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Trombone.
Patent, including illustration, for "a musical instrument slide and is more particularly designated as a bearing or stocking for a trombone or other similar instruments in which it is desirable to provide a smooth bearing for the slidable part of the instrument" (page 1, lines 9-13).
Date:
February 17, 1920
Creator:
Ackley, William D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Crossing.
Patent for a railway crossing track, which does not jar the train's wheels as it passes over the crossing.
Date:
November 17, 1908
Creator:
Adams, Powell O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Oiler
Patent for an automatic oiler for railroad cars.
Date:
January 17, 1911
Creator:
Adams, Richard Field
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Indicator For Clocks or Watches
Patent for an improvement to clocks or watches that will display an indicator when the timepiece needs to be re-wound.
Date:
November 17, 1908
Creator:
Aeschlimann, Adolph E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for a wrench, which can used "as a nut wrench or a pipe wrench" (lines 18-19).
Date:
November 17, 1908
Creator:
Aeschlimann, Adolph E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.
Patent for a combined cotton chopper and cultivator, which allows cotton to be chopped earlier and to be done by one person.
Date:
November 17, 1908
Creator:
Agee, Jonathan F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Underscoring Attachment for Type-Writers.
Patent for an improvement on an underscoring attachment for type writers that allows the user to use the functions of underscoring, correcting, and cancelling characters as they type, allowing some functions to occur simultaneously, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 17, 1917
Creator:
Aiton, Fred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hobby Horse.
Patent for a new and improved hobby horse. This design "consists in providing a 'hobby-horse' or a 'stick-horse' with a pivoted head, to which is preferably connected a spring, so that the swinging of the head will give the appearance of the horse pulling on the reins held by the operator. The invention comprises a head pivoted at one end, a spring secured thereto and to the horse, and a lip on said head to limit the downward movement thereof" (lines 14-24).
Date:
June 17, 1890
Creator:
Alexander, Horace C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fruit-Corers.
Patent for a device to core fruit and cut it into slices.
Date:
December 17, 1872
Creator:
Alexander, Oscar W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Slime-Pulp Thickener.
Patent for a machine used in the wet milling process. It allows proportionate distribution of liquids to aide during the thickening process.
Date:
April 17, 1923
Creator:
Allen, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Slime-Pulp Thickener
Patent for a device for thickening slime or pulp in the treating of ores wet milling. The device controls the disbursement of slim pulp in the thickener, producing a better solid to liquid ratios.
Date:
August 17, 1920
Creator:
Allen, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Platform Treadle For Hand Cars
Patent for a platform treadle for hand cars. Illustration included.
Date:
October 17, 1905
Creator:
Allison, Andrew J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Setting Implement.
Patent for a tire setting tool, which resembles tongs for forcing the tire onto a metal vehicle wheel.
Date:
September 17, 1907
Creator:
Allison, James Rufus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel-Operated Lift Mechanism
Patent for a wheel operated lift mechanism designed for agricultural implements with wheels which can raise the frame of the agricultural implement for easy access to the wheel. This tool is adjustable to raise or lower the frame for easy access to the wheel to disconnect it.
Date:
May 17, 1921
Creator:
Altgelt, Herman E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame-Fastener.
Patent for a new kind of fastener for draft animal harnesses that is inexpensive and has no springs or buckles. Illustration included.
Date:
November 17, 1891
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint
Patent for improvements in the construction and design of rail-joints.
Date:
May 17, 1887
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame.
Patent for a hame of simple and inexpensive construction, including illustrations.
Date:
November 17, 1891
Creator:
Anderson, Lee; Broad, Thomas & Martin, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harness Attachment
Patent for a harness attachment. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 17, 1905
Creator:
Anderson, Samuel C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horse Detacher
Patent for horse detacher. Illustration included.
Date:
January 17, 1905
Creator:
Anderson, Samuel C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench
Patent for a wrench. Illustration included.
Date:
January 17, 1905
Creator:
Anderson, Samuel C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of and Means for Inflating and Introducing Sealing Liquid Into Pneumatic Tires.
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Methods of an Means for Inflating and Introducing Sealing Liquid Into Pneumatic Tires," (lines 5-8) including illustrations.
Date:
June 17, 1919
Creator:
Anthony, Daniel L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gearing for Churns and Ice-Cream Freezers.
Patent for a new design of an ice cream churn designed "to provide means for operating the dasher or agitator of a churn or ice cream freezer, which is capable of being swung into or out of position at the will of the operator" (lines 11-15).
Date:
October 17, 1916
Creator:
Armstrong, Charles John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad-Tie.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in railroad-ties.
Date:
May 17, 1898
Creator:
Armstrong, Henry T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Post Hole Digger.
Patent for a new post hole digger that both facilitates the creation of straight sides to the hole and a mechanism to allow for easy removal of the dirt.
Date:
August 17, 1916
Creator:
Armstrong, John Joshua, Sr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History