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Advertising Street Car Sign
Patent for an advertisement sign located on the top of street cars. Illustration included.
Date:
February 11, 1908
Creator:
King, Alphonse
System:
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Aeroplane
Patent for an aeroplane. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 11, 1913
Creator:
Goodrich, Luman L., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Box for Washing Gravel, &c.
Patent for washing gravel and other material for making concrete.
Date:
February 28, 1888
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas W.
System:
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Attachment For Mowers
Patent for an improving to attachments for mowers that can be attached to shoe of the sickle bar. This attachment helps to raise the grain or growth being cut and bring it into the path of the sickle bar. It also works to ensure the cut grain will fall away from the standing grain.
Date:
February 15, 1916
Creator:
Muller, Hermann W.
System:
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Automatic Cake-Rack
Patent for a display device of desert type foods.
Date:
February 15, 1916
Creator:
Jones, Seaborn W. & Postlethwaite, Alonzo W.
System:
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Combined Stool and Table
Patent for a combined stool and table that can be folded and is portable for use in cars or at picnics; includes "knife, fork and spoon compartments" (line 25).
Date:
February 22, 1921
Creator:
Lewis, Charles E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench
Patent for a wrench designed for right and left-handed users, makes for simpler use of tool by having fewer components than other more standards wrenches.
Date:
February 9, 1915
Creator:
Wulff, William F. & Wulff, M.
System:
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Valve-Grinding Device
Patent for a device that can simultaneously grind "several valves of a multi-cylinder engine or motor" (lines 11-12). This device allows the "ready interchangeability, repair and adjustment of the working parts" (lines 16-17).
Date:
February 4, 1919
Creator:
Lohec, Joseph C.
System:
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Internal Combustion Engine.
Patent for an internal combustion engine consisting of a valve and cynlinder. The engine is made to avoid dead air space commonly present in valve casings.
Date:
February 15, 1921
Creator:
Blumberg, Hamilton G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock.
Patent for "locking the control pedals of a motor vehicle from movement in either direction, the said lock being arranged between the pedals and arranged to simultaneously engage and lock both" (lines 9-14).
Date:
February 27, 1919
Creator:
Cameron, Robert G.
System:
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Valve Construction
Patent for improved valve construction which permits unobstructed passage from valves to intake and exhaust pipe in motor vehicles.
Date:
February 5, 1918
Creator:
Smith, Thomas Noah
System:
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Journal-Lubricator.
Patent for a railway journal lubricator with a reservoir and lubricating rollers for supplying lubricant to the railway journal.
Date:
February 4, 1919
Creator:
Urbieta, Jose M.
System:
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Locomotive-Pilot Coupling
Patent for new and useful improvements in locomotive-pilot couplings (lines 5-6), including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
February 8, 1900
Creator:
Butcher, George W.
System:
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Wrench.
Patent for a new ratchet-wrench with "improved construction and combination of parts" (lines 26-27), including illustrations.
Date:
February 2, 1886
Creator:
Rettberg, Ernest Frederick & Ellis, Charles Carroll
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wave-Motor
Patent for a wave motor for vehicles that travel on water. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 4, 1913
Creator:
Stribling, Samuel L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Key.
Patent for a key, which can be produced in quantity but without any of them being able to open the same door.
Date:
February 4, 1908
Creator:
Katzenberger, Oscar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock
Patent for a lock. This invention is a design of door lock that uses a key and combination. Illustration included.
Date:
February 12, 1907
Creator:
Katzenberger, Oscar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock.
Patent for a new and useful combination lock designed for safe.
Date:
February 15, 1898
Creator:
Wise, Harry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tractor.
Patent for an improvement in tractors that allowed adjustment to the tread or allowed distance between traction elements.
Date:
February 10, 1920
Creator:
Franklin, Floyd P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tool.
Patent for a new and improved tool for "various uses, being especially adapted as a clamp, vise, brace or drill-stock, or wrench" (line 9 -10).
Date:
February 15, 1898
Creator:
Poor, Morrill Hart
System:
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Milk Cooler
Patent for a milk cooler. Illustration included.
Date:
February 8, 1910
Creator:
McNeel, James S.
System:
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Press.
Patent for a new and improved press. This design "consists in compressing-rollers placed in suitable bearings, so as to coincide with an inlet-channel which receives and guides the fibrous substance to be baled into the baling-box of a press after the compressing-rollers have given it a preparatory pressing" (lines 10-16).
Date:
February 9, 1886
Creator:
Holmgreen, Julius H.
System:
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Upholstered Furniture
Patent for "new and useful improvements in upholstered furniture", (lines 5-6), including illustration and instructions.
Date:
February 19, 1900
Creator:
Conrad, J. B.
System:
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Padlock.
Patent for a padlock, which can only be opened with a certain key and prevents the use of many lock-picking devices.
Date:
February 4, 1908
Creator:
Katzenberger, Oscar
System:
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