel at the top of a trolley - pole from jumping fro the conducting - wire, thus avoiding the stopping of the cars" (line 9 - 11).
Date:
January 4, 1898
Creator:
Vogler, Herman J.
System:
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Telephone System.
Patent for "a novel arrangement of circuits in connection with a pair of telephone-receivers at each subscriber's station, whereby the subscriber can cut out the station, so that the conversation is being carried on between two subscribers cannot be heard by the other subscribers on the same line" (lines 9-17).
Date:
July 4, 1899
Creator:
Bennett, William W.
System:
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Pump.
Patent for a pump "of the double-cylinder type, in which a continuous and steady stream of water is sucked from the well and forced to the point of use, and in such a pump to provide means for operating the same, whereby the same power will be required to raise the plunger that it does to force the same downward, and to this end providing such improved mechanisms and connections which will evenly distribute the power exerted by the operator to actuate the pump" (lines 9-19).
Date:
October 4, 1892
Creator:
Smith, Millage Math.
System:
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Main Slide-Valve and Throttle-Valve for Steam-Engines.
Patent for a simple main slide-valve and throttle-valve for steam-engines. The throttle valve is a flat plat and slides in a channel between the valve seat and the cylinder head. The twin engine cylinders are horizontally placed at the same height as the throttle valve. The main slide valve "affords a complete and superior valve mechanism for a quick speed steam engine" (lines 29-30).
Date:
December 4, 1894
Creator:
Devoissaud, John P.
System:
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Mechanism for Overcoming Dead-Centers.
Patent for a "mechanism for overcoming what are known in mechanics as 'dead-centers,' which occur in machines where a shaft is driven by means of a crank." (Lines 13-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 4, 1896
Creator:
Johnson, Willie Harry
System:
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Metal Cutter And Roller.
Patent for a new and useful metal cutter and roller, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 4, 1898
Creator:
Beaty, Gilbert M.
System:
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Plow.
Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists, "with the standard and blade, of the removable L-shaped landside bar or plate, having one part or arm secured by a bolt or otherwise between the upper part of the blade and standard and the other part or arm standing at about right angles backward to resist the mold-board thrust as a landside" (lines 5-12).
Date:
March 4, 1890
Creator:
Stewart, John A.
System:
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Portable Type-Distributer.
Patent for improvements in portable “type-distributing device which can be comfortably held in the hand and without strain on the wrist, and which is provided with a suitable main receptacle to hold the matter being distributed and also with auxiliary receptacles for leads and spaces, whereby the labor of distributing is greatly facilitated and lessened and the work much more rapidly accomplished.” (Lines 26-34) Includes illustration.
Date:
August 4, 1891
Creator:
Clarke, Robert
System:
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Nailless Horseshoe.
Patent for a certain new and useful improvement in nailless horseshoes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 4, 1899
Creator:
Broers, Henry
System:
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Telegraph-Key.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in telegraph keys, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 4, 1898
Creator:
Lewis, Frank E.
System:
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Tire-Setting Machine.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in tire setting machines, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 4, 1898
Creator:
Mathisen, Christian
System:
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Switch-Stand.
Patent for a switch-stand for railroads with a vertically movable crank bar that is easily locked into position and a cam lever. The invention is operated more easily than other switch-stands.
Date:
September 4, 1894
Creator:
Driever, Benjiman F. & Mixon, James W.
System:
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Support for Cutter-Heads.
Patent for a support for cutter-heads that allows the operator to easily sharpen, dress, and treat the bits or cutters of the head. It has a spindle that turns and slides in a bearing and supports a cutter-head a pin in the spindle that is seated inn the grooves in the bearings, and a spring loaded bolt in the end of the spindle.
Date:
December 4, 1894
Creator:
Kendig, Andrew
System:
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Paint.
Patent for "a new and useful Improvement in Aqueous Paint" (lines 5-7) involving mud taken from Lake McDonald, in Austin, Texas, in combination with various admixtures of chemical and organic materials.
Date:
February 4, 1896
Creator:
Reynolds, Walter James
System:
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Govering-Machine.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in rag joiners, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 4, 1899
Creator:
Vining, Lucinda
System:
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Hay Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design consists "[i]n a double-acting baling-press, the combination, with the two followers having the apertured end lugs, of the sliding casting having the curved shoulders, the central aperture, and the apertured end lugs, the top plate having the apertured end lugs and central opening, the drive-wheel having the handle-socket and formed with the tapering opening and the central opening, the central pivot, and the king-bolt" (lines 13-22).
Date:
February 4, 1890
Creator:
Hill, Abraham J.
System:
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Hame Fastener.
Patent for a new and improved hame-fastener. This design consists in "the combination, with the eccentric-lever formed with the two slots . . . one of which forms the cam, of the hook secured and movable within the slot by the pivot-pin, and the [other] hook, secured and movable within the [other] slot by the [other] pivot-pin" (lines 87-93).
Date:
November 4, 1890
Creator:
Padfield, Harry V.
System:
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Hog-Pen.
Patent for a hog pen and feed trough that can hold and feed a variety of variety of animals. It consists of an inclosure with an opening, ways extending into and out of the opening, a sliding trough mounted in the pen, rollers that slide into and out of the pen, pulleys in the trough, a shaft journaled in the front of the trough, ropes that go around the pulleys, and a turning mechanism for the shaft.
Date:
July 4, 1893
Creator:
Wilkinson, Benjmon M.
System:
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Cotton-Chopper.
This is a patent for "new and useful improvements in a combined cultivator and chopper" (lines 5-7). The new improvements include a combination chopper and cultivator that will maneuver on both sides of a row of cotton crop.
Date:
September 4, 1897
Creator:
Latta, William D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Time-Alarm and Annunciator
Patent for "a combined call and annunciator system by which any number of signals can be sent automatically or manually and various signals received through the annunciator, the apparatus serving to send signals to or from any number of distant points on the circuit at any time" (lines 17-23).
Date:
April 4, 1890
Creator:
Suren, Nathan H.
System:
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Feeder for Printing-Machines.
Patent for a feeder for printing machines that supplies sheets for them to be printed automatically. It has a reciprocating bed with a cylinder over it which rotates when the bed moves. Blank sheets are on the beds, and the cylinder moves the sheets off the beds, into rollers.
Date:
December 4, 1894
Creator:
Clarke, George R.
System:
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Fluid-Fuel Burner.
Patent for "a simple and efficient device adapted to feed the fuel as required for the support of combustion and avoid flooding and hence the danger of explosion, and, furthermore, to provide a compact arrangement of parts whereby the device may be arranged in the fire-box of an ordinary stove or range." (Lines 9-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 4, 1896
Creator:
Stapp, William A. & Hamilton, Charles P.
System:
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Flue-Beader.
Patent for a tool that allows a boiler flue to rotate while not letting any steam out of the flue. This allows for the projecting end of the flue to turn without damaging itself and makes taking the flue apart easier for workmen.
Date:
May 4, 1897
Creator:
Hutchison, Wilson F.
System:
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