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Clock Attachment.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in clock attachments.
Date:
March 8, 1898
Creator:
Schindler, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Arm for Telegraph - Poles.
Patent for a new and useful arm for telegraph poles.
Date:
March 8, 1898
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Shade and Current Bracket Support and Shade-Guide.
Patent for a combined shade and curtain bracket support and shade guide, which makes shades roll up straight rather than catching on edges and tearing.
Date:
March 8, 1910
Creator:
Hoxworth, Edwin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie.
Patent for improvements in bale-ties is to produce a “buckle-plate having a middle portion with an opening therein, arms at each end separated from the middle portion by spaces open at one side, a longitudinal entering-passage connecting the opening with one of said spaces, and a hoop the free ends of which are looped down through said opening and up through the spaces, resting upon the arms under the standing part of the hoop.” (Lines 74-83) Illustration is included.
Date:
July 8, 1902
Creator:
Johnson, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition of Matter for Artificial Fuel.
Patent for artificial fuel by using coals called “lignite”, grinded it and add other ingredients to it. Formula, measurements and method of mixing is included. No illustration.
Date:
December 8, 1903
Creator:
Lohmann, August
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Plow and Planter.
Patent for a new and useful improvements in a combined plow and planter which "can be readily adapted for planting different kinds of seed, such as corn, cotton, cane, and the like" (line 21 - 23).
Date:
March 8, 1898
Creator:
Franklin, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cleaner for Seed-Cotton.
Patent for a new and improved cleaner for seed cotton, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 8, 1898
Creator:
Hart, Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clock Calendar
Patent for a clock calendar.
Date:
December 8, 1903
Creator:
Woods, Jesse Leroy
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Electrostatic-Magnetic Separation
Patent for an electrostatic-magnetic separator for separating particles in a mass.
Date:
February 8, 1910
Creator:
Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Craft Propeller
Patent for an air craft propeller that reduces air resistance.
Date:
October 8, 1912
Creator:
Koiw, Julius
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed
Patent for a bed. This invention is designed for invalids that also provides a bed pan. Illustration included.
Date:
January 8, 1907
Creator:
Myers, Nancy S. A. E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap
Patent for an animal trap. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 8, 1908
Creator:
Dennis, Decatur D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Trunk And Dressing-Case.
Patent for a new and useful combined trunk and dressing case. This design is to "provide a simple and efficient device of the character specified having a large amount of space for receiving different articles of wearing-apparel and for inclosing various kinds of toilet appliances" (line 9 - 14).
Date:
August 8, 1899
Creator:
Carraway, Esther P. H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Lock for Mines and Tunnels
Patent for an air lock to remove water, polluted air, and heat from mines and tunnels and force in fresh air. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 8, 1908
Creator:
Durack, Partick H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for a baling press which uses less power to press hay the same tightness as current baling presses.
Date:
February 8, 1910
Creator:
Smith, Ernest D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Trap
Patent for an animal. Illustration included.
Date:
November 8, 1904
Creator:
Wilkinson, John Marion
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Manufacturing Door Plates or Signs
Patent for a molding and printing device for forming hollow backed signs and name plates.
Date:
March 8, 1910
Creator:
Simmang, Charles Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Shaft Holder and Wrench.
Patent for a new and improved shaft-holder and wrench. This design "consist[s] of the arms having their lower ends tapered to form screw-drivers of different sizes, the heads on the upper ends of the arms, the jaws on the heads, and the threaded shaft attached to one of the arms and engaging a tapped aperture in the other arm" (lines 92-98).
Date:
January 8, 1889
Creator:
Nott, Henry W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the rounded meeting ends of the main levers and the equalizing-link connecting the same; the rounded meeting ends of the toggle-levers concentrically arranged with reference to the sill-bearings; the perforated connecting-pin for the upper ends of each pair of toggle-levers, and the securing-bolts thereof passed through the heads of the toggle-levers; the end openings in the lower portion of the baling-box and the vertically-reciprocating doors in connection therewith" (lines 19-30).
Date:
August 8, 1882
Creator:
Stopple, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Appratus for Treating Refuse Matter.
Patent for "the perfection of an apparatus by the use of which night soil or garbage may be reduced to ashes in the shortest possible time and at a comparatively trivial expense" (lines 20-24).
Date:
August 8, 1893
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Shears.
Patent for new and improved animal shears. This design is "of a platinum or other wire or conductor heated to a high temperature, sufficient to burn through the fibers of the wool or hair, and [is] passed over the surface of the body as close as may be deemed desirable to the roots. No injurious effects are produced upon the animal or upon the wool or hair removed, while at the same time the same may be removed with great uniformity and expedition" (lines 28-36).
Date:
June 8, 1886
Creator:
Harrell, Joseph J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Wardrobe, Bureau, and Wash Stand.
Patent for a new and improved combination chiffarobe and wash stand. This design is "constructed with a main wardrobe section provided with hinged upper doors having lower ledges or shelves, respectively, and bureau and wash-stand structures hinged at opposite sides of the wardrobe below its doors and adapted when closed to close the lower front part of the wardrobe, and said door-ledges forming top covers to the wash-stand and bureau" (lines 31-40).
Date:
May 8, 1888
Creator:
Wulff, Henry F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Barrel for Outhouses.
Patent for a new and improved barrel. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the barrel-head having the opening, of the cover adapted to close said opening, the bolt extending through said cover and into the barrel, the clamping bar longer than the width of said opening in the barrel-head, said bar being centrally pivoted by a rivet to the lower end of said bolt, and a nut screwed upon the upper end of said bolt for clamping said cover in position" (lines 16-25).
Date:
May 8, 1888
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Axle-Box.
Patent for an axle-box for vehicle wheels that "contains a lubricant-receiving recess from which the lubricant is automatically fed to the spindle of the axle as necessity may occasion" (lines 10-13).
Date:
May 8, 1894
Creator:
Casto, Tony Lo
System:
The Portal to Texas History