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Automatic Wrench
Patent for an automatic wrench. The wrench possesses a locking movable jaw. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 7, 1913
Creator:
Clay, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator
Patent for an Acetylene gas generator with an improved building method for holding the carbide tank above the generator tank.
Date:
January 7, 1908
Creator:
Walsh, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bag Holder
Patent for a bag holder. This invention is made of four frame sections that fold and when extended supports the bag. Illustration included.
Date:
January 7, 1913
Creator:
Devini, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cutting Apparatus for Corn-Harvesters.
Patent for a cutting apparatus for a corn harvester, which allows the rotary wheel to be closer to the main driving shaft.
Date:
January 7, 1908
Creator:
Tilson, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chimney
Patent for a chimney. Illustration included.
Date:
January 7, 1905
Creator:
Palladino, Gaetano
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
Cotton Loading and Weighing Device.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and efficient cotton loading and weighing device for wagons. It can be easily put onto or removed from any wagon. This invention has a unique way of "clamping-loop or wire support by means of which the main inclined beam or support of the device is firmly and securely upheld and braced with relation to the tail-gate of a wagon with which said clamping frame or loop is adapted to engage" (lines 25-31).
Date:
January 7, 1896
Creator:
Paolucci, Henry Emanuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Electric Alarm.
Patent for an inexpensive, simple, and durable automatic electric alarm that allows people in house or hotel rooms, mines, ships, shops, etc. to signal for another person. The alarm is wired to a clock so it can be programmed to go off at a certain time.
Date:
January 7, 1896
Creator:
Stansel, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Electric Alarm.
Patent for an automatic electric alarm meant to be hooked up to an automatic dry-pipe sprinkler system, and protects against fire. The alarm goes off when the air in the sprinkler pipes falls below a predetermined level. This invention also signals an alert when there is a leak in the pipes, and is an improvement on the circuit-wires for similar alarms.
Date:
January 7, 1896
Creator:
Williams, George Bayley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brace for Heel-Sweeps.
Patent for a simple and durable brace for heel-sweeps. The wings of the sweep will not close, and "that portion of the sweep through which the heel-bolt passes will be materially strengthened" (lines 14-16). It also braces sweeps whatever their size, and all the brace's parts are adjustable.
Date:
January 7, 1896
Creator:
Ferrell, Augustus C. & Hamrick, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Cotton Plows.
Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists, "with the plow-stock provided with a staple near the lower end of the standard, having an opening formed with a series of parallel sides, and a staple on the beam . . . consisting of a series of bails of the fender-plate rigidly secured to the rod, the lower end of said rod being formed in cross-section of a series of parallel sides, said end adapted to fit and be adjusted in said staple, the upper end of the rod being adapted to be adjusted in any one of the bails of the staple" (lines 7-18).
Date:
January 7, 1890
Creator:
Collier, Johnathan T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the draw-head provided with the hole through its under side and the vertical guide-grooves in its exterior sides, of the stirrup sliding in said grooves and provided with a tongue at its lower and hooks at its upper parts, and a lifting-device—such as a rod or bar—adapted to engage with the upper part of the stirrup for raising it in the said external guide-grooves and causing the said tongue to raise the coupling-link in the draw-head" (lines 4-14).
Date:
January 7, 1890
Creator:
Mason, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
COTTON CHOPPER
Patent for a simple arrangement to be drawn along a row of standing plants in order to chop or cut out the superfluous plants in the row.
Date:
January 7, 1914
Creator:
Charles Lomax
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane.
Patent for an airplane (or aeroplane) which provides a large number of control surfaces adjustable by the pilot, including a moveable engine.
Date:
January 7, 1919
Creator:
Millican, Joel Walter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydrostatic Control for Pumps
Patent for improvements in the hydrostatic control located in the pump. It is used as an automatic pressure governor.
Date:
January 7, 1919
Creator:
William M. Stephenson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Gun and Knife.
Patent for a firearm that has a permanently-attached retractable bayonet.
Date:
January 7, 1919
Creator:
Tomanek, Josef
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fence Stay Machine
Patent for a machine coils the wire around the fence stay within one device.
Date:
January 7, 1919
Creator:
Lewis Alverson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Firing Device for Explosive Shells.
Patent for automatic firing device where "an explosive shell may be caused to travel any distance within the range of the shell through the air without exploding" (lines 14-17).
Date:
January 7, 1919
Creator:
McCombs, Orville K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Utilization of Acid-Coke
Patent for the utilization sulfuric acid in the creation and uses of acid-coke.
Date:
January 7, 1919
Creator:
George L. Pichard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Adding Machine
Patent for new and useful improvements in attachments for adding machines which both add and list the sums accumulated by the adding machine.
Date:
January 7, 1919
Creator:
Walker, Jack L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Inlet Control Valve for Flush Tanks
Patent for inlet control valve for flush tanks. Invention is indented to be an improvement on inlet control valves in flush tanks by decreasing noise levels.
Date:
January 7, 1919
Creator:
Wright, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vaporizing Attachment for Internal-Combustion Engines.
Patent for a vaporizing attachment for internal combustion engines which provides means for vaporizing and introducing liquid fuel into the cylinders while the motor is in motion.
Date:
January 7, 1919
Creator:
Irwin, Herbert G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water Elevator
Patent for Water Elevator. This invention relates to apparatus for hoisting water and is designed for irrigation purposes to provide a novel form of mechanism operated by wind power.
Date:
January 7, 1919
Creator:
Jones, Charles J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Separating Fiber from Stalks.
Patent for a machine that separates fibers from the stalks and leaves of a variety of plants, including ramie, flax, pineapple, and sisal.
Date:
January 7, 1902
Creator:
Allison, Samuel B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History