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Compound for Curing and Coloring Meat
Patent for a compound to cure, preserve, and color meats, including ingredients and dosage.
Date:
August 20, 1907
Creator:
Gains, Edward P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Automatically Applying Germicides
Patent for "a means for automatically applying an insecticide or germicide which will either kill or drive off the parasite, vermin, and other troublesome germ" (lines 16-19).
Date:
August 20, 1901
Creator:
Pendleton, John B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Socket and Switch for Electric Lights
Patent for a combined socket and switch for electric lights that allows different bulbs of a chandelier to be turned on separately.
Date:
August 20, 1912
Creator:
Bailey, Douglas A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Reinjection laser oscillator and method
A uv preionized CO/sub 2/ oscillator with integral four-pass amplifier capable of providing 1 to 5 GW laser pulses with pulse widths from 0.1 to 0.5 ns full width at half-maximum (FWHM) is described. The apparatus is operated at any pressure from 1 atm to 10 atm without the necessity of complex high voltage electronics. The reinjection technique employed gives rise to a compact, efficient system that is particularly immune to alignment instabilities with a minimal amount of hardware and complexity.
Date:
August 20, 1981
Creator:
McLellan, Edward J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Advertising-Sign
Patent for large outdoor advertising sign that is inexpensive to illuminate but still catches attention by providing the illusion of movement.
Date:
August 20, 1918
Creator:
Craig, Richard M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planters.
Patent for improvement in corn and cotton planting machinery, including illustrations.
Date:
August 20, 1872
Creator:
Svenson, Bengt Johan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Winding Machine
Patent for a wire winding machine for making well screens.
Date:
August 20, 1912
Creator:
Eastham, Albert Lindsay
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Tightener and Splicer
Patent for "a device adapted to be used in tightening and splicing the wires of wire fences, which can be manufactured at a very small cost and sold at about five cents each" (lines 12-16).
Date:
August 20, 1889
Creator:
Taylor, Shapley P. Ross; Sharman, William T. & Jamison, Joseph L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lubricator Attachment for Wheel-Hubs.
Patent for lubricator for axles of buggies, wagons, and other vehicles.
Date:
August 20, 1901
Creator:
Fergusson, William P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lantern.
Patent for an inexpensive, simple, and efficient lantern meant to be used outside in high winds, and can carry a candle or oil light.
Date:
August 20, 1895
Creator:
Seys, Cornelius D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fences.
Patent for improvement in rail-fence by using “triangular-shaped posted or couplings; it consists in arranging posts of a triangular form and a certain construction diagonally with the rails forming the body of each panel, so that long and short rails may be utilized.” (Lines 14-19) Illustration is included.
Date:
August 20, 1872
Creator:
Willie, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators.
Patent for the improvement of cultivators, consisting in the construction and arrangement of of a double-sweep plow. It includes a description and illustration.
Date:
August 20, 1872
Creator:
Svenson, Bengt Johan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Damping-Rollers.
Patent for an improvement of copying-roller through "moistening the leaves of letter-books to take impressions" (lines 15-17), with illustration.
Date:
August 20, 1878
Creator:
Brown, John Anderson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trailer.
Patent for improved construction and arrangement of trailers. This improvement will allow an easy turning movement where a number of trailers are connected while admitting of strain between the various trailers when they are turning a corner or going around a curve.
Date:
August 20, 1918
Creator:
Watkins, Leigh
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheelwright-Machine
Patent for a hand-operated wheelwright machine designed for drilling the tires of a vehicle for means of holding tire retaining bolts.
Date:
August 20, 1907
Creator:
Robbins, James M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Coffee-Pot.
Patent for improvements to a coffee pot. The patent includes instructions and an illustration.
Date:
August 20, 1867
Creator:
Walker, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Planter and Cultivator.
Patent for "a simple, practical combined planter and cotton and corn cultivator, which shall be easily adjusted and operated, and shall be cheap and durable" (lines 11-12). The patent includes instructions and an illustration.
Date:
August 20, 1867
Creator:
Adams, Jesse
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut and Candy Depositor
Patent for a nut and candy depositor for sending the nuts and candy into a dipping machine.
Date:
August 20, 1912
Creator:
Brunka, Oscar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Treating Slag and Furnace Therefor.
Patent for a process of treating slag and furnace therefore. It has an improved method for separates melted metals produced during smelting and extracting the precious metals from slag. The richer matte and base-bullion run off separately and into separate taps.
Date:
August 20, 1895
Creator:
van Cleve, Charles M. & Rhodes, Robert D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of and Apparatus for Hydrogenating Fats, Oils, Waxes, and the Like.
Patent for the Process of and Apparatus for Hydrogenating Fats, Oils, Waxes, and the like. The invention is related to the improvement of the effective the hydrogenation process of fats, oils, waxes, and similar materials.
Date:
August 20, 1918
Creator:
Walker, Thomas Bailey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Padded Hat.
Patent for a new and improved padded hat. This design "is to provide a pad which can be quickly applied and when applied will remain in place, and by means of which a hat that is a trifle too large can readily be made to fit. . . . Heretofore persons wearing hats of odd sizes, or after having their hair cut short, have been compelled to place paper, felt, or some other material in between the sweat-band and the body of the hat in order to make the hat fit. These pieces, not being secured, are constantly coming out and are a source of great annoyance" (lines 7-19).
Date:
August 20, 1889
Creator:
Moyer, Jesse Hechler
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate
Patent for improvements in "construction of tilting gates and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient one of great strength and durability adapted to be readily opened and closed at a distance fron either side of it by a person in a vehicle or on horseback" (lines 11-16).
Date:
August 20, 1901
Creator:
Berkley, Benjamin Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hitching Post
Patent for invention relates to devices for holding horses when hitched to a vehicle to prevent their running or walking away and also to prevent grazing.
Date:
August 20, 1901
Creator:
Matthews, James Morris
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire-House Supporter.
Patent for a fire-hose supporter that can be stretched out, washed, and dried easily. The invention also has a hose-carrying frame that elevates the hose and allows for the hose to be quickly and easily used.
Date:
August 20, 1895
Creator:
Bramble, James Elworth
System:
The Portal to Texas History