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Automatic Sack Filling and Weighing Machine (open access)

Automatic Sack Filling and Weighing Machine

Patent for an automatic sack filling and weighing machine. Illustrations included.
Date: November 7, 1911
Creator: Carter, Edward D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Tie-Plate and Rail-Anticreeper. (open access)

Combined Tie-Plate and Rail-Anticreeper.

Patent for a combined railroad tie and rail anti-creeping device, which prevents the rails from spreading.
Date: December 7, 1909
Creator: Clarke, Marcus S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Band-Tightener. (open access)

Band-Tightener.

Patent for a lever used to tighten the bands on bales of cotton or other materials, including illustrations.
Date: July 7, 1903
Creator: Mullane, Dennis.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cash-Fare-Slip Holder (open access)

Cash-Fare-Slip Holder

Patent for a cash fare slip holder for use on train or trolley lines.
Date: June 7, 1910
Creator: Thomsen, Herman E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Water Trap for Cisterns and Other Receptacles. (open access)

Automatic Water Trap for Cisterns and Other Receptacles.

Patent for a new and improved water-trap. This design consists in "the combination, with a bent main pipe, of a vessel secured on the said main pipe and connected at its top with the interior of the said main pipe, a pin held on the bottom of the said vessel, a fixed sleeve provided with a spiral groove and engaged by said pin, a grooved pin held in the said fixed sleeve and resting at its top end on the bottom of the said pin, a roped connected with the said grooved pin, and a weight held on the said rope to counterbalance the said main pipe and vessel" (lines 103-114).
Date: August 7, 1888
Creator: Pickering, Charles H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press. (open access)

Baling Press.

Patent for a new and improved baling-press. This design has for its object "to provide a press in which the material to be baled can be compressed into bales of the desired sizes, and then emptied from the baling-box by tilting up the tail-board, which is provided with angle irons to catch under the bale" (lines 15-20).
Date: August 7, 1888
Creator: Hoop, Friedrich W. J. & Isaac, Joseph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Washing and Scrubbing Gas. (open access)

Apparatus for Washing and Scrubbing Gas.

Patent for a washer-scrubber that cleans gas from "tarry matter, ammonia, sulphureted hydrogen, carbonic acid and other impurities" (lines 14-16). The machine divides gas into streams, sprays it with washing liquor, spreads it over reticulated and perforated plates.
Date: March 7, 1893
Creator: Fitzgerald, John H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Casing-Head (open access)

Casing-Head

Patent for a casing head that is specially adapted for "use in connection with well drilling for letting the tubing down into the bore, and in withdrawing the tubing from the bore." (Lines 15-16), including illustrations.
Date: September 7, 1920
Creator: McGarry, Henry S. & Carr, John D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pipe-Engaging Slip for Rotaries (open access)

Pipe-Engaging Slip for Rotaries

Patent for improving pipe engaging rotaries, with illustrations.
Date: June 7, 1921
Creator: Livergood, Gerald R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve for Pumps. (open access)

Valve for Pumps.

Patent of a valve used on deep well pumps; that my contain sand, shale or sediment
Date: June 10, 1920
Creator: Shevlin, Miles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Landing Device for Aeroplanes. (open access)

Landing Device for Aeroplanes.

Patent for improvements in landing devices for aeroplanes that can be controlled by the aviator and adjusted with the direction of the plane's movement as it lands.
Date: September 7, 1920
Creator: Martin, Ernest L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Signal (open access)

Vehicle Signal

Patent for a vehicle signal. Intent of signal is to improve visibility of rear vehicle turn signals.
Date: September 7, 1916
Creator: Reynolds, Rohde
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water-Heating Attachment for Internal-Combustion Motors. (open access)

Water-Heating Attachment for Internal-Combustion Motors.

Patent for a water heating attachment for internal combustion motors that will allow the cooling fluid in said motors to remain heated even when the motor is at rest, especially during freezing temperatures, including illustration.
Date: December 7, 1920
Creator: Clayton, Oscar B. & Oberwetter, George T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well-Screen Cleaner. (open access)

Well-Screen Cleaner.

Patent for cleaning well screens and preventing oil well pipes from clogging to improve production.
Date: June 7, 1921
Creator: Bashara, Samuel F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drilling Machinery (open access)

Well-Drilling Machinery

Patent for a machine used to drill water, oil, and gas wells. Illustrations included.
Date: July 7, 1908
Creator: Decker, Harry R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Try-Square. (open access)

Try-Square.

Patent for try squares which provides certain improvement in try squares. "The aim of the present improvement is to provide means for continuing a scribe or mark around the edge of a board or piece of timber to correspond to a main indication accurately on both sides without changing the position of the square, and, further, to have the main blade of the square constructed for gaging or ruling by the provision therein of apertures to receive the point of a pencil or other marking device" (lines 9-18).
Date: October 7, 1902
Creator: Pugh, Samuel Ress
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Screw-Taps. (open access)

Improvement in Screw-Taps.

Patent for "a tool that shall combine the features of an expanding tap and reamer for reaming and tapping holes of different sizes" (lines 29-32) with illustrations and instructions.
Date: November 7, 1876
Creator: Melvin, Josiah Walter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Medical Compounds. (open access)

Improvement in Medical Compounds.

Patent for a new medical compound to remedy chills and fever.
Date: February 7, 1871
Creator: Lister, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Gas-Furnaces and Forges. (open access)

Improvement in Gas-Furnaces and Forges.

Patent for "an apparatus in which the gases from one or more forges, instead of passing off unconsumed into the atmosphere, enter a furnace and are burnt therein, thereby furnishing heat for the generation of steam in a boiler connected with said furnace, which steam is used to drive a fan that impels a blast into each forge, and is also used to propel an engine that operates a hammer, the exhaust from the engine being conducted to the tuyeres of the forges through pipes in which are placed red-hot iron plates, which decompose the steam, taking up the oxygen, and liberating the hydrogen which is burnt in the forges." (Lines 12-25) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 7, 1871
Creator: Morris, Joseph R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ratchet Drill (open access)

Ratchet Drill

Patent for rachet drill.
Date: November 7, 1916
Creator: Sherman, James M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oxygen-Generator (open access)

Oxygen-Generator

Patent for an oxygen generator that refills as it is emptied.
Date: February 7, 1911
Creator: Bradley, Richard Clinton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Metal-Frame Screen (open access)

Metal-Frame Screen

Patent for a window screen frame made of metal.
Date: June 7, 1910
Creator: Williams, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of and Apparatus for Treating Oil (open access)

Process of and Apparatus for Treating Oil

Patent for a process of and an apparatus for treating oil in a more efficient manner.
Date: January 7, 1919
Creator: Seibert, Frank M. & Brady, John D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trick-Pipe. (open access)

Trick-Pipe.

Patent for a trick pipe, which has a lid over the pipe bowl that ordinarily would blow off when the pipe is blown into, but when put in the trick position will seal itself on no matter how hard the person blows.
Date: April 7, 1908
Creator: Judson, Fred Irving
System: The Portal to Texas History