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Advertising Street Car Sign
Patent for an advertisement sign located on the top of street cars. Illustration included.
Date:
February 11, 1908
Creator:
King, Alphonse
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cleaning Bottoms of Ships.
Patent for apparatus for cleaning the bottom of ships "to provide a simple and practical apparatus for removing barnacles, seaweed, mud, and other adhesions from the sides and bottom of a ship" (line 10).
Date:
February 11, 1902
Creator:
Culpepper, Robert Smith
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aparejo
Patent for more efficient and durable pack-saddle (aparejo) used by United States Army. Casing involves hollow boot-sticks and rubber-encased steel, with better fitting to prevent fatigue of animal.
Date:
February 11, 1902
Creator:
Keller, John & Titsworth, Richard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a "simple form of device for stretching wire, said device being adapted for attachment to a post or other support and to the wire to be stretched" (lines 9-12).
Date:
February 11, 1902
Creator:
Brannon, Walter Zebulin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weeder
Patent for an invention "to provide a simple, light, and durable implement which will effectually remove weeds, rubbish, and all foreign matter simultaneously from each side of a row or drill of corn, cotton, or other plants and direct the removed material to the longitudinal center of the row or drill" (lines 8-14).
Date:
February 11, 1902
Creator:
Lloyd, William Daniel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Fence Tool.
Patent for an improvement on wire-fence tools. "To provide a simple and comparatively inexpensive tool of great strength and durability designed for operating on fence-wires and adapted for mending the same and for taking up the slack of a fence-wire and capable in stretching the ends past each other before the same are twisted together, whereby the ends of the wire may be more effectively connected." (Lines 10-19) Illustration is included.
Date:
February 11, 1902
Creator:
Berry, James Osborn
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vise.
Patent for new improvements to vises involving accessories "to cooperate with the jaws of the vise in such a manner that the jaws will be very quickly and tightly brought together into direct engagement or into engagement with any object interposed between them," (lines 18-23) and an attachment to restore a work-out vise, including illustrations.
Date:
February 11, 1902
Creator:
Phenix, William Preston
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ironing-Table.
Patent for a new adjustable ironing-table that folds for storage, including illustrations.
Date:
February 11, 1902
Creator:
Click, John Jones
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trap
Patent for a trap. Illustration included.
Date:
February 11, 1908
Creator:
McEachern, John Walter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stock- Weaner.
Patent for "...new and useful Improvements in Stock-Weaners..." (lines 6-7) including illustrations.
Date:
February 11, 1902
Creator:
Shannon, Albert M. & Bobbitt, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow
Patent for a plow. This plow is equipped with a cutter or knife that follows the furrow to guide the plow blade. Illustration included.
Date:
February 11, 1908
Creator:
McCasland, Charles K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coin-Holder
Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Coin-Holders." (Lines 5-6) illustrations included.
Date:
February 11, 1902
Creator:
Wimberly, S. J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Conveyer
Patent for a conveyer system in use with threshing machines. Illustration included.
Date:
February 11, 1908
Creator:
Richmond, George E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Belt
Patent for an apparel belt. Illustration included.
Date:
February 11, 1908
Creator:
Reynolds, Henry J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Railway-Switch
Patent for an improved automatic railway switch based on an earlier model made by the same person. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 11, 1908
Creator:
McGee, Richard M. & Jones, William M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bling Tenon
Patent for a metallic blind tenon. The end of a blind slat to pivot the slat in the frame of the blind. Illustration included.
Date:
February 11, 1908
Creator:
Miller, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History