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Improvement in ventilating cars, &c.
Patent for a system which prevents ashes and cinders from railroad engines from entering the train cars and also allows for ventilation of the cars. Includes illustration.
Date:
August 22, 1876
Creator:
Andrews, Wright S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Gin.
Patent for a new and improved cotton gin. This design calls for the circular saw blades of the gin to pass through two metal ribs, one of which aligns with the tip of the saw teeth, while the other aligns with the root of the saw teeth.
Date:
August 22, 1882
Creator:
Basom, Ransford W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Whiffletree Attachment
Patent for device which attaches swingle trees to double trees and decreases shocks and jerks experienced by the tree of a vehicle.
Date:
August 22, 1911
Creator:
Bates, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oval-Beveling Machine
Patent for a machine used to bevel the edges of metal plates. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 22, 1911
Creator:
Browne, Walter E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Feed-Cutter.
Patent for a feed cutter that has a casing that makes up tilted side walls with transverse openings, a reciprocating knife that sits between the casing walls, a link that connects the knife to the casing, a feed trough, and a staple that engages the trough.
Date:
August 22, 1893
Creator:
Butler, Jacob
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Proportioning Weighing-Machine
Patent for a proportioning weighing machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 22, 1911
Creator:
Cardwell, Robert M. & Tholen, John Ben.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Boiler Feed-Water System.
Patent for a certain new and useful improvement in steam boiler feed water systems, including instructions and illustrations..
Date:
August 22, 1899
Creator:
Clousnitzer, Ernest Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locking Device for Steering-Wheels.
Patent for a new and improved locking device for steering wheels that secures the front axle of an automobile at an angle to prevent unauthorized movement beyond a small circle or curve, including illustrations.
Date:
August 22, 1916
Creator:
Coleman, Oscar F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting-Frame.
Patent for a new and useful quilting frame, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 22, 1899
Creator:
Crawford, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Automobiles or Any Other Desired Vehicles.
Patent for an attachment to automobiles to facilitate the attachment of luggage.
Date:
August 22, 1916
Creator:
Cypert, Jesse Bundy
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow Mold Board.
Patent for a new and improved plow mold board. This design "consists of a circular roll arranged in the mold-board near the point and covered with belting, which, in the forward movement of the plow, is revolved and carries the earth backward on an endless belt passing around rollers journaled in the end of transverse slots made in the mold-board, whereby, in the forward movement of the plow, the belt is revolved and the friction of the earth on the mold-board decreased and the plow scoured" (lines 17-28).
Date:
August 22, 1882
Creator:
Dahlman, Carl Oscar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Foot
Patent for a cultivator foot. This cultivator foot is designed to be a new kind of inexpensive, simple, and efficient cultivator foot.
Date:
August 22, 1922
Creator:
Dawson, Joseph E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Seat for Automobiles.
Patent for the invention of adjustable seats for vehicles to provide a comfortable seating for travellers.
Date:
August 22, 1916
Creator:
Dedrick, John V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burner.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in burners, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 22, 1899
Creator:
Dickerson, Ernest Clifton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Display-Stand.
Patent for the invention of a rack used to hold harness pads such that they can be readily removed from the racks.
Date:
August 22, 1916
Creator:
Dyer, Simpson B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Burning Garbage, &c.
Patent for an improved apparatus for burning refuse and consists of a roasting chamber, a garbage grate, grates that slope and carry the product away after combustion, flues that open above the grates, and the wall partly closes on one end to let the products away after combustion.
Date:
August 22, 1893
Creator:
Garretson, William H. & Tainter, Silas B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Motor.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in motors, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 22, 1899
Creator:
Garvey, Edgar Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark Arrester.
Patent for a new and improved spark arrester for smokestacks. This design "consists of an inverted hollow cone suspended within a hollow and flaring receiver for the sparks . . . so as to deflect the sparks against a conical annular cover to the receiver, whereby the sparks are broken and thrown against an arrester located over the hollow cone, and by which the sparks are again broken . . . and continued in that course until extinguished" (lines 7-18).
Date:
August 22, 1882
Creator:
Green, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Drill
Patent for Rotary Drill
Date:
August 22, 1916
Creator:
Griffin, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Drill
Patent for Rotary Drill
Date:
August 22, 1916
Creator:
Grinffin, Thomas. J
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dental Instrument.
Patent for a new and improved dental instrument "designed to be used for removing the enamel around the base of a tooth preparatory to crowning the same and may be also employed for the purpose of removing crowns from teeth" (lines 12-16), including illustrations.
Date:
August 22, 1916
Creator:
Hamilton, Arthur L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Switch
Patent for a switch. "This invention obviates likelihood of derailment by splitting the switches, so as to thereby secure a means for preventing the rolling stock from being thrown from the tracks." Illustration included.
Date:
August 22, 1905
Creator:
Hibbets, Charles M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flooring or Ceiling Jack.
Patent for a flooring or ceiling jack that is meant to "provide a device, whereby the laying of the flooring, and the fitting of siding and ceiling strips are greatly facilitated, and enables one carpenter to do the work that ordinarily requires two" (lines 14-18).
Date:
August 22, 1893
Creator:
Holiman, William Moses
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Molding-Machine
Patent for a molding machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 22, 1911
Creator:
Johnson, Jacob L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History