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Apparatus for Chilling and Whitening Lard Compounds
Patent for an apparatus for chilling and whitening lard compounds that produces stiffer lard.
Date:
August 27, 1912
Creator:
Humphreys, Jerome N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cleaning and Handling Seed-Cotton
Patent for "improved means for conveying seed-cotton from wagons or store-houses to a series of gins, to clean it during its passage, and to avoid clogging the gins or the devices themselves by rapid feeding of the cotton" (lines 14-18).
Date:
November 26, 1889
Creator:
Elam, William E.; Thomas, Robert S. & Hardwick, Sauny W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cooking by Superheated Steam.
Patent for improvements in apparatus for cooking by using superheated steam. “A boiler which is supported by a fire-box. An oven is mounted on the boiler and provide with a plurality of compartments and ventilators. A drip-pipe, and a pipe connected to the boiler and circulated through the fire-box and extended up to the oven, and provided with a plurality of valves for supplying the compartments of the oven with superheated steam.” (Page 2, line 25-34) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 22, 1904
Creator:
Harrington, David
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Electrostatic-Magnetic Separation
Patent for an electrostatic-magnetic separator for separating particles in a mass.
Date:
February 8, 1910
Creator:
Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Elevating, Distributing, and Feeding Seed-Cotton to Gins
Patent for improvements to cotton gins so that seed cotton can be fed to two gins at the same time, while using the same power as would normally be necessary for one gin.
Date:
April 12, 1892
Creator:
Murray, Stephen D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Enteric Lavage.
Patent for an enteric lavage for the use of emptying the bowels of any liquid after use of an enema. The device will remove the waste and deposit it into a separate receptacle.
Date:
June 27, 1916
Creator:
Pair, Laura Costello
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Feeding Seed-Cotton to Gins
Patent for an improvement to seed feeders "to improve and simplify the feed mechanisms of such machines or apparatus and provide means whereby a number of rigidly depending chutes
Date:
December 20, 1892
Creator:
Murray, Stephen D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Forcing Liquids from Barrels.
Patent for a new and improved device for extracting liquids from sealed containers. This design utilizes a bellows apparatus, and "by simply compressing [it] air is forced into the space in the barrel or vessel above the liquid, when the pressure of this air will exhaust the liquid through the faucet at the bottom under pressure" (lines 65-70).
Date:
October 16, 1883
Creator:
Park, Hardy B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
APPARATUS FOR HANDLING AND CLEANING SEED COTTON
Patent for an improvement to the method of cleaning seeded cotton.
Date:
November 12, 1889
Creator:
ELAM, WILLIAM E.; THOMAS, ROBERT S.; CRAWFORD, DWIGHT H. & HARDWICK, SAUNIE W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling and Cleaning Seed-Cotton.
Patent for improvements in apparatus for handling and cleaning seed-cotton by “conveying cotton through a pneumatic tube and for automatically delivering therefrom to each of a series of gins an amount of cleaned cotton graduated at all times to the need of each gin. The flow of the main current in the tube is not interrupted by the several subtractions.” (Lines 17-23) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 2, 1891
Creator:
Elam, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling and Cleaning Seed-Cotton.
Patent for improvements in apparatus for handling and cleaning seed-cotton that “use a pneumatic tube, through which cotton is drawn by an exhaust-current.” (Lines17-19) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 16, 1891
Creator:
Thomas, Robert S.; Hardwick, Saunie W. & Elam, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Handling Seed Cotton
Patent for an apparatus for handling seed cotton. Illustration included.
Date:
May 3, 1904
Creator:
Benefield, Chauncey R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Making and Laying Continuous Concrete Pipe
Patent for a motorized construction vehicle which has a cement mixer and a trench digger on it that allows for the continuous laying of concrete pipes for irrigation.
Date:
March 22, 1910
Creator:
Wiggins, John L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Making Lard Substitute
Patent for an apparatus to produce a lard substitute from cotton seed oil. "An important object of this invention is to provide apparatus of the above mentioned character, which is simple in construction, cheap to manufacture, and continuous in operation."
Date:
October 6, 1914
Creator:
Chisholm, Jesse C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Protecting Electrical Circuits.
Patent for an apparatus for protecting electrical circuits, and is an improvement on a previous patent (No. 537,932) issued to the inventor. This patent consists of "an electrical circuit, an alarm or indicator, a continuously-operating signal-transmitter at the protected structure operating to affect or influence the alarm or indicator, and a second or duplicate continuously-operating signal-transmitter located at the watchman's station, operating in unison with the first-named signal-transmitter to affect the alarm or indicator equally and oppositely as regards the first-named transmitter, whereby a signal is sounded or an alarm given only when the two transmitters are out of unison or when one is changed, varied, or interfered with in an unauthorized manner" (lines 72-86).
Date:
January 7, 1896
Creator:
Oram, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Refining Crude Petroleum
Patent for an apparatus for refining crude petroleum. This invention seeks to process oil containing burned, scorched, or charred particles. Illustration included.
Date:
March 15, 1904
Creator:
O'Neall, James M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Removing Sand or Other Fine Particles From Cotton or Other Material
Patent for a device to remove foreign particles during the processing of cotton. Illustration included.
Date:
March 22, 1910
Creator:
Cumpston, Frederick Bennard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Separating Cotton from its Seed
Patent for an apparatus for separating cotton from its seed that uses heat and air to separate the cotton.
Date:
February 21, 1911
Creator:
Myers, Absalom G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Separating Substances of Different Dielectric Capacities.
Patent for an apparatus for separating substances of different dielectric capacities; the objective of this invention is to provide means for the material to be separated into its component particles for the purpose of producing material of dielectric hysteric impedance and collecting the separated particles according to the difference in time that the particles maintain their polarity due to the impedance generated from them.
Date:
August 2, 1921
Creator:
Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Supplying, Heating, and Burning Crude Oil and Air
Patent for an apparatus for supplying, heating, and burning crude oil and air for use in heating stoves.
Date:
October 12, 1909
Creator:
Weaver, Henry Ellis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Transmitting Sound-Waves
Patent for transmitting sound waves by magnetic induction and to "furnish an apparatus by which these different vibrations can be heard at the receiving end" (lines 20-22). Includes descriptions and illustrations.
Date:
October 17, 1911
Creator:
Harvey, Fred Brown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Treating Timber, Railway Ties, &c.
Patent for a new and improved apparatus for treating and preserving. This design "insure[s] the complete and perfect treatment or impregnation of timber of varying hardness and density, and to provide a portable organization of apparatus by which timber at various points or stations along the line of a railroad can be treated with great facility, efficiency, and economy" (lines 12-19).
Date:
November 22, 1881
Creator:
Kreuter, Hugh E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Arrangement and Construction of Self-Service-Store Fixtures
Patent for new and useful improvements in arrangement and construction of self-service-store fixtures. This invention provides an arrangement of shelving in sections with other parts of store furnture, the shelving being so arranged and constructed that all available space is economically utilized and at the same time permits the goods displayed on the shelves to be visible from a designated point in the store to avoid surreptitious removal of any goods while providing ample room for customers in their entrance, purchasing, and exit to and from the store.
Date:
October 4, 1921
Creator:
Hill, Leslie A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Fuel
Patent for artificial fuel made from coal.
Date:
July 19, 1904
Creator:
Thomas, Adelaide M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History