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Accident Brake Appliance
Patent for an accident brake appliance for trains.
Date:
November 15, 1910
Creator:
Troutt, Martin E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Account-Index.
Patent for an account index card holder with “superposed parallel arms” (lines 111-112) that allow portions of the front and reverse side of each card to be visible. The holder and its supports may be used with a system for organizing, tracking, and indexing accounts.
Date:
November 4, 1913
Creator:
Roach, William Eli
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator
Patent for a generator that runs on acetylene gas with a component that releases excess gas in the event the gasometer is overcharged, including illustrations.
Date:
November 14, 1905
Creator:
Menczer, Samuel A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator
Patent for an acetylene gas generator designed to prevent from being overcharged with carbide. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 19, 1912
Creator:
Finley, Jesse T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Actuating Device for Circuit Closers
Patent for an actuating device for circuit closers. Illustration included.
Date:
November 5, 1912
Creator:
Young, George D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Book Support.
Patent for a new and improved book rest. This design consists "of an upright pivoted in a support or base, a sliding lower supporting cross-bar, an upper sliding supporting-bar, both bars having sockets upon their rear sides sliding upon the upright and provided with set-screws, and leaf-clamps consisting of a piece of spring doubled at one end to form slides sliding upon the arms of the upper cross-bar, forming curved yielding portions, forming transverse eyes at the other ends, having flat blocks hinged at the said eyes, and provided with thumb-pieces" (lines 72-83).
Date:
November 25, 1884
Creator:
Johnson, William Oscar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Crib or Bed.
Patent for improvements in Adjustable Cribs or Beds for children to sit beside the bed of the mother or guardian of the child. Made to be "easily and quickly attachable to or connected with any make of" (lines 17-19) the adult's bed "so that the mattresses of the bed and crib will be perfectly even or flush, without space...between them" (lines 20-22). Includes illustrations.
Date:
November 25, 1919
Creator:
Rece, Frank S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Electric-Light Holder.
Patent for an adjustable electric-light holder for automobiles.
Date:
November 26, 1918
Creator:
Balke, Morris
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Pilot.
Patent for Improvements in Adjustable Pilot for locomotives
Date:
November 11, 1913
Creator:
Sledge, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Shade or Curtain Support.
Patent for adjustable and curtain supports, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 29, 1898
Creator:
Dallin,Bruce
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane
Patent for an aeroplane. This invention does not use any mechanism to maintain the planes equilibrium. Illustration included.
Date:
November 5, 1912
Creator:
Goebel, Alois
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane.
Patent for aeroplane construction to include improvements to air motor protection to minimize resistance and the use of air cups to direct the full force of air to the motor shaft, including illustrations.
Date:
November 15, 1921
Creator:
Smith, Joseph A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Agricultural Implement.
Patent for an agricultural implement related to ground treating. The implement introduces a novel mounting for a colter that will keep it in line with the draft beam, as well as aids in holding the soil-turning elements in place.
Date:
November 4, 1913
Creator:
Vanderwater, Daniel B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Agricultural Implement
Patent for an agricultural implement. This invention is a "novel construction of standard and plow-point, cultivator shovel, rake-tooth, or like implement" (lines 11-14). Illustrations included.
Date:
November 22, 1904
Creator:
Herrod, Howard H., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Agricultural Implement
Patent for an agricultural implement. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 1, 1910
Creator:
Oldham, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Agricultural Implement.
Patent for "attachments for planters, cultivators and the like" (lines 8-10) "whereby the implement will be permitted to yield to uneven ground" (lines 11-12).
Date:
November 5, 1901
Creator:
Waters, James M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Agricultural Machine
Patent for a tool to destroy weeds. This invention reuses several parts from farming tools.
Date:
November 22, 1921
Creator:
Northcutt, John G. & Crawford, Miner
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air Blast Apparatus for Cotton Gins
Patent for an air blast apparatus used for cleaning cotton gins. Illustration included.
Date:
November 22, 1910
Creator:
McDonald, Osmon W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Blast Cotton-Gin
Patent for airing out the lent from the brushes on the ginn. This also uses less power than the ones before.
Date:
November 21, 1914
Creator:
Ginn, Carrollvernon B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Brake
Patent for an air brake with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 24, 1914
Creator:
Wolf, Gustav B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
AIR-BREAK SIGNALING AND RELEASEING DEVICE.
Patent for an improvement in air-brake release-valve in trains to signal train crews and release the breaks if they become set for any reason, or stuck, while the train is moving, including descriptions of the release valve and illustrations.
Date:
November 4, 1902
Creator:
Dukesmith, Frank H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air Ship.
Patent for air ship design lifted by balloon with vertical adjustable sails. Accompanied with illustrations.
Date:
November 23, 1886
Creator:
Appling, Marby P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Airship
Patent for an airship of improved construction, which allows for the operator to change their positions to propel, raise, lower and steer the ship.
Date:
November 10, 1914
Creator:
John William Oman
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Airship-Destroyer.
Patent for a new airship-destroyer with the new ability to fire pellets and bombs in various directions and differing altitudes (lines 8-12), to ignite fuses to prime the device for firing at a predetermined altitude (lines 13-19), to incorporate a bomb to explode upon contact with the airship (lines 20-24), and to provide the projectile with a rocket to propel it to a greater altitude (lines 25-28).
Date:
November 5, 1918
Creator:
Saladiner, Joseph M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History