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Closet
Patent for a dry closet. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 2, 1912
Creator:
Crow, Levi H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Destroying Insects
Patent for an apparatus for destroying insects. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 23, 1911
Creator:
Crow, William M. & Crow, Levi H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Door-Saddle.
Patent for new and improved door saddles, which consists "of a longitudinal and cross-grooved arrangement of parts coacting with inclined surfaces and shields to cause a perfect drainage of water" (lines 11-15), including instructions and illustration.
Date:
July 13, 1897
Creator:
Vogel, Thomas.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Route-Indicator.
Patent for an improved route indicator for automobiles "which not only visually indicates the characteristics and risks of the road" but in addition provides an "auditory signal to call attention to approaching hazards or dangers" (lines 36-41). Illustrations included.
Date:
November 13, 1917
Creator:
Cranmer, Howard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Glass Manufacture dated November 5, 1918
Patent for apparatus to improve the overall quality and efficiency of glass production. This includes both window and sheet glass. It assists in developing sheet glass through blowing, drawing, and ladling.
Date:
November 5, 1918
Creator:
Thomas J. McCoy
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Card Holder
Patent for card holders meant to help better display business cards and other forms of advertisement on surfaces such as windows.
Date:
March 4, 1919
Creator:
Hill, L. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Binding Attachment for Baling-Presses.
Patent for bale binding devices that takes wire from spools and binds each bale and then twists the ends of the bale so they hold their shape.
Date:
August 3, 1920
Creator:
Leavitt, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench for Rotary Well-Drills.
Patent for a wrench designed to assist in working with rotary well drills. The wrench is adapted for unscrewing the coupling that attaches a drill point to a pipe section, as well as for detaching the pipe sections from one another. The advantage of the wrench is in allowing convenient detachment of the parts of a well drill quickly and efficiently.
Date:
October 21, 1913
Creator:
Lebus, George Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window-Shade Raiser.
Patent for an improved way of raising, lowering, and locking window shades into place. "The operating-cord passes over a pulley located between two larger disks, one of which is screwed toward the other by a spring to clamp the folds of the cord and is screwed in the opposite direction by means of a lever, upon which the chord itself acts when drawn in the proper direction" (lines 14-20).
Date:
April 14, 1896
Creator:
McCauley, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in wire stretchers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 13, 1899
Creator:
Smith, William C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Two-Cycle Internal-Combustion Engine and Method of Operating Engines of this Type.
Patent for a two-cycle type of internal combustion engine to make the engine more effective. This invention can be used on motor vehicles, motor boats, flying machines and the like.
Date:
May 26, 1914
Creator:
McKiearnan, Charles A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Liquid-Measuring Device
Patent for a device that determines the amount of liquid (particularly gasoline and oil) that flows from its glass container with the end of facilitating the exchange of goods, including illustrations.
Date:
May 25, 1920
Creator:
Meredith, John Dewitt
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well Drilling Apparatus.
Patent for a design of a compact well-drilling machine.
Date:
April 17, 1914
Creator:
Thorniley, Clarence W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well Drilling Apparatus.
Patent for an improved well-drilling apparatus. Improvements made to bull wheel shaft and the sand reel and casing line shaft so they may be operated independently of each other while utilizing the same source of power.
Date:
January 14, 1919
Creator:
Thorniley, Clarence W. & Thorniley, Charles, D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Cleaning Vegetable Fiber
Patent fora machine for cleaning vegetable fiber. Illustration included.
Date:
May 23, 1905
Creator:
McCauley, John H. & Winfrey, Edgar M.
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 Stuffing-Box.
Patent for improvements on well stuffing boxes, particularly in packing the vertically reciprocating pump rod and keeping it packed over time, so that the stuffing box doesn't need to be dismantled for manual adjustments.
Date:
November 16, 1915
Creator:
Church, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lavatory.
Patent "relates to improvement in wash basins, tubs, sinks, trays, and the like and especially with reference to the provision of improved means for flushing the waste pipe or duct thereof and for preventing overflow in the case the supply of faucet or faucets should be left running..."
Date:
April 6, 1915
Creator:
Kavanagh, Joseph A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Internal Pipe-Gripper
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Internal Pipe-Grippers" (lines 6-7) such as "an improved tool for removing pipes or casings from drilled wells (lines 14-15) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 5, 1913
Creator:
McConnell, Scott R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel.
Patent for a type of vehicle wheel made of a unique hub, rim, and resilient spokes. The design allows for the hub and spokes to rotate independently of the rim, reducing the need for compensating gearing. This is done by having the spokes frictionally engaged with the rim rather than a rigid, static design.
Date:
December 26, 1911
Creator:
Bartle, John N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vacuum-Regulator for Oil-Pumps.
Patent for vacuum regulator for oil pump. This device is simply constructed and easy to operate. It is an automatic cut-off in the vacuum of the pipe line to the pump.
Date:
March 12, 1918
Creator:
Hobb, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Under-Drilling Bit.
Patent for improvements in the design of under drilling bits in order to "reduce labor, time and expense of drilling" and "to permit the drilling of a more perfect hole" (lines 25-27), including illustrations and a description of the design.
Date:
July 15, 1913
Creator:
English, Harry White
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fishing Tool for Wells
Patent for device that will remove broken drill heads or foreign matter from drill well.
Date:
December 19, 1916
Creator:
Sheldon, Ward J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Table Attachment for Beds
Patent for a table attachment for beds. This table serves as a place for medicines, food, writing, or a book rest.
Date:
May 12, 1914
Creator:
Thorniley, Clarence W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History