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Ant-Trap.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in ant-traps.
Date:
April 12, 1898
Creator:
Selvidge, Charles W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Elevating, Distributing, and Feeding Seed-Cotton to Gins
Patent for improvements to cotton gins so that seed cotton can be fed to two gins at the same time, while using the same power as would normally be necessary for one gin.
Date:
April 12, 1892
Creator:
Murray, Stephen D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Tubing Catcher
Patent for an improved well tubing catcher, which "provides an equal and positive bearing surface for the gripper slips or dogs in all their adjusted positions" (lines 16-18), including illustrations.
Date:
April 12, 1921
Creator:
Wilson, Robert A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel.
Patent for an improved wheel tire. The improvements to a conventional tire include multiple hinged springs which limit the movement of the wheel in two directions when contact is made with the ground. The wheel includes shoes placed concentrically around the wheel that provides shock absorption, better traction, and overall stability.
Date:
April 12, 1919
Creator:
Schmidt, Oscar J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water - Tank.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in water tanks.
Date:
April 12, 1898
Creator:
Stevenson, William M. & Bailey, William K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Valve.
Patent for a water valve for water delivery systems that does not have standing water around it that can freeze in cold weather.
Date:
April 12, 1910
Creator:
Anthony, Joseph B. & Morris, Robert M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Variable Speed Governor
Patent for a variable speed governor. This invention regulates speed of vehicle without stopping the motor. Illustration included.
Date:
April 12, 1904
Creator:
Casteel, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Top Rest.
Patent for am improved vehicle top rest, which employs two coils of wire to hold up the vehicle-top and increases the strength and durability of the device.
Date:
April 12, 1910
Creator:
Henry, Patrick
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Medical Compounds.
Patent for a pill composed of podophyllin, leptandrin, butternut bark extract, rhubarb extract, extract of "jalap," capsicum, quinine sulfate, and salicin. The pill is said to treat a wide variety of diseases.
Date:
April 12, 1874
Creator:
Roberts, Robert R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam Cooking Stove.
Patent for a new and improved steam stove. This design "is to provide a stove . . . that can be used on a gas-stove base, a lamp-stove, an ordinary cooking-stove, or even over a camp-fire, and which when so used will provide an apartment for baking or warming and another apartment for steaming, the steam being generated within a surrounding boiler and by the heat that has been used to heat the oven" (lines 11-20). It consists in "a casing divided vertically by a transverse boiler-body, chambers in the sides of the lower-half of the casing . . . and a transverse pipe" (lines 34-38).
Date:
April 12, 1892
Creator:
James, Will S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Manure Distributer.
Patent for a new and improved fertilizer distributor. This design consists in "the rotating shaft having the stirring apparatus, the wheels loosely mounted on the said shaft, the detent to engage the shaft and prevent it from rotating, and the clutch mechanism to secure one of the wheels to the shaft" (lines 5-10).
Date:
April 12, 1887
Creator:
Harrell, Solomon James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Traction Gang-Plow
Patent for a traction gang-plow. Illustration included.
Date:
April 12, 1910
Creator:
Johnson, Charles J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Portable Water-Heater and Steam-Cooker
Patent for a portable water-heater and steam-cooker that "can be adapted for heating water for a variety of domestic purposes, such as for washing clothes and the like, and for supplying steam for scalding clothes, for cooking feed for stock, and for operating a churn or similar device" (lines 14-19).
Date:
April 12, 1904
Creator:
Staton, John William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Post-Anchor.
Patent for a post anchor to hold the post in the ground more firmly.
Date:
April 12, 1910
Creator:
Laux, Julius
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Poison-Distributer
Patent for a distributor for "pulverized paris-green, londonpurple, arsenic, and other poisons in a dry state over cotton and other plants" that is "of exceedingly simple and durable construction and capable of attachment to any form of cultivator, and also to provide a means whereby the poison to be delivered from the machine may be regulated as to quantity in a convenient and expeditious manner, and, further, to provide a means whereby the poison as delivered from the machine will be spread over the plants at each side of the machine" (lines 11-24).
Date:
April 12, 1892
Creator:
Richter, Franz Ludwig
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Time-Recorder.
Patent for a new and improved time-recorder "for use in factories, stores, offices, and other like places for recording the arrival an departure of the employees" (line 8 - 11).
Date:
April 12, 1898
Creator:
Cook, Frederick W., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Support for Rural-Free-Delivery Boxes.
Patent for a mailbox support, which swings out into the road for the mail carrier to reach easily and then can be swung back into the yard when mail is delivered.
Date:
April 12, 1910
Creator:
Randall, Osro W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Padlock
Patent for a padlock. Illustration included.
Date:
April 12, 1910
Creator:
Greer, Benjamin J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
usp015/00472545
Patent for "a simple and economical device of this character, which shall possess superior advantages with respect to efficiency, and whereby sand and dirt is effectually excluded and the grease or other lubricating material prevented from escaping" (lines 15-21).
Date:
April 12, 1892
Creator:
Miller, William J.; McBean, Robert S. & McBurnett, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Feed Spout Barrier
Patent for "a feel spout barrier for slime thickeners, settling tanks, separating tanks and the like" (lines 8-10) with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 12, 1921
Creator:
Allen, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grinding Attachment
Patent for a grinding attachment. This attachment is a grindstone that is turned via the hand-car. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 12, 1904
Creator:
Brown, Mik
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tenoning and Pointing Machine.
Patent for a tenoning and pointing machine for wheel spokes
Date:
April 12, 1910
Creator:
Miller, Frederick C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spring Tooth for Cultivators and Harrows
Patent for a spring tooth for cultivators and harrows. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 12, 1904
Creator:
Vance, Sidney F. & Woodard, Lorenzo D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Reinforcing Metal Yoke for Hollow Concrete Walls
Patent for reinforcing metal yoke for hollow concrete walls. Illustration included.
Date:
April 12, 1910
Creator:
Nelson, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History