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Burglar-Alarm
Patent for a burglar alarm that can be attached to a car door. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 8, 1912
Creator:
Halstead, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition of Matter for Artificial Fuel.
Patent for artificial fuel by using coals called “lignite”, grinded it and add other ingredients to it. Formula, measurements and method of mixing is included. No illustration.
Date:
December 8, 1903
Creator:
Lohmann, August
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Electrostatic-Magnetic Separation
Patent for an electrostatic-magnetic separator for separating particles in a mass.
Date:
February 8, 1910
Creator:
Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Catamenial Sack
Patent for a catamenial sack. This invention is a "catamenial sacks or shields and the object is to provided such a device which will be cleanly and sanitary in effect, which is pliable and easily and comfortably conformable to the form of the wearer" (lines 8-13). Illustration included.
Date:
June 8, 1909
Creator:
Frommann, Franklin A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Book Adjuster.
Patent for a new and improved book-adjuster. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the holder having the horizontal longitudinal recess and the vertical screw-threaded aperture, of the base-piece, the adjusting-screw swiveled at its lower end in the said base-piece, and the spring-catch" (lines 3-8).
Date:
February 8, 1887
Creator:
Adair, Irvine James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Child's Crib
Patent for new "suspended cribs or cradles for the use of children" (lines 17-18) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 8, 1880
Creator:
Brown, Fred Harvey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combustion Device
Patent for a combustion device that allows for the control of fuel to one or two burners of the same fire box. This device is also built in an upright position to assist in supporting the burner members of the box. This device is built stronger and simpler than other devices of its kind.
Date:
September 8, 1914
Creator:
Halliburton, Orville G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bank Pass-Book.
Patent for an improved Bank Pass-Book that shows the identification of the individual written on the inside and outside of the book.
Date:
December 8, 1914
Creator:
Exline, Marcus P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Muffler and Air-Heating Device
Patent for improvement for the muffler to silence the explosive exhaust of the internal combustion engines and to heating fresh air in facilitating the carburetion of liquid fuel oil to a combustible gaseous mixture.
Date:
October 8, 1918
Creator:
Rinehart, Thomas M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Making Cushion Tires
Patent for improving "cushion tires and processes of producing the same". (lines 10-11).
Date:
September 8, 1919
Creator:
Strang, Fred W. of Dallas, TX
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine
Patent for an alteration to cylindrical reciprocating washing machines that first provides "a washing-machine of the type above described in which the drum or body portion of the machine is supported at a single point at its bottom and gives a partial revolving motion thereon; second, to provide said machine wit-h a suspended horizontally-arranged and vertically-reciprocated stirring device or twirl, and, third, to provide mechanism for automatically raising and lowering the stirring device and at the same time imparting a rotary motion thereto, and also to the drum, but in an opposite direction from that of the stirrer" (lines 16-28)
Date:
November 8, 1892
Creator:
Hacke, Karl Wilh.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type-Writing Machine
Patent for a type writing machine with particular focus on the "ribbon mechanism for typewriting machines and a main object is to provide devices for automatically controlling the ribbon reverser" (lines 8-11).
Date:
July 8, 1919
Creator:
Fort, Tandy I.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wall Construction
Patent for type of wall construction that have plastic slabs (spacers) that are superimposed and secured together by concealed mortar joints.
Date:
October 8, 1918
Creator:
Sawyer, Frank McM.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydrant
Patent for a hydrant. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 8, 1912
Creator:
Smith, Ollie F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spike.
Patent for improvements in spikes, in which when the spike is driven into a tie, it will not turn (line 11-12). Illustration is included.
Date:
July 8, 1913
Creator:
Daniels, Winfield S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pneumatic-Cushion Support for Automobile-Bodies.
Patent for "an improved pneumatic cushion support between the body of the automobile or other vehicle and the running gear [...] to not only produce a device for neutralizing or overcoming the recoil or rebound, but to provide a pneumatic or compressed air support for the body" " (lines 14-21), including illustrations.
Date:
February 8, 1916
Creator:
Sullivan, Joseph M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trolley Wire Finder
Patent for a trolley wire finder. This invention to improvements in trolley-wire finders, and more particularly to its attachment to trolley-poles and trolley-harps as a means of assistance in guiding the trolley wheel has been shifted from or slipped off said trolley-wire and is of advantage as a means of saving time." (8-16). Illustration included.
Date:
March 8, 1904
Creator:
Barnhusrt, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Knockdown Tank or Cistern
Patent for the construction of vessels to hold water for the purpose of lessening "the labor in handling and hauling them and to reduce the cost of shipping" (lines 16-17).
Date:
October 8, 1898
Creator:
Harry, Hugh W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pliers.
Patent for pliers for use by opticians in assembling glasses.
Date:
November 8, 1910
Creator:
Chappel, James M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Portable Scale.
Patent for an improved, simple, and inexpensive portable scale meant for weighing cotton, corn, and other similar produce. It folds compactly when not in use, and has a tally device.
Date:
August 8, 1893
Creator:
Storey, Julius W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Motor- Driven Tire- Pump
Patent for Motor-Driven Tire Pump. Motor tire pump that helps inflate tires.
Date:
February 8, 1921
Creator:
Guthrey Gordon N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stirrup Leather Stay.
Patent for a new and improved stay. This design "is to provide a stay which will cause the stirrup to hang in proper position for insertion of the rider's foot in mounting" (lines 7-10). To this end, it consists, "with the stirrup, of the U-shaped stay embracing the stirrup cross-piece and extending adjacent to the ends thereof and the central loops along the upper edges of the stay, and of less length than the stay, to receive the relatively narrow stirrup-strap, whereby a narrow stirrup-strap may be successfully used on a stirrup having a wide upper end" (lines 74-82).
Date:
April 8, 1890
Creator:
Padgitt, Jesse D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sulky-Plow.
Patent for an adjustable plow, with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 13, 1891
Creator:
Jackson, Luther C. & Reiger, John F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hinge.
Patent for a hinge that provides a stronger attachment and is cheaper to produce than other hinges.
Date:
December 8, 1908
Creator:
Mayo, Junius B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History