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Air-Brake Governor
Patent for an air brake governor improvement that regulates the pressure of fluid or air in the braking system as to prevent it from braking with too much pressure.
Date:
July 10, 1906
Creator:
Williams, Leonard F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Time-Switch.
Patent for an electric, switch-operated construction functioning for timer-controlled circuit completions and breaks, including illustrations.
Date:
July 3, 1906
Creator:
Chappel, James. M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Trap
Patent for an animal trap. Illustration included.
Date:
July 31, 1906
Creator:
Crowson, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hose-Coupling.
Patent for new usability improvements for hose coupling, designed for novice users, including illustrations.
Date:
July 3, 1906
Creator:
Stephens, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher
Patent for a wire stretcher. Illustration included.
Date:
July 31, 1906
Creator:
Culp, Willis Harmon
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window Sash
Patent for a window sash. Illustration included.
Date:
July 31, 1906
Creator:
Daugherty, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher
Patent for a wire stretcher. Illustration included.
Date:
July 17, 1906
Creator:
Wright, Jessie T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lifting Jack.
Patent for lifting-jack invented by Calvin W. and Eugene Tanner. This lifting-jack invention is meant to be more durable in material, the material more inexpensive to acquire.
Date:
July 3, 1906
Creator:
Tanner, Calvin W. & Tanner, Eugene
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Land-Smoother
Patent for instrument used to break clumps of dirt and smooth rough terrain with the use of smoothing blades.
Date:
July 10, 1906
Creator:
Gooing, Martin B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Line-Holder and Cylindrical Type-Chase
Patent for a "combined line holder and cylindrical type chase" (p. 1, lines 10-11) to allow typesetting by unskilled workers.
Date:
July 31, 1906
Creator:
Weeks, Frank W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lawn-Rocker.
Patent for a lawn rocker improvement that provides swing and is durable and inexpensive.
Date:
July 17, 1906
Creator:
Coffy, Ida May
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Line Holder and Type Chase
Patent for a line-holder and type-chase, intended to make possible rapid and easy setting of type by unskilled people.
Date:
July 31, 1906
Creator:
Weeks, Frank W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Watch-Pocket.
Patent for a holder or pocket for a watch that provides a simple, safe, and handy device which is detachable fastened to a garment.
Date:
July 24, 1906
Creator:
Greenwald, Louis.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hotel Office Dinkey
Patent for an hotel office dinkey. Illustration included.
Date:
July 31, 1906
Creator:
Browder, Henry Worden
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mail Box Signal
Patent for a mail box signal. Illustration included.
Date:
July 17, 1906
Creator:
Forwood, Reginald
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Tanning
Patent for an improved method of tanning that is effective but takes less time.
Date:
July 10, 1906
Creator:
Martin, James L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a plow, by John W. Hudson. This plow has a beam that can be adjusted to carry different sizes of plows. Beam is designed to help equalize resistance between the two sides of the beam.
Date:
July 3, 1906
Creator:
Hudson, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Making Hydrochloric Acid and Calcium Carbid
Patent for "new and useful processes in treating fused calcium chlorid with acetylene gas or other gases mixed therewith, whereby hydrochloric-acid gas and calcium carbid may be produced," (lines 12-16) thus making the manufacturing processes of hydrochloric-acid cheaper while also producing calcium carbid more economically.
Date:
July 24, 1906
Creator:
Seamon, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Timber Hewing Machine
Patent for a timber hewing machine. This invention is designed for hewing timbers or railroad ties. Illustration included.
Date:
July 31, 1906
Creator:
Melton, William K. & King, James G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trolley
Patent for "a peculiar construction" (lines 11-12) that will reduce the liability of a trolley running off of the trolley-wire. This construction "involves a trolley-wheel carried on an axis fixed on the trolley pole or harp and an auxiliary wheel yieldingly mounted on the pole and pressed against the under side of the wire, so that should the pole drop slightly the auxiliary wheel will move relatively to the pole and reduce this contact with the wire." (lines 12-19)
Date:
July 17, 1906
Creator:
Ward, Gurney Enoch
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Swab Holder
Patent for improvements in swab-holders consisting of a sectional box or cup containing fibrous material to apply a lubricating oil for the piston-rod to reduce friction and wear on the rod.
Date:
July 10, 1906
Creator:
Bruce. J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electromechanical Switch Thrower
Patent for an electromechanical switch thrower. Illustration included.
Date:
July 31, 1906
Creator:
Posey, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Roller Bearing
Patent for a roller bearing. Illustration included.
Date:
July 31, 1906
Creator:
Horger, John M. & Horger, Simeon D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fan
Patent for a fan. Illustration included.
Date:
July 24, 1906
Creator:
Pochyla, Adolph
System:
The Portal to Texas History