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Music-Leaf Turner.
Patent for a device for "Turning Leaves of Sheet-Musics, Music-Books and, other Books" (lines 5-7), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 16, 1880
Creator:
Becker, Francis L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Cutting off the Soiled Butts of Grain Stalks.
Patent for a new and improved cutting machine for grain stalks. This design consists in a "table slotted in its middle part and slotted and recessed at or near one edge, the parallel endless bundle-carrying chains working in said slots and having arms, the chain-wheels, the shafts thereof and their supports, the circular saw in the recess at the edge of the table, the mandrel and the gage-plate" (lines 98-105).
Date:
May 3, 1887
Creator:
Becker, Lothar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash Fastener.
Patent for a new and improved sash fastener. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a window frame and sash, of a fastener consisting of stops secured to the frame and formed with beveled ends and a shoulder . . . and a button pivotally secured to the sash and recessed to form a triangular projection, and a finger-piece extension, which latter serves also as a weight to effect an automatic fastening as the window is lowered" (lines 72-80).
Date:
March 4, 1884
Creator:
Bendy, Napoleon Bonaparte
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in External Window, Door, and Shutter Sprinklers
Patent for improvement in external window, door, and shutter sprinklers. The sprinklers would be used to wet the wooden pieces in case of adjacent fire, and are designed to run down the side of the building instead of into the building, reducing water damage inside, with illustration.
Date:
August 27, 1878
Creator:
Bennison, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Indicator
Patent for indicator "for vessels by which to show accurately and readily the draft of the vessel, as well as any list and pitch that may exist" (lines 8-11) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 26, 1901
Creator:
Bennison, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine
Patent is for a rotary engine. The design of this rotary engine includes an inlet and exhaust that also prevents internal leakage of working fluid under pressure.
Date:
May 8, 1912
Creator:
Bennison, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tool For Withdrawing Casings From Wells.
Patent for tool for withdrawing casings from wells that is "easy to apply and convenient to manipulate while in use" (lines 15-17).
Date:
October 14, 1902
Creator:
Bennison, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Digging-Machine.
Patent for an improved, simple, effective, and durable excavator meant to remove sand-bars. It consists of a hollow drum that is drug across the sandbar, and it picks up sand with shovels on the drum.
Date:
November 21, 1893
Creator:
Bentinck, Eliza J. & Renner, Julia A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insecticide Apparatus
Patent for an insecticide apparatus. Illustration included.
Date:
October 18, 1904
Creator:
Berger, Otto
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe
Patent for pipe. It is designed to insulate against heat and cold for all forms of fluid conveying pipes.
Date:
August 4, 1903
Creator:
Berger, Otto
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Show-Globe.
Patent for "a globe adapted to serve simply for the purpose of illumination and furnishing a pure white bright light for general purposes, or to serve as an illuminated show-globe for druggists," (lines 10-14) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 4, 1891
Creator:
Berger, Otto & Eldridge, Hilliary
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Lock.
Patent for improvement upon a combination-lock.
Date:
May 1, 1888
Creator:
Bergman, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock
Patent for "improvements in locks, having special reference to locks for the doors of freight-cars; and it has for its object to provide a strong lock so constructed as to be comparatively safe from the attacks of lockpickers" (lines 8-13).
Date:
September 11, 1888
Creator:
Bergman, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Discharge Pipe
Patent for a discharge pipe. This invention is a flexible connection for use between the sections of metallic pipe in order to discharge material out of the dredger. Illustration included.
Date:
December 10, 1912
Creator:
Berndt, Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blotter.
Patent for "a combined hand-blotter, ruler, paper-cutter, and pen-rack... especially for the use of book-keepers and accountants," (lines 12-15) with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 14, 1891
Creator:
Betts, Walter & Herbert, William B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Receptacle-Lid Lifter
Patent for "new and useful improvements in means for automatically opening the closure of a receptacle upon the approach of a person thereto" (lines 12-15), including illustrations.
Date:
August 31, 1915
Creator:
Bianchi, Manlio
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brick Fire Box Construction.
Patent for an improved fire box liner construction for oil fueled locomotives that is made from bricks in an interlocking design that does not require cement and will not shake apart from vibration. Includes illustrations.
Date:
September 12, 1911
Creator:
Blackmond, William C. & Stoy, Guy Everett
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Poultry Coop.
Patent for a new and improved poultry coop. This design's "interior . . . has a vertical central partition between which and the ends of the coop are vertical transverse partitions and vertical longitudinal partitions, which preferably consist of strips . . . forming compartments, each of a sufficient size to contain a given number of a given kind of poultry . . . as the coop is divided off into compartments the poultry can with great ease be examined as to condition, and not being in large mass, but being separated into small numbers, they are kept in a better state of preservation and health" (lines 25-44).
Date:
February 5, 1884
Creator:
Bleike, William T., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Writing Pen.
Patent for a dip pen or nib pen, with innovations concentrating on the tip (nib). The tip is moderately sharp to glide over paper, bent for smooth writing and ink conservation, and stiff "to enable it to be used in making carbon copies" (lines 26-27).
Date:
February 14, 1922
Creator:
Block, Henry, 1875-1939
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition of Matter for Manufacturing Calcium Carbid.
Patent for a "new and useful Composition of Matter for Manufacturing Calcium Carbid" (lines 5-7) that will aid in the commercially successful production. Patent includes specifications for the composition of matter.
Date:
September 7, 1897
Creator:
Blum, Sylvain; Eldridge, Hillary; Clark, Daniel J. & Lazarus, Sam
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mosquito Bar and Carriage Umbrella.
Patent for a new and improved mosquito bar and carriage umbrella. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a tube adapted to be applied to the head-board of a bed, and having a lateral slot and roller therein, of a set-screw passing into the said tube, a curved tube adjustably supported in the straight tube, a parasol on the end of the curved tube, and a cord passing through the tubes to operate the parasol" (lines 58-65).
Date:
November 29, 1887
Creator:
Blunt, Walter F.
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
Apparatus for Treating Cotton-Seed Hulls
Patent for "a simple and durable plant capable of use in carrying out a dry process of reducing the hulls to a finely-divided condition" (lines 8-13).
Date:
October 21, 1890
Creator:
Bohn, Emil
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of Treating Cotton-Seed Hulls
Patent for "to utilize a heretofore waste product, and by means of a dry process to reduce the same to fine particles, which, being capable of felting, constitute stock" (lines 14-18).
Date:
September 23, 1890
Creator:
Bohn, Emil
System:
The Portal to Texas History