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Adjustable Attachment for Freight-Car Doors.
Patent for a mechanism that creates "an adjustable attachment for freight-car doors, for preventing sparks and other objectionable matter from getting into the cars, and means for operating the attachment that is adapted for use in securing the door in different positions of adjustment, and for connection with the body of the car by means of a seal-support, in order that the fixed adjustment of the door cannot be changed without breaking the seal" (lines 12-21).
Date:
December 28, 1886
Creator:
Duzan, Thomas H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
AIR-BREAK SIGNALING AND RELEASEING DEVICE.
Patent for an improvement in air-brake release-valve in trains to signal train crews and release the breaks if they become set for any reason, or stuck, while the train is moving, including descriptions of the release valve and illustrations.
Date:
November 4, 1902
Creator:
Dukesmith, Frank H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Burning Crude Oil
Patent for an apparatus for burning crude oil in stoves.
Date:
November 22, 1910
Creator:
Kunkel, Albert R.
System:
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Apparatus for Burning Fuel-Oil
Patent for an oil burner for stoves and furnaces. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 24, 1912
Creator:
Kunkel, Albert R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Distilling Wood.
Patent for improvements in wood distillers "wherein the liquids of the woods are extracted by subjection in a closed heated chamber or retort and carried by vaporization through the process of distillation to condensation" (lines 18-22).
Date:
December 24, 1889
Creator:
Spangler, Samuel H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Oiler
Patent for an automatic oiler for railroad cars.
Date:
January 17, 1911
Creator:
Adams, Richard Field
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Switch
Patent for an automatic switch for railroad tracks.
Date:
May 2, 1911
Creator:
Pickle, Voyl C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Base for Columns
Patent for a base for columns which drains water away from the base.
Date:
September 20, 1910
Creator:
Riley, Samuel L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blow-Off Cock and Fire-Extinguisher
Patent for "a new and improved blow-off cock and fire-extinguisher to be used on locomotives for cleaning the boiler, and at the same time serving to sprinkle wooden structures in the track, such as bridges, railroad-ties, trestles, &c., to prevent their being set on fire by falling cinders discharged from the ash-pan of the locomotive or from other causes" (lines 8-16)
Date:
August 13, 1889
Creator:
Michell, Lucius E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boiler Attachment.
Patent for a boiler attachment to regulate the boiler feed pump.
Date:
May 31, 1910
Creator:
Morris, Gid M. & Watkins, J. H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "relates to car-couplings of that class which have a sliding spring-actuated pin-support, against which the link comes to drive the support back and permit the pin to fall and effect an automatic coupling" (lines 9-13).
Date:
May 6, 1884
Creator:
Mayfield, Samuel Brooks
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Seat.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in car seats, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 27, 1900
Creator:
Meier, Hermann
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Seat.
Patent for improvements to the "Scarritt-Forney" seat so that the seat body and frame are detachable from each other. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 22, 1897
Creator:
Meier, Hermann
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Catamenial Applicance
Patent for a catamenial appliance that can be worn like an apron. In conjunction with a "napkin the device can prevent outer garments from stains during or prior to menstruation" (p. 1, lines 10-15)
Date:
December 29, 1914
Creator:
Myers, Jennie C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard.
Patent for a cattle guard, which is made up of a wedge shaped piece of metal that allows a cows leg to be caught rather than the foot to allow easier removal of the leg by the cow.
Date:
August 31, 1909
Creator:
Mosher, Benjamin E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for improvements in churns that are made with an actuating motor, including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
December 18, 1917
Creator:
Waller, Charles Floyd
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Closet Seat Catch
Patent for a closet seat catch.
Date:
March 31, 1903
Creator:
Alexander, Francis Marion
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cloth Measuring Reel.
Patent for a new and improved cloth-measuring wheel. This design "consists in the peculiar combination and arrangement of the cutting-board with two standards, whereby the said cutting-board is made to act as a sufficient brace for the frame, as well as to perform the offices of a cutting board. The invention also consists in means for producing a variable tension on the cloth as it passes from the roll to the reel, whereby the tendency of different thicknesses of cloth to wind the cloth in greater or lesser lengths than the register indicates is compensated for and corrected" (lines 27-39).
Date:
January 3, 1882
Creator:
Peters, James H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pounder.
Patent for new and useful improvements in Washington Pounders by "having a series of concentric cones between the sides of which communication is had through apertures to carry away steam, and affords a suitable circulation of the water and air through the clothes." (Lines 17-22) Illustration is included.
Date:
December 15, 1896
Creator:
Toler, Henry Wilson.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Seed Planter and Fertilizer Distributer
Patent for device for planting, fertilizing, and cultivating seed and grain.
Date:
April 1, 1884
Creator:
Pickle, William Chesley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper
Patent for cotton chopper. Illustration included.
Date:
October 1, 1907
Creator:
Murray, Joel S. & Scarborough, Ezem H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Harvester
Patent for "new and useful improvements to cotton harvesters" (lines 5-6) with illustrations and instructions.
Date:
July 6, 1883
Creator:
Myers, John & Meyers, John Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator
Patent for a cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 12, 1904
Creator:
Vance, Sidney F. & Woodard, Lorenzo D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a cultivator with adjustable teeth positions to allow for variation in distance between rows or different types of crops.
Date:
March 26, 1907
Creator:
Vance, Sidney, F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History