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Advertising Street Car Sign
Patent for an advertisement sign located on the top of street cars. Illustration included.
Date:
February 11, 1908
Creator:
King, Alphonse
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane
Patent for an aeroplane. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 11, 1913
Creator:
Goodrich, Luman L., Jr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Tooth.
Patent for a new and useful artificial tooth for "supplying missing teeth or crowning roots" (line 10 -11).
Date:
January 11, 1898
Creator:
Carroll, Houston Monroe
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved design for freight car coupling. This design calls for a sliding block, with the assistance of metal pins, to lock the link between two freight cars firmly in place. This eliminates the possibility of accidental disconnect.
Date:
January 11, 1881
Creator:
Upson, Bolivar J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clinical Thermometer.
Patent for a new and improved thermometer. This design has "[u]pon the body of the instrument a scale, preferably equivalent to the centigrade . . . in which the zero-sign is placed at the normal temperature of the body, each degree being divided into five or ten parts according to the size of the instrument and reading supernormal and subnormal degrees" (lines 20-26).
Date:
June 11, 1889
Creator:
Hunstock, Robert H. & Chávez, Emigdio
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clock.
Patent for an improved alarm clock with two different alarms that sound at desired time set and when the clock is unwound, including illustrations.
Date:
April 11, 1916
Creator:
Buttigieg, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for Overalls.
Patent for a design for a pair of overalls that has a lengthened apron over the pant legs. This apron is fastened from its center down to its crotch.
Date:
August 11, 1896
Creator:
Lightner, Charles Eugene
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dress Stay.
Patent for a new and improved dress-stay. This design "is to avoid the use of paste or stitches in connection with the application of the stay, as well as to provide a stay which may be readily detached and reattached in case it be desired to change the location of the seam in order to make the garment either larger or smaller. To this end the invention consists in a stay-body of steel, whalebone, or some other resilient material inclosed within a suitable casing, and wire fasteners passing through said body, through the outer side of said casing, and through the edges of the seam at either side" (lines 10-23).
Date:
November 11, 1890
Creator:
Dacus, Augusta
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drinking-Cup.
Patent for a collapsible drinking cup for children, whose parts are attached together to prevent loss of parts and which can be hung from the waistband of the child.
Date:
May 11, 1909
Creator:
Dacus, Augusta
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Edge Heel And Shank Setter.
Patent for device setting heels and shanks for shoe manufacturing. It is an edged electric device with a rotary wheel.
Date:
January 11, 1921
Creator:
Lutes, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Time Switch
Patent for an electric time switch. Illustration included.
Date:
April 11, 1905
Creator:
Jones, Robert D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electrothermal Bath Apparatus
Patent for an electrothermal bath apparatus. This device is designed to bath the recipient in lights attached to a single collapsible frame. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 11, 1905
Creator:
Weeks, Frank W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Feed-Valve for Air-Brake Systems
Patent for a feed valve for air brake systems, designed to more efficiently refill the air supply of the auxiliary reservoir found in a train. Illustrations included
Date:
June 11, 1907
Creator:
Wagner, Godwin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Furniture
Patent for easy assembly and disassembly of cabinet furniture.
Date:
March 11, 1919
Creator:
Giordano, Anthony
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Glass.
Patent for a glass for shrimp, oysters, etc., with separate compartment for ice, protecting the ice and preventing spilling while still allowing the ice to cool the contents of the glass above it.
Date:
October 11, 1921
Creator:
Mitrovich, Adolph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Imporvement in Combined Spades and Hoes.
Patent for a new combination/convertible spade and hoe design with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 11, 1874
Creator:
Cassiano, I. Ygnacio
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Medical Preparation.
Patent for an invention of a powder that is said to aid in curing scurvy. The patent includes a description, instructions, but no illustration(s).
Date:
June 11, 1867
Creator:
Lege, Charles L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Gun-Locks.
Patent for gun locks: "This invention relates to the arrangement of a complete hair trigger for Colt's revolving pistols, which is so constructed that it may be adjusted to anyone of said pistols without the assistance of a gunsmith, the only tool required for the purpose being a screw driver." (lines 21-26.)
Date:
September 11, 1866
Creator:
Schenck, F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Stalk-Pullers.
Patent for an "improved machine designed especially for pulling cotton-stalks, but which may be used with advantage for pulling other stalks, weeds, &c., and which shall be so constructed as to clear itself of the stalks as they are pulled" (para. 4).
Date:
April 11, 1876
Creator:
Butler, George W. & O'Connell, Timothy P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Station-Indicators.
Patent for improvements in railroad-station indicators to indicate to passengers the next stations and the distances between them.
Date:
October 11, 1875
Creator:
Harris, Pliny H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lamp-Operating Mechanism.
Patent for the improvement within the lamp operating mechanism for automobiles. The invention allows lamps to be turned on simultaneously by using the front wheels.
Date:
November 11, 1913
Creator:
Wogenstahl, Leo J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lawn-Sprinkler.
Patent for an inexpensive lawn sprinkler that serves the dual purpose of connecting to a hose to spread the water over a broad area and of holding a hose stationary to water a single area.
Date:
December 11, 1917
Creator:
Schneider, Gustav H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lawn-Trimming Machine
Patent for a lawn-trimming machine designed to trim the edges of lawns or other grass plots. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 11, 1907
Creator:
Cady, John P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Line-Insulator.
Patent for Line-Insulator for improvements telephone and telegraph line
Date:
November 11, 1913
Creator:
Meusebach, Otto C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History