37 Matching Results

Results open in a new window/tab.

Combined Latch and Lock for Screen Doors, etc. (open access)

Combined Latch and Lock for Screen Doors, etc.

Patent for a combined latch and lock for screen doors and other uses. Illustration included.
Date: February 5, 1912
Creator: Hart, Joel T. & Hart, John D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap. (open access)

Animal-Trap.

Patent for a new and useful animal trap, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 5, 1899
Creator: Buckersberg, Simon
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Supplying Device For Diving Purposes. (open access)

Air-Supplying Device For Diving Purposes.

Patent for a new and useful air supplying device for diving purposes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 5, 1899
Creator: Hensley, Frank A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Windmills. (open access)

Attachment for Windmills.

Patent for a windmill attachment that will increase the pumping capacity of windmills or other lifting pumps.
Date: March 5, 1912
Creator: Engle, Matthew H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane (open access)

Aeroplane

Patent for an aeroplane that will maintain its balance in the air automatically
Date: December 5, 1911
Creator: McManus, Augustus F. W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for a car coupling that operates automatically and without causing danger to the railway employees. It operates by a lever on the side or top of the car.
Date: December 5, 1893
Creator: Burglin, Bernhard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Case for Motion-Picture Films (open access)

Case for Motion-Picture Films

Patent for a case for motion picture films that protects the film from damage when rewinding or transferring from one reel to another. The case also ensures that the film will be wound uniformly.
Date: October 5, 1915
Creator: McNeel, William Pinkney
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adding-Machine (open access)

Adding-Machine

Patent for improvements to adding machines, which is key-operated and includes a vertically disposed shaft and a means to actuate the sliding plate.
Date: January 5, 1915
Creator: Gatewood, William F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animated Sign (open access)

Animated Sign

Patent for a display apparatus to be implemented as animated advertising signs which successively display different images by controlling the timing of changes in the colors of light used to flood the front and to backlight the display surfaces. The images are created in such a way that certain elements created in certain colors become absorbed or are made invisible when illuminated by certain colors of light. An apparatus controls the cyclical changes of the colored lights used by the sign.
Date: September 5, 1922
Creator: Craig, Richard M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Advertising-Sign. (open access)

Advertising-Sign.

Patent for an advertisement sign with a translucent display band that illuminates different sections of letters, numbers, or figures, in various colors, giving the appearance of animation.
Date: August 5, 1919
Creator: Craig, Richard M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rubber Razor. (open access)

Rubber Razor.

Patent for a rubber razor. The rubber razor provides a flexible support for multiple blade and will allow the blades to contour to one's face.
Date: July 5, 1921
Creator: Billingsley, Rennie E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Brake. (open access)

Vehicle-Brake.

Patent for vehicle-brake, with description and illustrations.
Date: March 5, 1885
Creator: McIntosh, John L.; Bacon, Edward Hamlin & Vail, Theron
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lantern-Top (open access)

Lantern-Top

Patent for a lantern top that provides sufficient ventilation for the lamp or lantern. The arrangement of the lantern top provides sufficient communication between the interior of the lantern and the surrounding atmosphere to insure steady burning.
Date: October 5, 1920
Creator: Moore, Thomas Lindsay
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve Construction (open access)

Valve Construction

Patent for improved valve construction which permits unobstructed passage from valves to intake and exhaust pipe in motor vehicles.
Date: February 5, 1918
Creator: Smith, Thomas Noah
System: The Portal to Texas History
Locking System For Jail-Doors. (open access)

Locking System For Jail-Doors.

Patent for a new locking system for jail-doors with a unique arrangement of parts, including specifications and illustrations.
Date: May 5, 1914
Creator: Youngblood, David Franklin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mail-Bag Catcher and Deliverer. (open access)

Mail-Bag Catcher and Deliverer.

Patent for "a device capable of catching or transferring mail bags from a mail bag hanger to the mail car while the car is in motion, the device also acting to deliver a mail bag at the same station, if necessary, one operation in no manner interfering with the other." (Lines 8-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 5, 1895
Creator: Sliger, Charles F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Rotary Valve And Seat. (open access)

Improvement In Rotary Valve And Seat.

Patent for an improvement in the construction of a rotary valve and seat. Specifications for the new construction and illustrations are included.
Date: August 5, 1879
Creator: Watkins, Edward L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Propeller for Boats. (open access)

Propeller for Boats.

Patent for improvements in propellers for boats by “having a pair of hinged propeller-blades adapted to swing toward and away from each other, combined with fixed prongs; which are engaged with the propeller blades and hold them from displacement.” (Lines 60-65) Illustration is included.
Date: May 5, 1891
Creator: Gillespie, Lewis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Measuring and Proportioning Machine. (open access)

Measuring and Proportioning Machine.

Patent for "a device by which the mixing of various ingredients in certain desired proportions may be easily and accurately accomplished" (lines 8-11). It is meant for industrial measuring.
Date: May 5, 1896
Creator: Collins, Alonzo G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Preserving and Storing Building. (open access)

Preserving and Storing Building.

Patent for a preservation and storing building which uses ventilation and air purification to preserve perishable items. Includes a description of the building design and illustrations.
Date: August 5, 1902
Creator: Stukes, John Marion
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stock Chute (open access)

Stock Chute

Patent for Stock-Chute. "The object of my invention is to supply railroads with a cattle-chute which not only require less work and fewer laborers to operate it, but will afford a perfectly safe means of transferring stock without liability of injury to the stock during the act of transfer." (lines 56-62) With Illustrations.
Date: July 5, 1887
Creator: Hess, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Touch-Regulator for Pianos (open access)

Touch-Regulator for Pianos

Patent for a touch regulator for pianos.
Date: May 5, 1903
Creator: Goggan, Michael
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hip Form and Stocking Supporter (open access)

Hip Form and Stocking Supporter

Patent for hip-forms and stocking supporters. This "invention pertains to hip-forms and stocking supporters for ladies wear; and it consists in combined hip-form and stocking-supporter the novelty, utility, and practical advantages" (line 8-12). Illustration included.
Date: April 5, 1904
Creator: Beeler, Gertrude
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fabric-Turfing Implement. (open access)

Fabric-Turfing Implement.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in fabric turfing implements, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 5, 1898
Creator: Connett, Matthew F.
System: The Portal to Texas History