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Novel Metal Hydroxide Derivatives Containing Chemically Bound Organophosphorus or Polyphosphate Species as Flame Retardants (open access)

Novel Metal Hydroxide Derivatives Containing Chemically Bound Organophosphorus or Polyphosphate Species as Flame Retardants

Patent relating to novel metal hydroxide derivatives containing chemically bound organophosphorus or polyphosphate species as flame retardants.
Date: March 29, 2006
Creator: Braterman, Paul S.; D'Souza, Nandika & Dharia, Amit
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aeroplane. (open access)

Aeroplane.

Patent for an aeroplane with a propeller, which is "pivotally mounted and adjustable into different positions relative to the planes in order to produce either a rising movement or thereof or a driving movement in a horizontal or other plane" (lines 26-30).
Date: September 19, 1911
Creator: Andrae, Ernest H.; Andrae, E. H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Fuel (open access)

Artificial Fuel

Patent for artificial fuel made from coal.
Date: July 19, 1904
Creator: Thomas, Adelaide M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bed Spring. (open access)

Bed Spring.

Patent for a new and improved bed-spring. This design consists in "the adjustable tie that connects the springs beneath the slats. This device is simple, cheap, convenient, and durable. It is adjustable to slats placed at different distances apart, and will remain in position when placed upon the slats, holding the diagonal rows of springs in a straight line, causing the springs to remain uniform all over the bed" (lines 72-80).
Date: May 19, 1885
Creator: Davis, Charles Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Brake. (open access)

Car Brake.

Patent for a new and improved car brake. This design "consists in a novel combination and arrangement of certain mechanical appliances by means of which the brakes of a railway-car are automatically operated by the pushing and pulling action of the draw-head, and which are applicable to any ordinary system of brake-levers and without interfering with the operation of the ordinary hand-brake" (lines 10-17).
Date: December 19, 1882
Creator: Henson, John Wesley; Hudson, Benjamin Franklin & Smith, Sydney
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for car-coupling. The object of this invention is to provide an improved automatic car-coupling of simple, durable, and effective construction that will permit the necessary longitudinal and lateral play of the coupling-link to correspond with inequalities of the track, facilitate the turning of curves, and enable the coupling to accommodate itself to draw-heads of unequal height.
Date: January 19, 1892
Creator: Lemon, Eli Jeremiah
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boiler-Cleaning Compound. (open access)

Boiler-Cleaning Compound.

Patent for a boiler-cleaning compound made up of "an improved compound having sodium hydrate for a base, and having certain subordinate ingredients whereby its efficiency is increased, and whereby the action of the sodium hydrate is so modified that no detriment to the boiler iron will result" (lines 10-16).
Date: February 19, 1895
Creator: Hill, Martin L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined envelop, shipping-tag, and index-card (open access)

Combined envelop, shipping-tag, and index-card

An identifying tag to be placed on containers meant to be returned to the sender after delivery of goods.
Date: October 19, 1915
Creator: Simpson, Ray R., of Dallas, Texas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method and Apparatus For Improving Computer Cache Performance and for Protecting Memory Systems Against Some Side Channel Attacks (open access)

Method and Apparatus For Improving Computer Cache Performance and for Protecting Memory Systems Against Some Side Channel Attacks

Patent relating to a method and apparatus both for improving execution performance and for protecting memory system against some side channel attacks.
Date: November 22, 2012
Creator: Kavi, Krishna M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aeroplane-Kite. (open access)

Aeroplane-Kite.

Patent for a new aeroplane-kite which can be "readily dismantled and folded for shipping and easily assembled and placed in position for flying without the use of numerous fastenings and detachable parts, thereby making for simplicity and practicability" (lines 12-17). Also includes wind tunnels and a fuselage frame which is so easily assembled that a child can do it.
Date: October 19, 1920
Creator: McLaughlin, James T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Breaker and Cotton-Cleaner. (open access)

Boll-Breaker and Cotton-Cleaner.

