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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
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
Window-Sash.
Patent for an improved window sash that is meant to "provide means for securing a sash in its frame whereby it is capable of free movement, and at the same time is dust-proof, wind-proof, rain-proof, and snow-proof" (lines 9-13). The sash does not rattle and cannot be displaced from the outside.
Date:
June 6, 1893
Creator:
Roach, George W. & Ralph, Sidney L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Spring.
Patent for an improved vehicle spring on the axle that is stronger and more durable, including illustrations.
Date:
June 6, 1916
Creator:
Hagemann, Paul
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock Nut
Patent for a new and improved lock nut design that is "simple, durable and inexpensive in construction, as well as convenient, practical, serviceable and efficient in its use" (lines 20-22).
Date:
June 6, 1916
Creator:
Collier, William Ried
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine.
Patent for an improved washing machine that is meant to "provide a machine which will be exceedingly simple, durable and economic in construction, and wherein clothes may be washed expeditiously and conveniently and without injury thereto" (lines 9-13).
Date:
June 6, 1893
Creator:
Jones, James H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Water-Elevators.
Patent for "an endless chain of buckets on a reel for working them, so contrived that it tilts the buckets so that they empty and pass the spout without revolving, whereby the contrivance is simpler and better than when they are made to revolve, and the buckets are linked together by a novel contrivance for carrying them, to enter the water bottom downward, and to allow the air to escape when filling." (Lines 5-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 6, 1876
Creator:
Smith, Edgar J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Knee Pad
Patent for a knee protector design "which when worn will not inconvenience the wearer when standing or walking" (lines 10-12). Illustrations are included.
Date:
June 6, 1916
Creator:
Ashton, Epps
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locking Device for Automobiles
Patent for automobiles to lock the steering shaft so that it is un-driveable and cannot be stolen and driven away without the key.
Date:
June 6, 1916
Creator:
Kavanaugh, Nelson J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Shoe-Lacings
Patent for relation to device of gaiter-boot's; nature of invention consist in the arrangment of the shoe laces; whereby the shoe laces be properly laced. Proptions of the lace between the eyelet on the left side of the opening be drawn over and placed on hooks or bottons situated on the right side are in like manner placed on hooks or buttons on the left side.
Date:
June 6, 1876
Creator:
Lindemann, August W. H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fluting-Irons.
Patent for "improvements in combined fluting and smoothing irons, which are made hollow for the purpose of receiving a heated metallic block which will raise the shell to the proper temperature for smoothing or fluting." (Line 16-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 6, 1876
Creator:
McCausland, William I.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Current-Wheels.
Patent for improvements in current-wheels, consisting of an improved arrangement of feathering-buckets, the gate, and opening devices. It includes a description and illustration.
Date:
June 6, 1871
Creator:
Tuder, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tie-Handling Apparatus
Patent for a mechanism mounted on a hand car that will remove old rail ties and install new ones. This mechanism allows for the rails to remain undisturbed and the space underneath to be cleared for the new tie installation.
Date:
June 6, 1916
Creator:
Jones, Jefferson Davis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Dredging-Machine.
Patent for "an improved device for the excavation of material from the bottoms and sides of channels or other water ways; and has for its object to provide a novel machine of the type indicated, which will afford means to rapidly loosen earth or gravel below the surface of a water course, mix it with water, and subsequently transfer and discharge the débris upon the shore of the stream or within a floating receptacle, as may be desired" (lines 8-18).
Date:
June 6, 1893
Creator:
Robbins, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fish-Bait.
Patent for improvements in Fish-Bait.
Date:
June 6, 1916
Creator:
Evans, Henry F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for improvement in bale-ties by reducing a series of motions to fasten and unfasten the tie to simply just one single motion. Illustration is included.
Date:
June 6, 1876
Creator:
Davis, Waters S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Telephone Transmitter
Patent for a telephone transmitter. Illustration included.
Date:
June 6, 1905
Creator:
Fletcher, Milton J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Step Ladder
Patent for a step ladder. Illustration included.
Date:
June 6, 1905
Creator:
Soergel, John G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of Making Lubricants.
Patent for method of creating a lubricant using graphite and lubricating oils.
Date:
June 6, 1916
Creator:
Bierbaum, Christopher, H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock.
Patent for an improved, simple, and inexpensive nut lock that can be easily used and removed. It lengthens the life of the bolt. The invention is "a bolt with a longitudinal groove or slot in which fits a tongue or lug on a washer which is provided with a notch or notches into which may be forced a portion or portions of a washer made of bendable material, opposite portions of which are designed to be forced into notches in the faces of the nut and thus the nut and both washers are bound or held firmly together" (lines 14-23).
Date:
June 6, 1893
Creator:
Woods, John B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay Press
Patent for a hay press. Illustration included.
Date:
June 6, 1905
Creator:
Gurley, John Mark
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Suspensory-Drawers
Patent for suspension drawers for men. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 6, 1911
Creator:
Evans, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grain-Drill.
Patent for an improved grain drill that is simpler and more efficient than other grain drills. It consists of a disk with a central hub, an annular recess around the hub, segmented washers, radial slots, radial seed apertures, gravity slides, and stems on the slides.
Date:
June 6, 1893
Creator:
Lawrence, William G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History