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Crude-Oil Burner
Patent for a crude oil burner. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 7, 1910
Creator:
Shaeffer, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Cultivator-Tooth Seat.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in adjustable cultivator tooth seats, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 7, 1898
Creator:
Shofield, James Drummond
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burial Apparatus.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in "a burial device adapted particularly for use as a cemetery hearse and also for depositing the casket in the grave" (line 12 - 15).
Date:
June 7, 1898
Creator:
Thorne, Richard Hamilton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Adding-Machine
Patent for "a simple, cheap, and efficient device of this character which may accomplish with facility and case all the purposes for which it is intended" (lines 13-16).
Date:
June 7, 1892
Creator:
Wright, Joseph W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling
Patent for an improvement in car couplings "whereby the pin-support is operated not by the links but by the impact of the cars themselves and of a yielding link" (lines 55-58).
Date:
June 7, 1892
Creator:
Young, James D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clamp or Fastener for Wire Fences.
Patent for a new and improved clamp for wire fences. This design "is to make a device by which the horizontal rails of a wire fence may be conveniently fastened to the vertical stay-wires" (lines 12-15). It "consist[s] of the metallic disk or plate with the curved cross-groove and prongs to hold the horizontal rail and the perpendicular stay-wire, and the key" (lines 69-73).
Date:
June 7, 1892
Creator:
Rogers, Charles S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaner and Condenser.
Patent for a new and improved cotton cleaner and condenser. This design "is to produce a cheap and simple machine of this class which is adapted for use in connection with a cotton-gin and which will rapidly separate the dirt from the cotton and will also condense the cotton, so that it may be easily handled and baled" (lines 10-16). It consists in "[t]he combination of the case or frame having an inlet and its lower end and a hinged downward-curved hood at its upper end with the endless carrier mounted in the said case or frame with its higher end within the curved hood" (lines 47-52).
Date:
June 7, 1892
Creator:
Wherry, William B. & Smith, William F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale Tie.
Patent for a new and improved bale tie. This design consists in "[t]he buckle, having the side re-entering angles, the bars, and the slot the edges at the apices of the re-entering angles being expanded . . . with strengthening-fins formed therein" (lines 65-70). This novel construction and combination of parts allows for "the provision of a tie-buckle that can readily be applied without extraneous fastening devices either with the tie or the buckle itself, and one which can be repeatedly used, and one which can be manufactured at a minimum expense and with the least possible waste of material" (lines 10-16).
Date:
June 7, 1887
Creator:
Copeland, Eliza A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Car Uncoupler.
Patent for a new and improved car uncoupler. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a coupling adapted to hold two cars together, of an uncoupler comprising a lever pivotally connected to the car, a weight supported on the car and connected to said lever, and a connection between the weight-operated lever and the coupling for operating it, to separate the cars upon the dropping of the weight" (lines 4-11).
Date:
June 7, 1887
Creator:
Flett, John Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design has for its object "to provide a coupler which may be used in connection with an ordinary pin-and-link coupler, or with a novel form of draw-pin formed especially for use in connection with the coupler . . . the object of the invention being to so arrange the parts that cars may be automatically coupled and uncoupled without entering the spaces between the ends of the approaching cars" (lines 8-17).
Date:
June 7, 1887
Creator:
Flett, John Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design is "for automatically coupling cars of various heights, and also to provide devices for uncoupling the cars without the necessity of going between them. [The] invention consists in a spring-pressed hook attached to or formed upon a rock-shaft extending to the top of the car, and provided with a hand-wheel, by which it may be turned. It also consists in the combination, with the hook, of a rod connected thereto and extending to the side of the car, for uncoupling the car from the ground" (lines 16-27).
Date:
June 7, 1887
Creator:
De May, Eugene A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Breakwater.
Patent for improving seawalls to "preserve channels across the bars at the mouths of rivers, creeks, or canals and between bays and gulfs" (lines 6-8), including illustration.
Date:
June 7, 1859
Creator:
Armour, D. Hillen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Broom.
Patent for a broom that has replaceable straw sections.
Date:
June 7, 1921
Creator:
Blasingame, Frank P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Foldable Hacksaw.
Patent for a foldable hacksaw, including illustrations. The foldable hacksaw is "of rigid construction, at the same time being foldable...so that it may be readily carried in the pocket" (lines 13-16).
Date:
June 7, 1921
Creator:
Barner, Lawrence Dunston
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rolling Windshield.
Patent for an automobile attachment which protects the said automobile from adverse weather conditions. The apparatus is unique in its simple construction, practicality, and ability to "be rolled into a small compass" when not in use (lines 20-21).
Date:
June 7, 1921
Creator:
Gerhard, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Lift for Gin-Breasts.
Patent for safely positioning the gin breast by including a operating lever to raise, swing, or lower the breast.
Date:
June 7, 1921
Creator:
Pool, Charles R. P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Automobile-Theft-Preventing Device
Patent for an automobile theft preventing device which prevents the operation of the automobile by an unauthorized person and prevents the theft of thereof and can be controlled by the owner/authorized person permitting the operation of the automobile.
Date:
June 7, 1921
Creator:
Welliver, Percy
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil-Exterminating Device.
Patent for a machine that catches insects and their eggs by using beaters and a catch pan as the machine is drawn over crops. The parts are adjustable to adapt to the size of crop rows and crops.
Date:
June 7, 1921
Creator:
Cape, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Weighing Scale
Patent for weighing scale. Illustration included.
Date:
June 7, 1904
Creator:
McKee, Clarence W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Log-Hauling Locomotive.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in log hauling locomotives, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 7, 1898
Creator:
Fletcher, William Andrew
System:
The Portal to Texas History