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Pump
Patent for improvements to pumps in working barrels, packing, and packing chambers, the purpose of which is to eliminate easily worn parts and improve the efficiency of these pumps, including illustrations.
Date:
November 28, 1922
Creator:
Kerr, Michael A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump-Plunger
Patent for a pump-plunger, concentrating on advancements in the design, particularly catering to deep well operations and environments with challenging conditions, such as oil and water wells where fluids are mixed with sand, sediment, or debris.
Date:
October 18, 1921
Creator:
Miller, Frank J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pumping-Jack.
Patent for a pumping jack that has a walking beam of a jack for equalizing the dead weight of the pump, which reduces useless weight on the pumping engine.
Date:
July 12, 1921
Creator:
Scott, Henry T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad-Tie.
Patent for a "simple and effective railroad tie for supporting the rails and rigidly holding them in the position of use" (lines 19-21).
Date:
January 30, 1894
Creator:
Lee, John Chester
System:
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Railroad-Tie.
Patent for a railroad-tie that improves on a patent granted to John C. Lee (No. 513,792). The improvement that simplifies and makes the tie stronger and uses less materials.
Date:
November 5, 1895
Creator:
Mansfield, Robert Allen
System:
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Railway Tie
Patent for a metallic cross ties. This tie is an improvement on previous metallic rail-ties. Illustration included.
Date:
September 19, 1905
Creator:
Field, John W.
System:
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Refrigerator
Patent for a refrigerator made of wood with an inner shell of reinforced concrete and vacuum chamber or metal jacket. "The inner concrete shell is divided into four separate chambers, the former containing ice and the other three being adapted to contain food." (lines 61-64)
Date:
April 11, 1922
Creator:
Knutson, William K.
System:
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Refrigerator
Patent for improvements for vacuum refrigerators such that cold air circulation and heat exclusion are improved, including illustrations.
Date:
June 27, 1922
Creator:
Knutson, William K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rifle.
Patent for a rifle that uses electricity from a battery to ignite the explosive charge for the ammunition.
Date:
January 14, 1919
Creator:
Brannon, Virgil C.
System:
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Rope-Socket.
Patent for rope socket "for use in connection with oil well drilling bits" (lines 13-14) "which can be quickly, easily and conveniently adjusted to provide a swivel or nonswivel socket as desired" (lines 16-19) including illustrations.
Date:
May 28, 1917
Creator:
McConnell, Scott Russell
System:
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Rotary Core-Drill.
Patent for a rotary drill for drilling into and removing solid core samples of hard formations encountered in deep oil wells. It is designed to remove the core sample intact so the composition of the formation can be analyzed.
Date:
May 1, 1917
Creator:
Smith, Thomas B.
System:
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Route-Indicator.
Patent for an improved route indicator for automobiles "which not only visually indicates the characteristics and risks of the road" but in addition provides an "auditory signal to call attention to approaching hazards or dangers" (lines 36-41). Illustrations included.
Date:
November 13, 1917
Creator:
Cranmer, Howard
System:
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Sack-Protector.
Patent for an improvement to sacks, as used in picking berries, to protect the bag from deterioration caused by dragging of the sack on the ground.
Date:
March 4, 1919
Creator:
Roer, William A.
System:
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Sash Lock
Patent for a sash lock. This invention pertains to railway cars. Illustration included.
Date:
November 8, 1904
Creator:
Hughes, Henry B.
System:
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Screw-Driver
Patent for a screwdriver. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 29, 1908
Creator:
Winfrey, Edgar M. & Lilins, Thomas W.
System:
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Shade-Bracket.
Patent for window shade brackets.
Date:
June 17, 1902
Creator:
Winfrey, Edgar M.
System:
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Spark Plug.
Patent for a spark plug with the capacity to afford an intense spark, prevent leakage of current, and to preclude fouling of the plug in carbon.
Date:
October 24, 1922
Creator:
Bronson, Fred L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spring Wheel
Patent for improvements on spring wheels especially those adapted for motor vehicles.
Date:
November 22, 1911
Creator:
Coble, Ernest L.
System:
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Sprinkler
Patent for lawn sprinkler that is simple, convenient and inexpensive device that can be easily and quickly attached to a garden hose and which the device has simple means for placing the same into operative or inoperative position.
Date:
September 7, 1915
Creator:
Houston, Hugh Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Generator.
Patent for a new version of a steam generator that uses internal combustion of "all kinds of liquid fuel and gas" (line 25), and has an "automatically regulated in accordance with the steam pressure" supply of steam in the combustion and mixing chambers.
Date:
December 19, 1916
Creator:
Sands, George. H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stock Car.
Patent for a new and improved animal stalls in stock cars. This design "has for its object to provide these stalls in such a manner that they can be readily and cheaply applied to and removed from the cars; and it also has for its further object to provide for rendering the stall-partitions laterally yielding or elastic, and yet under such a degree of tension as to withstand or resist the movements of the animals" (lines 11-18).
Date:
April 17, 1883
Creator:
Lewis, Henry A.
System:
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Stopper.
Patent for improvement in stoppers by “combining a stopper and funnel adapted to be used for pouring liquids from one vessel to another without wasting, provision being made for pouring the liquid into a large vessel or into a small vessel, and when the stopper is not in use it may be closed for the purpose of preventing leakage and evaporation.” (Lines 12-19) Illustration is included.
Date:
January 1, 1901
Creator:
Hyer, William D.
System:
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Stove.
Patent for a heating stove that will ensure the combustion of artificial or natural gas, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 15, 1914
Creator:
Ziegler, John C.
System:
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Strap Fastener
Patent for a strap fastener to be used for clamping devices such as harnesses, saddles, reins, and tie-straps. Illustration included.
Date:
February 22, 1910
Creator:
Carlson, Frank A. & Rhodes, L. D.
System:
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