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Combined Rake and Harrow.
Patent for a combined rake and harrow.
Date:
August 9, 1910
Creator:
Ross, William M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Advertising Device.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in advertising device, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 9, 1898
Creator:
Hefley, Jefferson D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compound For Treating Seeds.
Patent for a new and useful composition of matter to be used for killing weevils in corn, beans, or peas, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 9, 1898
Creator:
Thiele, Gustav
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Internal Combustion Engine
Patent for a improved Internal Combustion Engine. The improvement is the construction of the ignition of the internal combustion engine where the fuel in the compression chamber is ignited explosion of a different fuel of a more highly explosive nature.
Date:
August 9, 1921
Creator:
Simpson, Joseph Ryan.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weather Board Gage.
Patent for a new and improved gauge for weatherboards. This design utilizes a guiding loop and a hinged part to create a gauge that, "after it has been attached to the house, will support at least two boards in position while they are being nailed on, before it is necessary to the move the gage [sic] into another position, and which gage will be so securely held in place that the boards can be moved back and forth without displacing it in any manner" (lines 27-34).
Date:
August 9, 1881
Creator:
Lawrence, John Madison
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trap-Gun.
Patent for a trap gun, which can be mounted on a post or in the ground.
Date:
August 9, 1910
Creator:
Lindsey, William Milton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Warning Strip for Wire Fences.
Patent for a new and improved warning strip for wire fences. This design "relates to warning-strips for wire fences designed as a visible signal to indicate the presence of the fence, and thus prevent cattle from running against the same and tearing themselves on the barbs" (lines 9-13).
Date:
August 9, 1887
Creator:
Cloud, William Johnston
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton and Hay-Presses
Patent for a new and useful improvement in cotton and hay-presses. It includes a description and an illustration.
Date:
August 9, 1870
Creator:
Stopple, Charles W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Station-Indicator
Patent for a station indicator for showing the names of street or stations on a web.
Date:
August 9, 1910
Creator:
Hathhorne, Robert A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Motor
Patent for hybraulic motor. Illustration included.
Date:
August 9, 1904
Creator:
Allen, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Cooker.
Patent for an improved version of the inventor's previous steam cooker.
Date:
August 9, 1910
Creator:
Daniels, Laura Eugenia
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Propulsion of Vessels.
Patent for a new and improved hydraulic propulsion. This design "is to provide an improved means for the application of the jet principle in the hydraulic propulsion of vessels; and it consists in the combination, with the hull of the vessel, of one or more main or trunk tubes arranged longitudinally to the vessel and of tapering shape, largest at its front end, which is open, and provided along its length with a series of nozzles opening along the side of the vessel in rearward direction, and one or more propeller-wheels arranged within the main tube and adapted to suck water in at the front" (lines 8-20).
Date:
August 9, 1892
Creator:
Walker, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock
Patent for a nut lock. Illustration included.
Date:
August 9, 1904
Creator:
Payne, Newton & Guynes, Allen Perry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Protector and Antiskidding Device.
Patent for a tire protector and anti-skidding device, which is made up of a flexible metal cover to prevent punctures and reduce wear on the tires, as well as reduce skidding.
Date:
August 9, 1910
Creator:
Bell, Charles D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Track Raising, Lowering, and Ballasting Machine.
Patent for a track raising, lowering, and ballasting machine for use in building railroads.
Date:
August 9, 1910
Creator:
Sparks, Walter F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Land Bedder And Cultivator.
Patent for a new and useful land bedder and cultivator, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 9, 1898
Creator:
Parker, Middleton N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tool-Handle
Patent for a tool handle for "hoe-handles, rake-handles, and other like farming implements."
Date:
August 9, 1898
Creator:
Pederson, Fred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Table Duplicating-Tablet Holder.
Patent for a table duplicating-tablet holder for making carbon copies of papers that attaches to a telephone desk.
Date:
August 9, 1910
Creator:
Talley, Robert Wilson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Supporter for Trousers and Similar Garments.
Patent for a new and improved belt. This design "relates to appliances used either instead of the usual suspenders or in addition thereto for supporting trousers, overalls, and similar garments upon the wearer's person" (lines 10-14). It "compris[es] a belt, a number of upwardly-extending rigid supporting-standards connected to said belt and each provided with a pivoted clamping-lever, and a number of rigid upwardly-extending extension-supports working telescopically in said standards and held in position by said clamping-levers" (lines 100-106).
Date:
August 9, 1892
Creator:
Rogers, Charles S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harrow
Patent for new and useful improvements in Harrows or cultivators that can be set to any height and any degree.
Date:
August 9, 1921
Creator:
McConal, Wiliam
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Engine-Valve.
Patent for an engine valve for air brake systems on trains, which governs the pressure of air released and keeps it steady.
Date:
August 9, 1910
Creator:
Dillander, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Street Car.
Patent for a new and improved street car. This design "has reference to the construction of steam and other street-cars, whereby the same can be readily turned around corners, having for its object the simplifying of the construction and lessening the cost of construction" of previous street cars (lines 22-27).
Date:
August 9, 1881
Creator:
Towell, Isaac
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Well-Drilling Machine
Patent for a rotary well-drilling machine that makes use of an "independently rotatable section" to aid in the screwing and unscrewing of pipe sections.
Date:
August 9, 1921
Creator:
Taylor, William Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Separable Button.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, strong, and durable separable button that does not accidentally separate or unfasten. It consists of two disks connected with a stem, and the disks are different sizes.
Date:
August 9, 1892
Creator:
Monday, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History