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Clevis.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and improved clevis that can be easily manufactured and employed to a draft-beam. It can be used without a lapring in order to connect to a singletree. The singletree can have its "staple or eye...disposed in a plane with the said singletree" (lines 16-17).
Date:
January 30, 1894
Creator:
Word, Aaron Matthias
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting Attachment for Sewing-Machines.
Patent for a quilting attachment for sewing machines that has all its parts adjustable. This allows the attachment to operate with a quilt of any pattern.
Date:
February 13, 1894
Creator:
Cassidy, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ditching-Machine
Patent for "a machine for digging ditches or trenches of any desired depth or width, for purposes of irrigation or drainage or pipe-laying, or for building earth fences on lands, or throwing up fortifications, or for making other excavations of like general nature" (lines 7-13).
Date:
December 18, 1888
Creator:
Edwards, Charles Clark
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a car coupling that consists of a draw head with two separable jaws, a hand wheel mounted on the car, pitmen connected to the wheel and the jaws, springs pressing the jaws together, and a shaft that has a crank arm.
Date:
November 7, 1893
Creator:
Cassidy, William A. & McGee, Thomas F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for "improvements in car couplings and it has for its general object to provide a coupling embodying such a constructions that two cars may be connected together or disconnected without the objectionable necessity of a trainman going between them." (Lines 11-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 6, 1894
Creator:
Tunnell, John D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Seal.
Patent for a car seal, made of a long, thin, and narrow metallic strip. When it is looped through two parts of the car body, the ends can be pinned together with sealing irons. This car seal cannot be tampered with without visible evidence showing.
Date:
December 5, 1911
Creator:
Lawler, Claude B.; Bryan, William A. & Keller, John.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aerial Vehicle
Patent for an aerial vehicle. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 2, 1912
Creator:
Rex, Cleveland A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Sprinkler.
Patent for a water sprinkler with adjustable nozzles and pipes.
Date:
July 5, 1910
Creator:
Alden, James M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window Frame And Sash.
Patent for new and useful improvements in window frames and sashes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 6, 1900
Creator:
Wood, Alpheus H. & Tunnell, John D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve Setting Machine
Patent for a valve setting machine. This invention is a machine for "revolving the main driving wheel of a locomotive to set the valves (11-12). Illustration included.
Date:
August 4, 1908
Creator:
Wyllie, Robert E. & Twohig, John D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve-Controlling Mechanism for Train-Air-Brake Systems
Patent for a valve controlling mechanism for train air brake systems that can be used when a car derails.
Date:
June 11, 1912
Creator:
Strader, Perry T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Veterinary Tool
Patent for a veterinary tool designed to drenching, floating or treating animal teeth. Illustration included.
Date:
July 14, 1908
Creator:
Jenkins, Thomas E. & Cator, Bert O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock-Plate
Patent for improvements in lock-plates for the stays of wire fences.
Date:
March 22, 1900
Creator:
Wood, Alpheus H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vending-Wagon
Patent for a wagon used for selling and distributing goods. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 7, 1910
Creator:
Boyle, Dad
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stock Tank
Patent for an improved water tank for livestock, connecting an elevated reservoir to a trough at ground level.
Date:
August 19, 1902
Creator:
Wright, Wayne C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Telephone System.
Patent for improvements to an automatic switchboard "to provide a construction of board and a connected system of wiring which will permit a subscriber at a telephone in one town to call up the operator or central at a distant point and converse with him without operating the other instruments in his town and at the same time preventing other subscribers from breaking into the line" (lines 12-20).
Date:
December 23, 1902
Creator:
Wright, Wayne C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Tightener
Patent for a tire tightener for wagons. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 15, 1910
Creator:
Ryan, George A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spur.
Patent for a new and improved spur; including illustrations.
Date:
August 7, 1900
Creator:
Jackson, Claude D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grab for Pump and Drill Rods.
Patent for a grabbing device for pump and drill rods in wells to lift them out of the well.
Date:
May 11, 1909
Creator:
Law, Eddie P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Driving-Gear for Vehicles.
Patent for a driving gear for cars, which allows various amounts of power to be used in different gears.
Date:
August 23, 1910
Creator:
Byars, Edgar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sand Screen
Patent for a sand screen. This invention is for sifting and screening sand. Illustration included.
Date:
October 25, 1910
Creator:
Tress, Paul G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Riding-Spur.
Patent for improvement in riding-spurs for horsemen by “using an open-ended socket, a shank having limited sliding movement in the socket, a rowel freely journaled at the outer end of the shank, and a spring inclosed within the socket and serving to hold the shank normally outward, the tines or points of the rowel being adapted to engage the socket and secure the rowel against rotation when the shank is pressed inward.” (P. 2, lines 6-14.) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 4, 1902
Creator:
Ridings, John G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sheet-Piling.
Patent for sheet piling, which has closely fitting joints to make it watertight and can be varied in width.
Date:
January 7, 1908
Creator:
Pyle, Jesse Theodor
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Shelving and Display-Cabinet.
Patent for a rotary shelf and display cabinet that has a large amount of display space available in it.
Date:
July 4, 1911
Creator:
Hawkins, Millard F. & Berry, Joseph C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History