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Wire-Reeling Apparatus
Patent for a wheeled spool for commercial construction and telecommunications wire.
Date:
May 5, 1903
Creator:
Brooks, Jesse Watson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Coiling Machine.
Patent for a a wire coiling machine, which can make wire coils out of different types of wires for use in making doormats.
Date:
November 5, 1907
Creator:
Horsley, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Coiling Machine.
Patent for a coil wiring machine, which is affordable to make and efficient in operation.
Date:
November 5, 1907
Creator:
Horsley, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window-Shade Roller
Patent for spring acting window shade rollers. The spring acting mechanism allows for the raising up or down of the shade to any desired position without unnecessary wear.
Date:
August 5, 1913
Creator:
Schindler, Emil F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for a wrench that can be used as a pipe-wrench or a monkey-wrench. It has a movable jaw, for easy adjusting, and is "of simple and strong construction" (line 9).
Date:
January 5, 1897
Creator:
Flye, Murat K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a tool that can be used for fence construction by stretching the wires to the desired tension, or for repairing fences by crimping the slack in the wires. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 5, 1897
Creator:
Gardner, Robert J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a fence-wire stretcher with an improved clamping device for holding the wire after it has already been drawn. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 5, 1897
Creator:
Sharpe, Thomas F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for a new and improved wrench. This design "relates particularly to a combined pipe and nut wrench, and has for its object to provide a wrench of the class described which can be quickly changed to an ordinary wrench . . . [the] invention consists of a shank having a rigid jaw attached thereto, a movable jaw adjustable on the shank and an eccentrically-headed lever pivoted to the rear end of the movable jaw and bearing on the shank adapted to separate the rear end of the movable jaw and said shank to throw the forward end of the movable jaw closer to the rigid jaw" (lines 7-22).
Date:
August 5, 1890
Creator:
Hooks, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for a new and improved wrench. This design "has for its object to provide a tool especially adapted for a pipe-wrench, but also capable of use as a monkey-wrench. A further object of the invention is to construct a wrench with practically two handles, one of which is capable of use as a lever to disengage the jaws from the pipe and to adjust the upper jaw to and from the lower jaw" (lines 8-16).
Date:
August 5, 1890
Creator:
Kasch, Friedrich Wilhelm
System:
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Womb-Battery.
Patent for a womb-battery that has "an advantageous electrical or galvanic device adapted, when placed in the womb of a patient where it will be subject to the chemical action of the mucous fluid, to develop a mild electric action and thereby stimulate the generative organs and promote the cure of the various diseases peculiar to the female sex" (lines 13-20). It also is not easily displaced and is easily adjusted.
Date:
June 5, 1894
Creator:
Petit, Julius C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher and Tightener.
Patent for a wire stretcher and tightener meant for wire fence rails. It is easy and convenient to use, and consists of a lever with a fixed pulley on one end, a rope or chain passes through the pulley, and the rope or chain has hooks attached to its ends.
Date:
November 5, 1895
Creator:
Farmer, Francis Marion
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher
Patent for a wire stretcher. Illustration inlcuded.
Date:
April 5, 1904
Creator:
Montgomery, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock-Joint Rail.
Patent for a lockable joint for connecting segments of a railway track. The joint is resistant to breakages due to the passage of trains but allows for the replacement of worn track.
Date:
May 5, 1914
Creator:
Swindler, Edgar L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Variable-Speed-Transmission Gearing.
Patent for an improved transmission gearing that provides "variable speed transmission gearing" (line 10) which allows for different forward and reverse speeds, including illustrations. The variable speed transmission gearing is designed primarily for automobiles and motor vehicles.
Date:
October 5, 1915
Creator:
Maschek, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Manufacture of Organic Solvents
Patent for new improvements to the manufacture of organic solvents. Specifically as it it relates to the treatment of acetone oils with catalysts for the purpose of converting the ketones contained within the acetone oil into alcohol.
Date:
December 5, 1914
Creator:
Hibbert, Harold
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock-Nut.
Patent for a new and improved lock nut design, including illustrations, that efficiently and reliably "locks the nut against rotation upon the bolt" (lines 14-15).
Date:
October 5, 1915
Creator:
Mitchell, Thomas T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wagon-Seat Spring.
Patent for an elliptic seat spring on a wagon that is "arranged longitudinally on the front of the wagon-box, for the purpose of taking up the jar and jolt of wagons in passing over rough places in the roads" (lines 15-18). The springs will stay in place once installed.
Date:
December 5, 1893
Creator:
Ingle, Jacob Odem, Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lifting-Jack.
Patent for a simple and durable lifting jack for wagons that is easily operated and does not move the hoisting lever in the post.
Date:
December 5, 1893
Creator:
Ball, Charles W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Brake.
Patent for vehicle-brake, with description and illustrations.
Date:
March 5, 1885
Creator:
McIntosh, John L.; Bacon, Edward Hamlin & Vail, Theron
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Building and Rerolling Wire Fences.
Patent for "improvement in machines for building and rerolling wire fences" (lines 4-6), with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 5, 1886
Creator:
Edge, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Jar Fastener.
Patent for a new and improved jar fastener. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a fruit can or jar, having a continuous groove across its bottom and up its sides, of a U-shaped bolt resting in said groove, a cap-plate resting on the top of the jar and through which the legs of the bolt extend, and securing nuts turning on the ends of the bolt above the cap-plate" (lines 78-84).
Date:
April 5, 1887
Creator:
Dickey, Marion Flutcher
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lantern-Top
Patent for a lantern top that provides sufficient ventilation for the lamp or lantern. The arrangement of the lantern top provides sufficient communication between the interior of the lantern and the surrounding atmosphere to insure steady burning.
Date:
October 5, 1920
Creator:
Moore, Thomas Lindsay
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Knife-Sharpener.
Patent for improvements in knife-sharpeners that can be clamped onto a table or similar object, including an illustration. The device has also been "adapted for use in connection with a pair of bits or cutters having convex cutting edges disposed in confronting relation, the bits or cutters being capable of adjustment to present new portions of the respective cutting edges for effective work as the occasion requires" (lines 17-23).
Date:
February 5, 1918
Creator:
Kirlin, Wiliam B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Level-Indicator.
Patent for a new and improved level indicator, intended for use with airplanes and other flying machines to indicate the angle of ascent or descent, as well as when the machine is on a level keel. The level indicator is designed to have a water-tight casing and weatherproof joints and has brackets to secure it to the airplane.
Date:
November 5, 1918
Creator:
Westbrook, Homer S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History