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Cultivator Shovel
Patent for a small shovel, with a blade that can be detached for repairs or replacement.
Date:
September 26, 1916
Creator:
Abramson, August
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Signal System for Electric Cars
Patent for signal systems for electric railways where wires arranged in connection with the signal lamps at the ends of the blocks and on the cars will be lit to signal caution. There will also be a signal within the car if another moving car in the opposite direction enters the same block.
Date:
December 26, 1905
Creator:
Adams, Edwin J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Commode-Seat.
Patent for a commode/toilet seat and storage cabinet that holds multiple seats that can be used to provide individual seats for each person using the commode/toilet.
Date:
September 26, 1911
Creator:
Ainsworth, Lucian M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Leveling Instrument
Patent for leveling instrument. Illustration included.
Date:
July 26, 1904
Creator:
Akins, Henry King
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Making Aromatic Hydrocarbons
Patent for an invention that relates to processes of making aromatic hydrocarbons, and comprises a method of producing lower boiling aromatic hydrocarbons.
Date:
June 26, 1917
Creator:
Alexander, Clive M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Driving Mechanism For Automobiles And The Like.
Patent for improvements in the automobile driving mechanism thorough changes in the transmission and transmission gearing.
Date:
February 26, 1918
Creator:
Allan, William N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Door.
Patent for "an improved freight car door so supported that it will not be shaken or jarred off and can be easily opened and closed at all times no matter how heavily loaded the car may be." (Lines 16-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 26, 1895
Creator:
Allen, Thomas C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie
Patent for a tie for bales of cotton, hay, etc. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 26, 1908
Creator:
Alverson, Lewis & Horsley, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tube-Vulcanizing Apparatus.
Patent for a tube-vulcanizing apparatus "and in such connection, it relates more particularly to an apparatus for repairing inflatable tubes for wheel tires." (lines 10-13)
Date:
March 26, 1918
Creator:
Alvis, James T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for an inexpensive, simple, and efficient improved twin-jaw coupling that couples automatically and easily uncouples. Operators do not need to go between cars to uncouple the cars. "A further object of the invention is in the operation of uncoupling to open the knuckle after releasing the same in order to have the knuckle in position predatory to coupling" (lines 16-19).
Date:
September 26, 1893
Creator:
Anderson, Anders Peder
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Geometrical Instrument
Patent for a geometrical instrument. This instrument is used to create a straight edge with pivoted blades, like a protractor, to be used for laying protracted angles, etc.
Date:
March 26, 1918
Creator:
Anderson, Andrew E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fencing - Machine
Patent for a new and useful Wire-Fence Machine, including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
October 26, 1897
Creator:
Anderson, Henry C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame.
Patent for a hame that has an improved fastening device that easily secures trace chains or tugs to the harness. It is easily adjustable.
Date:
September 26, 1893
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trace Lock for Harness.
Patent for a new and improved trace-lock for harnesses. This design consists in "the combination of the bolt, the metal strap secured to the trace, provided with the recess, the projection, and the slot having the enlarged opening, the locking-plate pivoted on the recess having the opening, and the spring" (lines 72-77).
Date:
June 26, 1888
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Animal-Traps.
Patent for improvement in animal-traps, with description and illustrations.
Date:
December 26, 1876
Creator:
Anderson, Zachariah J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mineral-Prospecting Apparatus.
Patent for an "apparatus for drilling and obtaining samples or specimens of minerals" (lines 12-13), and obtaining accurate samples of ores in situations where they would otherwise be washed away by water or broken apart. The patent includes illustrations.
Date:
August 26, 1913
Creator:
Andrews, Benjamin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Twine-Holder.
Patent for certain new and useful improvement in twine holders, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 26, 1899
Creator:
Andrews, Otis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fastener.
Patent for improvement in fasteners that "can be attached to a collar-button for the purpose of holding any articles such as bow-ties, scarfs and neckties of wearing-apparel in position to make the articles easily attached or detached from the garment." (Lines 10-19) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 26, 1901
Creator:
Applebom, Ralph & Sidenbitel, Joe
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Planter
Patent for a seed planter. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 26, 1912
Creator:
Atmar, Joseph Y.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Pressing Shingles and Slabs and The Like
Patent for a machine designed for manufacturing shingles and other building material. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 26, 1910
Creator:
Baade, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Stool
Patent for folding stool which may be used alternatively as a sun-shade or cane, including illustrations.
Date:
November 26, 1918
Creator:
Bachtel, Sidney J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock
Patent for a nut lock. Illustration included.
Date:
March 26, 1907
Creator:
Baker, Alonzo
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Signals
Patent for a signal for an exhaust pipe of an automobile. Essentially, this device would quiet exhaust noise leaving an automobile.
Date:
February 26, 1919
Creator:
Baker, James Slayton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ball-Bearing.
Patent for ball-bearings that "consists in improvements in hubs or journal-boxes and in the journals of axles or spindles" (lines 8-10), the "object [of which] is to construct journals and journal-boxes which will be perfectly adjustable and durable and which will be subjected to the least possible friction" (lines 12-15).
Date:
January 26, 1897
Creator:
Baker, Joseph B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History