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Cord-Tying Device.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cord tying devices, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 1, 1899
Creator:
Postley, Charles A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Couch
Patent for bed that transforms to a settee or a wardrobe. Illustration included.
Date:
August 1, 1905
Creator:
Brandt, August
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner
Patent for a crude oil burner for furnaces and ranges. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 1, 1911
Creator:
Reed, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a new and useful car coupling, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 1, 1899
Creator:
Adams, William Franklin
System:
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Combined Whip Socket and Rein Holder.
Patent for a new and improved combined whip socket and rein holder. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the pivoted whip-socket, its serrated eccentric face and bearing-plate, and a spring connected to the socket and bearing-plate, whereby the eccentric face is brought to bear automatically" (lines 20-25).
Date:
August 1, 1882
Creator:
Bellah, William Newton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baggage Check and Clasp.
Patent for a new and improved baggage check and clasp. This design "consists in a novel construction and arrangement of a check, a direction-plate, and a clasp for securing said parts to an article of baggage" (lines 18-21).
Date:
August 1, 1882
Creator:
McLeary, James Harvey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Drop-Lid for Bins or Boxes.
Patent for "boxes or bins for store counters and shelves; and it has for its object to provide certain improvements in the lid devices for boxes or bins, so as to avoid the many objections to hinged lids, which interfere with free access to the interior of the box or bin when the same is used under the counter or on shelves" (lines 8-15).
Date:
August 1, 1893
Creator:
Dailey, Basil
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cigarette-Paper-Holding Attachment For Tobacco-Boxes.
Patent for a cigarette paper attachment to be placed within the tobacco box for easier access to the tobacco paper.
Date:
August 1, 1916
Creator:
Rose, Bertram A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Gate Latch.
Patent for invention of a gate latch which is very simple, durable and is comparatively inexpensive. This has a swinging latch attached to the gate.
Date:
August 1, 1916
Creator:
Schultze, August J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Filler and Packer for Baling-Presses
Patent for a combined filler and packer for association with a cotton press or baling apparatus and operating to receive lint cotton from a suitable source. The primary objective is to facilitate an automatic direct feed of lint cotton from the cotton separator into the baling apparatus.
Date:
August 1, 1916
Creator:
Murray, Stephen D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant Trap
Patent for an ant trap designed as a ring-shaped trough and which allows for the drainage of rainwater through a pipe fitted with a porous plug. Both walls of the trough are capped with inward and downward curved flanges.
Date:
August 1, 1922
Creator:
Scrivner, Jefferson Davis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aerating Churn
Patent for aerating churn. This design of churn is designed to aerate milk as it churns. Illustration included.
Date:
August 1, 1905
Creator:
O'Neall, James M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air Cycle.
Patent for a pedal power "aeroplane" (line 9) with improvements to driving pedals and controlling the flight path.
Date:
August 1, 1922
Creator:
Kinnard, Laban B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Yardstick Calculator.
Patent for a new and useful yard stick calculator for linear measurement. Yard stick is use in connection with dry goods and or business where items are sold by linear measurement including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 1, 1899
Creator:
Praeger, Ewald
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for an improved, simple, and inexpensive wire stretcher "which may readily be employed for stretching wires to a post for stapling, for stretching or drawing the ends of wires together for tying and for drawing out or removing staples from a post" (lines 12-16).
Date:
August 1, 1893
Creator:
Palmer, Joshua C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type Writing Machine
Patent for type-writing machine used to center heading on a document in typewriting machines. With the success of the invention, the carriage-spacing key is depressed once for each letter in the word being centered.
Date:
August 1, 1916
Creator:
Barker, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wall Construction
Patent for a wall construction with metallic column casings and reinforced rods. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 1, 1911
Creator:
Harry, Owen K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale or Bundle Wiring Tool.
Patent for a tool that tightly twists wire around a bale in a bale press. It works quickly and works better than other wiring tools. "This tool is so constructed that two or more wires can be grasped at two different times independent of each with one movement of the hand, not loosening the grip on the first wire while the second wire is grasped and cut off" (lines 35-40).
Date:
August 1, 1893
Creator:
Schubert, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vacuum Storage And Preserving Can
Patent for vacuum storage and preserving can. This invention is intended for the use of preserving eggs. Illustration included.
Date:
August 1, 1905
Creator:
Stukes, John Marion & Lane, Barton George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Distilling Turpentine.
Patent for the improvement of apparatuses for distilling turpentine.
Date:
August 1, 1871
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
System:
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Ice-Box.
Patent for an invention of simple and efficiently designed ice boxes.
Date:
August 1, 1916
Creator:
Bauer, Frederick H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Huller-Gin.
Patent for a Huller-Gin. This device has an improvement that reduces the cotton being wasted by getting clogged in the hulling chamber.
Date:
August 1, 1916
Creator:
Murray, Stephen D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in corn-planters.
Patent for an "improvement upon the planter described in Patent No. 8,408" (paragraph 3). The movement of a horse's shoulders causes vibrations that power a cropper-slide. Includes illustration.
Date:
August 1, 1876
Creator:
Meeks, Nathan H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trace Buckle
Patent for trace buckle. Illustration included.
Date:
August 1, 1905
Creator:
Godfrey, Walter J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History