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Building Block Machine (open access)

Building Block Machine

Patent for a building block machine. This invention is used to mold concrete and other artificial stone blocks. Illustration included.
Date: September 18, 1906
Creator: Latimer, Samuel A. & Krischke, Joseph, Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for improvements in baling-presses by using a “duplex baling-press wherein the power is alternately applied by novel mechanism to the two baling-plungers in such manner that only one plunger at a given time is operating to compress the bale, and at the completion of the stroke thereof the other plunger is operated to compress its bale, the arrangement being such that the plungers are alternately engaged and released by the power mechanism and are automatically returned to operative position after they have been released.” (Lines 9-21.) Illustration is included.
Date: September 18, 1900
Creator: Watkins, William D. & Pruit, Trose P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compressor. (open access)

Compressor.

Patent for a compressor. This is an improvement upon previous refrigeration and ice making machines.
Date: April 18, 1916
Creator: Fowler, Paul R.; Gingrich, John A.; Tongate, Willis B. & Ridge, James H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wagon Step. (open access)

Wagon Step.

Patent for a new and improved wagon-step. This design "permit[s] a driver to mount or dismount without necessitating his [or her] dropping the reins, and which when not in use can be folded up out of the way of the wheels" (lines 14-17). It consists in "the rod provided at its upper end with a handle and journaled in suitable bearings and extending diagonally along the side of the body, and the step-brackets arranged at intervals along the rod and consisting of the stems rigidly secured to the rod and the steps formed integral with the stems and extending out horizontally therefrom" (lines 64-71).
Date: November 18, 1890
Creator: Thompson, Robert K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pipe-Puller. (open access)

Pipe-Puller.

Patent for a device that is specially designed for pulling or lifting a drill stem that is "stuck" in a bore well.
Date: May 18, 1920
Creator: Simmons, John T.
System: The Portal to Texas History