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Compress.
Patent for "surgical instruments which are used for stopping the flow of blood during an amputation or other similar operation." (Lines 12-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 12, 1897
Creator:
Burton, Edwin L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Generating and Carbureting Hydrogen.
Patent for an apparatus that will improve the cost efficiency of producing gas. Specifically, this invention details a "main tank which produces hydrogen and an auxiliary tank wherein the hydrogen is mixed with crude petroleum oil and thereby given its illuminating and combustible properties" (lines 18-23).
Date:
January 27, 1914
Creator:
Stuart, Charles V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling Brick.
Patent for an apparatus for handling brick "whereby the number of brick handled by a single hand may be greatly increased" (lines 9-11) including illustrations.
Date:
January 3, 1888
Creator:
Aber, Edgar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Heating and Ripening Honey.
Patent for a device that quickly heats and ripens honey, employing a hot water tank containing a pipe coil through which the honey is poured and strained upon exit.
Date:
January 6, 1920
Creator:
Mitchell, Henry A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Heating up Locomotive-Boilers.
Patent for an "apparatus for kindling fires in locomotives; and it is intended to provide an improved apparatus by which the fires may be rapidly and economically kindled and steam may be gotten up without much of the tedious delay now ordinarily incident to raising steam in a cold locomotive-boiler." (Lines 13-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 21, 1896
Creator:
Connor, John T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Supply-Valve Attachment
Patent for a valve add on for a carburetor in order to control the air flow.
Date:
January 24, 1918
Creator:
Kirkpatrick, Monroe C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Airship
Patent for a dirigible airship. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 3, 1911
Creator:
Bradford, William J. D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Airship
Patent for a dirigible airship for aerial navigation, "to provide the balloon or gas bag with aeroplanes which serve to steady the balloon during the flight of the ship, and to increase the lifting power of the balloon when the ship is under motion, the arrangement being such as to enable said aeroplanes to be converted into a parachute, should the balloon or gas bag become deflated" (lines 20-28).
Date:
January 17, 1911
Creator:
Keller, James M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Airship
Patent for an airshape. This invention is of a helicopter design. Illustration included.
Date:
January 21, 1913
Creator:
Darche, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Relief Valve for Pneumatic Seed Cotton Distributers.
Patent for a valve that attaches to a flue upon a pneumatic-seed cotton distributor. Includes illustrations.
Date:
January 6, 1903
Creator:
Wade, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Repeating Railroad-Signal.
Patent for an automatic repeating railroad-signal designed to be used with semaphore and other train-signaling apparatus. It eliminates mistakes made in notifying the central office and automatically reports "any change in the position or color of the signal to a central office over the ordinary telegraph-wire" (lines 14-16). The signal is a wheel that operates a key to send a message to the central office.
Date:
January 28, 1896
Creator:
Innes, Robert Hayward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Arch-Bar for Cultivators
Patent for arch bar for cultivators that connects the respective cultivator rigs together.
Date:
January 27, 1903
Creator:
Sullins, Cale M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial-Stone Composition
Patent for "an artificial stone adapted for all purposes to which natural stone can be applied, and which can be given any desired shape while in a plastic state, or carved and polished after hardening" (lines 12-18).
Date:
January 28, 1890
Creator:
Blackmon, Albert M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Tooth.
Patent for a new and useful artificial tooth for "supplying missing teeth or crowning roots" (line 10 -11).
Date:
January 11, 1898
Creator:
Carroll, Houston Monroe
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Treatment of Oil Emulsions.
Patent for improvements in apparatus for treatment of oil emulsions by providing a means that will greatly assist in the separation of water from oil emulsions and which will aid the re-absorption or retention of gas.
Date:
January 13, 1920
Creator:
McKibben, Charles W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Vaporization and Distillation of Petroleum and Other Hydrocarbon Oils.
Patent for a device that helps in the distilling process of gasoline.
Date:
January 21, 1919
Creator:
Humason, Granville A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Washing and Draining Dishes.
Patent for a new and improved dishwasher. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a pan provided near its top on the inner side with rigidly-attached brackets, with a tray in the form of a pan whose side and bottom portions are perforated . . . the tray being of less diameter and height than the pan and provided on its outer side near the bottom with brackets and on its upper edge with handles" (lines 94-101).
Date:
January 14, 1890
Creator:
Caradine, Virginia C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Antirefilling Bottle.
Patent for a bottle that can be easily sealed but cannot be resealed after opened. There is a groove in the neck of the bottle, and the cork is placed below the groove. The cork is hollowed out and a plug is placed in the cork. The cork is hollowed out and a plug with a groove around it is placed in the cork.An elastic compressible locking-ring fits in the gap the groove in the bottle and the groove in the plug create.
Date:
January 5, 1897
Creator:
Nevill, William B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artist's Easel and Attachable Rest.
Patent for a new and improved easel and rest. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the rest . . . of the bar pivoted to [a] holder by bolt, the perforated bar pivoted to [another] bar by [another] bolt, and the easel united to the [first] bar by a suitable round bolt" (lines 97-101).
Date:
January 22, 1889
Creator:
Johnson, John Alexander
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ash Sifter
Patent for receptacle of ashes and sifter to separate unconsumed particles of coal and retain dust.
Date:
January 3, 1900
Creator:
Hart, Sara C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Antiseptic Shaving Outfit.
Patent for a more compact and improved version of an antiseptic shaving outfit, including illustrations.
Date:
January 2, 1917
Creator:
Braunstein, Aron
System:
The Portal to Texas History