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Whiffletree Connection.
Patent for a whiffletree connection which takes up all wear and prevents rattling, including illustrations.
Date:
February 13, 1906
Creator:
Dickerman, Oscar C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sleeve-Tablet.
Patent for "a sleeve-tablet adapted to be applied to a cuff or wristband for ready access in making notes and referring thereto." (Lines 8-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 24, 1897
Creator:
Carlson, Frank A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spring Top-Support for Vehicles
Patent for a spring top support for buggies and other vehicles that can be used on vehicles of various sizes.
Date:
August 6, 1912
Creator:
Schad, Frank X.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Tie.
Patent to describe and illustrate the construction of metallic rail ties. The improvements include a metallic tie that fits so that it will "firmly engage the bases of two rails" (line 15), keep them from spreading, and add support as well as contain two sections of lugs that extend "in opposite directions" (line 21) and prevent the two rails from "spreading or slipping, while the bodies of the sections bear upon [each other], and are provided with bases at their lower edges, thus causing the two sections to reinforce each other" (lines 23-27). This describes and includes illustrations of the practical form of construction and assembly of said rail tie.
Date:
September 16, 1919
Creator:
Cole, Henry J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flying Machine
Patent for a flying machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 4, 1911
Creator:
Love, James L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Expansion-Plug.
Patent for "an expansion plug wherein a traveling nut cooperates with a screw to expand or contract a sectional plug" (lines 8-11) with illustration.
Date:
May 21, 1918
Creator:
Barlow, Walter S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fence Post.
Patent for a new and improved fence post. This design is for a "fence-post molded of a cement and sand or gravel, with a transverse vertical slot . . . a vertical opening in its top communicating with the vertical slot [designed] for the wire fastening . . . openings [found] in its sides or edges for the wires [as well as] a flange" (lines 51-56).
Date:
October 10, 1882
Creator:
McGee, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fence.
Patent for a new and improved fence. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the bevel-end lap-joint top rails connected to and supported by the posts, the pendent panels consisting of series of horizontal rails interwoven in wire slings connected to the top rails, and links connecting the lower parts of the panels and the intermediate posts" (lines 20-27).
Date:
May 8, 1883
Creator:
Sevier, Moses Nimrod
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fishing-Tool for Oil-Wells.
Patent for improvements in fishing tool for oil wells: "in connection with oil well drilling and pumping apparatus" (lines 9-10).
Date:
September 7, 1897
Creator:
Mills, John Andrew
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fan Attachment for Bicycles.
Patent for an overhead fan that attaches to a bicycle and derives power from the front wheel including illustrations.
Date:
March 13, 1900
Creator:
Mills, John Andrew
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flour Sieve.
Patent for a new and improved flour sieve. This design has an "upwardly-flaring outer wall . . . and the inner more flattened conical guide-wall, provided with the wire-cloth stretched across its top and about its upper edge, said guide-wall being sprung into or secured to the crease of the outer wall, the latter extending downward to the level of the discharge" (lines 19-27). This results in "more accurately directed . . . deposit than if the opening were as large as that of the outer wall" (lines 59-61).
Date:
August 29, 1882
Creator:
Lowe, Joseph Alfred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Expansible Pulley
Patent for "expansible pulleys, or pulleys of that character or description which may be expanded or contracted, so as to increase or decrease the circumference thereof." (Lines 15-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 8, 1895
Creator:
Kennerly, Samuel J. & Cox, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
End-Gate Fastener
Patent for a fastener to hold end gate and sideboards of wagon in place and attached to body of wagon. Allows for adjustment.
Date:
January 21, 1902
Creator:
Nichols, Walter B.; Nichols, Edward A. & Schad, Frank X.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Heating Railway-Cars
Patent for improvements in the construction and design of car heaters for locomotives.
Date:
May 29, 1888
Creator:
Townley, Carter Shepherd
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Reading-Stand.
Patent for a simple, durable, and economic reading stand that has two desks, one of which is adjustable so that a person can read while sitting at any angle. The second desk is capable of holding heavy books. Both stands are vertically adjustable. The stand can be constructed to hold a lamp in addition to books.
Date:
August 1, 1893
Creator:
Anderson, Francis John & Irick, William Madison
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway Right-of-Way-Mowing Device
Patent for an improved mowing device for the removal of weeds and grass, specifically from railways.
Date:
July 29, 1919
Creator:
McAllister, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway Joint
Patent for a railway joint. This invention consists "of a rail joint which is provided with a novel locking means whereby the fish plates will be held in engagement with the meeting ends of a pair of rails preventing any undesired disconnection of the latter" (lines 12-16). Illustrations included.
Date:
February 11, 1913
Creator:
Cole, Henry J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Post Office Case.
Patent for a new and improved carrying case for mail. This design calls for a metal cylinder with twenty-six compartments (one for each English letter) around a central compartment. The compartments may be rotated to gain access to any of them via hinged doors at the top of the case.
Date:
November 2, 1880
Creator:
Crowder, John R. & Haile, James Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Provision Safe.
Patent for a new and improved safe. This design "provide[s] a household safe that will prevent rats and mice from gaining access thereto, and at the same time allow a ready handling of the articles contained in it; and the novelty consists in the construction of the same," utilizing jointed covers, spring-locks, metallic bottoms, caster-rollers, and a clasp (lines 11-15).
Date:
May 23, 1882
Creator:
Sykes, Robert R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Portable Flour and Meal Bin.
Patent for a new and improved bin for flour and meal. This design "consist[s], essentially, of the casing having compartments provided with contracted curved bottoms, the spouts in said bottoms, the spirally-grooved shafts in said spouts, the chambers the bottoms of which are hinged to the casing and provided with the sieves, and the stirrers on the ends of the shafts and within the hinged chambers" (lines 81-89).
Date:
March 15, 1887
Creator:
Cox, Thomas Jefferson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Means For Automatically Inflating Pneumatic Tires.
Patent for new and improved means for "pumping air into the tires and actuated from the wheel when the latter is in motion" (lines 18-20), including illustrations.
Date:
July 17, 1900
Creator:
Mills, John Andrew
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Motor.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in motors, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 22, 1899
Creator:
Garvey, Edgar Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Needle Beam for Bridges.
Patent for a new and improved needle-beam for bridges. This design "relates to needle-beams for bridges; and its objects are, first, to provide them with appliances whereby to maintain wire cables in proper position and conduct them between the termini of the bridge; second, to provide for interweaving the strands of the cable during the progress of the construction; third, to adapt the parts to coact so that they will maintain the cables permanently in their pristine condition; fourth, to provide such correlation of the parts that they shall uniformly conduce to invariable results" (lines 15-27).
Date:
April 2, 1889
Creator:
Rudyon, Edwin Elijah
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting Attachment for Sewing-Machines.
Patent for a support for quilting frames that can be attached to a sewing machine. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 12, 1897
Creator:
Obuch, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History