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Feed Guide or Gage for Printing-Presses (open access)

Feed Guide or Gage for Printing-Presses

Patent is for improving feed guides and gages for industrial printers. It provides a simpler guide or gage to adjust as the printer is printing.
Date: December 12, 1916
Creator: Phillips, Lannes William & Haines, Luther B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flying-Machine. (open access)

Flying-Machine.

Patent for "a flying machine of the heavier-than-air or aeroplane type" (lines 10-11) that has a central opening. Around the central opening, the front and wings form obtuse dihedral angles, which keep the plane stable.
Date: December 12, 1911
Creator: Herrmann, Ernst W. F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene Generator (open access)

Acetylene Generator

Patent for an acetylene generator. Illustration included.
Date: December 12, 1905
Creator: Sinclair, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Match-Box. (open access)

Match-Box.

Patent for an improved match box that holds at such an angle to a supporting wall that the matches will slide down to the delivery end of the match safe. The invention also includes a receptacle for burned matches.
Date: December 12, 1911
Creator: Deaton, George H.
System: The Portal to Texas History