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Apparatus for Molding Pipe
Patent for device that allows multiple sized pipes or pipe sections to be milded.
Date:
March 17, 1903
Creator:
Bergstrom, Otto
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Transmitting Sound-Waves
Patent for transmitting sound waves by magnetic induction and to "furnish an apparatus by which these different vibrations can be heard at the receiving end" (lines 20-22). Includes descriptions and illustrations.
Date:
October 17, 1911
Creator:
Harvey, Fred Brown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Air-Brake Coupling.
Patent for "a new and useful improvements in automatic air-brake couplers to enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, the invention also relates to improvements in automatic air-brake couplings in cars". (lines 5-10) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 17, 1900
Creator:
Cary, Lewis C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gage for Plows.
Patent for a new type of gage for a running plow, that can be adjusted for a specific depth
Date:
December 17, 1901
Creator:
Wilson, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Dispensing Oil, &c.
Patent for a new and useful apparatus for dispensing oil, &c.
Date:
May 17, 1898
Creator:
Haye, August
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Airship
Patent for a dirigible airship for aerial navigation, "to provide the balloon or gas bag with aeroplanes which serve to steady the balloon during the flight of the ship, and to increase the lifting power of the balloon when the ship is under motion, the arrangement being such as to enable said aeroplanes to be converted into a parachute, should the balloon or gas bag become deflated" (lines 20-28).
Date:
January 17, 1911
Creator:
Keller, James M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bearing.
Patent for improvements in bearings, in which a liquid-step bearing “contains a closed receptacle for oil or other liquid and co-acting with a movable piston or shaft, and adapted to resist end thrust by means of the liquid.” (Lines 11-14) Illustration is included.
Date:
September 17, 1907
Creator:
Godsey, Henry M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Barber's Bottle-Holder
Patent for a bottle holder used for barbers. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 17, 1907
Creator:
Faris, John W. B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Anchor Post
Patent for an anchor post. This invention is designed to resist any lateral or longitudinal strain. Illustration included.
Date:
November 17, 1903
Creator:
Small, Wily & Brock, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Phonograph-Machine.
Patent for a new phonograph machine with improvements of sound-box-transversing mechanisms and uniformity of movements, including illustrations.
Date:
April 17, 1906
Creator:
Dubinski, Benjamin.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Teeth.
Patent for the lower set of artificial teeth, "and aims to provide retainers and combine them with the plate, so as to hold the denture in place against accidental displacement during the process of articulation, prehension, mastication, and deglutition" (lines 10-15). This invention "provides retainers which fill a vacuum in the mouth never heretofore utilized in the construction of artificial teeth and which form a rest for the muscles in their contraction incident to the movements of the jaws, and these retainers render a lower set of artificial teeth s comfortable and serviceable as if they were natural" (lines 22-29).
Date:
September 17, 1895
Creator:
Johnston, George A. & Carroll, Houston M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Autographic Register.
Patent for an autographic register that provides "improved means for guiding, stamping, cutting, and filling a record-bill and discharging original and duplicate bills; [provides] improved means for guiding the strips of paper and holding the carbon or duplicating paper in operative position; furthermore, [provides] improved means for operating the several parts of the mechanism to insure accuracy and facilitate the subsequent permanent filing of the record-bills" (lines 9-19).
Date:
September 17, 1895
Creator:
Norcross, George A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Barber's Paper Clip.
Patent for a new and improved barber's paper clip. This design calls for "a clip formed by doubling upon itself a [flat] strip of metal," which will hold sheets of paper on which barbers can sharpen their razors. A hook exists on the opposite side, by which the paper clip can hang from the hot towel on the customer's face.
Date:
January 17, 1882
Creator:
Cohen, Moses
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Irrigating Land.
Patent for a new and improved irrigation machine. This design "consists in an irrigating-pipe having lapped side joints and notches in the inner edges of the lapped joints. The invention also consists in the combination, with a tank, of a trough below it, tubes projecting from the trough, and irrigating-pipes connected with the said tubes" (lines 12-18).
Date:
November 17, 1885
Creator:
Briggs, Elias
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap.
Patent for an improved animal trap for “catching small animals in a trap which will be ever set and in operative position for catching an animal and which will be automatically reset” (lines 10-13), illustration is included.
Date:
March 17, 1891
Creator:
Bassinger, Stephen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Addressing-Machines.
Patent for a new and improved design of addressing-machine which is intended for use in newspaper offices and business purposes in general. It includes illustrations.
Date:
December 17, 1878
Creator:
Piner, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Poke.
Patent for a new and improved animal poke. This design "is to construct a device which may be secured to horses, cattle, and other animals, and which will effectually prevent fence-jumping, while at the same time allow the animal free use of [its] head and limbs, doing away with any tendency to cramp the wearer" (lines 17-23). It consists, "with bar and a means for suspending it beneath the animal's body and the bar, which is secured at its outer end to the animal's head, of a hinge to the opposite side of which the adjacent ends of the said bars are pivoted" (lines 78-83).
Date:
May 17, 1892
Creator:
Stracener, Upton W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pumping-Head.
Patent for a pumping head involving two piston rods that are rigid and, if broken, can be replaced without harming the rest of the machine. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 17, 1914
Creator:
Boicourt, John L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air Brake Attachment.
Patent for "mechanism for use in connection with railway cars for automatically controlling the air brakes," including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 17, 1917
Creator:
Flowers, Malon Inghram & Sale, Archie Pierce
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nutcracker.
Patent for a nutcracker that can crack all kinds of nuts, with relatively little force, on appropriate surfaces like tables. The Patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 17, 1914
Creator:
Fort, Foster W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane
Patent for Aeroplane. This flying machine will automatically return to normal horizontal position if tilted.
Date:
September 17, 1909
Creator:
MacManus, Agustus, F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ballot-Voting Machine
Patent for a ballot box that counts the number of votes in the box.
Date:
February 17, 1914
Creator:
Brown, Flora & Senez, Arthur
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Antiskid Device
Patent for reinforcing the hinge of an antiskid device. Long studs on heavy foot plates on tires are used to brace the hinges not allowing them to wear down by dragging on the road surface.
Date:
February 17, 1920
Creator:
Smith, Ross
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