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Combined Compositor's Stick and Type Chase (open access)

Combined Compositor's Stick and Type Chase

Patent for combined compositor's stick and type chase. Illustration included.
Date: November 24, 1903
Creator: Weeks, Frank W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aerodrome (open access)

Aerodrome

Patent for an aerodrome which is a heavier than air flying machine powered by motorized propellers
Date: August 24, 1909
Creator: Sinclair, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaner And Feeder (open access)

Cotton Cleaner And Feeder

Patent for a cotton cleaner and feeder. It is designed with an intermediate of a chute and cotton-gin to feed the cotton to the gin. Illustrations included.
Date: November 24, 1903
Creator: Seward, Marion F. & Seward, Joseph H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for a simple and inexpensive car-coupling that improves on the pin-and-link car-couplings and "will be capable of coupling automatically and which may be readily uncoupled without going between cars" (lines 13-15). After the car has been separated, this coupling automatically puts its parts in position to be re-coupled. It also enables a "flying kick" to be transmitted to the car.
Date: November 24, 1896
Creator: Lee, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for improvements in car-couplings by providing "a coupler which will without any adjustment couple two cars whose draw-heads are of different heights.” (lines 17-19) Illustration is included.
Date: March 24, 1891
Creator: Thompson, James A. M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Brake (open access)

Air-Brake

Patent for an air brake with instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 24, 1914
Creator: Wolf, Gustav B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Caster-Wheel (open access)

Caster-Wheel

Patent for a new and useful caster wheel with illustrations.
Date: November 24, 1914
Creator: Pepple, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Jail (open access)

Jail

Patent for community style jails, eliminating single-cell jail housing.
Date: June 24, 1913
Creator: Youngblood, David Franklin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clamp (open access)

Clamp

Patent for clamps used in framing and forming of concrete construction. The clamps are easily removed and reused eliminating the need for wooden framing used in the past.
Date: February 24, 1920
Creator: Ferguson, William D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Condenser for Cotton-Presses. (open access)

Condenser for Cotton-Presses.

Patent for "Improvements in Condensers for Cotton-Presses," (lines 6-7) including illustrations. The invention is designed with cotton bale presses in mind, specifically the "condenser or bat forming device" (line 11).
Date: May 24, 1921
Creator: Taft, John A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lock (open access)

Lock

Patent for a combination lock that is able to be changed at will due to its arrangement of parts.
Date: November 24, 1903
Creator: Katzenberger, Oscar
System: The Portal to Texas History
Type (open access)

Type

Patent for type. This inventions is for the body of type used in printing presses. Illustration included.
Date: November 24, 1903
Creator: Weeks, Frank W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Type-Holder (open access)

Type-Holder

Patent for a device to hold type, so it can set and be delivered.
Date: November 24, 1903
Creator: Weeks, Frank W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ox-Bows. (open access)

Improvement in Ox-Bows.

Patent for improvements to ox-bows so that they "shall not require bending, and which may be made in parts of the country where timber suitable for bending is scarce" (lines 9-12).
Date: May 24, 1870
Creator: Moore, Alfred L. D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Veterinary Apparatus. (open access)

Veterinary Apparatus.

Patent for a veterinary apparatus to help ease the administration of medicine to horses and other animals. It is a bridle attachment.
Date: August 24, 1915
Creator: Biasiolli, Joseph J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hair-Triggers (open access)

Improvement in Hair-Triggers

Patent for a hair-trigger for firearms.
Date: August 24, 1869
Creator: Schenck, F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hair-Triggers. (open access)

Improvement in Hair-Triggers.

Patent for improvement in fire-arms by arranging a hair-trigger on to a fire-arm that have a guard and a trigger without alternation of the interior mechanism of the gun-lock; it is not necessary for the application of a fly in the hammer to prevent the catching of the trigger in the rest-notch of the hammer. (Lines 11-19) Illustration is included.
Date: August 24, 1869
Creator: Schenck, F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mold for Building Concrete Walls. (open access)

Mold for Building Concrete Walls.

Patent for a mold to be used in the construction of concrete walls, including illustrations and instructions.
Date: November 24, 1885
Creator: Carrico, Thomas W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Protector (open access)

Tire-Protector

Patent for a lightweight protector for pneumatic tires, providing dust- and waterproofing, as well as providing protection from puncture.
Date: October 24, 1911
Creator: Aue, Rudolph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring Wheel (open access)

Spring Wheel

Patent for a spring wheel design that will "effectually resist both the vertical and lateral stresses to which the wheel is subjected when in use" (lines 11-13), including illustrations.
Date: February 24, 1914
Creator: Mathiesen, Marius
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flash-Light (open access)

Flash-Light

Patent for flashlights to provide certain new and useful improvements designed and adapted for use in the handles of umbrellas, canes, and the like. The invention comprises a metallic tube or sleeve adapted to be inserted into a bore of an umbrella handle or sleeve having an enlargement in which a bulb carrier is mounted and over the end of the lens. The configuration will not interfere with the free use of the handle. There is a special construction of the circuit closer to the metallic sleeve and one battery being held within and insulated from the metallic sleeve.
Date: August 24, 1915
Creator: Matthies, Gustav & Rehberg Jr., August
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rain-Water Cut-Off. (open access)

Rain-Water Cut-Off.

Patent for a rain water cut-off that can direct the flow of water to one of two pipes. It allows rain water carrying dust and debris from the gutter to be directed to a waste receptacle that can later be switched to direct clean running rain water to a second pipe to different receptacle to be collected.
Date: August 24, 1915
Creator: Crandall, Grover C. & Smith, Zay
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety Lamp-Burner. (open access)

Safety Lamp-Burner.

Patent for a safety lamp-burner, which extinguishes itself when the lamp is tipped over.
Date: March 24, 1914
Creator: Witmond, Christopher B. J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for a sulky-plow with adjustable front and rear ground-wheels that control the depth at which the ground is plowed.
Date: December 24, 1895
Creator: Gupton, Kindred
System: The Portal to Texas History