Resource Type
Degree Department
Country
States
Decade
Month
Day
Pencil-Sharpener.
Patent for a new and improved pencil sharpener "which will be simple and inexpensive in manufacture, highly effective in use, durable in service, and a general improvement in the art" (lines 20-23), including illustrations.
Date:
March 22, 1921
Creator:
Scougale, Malcolm
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow
Patent for a plow with three wheels designed for cotton and corn fields.
Date:
September 22, 1914
Creator:
Pearce, James Edwin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Privy Seat.
Patent for a privy or toilet seat that is cheaper to manufacture and can be applied without extra tools.
Date:
September 22, 1914
Creator:
Smith, Bertram C. & Stevenson, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Piano Attachment.
Patent for "an attachment for upright pianos designed to produce a harp, mandolin, of cithern tone, and the object in view is to provide an attachment having an improved construction of strikers." (Lines 8-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 22, 1896
Creator:
Moyer, Jesse Hechler
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Piano Attachment.
Patent for a new and useful piano attachment.
Date:
March 22, 1898
Creator:
Moyer, Jesse Hechler
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow-Fender.
Patent for a plow fender, which allows a plow to be operated next to plant rows without injuring them and deflects rocks and other obstacles.
Date:
October 22, 1907
Creator:
Skidmore, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pole or shaft.
Patent for poles and shafts for vehicles with the objective of providing "simple and inexpensive means for dispensing with the singletree ordinarily employed with a pair of shafts or thills in a one-horse vehicle or the usual doubletree in a two-horse vehicle." (Lines 10-15)
Date:
October 22, 1901
Creator:
Sharp, Marvin A. & Sharp, Bird H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Motor-Car
Patent for railroad motor-car. The invention is "constructed that they can be knocked down to be loaded on passenger trains" (lines 11-13). Illustrations included.
Date:
February 22, 1910
Creator:
Reynolds, Stephen D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Razor Stropper
Patent for a razor stropper. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 22, 1912
Creator:
Herring, Charles M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pessary
Patent for an improved uterine dilator for the application of medicine to the uterus, with illustrations.
Date:
July 22, 1902
Creator:
Overton, Benjamin Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Piano Attachment.
Patent for a new and useful piano attachment for "facilitating the adjustment of the means employed for producing said tones and for locking said means in operative position" (line 11 - 14).
Date:
March 22, 1898
Creator:
Moyer, Jesse Hechler
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a plow with "structure of improved strength and durability wherein means are provided for changing or adjusting the angularity of the plow stock" (lines 10-13) to make it "capable of plowing the soil deeper or shallower, as desired" (lines 16-17).
Date:
October 22, 1918
Creator:
Warren, John T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pencil-Holder.
Patent for a device to secure a pencil within the breast-pocket, including description and illustrations.
Date:
October 22, 1901
Creator:
Hogg, George, Sr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harrow.
Patent for a new and improved harrow. This design "consist[s] of a central longitudinal beam having perforations, the jointed toothed frame pivoted to supports on the beam, the handles connected at their forward ends to the said beam, the brace-rods pivoted to the handles and to a cross-bar resting on the beam, and the vertical bolt adapted to the perforations in the beam to adjust the cross-bar thereupon, and thereby raise and lower the handles" (lines 85-94).
Date:
November 22, 1887
Creator:
Wilson, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fuse for Shells.
Patent for a new and improved shell fuse. This design "relates to that type of percussion-fuses wherein a fuse-tube is secured in the point or end of a shell and contains a plunged connected with a friction-wire embedded in the fulminate in such manner that when the flight of the shell is suddenly arrested the friction-wire is drawn forward by the plunger, thereby igniting the fulminate and setting fire to the powder-charge for bursting the shell. The objects of [the] invention are to . . . provide novel means which not only insure bursting of the shell, but avoid premature bursting at the muzzle of the gun" (lines 8-48).
Date:
April 22, 1890
Creator:
Phillips, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harrow.
Patent for improvements in harrows, "so that any farmer who possesses a Georgia stock or ordinary plow-beam with its attached handles can purchase one of [these] improved harrows per se and without the exercise of any special mechanical knowledge or experience apply the harrow device or contrivance to the beam of such ordinary plow stock." (Lines 40-47) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 14, 1891
Creator:
Flatau, Louis S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Game Apparatus
Patent for a game that is designed to impart instruction or information according to subject or topic desired.
Date:
November 22, 1910
Creator:
Prickett, Clinton E. & Cool, Roy D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Furrow-Opener
Patent for a spring-operated furrow opener which creates openings in the soil for the reception of a seed. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 22, 1908
Creator:
Pogue, Steward A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Game-Counter
Patent for an apparatus designed to maintain a record of points earned and the number of rounds played in a game. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 22, 1910
Creator:
McKinney, Ansel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Game and Toy Apparatus.
Patent for a new game and toy apparatus for the purpose of throwing projectiles at targets and scoring the number of targets hit as a game or toy.
Date:
October 22, 1918
Creator:
Whiteker, Bosque M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Destroying Machine.
Patent for improvements in insect-destroying machines to remove and destroy the boll-weevil of cotton plants by “gathering the branches of the plant into position to be effectively operated upon by a revolving brush which sweeps the weevils from the plant into a box carried by the machine without injury to the cotton plants.” (Lines 25 -30)
Date:
April 22, 1902
Creator:
Dyer, Charles V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow
Patent for a plow which may also be used to adjust a cultivator shovel. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 22, 1908
Creator:
Wigley, William P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Piston
The Patent for an improved piston to be used in connection with the cylinders of air brakes. The improvement involves making the removal and replacement of worn out packing material easier.
Date:
July 22, 1913
Creator:
King, Herbert G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for improvements in plows by providing readily-operable means for adjusting the plow-shovel on the standard, to facilitate adjustment of the shovel and of the gage with relation to each other, thereby to vary the cut of the shovel, to improve the means for holding the gage assembled with the standard, and generally to simplify and increase the efficiency of plows of this character. (Lines 14-21) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 22, 1904
Creator:
Wilson, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History