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Apparatus for Separating Wax from Plants
Patent for an apparatus for separating the wax from plants. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 12, 1911
Creator:
Hill, Conrad
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boiler-Flue Cleaner.
Patent for a new and useful boiler flue cleaner, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 4, 1898
Creator:
Hamilton, Ninian B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Axle-Lubricator
Patent for an axle lubricator. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 8, 1908
Creator:
Meyer, Edward & Schiffers, Emil C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap
Patent for an animal trap. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 8, 1908
Creator:
Dennis, Decatur D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buggy-Wrench
Patent for improvements to the type of "buggy wrench" used for removing lug nuts.
Date:
September 19, 1911
Creator:
Winckler, Henry J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Teeth.
Patent for the lower set of artificial teeth, "and aims to provide retainers and combine them with the plate, so as to hold the denture in place against accidental displacement during the process of articulation, prehension, mastication, and deglutition" (lines 10-15). This invention "provides retainers which fill a vacuum in the mouth never heretofore utilized in the construction of artificial teeth and which form a rest for the muscles in their contraction incident to the movements of the jaws, and these retainers render a lower set of artificial teeth s comfortable and serviceable as if they were natural" (lines 22-29).
Date:
September 17, 1895
Creator:
Johnston, George A. & Carroll, Houston M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Autographic Register.
Patent for an autographic register that provides "improved means for guiding, stamping, cutting, and filling a record-bill and discharging original and duplicate bills; [provides] improved means for guiding the strips of paper and holding the carbon or duplicating paper in operative position; furthermore, [provides] improved means for operating the several parts of the mechanism to insure accuracy and facilitate the subsequent permanent filing of the record-bills" (lines 9-19).
Date:
September 17, 1895
Creator:
Norcross, George A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cash-Register.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive cash-register that is accurate and alerts the customer to the price. The operator must charge the correct amount for the purchase.
Date:
September 25, 1894
Creator:
Johnson, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Autographic Register.
Patent for an autographic register meant "to provide improved means for guiding, printing, cutting, and filling a record-bill and discharging original and duplicate bills" (lines 9-12). The printing and feeding mechanisms operate independently, bills may be any desired length, and checks may be numbered successively and dated.
Date:
September 29, 1896
Creator:
Norcross, George A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Refrigerator
Patent for a refrigerator that can house lunches and bottles inside a compact, small space. Will safely store materials without fear of the items inside being damaged or jostled during the movement of the automobile.
Date:
September 19, 1916
Creator:
Rilling, Charles G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane
Patent for Aeroplane. This flying machine will automatically return to normal horizontal position if tilted.
Date:
September 17, 1909
Creator:
MacManus, Agustus, F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cabinet-Bed.
Patent for improved cabinet bed construction features, which include allow access to mirror on either side.
Date:
September 23, 1913
Creator:
Giordano, Anthony
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bilge-Water Dishcharger
Patent for the importance of discharging bilge water from a boat.
Date:
September 2, 1913
Creator:
Langley, Eugene
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Passenger Fare Registering Mechanism
Patent for an "automatic fare registering mechanism...adapted for use in connection with rapid transit cars or the like," (lines 10-13).
Date:
September 8, 1914
Creator:
Savage, Harry & Baker, Willard L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air Pipe Coupling
Patent for the air-pipe coupling. This invention relates to improvements in couplers for air other liquid pipes. The improvement is primarily designed for connecting the fluid pipes of an air brake system between the locomotive and coaches of railway trains.
Date:
September 23, 1916
Creator:
Bonelli, Liborio C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animated Sign
Patent for a display apparatus to be implemented as animated advertising signs which successively display different images by controlling the timing of changes in the colors of light used to flood the front and to backlight the display surfaces. The images are created in such a way that certain elements created in certain colors become absorbed or are made invisible when illuminated by certain colors of light. An apparatus controls the cyclical changes of the colored lights used by the sign.
Date:
September 5, 1922
Creator:
Craig, Richard M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boiler Skimmer or Cleaner
Patent for improvements for a boiler skimmer or cleaner with suitable valves to control the blowing off from scum, steam or water.
Date:
September 9, 1919
Creator:
Phillips, Eugene N. & Dick, Harvey H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Yardstick-Calculator.
Patent for "a calculating-yardstick adapted for use in connection with the dry goods or any other business in which goods are sold by linear measurement, the object in view being to provide, in connection with a linear measuring scale or rule, an indicating device provided with a plurality of price-scales having relation to the measuring-scale and adapted to indicate the price of a given length of an article at a given price per unit of measure, and also adapted to indicate the length of an article of a given price which may be sold for a given amount." (Lines 8-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 1, 1896
Creator:
Praeger, Ewald
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lawn Mower.
Patent for a new and improved lawn-mower. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a bifurcated frame, a driving-wheel supported therein, gears secured to opposite sides of said wheel, inclined pitmen-driving shafts carrying at their inner ends pinions to engage said gears, guide-plates supported by the lower and forward end of the frame, cutters provided with slots and supported between said guide-plates, pitmen connecting the cutters and shafts, and adjusting-screws applied to said plates and cutters" (lines 23-33).
Date:
September 18, 1888
Creator:
Grothaus, Frederick E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Windmills.
Patent for the improvement of windmills, including illustrations.
Date:
September 29, 1874
Creator:
Symthe, Peyton.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Lift.
Patent for a water lift for wells, which can be easily removed from the well for cleaning.
Date:
September 14, 1909
Creator:
De Hymel, Franklin Oscar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Liquid Hydrocarbon Burner
Patent for a liquid hydrocarbon burner used to vaporize liquid hydrocarbons (e.g., kerosene, crude oil) for use in heating and cooking.
Date:
September 22, 1914
Creator:
von Hohenstein, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Tape-Worm Medicines.
Patent for a compound called “Tape-Worm Medicine” that is used to “remove tape-worms from the human body speedily and effectually; and it consists in a composition formed from the fibrils of the roots of the pomegranate mixed with water” (lines 9-13).
Date:
September 23, 1879
Creator:
Nette, August
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Kilns.
Patent for an improvement in the construction of kilns.
Date:
September 27, 1870
Creator:
Taylor, Peter C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History