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Aeroplane
Patent for an aeroplane which has its equilibrium maintained by the operator through levers that bring the plane up or down.
Date:
December 6, 1910
Creator:
McManus, Augustus F. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Band Buckle
Patent for a bale band buckle. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 6, 1911
Creator:
Brigance, Alice O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Relief Valve for Pneumatic Seed Cotton Distributers.
Patent for a valve that attaches to a flue upon a pneumatic-seed cotton distributor. Includes illustrations.
Date:
January 6, 1903
Creator:
Wade, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie Buckle
Patent for a bale-tie buckle.
Date:
November 6, 1911
Creator:
Armstrong, James E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compound Tool.
Patent for a compound tool that is related to pliers.
Date:
December 6, 1910
Creator:
Modrall, Don A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Barrel-Cover
Patent for a barrel cover. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 6, 1910
Creator:
Andrews, James R. & Waldrum, Joseph W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Brake System
Patent for an air brake system for trains which does not require waiting between uses for the brakes to recharge with air.
Date:
December 6, 1910
Creator:
Dillander, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aerodrome
Patent for an aerodrome. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 6, 1911
Creator:
Mayhew, Nathaniel L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Catching Waste Products From Lead, Silver, or Other Smelters.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in apparatus for "catching the waste products from lead, silver , or other smelters" (line 5 - 7).
Date:
June 6, 1899
Creator:
Sergeant, Walter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Brake
Patent for an air brake for trains that reduces jerking when the brakes are applied.
Date:
February 6, 1912
Creator:
Mead, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap.
Patent for a new and improved animal trap.
Date:
March 6, 1906
Creator:
Myers, George M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard for Railroads.
Patent for a cattle-guard for railroads that is "a series of plates or slates mounted with the capability of partial or complete rotation on axes substantially parallel with the rails and between the said rails and on either side of the track so as to span the road bed or space between the ends of the fence" (lines 25-31). The plates have longitudinal flanges with serrated edges.When the cattle step on the guard, they will experience pain and avoid the spot.
Date:
February 6, 1894
Creator:
Lee, Jacob M.
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
Clinometer or Slope Measurer.
Patent for a new and improved clinometer. This design "is to provide a simple and inexpensive device for taking measurements in prismoidal formula and to avoid the calculation of the triangle and enable the slope to be readily written from the instrument" (lines 16-21). It "compris[es] the square composed of the stationary short bar or arm and the stationary long bar or arm rigidly secured to one side of the short arm or bar and provided on its face with a spirit-level and having a scale of graduations of which the length of the short bar or arm is the unit, the curved brace connecting the said parts" (lines 60-68).
Date:
January 6, 1891
Creator:
Parks, James Harvey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
CANNING SHRIMPS AND OTHER FISH.
Patent for a method for "canning shrimps and/other like shellfish and has for its object the better preservation of the fish and greater expedition, and cheapness in canning" (lines 7-10)with illustrations and instructions.
Date:
April 6, 1880
Creator:
Pecor, Emmett C. & Bartlett, F. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark-Arrester.
Patent for concepts and designs used to improve performance of Spark-Arresters used in the smoke stacks of locomotives with illustrations and instructions.
Date:
April 6, 1880
Creator:
Wiggin, John E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial-StoneTomb.
Patent for the concept of an artificial tomb that serves as a tomb and ornamental piece made as one. "This invention relates to certain improvements in artificial-stone tombs; and it has for its object to produce a tomb with head-stone and foo-piece all in one piece that can be built up or placed immediately over grave, so as to form an ornamental finish, at a comparatively small cost." (lines 15-22) including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
April 6, 1880
Creator:
Wilson, Hence
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Poke.
Patent for "a combined animal poke and halter of simple, inexpensive, and efficient construction whereby stock to which the device is applied are prevented from forcing through or throwing their weight against barbed and other wire fences, and also whereby a halter strap or chain may be readily applied thereto to provide for securing the stock in their stalls when stabled." (Lines 8-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 6, 1896
Creator:
Parker, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sawmill Carriage Track
Patent for Sawmill Carriage Track. This device allows for the logs to be held in place on a straight line while lining up for timber production.
Date:
March 6, 1917
Creator:
Heard, Wm. C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Making Lard Substitute
Patent for an apparatus to produce a lard substitute from cotton seed oil. "An important object of this invention is to provide apparatus of the above mentioned character, which is simple in construction, cheap to manufacture, and continuous in operation."
Date:
October 6, 1914
Creator:
Chisholm, Jesse C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Pneumatic Lift and Force Pump.
Patent for a combined pneumatic lift and force pump, which is able to reach the inexhaustible supply of water found at the depths of five to forty or more feet in the arid region of Texas and Great Central Valley of Mexico. The machinery perfects the simplicity and economy of construction needed to reach and lift a great volume of water in a short time.
Date:
May 6, 1913
Creator:
De Hymel, Franklin Oscar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gearing for Peanut-Harvesters.
Patent for an improved type of gearing for peanut harvesters, with illustrations.
Date:
November 6, 1917
Creator:
Brummett, Sinclair H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clock.
Patent for self-winding secondary clocks that are "connected in series to be timed by a master clock and more particularly to tower clocks" (lines 10-12) with the objectives of keeping perfect time and winding periodically, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 6, 1913
Creator:
Friedman, Bernhard Z.
System:
The Portal to Texas History