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Baling - Press.
Patent for a baling press, “an improvement in that class of automatic presses adapted for baling hay, cotton, excelsior and similar materials.” (lines 8-10) including illustrations.
Date:
October 21, 1902
Creator:
Curry, Monroe & Roberts, William P.
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
Harvester Attachment.
Patent for an attachment that cleans and scrapes the drive wheels of mowing machines and harvesters, to keep them free of accumulated mud and running smoothly.
Date:
December 24, 1901
Creator:
Marshall, John Henry.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ariel Navigation
Patent for an airplane which will maintain its balance in the air and can be easily maneuvered up and down and around in the air.
Date:
May 9, 1911
Creator:
Nichols, Jack Lloyd
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Brake Mechanism.
Patent for "a new and useful air-brake mechanisms in relation to a pressure controller and distributer designed to perform the several independent and joint functions of a triple valve, a pressure-retaining valve, and a pressure relief or reducing valve."
Date:
May 29, 1900
Creator:
Dillander, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Brake System
Patent for an air brake system for trains which does not require waiting between uses for the brakes to recharge with air.
Date:
December 6, 1910
Creator:
Dillander, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press
Patent for a bailing press. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 9, 1906
Creator:
Peschel, Otto J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed
Patent for a bed. This invention is designed for invalids that also provides a bed pan. Illustration included.
Date:
January 8, 1907
Creator:
Myers, Nancy S. A. E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Coupling and Uncoupling Cars
Patent for "a coupling of such construction as will permit the coupling and uncoupling of the cars to be effected by the engineer and to be entirely and at all times under his perfect control" (lines 16-20).
Date:
July 8, 1890
Creator:
McWhirter, Robert & Scheble, Eugene S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Band Cutter and Feeder.
Patent for an improvement of band-cutters, involving cutting bands and spreading grain in regulated quantities and intervals. Includes illustration.
Date:
October 28, 1890
Creator:
Izard, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Grub-Plow and Stalk-Cutter.
Patent for a device to remove grubs from soil, which consists of an adjustable gage-wheel and a cutter to remove grubs and to cut roots. The cutter can be also used to cut cotton-stalks. It includes illustrations.
Date:
January 14, 1879
Creator:
Talley, Reuben Jones
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Building Circular Walls and Means for Adjusting the Apparatus.
Patent for a "scaffold adjusting apparatus, and particularly to means for elevating and lowering scaffolds for building circular wills or silos, circular tanks, smoke stacks, and similar circular walls "(lines 10-14), including illustrations.
Date:
February 2, 1915
Creator:
Nash, Alexander Q.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Ring and Buckle.
Patent for a new and improved combined ring and buckle. This design is "to provide a device particularly for use in halters, whereby the manufacture of the latter may be accomplished without so much sewing or riveting of the parts together as is required where the ordinary halter-ring is used. [It] is capable of application to purposes other than harnesses" (lines 9-16).
Date:
January 4, 1887
Creator:
Kay, William V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Sprayer Attachment for Washing-Machines.
Design patent for a sprayer attachment for washing machines that includes a conical base-plate with a circular spout projection at its apex.
Date:
November 16, 1897
Creator:
Bessonette, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Water Gage and Recorder
Patent for a combined gage and recorder meant to measure the water used in steam generators.
Date:
April 15, 1919
Creator:
Holland, J. M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wireworking Tool
Patent for an improved device designed for twisting the intermediate portion of a tie-wire and which secures a runner wire to a fence-post, so as to tighten the embrace of the tie-wire upon the post. Also to remove staples, cut wire, and act as a screw driver.
Date:
September 17, 1901
Creator:
Dickey, Marion F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wood-Working Machine.
Patent for improvements in wood-working machine by using a combination of a toothed bar, a retractable slotted bar, a weight attached to the frame and a revolving wheel. With each single revolution of the drive-wheel, the slotted "bar is fed forward the distance of one tooth, and thus the cutter is gradually embedded in the material being operated upon at the same time it is rotated at a high rate of speed," (lines 94-97) illustration is included.
Date:
March 17, 1891
Creator:
Walton, George Washington
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Work-Holder
Patent for a work holder designed to hold structures such as doors, windows, and shutters while in construction. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 10, 1911
Creator:
De Bord, James Alexander
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Knee-Protector.
Patent for a durable, sleeve-like knee protector which contours the knee for comfort and allows for easy application and removal. Includes instructions and an illustration.
Date:
December 9, 1913
Creator:
McCall, Dougald Bell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve.
Patent for a new and improved valve. This design consists in "[t]he improved valve comprising the casing, having a horizontal passage reduced at its central point . . . and a vertical bore intersecting said reduced portion above the point of intersection to its lower end and being screw-threaded its entire length, a stem having a tapered lower portion, the entire stem being screw-threaded to engage the threads in the bore, and a plug removably inserted in the lower end of the bore" (lines 1-11).
Date:
August 13, 1889
Creator:
Forniraseo, Domenico
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type-Writing Machine
Patent for improvements to typewriters "to provide means whereby a number of sheets of paper may be inserted at one time and removed successively after each page is written, there by obviating the necessity of removing the completed sheet and replacing it by a new one at the end of each page" (lines 14-20).
Date:
January 14, 1890
Creator:
Pierce, Jesse W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine
Patent for "improvements in the water-wheel and in the, mechanism for imparting motion thereto, whereby the washing-liquid is made to flow upward between the sides of an outer and inner pan and downward upon the articles to be washed, which are inclosed in the said inner pan, as will be now described and claimed, and is adapted to wash any articles that may be placed within the said inner pan" (lines 17-26).
Date:
May 13, 1890
Creator:
McCausland, William, I.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wagon Brake.
Patent for a new and improved wagon brake. This design consists, "with the vehicle, of the rock-shaft arranged upon opposite sides of the rear wheels, the bell-crank lever fulcrumed on the body between said shaft, the rod connecting the rear shaft and one arm of said lever, the bar pivoted to the other arm of the lever and the front rock-shaft, and the operating lever provided with the integral arm arranged at an angle to the lever and connected with the front rock-shaft" (lines 92-101).
Date:
August 19, 1890
Creator:
Walton, George Washington
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type-Writing Machine.
Patent for improvements in type-writers by compactly arranged many parts together, such as the sliding block, the vibrating plate, the feed-roller and etc..., "and in which the work can at all times be viewed by the operator. The printing is accomplished on a flat surface... new sheets thus saved,” (p. 4, lines 111-118). Illustration is included.
Date:
February 17, 1891
Creator:
Pierce, Jesse W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History