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Attachment for Phonographs, &c. (open access)

Attachment for Phonographs, &c.

Patent for an attachment for phonographs to be used to have records play on a loop. Illustrations included.
Date: October 19, 1909
Creator: Perrenot, George F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane-Kite. (open access)

Aeroplane-Kite.

Patent for a new aeroplane-kite which can be "readily dismantled and folded for shipping and easily assembled and placed in position for flying without the use of numerous fastenings and detachable parts, thereby making for simplicity and practicability" (lines 12-17). Also includes wind tunnels and a fuselage frame which is so easily assembled that a child can do it.
Date: October 19, 1920
Creator: McLaughlin, James T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Pump. (open access)

Air-Pump.

Patent for a new and improved air pump capable of releasing air from the cylindrical casing in one motion. The updated design will also eliminate any lubricating oil from leaking into a tire.
Date: October 19, 1920
Creator: Lawley, Ira
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench. (open access)

Wrench.

Patent for wrench related device "for locking the gripping element after it is applied to the pipe or other pipe (lines 14-15)" including instructions and illustration.
Date: October 19, 1915
Creator: Black, Lee J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Wheel. (open access)

Vehicle Wheel.

Patent for a new and improved vehicle wheel. This design features "the construction and combination of parts whereby the spokes may be adjusted radially outward, and also forced tightly around the axle-box, to compensate for shrinkage" (lines 11-15).
Date: October 19, 1880
Creator: French, Stephen H. & Maltby, William J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ironing Table. (open access)

Ironing Table.

Patent for a new and improved ironing board. This design consists in "the rigid supporting-frame of an ironing-table, a cross-piece secured to the outside of the upper ends of the supports at one end of the frame, so that its upper edge shall project above the supports, an ironing-board top hinged to one side of the cross-piece, and a shelf secured to the upper edge and projecting to the opposite side of said cross-piece" (lines 86-94).
Date: October 19, 1886
Creator: Adair, Annie E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Liquid Coating Composition (open access)

Liquid Coating Composition

Patent for improved non-flammable paint and multi-purpose byproduct of paint production process.
Date: October 19, 1920
Creator: McKay, Arthur N. & Willis, William L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Liquid Dispensing Machinemm (open access)

Liquid Dispensing Machinemm

Patent for a machine can dispense potable liquids to several customers at the same time.
Date: October 19, 1920
Creator: Ogden, Clayton N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well-Boring Apparatus (open access)

Well-Boring Apparatus

Patent for "new and useful improvements in well boring apparatus. The object of the invention is to provide an apparatus of the character described embodying a rotary table and a novel means for connecting the same to the string of pipe, which extends down into the well and which is rotated by said table and in turn rotates the boring tool carried by the lower end of said spring of pipe" (lines 9-18) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 19, 1920
Creator: Decker, Harry R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Blocking Machine (open access)

Cotton Blocking Machine

Patent for an inexpensive attachment to a cotton cultivator/checking machine to improve the intake capacity of the cultivator itself. The blocking machine would be used to replace the manual labor task of chopping cotton before insertion into the cultivator for processing.
Date: October 19, 1920
Creator: Ford, Barnie S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ink-Bottle. (open access)

Ink-Bottle.

Patent for improvements in in bottles: "it consists, essentially, of a hexagonal or analogous polygonal shaped body having dip cups arranged adjacent to one and thereof at such angles as to regulate the flow by turning the body and bringing it to bear on different bases." (lines 12-17).
Date: October 19, 1897
Creator: Anderson, Alexander C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Internal Combustion and Air Compressing Engine (open access)

Internal Combustion and Air Compressing Engine

Patent for internal combustion and air compressing engine. Illustration included.
Date: October 19, 1909
Creator: Risley, Ward & Risley, Zeph L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Train Signaling And Stopping Device. (open access)

Train Signaling And Stopping Device.

Patent for Train Signaling And Stopping Device improvements intended to be of low cost, simple, durable, and run on electricity.
Date: October 19, 1920
Creator: McGregor, Charles Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Motor (open access)

Hydraulic Motor

Patent for a hydraulic motor. Illustration included.
Date: October 19, 1909
Creator: Schaefer, Herbert Clyde
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk and Straw Chopper. (open access)

Stalk and Straw Chopper.

Patent for "improvements to stalk, straw and weed choppers for attachment to plows" (lines 13-16) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 19, 1915
Creator: Gray, Wallace W. & Witzsche, Frank P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Steering Mechanism for Automobiles. (open access)

Steering Mechanism for Automobiles.

Patent for an attachment for steering wheels that allows for more stable steering and shock absorption.
Date: October 19, 1915
Creator: Law, James P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Switch-Stand. (open access)

Switch-Stand.

Patent for a switch stand that automatically switches to danger when unlocked and has independently rotating switch operating spindles and target spindles.
Date: October 19, 1915
Creator: Praetorius, Richard P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump. (open access)

Pump.

Patent for a new and improved pump. This design "is to provide an engine or apparatus . . . in pumps of that class known as "force-pumps" . . . which is simple and durable in construction, and which is of large working capacity. . . . [The design] attain[s] the purposes of [the] invention by . . . the pump-buckets or caging and that part of the delivering-pipe containing the . . . valves in the plungers . . . [and] the ball-valves" (lines 9-28).
Date: October 19, 1886
Creator: Sparks, John M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Swivel Connection (open access)

Swivel Connection

Patent for a swivel connection for pipe joints which does not require packing and allows each pipe to turn independently of the other.
Date: October 19, 1909
Creator: Guild, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Construction of Jails. (open access)

Improvement in Construction of Jails.

Patent for improvement in construction of jails; in which a system of flues in between layers of a double floor provide ventilation through grates in the walls and upper layer of the floor, without compromising security.
Date: October 19, 1875
Creator: Seeber, John A. & Croxton, James C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump (open access)

Pump

Patent for a pneumatic pump that attaches to automobiles and fills up pneumatic tires and self-lubricates.
Date: October 19, 1909
Creator: Kreiter, Richard F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Surface-Treating Machine (open access)

Surface-Treating Machine

Patent for a machine that treats surfaces. Illustration is included.
Date: October 19, 1920
Creator: Clarke, Alex A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Surface-Treating Machine. (open access)

Surface-Treating Machine.

Patent for a surface treating machine that improves support, where the surface treating member is "driven by intermediate means from a motor displaced from the member, together with means of effecting adjustments of the surface treating member with relation to the work" (lines 13-15), with illustrations.
Date: October 19, 1920
Creator: Clarke, Alex A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Surface-Treating Device. (open access)

Surface-Treating Device.

Patent for a surface cleaning device that provides a continuously moving surface treating member which is bodily adjustable in a suitable support.
Date: October 19, 1920
Creator: Clark, Alex A.
System: The Portal to Texas History