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Hobble.
Patent for a new, simple hobble for cultivators made up of fewer parts to reduce cost and for east of use and adjustment. Illustration included.
Date:
October 30, 1917
Creator:
Ferguson, John R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Protector and Irrigator For Plants
Patent for a combined protector and irrigator that provides protection for the plant from insects and other animals, and provides proper watering from a reservoir. The contraption can be re-used and be accommodated for different size plants.
Date:
October 30, 1917
Creator:
Arnold, John P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method for using Filed Emitter Arrays in Chemical and Biological Hazard Mitigation and Remediation
Patent relating to a method for using field emitter arrays in chemical and biological hazard mitigation and remediation.
Date:
January 18, 2002
Creator:
Gnade, Bruce & Wallace, Robert M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
WRENCH.
Patent for an improved wrench "which can be very quickly adjusted for its work" (lines 13-14), including illustrations.
Date:
October 30, 1900
Creator:
Phenix, William Preston
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for an improved, simple, and inexpensive wire-stretcher that enables "one person to stretch fence wires conveniently for the purpose of mending them, or for stapling or otherwise securing them to fence posts in constructing fences" (lines 13-17).
Date:
October 30, 1894
Creator:
Crisp, James E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for "a wrench adapted to engage the nut of the wheel hub, so that on turning the wheel the nut will unscrew from the threaded end of the axle." (Lines 14-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 30, 1894
Creator:
Stambaugh, Julius Locke
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Veterinary Medicine
Patent for the invention of screw-worm liniment, provide a description of the ingredients within liniment. Compound relates to that class of reme-wounds cause by screw-worms and all kind of parasites in or on stock and poultry (10).
Date:
October 30, 1883
Creator:
Miller, Thomas, L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weed-Cutting Machine.
Patent for a weed cutting plow implement with height-adjustable runners.
Date:
October 30, 1917
Creator:
Schubert, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Loose-Leaf Binder
Patent for new loose leaf binder to help carry leaf support and means for separating the members and displacing one longitudinally relation with the other.
Date:
October 30, 1917
Creator:
Moody, Jason B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill.
Patent for a new and improved windmill. This design is "to combine with a windmill a horse-power, so that when the wind ceases to operate the wheel, horse-power may be brought into use for the purpose of continuing the revolution of the wheel, so as to enable the windmill to be used like an ordinary horse-power, and to place the slides or doors upon suitable supports, so that they can be moved back and forth in relation to the wheel for the purpose of cutting off the wind from it" (lines 14-23).
Date:
October 30, 1888
Creator:
Watkins, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Truss Bridge
Patent for a truss bridge. Illustration included.
Date:
October 30, 1906
Creator:
Inman, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Key-Bar.
Patent for key-bars for use on type-writers and cash-registers.
Date:
October 30, 1900
Creator:
Irish, Gilbert H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Destroyer.
Patent for an insect destroyer, specifically made for the boll weevil insect. The purpose of the Insect-Destroyer is to provide a cheaper, simpler, and more convenient alternative to the existing boll weevil insect destroyers.
Date:
October 30, 1917
Creator:
Clement, Auther H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel Bearing.
Patent for vehicle wheel bearing that provide an economical, safe, durable, reliable and light running spindle, for use in connection with automobiles and other fast running or weight carrying vehicles, including illustrations.
Date:
October 30, 1917
Creator:
Douthit, Albert G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Transmission-Gearing for Station-Indicators.
Patent for a transmission device that indicates railway stations. The transmission gear can affix to any railway or street car. The transmission gearing helps to indicate (or display) accurately the names of stations or streets in conservative order.
Date:
October 30, 1917
Creator:
Tarbell, Cassius C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trap
Patent for an animal trap and is spring actuated. Illustration included.
Date:
October 30, 1906
Creator:
Sandefur, James P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Printing-Press Gripper.
Patent for a device to grip paper being carried between the type bed, rotary platen, and delivery belts of a printing press.
Date:
October 30, 1917
Creator:
Sadovsky, Nathan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pad for Lower Limbs
Patent for a new single pad for the lower limbs, particularly of "feminine theatrical performers" (lines 12-13). Unlike previous pads which represented single muscles, the new pad contains all the muscles required for a lower limb in one, so that the muscles will not slip around when the performer is dancing.
Date:
October 30, 1917
Creator:
Matragos, Nick
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Extracting Wax from the Candelilla Plant
Patent for a method of extracting wax from a candelilla plant using gasoline and benzine or naphtha in order to extract a light yellow wax, rather than the dark green wax currently extracted.
Date:
October 30, 1911
Creator:
Sharp, Benjamin Young
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of and Apparatus for Cleaning, Tinting, and Polishing Pecan and Other Nuts.
Patent for a new and improved method and machine for cleaning, tinting, and polishing nuts. This design facilitates "[t]he process of cleaning and tinting pecan and other nuts, which consists in first subjecting them to the action of a lye, abrading substances, and water within a rotating close vessel, and subsequently to the action of a dyeing solution in a separate rotating close vessel" (lines 5-11).
Date:
October 30, 1883
Creator:
Koerber, Rudolph C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tongue-Support
Patent for "an improved tongue-support adapted to be applied to any ordinary vehicle, and combining simplicity and cheapness of manufacture with strength and effectiveness" (lines 8-12).
Date:
October 30, 1888
Creator:
CanterBury, Crawford R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Medicine Dial.
Patent for a new and improved medicine-dial. This design "consists in the combination of an upright or standard, which is suitably bent, with a revolving dial, which is placed thereon and which can be turned so as to indicate the time when the next dose of medicine is to be taken. The object of [the] invention is to produce a medicine-dial which can be stuck into the cork of the bottle of medicine or cover of any kind and set so as to indicate when the next dose is to be administered" (lines 13-23).
Date:
October 30, 1888
Creator:
Wesson, Miley B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump.
Patent for a new and improved pump. This design "consists in the combination, with a suitable base or support which rests upon the bottom of the well and is provided with cogs upon its upper surface, of a rotating cylinder and delivery-pipe, a crank-shaft journaled in the cylinder and provided with a pinion upon its outer end, a connecting-rod at its inner one, and a vertically-moving piston" (lines 13-20).
Date:
October 30, 1888
Creator:
Clark, Alexander Evans
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method Of Drilling Wells
Patent for a method of drilling wells. This invention is known as the rotary process that deals with alluvial deposits at different levels such as sand, water flows, gravel, gas under pressure, and boulders. Illustration included.
Date:
October 30, 1906
Creator:
Decker, Harry R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History