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Battery-Connector
Patent for a battery connector for providing electricity in homes without being connected to a power plant.
Date:
October 15, 1912
Creator:
Hall, James Monroe
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Audiphone
Patent for a audiophone which reproduces sounds at their original volume and timbre through the use of diaphragms vibrated by an electric signal.
Date:
October 15, 1907
Creator:
Baker, John A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beam and Shank Attachment
Patent for a beam and shank attachment for attaching harrows to cultivators.
Date:
October 15, 1912
Creator:
Trousdale, Robert A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Post-Hole Digger and Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a post-hole digger with a wire stretcher attached to it.
Date:
October 15, 1907
Creator:
Haynes, James H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for a baling press that packs the bales more effectively than other models.
Date:
October 15, 1912
Creator:
Slover, Marion F. & Harter, James R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap.
Patent for an improved animal trap, primarily intended for catching wolves, that is adjustable and economical to construct.
Date:
October 15, 1907
Creator:
Jones, Isaac W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Torch and Gas Burner Key.
Patent for a new and improved combined torch and gas-burner key. This design "relates to a device for lighting gas-burners and operating the cock of the gas-burner, and has for its object to provide a combined torch and key by means of which the gas may be lighted without the flame of the torch coming in contact with the globe surrounding the burner and the cock of the gas-burner readily taken hold of and operated" (lines 8-15).
Date:
October 15, 1889
Creator:
Lindsay, George Washington
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press
Patent for improvements in the construction of steam cotton presses using a change in the frame and use of hydraulic-pressure pumps to operate the press. The pumps are driven by steam
Date:
October 15, 1889
Creator:
Turnpaugh, James William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spike Holder
Patent for an improvement in railroad spike holders to affordably reduce abrasion of the rail and to hold spikes into position, including illustrations.
Date:
October 15, 1914
Creator:
Kelly, William D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Antifriction Hollow-Tube Sucker-Rod for Deep Wells
Patent for a "simple and inexpensive means for coupling the tubular sections of the sucker rod together and guiding said rod with little or no friction into the well casing or tube" (lines13-17). This object is to be used in "pumping water, oil, and other liquids from deep wells"(lines 11-12).
Date:
October 15, 1918
Creator:
Black, William L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bi-Stable Optical Actuator
The present invention is a bi-stable optical actuator device that is depowered in both stable positions. A bearing is used to transfer motion and smoothly transition from one state to another. The optical actuator device may be maintained in a stable position either by gravity or a restraining device.
Date:
October 15, 1999
Creator:
Holdener, Fred R. & Boyd, Robert D.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Window-Shade Hanger.
Patent for a window shade hanger, which can be used with different size rollers and is able to be opened from top or bottom.
Date:
October 15, 1907
Creator:
Brown, William F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Tightening Implement.
Patent for a wire-tightening implement meant to tightening wires in fences by making loops or twists in the wires. It has two handles forming jaws around a fulcrum, the jaws have flat faces with parallel grooves, and the jaws coming together at their ends. The grooves in the jaws form different sized loops.
Date:
October 15, 1895
Creator:
West, James M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Windlass Water-Elevators
Patent for an improvement in Chain-Wheels consisting "in the construction and arrangement of a device for drawing water from wells, which shall be cheap, convenient, and free from danger, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth."
Date:
July 27, 1878
Creator:
Knipscheer, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel.
Patent for a new and improved wheel. This design "is to obviate the . . . great difficulty . . . experienced in the construction of wheels in putting the axle-box in the hub and getting it true. . . . and [to] improve and strengthen the construction of wheels, and especially the manner of securing the spokes in the hubs" (lines 9-17).
Date:
October 15, 1889
Creator:
Holland, William Johnson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vapor Bath Apparatus
Patent for a vapor-bath which improves upon the breathing apparatus.
Date:
October 15, 1901
Creator:
Garrett, Palmyra O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trap.
Patent for a hunting trap that will "effectively prevent the escape of the captives." (Line 17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 15, 1895
Creator:
Wallace, Bar P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Cutter Attachment for Sulky-Plows
Patent for a stalk cutter attachment for sulky plows. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 15, 1912
Creator:
Huber, Frederick Konrad
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Telephone-Call Recorder
Patent for a telephone call recorder that allows the number of who is calling to be recorded when the phone is not answered and tell a person already on the phone who is trying to call them.
Date:
October 15, 1912
Creator:
Warwick, Harold L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spittoon
Patent for a spittoon for hospital use. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 15, 1912
Creator:
Grisham, Mattie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hub-Attaching Device.
Patent for device to attach vehicle wheel hubs to axles and spindles without screw-threads, including description and illustrations.
Date:
October 15, 1901
Creator:
Anderson, Nathan S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Post Hole Auger.
Patent for a new and improved post-hole auger. This design consists in "the shank forked and continued in the arms, the latter having elbows at their lower ends, in combination with the ring-shaped band having a sharp lower edge and bolts passing through said bands and arms and through said elbows and arms" (lines 91-97).
Date:
October 15, 1889
Creator:
McCall, Dugald Bell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mine-Sweeper and Ship-Shield
Patent for protecting a ship from mines with a net that serves as a "mine sweeper and ship shield" (lines 9-10). It is also for collecting underwater weapons and improving the net.
Date:
October 15, 1918
Creator:
Coin, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Package Gripper and Holder.
Patent for a package gripper for reaching items on high shelves without climbing a ladder.
Date:
October 15, 1907
Creator:
Fell, Julius P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History