Resource Type
Country
States
Decade
Month
Day
Underreamer.
Patent for an underreamer with improved construction and increased operating efficiency; including illustrations.
Date:
December 9, 1913
Creator:
Wagner, Warren
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Postal Cash-Sales Receptacle.
Patent for a postal cash-sales receptacle for putting in rural mailboxes, where the owner can pay for stamps, postcards, or envelopes by placing the correct amount of cash in the holder.
Date:
May 9, 1911
Creator:
Walker, Emmitt Stone
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Propulsion of Vessels.
Patent for a new and improved hydraulic propulsion. This design "is to provide an improved means for the application of the jet principle in the hydraulic propulsion of vessels; and it consists in the combination, with the hull of the vessel, of one or more main or trunk tubes arranged longitudinally to the vessel and of tapering shape, largest at its front end, which is open, and provided along its length with a series of nozzles opening along the side of the vessel in rearward direction, and one or more propeller-wheels arranged within the main tube and adapted to suck water in at the front" (lines 8-20).
Date:
August 9, 1892
Creator:
Walker, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Propulsion of Vessels.
Patent for an improvement on a previous patent granted to the inventor (No. 480,533). "It consists in means for draining the bearings of the jet nozzles, and in means for ventilating and draining the ship's hold" (lines 12-16).
Date:
January 9, 1894
Creator:
Walker, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Street-Pavement
Patent for a street paving material made from limestone, limestone dust, and crude oil with layers of crushed rock in between which is waterproof and durable.
Date:
June 9, 1908
Creator:
Walsh, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Garden Implement
This a letter from John S. Ward to the United States Patent Office. John S. Ward described and proposed his invention on Garden Implement and he provided a detail of diagrams of how the device could improve the Garden or field hand implements. It enables the hoe and weeder adapted to turn over the soil and to cut the root of the grass.
Date:
November 9, 1912
Creator:
Ward, John Swayze
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trap.
Patent for an animal trap, the unique elements of which are found in the "combination and arrangement of parts" (lines 16-17). Improvements include but are not limited to the addition of an open-ended case, a depressed platform and various links.
Date:
October 9, 1917
Creator:
Ward, Robert Gillespie & Clayton, John Taylor
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Tank.
Patent for an oil tank with an improved design for extinguishing fires inside the tanks and a means for allowing the escape of exploded gases upon accidental ignition.
Date:
February 9, 1915
Creator:
Wasson, Edgar Allen & Cooley, Francis Marion
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Galvanizing Process.
Patent for a galvanizing process which simplifies the galvanizing of small articles such as bolts, nails, or the like.
Date:
December 9, 1919
Creator:
Watrous, Edward L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent related to a wrench that is adjustable to fit any nut size. When secured on the nut, this wrench will firmly grip the nut until the handler loosens the wrench from the nut.
Date:
April 9, 1912
Creator:
Weatherly, George B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drill.
Patent for an earth-boring drill with an improved means for keeping the drill centered at all times in order to drill in a straight path.
Date:
March 9, 1915
Creator:
Weathersby, Fred Richard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cane Mill.
Patent for a new and improved sugarcane mill. This design "consist[s] of the frame composed of [a] bed-piece, vertical standards, and horizontal pieces, [one] piece having [a] trough, the vertical shaft, horizontally movable . . . and provided with the gear, the roller having stationary shaft provided with pinion, the [other] roller having stationary shaft provided with pinion, boxes, and screw-threaded rods" (lines 81-89).
Date:
February 9, 1886
Creator:
Webb, John T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clod-Crusher
This patent is for a clod crusher. The purpose of this patent is to make clod crushing more effective and efficient through the action of the cutting members and not by the weight of apparatus alone.
Date:
April 9, 1918
Creator:
Weems, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Desulfurizing Matte Or Other Furnace Products
Patent for a new and improved apparatus for desulfuring matte or other furnace products.
Date:
November 9, 1897
Creator:
Wells, James L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a new and useful plow to "provides means whereby a shovel, plow, sweep, or other soil-working device may be connected with the beam or standard of a sulky or walking plow" ( line 7 - 10).
Date:
November 9, 1897
Creator:
Wells, Louis B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method for Simultaneous Use of a Single Additive for Coal Flotation, Dewatering, and Reconstitution
A single dose of additive contributes to three consecutive fine coal unit operations, i.e., flotation, dewatering and reconstitution, whereby the fine coal is first combined with water in a predetermined proportion so as to formulate a slurry. The slurry is then mixed with a heavy hydrocarbon-based emulsion in a second predetermined proportion and at a first predetermined mixing speed and for a predetermined period of time. The conditioned slurry is then cleaned by a froth flotation method to form a clean coal froth and then the froth is dewatered by vacuum filtration or a centrifugation process to form reconstituted products that are dried to dust-less clumps prior to combustion.
Date:
November 9, 1993
Creator:
Wen, Wu-Wey; Gray, McMahan L. & Champagne, Kenneth J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Wire-Forming Machine.
Patent for a wire forming machine that takes wire from an intake and automatically forms the wire into clothes pins. This machine also improves the wire feeding mechanism in older models of this type of machine, and it forms a ring that the pins can attach to for the purpose of suspending the pin from a clothes line.
Date:
March 9, 1920
Creator:
Werner, Henry E. & Mitchell, Jordan H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator
Patent for cultivator with illustrations and certain improvements on the invention.
Date:
April 9, 1918
Creator:
Whisenant, David A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint.
Patent for a rail-joint that is attached by splice bars.
Date:
July 9, 1907
Creator:
Whittlesey, Clyde W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Toilet Article
Patent for a combination brush and comb with cover, designed with spring clutches to allow each article to hold in its desired position, including illustrations and instructions
Date:
October 9, 1917
Creator:
Wigiert, Stash
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thin-Film Absorber for a Solar Collector
This invention pertains to energy absorbers for solar collectors, and more particularly to high performance thin film absorbers. The solar collectors comprising the absorber of this invention overcome several problems seen in current systems, such as excessive hardware, high cost and unreliability. In the preferred form, the apparatus features a substantially rigid planar frame with a thin film window bonded to one planar side of the frame. An absorber in accordance with the present invention is comprised of two thin film layers that are sealed perimetrically. In a preferred embodiment, thin film layers are formed from a metal/plastic laminate. The layers define a fluid-tight planar envelope of large surface area to volume through which a heat transfer fluid flows. The absorber is bonded to the other planar side of the frame. The thin film construction of the absorber assures substantially full envelope wetting and thus good efficiency. The window and absorber films stress the frame adding to the overall strength of the collector.
Date:
February 9, 1982
Creator:
Wilhelm, William G.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Traffic-Signal.
Patent for a traffic signal designed especially for use while attached to an automobile, illustrations included. The device is intended to indicate the direction of proposed turning and travel of the vehicle via controls that are convenient to the vehicle operator.
Date:
December 9, 1919
Creator:
Wilke, Edward V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coin-Controlled Vending-Machine.
Patent for a con-controlled vending-machine that sells stamps and similar products including illustrations. The machine "compels a complete cycle of operation for each coin received and cannot be rendered inoperative through the deposit of a plurality of coins in the chute or while the operation of the machine is in progress." (lines 14-17).
Date:
October 9, 1917
Creator:
William O. Wolford
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint Chair.
Patent for a new rail-joint chair used in the connection between rails to prevent rail movement, including illustrations.
Date:
June 9, 1914
Creator:
Williams, Charles C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History