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Can Cover
Patent for a can cover. Illustration included.
Date:
December 1, 1908
Creator:
Pratt, James R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bank - Protecting Device.
Patent for a new and useful bank-protecting device.
Date:
February 1, 1898
Creator:
Hinkle, George J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Battery Vault, Cistern, and Semaphore Foundation
Patent for an improvement to combination battery vaults, cisterns and semaphore foundations used in railway signal systems, including illustrations and descriptions.
Date:
April 1, 1913
Creator:
Johnson, John A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Turntable
Patent for “a turn table of simple and durable structure adapted to be placed in the floor of a small garage or at other points, and which will automatically operate when an automobile is run upon the same to effect the complete turning of the automobile machine in order that the machine may enter the garage while traveling a forward direction and leave the garage in a similar manner” (lines 17-25). Includes illustrations.
Date:
February 1, 1921
Creator:
Sanders, Edwin J. & Morrison, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Steam-Engines.
Patent related to "improvements in steam-engines. The object...is to devise means whereby the valves may be actuated automatically without the employment of exterior mechanisms by the use of exhaust-steam" (lines 17-22). Includes instructions and illustration.
Date:
July 1, 1879
Creator:
Garlock, William H. & Cooke, Richard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Earth-Boring Machines.
Patent for improvements in earth-boring machines with new design and connections, including illustrations.
Date:
January 1, 1878
Creator:
Yarborough, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churns.
Patent for improvements in churns with specific improvements in dasher-rods and lids. This patent includes illustrations.
Date:
January 1, 1878
Creator:
Davis, Henry T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Motor.
Patent for a new and improved motor. This design "relates to improvements in motors in which a screw or spiral operates in conjunction with suitable gearing; and the object of my improvement is to convert a vertically-reciprocating motion into a rotary for driving any light machinery" (lines 15-20).
Date:
September 1, 1885
Creator:
Chisholm, Toliver Lynn
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sweeping Machine.
Patent for a new and improved sweeping machine. This design consists, "with the frame mounted upon supporting-wheels at its front and rear ends and having the rotating rear axle, of the vertically-adjustable revolving brush receiving motion from the said axle, and a dust pan or receptacle having laterally extending pins or plugs, whereby it is supported detachably upon the frame of the machine in front of the revolving brush" (lines 13-21).
Date:
July 1, 1890
Creator:
Le Tellier, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Expansible Pulley
Patent for an expansible pulley. This invention is constructed to expand and contract easily with great durability. Illustration included.
Date:
December 1, 1903
Creator:
Peters, William Arthur & May, Reynolds
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings.
Patent for an improvement in link and pin car-couplings, including illustrations.
Date:
September 1, 1874
Creator:
Moyer, Alexander L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Pumps.
Patent relating to "improvements in double-acting pumps. The object is to devise a pump...[so] as to allow the admission of water at one end of and its discharge at the other" (lines 16-24). Includes instructions and illustration.
Date:
July 1, 1879
Creator:
Garlock, William H. & Cooke, Richard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for raising water.
Patent for device for raising water. "Our invention relates to water-elevators in which a bucket or like receptacle is periodically lowered into a well and then raised to be emptied."
Date:
June 1, 1897
Creator:
Poe, Herbert L. & Sparkman, William C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ballast-Distributing Cars
Patent for ballast-distributing design with new design in changing rails and weight from car to car, including illustrations.
Date:
September 1, 1877
Creator:
Dockstader, Adam B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a cultivator, which has an adjustable shovel tooth.
Date:
February 1, 1910
Creator:
Upshaw, Foy
System:
The Portal to Texas History