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Bank Register and Remittance Sheet
Patent for a bank register and remittance sheet. Illustration included.
Date:
August 23, 1904
Creator:
Exline, Marcus P. & Bourke, Edmund
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Amusement Apparatus
Patent for a fishing game for amusement parks which has a canal of liquid agitated to form a current with pictures of fish in it that when caught get the person fishing different prizes depending on the symbol they have on them.
Date:
August 10, 1909
Creator:
Pressey, Charles A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
PRINTER'S QUOIN
Patent for Printer's Quoin. "The invention relates to printers' lock-ups; and its object is to provide a new and improved printer's quoin..." (lines 8-10) and illustrations.
Date:
August 11, 1903
Creator:
Decker, William Scott
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Amusement Device
Patent for an amusement device. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 13, 1912
Creator:
Dougherty, James P. & Beeman, Mark
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mechanism for Rotating a Locomotive-Headlight.
Patent for a "manually operated mechanism that will enable a locomotive engineer to rock the headlight about a pivotal access without leaving his cab" (lines 12-15), including illustrations.
Date:
August 18, 1914
Creator:
Teter, William E. & Gray, Charles B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weighing Attachment for Ice-Tongs.
Patent for a device designed so that "the weight of the ice may be determined while the ice is engaged by the tongs" (lines 12-14). The weighing device can be safely attached to the tongs, and the patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 18, 1914
Creator:
Henderson, Douglas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Airship.
Patent for improved airship design involving the containment of gas in an envelop and the passage of gas through multiple compartments with the purpose of facilitating, "steering or repairing of the machine." (line 17) including illustrations.
Date:
August 13, 1918
Creator:
Rainey, James E. J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window-Shade Roller
Patent for spring acting window shade rollers. The spring acting mechanism allows for the raising up or down of the shade to any desired position without unnecessary wear.
Date:
August 5, 1913
Creator:
Schindler, Emil F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Top.
Patent for a new and improved vehicle roof. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the rabbeted vehicle-top-supporting bows, of strips mounted in said rabbets and provided with overlapping upper ends, curtain-supporting frames, and clips carried by said frames and arranged to engage the overlapping strips" (lines 92-97).
Date:
August 2, 1887
Creator:
McCurdy, Thomas B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vapor Burner.
Patent for a new and improved vapor burner. This design consists, "with the mixing-chamber having a burner connected therewith, of a water chamber and an oil chamber arranged beneath the said mixing chamber, the threaded tube seated in the bottom wall of the water-chamber and extending up into the mixing-chamber, and the air-induction tube leading from beneath the oil-chamber up through the threaded connecting-tube to the mixing chamber" (lines 112-121).
Date:
August 19, 1890
Creator:
Kirkpatrick, Drury T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drilling Bit.
Patent for a well drilling bit with a removable point and cutting edges "at a greater radial distance from the center of the bit" (lines 18-19). The point may be removed for sharpening or replacement.
Date:
August 16, 1921
Creator:
Midgett, Penelton G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Heater
Water-heaters that can be more manufactured for a lower cost while heating water more quickly and work as a room heater for the bathroom.
Date:
August 25, 1903
Creator:
Summerfield, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lens-Grinding Machine.
Patent for a lens grinding machine that polishes any kind of lens via the means of a reciprocating motion in both the grinding tool and the lens holder.
Date:
August 12, 1913
Creator:
Rousseau, Almer A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Step.
Patent for a unit which covers the hub of a wheel to provide protection against people "stepping on or 'riding' the hub." (Line 15).
Date:
August 10, 1915
Creator:
Butcher, Joseph A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window Washer And Wiper.
Patent for improvement in window washer and wiper design pertaining to the windshields or windows of street cars.
Date:
August 6, 1918
Creator:
Randall, John G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Handling and Cleaning Seed-Cotton.
Patent for improvements in machines for handling and cleaning seed-cotton by “taking seed-cotton from wagons or storehouses through pneumatic tubes and delivering it freed from dust and other extraneous matter to any number of gins. It includes devices for imparting flexibility to the feed-section of the tube for distributing the cotton and for disposing of the surplus when the cotton is supplied faster than it can be ginned.” (Lines 15-22) Illustration is included.
Date:
August 25, 1891
Creator:
Thomas, Robert Smith; Hardwick, Sauny Warren & Elam, William Erwin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wall Construction
Patent for a wall construction with metallic column casings and reinforced rods. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 1, 1911
Creator:
Harry, Owen K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Metallic Railway Tie
Patent for improvements in metallic railway-ties. Invention designed to allow for cheap production of a adequate tie that can secure a road-bed.
Date:
August 4, 1903
Creator:
Thweatt, Robert Whitley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vapor-Burner.
Patent for a vapor burner that improves upon existing vapor burners by using steam to heat oil and mix with vapor. This invention consists of novel features within the vapor burner's arrangement and construction.
Date:
August 11, 1903
Creator:
Pritchard, Edward Walter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plaiting-Irons.
Patent for an improvement to plaiting-irons: "a plaiting-iron composed of a peculiarly-constructed iron or metal plate used in connection with a correspondingly-constructed board" (lines 23-25), with illustrations.
Date:
August 14, 1877
Creator:
Gingras, Joseph E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of and Apparatus for Sizing or Classifying Comminuted Material.
Patent for a machine composed of independently operated and adjustable mounted sized units for sorting and transporting grain sized materials.
Date:
August 29, 1916
Creator:
Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Toggle and Clip Combination.
Patent for improvement in toggle and clip combinations, specifically simplicity and economy in construction, convenience, and efficiency in use.
Date:
August 11, 1914
Creator:
Schoellkopf, Jacob Frederick
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Huller-Gin.
Patent for a Huller-Gin. This device has an improvement that reduces the cotton being wasted by getting clogged in the hulling chamber.
Date:
August 1, 1916
Creator:
Murray, Stephen D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tool For Driving Corrugated Fasteners.
Patent for a tool with "a magazine adapted to feed corrugated fasteners to a driving plunge" (lines 13-14), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 25, 1914
Creator:
Thompson, Carl S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History