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Automatic Dumping-Elevator (open access)

Automatic Dumping-Elevator

Patent for an automatic dumping elevator for supplies which can stop at different heights and dump the contents of the elevator.
Date: November 16, 1909
Creator: Richmond, George E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coin-Controlled Vending Machine (open access)

Coin-Controlled Vending Machine

Patent for a coin operated vending machine for selling cigars or other objects in round or square packages which can deliver the correct number of products regardless of how many coins are inserted into the machine to equal the selling price.
Date: July 16, 1907
Creator: Wilson, John C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Band Fastening (open access)

Bale-Band Fastening

Patent for "a simple and thoroughly-practical form of bale-band fastening or cotton-tie buckle easily fitted to the band and comprising positive and reliable means for effectually preventing the band from slipping or rending without injuring or fracturing the band, so that the original strength of the latter may be maintained" (lines 19-26).
Date: July 16, 1901
Creator: Mullane, Dennis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Counting Apparatus (open access)

Automatic Counting Apparatus

Patent for an automatic counting apparatus for counting packages coming down a chute into a vehicle.
Date: November 16, 1909
Creator: Richmond, George E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle Guard (open access)

Cattle Guard

Patent for a cattle guard. Illustration included.
Date: June 16, 1908
Creator: York, Edward Jackson; Howze, Walter L. & Caldwell, Thomas W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Wheel Lubricator. (open access)

Car-Wheel Lubricator.

Patent for a car-wheel lubricator that can be easily used while the wheels are moving or still, and does not waste lubrication. It attaches to two railway wheels.
Date: October 16, 1894
Creator: Reneau, James W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "relates to car-couplings; and it has for its object to provide a device of this character which shall be so constructed as to couple the cars automatically as they are brought together, and one which will securely hold the cars coupled, and yet allow a free movement of the same in turning curves" (lines 9-15).
Date: December 16, 1884
Creator: Jourde, Alfred John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press. (open access)

Baling Press.

Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design "relates to certain improvements in portable and stationary baling-presses more especially designed for baling hay; and the invention consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination of parts" (lines 6-10).
Date: December 16, 1884
Creator: Hampton, John Andrew
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Fire-Alarm System. (open access)

Automatic Fire-Alarm System.

Patent for an automatic fire alarm system with a simple arrangement of alarm devices (positioned throughout different rooms) with sound or visual indicators for fire awareness and closer thermal circuits (assisted with spring contact and circuit closer). The automatic fire alarm system will have a more immediate reaction by making an alert noise or visual and propping open the spring contact.
Date: March 16, 1915
Creator: Ammons, John Burck; Ammons, Evander & McGaffey, Otis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Armor For Pneumatic Tires. (open access)

Armor For Pneumatic Tires.

Patent for armor for pneumatic tires to prevent puncturing of the inner inflatable tube. To also provide anti-skidding lugs which connect to the flexible armor embodied in the tire casing.
Date: October 16, 1917
Creator: Chilton, William G. & Hobgood, John H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Shade-Support (open access)

Adjustable Shade-Support

Patent for an adjustable window shade support.
Date: July 16, 1912
Creator: Dixon, Raymond E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Can-Opener. (open access)

Can-Opener.

Patent for new and useful improvements for can openers. The principal purpose is to provide means for opening round cans of different sizes and also square cans.
Date: November 16, 1920
Creator: Adels, Rebecca Valencia.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Internal Combustion Engines. (open access)

Attachment for Internal Combustion Engines.

Patent for an attachment to internal combustion engines that allows for vaporizing part of the fuel mixture to introduce air and steam that aid combustion efficiency.
Date: August 16, 1917
Creator: Lynch, Floyd W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Centrifugal Brake Mechanism (open access)

Centrifugal Brake Mechanism

Patent for a centrifugal break mechanism, primarily designed as an automatic brake device for elevators travelling at an abnormal speed.
Date: April 16, 1918
Creator: Cobb, Albert C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Internal-Combustion Engine. (open access)

Internal-Combustion Engine.

Patent for a new and improved device within internal combustion engines "whereby water is converted into steam, and then delivered into the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine" (lines 13-16). Includes illustrations.
Date: November 16, 1915
Creator: Harwood, William W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine-Gun. (open access)

Machine-Gun.

Patent for a machine gun, meant to have relatively few parts, that includes a belt to carry a large amount of cartridges. The machine gun "provides a structure wherein the cartridges are positively and consecutively fed to the explosion chamber" (lines 11-14).
Date: July 16, 1918
Creator: McManus, Luis M. & Warner, James Harold
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well-Strainer. (open access)

Well-Strainer.

Patent for a well strainer, which is cheaper to make than previous ones without reducing efficiency.
Date: June 16, 1908
Creator: Brown, Arthur M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve-Grinder. (open access)

Valve-Grinder.

Patent for a valve grinder that fit together perfectly to prevent leakage and a consequent loss of power.
Date: May 16, 1916
Creator: Atkin, Frank R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretching Device for Fence Posts. (open access)

Wire Stretching Device for Fence Posts.

Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a fence-post, the coupled pulleys mounted thereon and adapted to be simultaneously rotated, independent fence-wires extending in opposite directions and attached to one of the pulleys at points thereon that are arranged close together, and binding-sleeves for preventing the rotation of the pulleys after the wires have been stretched" (lines 14-21).
Date: March 16, 1886
Creator: Priday, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Swivel. (open access)

Hydraulic Swivel.

Patent for a hydraulic swivel used with wells including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 16, 1911
Creator: Layne, Mahlon E.; Hall, Samuel N. & Layne, Charles F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mail Delivery Apparatus (open access)

Mail Delivery Apparatus

Patent for improvements to mail delivery through sorting and distribution to different destinations with illustrations.
Date: December 16, 1919
Creator: Cobb, Albert C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trolley-Wheel (open access)

Trolley-Wheel

Patent for a trolley wheel and a mechanism for keeping the wheel on the trolley wire. Illustrations included.
Date: April 16, 1912
Creator: Schultze, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Protecting-Casing for Electrical Conductors (open access)

Protecting-Casing for Electrical Conductors

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Protecting-Cases for Electrical Conductors" (lines 5-7). The object of the invention is to provide a device... for surrounding the commutator of an internal combustion motor and protecting the terminals thereof and the electrical conductors connected to said terminals" (lines 12-17).
Date: July 16, 1918
Creator: Rooke, Henry L., Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Glazing-Bar (open access)

Glazing-Bar

Patent for device to securely hold a pane of glass on roofs, skylights, etc. without the use of putty.
Date: April 16, 1901
Creator: Folse, Louis D.
System: The Portal to Texas History