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Ash-Pan for Locomotives
Patent for
Date:
December 21, 1909
Creator:
Gee, John Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Barrel Swing for Store Counters
Patent for a barrel swing that allows the barrel to swing out from under the counter. Illustration included.
Date:
December 21, 1909
Creator:
Gimbal, Charles C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Molding Hollow Concrete Walls
Patent for an apparatus that is a mold for crafting hollow concrete walls. Illustration included.
Date:
December 21, 1909
Creator:
Nelson, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Fence
Patent for a new and useful improvements in wire fences. This invention is to "make a cheap and efficient post to which fence-wires may be quickly and durable stapled" (line 15-17).
Date:
December 21, 1897
Creator:
Johnson, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Catching Insects
Patent for a machine for catching insects. This invention is designed for use on cotton plants. Illustration included.
Date:
December 21, 1909
Creator:
Anderson, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seed-Planters.
Patent for an improved seed-planter "which will deposit the seeds in the requisite quantities and proper distances apart, and which will cover and mark the bills, so that a plowman will not be at a loss where to start at the commencement of a new row, and after having passed around tree-stumps or other obstructions, as he can always see the marks on the preceding rows" (lines 16-23) with illustrations.
Date:
December 21, 1869
Creator:
Woods, David C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ventilators.
Patent for improvement in ventilators which combines a bell-mouthed vane with white induction and black eduction pipes for the purpose of introducing fresh air and eliminating foul air from an enclosed area.
Date:
December 21, 1875
Creator:
Moyer, Alexander L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rotary Dredgers.
Patent for an improved rotary dredging-machine operated by adjustment from the engine through gearing enabling the manipulation of "a heavier wheel than would otherwise be practicable" (lines 71-72) with illustrations.
Date:
December 21, 1875
Creator:
Hawley, Abel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sewing-Machine Thread-Guards.
Patent for "a guard attachment to the Wheeler & Wilson sewing-machine for preventing the thread from being thrown off the tension by the work, and for preventing the thread from running off the spool onto the spindle." (Lines 6-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 21, 1875
Creator:
Roosevelt, Lillian
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tractor-Coupling
Patent for tractor coupling. The object of the invention is to provide a coupling for tractor and plow. When a plow hits an obstruction, the coupling will automatically disengage tractor and plow without breaking any parts.
Date:
December 21, 1920
Creator:
Hart, Lawrence H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Transmission Gearing.
Patent for transmission gearing which is the gearing inside of the transmission.
Date:
December 21, 1915
Creator:
Halze,Edwin J
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mail-Station Device
Patent for a mailbox in rural areas for outgoing and incoming mail to be placed in a convenient manner in a designated area. The mailbox will also have individual receptacles for individual persons to access with their designated key.
Date:
December 21, 1915
Creator:
Gibson, Joe
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mechanical Starter for Internal Combustion Engines.
The patent is to rotate the crankshaft of the engine by new and novel mechanical that means the simplified and improved construction for the target of starting the motor.
Date:
December 21, 1915
Creator:
Leach, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Medical Compond
Patent for “medical compound designed for the treatment of diseases of the throat and lungs” (lines 10-12).
Date:
December 21, 1880
Creator:
Rippetoe, Amasa
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow-Carriage.
Patent for new improvements on plow-carriages design including illustrations.
Date:
December 21, 1880
Creator:
McNorton, John Tomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tier.
Patent for a retractable and reusable package tie device for packages.
Date:
December 21, 1915
Creator:
Clary, Irvin W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Multiple Gearing
Patent for a new and useful improvements in multiple gearing. This invention "relates to improvements in a multiple gearing for bicycles, vehicles, locomotive-engines, traction devices" (line 11-13).
Date:
December 21, 1897
Creator:
Cary, Lewis C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mechanism for Cleansing Clothing for Textile Fabrics
Patent for a new and useful improvements in mechanism for cleansing clothing or textile fabrics. This invention is to "provide a simple and economical construction and combination of parts whereby the clothes or fabrics operated upon shall be disturbed and displaced at each successive stroke of a pump forming part of the mechanism" (line 11-16).
Date:
December 21, 1897
Creator:
Wright, John W. & Burkes, Howell H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Huller
Patent for hullers for removing hulls of shells for seeds or other similar products. The invention "is of especial utility in hullers for cottons seeds." However, it is noted that a cotton seed huller is only one adaptation of the invention.
Date:
December 21, 1920
Creator:
Vardell, Arthur A. & Highland Gee Vardell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Press for Expressing Oil from Cotton and Other Seeds.
Patent for a new and improved oil-press. This design "consists in certain novel constructions and combination of the pressing-plates with each other and the ram of the press, and in means for operating said plates in independent series, whereby great efficiency is obtained, and the plates, which are guttered or grooved, may be readily cleaned" (lines 18-24).
Date:
December 21, 1886
Creator:
Baumgarten, Christian
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Vaporizing Liquids.
Patent for an engine designed for combustion of kerosene with air. The patent notes improvements for regulating the mixture ratios and maximizing efficiency by heating the air intake.
Date:
December 21, 1920
Creator:
McClintock, Charles Davis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Core.
Patent for a tire core with interlocking sections that can be removed easily from built tires to reuse, including illustrations.
Date:
December 21, 1920
Creator:
Gillette, Walter S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire.
Patent for a removable replacement tire. To provide simple and easy removable tires to replace the old ones.
Date:
December 21, 1920
Creator:
Ford William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Door-Hanger.
Patent for a new and useful door hanger. This invention is to "provide a simple and inexpensive device so constructed as to avoid dismounting and at the same time enable a door, window, or an equivalent device to be operated with the minimum friction" (line 9-13).
Date:
December 21, 1897
Creator:
Masterson, Bernard W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History