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Artificial Tooth
Patent for an artificial tooth to a gold bridge. Illustration included.
Date:
September 6, 1904
Creator:
Priest, Frank L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Band for Paper, Currency, &c.
Patent for a new and improved money clip. This design consists in "[a] band for packages provided with tongues projecting toward each other and an elastic, whereby when the band is in use the tongues will project in opposite directions to receive the elastic" (lines 57-61).
Date:
September 6, 1887
Creator:
Matthews, Oscar Semmes
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Seat
Patent for "a device of the character set forth adapted for application to buggies, carriages, sleighs, and other Vehicles and arranged adjacent to the dash, and when not in use the several parts are folded and the device entire detached and placed endwise under the seat 'and behind the cushion-fall, the parts being simple and effective in their construction and operation, strong and durable, and easily and readily handled and applied" (lines 14-24).
Date:
September 6, 1892
Creator:
Padgitt, Thomas B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in windmills, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 6, 1898
Creator:
Douglass, William S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive Ash-Pan
Patent for "improvements in dumping locomotive ash-pans which will not only effectually and tightly hold the ashes within the same until it is desired to dump the pan, but also to provide means whereby the requisite draft can be obtained and constantly supplied to the fire in regulated quantities" (lines 10-16).
Date:
September 6, 1892
Creator:
Eads, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wall And Floor Brace
Patent for wall and floor brace. Illustration included.
Date:
September 6, 1904
Creator:
Ettler, John Adolph & Sutherland, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Indicator or Bulletin
Patent for a bulletin that can be used in street cars to display station or street names. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 6, 1910
Creator:
Barnes, Ned E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Sand Box
Patent for vehicle sand box. Illustration included.
Date:
September 6, 1904
Creator:
Porterfield, George M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vegetable Slicer And Meat Tenderer
Patent for a vegetable slicer and meat tenderer. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 6, 1904
Creator:
Holcomb, James M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vending Apparatus
Patent for a vending machine for postage supplies. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 6, 1910
Creator:
Harris, Irvin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Gin Feeder
Patent for improvements in cotton gins, including endless apron, toothed cylinder, and toothed equalizing and distributing bars. Includes instructions and illustration.
Date:
September 6, 1870
Creator:
Ralston, Joe
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Station-Indicator.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in station indicators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 6, 1898
Creator:
Rogers, Alexander Hunter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Supply Tank For Water Service
Patent for a supply tank for water service. Illustration included.
Date:
September 6, 1904
Creator:
Leithauser, Peter Jarome
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock
Patent for a nut lock. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 6, 1910
Creator:
Lance, Andrew M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Padlock.
Patent for a new and improved padlock. This design "has for its object to provide an improved lock which, while simple in construction and operation, is at the same time so constructed as to be proof against the possibility of picking by unauthorized persons, and one which when unlocked will automatically release itself from the object and which locks of itself when sprung together" (lines 7-15). It consists in "a locking-lever pivoted at its center in said casing and provided with a locking-pin at one end, adapted to engage the shackle-perforation, [and] a leaf-spring arranged within the casing" (lines 1-5).
Date:
September 6, 1892
Creator:
Brown, Vories P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hand Plow Propeller
Patent for hand plow propeller. Illustration included.
Date:
September 6, 1904
Creator:
Avant, Leonidas W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gearing for Operating Windmill Pumps.
Patent for new and improved gearing for windmill pumps. This design has for its object "to raise water from wells by suitable mechanism connected with a fan, from which the power is communicated to the pump through said mechanism" (lines 13-16).
Date:
September 6, 1887
Creator:
Jordan, John E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Freight And Grain Car
Patent for "freight-car which shall be simple, strong, durable, and comparatively inexpensive in construction, and which shall, by virtue of its attachments, be capable of instant transformation from a car for transporting grain, cereals, and similar loose substances in bulk toa car for transporting miscellaneous dead freight" (lines 17-24).
Date:
September 6, 1892
Creator:
Butz, John F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Reflector for Lamps.
Patent for a new and improved reflector for oil lamps. This design "consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of the parts, whereby the handle and reflector can readily be detached from the lamp-body and replaced thereon when desired" (lines 15-19). Further, the handle has a hole by which it can be hung.
Date:
September 6, 1881
Creator:
Ludwick, John Harvey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Resilient Hub for Wheels.
Patent for an improved version of the Resilient Hub for Wheels, including illustrations. This design is more practical and efficient, as it eliminates the need for a pneumatic tire; rubber can be utilized instead.
Date:
September 6, 1921
Creator:
Wright, Thomas M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Switch.
Patent for an electric switch that is used in conjunction with a signaling device that allows for lights to be activated synchronously or asynchronously via the use of two levers.
Date:
September 6, 1921
Creator:
Riggs, Fletcher S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing Machine.
Patent for a new and improved washing machine. This design "regulate[s] the pressure of the rubber upon the clothes, and thus facilitate[s] the operation of washing the said clothes" (lines 13-16).
Date:
September 6, 1881
Creator:
Hollis, William Tailler.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Roller-Shelving and Cloth-Measurer Combined.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in roller shelving and cloth measurer combined, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 6, 1898
Creator:
Apperson, Thomas F. & Dorsey, Charles H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spring-Motor
Patent for spring motors that can be adapted to rotary fans and sewing machines. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 6, 1910
Creator:
Seeders, Zephaniah C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History