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Apparatus for Washing and Scrubbing Gas.
Patent for a washer-scrubber that cleans gas from "tarry matter, ammonia, sulphureted hydrogen, carbonic acid and other impurities" (lines 14-16). The machine divides gas into streams, sprays it with washing liquor, spreads it over reticulated and perforated plates.
Date:
March 7, 1893
Creator:
Fitzgerald, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Rat and Mouse Trap.
Patent for a cheaper and more effective trap that displays live bait but is unreachable to animals. The trap will make it "impossible for animals to escape after they have been captured" (lines 26-28), including illustrations.
Date:
March 7, 1916
Creator:
Bevers, William S., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Filling Brushes
Patent for a machine designed to fill brushes with bristles. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 7, 1911
Creator:
Hoover, Orlando B. & Curry, Monroe
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window Or Door Fastener
Patent for fastener used on doors or windows. Illustration included.
Date:
March 7, 1905
Creator:
Lovelace, Charles D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well Drilling Bit.
Patent for new and improved well-drilling bit. Illustration included.
Date:
March 7, 1916
Creator:
Marney, Robert A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill.
Patent for an improved wind wheel that has "every other blade...has a right angled extension or cup to catch the wind, the blades thus formed being set in the hub and rim of the wheel so as to have said right angled portions where they will receive the full force of the wind" (lines 17-22). A ring supports the angled portions of the windmill blades.
Date:
March 7, 1893
Creator:
Bowman, Charles R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle
Patent for a vehicle. Illustration included.
Date:
March 7, 1905
Creator:
Boothe, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect Collecting Machine
Patent for insect collecting machine. This invention is for use with cotton plants. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 7, 1911
Creator:
Meek, Ada
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vapor or Gas Generating Apparatus
Patent for vapor or gas generating apparatus. "This invention relates to an apparatus for generating vapor and gases from the air, earth, wood and other substances, for the treatment of internal and external diseases, the object of the invention being to provide a simple reliable, effective and economical apparatus whereby medical vapors or gases of various kinds may be rapidly and conveniently generated and used in the treatment and cure of various internal and external disorders" (lines 9-19). illustrations included.
Date:
March 7, 1911
Creator:
Norwood, Walter Nathaniel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Shingle-machine.
Patent for to improve the construction of the shingle-machine known as the "Evarts Rotary Twelve-Block Shingle-Machine".
Date:
March 7, 1876
Creator:
Stewart, Moses
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Paper Boxes.
Patent for improved techniques in folding paper boxes using a single piece of paper in which the bottom part is safely secured. Illustration is included.
Date:
March 7, 1876
Creator:
Kuehne, Franz
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trap
Patent for an animal trap. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 7, 1911
Creator:
Kennedy, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trap
Patent for a trap for catching small animals and insects. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 7, 1911
Creator:
Lambert, Andrew P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Pump
Patent for a hydraulic pump. Illustration included.
Date:
March 7, 1905
Creator:
Russell, Robert H.; Arnold, Clifton W. & Sheldon, Walter L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Printer's Galley.
Patent for a new and improved printer's galley. This design consists of a novel arrangement of the galley parts that "dispenses with the time, labor, and expense incurred in manipulating quoins and side-sticks, mallet, shooting-stick, &c." (lines 60-62).
Date:
March 7, 1882
Creator:
Rudolph, Elijah K. & Wolfe, Joseph A. L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Surveying Instrument.
Patent for new and improved surveying instrument for use "in calculating the distance between the point of 'setting up' and the target, without the use of the usual linear chain" (lines 12-15). Illustration and instruction included.
Date:
March 7, 1916
Creator:
Adams, J. S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Paper-Hanging Machine.
Patent for improvements in paper-hanging machines to "provide a device of this class of simple and improved construction adapted to hold a roll of wall paper, to guide the paper over a trimming device and under a paste applying device, and said machine being also provided with a cutting device for severing the strip of paper after the same has been applied to the wall" (lines 10-18); it includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 7, 1911
Creator:
Phillips, Jay V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mandrew Attachment.
Patent for an improved, simple, inexpensive, durable, and efficient mandrel attachment that can be easily attached, detached, and adjusted. It has "a bar at one end with a plate for its attachment and at the other end with a cam and eccentric for detachable connection and adjustment the support carrying the cam and eccentric being hinged so as to drop down so that cylinder work can be slipped over the mandrel and then the eccentric and cam raised up and tightened to the bar to hold the work to be performed" (lines 18-27).
Date:
March 7, 1893
Creator:
Bosley, Lee W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Swivel
Patent for a new and useful improvement in hydraulic swivels by simplifying the structure and making the device more efficient and reliable.
Date:
March 7, 1922
Creator:
Black, Lee J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Portable Heater.
Patent for a portable heater for heating water.
Date:
March 7, 1911
Creator:
Ellis, Frank B. & Walker, James L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
System of Irrigation
Patent for an irrigation system. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 7, 1911
Creator:
Von Hohenstein, Charles H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Passenger Recorder
Patent for a passenger recorder. This invention is designed to keep track of the flow of passengers entering on and off passenger vehicles. Illustration included.
Date:
March 7, 1905
Creator:
Jackson, Charles F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Armor.
Patent for a new design "in armor or protectors for pneumatic tires" (line 13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 7, 1911
Creator:
Ramsay, Henry M.; McGary, Austin & Campbell, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Swab Holder
Patent for a swab holders. The invention is designed to be connected with a pump or piston rod for the purpose of lubrication. Illustration included.
Date:
March 7, 1911
Creator:
Steinert, Bernhardt W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History