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Non-Explosive Oil-Container.
Patent for a protective screen of refractory filaments for "containers holding inflammable, explosive fluids such as naphtha, benzin, gasolene, etc." (lines 10-12)
Date:
December 12, 1911
Creator:
Ziller, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Treating Timber.
Patent for an invention to aid in the treatment of treating timber. The invention is said to "provide a simple, inexpensive, durable, and efficient apparatus by means of which railroad cross-ties, fence-posts, and the like may be expeditiously and economically treated by immersion in a bath of some preserving liquid" (lines 16-22) including illustrations.
Date:
July 11, 1905
Creator:
Gerhard, Philip H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Card-Cutting Attachment for Printing-Presses.
Patent for an attachment for printing presses that not only acts as a card cutter, but can also change the shape of the design and automatically eject the paper.
Date:
November 26, 1901
Creator:
Speight, Winchester Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cultivator and Planter.
Patent for a new part that attaches to an ordinary cultivator. The device has a plow that runs in front, and a planting mechanism that spreads seeds in the plowed rows. This device makes it possible to plough and plant in one sweep of the field.
Date:
December 31, 1901
Creator:
Noren, Peter O. & Clyburn, Mile D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
CAR-COUPLING
Patent for a Car-Coupling. "This invention relates to car-couplings of the Janney type..." (lines 9-10) including illustrations.
Date:
August 11, 1903
Creator:
Yeiser, John Clarke
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Turning and Leveling Plow.
Patent for an improved combined turning and leveling plow.
Date:
February 9, 1901
Creator:
Collins, Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Testing Errors of Refraction
Patent for an eye testing device that has a movable lens, a measuring device for correction, and two different cards with test type on them which are fed into the machine during testing for astigmatism and myopia, presbyopia, and hyperopia to determine the level of correction needed in glasses.
Date:
July 2, 1907
Creator:
Bahn, Gustavus Adolphus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie
Patent for a bale-tie fastener including illustrations.
Date:
July 31, 1900
Creator:
Cypher, David A. & Dayton, William L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clipping and Pruning Shears.
Patent for clipping and pruning shears that can have the blades taken off for sharpening.
Date:
May 2, 1911
Creator:
South, John P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Gate.
Patent for an improved automatic gate with levers, cam-blocks, camways, and cam-rods. It is centrally pivoting, uses a pulley, a cam groove, a forked bearing, chains, and chords.
Date:
September 17, 1895
Creator:
Everton, David Marion
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Loading Cotton-Bales, &c.
Patent for an apparatus for loading cotton-bales onto trucks from the compress. It is comprised of a cylinder, a piston, a piston rod, an inlet and exhaust pipes and a valve, a chain with grapnels at one end end and the other end is connected to the piston rod, a sheave, an adjustable slidable trip rod, a pivoted trip lever connected to the cylinder, a four armed lever connected to the valve, and connecting rods.
Date:
December 24, 1895
Creator:
Thompson, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artist's Easel and Attachable Rest.
Patent for a new and improved easel and rest. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the rest . . . of the bar pivoted to [a] holder by bolt, the perforated bar pivoted to [another] bar by [another] bolt, and the easel united to the [first] bar by a suitable round bolt" (lines 97-101).
Date:
January 22, 1889
Creator:
Johnson, John Alexander
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton and Corn Planter.
Patent for a new and improved seed planter. This design "features . . . first, reciprocating forked seed pushers or plungers attached to a sliding frame and operating alternately to deliver the seed through a covered opening in the bottom of the hopper, whence it passes into the furrow; second, an intermittently-rotating shaft arranged in the seed-hopper and provided with spiral or oblique arms for agitating the seed and feeding it toward the discharge opening" (lines 15-24).
Date:
January 24, 1882
Creator:
Turley, James M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clock-Winding Mechanism.
Patent for "an improved mechanism for the periodical automatic winding of clocks by water power, and has for its object to provide an apparatus that will be adapted to utilize the power afforded by the gravity of water discharged at regular intervals from a tank, which is in an elevated position and is supplied with water by rain fall or other means" (lines 8-16).
