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Windmill.
Patent for improvements to windmills.
Date:
April 29, 1884
Creator:
Witherspoon, Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weather Board Gage.
Patent for a new and improved weather-board gauge. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the flat bar having its upper end bent at a right angle, and having the outer end of the said bent end bent upward, and provided with a screw-threaded perforation in its lower portion, the sliding block having a slot near one end, an upwardly-projecting tapering plate at its other end, and having a set-screw entering the slot, and the screw turning in the perforation in the lower portion of the bar, and having its inner end reduced and pointed" (lines 67-77).
Date:
July 29, 1884
Creator:
Stacey, Edward D. & Vance, William K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Heater
Patent for a water heater which operates by connecting to the smoke stack of a furnace. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 29, 1908
Creator:
Miles, Joseph Furnas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weighing and Filling Machine
Patent for a weighing and filling machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 29, 1910
Creator:
Dunkerly, Harry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weeding Machine
Patent for a weeding machine to run between rows of crops. Illustration included.
Date:
March 29, 1904
Creator:
Lloyd, William Daniel & Steck, E. L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Rebending Crown Caps Or Seals For Bottles.
Patent for a new and useful machine for rebending crown caps or seals for bottles, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 29, 1899
Creator:
Gebhardt, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Strainer
Patent for a well strainer made of sheet metal.
Date:
August 29, 1911
Creator:
Layne, Mahlon E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Loco-Exterminator.
Patent for a tool that removes Locoweed and other plants.
Date:
April 29, 1902
Creator:
Knight, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well Mechanism.
Patent for an improved mechanism for drawing water from an artesian or a driven well and which can be assembled and adjusted from outside the well.
Date:
May 29, 1906
Creator:
Layne, Mahlon E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill
Patent for a windmill. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 29, 1910
Creator:
De Guire, Frank C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Perforating Checks And Printing Thereon
Patent for a machine for perforating checks and printing on said check. The printing application of the press represents dollar amounts rendering it impossible to change the type. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 29, 1903
Creator:
Robertson, George Francis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Heater
Patent for a water heater operated by heating pipes and coils. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 29, 1908
Creator:
Wood, Charles A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill-Gearing.
Patent for a gearing for windmills, which provides "a more even and steady... stroke of the pump rod" (lines10-11).
Date:
September 29, 1908
Creator:
Keys, Milton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive Driving-Box.
Patent for an invention relating to detachable flanges found in locomotive driving boxes. Benefits and objectives are explained and illustrations are included.
Date:
May 29, 1917
Creator:
Hazelwood, William A. & Whiteside, J. Aldo
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ironing-Table
Patent for ironing tables that can be knocked down and packed into a small compass for transportation or storage.
Date:
April 29, 1913
Creator:
Kennedy, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement to Clutch
Patent for improvements in clutches used in traction vehicles that will allow the vehicle to go forward or in reverse. Instructions and illustrations included.
Date:
December 29, 1914
Creator:
Holt, Levi J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Life-Saving Raft.
Patent for a life-raft composed of multiple airtight cylinders. The raft is adapted for use at sea in large quantiles aboard vessels.
Date:
December 29, 1914
Creator:
Comer, Samuel A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Internal-Combustion Engine
Patent for an internal-combustion engine with a novel form of rotary valve and other meaningful improvements to a combustion engine.
Date:
September 29, 1914
Creator:
Clough, George Golden
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve-Gear.
Patent for a horizontally arranged cylinder that when used would bear no wear indefinitely. The cylinder was made specifically for steam engines.
Date:
June 29, 1915
Creator:
Burrow, Edgar A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Life-Preserver
Patent for Life-Preserver. Can be used in any emergency situation but mostly in the water.
Date:
February 29, 1916
Creator:
Carlson, Carl O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lateral-Wear Reducer for Locomotives.
Patent for lateral wear reducer for locomotives that prevent or reduces wear on the train wheels.
Date:
March 29, 1921
Creator:
Paxton, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench
Patent for an improvement to wrenches. This wrench uses a sliding jaw system for increased utility.
Date:
April 29, 1920
Creator:
Grogan, Edward W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Body
Patent for new and useful improvements in vehicle bodies - a vehicle for carrying groceries, vegetables, and other necessities, as a traveling store.
Date:
March 29, 1921
Creator:
Wieman, Herman A,
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher.
Patent for a new and improved wire-stretcher. This design "has relation to that class of wire-stretchers in which a drum is journaled in a frame and is provided with a ratchet-wheel at one end, and in which a lever is pivoted in the frame, which engages the ratchet-wheel, serving to revolve it, and a pawl engages the ratchet-wheel, so as to prevent it from revolving backward, the frame being provided with a wire-clamp, and a rope or chain upon the drum being also provided with a wire-clamp, so that by revolving the drum one end of the wire may be drawn toward the end of another wire" (lines 25-37).
Date:
June 29, 1886
Creator:
Menefee, Stephen Austin & Mullinax, Eli Stephens
System:
The Portal to Texas History