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Automatic Type-Writing Machine.
Patent for improvements to the type writer which allow for automatic, proper spacing between letters and words; will automatically return the carriage to the beginning of the page; and will automatically feed the inking ribbon so that the entire surface is used. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 13, 1897
Creator:
Templeton, Allison
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Back-Band Buckle.
Patent for an improved back-band buckle and an improved hook that connects the buckle with the trace-chain. The lever-hook snaps "into position and is held secure in a pane substantially flush with the lower portion of the buckle-frame when the buckle is closed by the forcing down of the lever" (lines 15-19).
Date:
April 20, 1897
Creator:
Brown, John Staddart
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blind-Stop
Patent for a blind stop for windows and doors. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 30, 1912
Creator:
Labit, Girard E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
CANNING SHRIMPS AND OTHER FISH.
Patent for a method for "canning shrimps and/other like shellfish and has for its object the better preservation of the fish and greater expedition, and cheapness in canning" (lines 7-10)with illustrations and instructions.
Date:
April 6, 1880
Creator:
Pecor, Emmett C. & Bartlett, F. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Channel Cleaner.
Patent for a new and improved channel cleaner. This design "is to construct an apparatus which may be anchored in a channel where there are sand-bars, for the purpose of agitating the water and stirring up the sand, so that the current may remove it. [The] invention consists in a trunk or large tube perforated along the bottom and provided at one end with a flaring mouth for concentrating the current within the trunk; also, in the combination, with the trunk, of a stirrer and a motor-screw for driving the same" (lines 17-28).
Date:
April 22, 1890
Creator:
Evans, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin.
Patent for a saw-cleaning attachment for cotton gins. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 20, 1897
Creator:
Griffin, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for "a compress having a continuous operation, whereby one bale of cotton is being formed by the compress all the time the same is working, and thereby rendering it unnecessary to completely stop the working of the entire press for every single bale made until the bale can be wrapped and discharged out of the press." (Lines 15-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 14, 1896
Creator:
Griffin, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crab and Fish Trap.
Patent for a new and improved seafood trap. This design consists in "a net or trap for crabs or fish, which comprises flat frame-sections hinged together, netting attached to said sections, and a rod or bar extending across said sections and engaging with suitable devices thereon for holding said sections partly extended until the hinged sides strike bottom and thereby release the rod or bar" (lines 83-90).
Date:
April 1, 1890
Creator:
Franklin, Robert M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dredge-Pump
Patent for new and useful improvements to Dredge-Pumps. The pump is used to draw up sand and gravel from the bottom of a river.
Date:
April 12, 1921
Creator:
Stenberg, Anders Gustaf
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drying and Stretching Frame
Patent for a frame used to stretch and dry fabrics such as curtains. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 20, 1909
Creator:
Hargrave, Thomas A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Furnace.
Patent for a new and useful electric furnace.
Date:
April 19, 1898
Creator:
Clark, George Greenleaf
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electrical Retort.
Patent for a new and useful electrical retort.
Date:
April 6, 1898
Creator:
Eldridge, Hilliary
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fence Post
Patent for a fence post. Illustration included.
Date:
April 4, 1905
Creator:
Percival, Herbert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire-Escape.
Patent for a fire-escape that uses ropes and pulleys held up by brackets and attached to a window. A receptacle is at the end of the rope and is designed to lower people from the building to the ground.
Date:
April 18, 1893
Creator:
Martin, Johan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire-Escape.
Patent for a fire escape "with a cord or rope of suitable length which has at one end a weight to serve as a projectile to facilitate throwing the cord or rope to a person at any part of the burning building, after which the fire-escape or other device necessary for the purpose may be conveniently elevated to the window or other portion of the building where most needed for the rescue of person or property" (lines 14-22). It is adapted to assist firemen.
Date:
April 18, 1893
Creator:
Martin, Johan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Floor-Sweeping Compound
Patent for an improved floor-sweeping compound which changes the traditional woody filler with a less flammable and more absorbent mineral wool filler.
Date:
April 1, 1913
Creator:
Boddeker, James A. & Stratford, John E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flower Pot Trellis
Patent for a flower pot trellis which is used "to be applied to flower-pots of various sizes to support plants or vines without interfering with their roots" (p.2).
Date:
April 15, 1890
Creator:
Brown, John Stoddart, of Galveston, Texas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Garment.
Patent for a garment, which prevents chafing of the legs while working in hot environments .
Date:
April 5, 1910
Creator:
Prendergast, Richard P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Garment-Hanger.
Patent for a new garment hanger with supported arms that can be folded for storage, including illustrations.
Date:
April 5, 1921
Creator:
Morton, John R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Process of Sterilizing and Packaging Rice
Patent for sterilizing and packaging rice by subjecting it to heat for twenty minutes or more. After this, the rice is sorted in a shaker and put into packaging while maintaining the air temperature. This prohibits the rice kernels from cracking.
Date:
April 21, 1914
Creator:
Davis, Waters Smith, Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Automatic Fans.
Patent for " a new and improved Table-Fan"
Date:
April 20, 1875
Creator:
Stamps, Lorenzo D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car Brakes and Starters
Patent for improvements in rail road-car breaks, starters, and checkers. "The nature of the invention consists in certain constructions, combinations, and arrangements of parts" (lines 19-21).
Date:
April 24, 1877
Creator:
Marean, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Gins.
Patent for the improvement of the cotton-gin by the arrangement of two cylindrical brushes and rollers to reduce damaging the staple of the cotton, illustrations included.
Date:
April 19, 1859
Creator:
Gottheil, Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Distilling Turpentine.
Patent for new and useful improvements in apparatus for distilling turpentine to permit continuous distillation.
Date:
April 15, 1872
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History