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Mop Holder
Patent for an improved mop holder that will hold the mop head and the handle.
Date:
February 18, 1902
Creator:
Anderson, Isaac Nerie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chain Jack.
Patent for new and useful improvements in chain-jacks. "This invention aims to provide a chain-jack for lifting the boxes of axles, so that the bearings or brasses therefor can be readily replaced, and is designed especially for use in cases of hot boxes on railway-cars" (line 11-15).
Date:
February 18, 1902
Creator:
Phillips, Henry S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Annuciator
Patent for an annunciator. "This invention is designed for use in connection with a complete traction system" (lines 13-14). The design drives instruments via a train air system so that air pressure is constantly maintained. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 18, 1908
Creator:
Mayo, William C.; Houlehan, John & Briggs, George E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
CHURN
Patent for the improvement of a churn. The churn has a detachable support and a closure for the upper end of the body of the churn.
Date:
February 18, 1913
Creator:
HARRISON, DAVID M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Brake, Lighting, and Signaling System for Railway-Trains
Patent for an electrical system which provides air brake, lighting, and signaling mechanisms for trains. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 18, 1908
Creator:
Mayo, William C. & Houlehan, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air Heating and Regulating Means for Internal Combustion Engines
Patent for a type of air heater designed to be attached to an internal combustion engine for the purposes of regulating heat.
Date:
February 18, 1919
Creator:
Brooks, Howard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Yielding Power-Coupling
Patent for a yielding power coupling to connect power units in cars to form a complete system. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 18, 1908
Creator:
Mayo, William C. & Houlehan, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drill Wrench
Patent for a wrench for drill pipes used in drilling wells. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 18, 1913
Creator:
Osborne, William Rush & Lebus, George Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drilling Apparatus.
Patent for a well-drilling apparatus for boring Artesian and other wells. It is meant to "provide simple, efficient, and durable means for expanding or spreading the reamer-blades after the bit-carrying devices have been lowered sufficiently to arrange the reamer-blades below the plane of the lower end of the tubular drill-rod" (lines 10-17). Water pressure is also used to remove the cuttings from the boring-blades. Sections of cable that suspend and lower drill-bit carrying parts into the drill-rod are supported, and sections of drill-rod can be attached and added to the drill-rod. The method of securing the reamer-blades to the reamer-stock is improved with this patent. The parts fit snugly together and prevent water from getting into the drill-rod.
Date:
February 18, 1896
Creator:
Horton, Stephen A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Knee-Pad.
Patent for a knee-pad used while picking cotton, berries, or gardening. It protects the knee from dampness, stones, roots, etc. The pad goes on the knee, and two wooden braces are on the sides. A strap goes around the user's shoe, and the bolts were the pad is attached to the braces also has string where the operator ties the brace to himself.
Date:
February 18, 1896
Creator:
Davis, James Walter & Brown, Elijah Clark
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock
Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Locks." (Lines 5-6) including illustrations.
Date:
February 18, 1902
Creator:
Johnson, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Destroyer.
Patent for an insect destroyer specifically for use in removing boll weevils from cotton plants by shaking them off the plants and sucking them up with suction tubes which deliver them to a crushing mechanism.
Date:
February 18, 1908
Creator:
Peek, Joseph S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wagon-Seat.
Patent for creating a seat "to provide a spring-mounted seat for wagons which shall be strong and durable, not liable to become deranged by rough usage, which shall be comfortable for the rider, and which can be manufactured at a comparatively small cost" (lines 13-18).
Date:
February 18, 1902
Creator:
Holland, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Vibrating Propellers
Patent for Improvement in vibrating propellers for steamers to improve the ability to control the vessel. Includes two illustrated and labeled figures.
Date:
February 18, 1873
Creator:
Macowitzky, Charles P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators.
Patent for improvements to a cultivator "which, for convenience of operation, may be attached to the wheels or frame of any ordinary wagon or cart, or it may be operated independently of either of the above by attaching the draft animals directly to the main or principal beam to which the plow-points are connected." (Lines 10-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 18, 1873
Creator:
Hinckley, Jacob B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Scew-Propellers.
Patent for "means for guiding pivoted propeller-blades so that they can open and close readily and uniformly. It also consists in a new mode of applying a spring there-to so that the obliquity or resistance of the blades will be automatically graduated." (Lines 6-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 18, 1873
Creator:
Wilson, Martin M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trap
Patent for a trap for the catching of small animals that can also be applied towards large animals and marine life, with illustrations.
Date:
February 18, 1902
Creator:
Holland, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Transplanting-Basket
Patent for a basket for transplanting various types of plants. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 18, 1908
Creator:
Edwards, Charles L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Train-Marker and Signal-Lamp.
Patent for a train-marker and engine signal-lamp meant to "provide a lamp in which the light may be differently colored and the change of color may be effected in an expeditious and convenient manner without the necessity of opening the lamp" (lines 10-14). It also provides "a guard or slide, whereby the opening through which the adjusting device passes may be closed, so as to prevent the wind from entering the body of the lamp and interfering with the flame" (lines 15-20). The lamp is meant for railroads and has two or more lenses, and is durably and inexpensively constructed. One color of light can be shown from the front and back and another from the sides.
Date:
February 18, 1896
Creator:
Cook, Marion P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for fastening iron or other bands on cotton-bales or packages that put up with iron bands, including illustrations.
Date:
February 18, 1873
Creator:
Quin, Michael
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thill-Support.
Patent for an antirattling attachment for thill-couplings or thill-irons. It can attach to any axle and any thill, and causes the device to put constant pressure on the eye of the thill-iron. This prevents rattling where the iron is connected with the axel-clip and puts tension on the front of the thill-iron in a rearward direction. This tension balances the shafts and thills when the horse is attached to the thill. When the horse is unattached, the thill is held in an upright position by the attachment.
Date:
February 18, 1896
Creator:
Price, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Heater.
Patent for an oil heater, which has a oil reserve and burner in the bottom and flues in the top through which the heat radiates.
Date:
February 18, 1908
Creator:
Ray, James T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ticket Vending Machine
Patent for a ticket vending machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 18, 1908
Creator:
Mayo, William C.; Houlehan, John & Briggs, George E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock.
Patent for a nut-lock for car wheels, which holds the wheel securely together.
Date:
February 18, 1908
Creator:
Mayo, William C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History