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Amusement Device
Patent for an amusement device. This invention is designed as an apparatus for a swing, a trapeze, a horizontal bar, and seesaw. Illustration included.
Date:
December 18, 1906
Creator:
Haye, August, of San Antonio, Texas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Back-Pressure Valve
Patent for a back pressure valve for well drilling which may be "removed from the well with facility and despatch" (lines 18-20).
Date:
January 18, 1910
Creator:
Neighbors, Charles C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blacking-Brush
Patent for a new and useful improvement in blacking brushes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 18, 1899
Creator:
De Witt, Joseph R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
BLIND-STOP
Patent for an improvement in Blind-Stops. "My invention relates to improvements in blind-stops, and has for its object to provide a simple, strong, and cheap device of this kind." (lines 15-18) and illustration.
Date:
August 18, 1903
Creator:
Koenig, Charles Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Breech-Loading Fire-Arm.
Patent for breech-loaded fire-arms, with illustrations. The purpose of the breech-loaded fire-arms was to improve existing fire-arms by allowing for a method to prevent accidental discharge.
Date:
March 18, 1884
Creator:
Schraud, Franz
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Candy and Process of Making Same
Patent for a "fruit or nut taffy, comprising two distinct kinds of candy, which are separately manufactured and afterward combined in a single article or piece of confectionery" (lines 11-14), including ingredients and process.
Date:
June 18, 1901
Creator:
Webb, Jesse B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for an improved car coupling that can be operated without going between cars. The coupling facilitates "the coupling of cars having drawheads at the same and different heights by readily guiding the link of one of them into the other" (lines 14-17).
Date:
July 18, 1893
Creator:
Norcross, George A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Check - Spring.
Patent for a new and improved check-spring. This design "relates to check reins; and its object is to provide a new and improved check-spring for preventing sudden jars to a horse's mouth when the animal throws his head forward" (line 7 - 11).
Date:
January 18, 1898
Creator:
Walker, Fred B. & Reid, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Check-Turning Device
Patent for improvements of check-turning devices. The improvements allow checks to be turned quickly especially by adding machine operators.
Date:
February 18, 1919
Creator:
Albaugh, Ellis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Detachable Handle and Spring-Catch.
Patent for improvements in detachable handles and spring-catches for valises, satchels, traveling-bags, and the like in which a handle “may be readily detached from the valise, and devices for automatically engaging and locking the handle to the valise when the handle is replaced.” (Lines 16-19) Illustration is included.
Date:
August 18, 1891
Creator:
Epstein, George B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric-Current Controller.
Patent for a new and improved electric current controller for "use in connection with incandescent electric lamps" (line 10 - 11).
Date:
April 18, 1899
Creator:
Breeding, James Bouldin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fireproof Floor.
Patent for an improved fireproof floor, which provides a light, rigid fire- and sound-proof flooring that is simple in construction. In addition, the ceiling construction allow the walls of a building to be strengthened against sagging or bulging, and also provides a continuous concrete-ceiling surface, allowing plaster coating or other material to be securely held without the need of another surface to support it.
Date:
November 18, 1902
Creator:
Shields, Patrick T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Floor-Clamp.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive floor-clamp that aids in laying floors so that the floor is laid uniformly and has a good joint. This prevents the floors from warping or curving.
Date:
October 18, 1892
Creator:
Zauner, Alexander
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Frame for Motor Bicycles
Patent for a frame for motor bicycles. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 18, 1904
Creator:
White, Edward Y.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gun Case.
Patent for a new and improved gun case. This design "is to provide a case for guns which shall be capable of receiving and enclosing the whole gun, or of being separated into two parts, one part adapted to receive the barrel or barrels, and the other the breech, when the barrels are separated from the breech. . . . so far . . . the parts of the case have always been inseparably connected, or even if they could be taken apart they could not be joined together to make one complete case" (lines 9-26).
Date:
December 18, 1883
Creator:
Bronson, Edgar B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hair-Drying Apparatus.
Patent for an improved method of drying hair after washing that separates and parts the hair in numerous places to quickly and thoroughly dry the hair. The apparatus, that sits on the shoulders, also has an "improved fastener for holding the frame on the head" (lines 40-41), and the frame is collapsible.
Date:
June 18, 1918
Creator:
Moffitt, Mansfield M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements to Demountable Wheels
Patent for a new design for the demountable wheel with a new simple and strong construction that is made of a lighter pressed steel that may be manufactured at a relatively lower cost.
Date:
April 18, 1916
Creator:
Simmons, Oliver G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Incinerator.
Patent for "an improved form of incinerator for burning garbage and other refuse, both solid and liquid, as well as the gases liberated therefrom, without the emission of smoke or noxious odors, or gases, and especially suitable for disposing of the refuse of military encampments, farms, hotels, houses, communities, etc., not provided with sewers" (lines 9-17), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 18, 1913
Creator:
Charles, Oscar J.
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
Lens Mounting.
Patent for an improvement to spectacles to prevent lens breakage. The change to the design of the spectacles are mounts on the nose piece that attaches to the lenses, as well as mounts that attach to the temples of the spectacles and the lenses.
Date:
May 18, 1918
Creator:
Rees, Charles S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lifting Jack
Patent for lifting jack used to lift vehicles.
Date:
January 18, 1916
Creator:
Applewhite, Scott C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locking Device for Automobiles.
Patent for a "locking [device] for automobile," especially "an attachment for use ... with the steering wheel and the steering columns or attachments" (lines 9-13). This device is effective as a lock, as it keeps the steering wheel from rotating and the "throttle actuating members or levers ... held against movement" (lines 14-16)
Date:
October 18, 1921
Creator:
Jones, Edward F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Milk-Bottle Cap.
Patent for a new milk-bottle cap that provides closure for the mouth of milk bottles or jars which can be easily detached and cleaned.
Date:
October 18, 1921
Creator:
Davis, Ida
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Number-Displaying Device.
Patent for illuminated signs which illuminate number displaying devices for vehicles. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 18, 1914
Creator:
Jenner, George A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History