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Electric Time-Switch.
Patent for an electric, switch-operated construction functioning for timer-controlled circuit completions and breaks, including illustrations.
Date:
July 3, 1906
Creator:
Chappel, James. M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Computing Device
Patent for an automatic computing device that can calculate the price of goods and be used to take inventory of stock.
Date:
July 23, 1912
Creator:
Miracle, Meredith W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition of Matter.
Patent for a briquet fuel formula made primarily from lignite and other derived products, which is cheaper to produce than other formulas.
Date:
July 23, 1907
Creator:
Lohmann, August Samuel Frederic
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cold-Tire-Shrinking-Machine
Patent for a device that accomplishes cold-tire shrinking, in order to assure a snug tire fit onto any size cart wheel.
Date:
July 1, 1902
Creator:
House, Samuel N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.
Patent for "useful improvements in combined cotton choppers and cultivators" (lines 10-11) including illustrations.
Date:
July 30, 1907
Creator:
Arnold, Willard M. ; W. M. Arnold
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Fuel
Patent for artificial fuel made from coal.
Date:
July 19, 1904
Creator:
Thomas, Adelaide M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn Husker and Sheller
Patent for new and useful improvements to corn husker and sheller machines
Date:
July 23, 1889
Creator:
Whiting, Louis Rossell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Anti Friction Journal.
Patent for a new and improved anti-friction journal. This design "relates to anti-friction devices adapted especially for hoisting pulleys; and it has for its object to provide a device in which the shaft or axis of the main hoisting-pulley shall be supported or mounted upon the peripheries of wheels of a considerable diameter as compared with that of the hoisting-pulley, whereby the friction may be lessened to the greatest possible extent" (lines 24-32).
Date:
July 22, 1884
Creator:
Taylor, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Pump
Patent for an automobile air pump that can be power driven from a car motor. This pump can be driven from the rear wheel of a car.
Date:
July 15, 1915
Creator:
Causey, Thomas S. & Kelley, Robert B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bur-Extractor for Cotton-Feeders
Patent for bur extractor for cotton feeders. This device is unique in that it raises and distributes "systems for cotton gins...[and] provide[s] means whereby all burs or hulls will be effectually extracted from the cotton before the cotton passes to the gin feeders or gins" (lines 11-15).
Date:
July 28, 1914
Creator:
Lamb, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method and Apparatus For Improving Computer Cache Performance and for Protecting Memory Systems Against Some Side Channel Attacks
Patent relating to a method and apparatus both for improving execution performance and for protecting memory system against some side channel attacks.
Date:
November 22, 2012
Creator:
Kavi, Krishna M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Antileak Composition.
Patent for improvements in antileak composition in order to prevent leaks in liquid holding containers like radiators, boilers, etc.
Date:
July 5, 1921
Creator:
Shrum, Will N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for a wrench that is adjustable to different size nuts and has a reciprocating screw member.
Date:
July 16, 1907
Creator:
Daniel, Robert O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lemon Squeezer
Patent for a lemon squeezing mechanism, designed to be more convenient for convenience store clerks.
Date:
September 7, 1915
Creator:
Cooper, James A. & Cooper, Joel C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Spring.
Patent for a new and improved vehicle spring. This design consists in "front wheels [that] are set well under the wagon-bed, so as to facilitate turning; and . . . the spring-braces, while they greatly assist in strengthening the spring and supporting the load as it grows heavier, do not in any way interfere with the action of said springs. . . . By this improved construction a simple, strong, and durable vehicle is provided, in which heavy loads may be carried with ease" (lines 46-55).
Date:
July 10, 1883
Creator:
Payne, Joseph Mott
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type-Writing Machine
Patent for a type writing machine with particular focus on the "ribbon mechanism for typewriting machines and a main object is to provide devices for automatically controlling the ribbon reverser" (lines 8-11).
Date:
July 8, 1919
Creator:
Fort, Tandy I.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Internal Combustion Engine.
Patent for a simplified internal combustion engine that is lighter and more efficient than previous models. It also features detachable and removable parts that will decrease time and cost of repairs, includes illustrations.
Date:
July 29, 1919
Creator:
Higbee, Charlie D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weather Strip.
Patent for a new and improved weather strip. This design "is to provide a new and improved weather-strip, which is raised into a groove in the bottom of the door when the door is open, but is pressed down upon the sill when the door is closed. The invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts" (lines 7-13).
Date:
July 31, 1883
Creator:
McCurdy, Thomas B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Cutting and Scoring Box-Blanks
Patent for the mechanical cutting and scoring of box blanks with illustrations.
Date:
July 31, 1917
Creator:
Daven, Michael P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wall Construction
Patent for the contemplates the erection of a wall formed of superimposed parallel tiers or slabs spaced apart to give the wall the desired thickness.
Date:
July 10, 1917
Creator:
Long, Clarence W. & Stephens, Joseph. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Leaf-Gathering and Lawn-Treating Implement.
Patent for device for easily picking up leaves from a lawn. The device consists basically of spikes mounted on a wheel that pick up leaves when the machine is run over a lawn and then are deposited in a recipticle.
Date:
July 18, 1916
Creator:
Murrah, Louie T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wood Pavement.
Patent for a new and improved wood pavement. This design "is to furnish an improved pavement which shall be strong, durable, and cheap, not being liable to decay nor become uneven, with perfectly water-tight concrete joints laid on a perfectly solid and compact foundation of gravel, which can be easily cut through and readily reunited should it become necessary to cut through it to lay sewer or gas pipes or water-mains, or make connections with same" (lines 10-19).
Date:
July 17, 1883
Creator:
Bell, Bushrod W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wood Pavement.
Patent for a new and improved wood pavement. This design "consists in a pavement consisting of wooden blocks stripped of bark, cylindrical in shape, and sawed at right angles to the axis of the blocks. Said blocks of live bois d'arc or other hard timber, about six inches long, and placed on ends on a road-bed of bank sand and gravel after the same has been well and compactly rolled, and the spaces between the blocks filled with screened gravel and rammed until solid, and then coated with tar and pitch" (lines 12-22).
Date:
July 1, 1884
Creator:
Johnson, William M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Land-Smoother
Patent for instrument used to break clumps of dirt and smooth rough terrain with the use of smoothing blades.
Date:
July 10, 1906
Creator:
Gooing, Martin B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History