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18,566
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States
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Month
Tug.
Patent for a new and improved hame tug. This design consists in "the carrier . . . adapted for connection with the belly and back bands, constructed with a recess for the spring and provided with guides or ways for the tug-bar, such guides or ways leading forward and back from the spring-recess, whereby the tug-bar may extend entirely through and beyond the opposite ends of the spring-receiving recess, combined with the tug-bar and the spring" (lines 68-77).
Date:
July 10, 1888
Creator:
French, Stephen H. & Maltby, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tug and Hip Strap Attachment for Harness.
Patent for a new and improved tug and hip strap attachment for harnesses. This design "relates to an improved tug and hip strap attachment for harness which shall admit of the rapid and convenient attachment or detachment of the horse or horses to or from the vehicle, and which, in case the animal becomes unruly, shall enable it to be instantly detached, thereby avoiding danger of accidents; and it has for its object to provide a device of this class which shall possess superior advantages in point of simplicity, durability, and general efficiency" (lines 22-32).
Date:
September 1, 1885
Creator:
Lain, John James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tug-Clip.
Patent for a new form of tug clip which will not damage the collar to which it is attached.
Date:
April 14, 1914
Creator:
Duncan, Walter B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tumbler-Washer.
Patent for a device that is meant to thoroughly clean the inside and outside of glasses, mugs, and similar articles. The operator need not get their hands wet, and the brushes that clean the glasses are adjustable for different sized glasses.
Date:
August 22, 1893
Creator:
Zauner, Alexander
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tunable Polymer-Based Sonic Structures
Patent relating to methods and devices for controlling the propagation of sound and particularly to tunable polymer-based sonic structures.
Date:
November 14, 2013
Creator:
Walker, Ezekiel; Neogi, Arup & Cai, Tong
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Tuning Device for Pianos.
Patent for "a means whereby the strings of a piano may be easily and deliberately tuned, and when tuned they will be held absolutely rigid and unyielding under all circumstances while the pins are set in wood, thus avoiding any possibility of the jarring of the parts." (Lines 36-42) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 23, 1895
Creator:
Orser, Levi
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tuning-Hammer.
Patent for improvements in tuning-hammers by using a handle having a central square hole closed at its upper end, a ferrule around its lower end adapted to receive a tool. The tool is a T shaped head having holes in the ends of its cross-bar and the end of its shank adapted to fit into the handle that can be used to tune pianos. Illustration is included.
Date:
September 1, 1891
Creator:
Fuchs, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tuning Instrument.
Patent for a tuning instrument that has interchangeable reeds and can find the fourth, fifth, and single tone of an octave.
Date:
March 21, 1911
Creator:
Norcross, Levi Watson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tunnel-Driving Machine.
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Tunnel- Driving Machines" (lines 5-6), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 2, 1913
Creator:
Speer, George F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tunneling-Machine
Patent for a horizontal tunneling machine comprised of two different drill mechanisms - an inner and an outer drill stem - that could be operated separately and at different speeds, and adjusted while the drills were running. The drills make use of the tricone drill bit invented by Hughes in 1909, and could drill through hard rock more effectively than previous mechanisms.
Date:
March 9, 1920
Creator:
Hughes, Howard Robard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tunneling-Machine.
Patent for a tunneling machine that has the ability to easily change course and utilizes a conical shaped shell to receive loose earth and convey it towards the mouth of the tunnel. The invention also has a rotating head connected to the carrying vehicle meaning that the machine is supported and driven forward against the tunnel as it is cut away.
Date:
December 30, 1919
Creator:
Dana, Frank L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Turbine.
Patent for a turbine engine powered by steam.
Date:
August 29, 1911
Creator:
May, Reynolds
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Turbine-Motor
Patent for improvements in the construction and use of turbine motors.
Date:
February 19, 1918
Creator:
Smithey, Walter Duke
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Turbine Wheel.
Patent for a new and improved turbine wheel. This design eliminates water friction and alleviates pressure on suspended buckets, causing them to last longer.
Date:
August 17, 1880
Creator:
Hallenbeck, Matthew L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Turn Table
Patent for a new and improved turn table. This invention "relates to an improvement in turn-tables, and its an improvement on that particular kind of turn-table shown and described in Patent NO.517,304" (line 7-9).
Date:
December 28, 1897
Creator:
Rohrbach, Gabriel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Turn-Table.
Patent for a turn table that is "used for turning locomotives engines end to end; and the object of [the] invention is to provide a simple lever attachment for an ordinary turn-table, by which one man may easily turn the table and its load, and also to arrange the lever mechanism so that it may be easily locked in place when not in use and will not be likely to get out of order" (lines 8-16).
Date:
March 27, 1894
Creator:
Rohrbach, Gabriel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Turn-Table for Automobiles.
Patent for a turn-table that rotates an automobile and is powered by the engine of the automobile. It is designed to be operated by the driver of the automobile, without needing to exit the vehicle. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 1, 1918
Creator:
Loessin, Julius W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Turnbuckle
Patent for a stretching screw, turnbuckle. It adjusts the tension of cables and was used in early aeroplanes (airplanes).
Date:
June 3, 1919
Creator:
Dickson, John W.
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
Turning-Tool for Bale-Band Fasteners.
Patent for a new and useful turning-tool for bale-band fasteners “which can be readily applied to and removed from the fastener, while at the same time providing positive means for exerting a powerful leverage upon the turning or winding element of the fastener to insure the taking up of a maximum amount of slack in a bale-band with a minimum movement.” (Lines 15-22.) Illustration is included
Date:
April 2, 1901
Creator:
Campbell, Douglas M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Turnstile.
Patent for a new turnstile design for use in train cars, "especially adapted for use in so called " pay-as-you-enter " cars." (lines 11-12) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 9, 1914
Creator:
Lohrberg, Leopold W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Turnstile-Gate.
Patent for a turnstile-gate meant "to provide a gate of novel construction to be used at the intersection of a number of fences that access may be had through the gate from one to the other of the inclosures formed by said fences" (lines 13-17). It is especially meant for stockyards when several fences come together in one place.
Date:
September 3, 1895
Creator:
Cowley, Benjamin T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Turntable.
Patent for an improved turntable "designed to be attached to and carried beneath a motor car" (lines 12-13) that would allow the car (train car) to be elevated or lowered onto railroad tracks. The device includes a base, pedestals, and a rotatable base.
Date:
January 3, 1922
Creator:
Westmoreland, James P. & Bullington, John D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Turping Implement.
Patent for a new and improved turfing implement. This design "is to produce a . . . handle . . . together with improved means for threading the needle (lines 10-12). It consists "with a tubular needle having a longitudinal slit, the outer end of the needle being open and its upper side being formed into a tongue near its inner end, which is bent upwardly and whose extremity projects into the needle, of a handle into which the needle is passed and a presser-foot adjustably connected at its inner end to the handle and having its outer end turned up and provided with an opening" (lines 85-93).
Date:
June 21, 1892
Creator:
Robinson, Laurence Benjamin
System:
The Portal to Texas History