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Clock Attachment.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in clock attachments.
Date:
March 8, 1898
Creator:
Schindler, Joseph
System:
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Car Coupling
Patent for a car coupling. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 8, 1904
Creator:
Simecek, Vaclav
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Air-Brake Coupling.
Patent for "coupling devices for connecting the air-brake hose of railway-cars" (lines 9-10) automatically, including illustrations.
Date:
March 20, 1906
Creator:
Simecek, Vaclav
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boiler Feeder Regulator.
Patent for a new and improved regulator for boiler feeders. This design "consists in certain novel details of construction, arrangement, and operation whereby a superior machine is produced for the purpose of regulating and supplying boilers with water, keeping the water at a uniform height, preventing explosions from low water, and automatically removing sediment, impurities, and foam as fast as it accumulates" (lines 14-22).
Date:
March 20, 1888
Creator:
Riedel, Gustav Adolph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for improvements to a machine that compresses bolts of cloth or waste into compact bales for shipment.
Date:
March 18, 1884
Creator:
Reagan, Edgar U. G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bridle.
Patent for "a bridle wherein means for controlling a horse is provided." (lines 15-16) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 16, 1915
Creator:
Hentschel, Andrew J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Truss.
Patent for a truss with new improvements that provide more comfortability and ease to the wearer.
Date:
March 13, 1917
Creator:
Fillip, Adolf A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Frames for Cultivators, Scrapers, & c.
Patent for “a new and useful improvement in Combined, Cultivator, Scraper, and Dumping-Cart” (lines 4-7) including illustration.
Date:
March 31, 1874
Creator:
Rabb, John Wesley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump and Sprinkler.
Patent for a new and improved pump and sprinkler. This design "consists of a portable force-pump provided with a capricious air-chamber, and having on the end of its discharge-pipe a sprinkler of novel form, which causes the liquid to be ejected in a fine spray. . . . [This] provide[s] a simple, durable, and effective device, designed especially for use in sprinkling cotton-plants with poisonous solutions, to protect them against the ravages of injurious insects and worms" (lines 7-17).
Date:
March 1, 1881
Creator:
Polansky, Alois Josef
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harrow
Patent for a wheeled riding harrow that can be moved in or out of land engaging postion as is wanted.
Date:
March 6, 1917
Creator:
Tengler, Frederick R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Poison Distributer.
Patent for a new and improved poison distributor. This design "relates to improvements in machines for exterminating insects . . . the application of poisons in solutions . . . cannot be brought into contact with every part of an infested plant. They furthermore invariably retard the growth and often kill the plant. . . . The object of [the] invention is to obviate the defects referred to . . . whereby pulverized poisons may be rapidly ejected, not directly upon the plants, but mainly into the surrounding atmosphere. . . . and produce the desired effect upon every object within a wide range" (lines 14-44).
Date:
March 18, 1890
Creator:
Richards, Henry B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad-Tie.
Patent for a new railroad tie constructed of concrete material with detachable internal reinforcements used to support the rail fastening system, with illustrations.
Date:
March 31, 1914
Creator:
Baca, August
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pencil.
Patent for a mechanical pencil, which allows the lead to be extended by turning the cap.
Date:
March 16, 1909
Creator:
Vasicek, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Display-Cabinet for Laces &c.
Patent for a display case for lace that allows for all of it be seen and easily measured for sale.
Date:
March 1, 1910
Creator:
Hunger, Otto A. & Hunger, Frederick W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Raising and Transporting Vessels.
Patent for "a new and useful construction of barge having simple and powerful means for raising ships and vessels to a sufficient height so that the same may readily be carried through the water over shallow places or bars, and the barge is also equipped with means for being propelled through the water to carry a ship or vessel, and also for being propelled over a track, so as to act as a combined locomotive and ship-car when carrying a ship or vessel over dry land." (Lines 14-25) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 23, 1897
Creator:
Schramm, Charles J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fumigating Apparatus for Exterminating Insects.
Patent for ant extermination device. Injects gas into the entrance of (primarily) ant or insect nests.
Date:
March 11, 1879
Creator:
Mueller, Onno
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Seed Cleaner.
Patent for a new and improved cotton-seed cleaner. This design "is to be used in connection with a machine for removing short lint from cotton-seed . . . The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved cotton-seed cleaner, which is simple and durable in construction and very effectively removes all impurities from the shell of the seed. . . . The invention consists of a revolving horizontal disk-brush and of a fixed table provided with emery-slabs and perforated plates and in contact with the brush" (lines 8-21).
Date:
March 19, 1889
Creator:
Baumgarten, Christian
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator
Patent for a more durable and simple in construction, efficient in operation, and can also double as a planter.
Date:
March 6, 1888
Creator:
Heller, Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History