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Adjustable Shade Hanger
Patent for a window shade hanger device which allows for the shade to be placed at multiple stations by sliding and covering any portion of the window desired instead of a stationary shade mount.
Date:
April 6, 1915
Creator:
Hillman, Annie M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Stool.
Patent for an adjustable and foldable stool for but not limited to field workers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 6, 1880
Creator:
Smith, William Alexander & Smith, Robert Toumbleson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Advertising Device
Patent for an Advertising Device. This device provides "a series of hinged leaves so mounted that those exposed to view have the experience of being part of a book." (lines 14-17). "A further object is to provide means which will conceal the operating mechanism, and mystify the observer" (lines 23-25), with a "supporting structure and a dummy provided with a movable hand...for turning said movable shaft as the leaves are turned" (lines 3-13).
Date:
April 6, 1912
Creator:
Friedman, Bernard Z.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial-StoneTomb.
Patent for the concept of an artificial tomb that serves as a tomb and ornamental piece made as one. "This invention relates to certain improvements in artificial-stone tombs; and it has for its object to produce a tomb with head-stone and foo-piece all in one piece that can be built up or placed immediately over grave, so as to form an ornamental finish, at a comparatively small cost." (lines 15-22) including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
April 6, 1880
Creator:
Wilson, Hence
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bath-Tub.
Patent for "a super bath-tub of that class in which the small portable or foot tub is provided with a removable shield and seat capable of enlarging the size of the tub and of furnishing a rest for the person using the tub." (Lines 8-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 6, 1897
Creator:
Lacy, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bottle
Patent for a bottle. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 6, 1909
Creator:
Sanders, Richard L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bottle-Filling Device.
Patent for filling bottles with "two liquids and introducing them into the bottle at the same time under pressure" (lines 17-18), specifically for "carbonated beverages" (lines 12-13).
Date:
April 6, 1920
Creator:
Dannelley, Dillon C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
CANNING SHRIMPS AND OTHER FISH.
Patent for a method for "canning shrimps and/other like shellfish and has for its object the better preservation of the fish and greater expedition, and cheapness in canning" (lines 7-10)with illustrations and instructions.
Date:
April 6, 1880
Creator:
Pecor, Emmett C. & Bartlett, F. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a draw-head, the laterally-movable pin-retaining arms supported therein, and a pivoted wing normally held in the path of an approaching link, and arranged to distend the arms to drop the pin when acted on by the links" (lines 30-35).
Date:
April 6, 1886
Creator:
Thomason, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Replacer
Patent for a railway car replacer, which is used to derail vehicles as well as for, "restoring derailed railway vehicles to the track."
Date:
April 6, 1915
Creator:
Martin, Daniel W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a churn for separating butter. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 6, 1897
Creator:
Franklin, Edward A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pin
Patent for a clothes pin. Illustration included.
Date:
April 6, 1909
Creator:
Everett, Edgar B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator
Patent for a combined cotton chopper and cultivator. Illustration included.
Date:
April 6, 1909
Creator:
Krueger, Gustav Adolf
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.
Date:
April 6, 1909
Creator:
Abrams, Frederic
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picking Machine
Patent for a cotton picking machine. An improvement on the cotton picking machine that uses a pair of picking drums with attached picking fingers.
Date:
April 6, 1915
Creator:
Pruser, Gustav A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Press
Patent for steam-powered screw-press for pressing cotton.
Date:
April 6, 1884
Creator:
O'Daniel, Josiah Dial
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crate
Patent for a type of crate used for shipping eggs. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 6, 1909
Creator:
Brown, Willaim F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cylinder-Grinding Attachment For Lathes
Patent for an improved attachment for the lathe to grind cylinders of different sizes
Date:
April 6, 1920
Creator:
Snell, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Taking Samples from Wells.
Patent for the development of a drill bit "specially designed for the purpose of obtaining samples of the formation through which the drill bit is passing" (lines 14-16).
Date:
April 6, 1920
Creator:
Dodds, Redus D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dust-Feed Mechanism
The invention is a dust feed device for delivery of a uniform supply of dust for long periods of time to an aerosolizing means for production of a dust suspension. The device utilizes at least two tandem containers having spiral brushes within the containers which transport the dust from a supply to the aerosolizer means.
Date:
April 6, 1981
Creator:
Milliman, Edward M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Electric Light Switch.
Patent for an improved electric switch that is used to energize electric lights for various purposes and for use in connection with a signaling system. This switch will permit the energization of any one of the lights separately or all lights simultaneously.
Date:
April 6, 1920
Creator:
Riggs, Fletcher S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electrical Retort.
Patent for a new and useful electrical retort.
Date:
April 6, 1898
Creator:
Eldridge, Hilliary
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fan-Actuating Mechanism
Patent for a fan actuating mechanism. Attempts to improve upon fans by using a spring to provide maximum speed at minimum cost.
Date:
April 6, 1915
Creator:
Everitt, James H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fiber-Cleaning Device.
Patent for a fiber cleaning device, which removes "the outer fleshy or non-fibrous tissues covering the fibers" (lines 19-21) for varieties of fleshy plants.
Date:
April 6, 1920
Creator:
Quijano, Ramon
System:
The Portal to Texas History