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Telegraph system
Patent for telegraph system using keyboard operated remotely.
Date:
May 27, 1913
Creator:
Edward, Claude M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Split Switch
Patent for a split switch, with illustrations. The "invention relates to split switches; and the object of our invention is to provide a switch which will be normally in condition to prevent a train from running on the main track from the siding, and yet always keep the main track in condition for the rapid movement of trains, and at the same time allow the shunting of a train from the main track to the side track" (lines 16-24).
Date:
May 15, 1883
Creator:
Crowley, John Henry & Temple, Bernard Moore
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock
Patent for a nut lock. The nut lock consists "of a double threaded bolt having two oppositely threaded nuts thereon and a locking washer" (line 17-19). Illustration included.
Date:
May 10, 1904
Creator:
Hopping, Samuel Miller
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Swing.
Patent for a new and improved swing. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the two folding frames, provided with jointed braces, of the horizontal cross-bars secured to said frames, the swinging arms pivoted to said bars and also to the car, cross-bars secured to these arms, [and] the curved levers" (lines 95-100). Said curved levers are hinged to "the cross-bars, [and] the crossed ropes or chains [are] connecting the short arms of said levers to the cross-bars, and the pull-cords [are] attached to the long arms of said levers and [are] extended to the seats of the said car" (lines 1-5).
Date:
May 10, 1887
Creator:
Rigby, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grease-Trap.
Patent for a grease-trap that improves on a patent previously granted to the inventor (No. 506,690). The improvement includes providing "a strainer device for sewer traps, and the like, which will prevent any solid matter passing therethrough, and at the same time capable of being removed for the purpose of cleansing, repairs or other purposes" (lines 22-26).
Date:
May 8, 1894
Creator:
Heffron, Isaac
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electrical Furnace.
Patent for
Date:
May 16, 1899
Creator:
Eldridge, Hilliary
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fiber Separating Machine
Patent for machines for separating the textile fiber of various plants, and has for its objects generally to simplify such machines, perfect their product, and avoid waste (lines 11-15) with illustrations.
Date:
May 13, 1902
Creator:
Allision, Samuel Benjamin & Dorrestein, C. A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway Steam Car Brake
Patent for improvement in railway car brake by adding a steam actuating device attached to the locomotive.
Date:
May 22, 1883
Creator:
Walker, Fred B. & Lauder, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Reinforcement For Concrete Railroad Ties
Patent for railroad ties reinforced by concrete. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 8, 1906
Creator:
Percival, Herbert E. & Key, Brewer W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fly-Screen.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in fly screens.
Date:
May 3, 1898
Creator:
Hart, Sara C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton Presses.
Patent for the improvement of cotton presses to bale cotton and other materials, including illustrations.
Date:
May 12, 1874
Creator:
Brown, Bartlett W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Weed-Burner
Patent for "a railroad weed-burning device in which a large sheet-iron shield is suspended underneath and between the trucks of any ordinary railroad car for the purpose of confining the flame and heat produced by oil-atomizing burners or other means to direct and maintain continued contact with grass and weeds on the ground between and along the outside of the rails" (lines 9-18).
Date:
May 11, 1897
Creator:
Hancock, Geroge A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of And Apparatus for Manufacturing Gas.
Patent for a new and useful method of and apparatus for manufacturing gas, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 16, 1899
Creator:
Eldridge, Hilliary; Clark, Daniel Johnson & Blum, Sylvain
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sewing-Machine Attachment.
Patent for a new and useful sewing marching attachment, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 9, 1899
Creator:
Girardeau, St. Julian
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Roll-Calendar.
Patent for an improved roll calendar comprising a calendar strip, a pair of rolls, and a display casing. The calendar can be moved in either direction to display any calendar month desired. The improved calendar is extremely cheap and simple, may be readily operated and embodies improvements in the construction of the casing.
Date:
May 28, 1918
Creator:
Townsend, Isaac W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bleaching Resins.
Patent for a process to "bleach, clarify, and refine the commonest and lowest grade of resin, and such is now known to the trade as black resin, as to produce therefrom, by a cheap and simple means or process, an article as pure as extra pale, or resin which is the product of the virgin dip, and which for use in all the arts where the finest quality of resin is desirable or required, is equally as valuable." (Lines 14-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 27, 1873
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Box and Bale Hooks.
Patent for "a guard or shield, of leather or other equivalent material, combined with the handle or shank of the hook used for turning or otherwise handling bales or boxes, &c., to prevent the hands from rubbing or pressing against the bale or box, whereby the are often injured." (Lines 6-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 26, 1874
Creator:
Knight, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Resin Boxes and Coolers.
Patent for improvement in receptacle for oils, molasses, or thick liquid that permit liquid to be surrounded by steam or water and changeable temperature.
Date:
May 13, 1873
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Refining and Ageing Liquors.
Patent for improvement in refining and ageing liquors, including an illustration. The process includes expelling air from distilled liquors, heating them to a boiling point and then cooling them in a waterbath, through the use of a closed, air-tight vessel surrounded by an open water-vessel.
Date:
May 10, 1870
Creator:
Gilman, Samuel H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Pipe and Bar Cutters
Patent for a new and improved pipe and bar cutter, which cuts metal and steel. This design is simple, convient, and effective, including illustration.
Date:
May 21, 1877
Creator:
Astall, Jesse
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "has for its objects to provide a coupling-pin which can be reversed when one end becomes worn, to provide a reversible pin of novel construction, which is adapted to automatically engage the ordinary coupling-link, and to provide a coupling-pin of novel construction, with a device for holding it elevated when it is not desired to engage a coupling-link" (lines 10-18).
Date:
May 15, 1883
Creator:
Fowler, Joseph C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cabinet for Holding Postage Stamps, &c.
Patent for a new and improved cabinet. This design "consists in a commercial postage-stamp holding, preserving, and denomination-indicating book, the same having its blank leaves formed of paper so prepared that postage-stamps will not adhere to them, and some of said leaves being provided at intervals with exposed tabs which have numerical indices marked upon them and serve for indicating the denomination of the stamps placed between the leaves at different parts of the book. It also consists in . . . a rigid outer supporting-cabinet provided with means for confining the book" (lines 12-27).
Date:
May 24, 1892
Creator:
Exline, Marcus P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Amusement Device.
Patent for a Ferris wheel in which the passenger cars rotate horizontally in addition to rotating vertically with the direction of the main wheel.
Date:
May 24, 1921
Creator:
Lindamood, Roy S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Circular Railroad or Round About.
Patent for novel improvements on circular railroads, and also to means for propelling a turn-table on which the carriages are secured.
Date:
August 22, 1882
Creator:
Sturm, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History