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Process for Converting Sodium Sulfate to Sodium Sulfid.
Patent for converting sodium sulfate to sodium sulfid, it is a process conversion of chemical compounds sodium sulfate to sodium sulfid.
Date:
November 22, 1921
Creator:
Anderson, Robert James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant Trap.
Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design calls for a tank of water to be buried in the ground and a collar of cheap material to be attached to the tank and placed over the mouth of an anthill. The concave nature of the collar prevents ants from climbing out of it, so they are forced into the water tank, where they drown; the design is cheaper and less toxic than previous designs.
Date:
November 22, 1881
Creator:
Arnett, Sandridge Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clamp
Patent for a clamp. This device is employed to use a hoisting line attached to well casing or tubing. Illustration included.
Date:
November 22, 1910
Creator:
Athey, Earl
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in gates, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 22, 1898
Creator:
Billingsley, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planter Attachment For Cultivators.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in corn and cotton planter attachments for cultivators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 22, 1898
Creator:
Brock, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Friction-Clutch.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in friction clutches, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 22, 1898
Creator:
Clarke, George R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash Fastener
Patent for a window sash fastener. Illustration included.
Date:
November 22, 1904
Creator:
Clements, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spring Wheel
Patent for improvements on spring wheels especially those adapted for motor vehicles.
Date:
November 22, 1911
Creator:
Coble, Ernest L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lubricator
Patent for a lubricator for locomotives and steam engines. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 22, 1910
Creator:
Coppers, John Andrew & Booth, Eldredge Early
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Producing Metallic Zinc
Patent for a process of producing metallic zinc. Illustration included.
Date:
November 22, 1910
Creator:
Dawson, Oliver B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stock Feeder
Patent for stock feeder, for automatically feeding grain (or mill food) to stock (particularly hogs) with feeding troughs on opposite sides of oscillating storage hopper.
Date:
November 22, 1921
Creator:
Dierks, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator
Patent for a cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 22, 1910
Creator:
Ellett, Luther S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gin Rib
Patent for a gin rib. This is an improvement on the ribs/grates for cotton gins. Illustration included.
Date:
November 22, 1904
Creator:
Ellman, Louis W. & Davis, James L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Piano Tuning-Pin
Patent for a piano tuning pin that has "superior advantages and of a simple and effective construction and arrangement of parts, which will provide for a more accurate tuning of the piano with which the device is used and at the same time preserve the strings against breakage by avoiding the use of sharp corners" (lines 14-18).
Date:
November 22, 1892
Creator:
Enos, Henry B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tongue Support
Patent for a wagon tongue support. Illustration included.
Date:
November 22, 1904
Creator:
Evans, Martin S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dredge.
Patent for an excavating machine specifically designed for canal digging, that "is an improvement upon a patent granted to Charles S. Butterfield, March 13, 197 and numbered 1,219,371" (lines 10-13). This invention provides a means for firm and stable support of the excavating machine and allows the position of the machine to be easily changed as the work progresses.
Date:
November 22, 1921
Creator:
Evans, Marvin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay-Press
Patent for improvements in the construction and design of hay presses.
Date:
November 22, 1887
Creator:
Flato, Friderich W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pin
Patent for clothes pins. Illustration included.
Date:
November 22, 1904
Creator:
French, Alfonso Claude
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brace
Patent for a brace. Illustration included.
Date:
November 22, 1910
Creator:
Goodson, Milton A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well Pumping Mechanism
Patent for well pumping mechanism. Illustration included.
Date:
November 22, 1910
Creator:
Gray, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Joint
Patent for improvements onto railway joints to "omit the declining surfaces of the fish-plate and to employ in conjunction with my other devices or wedges an ordinary fish-plate, whereby the invention may be applied to the joints of rails now in use any change whatever either to the fish-plates or the bolts" (lines 22-28).
Date:
November 22, 1892
Creator:
Greenwell, Robert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crude Oil Burner
Patent for a "useful improvements in burners for liquid and gaseous fuel" (line 9-11). Illustration included.
Date:
November 22, 1910
Creator:
Gregson, Emily G. L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Agricultural Implement
Patent for an agricultural implement. This invention is a "novel construction of standard and plow-point, cultivator shovel, rake-tooth, or like implement" (lines 11-14). Illustrations included.
Date:
November 22, 1904
Creator:
Herrod, Howard H., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil Trap
Patent for improvements to floating oil traps. Floating oil traps are used to catch excess oil floating on top of refinery discharge canals. These improvements include increased flexibility, thus allowing the trap to move with the flow of the water.
Date:
November 22, 1921
Creator:
Jones, Robert P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History