Date:
September 26, 1893
Creator:
Everhart, Martin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Shears.
Patent for new and improved animal shears. This design is "of a platinum or other wire or conductor heated to a high temperature, sufficient to burn through the fibers of the wool or hair, and [is] passed over the surface of the body as close as may be deemed desirable to the roots. No injurious effects are produced upon the animal or upon the wool or hair removed, while at the same time the same may be removed with great uniformity and expedition" (lines 28-36).
Date:
June 8, 1886
Creator:
Harrell, Joseph J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling Seed-Cotton.
Patent for an improved cotton elevator, separator, and distributor that is meant to move cotton from a wagon or storage, remove dirt, and deliver it to a gin. The "improved apparatus comprises a pneumatic cotton-conveying tube by which the cotton is lifted or carried to the distributor, a separator for removing the cotton from the air current, and a distributor comprising a trunk for receiving the cotton from the separator extending over the two gin feeders, having openings delivering into the feeders, and an endless chain conveyer moving in said trunk, causing the cotton to travel along therein and drop out therefrom through the delivery openings into the feeders" (lines 16-27).
Date:
October 31, 1893
Creator:
Bachman, Joseph A. & Clark, Frank S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chain-Steamer.
Patent for a chain steamer that has an improved means of propulsion with a uniform speed despite a changing current. It does not allow the boat to laterally deflect. It is especially meant to be used with tow boats that travel on fast-moving, shallow streams. It can be used to move ferry boats across fast-moving rivers as well.
Date:
February 7, 1893
Creator:
Pfeifer, Edmund I. & Pfeifer, Eduard A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition for Preserving Food
Patent for "combustible compositions which, when ignited, produce a gas or gasses which have preservative and purifying effects upon various substances and surfaces or places exposed to the fumes. It is more especially designed, however, for preserving fruits, vegetables, meats, and other perishable articles." (lines 12-19).
Date:
April 15, 1890
Creator:
Radam, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bailing-Press.
Patent for Bailing Press including illustrations. The purpose of the bailing press was to improve "the bailing-press especially adapted for bailing cotton, which press is simple in construction, strong and durable, and operates rapidly" ( lines 9-12).
Date:
November 24, 1885
Creator:
Clark, Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Impregnating Liquids with Gases.
Patent for a new and improved apparatus for impregnating liquids with gases. This design "relates to apparatus for impregnating water or other suitable liquid with the fumes emanating from the consumption of a combustible composition of matter, such as sulphur, which when ignited emits a gas containing suitable medicinal qualities" (lines 14-19). It consists in "the closed reservoir for containing the liquid, having windows upon opposite walls thereof, of the transverse beam having its ends supported in said windows, the sulphur-containing vessel . . . the man-hole, the air-hole, and cocks" (lines 4-10).
Date:
October 8, 1889
Creator:
Radam, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dental Chair.
Patent for a dental chair improvement.
Date:
April 26, 1887
Creator:
Stiles, Edmund P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Barrel Cover.
Patent for a new and improved cover for barrels. This design calls for downward-extending flanges with wings along the perimeter of the cover. These flanges hold the cover in place over the barrel opening, but they also allow for the cover to rest at an angle on the upper rim of the barrel so that one has access to the contents of the barrel without the cover touching the ground.
Date:
May 29, 1883
Creator:
Lane, Fernando Gustavous
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Danger-Signal for Railroads.
Patent for a "device for indicating at railroad crossings and other points, the approach or departure of trains within any given distance of such crossing or with relation to any point where persons might come into dangerous proximity to the train if they were left unadvised by some such signal as this." (Lines 19-26) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 26, 1895
Creator:
Lee, Horatio Grooms; White, John P.; Ball, Thomas & White, James L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Demountable Rim and Felly Band
Patent for Demountable Rim and Felly Band
Date:
May 1, 1917
Creator:
Stephens, Charles D. & Bachman, Joseph A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History