CAR-COUPLING (open access)

CAR-COUPLING

Patent for a Car-Coupling. "This invention relates to car-couplings of the Janney type..." (lines 9-10) including illustrations.
Date: August 11, 1903
Creator: Yeiser, John Clarke
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boiler-Flue-Cleaning Device. (open access)

Boiler-Flue-Cleaning Device.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in boiler flue cleaning devices, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 8, 1899
Creator: Kitchen, George C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planters. (open access)

Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planters.

Patent for improvement in corn and cotton planting machinery, including illustrations.
Date: August 20, 1872
Creator: Svenson, Bengt Johan
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench. (open access)

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: The Portal to Texas History
Ironing Board. (open access)

Ironing Board.

Patent for a new and improved ironing-board. This design "is to provide a simple and inexpensive ironing-table adapted to be readily attached to the edge of a table or to a cleat on the wall and capable of being adjusted vertically to accommodate itself to the height of the table or other support" (lines 10-15). It consists in "[a]n ironing-table comprising an ironing-board provided at its rear end with parallel slots . . . the ribs secured to the lower face of the ironing-board and forming grooves or ways, a prop or leg composed of parallel bars adapted to fold in said grooves or ways" (lines 68-73).
Date: August 2, 1892
Creator: Chapin, Frederick N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Window-Fastener. (open access)

Window-Fastener.

Patent for a spring lever for fastening sliding windows, including illustration.
Date: August 31, 1858
Creator: Root, Irving
System: The Portal to Texas History
Windmill. (open access)

Windmill.

Patent for an automatic windmill "which will be capable of obtaining a large amount of power from a comparatively light wind." (Lines 14-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 24, 1897
Creator: Hardaway, Robert E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Windmill. (open access)

Windmill.

Patent for a windmill that qualifies as "a substantial and strong machine capable of withstanding the high winds of the Western prairies, which will be at the same time inexpensive and simple in construction, and which will automatically regulate itself in such a manner as to run with a uniform speed in all kinds of winds" (lines 16-22)
Date: August 30, 1892
Creator: Campbell, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators. (open access)

Improvement in Cultivators.

Patent for the improvement of cultivators, consisting in the construction and arrangement of of a double-sweep plow. It includes a description and illustration.
Date: August 20, 1872
Creator: Svenson, Bengt Johan
System: The Portal to Texas History
Minnow Trap (open access)

Minnow Trap

Patent for Minnow Trap
Date: August 29, 1916
Creator: Bonner, John Sturgis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Hardening Bitminuous Substances. (open access)

Process of Hardening Bitminuous Substances.

Patent for "a process for hardening or partly solidifying to any required degree substances such as liquid or viscid bitumens, tars, or asphaltums, either natural or artificial" (lines 8-12). It hardens bitumens without evaporating oils and leaves them solid when cooled.
Date: August 11, 1896
Creator: Dumble, Edwin Theodore
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mold. (open access)

Mold.

Patent for a mold for viscous materials that are meant to be hardened in the mold or afterward. It is designed to be easily removed from the cast without damaging it.
Date: August 13, 1901
Creator: Parker, William Sink
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow (open access)

Plow

Patent for a plow. Illustration included.
Date: August 4, 1908
Creator: Messer, Jeremiah Clark & Deen, Irwin Johnson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a plow carriage, having a sprocket-wheel attached to the driving-wheel, and a rotary mold-board provided with a sprocket-hub having bearings in the plow-beam, of a shaft journaled upon the carriage-frame provided with toggle or universal joints, and suitable chain or belt connections for the sprocket-wheels" (lines 69-76).
Date: August 6, 1889
Creator: Kirk, Johnathan P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of and Apparatus for Hydrogenating Fats, Oils, Waxes, and the Like. (open access)

Process of and Apparatus for Hydrogenating Fats, Oils, Waxes, and the Like.

Patent for the Process of and Apparatus for Hydrogenating Fats, Oils, Waxes, and the like. The invention is related to the improvement of the effective the hydrogenation process of fats, oils, waxes, and similar materials.
Date: August 20, 1918
Creator: Walker, Thomas Bailey
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate. (open access)

Gate.

Patent for a new and improved gate. This design "relates to improvements in gates of that class known as 'tilting and folding' gates, and is designed to produce a gate that will automatically lock itself when down and close the passage by means which will not interfere in the least with the operation of the tilting" (lines 9-15).
Date: August 4, 1885
Creator: Howe, Charles P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Eraser for Blackboards. (open access)

Eraser for Blackboards.

Patent for a new and improved blackboard eraser. This design "is composed of a block fashioned out of any suitable material—wood preferred— with a suitable handle, and provided with a base having a bed rounding in shape, provided with a rabbet following its edge, one side of which is beveled and the other plain, the two sides of said rabbet forming an obtuse angle about the entire perimeter of the said block" (lines 15-23).
Date: August 12, 1884
Creator: Kempen, Adolph H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Skirt-Rack (open access)

Skirt-Rack

Patent for a skirt rack for holding skirts for display in stores and protecting them from wear and dust.
Date: August 6, 1912
Creator: Douglas, John A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine. (open access)

Rotary Engine.

Patent for a new and improved rotary engine. This design consists "[i]n a rotary engine, the combination of the wheel having two circumferential channels and radial recesses, with the notched pistons, fitted in the radial recesses of the wheel, and the adjustable cam connected with the side casings and fitted into the notches of the pistons" (lines 90-96).
Date: August 17, 1880
Creator: Cross, David L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Exhaust-Steam Condenser. (open access)

Exhaust-Steam Condenser.

Patent for an exhaust-steam condenser meant for steam-engines in places where water needs to be conserved. It also "prevents the use of water for cooling the surfaces of the condenser" (lines 14-16).
Date: August 20, 1895
Creator: Bachman, Joseph A. & Goeth, Adolf C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Firing Mechanism for Guns. (open access)

Firing Mechanism for Guns.

Patent for a firing mechanism for double barrel shotguns, which allows the barrels to be shot in any order by pulling the trigger twice in succession.
Date: August 11, 1908
Creator: Blocker, John Rufus
System: The Portal to Texas History
Exhibitor (open access)

Exhibitor

Patent for device which would allow motorists to display road maps in their vehicle while driving. Would also include a light so maps could be visible at night.
Date: August 14, 1917
Creator: Atkinson, Jackson B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Making Ammonium Ichthyol Sulfonate. (open access)

Process of Making Ammonium Ichthyol Sulfonate.

Patent for "improvment in the process of making ichthyol sulfonate" (lines 10-13).
Date: August 27, 1901
Creator: McLaughlin, Andrew Cyrus
System: The Portal to Texas History
Porous Pipe and Method of Manufacturing the Same. (open access)

Porous Pipe and Method of Manufacturing the Same.

Patent for a porous pipe and a method of manufacturing it for use in subsoil irrigation.
Date: August 23, 1910
Creator: Ziller, Robert L.
System: The Portal to Texas History