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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
Fence-Post.
Patent for improvements to fence post design in which a base is added to hold the post upright while keeping it above ground to prevent deterioration from soil with illustrations.
Date:
July 31, 1900
Creator:
Hammer, Willie Alice
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flash-Light System.
Patent for new and useful flash light system where the "plurality of lights or series of lights are alternately cut into and then out of the lighting-circuit, so there are a series of flashes " (lines 10-13), including illustrations.
Date:
July 31, 1900
Creator:
Wright, Martin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ice-Cream Freezer.
Patent for an ice cream freezer that consists of a can with a joint bearing in the middle, a cover with openings in the center and a central vertical flange, a lid that fits over the central vertical flange, and a shaft with horizontal arms that rotates.
Date:
July 31, 1894
Creator:
Wallace, Lloyd & Wallace, Jeff Davis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saw.
Patent for a saw with a blade that can efficiently cut through wood and metal materials. Illustration included.
Date:
July 31, 1900
Creator:
Caruthers, John I.
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
Register for Barber's Chairs.
Patent for a new and improved barber's chair. This design relates to certain improvements in registering devices for barber-chairs, and has for its object to provide means whereby a correct tally can be kept of the persons shaved and the number of hair-cuts which have been performed during the day, week, or month. . . . [The] invention is only applicable to the style of barber-chairs that have a tilting motion backward and forward, for the purpose of more conveniently placing the person when being shaved or having his [or her] hair cut" (lines 10-21).
Date:
July 31, 1883
Creator:
Lane, Fernando G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
File Case.
Patent for a new and improved file case. This design "[t]he combination, with a case, of the pockets constructed in a series of a single piece of material having partitions formed by long folds connected at the bottom by short folds . . . [and t]he combination, with the folded pockets, of the file case having its sides constructed to overlap a part of the ends of the pockets, and an elastic follower with thumb-pieces arranged to bind with the sides of the case by straightening" (lines 9-24).
Date:
July 31, 1888
Creator:
Altfather, William F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Match-Safe
Patent for a new match safe which dispenses matches individually, including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
July 31, 1917
Creator:
Lewis, Oscar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric-Motor Drive.
Patent for an electric-motor drive that can be used specifically with a cotton tramper, including instructions and illustrations.. This invention serves multiples methods of improvement compared to current electric-motor drives, and will make the processes its involved in more efficient, while being inexpensive to construct.
Date:
July 31, 1917
Creator:
Whitt, Joseph E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dirigible Headlight.
Patent for "simple, durable and inexpensive" (line 22) dirigible headlight that can installed on automobiles and can be controlled from the steering wheel.
Date:
July 31, 1917
Creator:
Crawford, James E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Cultivators.
Patent for an improved arch-bar for cultivators that allows increasing and decreasing the space between drag bars without having to stop the team of horses.
Date:
July 31, 1906
Creator:
Weempe, Charles M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Safety-Pocket
Patent for a particular pocket and its attachments that allows access by the owner but prevents objects held within from falling out or easily removed by another person.
Date:
July 31, 1906
Creator:
McCauley, Walter John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Dropper.
Patent for a seed dropper that is used to drop peas or other seeds between hills of corn. This tool is very light and can be handled with one hand.
Date:
July 31, 1917
Creator:
Hefner, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Brick-Machines.
Patent for an improvement in brick-machines by which a new combination of construction materials is contrived.
Date:
July 31, 1876
Creator:
Michel, Ferdinand
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Breech-Loading Fire-Arms.
Patent for improvements in Winchester Repeating fire-arms, or magazine fire-arms. Patent for improvements in the "interior mechanism for operating the breech-block and resisting the recoil, and in the combination of parts". Patent that increases strength and capability to resist recoil, increases the charge of powder. Together, the ball is carried faster and farther with "perfect safety and without increase of recoil or rebound".
Date:
July 31, 1877
Creator:
Petmecky, Joseph C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Harvesters.
Patent for "the construction and arrangement of a cotton-picking machine" (lines 15-16) using wire brushes on rods and chains, including illustrations.
Date:
July 31, 1877
Creator:
Graves, Clinton E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaner.
Patent for an improved cotton cleaner including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 31, 1917
Creator:
Line, George C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dental Swaging Apparatus
Patent for a dental apparatus that produces gold facings and cusps for individual teeth, as well as plate and bridge work.
Date:
July 31, 1906
Creator:
Crawford, Lyter H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator.
Patent for "improvement in acetylene-gas generators, and has for one object to provide an exceedingly- simple apparatus of this description in which the pipes and connections are closed , and thus protected from freezing by the effects of atmospheric changes; and a further object of my invention is to remove the possibility of an explosion taking place during the manipulation of the machine." (lines 9-17) including illustrations.
Date:
July 31, 1900
Creator:
Hartman, Gus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Calcining-Furnance.
Patent for updates to "calcining-furnaces", specifically several original and new parts, including illustrations.
Date:
July 31, 1900
Creator:
Hughes, Godfrey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a simple and efficient car coupling that easily couples by impact, and can uncouple without going between cars.
Date:
July 31, 1894
Creator:
Kirk, John P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Box for Presses
Patent for a box used to house heated metal presses to extract fluid from cotton seeds.
Date:
July 31, 1900
Creator:
Galbraith, Oscar B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Door Opener.
Patent for a car door opener, making it possible to open a car door without using a hammer or injuring oneself.
Date:
July 31, 1906
Creator:
Gibson, Levi D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History