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Plow
Patent for improvements to plows with laterally extending adjustable wings, as well as other different styles of plow and cultivator standards, with illustration.
Date:
March 9, 1915
Creator:
Armentraut, Richard B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Manufacture of Gasolene.
Patent for the manufacture of gasoline. The product is used as a fuel for internal combustion engines.
Date:
March 9, 1915
Creator:
Bacon, Raymond F.; Brooks, Benjamin T. & Clark, Clinton W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper
Patent for an improved cotton-chopper, which includes a vertical swinging movement, as well as a wheel at its base which, and has a chopper shaft that may be depressed by the feet of the operator so that the chopper can operate even on uneven ground.
Date:
March 9, 1915
Creator:
Baker, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Safety-Stirrup.
Patent for a safety stirrup which has a locking mechanism, which will open if a rider is thrown from the saddle to release the foot from the stirrup.
Date:
March 9, 1909
Creator:
Batson, Joseph A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Envelop-Seal.
Patent for an envelop seal composed of a metal piece with two arms, which are threaded through a hole in the envelop and pressed down into the sticky gum surface on the inside of the envelop flap.
Date:
March 9, 1909
Creator:
Bennick, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire Tongs.
Patent for new and improved fire tongs. This design "is designed to produce an article . . . which will be practical in every respect, and which will prevent the slipping or sliding of the legs or arms thereof while handling the logs, enabling the latter to be grasped with a firm hold, thereby avoiding the numerous accidents that often occur from the use of the present form of tongs" (lines 9-17).
Date:
March 9, 1886
Creator:
Bishop, John Andrews
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark-Extinguisher.
Patent for a spark extinguisher "to prevent the burning of buildings and other combustible matter by steam engines" (lines 15-17).
Date:
March 9, 1880
Creator:
Blewett, George L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Resilient Wheel
Patent for the improvement of resilient wheels meant to be applied to any vehicle running gear. Resilient wheel will allow tire to move freely and absorb shocks.
Date:
March 9, 1915
Creator:
Burgess, Richard H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition for Tanning
Patent for new and useful improvements in compounds for tanning, using water, four gallons, fluid extract of phytolacca or common poke root, quarter of an ounce, gum gambier, four pounds, and alum, one pound.
Date:
March 9, 1909
Creator:
Burrows, Ira I
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Ventilator.
Patent for a railroad car ventilator, which supplies fresh air to the car and sends stale air out of the car. It also is equipped with an ice cooling system and a disinfectant spray system.
Date:
March 9, 1909
Creator:
Carroll, Samuel C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Counterbalancing Device for Pumps.
Patent for a counterbalancing device for windmill pumps, which reduces friction and lateral pull on the pump.
Date:
March 9, 1909
Creator:
Cotten, Charles Kavendor
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fly-Trap.
Patent for an improved fly-trap that effectively ensnares flies while providing an efficient method of fly disposal and easier access to the trap for cleaning, including illustrations.
Date:
March 9, 1915
Creator:
Crawford, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive Ash-Pan.
Patent for "locomotive ash-pans which are cleared of ashes and cinders without necessitating the stopping of the engine or requiring the fireman or other person going beneath the engine to relieve the ash-pan of its contents, thereby saving expense in labor and obviating loss of time in long runs." (Lines 8-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 9, 1897
Creator:
Cummings, Summer Field
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shutter Fastener.
Patent for a new and improved shutter fastener. This design consists "[i]n a blind-fastening, the case, constructed . . . and provided with [a] projection in combination with the bolt having recess, the spring, the swinging catch, and the keeper secured in the window sill" (lines 45-49).
Date:
March 9, 1886
Creator:
Cutter, Martin A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Crossing Signal.
Patent for a railway crossing signal, which is operated by wind power from moving trains.
Date:
March 9, 1909
Creator:
Davis, George A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive Drive-Wheel.
Patent for "driving-wheels for locomotives; and it has for its object to provide an approximately perfect balanced driving wheel and thereby materially decrease the internal disturbances to the mechanism of the locomotive due to the present methods of counterbalancing in the driving-wheel the reciprocating and revolving parts thereof." (Lines 12-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 9, 1897
Creator:
Davis, Philip Z.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive Driving-Wheel.
Patent for a perfectly balanced wheel for locomotives. It is meant to "materially decrease the internal disturbances to the mechanism of the locomotive due to the present methods of counterbalancing in the driving-wheel" (lines 15-18).
Date:
March 9, 1897
Creator:
Davis, Philip Z.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel.
Patent for "driving wheels for locomotives; and it has for its object to provide an approximately perfect balanced driving-wheel and thereby materially decrease the internal disturbances to the mechanism of the locomotion due to the present methods of counterbalancing in the driving-wheel the reciprocating and revolving parts thereof." (Lines 12-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 9, 1897
Creator:
Davis, Philip Z.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seed-Planters.
Patent for a seed feeder using a tube connected to a revolving cylinder at the bottom of the hopper to deposit the seeds into the earth, including illustration.
Date:
March 9, 1858
Creator:
Doss, William C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Angle Cock Device
Patent for "stop cocks for controlling the flow of fluids and more particularly to what are known as angle cocks for use in train pipes of air brake and other fluid pressure systems upon railway cars" (lines 8-13) including illustrations.
Date:
March 9, 1915
Creator:
Ellwood, Thomas B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Cut-Off for Cisterns
Patent for a automatic cutoff for cisterns which prevents the first muddy water coming down a rain spout from going into the cistern by sending it into a separate waste pipe.
Date:
March 9, 1909
Creator:
Estes, Robert Ephriam
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Furnace.
Patent for a furnace capable of burning rice hulls, sawdust, chaff, and more "in connection with the boiler for generating steam and which will entirely consume such products without contaminating the surrounding air with the ashes given off" (lines 31-34).
Date:
March 9, 1920
Creator:
Ewing, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Husker.
Patent for a new and improved machine for husking corn using a rotating wheel with spurs and cutters with combination of a stationary and movable concaves, including illustration.
Date:
March 9, 1858
Creator:
Fagan, Joseph & Fagan, James L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saw Gage.
Patent for saw gage "adapted for use in connection with hand saws where the same is to be employed in cutting kerfs." (Lines 10-13)
Date:
March 9, 1915
Creator:
Faires, Elisha J. & Stockburger, Charles W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History