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Clothes-Rack.
Patent for "a new and improved clothes rack, adapted to be carried in one's pocket," (lines 8-10) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 1, 1919
Creator:
Walling, Carl H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Electric Advertising Sign
Patent for an electronic sign that works by a conveyor-belt like band printed with advertisements being rotated, allowing the owner to show many advertisements while saving space.
Date:
July 1, 1919
Creator:
Craig, Richard M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Body-Brace
Patent for a body brace made of wire and padding. One pad rests against the chest and the other rests against the front of the legs. There is a coil mechanism in the center that helps the wearer stand upright.
Date:
July 1, 1902
Creator:
Russell, Manning W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Fire-Alarm
Patent for an electronic automatic fire alarm.
Date:
July 1, 1902
Creator:
Fred, Mason Kennedy
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Windmills.
Patent for improvement in attachments for windmills to “convert rotary motion of the wheel shaft into reciprocating motion for actuating the pitman of the sucker rod.” (Lines 12-14) Illustration is included.
Date:
July 1, 1913
Creator:
Burleson, Lemual R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Riding-Cultivator.
Patent for improvements in riding-cultivators in which the cultivator is “capable of easy adjustment so that each part may be placed independently of other parts in position for most thorough service” (Lines 15-18). Illustration is included.
Date:
July 1, 1913
Creator:
Kennemer, James O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bellows Attachment for Barrels.
Patent for a new and improved bellows attachment for barrels. This design "provide[s] means for securely attaching the bellows to the barrels, so as to exclude the admission of air, except such as is forced in by the bellows; and a further object of the same provides for the shutting off the flow of liquid, as desired" (lines 13-18).
Date:
July 1, 1884
Creator:
Park, Hardy B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Balanced Pump.
Patent for a new and improved balanced pump. This design "relates to improvements in balanced pumps having a horizontal cylinder provided with a horizontally-reciprocating plunger, and a curved cylinder placed directly under it, provided with a curved plunger, both having suitable valves operating automatically in conjunction therewith" (lines 8-14).
Date:
July 1, 1884
Creator:
Ramsey, Haley S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History