Patent for improvements to the boll breaker and cotton cleaner by changing the construction and arrangement of parts. The patent uses air pressure to move the bolly cotton through the boll breaker and cotton cleaner chambers.
Date: November 19, 1918
Creator: Gillespie, Solomon E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ice-Carrier. (open access)

Ice-Carrier.

Patent for an adjustable ice carrier which can be attached to and removed from the running board of an automobile, including illustrations.
Date: April 19, 1921
Creator: Cronin, John J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Producing Moving Pictures From Plastic Materials (open access)

Process of Producing Moving Pictures From Plastic Materials

Patent for process of producing moving pictures from plastic materials
Date: September 19, 1916
Creator: Sudmann, Charles L. & Hopkins, Willie D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Collar Fastener and Supporter (open access)

Collar Fastener and Supporter

Patent for an object that provides the collar support and is hidden.
Date: July 19, 1921
Creator: Hudson, George J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Fence (open access)

Wire Fence

Patent for wire fence. Illustration included.
Date: April 19, 1904
Creator: Hughes, Wallace B. & Samuels, Joe
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vapor Burner. (open access)

Vapor Burner.

Patent for a new and improved vapor burner. This design consists, "with the mixing-chamber having a burner connected therewith, of a water chamber and an oil chamber arranged beneath the said mixing chamber, the threaded tube seated in the bottom wall of the water-chamber and extending up into the mixing-chamber, and the air-induction tube leading from beneath the oil-chamber up through the threaded connecting-tube to the mixing chamber" (lines 112-121).
Date: August 19, 1890
Creator: Kirkpatrick, Drury T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Cutting Thong Holes (open access)

Machine For Cutting Thong Holes

Patent for a machine for cutting thong holes. "This invenetion relates to leather-working machines, and more particularly to machines for cutting holes in leather for the purpose of sewing in thongs" (7-10). Illustration included.
Date: September 19, 1905
Creator: Eberle, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Elevating And Feeding Seed Cotton (open access)

Machine For Elevating And Feeding Seed Cotton

Patent for a machine for elevating and feeding seed cotton. Illustration included.
Date: December 19, 1905
Creator: Benefield, Chauncey R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Loose-Leaf Binder. (open access)

Loose-Leaf Binder.

Patent for a loose-leaf binder for records that does not require removing previously inserted pages to add new ones and secures them in place with a screw lock on the paper holding rings. When the book is full, the whole binder may be locked in place as a form of permanent binding and may only be opened with a key.
Date: March 19, 1907
Creator: Parry, Rees F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in land-drag and clod-crusher. (open access)

Improvement in land-drag and clod-crusher.

Patent for an implement to crush clogs of dirt. Designed to be an improvement on the clod-crusher and drag for which Letters Patent No. 177,476 was granted.
Date: September 19, 1876
Creator: Crockett, John M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process for Reduction of Unsaturated Fatty Acids and Their Esters (open access)

Process for Reduction of Unsaturated Fatty Acids and Their Esters

Patent for saturated fatty acid reduction using hydrogen, a palladium group catalyzer, and a fat solvent.
Date: May 19, 1914
Creator: Maryott, Carlton H
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of and Means for Producing Moving Pictures (open access)

Process of and Means for Producing Moving Pictures

Patent for the fixture in whichs cells or images could be placed to make the showinf of a film easier, with supplemental drawings that give suggestion for storage and any additional usages.
Date: September 19, 1916
Creator: Sudmann, Charles L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Engine. (open access)

Steam-Engine.

Patent for "a high-speed rotary engine wherein the steam-impelled wheel shall revolve in a horizontal plane within an upright open cylinder." (Lines 10-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 19, 1897
Creator: Slaughter, Joel C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Treating Cotton-Stalks (open access)

Process of Treating Cotton-Stalks

Patent for a low cost method of treating cotton-stalks to be used for similar purposes to hemp and other similar fibers.
Date: February 19, 1918
Creator: Jones, Levander D.; Deacon, Herbert D. & Marvin, Zebina E.
System: The Portal to Texas History