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Apparatus for Canning Fruits or Vegetables.
Patent for an improvement to canning fruits and vegetables.
Date:
April 3, 1900
Creator:
Compton, Anna & Jackson, A. L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Patent for Farming Implement
Patent for Farming Implement
Date:
April 3, 1917
Creator:
Miller, Marion R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Methods for Extending the Freshness of Cut Flowers, Ornamental Trees, and Plant Cuttings
Patent relating to methods for extending the freshness of cut flowers, ornamental trees, and plant cuttings.
Date:
October 30, 2000
Creator:
Chapman, Kent D. & Austin-Brown, Shea L.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Wire Tightener.
Patent for wire tightening improvement.
Date:
April 3, 1900
Creator:
Hansford, James, S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Fence Tool.
Patent for a new wire fence tool for "applying binding members at the crossings of the strand and stay wires, and has for its object to simplify and improve the construction and increase the efficiency of devices of this character" (lines 10-14), including illustrations.
Date:
April 3, 1906
Creator:
Harris, Edwin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Truss.
Patent for a truss used to give relief to cases of ruptured hernias. Adjustable to be used by patients of varying sizes, and adaptable to treat both inguinal and umbilical ruptures. Includes illustrations.
Date:
April 3, 1900
Creator:
Johnson, Irven E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Machines for Tightening Iron Bands on Bales.
Patent for an apparatus that consists of "a series of metal bars to be inserted between what is known as the 'channel bars or teeth,' both on the upper and lower platens of a compress used for compressing cotton-bales, which bars thus inserted shall be so attached to the channel-bars that, by the force of springs, the said bars will be kept below the surface of the teeth on the platens, allowing ample space to insert the iron bands to be used in tying the bales, in the same manner as they are now universally inserted." (Lines 13-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 3, 1877
Creator:
Quin, Michael
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Mosquito-Net Frames.
Patent for "mosquito-net frames which are made adjustable, so that they may be extended over the bed or folded compactly, according to the requirements of use." (Lines 8-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 3, 1877
Creator:
Volle, Johann F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent for the improvement of the Rotary-Disk Cutters for plows that enable it to swivel and be supported by guides, including illustration.
Date:
April 3, 1855
Creator:
Hall, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Switch Attachment.
Patent for a switch attachment that consists of a derailing guard, a side track rail, an adjustable shoe that pivots next to the rail, a vertical groove in the end of the shoe, and a swinging free arm.
Date:
April 3, 1894
Creator:
Warren, Governor D. & Casey, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tile-Machine.
Patent for a tile pipe molder that "expeditiously and cheaply make subirrigating pipe right at the side of the ditch where it is to be laid" (lines 10-13).
Date:
April 3, 1894
Creator:
Adamson, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grading Apparatus.
Patent for improvements in grading apparatus to make it "comparatively simple and inexpensive in construction" (line 10) and readily adjustable.
Date:
April 3, 1917
Creator:
Anderson, Lycurgus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Envelop.
Patent for "simple envelop which can be cheaply manufactured and which cannot be fraudulently tampered with or opened for the purpose of removing its contents without mutilating or injuring the envelop to an extent which would be noticable" (lines 9-14), including illustrations.
Date:
April 3, 1917
Creator:
Moore, Essie H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire Kindler.
Patent for a new and improved fire starter. This design "has for its object to provide novel means for making comparatively inexpensive fire-kindlers; and to such end the invention consists, essentially, in a vessel having two chambers, one capable of being opened at the top and adapted to contain ashes, and the other closed, except as to a bottom passage in communication with the ash-chamber, and adapted to contain a combustible fluid—such as petroleum oil or other liquid hydro-carbon—which flows through the said bottom passage to saturate the ashes and prepare them for use" (lines 8-20).
Date:
April 3, 1888
Creator:
Streeter, George D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire Kindler.
Patent for a new and improved fire starter. This design "is to provide novel means for determining when the oil is exhausted from the oil vessel and to provide novel means for keeping the ashes from direct contact with the oil-supply openings . . . [for] ashes possess great capillary attraction and take up more hydro-carbon fluid than is requisite when the ashes are dry and not tightly packed, so that the ashes become soft and mushy" (lines 12-21).
Date:
April 3, 1888
Creator:
Streeter, George D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ice-Cream Freezer.
Patent for an ice-cream freezer that "effectually and with slight labor freez[es] cream; to be so constructed as to freeze the cream into sticks of merchantable size and adapted for retail trade; and, furthermore, to provide for a simultaneous manufacture of ice, so that as the cream is frozen water may be congealed forming ice that may be subsequently employed in the freezer or otherwise" (lines 10-18).
Date:
April 3, 1894
Creator:
Skipper, James M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shear-Sharpener.
Patent for an improved shear sharpener which has a "new and novel construction by which shears are quickly and properly sharpened, ... whereby a shear is held at the proper bevel while being moved over an oilstone or the like" (lines 12-16), including illustrations.
Date:
April 3, 1906
Creator:
Jeffrey, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wind Engine.
Patent for a new and improved wind engine. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a suitable frame, of the shaft, having wind wheel or drum, provided with rods having wings and arms or cranks, and laterally projecting brackets, having bell-crank levers, loaded at their lower ends, the connecting rods, sleeve[s], washer, spring, and . . . having pivoted rods connecting said sleeves with the arms" (lines 94-102).
Date:
April 3, 1883
Creator:
Fletcher, George Ephraim
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shepherd's Crook.
Patent for a new and improved shepherd's crook. This design "has relation to shepherd's crooks; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the tapering and balanced staff, the slender neck near the head or crook, the broad bearings of the crook, and the guard-knob on the end thereof" (lines 16-21).
Date:
April 3, 1883
Creator:
Deland, Edward E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Road-Working Machine.
Patent for a road working machine, which claims to simplify and improve the type of this machine that is designed to "operate upon banks at the sides of the road for the purpose of trimming such banks and moving the surplus dirt in the direction of the center of the road." (lines 11-14)
Date:
April 3, 1906
Creator:
McBride, William J. & Alford, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Self Locking Mechanism for Steering Wheel Shafts of Automobiles.
Patent for new and useful improvements to the shaft of steering wheels making them safer and easier to handle.
Date:
April 3, 1917
Creator:
Cowart, Stephen A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flushing Apparatus.
Patent for a flushing apparatus to be used to flush tanks that are normally kept empty. It is also "an improved siphon for emptying the tank, and also an improved mechanism for starting the siphon" (lines 22-24).
Date:
April 3, 1894
Creator:
Ackley, George D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters.
Patent for an improvement in cotton-seed planters using a combination of an adjustable agitator and a movable self-adjusting stirrer, including illustration.
Date:
April 3, 1860
Creator:
Sweeny, Samuel P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Jogger Attachment for Platen Printing-Press
Patent for an automatic jogging attachment for platen presses. The attachments are unique because they can be placed on the press without alterations, they allow for the stacking of sheets in a uniform manner while also being more durable and efficient.
Date:
April 3, 1917
Creator:
Howard, Lewis F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History