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Auxilary Transmission-Case Hanger.
Patent for auxiliary hanger for automobile transmission case. This particular device was designed for use with Ford automobiles, but can be used with other automobiles.
Date:
February 13, 1917
Creator:
Windsor, Samuel T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Wheel
Patent for an improved automotive wheel “with a demountable rim for interchanging the rim in order to quickly replace a defective tire,” (lines 16-17) It also provides a mechanism for locking the rim to keep the wheel in place.
Date:
February 16, 1915
Creator:
Watson, Chester A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Lock.
Patent for "certain new and useful improvements in automobile locks", including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 13, 1917
Creator:
Needham, Edmund T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Signal and Control for Railways
Patent for "automatically arresting the travel of a locomotive or train in the event of failure of a clear track" (lines 11-14).
Date:
February 23, 1915
Creator:
Pool, Carl L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Construction of Privy-Vaults.
Patent for an improvement of privy-vaults using a soil-pipe with sleeve adapted to be connected with the trap-door of the vault-floor into an air-chamber where a ventilating-pipe is placed directly above a furnace; the noxious gases along with the products of combustion in the furnace would be drawn from the air-chamber and carried off to the outer air. Illustration is included.
Date:
February 3, 1891
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bottle-Filling Machine.
Patent for a bottle-filling machine in which "a number of bottles of equal capacity may be simultaneously filled from a common reservoir by the single movement of a lever" (lines 13-16), illustration is included.
Date:
February 24, 1891
Creator:
Baldinger, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Railway-Gate.
Patent for an automatic railway gate that consists of a picket shaft under the rails, cranks between the rails that are connected to the picket shaft, springs holding the shaft, tread rails that run along the rails and join the cranks, and guide blocks along each tread rail.
Date:
February 13, 1894
Creator:
Warren, Governor D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Back-Band Buckle.
Patent for an inexpensive and simple back-band buckle that doubles as a trace-carrier and locks the trace into place. It secures to the carriage and locks the trace into place with a snap-hook.
Date:
February 20, 1894
Creator:
Ware, William J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle-Holder.
Patent for a bicycle-holder that holds the bicycle upright. It consists of "a pair of plates clamped upon a portion of the frame of a bicycle, two pairs of ears formed integral with and depending from said plates, one pair of ears being formed convcavo-convex to form a socket between them and constructed with semicircular notches in their lower edges, a rod having a ball or spherical body on its upper end that is located and held for movement in the so formed socket, a lug formed integral with the lower end of one of the remaining pair of ears, and an arm pivoted between said remaining pair of ears, said arm having a bifurcated lower end that engages the rim or tire of the front wheel of the bicycle" (lines 40-54).
Date:
February 11, 1896
Creator:
McKanna, John J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Wagon-Brake.
Patent for a new wagon brake design which allows the break to be automatically set, with illustrations.
Date:
February 2, 1897
Creator:
Elliot, Joseph Samuel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Basket.
Patent for a metallic produce basket. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 16, 1897
Creator:
Taylor, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Multiple Fuse Block
Patent for an automatic multiple fuse block. This invention is "provided a normally inactive shunt circuit through which, when a fuse is blown, the current is diverted to an electro-mechanical means which, when the rush of current causing the fuse to blow" (16-21). Illustration included.
Date:
February 18, 1908
Creator:
Mayo, William C.; Houlehan, John & Briggs, George E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bath-Cabinet
Patent for improvements in hot air bath cabinets in which it can employ for a foot or body bath, and be able to control or regulate the hot air current. (Lines 14-18) Illustration is included.
Date:
February 21, 1911
Creator:
Ballard, Silas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe-Tongs.
Patent for pipe tongs used for rotary well boring machinery. The tongs are designed to be carried with and used by rotary machines.
Date:
February 13, 1912
Creator:
Johnston, Horace G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bag-Rack
Patent for a rotating bag rack for use in stores.
Date:
February 27, 1912
Creator:
James, Joseph E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Belt
Patent for an apparel belt. Illustration included.
Date:
February 11, 1908
Creator:
Reynolds, Henry J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Oil Mill Seed Huller
Patent for a cotton oil mill seed huller. This invention is designed to prevent the breaking or drilling of knives by foreign matter. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 8, 1910
Creator:
Kappler, John G. & Gaines, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Railway-Switch
Patent for an improved automatic railway switch based on an earlier model made by the same person. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 11, 1908
Creator:
McGee, Richard M. & Jones, William M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Placket - Fastener.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in placket holders.
Date:
February 22, 1898
Creator:
McCauley, John H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Pump
Patent for an automobile pump. This invention is designed for quick mounting and dismounting in order to lift an automobile to remove its tires. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 22, 1910
Creator:
Goeth, Richard Anton
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Weighing-Machine
Patent for an automatic weighing machine for weighing and dispensing certain weights of grain into hoppers.
Date:
February 1, 1910
Creator:
Ball, Andrew J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bling Tenon
Patent for a metallic blind tenon. The end of a blind slat to pivot the slat in the frame of the blind. Illustration included.
Date:
February 11, 1908
Creator:
Miller, Charles
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blank for Making Perforated Tubing
Patent for a blank for the manufacturing of well tubing used in water and oil wells.
Date:
February 18, 1913
Creator:
Layne, Mahlon E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vermin-Destroyer.
Patent for a device to exterminate burrowing animals.
Date:
February 10, 1903
Creator:
Phillips, James M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History