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Adjustable Shade-Support
Patent for an adjustable window shade support.
Date:
July 16, 1912
Creator:
Dixon, Raymond E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Armor For Pneumatic Tires.
Patent for armor for pneumatic tires to prevent puncturing of the inner inflatable tube. To also provide anti-skidding lugs which connect to the flexible armor embodied in the tire casing.
Date:
October 16, 1917
Creator:
Chilton, William G. & Hobgood, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Internal Combustion Engines.
Patent for an attachment to internal combustion engines that allows for vaporizing part of the fuel mixture to introduce air and steam that aid combustion efficiency.
Date:
August 16, 1917
Creator:
Lynch, Floyd W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Counting Apparatus
Patent for an automatic counting apparatus for counting packages coming down a chute into a vehicle.
Date:
November 16, 1909
Creator:
Richmond, George E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Dumping-Elevator
Patent for an automatic dumping elevator for supplies which can stop at different heights and dump the contents of the elevator.
Date:
November 16, 1909
Creator:
Richmond, George E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Fire-Alarm System.
Patent for an automatic fire alarm system with a simple arrangement of alarm devices (positioned throughout different rooms) with sound or visual indicators for fire awareness and closer thermal circuits (assisted with spring contact and circuit closer). The automatic fire alarm system will have a more immediate reaction by making an alert noise or visual and propping open the spring contact.
Date:
March 16, 1915
Creator:
Ammons, John Burck; Ammons, Evander & McGaffey, Otis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Band Fastening
Patent for "a simple and thoroughly-practical form of bale-band fastening or cotton-tie buckle easily fitted to the band and comprising positive and reliable means for effectually preventing the band from slipping or rending without injuring or fracturing the band, so that the original strength of the latter may be maintained" (lines 19-26).
Date:
July 16, 1901
Creator:
Mullane, Dennis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design "relates to certain improvements in portable and stationary baling-presses more especially designed for baling hay; and the invention consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination of parts" (lines 6-10).
Date:
December 16, 1884
Creator:
Hampton, John Andrew
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Can-Opener.
Patent for new and useful improvements for can openers. The principal purpose is to provide means for opening round cans of different sizes and also square cans.
Date:
November 16, 1920
Creator:
Adels, Rebecca Valencia.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "relates to car-couplings; and it has for its object to provide a device of this character which shall be so constructed as to couple the cars automatically as they are brought together, and one which will securely hold the cars coupled, and yet allow a free movement of the same in turning curves" (lines 9-15).
Date:
December 16, 1884
Creator:
Jourde, Alfred John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Wheel Lubricator.
Patent for a car-wheel lubricator that can be easily used while the wheels are moving or still, and does not waste lubrication. It attaches to two railway wheels.
Date:
October 16, 1894
Creator:
Reneau, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle Guard
Patent for a cattle guard. Illustration included.
Date:
June 16, 1908
Creator:
York, Edward Jackson; Howze, Walter L. & Caldwell, Thomas W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Centrifugal Brake Mechanism
Patent for a centrifugal break mechanism, primarily designed as an automatic brake device for elevators travelling at an abnormal speed.
Date:
April 16, 1918
Creator:
Cobb, Albert C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coin-Controlled Vending Machine
Patent for a coin operated vending machine for selling cigars or other objects in round or square packages which can deliver the correct number of products regardless of how many coins are inserted into the machine to equal the selling price.
Date:
July 16, 1907
Creator:
Wilson, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cutter
Patent for a corn or feed cutter with adjustable blades.
Date:
July 16, 1912
Creator:
Currie, Malcolm M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Derailer.
Patent for a derailer for use on railroad tracks that can be either put on a switch or directly on the rails.
Date:
November 16, 1909
Creator:
Farrell, John T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Door-Stop.
Patent for a door stop, which is made of metal and attaches easily to the door.
Date:
March 16, 1909
Creator:
Snowden, Rene Ravenel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Double-Screw Swivel Lifting-Jack.
Patent for an improved double screw swivel lifting jack, including illustrations.
Date:
January 16, 1906
Creator:
Morris, William C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Engineer's Safety-Throttle for Locomotive Dry Pipes
Patent for improved safety mechanism for the dry pipe of a steam-powered locomotive engine.
Date:
November 16, 1920
Creator:
Hartman, John Wesley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire-Alarm System.
Patent for "an alarm system consisting of an electric circuit within which as thermally operated circuit closer was placed, which was adapted to sound an alarm when the circuit closer had been closed by an operation of the thermal elements of the circuit closer." (lines 78-84) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 16, 1915
Creator:
Ammons, John B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fluid-Clutch
Patent for a fluid clutch for engines. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 16, 1912
Creator:
Carpenter, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Glazing-Bar
Patent for device to securely hold a pane of glass on roofs, skylights, etc. without the use of putty.
Date:
April 16, 1901
Creator:
Folse, Louis D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Swivel.
Patent for a hydraulic swivel used with wells including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 16, 1911
Creator:
Layne, Mahlon E.; Hall, Samuel N. & Layne, Charles F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Railroad-Switches.
Patent for improvement in railroad-switches by “mounting a frog on a plate, and provided with pivoted rails or rail-sections, arranged for operation in connection with fixed rail-sections upon the plate, to form a continuity with either line of main rail, and connected below the plate by pivoted bars or levers, to secure a relative action or adjustment of the pivoted or movable rail-sections, whereby a very perfect and simple frog operating to prevent break in the main line or lines is obtained, and which is capable of being adjusted by passing trains in opposite directions of travel.” (Lines 5-18) Illustration is included.
Date:
July 16, 1872
Creator:
Fitzsimmons, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History