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Coupling For Well-Drilling Tools. (open access)

Coupling For Well-Drilling Tools.

Patent for a new and useful coupling for well drilling tools, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 3, 1899
Creator: Kuehn, Joachim F. W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coffin. (open access)

Coffin.

Patent for "a coffin of improved construction and composition, to so construct the same as to render it impervious to the action of water or moisture, and to render said coffin strong and durable and admit of the same being produced in a neat and ornamental form." (Lines 10-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 3, 1896
Creator: Handshy, Henry M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Construction of Privy-Vaults. (open access)

Construction of Privy-Vaults.

Patent for an improvement of privy-vaults using a soil-pipe with sleeve adapted to be connected with the trap-door of the vault-floor into an air-chamber where a ventilating-pipe is placed directly above a furnace; the noxious gases along with the products of combustion in the furnace would be drawn from the air-chamber and carried off to the outer air. Illustration is included.
Date: February 3, 1891
Creator: Carrico, Thomas W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Convertible Furniture. (open access)

Convertible Furniture.

Patent for convertible furniture used in education. Features a table which can be easily converted from a flat desk, to an inclined black-board, and can store building blocks and similar items.
Date: October 3, 1916
Creator: Barler, Eugene M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap. (open access)

Animal-Trap.

Patent for a live animal trap that uses a trigger and allows for live bait. Wire fabric is used to prevent animals from digging and escaping.
Date: March 3, 1914
Creator: Herring, Henry H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bedclothes Clamp (open access)

Bedclothes Clamp

Patent for a bedclothes clamp to hold covers on a bed.
Date: December 3, 1912
Creator: Giordano, Anthony
System: The Portal to Texas History
Kitchen Cabinet. (open access)

Kitchen Cabinet.

Patent for a new and improved cabinet. This design "consist[s] of the body having a top . . . adapted to support a bread-board, the elevated casing provided with drawers, and an intermediate receptacle, the shelf thereof forming a recess . . . said recess adapted to receive the back edge of the bread-board . . . the hinged cover provided with a hinged shelf, the inclined abutments for said cover, and the cleat secured to one end of this cover at such an angle to the inclination of said abutments that when the cover bears against them the hinged shelf will be supported in a horizontal position by said cleat" (lines 22-37).
Date: May 3, 1887
Creator: Lane, Fernando G. & Acheson, Charles S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Interchangeable Bottom for Jail Cell Walls (open access)

Interchangeable Bottom for Jail Cell Walls

Patent for an interchangeable bottom for jail cell walls. Illustrations included.
Date: May 3, 1910
Creator: Youngblood, David Franklin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transmission-Gear (open access)

Transmission-Gear

Patent for improvements in motor vehicle transmissions in which all gears mesh at one time as opposed to being shifted and are "obtained by clutching different selected drive gears to the drive shaft of the transmission." (lines 18-20)
Date: August 3, 1920
Creator: Downie, James H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transplanter (open access)

Transplanter

Patent for transplanter. This transplanter is designed to keep the roots compacted with the immediate soil around the root system.
Date: November 3, 1903
Creator: Snowden, Lewis Waller
System: The Portal to Texas History
Printing Press (open access)

Printing Press

Patent for a printing press design that has a "type carrying member" which is a "circular rotary disk," and a "mechanism for elevating the ink supplying rolls and paper carrying platens to permit of the passage of the type therebelow without being affected," (lines 11-12, 23-26) including illustrations.
Date: March 3, 1914
Creator: Sadovsky, Nathan
System: The Portal to Texas History
Prickly-Pear Or Cactus Burner. (open access)

Prickly-Pear Or Cactus Burner.

Patent for a new and useful prickly pear or cactus burner, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 3, 1899
Creator: Ellison, Jeff Storey
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sun-Hat (open access)

Sun-Hat

Patent for headgear especially adapted for use as a sun hat, in which it provides a sun hat 1) to create the crown and brim from a single sheet and fabric, 2) have self-adjusting means for different head shapes and sizes, 3) to be durable, desirable, and neat in appearance, and 4) to have a brim retained in position by a bracing wire which may be conveniently removed.
Date: September 3, 1919
Creator: Satterfield, Rosa P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trolley-Wire Crossing. (open access)

Trolley-Wire Crossing.

Patent for "a trolley-wire crossing in which the bottom part of the cross on which the trolley runs is on a level with the trolley-wire, whereby all hindrances to the trolley are prevented." (Lines 13-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 3, 1895
Creator: Kinney, John C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate (open access)

Gate

Patent for a gate. This invention allows a movable gate to hang on ball bearing hangers without sagging. Illustrations included.
Date: December 3, 1912
Creator: Wade, William & Peterson, Mack C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Screw and Slide Valve. (open access)

Screw and Slide Valve.

Patent for a combination of a screw and slide valve that can be closed by a lever or screw. It is also designed to stop air and liquid from flowing in either direction.
Date: September 3, 1889
Creator: Davis, De Leon
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Treating Wood (open access)

Process of Treating Wood

Patent for a new method of treating wood.
Date: November 3, 1919
Creator: Lyon, Leonidas N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Folding Crate. (open access)

Folding Crate.

Patent for a crate that is "readily folded into a small compass when not in use and easily unfolded and adjusted, so as to serve the purpose of an ordinary crate, and when so adjusted it will be as rigid as though of ordinary construction." (Lines 11-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 3, 1897
Creator: Hausmann, Otto
System: The Portal to Texas History
Diving-Armor. (open access)

Diving-Armor.

Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Diving-Armor" (lines 5-6) relating to protection from high pressure, enabling arm and hand movements, an outside air supply, and an oxygen tank. Includes illustrations.
Date: June 3, 1919
Creator: Long, James F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Forming Apparatus (open access)

Bale-Forming Apparatus

Patent for a bale forming apparatus for making round cotton bales.
Date: September 3, 1907
Creator: Reagan, Edgar
System: The Portal to Texas History
Single-Seed Planter. (open access)

Single-Seed Planter.

Patent for a single-seed planter using “grasping-jaws pass through the seed box …to gather a seed and carry it to the discharge tube or place of deposit" (lines 9-12), illustration is included.
Date: February 3, 1891
Creator: Hurd, Judson B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Separator for Secondary Batteries (open access)

Separator for Secondary Batteries

Patent for an improved secondary battery separator.
Date: June 3, 1919
Creator: Luthy, J. O.
System: The Portal to Texas History