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Saw-Filing Machine
Patent for a Saw-Filing Machine. "This invention relates to saw-filing machines; and the object of the invention is to provide a simple and effective device of this character which is adapted to sharpen with accuracy and rapidity the teeth of different kinds of saws." (lines 8-13) including illustrations.
Date:
August 25, 1903
Creator:
Smith, John D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Brake-Setting Appliance
Patent for an air brake apparatus for train cars which automatically activates when a train car is derailed. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 13, 1909
Creator:
Gale, Albert & Lilley, Doc M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Stone
Patent for artificial stone.
Date:
April 5, 1904
Creator:
Steger, Virge
System:
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Appliance for Protecting Oil-Wells from Fires.
Patent for an appliance for protecting oil-wells from fires. As stated within the patent, "this invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in appliances for protecting oil-wells from fires; and to this end it consists of the novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more specifically described in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the claims herein appended" (Lines 9-16).
Date:
March 11, 1902
Creator:
Cochran, James M.
System:
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Advertising Device
Patent for Advertising Device
Date:
July 28, 1903
Creator:
Smith, John D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Barrel-Stand.
Patent for improvments to barrel stands and related to the "object in view being to provide a simple, and convenient stand for holding barrels and casks and permitting the same to be readily turned with slight exertion from a vertical to a horizontal position and vice versa" (lines 9-12) including illustrations.
Date:
August 27, 1901
Creator:
McClary, Rufus E. & Gray, Thomas S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Quilting Frame and Table.
Patent for a quilting frame which can be quickly set up and collapsed, which folds up to occupy a minimum amount of space, and which can be converted for use as cutting and ironing table. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 14, 1896
Creator:
Burns, Robert Llewellwynn
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bank-Protector.
Patent for improvements in bank-protectors by “providing doors, windows, and other openings with suitable metallic shields that may be readily placed in position by a slight movement of the hand or foot of the operator” (lines 19-23), illustration is included.
Date:
March 17, 1891
Creator:
Saxon, James A.
System:
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Bank-Protector.
Patent for a bank-protector that consists of vertically moving shields arranged just within the cashier's and teller's windows and the outer door of the bank, and a mechanism that allows the cashier to drop the shields and sound an alarm. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 17, 1891
Creator:
Saxon, James A.
System:
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Improvement in Addressing-Machines.
Patent for a new and improved design of addressing-machine which is intended for use in newspaper offices and business purposes in general. It includes illustrations.
Date:
December 17, 1878
Creator:
Piner, John
System:
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Rotary Cotton-Chopper
Patent for "new and useful improvements in rotary cotton-choppers" (lines 4-5) that are of "the class of cotton-choppers which travel across the rows, and also to the class which use a revolving drum having blades or hoes spirally arranged on its periphery" (lines 13-17), including descriptions and illustrations.
Date:
June 8, 1880
Creator:
Lee, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant Trap.
Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design "compris[es] the sides adapted to encompass an anthill and composed of a bottom, inclined walls, and horizontal top portions, having depending inclined flanges, one of the sides having an opening in its bottom and provided with ways arranged on opposite sides of the opening, a removable receptacle provided with flanges arranged in said ways and having inwardly-inclined walls, and a discharge-tube arranged at one corner of the trap" (lines 77-87).
Date:
May 3, 1892
Creator:
Royse, John
System:
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Apparatus for Cooking Cotton-Seed Meal.
Patent for an apparatus for cooking cotton-seed meal meant to get the maximum amount of oil for the meal used and puts moisture into dry meal and evaporates excess moisture in meal. Meal is continuously supplied through the machine and water-bath. The steam does not burn or harm the meal.
Date:
August 27, 1895
Creator:
Dabney, Benjamin & Yopp, William I.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Envelop.
Patent for an envelope "whereby the cutting device acts as a partial ejector for the letter" (lines 12-13), including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
December 1, 1914
Creator:
Donaldson, James Macon
System:
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Combined Swingletree and Evener.
Patent, including illustrations, for improvements to combined swingletrees and eveners, tools used to equalize strain between a draft animal and vehicle, "which is easily and simply constructed, inexpensive to manufacture, and one which will be very efficient in operation" (lines 22-25).
Date:
March 16, 1920
Creator:
White, Floyd N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Lock for Cotton Gins
Patent for an automatic lock for cotton gins. It provides an automatic latch having a constant tendency toward the latching position, but yieldable to the opening of breast of the cotton gin. This is to prevent accidents involving the removing of obstruction in the gin happening to those removing the obstruction. Illustrations are provided.
Date:
February 5, 1918
Creator:
Henson, W.M.
System:
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Safe Lock
Patent for providing "a means which will necessitate the operation of a series of setting devices before the several bolts can be moved to unlock the door". (lines 11-14).
Date:
June 13, 1918
Creator:
Harris, William J. B. of Bonham, TX
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Anti-Agitating Device.
Patent for anti-agitating device, including two figures describing said device, with illustrations. Author describes improvements for liquid dispensers on previous anti-agitating devices by altering the cylinder duties during its performance.
Date:
February 3, 1920
Creator:
Catron, John J.
System:
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Wrench.
Patent for a wrench that allows adjustment to two locked positions with a slot and stud mechanism.
Date:
May 22, 1917
Creator:
Bledsoe, Yancy M.
System:
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Wire Stretcher.
Patent for a new and improved wire-stretcher. This design consists in "the combination, with an essentially T-shaped body having the members of the head inclined in direction of the straight member and provided with a series of teeth, of a lever pivoted to the straight member of the body contiguous to the head and clamping-jaws pivoted upon the said lever" (lines 32-39).
Date:
February 19, 1889
Creator:
Hughes, George Roland
System:
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Wire Stretcher.
Patent for a new and improved wire-stretcher. This design "has for its object to provide a device of simple, durable, and economical construction and capable of carrying the roll taut a sufficient distance beyond the post to conveniently nail the wire thereto, and whereby any amount of slack can be taken up by repeated operation. The further object of the invention is to provide a machine which will also be able to draw together the broken ends of a wire and take up the slack between the posts" (lines 8-18).
Date:
October 22, 1889
Creator:
Hickman, Thomas P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window-Shade Bracket.
Patent for a window shade bracket, which holds the shade straight.
Date:
December 7, 1909
Creator:
Brown, Colbert W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Liniment.
Patent for an antiseptic liniment comprised of flaxseed oil, turpentine, and sulphuric acid.
Date:
February 19, 1889
Creator:
Bates, David
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Compounds for Destroying Trees, Roots, &c.
Patent for a new and useful improvements to compouds used in the destroying of trees. Lists ingredients and dosages.
Date:
October 21, 1879
Creator:
Buchanan, William T.
System:
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