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Lubricator
Patent for a lubricator for locomotives and steam engines. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 22, 1910
Creator:
Coppers, John Andrew & Booth, Eldredge Early
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Forming Continuous Pipe.
Patent for a machine for forming continuous concrete pipe with perforations at set intervals for water to escape from for irrigation purposes.
Date:
March 22, 1910
Creator:
Wiggins, John L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Listing-Plow.
Patent for a listing plow, "more particularly an improvement upon the structure disclosed in Patent No. 866,679, issued to [Gottfried Persson] on September 24, 1907" (lines 9-11), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 22, 1913
Creator:
Persson, Gottfrid
System:
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Liquid Hydrocarbon Burner
Patent for a liquid hydrocarbon burner used to vaporize liquid hydrocarbons (e.g., kerosene, crude oil) for use in heating and cooking.
Date:
September 22, 1914
Creator:
von Hohenstein, Charles
System:
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Machine for Cracking Nuts
Patent for a machine that is able to crack multiple types of nuts at a rapid rate.
Date:
June 22, 1915
Creator:
McDonald, C. W.
System:
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Winding Drum.
Patent for a winding drum that will prevent the overlap of the coils during winding, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 22, 1914
Creator:
Voigt, Philip H. & Kuehne, Oscar C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Liquid-Cooler.
Patent for a liquid cooler consisting of "few parts of simple form" (line 13) and constructed of wood and metal, including illustrations. The liquid cooler can be thoroughly cleaned, making it possible to maintain a "sanitary condition" (line 17).
Date:
July 22, 1913
Creator:
Hanna, Oscar V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Indicating Device for Vehicle
Patent for a indicating device for vehicles are for providing a device of the character described designed particularly to be attached to automobiles and other similar vehicles.
Date:
May 22, 1917
Creator:
Nicholson, Robert M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Internal Combustion Engine
Patent for internal combustion engines.
Date:
February 22, 1916
Creator:
Williams, Wiley J.
System:
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Jack-Block.
Patent for improvement in jack boxes used for holding the wheel of a car.
Date:
June 22, 1915
Creator:
Guild, George
System:
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Record-Printing Device.
Patent for record printing device that is used on cars for mechanics to record the car number and other data. The printing device is more durable especially though rough weather and easy to use by the mechanic.
Date:
March 22, 1921
Creator:
Gray, Dexter B.
System:
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Wrench.
Patent for a new and improved wrench. This design "consists in the combination of the main bar, which is provided with a head having a suitable recess to catch over nuts, with a sliding head, which has two surfaces to act in connection with opposite ends of the head, but out of line with each other, and a spring-actuated catch, which catches in suitable ratchets made in the main bar, so as to hold the sliding head in position" (lines
Date:
May 22, 1883
Creator:
Hamrick, Jerome Miller.
System:
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Wire Splicer and Stretcher.
Patent for a new and improved wire splicer and stretcher. This design "consist[s] of a suitable body . . . provided with a series of perforations and having its ends turned in opposite directions, one end being tapered to an edge and notched and the other end being pointed" (lines 24-28).
Date:
February 22, 1887
Creator:
Lea, John Houston
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher.
Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design consists in "a frame having two arms, one carrying a fixed clamp and the other a roller, a windlass mounted on said frame having a rope passing over said roller and adapted to be fixed to an end of wire, and a central clamp consisting of a rigid bar on the frame between its arms, a notched clamp pivoted thereon, and a ring for retaining the clamp" (lines 6-14).
Date:
February 22, 1887
Creator:
Ainsworth, Phineas Hardaman
System:
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Wire-Tightener
Patent for invented certain new and useful improvement in Wire-Tightener invention relates to an improvement in and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination of devices, that will be more fully set here in after and particularly pointed out in the claim.
Date:
January 22, 1889
Creator:
Bulter, Constant, B.
System:
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Water Heater.
Patent for easy to clean water heater that is meant to deal with issues of hard water residue collecting on parts. Includes Illustrations.
Date:
January 22, 1901
Creator:
McKinnon, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weight for Horses' Hoofs.
Patent for improvement in weights for horses’ hoofs by providing “a toe-weight or side weight which will adjust itself to the inclination of the hoof to which it is applied, and further, to provide a weight that will be self-locking, be effectively held against rattling, and be readily attachable and detachable.” (Lines 9-14) Illustration is included.
Date:
September 22, 1891
Creator:
King, George R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wagon-Standard.
Patent for an improvement on wagon-standards, to produce a durable, inexpensive, and simple wagon. When the wagon-body is removed, the wagon-standard can fold compactly. This allows the running-gear to carry timber or a platform for carrying other heavy materials.
Date:
December 22, 1896
Creator:
Foutrel, Emile
System:
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Index
Patent for "a simple and compact index in which the available space will be utilized as perfectly as possible". (lines 10-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 22, 1900
Creator:
Hausinger, Henry August
System:
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Type-Writing Machine.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in type writing machines, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 22, 1898
Creator:
Wendelken, Frederick S.
System:
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Vegetable-Cutter
Patent for a vegetable cutter. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 22, 1909
Creator:
Spacek, Joseph P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Letter-Tying Device
Patent for a package tie. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 22, 1909
Creator:
Greenwood, Bluford Preston
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Turning Tool for Bale Band Fasteners.
Patent for "novel construction of turning-tool having simple and efficient means for exerting a powerful leverage upon the turning or winding element of the fastener, whereby all of the slack in the bale-band may be readily taken up and drawn very tight, thus insuring the manipulation of the bale-band fastener in a way to provide for taking up a maximum amount of slack with a minimum movement" (lines 16-25). Includes Illustrations.
Date:
January 22, 1901
Creator:
Campbell, Douglas M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve
Patent for a valve with a peripheral knife edge which allows for fluid tight joints. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 22, 1909
Creator:
Speer, George F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History