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Bird-Trap.
Patent for improvements to a device used to trap birds, to keep them from damaging or consuming agricultural crops..
Date:
November 19, 1901
Creator:
James B. Barry.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bag-Holder
Patent for bag holder " an improved cabinet for holding paper bags and the like articles; and the object is to construct a useful, inexpensive cabinet which will be light and compact and practical and in which bags may be placed and taken out when needed without mutilating the bags" (lines 7-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 19, 1901
Creator:
Thompson, King D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn or Cotton Planter
Patent for a corn or cotton planter that is simple, durable and low-cost.
Date:
November 19, 1901
Creator:
Ferriott, Charley L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pounder.
Patent for a clothes-pounder that is simple and effective with the operator using the minimum amount of energy. It is conical with a smaller cone inside it. A diaphragm is between the cones and the brace, and an is air vent inside it.
Date:
November 19, 1895
Creator:
Bain, WIlliam W. & Bain, William M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Axle-Box.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and durable wheel-axle box that is "adapted to contain a supply of lubricating material and constructed to feed the same continuously to the axle-spindle to prevent overheating, and furthermore, to provide means for preventing ingress of dust" (lines 9-14).
Date:
November 19, 1895
Creator:
Casto, Tony Lo
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car for Pneumatic Railways.
Patent for a car for pneumatic railways meant to "provide a car especially adapted for the [air-]tube, the same being constructed with track-wheels in the central line of the cars" (lines 12-15). It is also "a double car divided lengthwise centrally by a partition-wall, through which communication may be had between a car-section - that is, between the double car within the same - and to provide each end portion of this double car with a door" (lines 17-22). There are two track-wheels above the below the car and one above.
Date:
November 19, 1895
Creator:
Rush, Cicero Alonzo
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "the combination, with the coupling-head provided with a central tongue and a socket on each side of the tongue, and the forwardly-projecting spring-actuated hooks pivoted to the said head, with their rear ends abutting against the bottoms of the sockets and provided with beveled front edges of the coupling-socket provided with catches for the said hooks to engage with automatically, and the vertical spindle journaled in the central tongue and provided with flexible connections wound upon it" (lines 86-97).
Date:
November 19, 1889
Creator:
Jones, Ithamer M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Petroleum Oil Analysis Using Liquid Nitrogen Cold Stage - Laser Ablation - ICP Mass Spectrometry
Patent relating to petroleum oil analysis using liquid nitrogen cold stage laser ablation ICP mass spectrometry.
Date:
November 2, 2011
Creator:
Verbeck, Guido F. & Hoffman, William D.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Acetylene-Gas Generator
Patent for an acetylene gas generator designed to prevent from being overcharged with carbide. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 19, 1912
Creator:
Finley, Jesse T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Dental Instruments.
Patent for a dental instrument which is to attach to a dental drill handle. Protecting the patient's tongue from being cut by the drill or grinding disk while the patient's lower teeth are being operated on, including illustrations.
Date:
November 19, 1918
Creator:
Luzzi, August F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Breaker and Cotton-Cleaner.
Patent for improvements to the boll breaker and cotton cleaner by changing the construction and arrangement of parts. The patent uses air pressure to move the bolly cotton through the boll breaker and cotton cleaner chambers.
Date:
November 19, 1918
Creator:
Gillespie, Solomon E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Train Signal
Patent for new automatic train signal. It was invented to improve train signaling systems for automatic trains.
Date:
November 19, 1918
Creator:
Bulla, Melburn Bernie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement inTables.
Patent for improvement in tables which "consists in the arrangement and combination of parts that will be more fully described hereinafter, whereby the table can be taken apart, packed in a small compass for transportation, and then put together again by an inexperienced hand” (lines 11-17).
Date:
November 19, 1878
Creator:
Melcher, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for improved wire-stretchers. The simple concept allows for the pieces to be produced inexpensively and does not require any machine work.
Date:
November 19, 1918
Creator:
Moseley, Benjmine G
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vacuum-Operated Make-And-Break Spark Plug
Patent for an improved "vacuum operated make and break spark plug" (lines 16-17) including illustrations.
Date:
November 19, 1918
Creator:
Irwin, Herbert G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hand-Vises.
Patent for hand vise to use as a tool for mechanics to hold small articles, can be attached to bits or augers for gauging the depth of a hole bored, and also for countersinking such holes for screws.
Date:
November 19, 1872
Creator:
Overton, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Motor-Driven Impliment
Patent for a motor-driven farming tool that can be used as a cultivator, planter, or plow. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 19, 1912
Creator:
Horn, Lafayette
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Preserved Wood and Process of Making Same
Patent for a process for preserving wood by treating it with various anti-septic chemicals mixed with oil that stops the wood from decaying for a long time.
Date:
November 19, 1912
Creator:
Ellis, Carleton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Means of Escaping from Aeroplanes
Patent for providing emergency egress to pilots by way of quick release restraint straps, a parachute, and a trap door, including illustrations.
Date:
November 19, 1918
Creator:
Carver, Ben D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Switch.
Patent for a multiple point switch that may be connected to a standard light socket.
Date:
November 19, 1918
Creator:
Kilmer, Edward J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tie Tamping Device.
Patent for a tie tamping device to be used in building and repairing railroads.
Date:
November 19, 1918
Creator:
Johnson, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame.
Patent for a harness-hame and "contemplates the provision of improved means forming a part of the hames for securing the trace-chains thereto; also the provision of an improved trace-link adapted for connection with said securing means in a manner to insure maximum strength" (lines 15-21).
Date:
November 19, 1895
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Engraving-Machine
Patent for improvements "in the peculiar construction and combination of [engraving machines]" (lines 10-11).
Date:
November 19, 1889
Creator:
Eberhardt, Theophilus Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Time-Signaling Apparatus.
Patent for an electric time-signaling apparatus meant for use in hotels or other places where employees need to be alerted. The invention rings a bell and turns on a light when the signals goes off. "If the current of an incandescent electric-light system was electrically connected with a time-circuit, it would destroy the whole mechanism of the time-circuit" (lines 26-29).
Date:
November 19, 1895
Creator:
Todd, James T. A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History