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Audiphone
Patent for a audiophone which reproduces sounds at their original volume and timbre through the use of diaphragms vibrated by an electric signal.
Date:
October 15, 1907
Creator:
Baker, John A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brick Kiln
Patent for a brick kiln. Illustration included.
Date:
November 15, 1904
Creator:
Sonka, Joesph & Metzner, Robert A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Alarm for Stem-Boilers.
Patent for a new and useful automatic alarm for steam boilers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 18, 1899
Creator:
Prencel, Anthony M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper that operates by loosening the earth around the cotton plants and chopping them by row. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 22, 1909
Creator:
Gesche, Eugene C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Poke.
Patent for a device that prevents animals such as cows from tearing down fences.
Date:
February 12, 1901
Creator:
Specht, W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Railway-Switch Operating Mechanism
Patent for an automatic railway switch operating mechanism with improved levers and controls.
Date:
August 8, 1911
Creator:
Hoffmann, Laniel F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Box Stand or Bracket
Patent for a pivoting box and/or box stand for use in stores.
Date:
June 2, 1903
Creator:
Luensmann, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Cylindrical Power.
Patent for a new and improved cylindrical power-source. This design "consists in the combination of a cylindrical slotted frame with a series of blades which are connected together in pairs, and which are alternately forced through the slots in the frame to receive the force of the wind or water and then retracted, so that they will offer no resistance during a portion of the revolution of the frame. . . . The object of [the] invention is to produce a motor which is adapted for use either as a wind-wheel or a water-wheel" (lines 13-27).
Date:
November 15, 1881
Creator:
Hutchinson, Thomas E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "relates to improvements in that class of car-couplings in which the link is held in the draw-head by a tongue engaging the link; and it consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 7-11).
Date:
September 8, 1885
Creator:
Meusebach, Otto C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the plate, having extensions and laterally-extending arm or bracket, the hopper mounted upon the extension of the plate, the seed-slide or coiled spring connecting the front end of the latter with the bracket, metal plates secured to the front and rear sides of the rear wall of the hopper above the seed-slide, the brush or cut-off arranged between said plates, and suitable operating mechanism for retracting the seed-slide against the tension of the coiled spring" (lines 6-17).
Date:
February 18, 1890
Creator:
Cromer, Thomas L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design "is to provide cotton-choppers constructed in such a manner that the cotton will be chopped to a stand by the passage of the machine along the rows of plants, leaving the hills of plants at uniform distances apart, and which shall be simple in construction, readily controlled, and convenient in use" (lines 17-24).
Date:
November 30, 1886
Creator:
Puls, Ernst, C.A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Heat-Regulator for Incubators.
Patent for a device that allows for automatic temperature regulation in incubators. It operates by extinguishing and lighting the incubator's heating lamp wick to maintain a predetermined temperature.
Date:
March 29, 1921
Creator:
Wiedner, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stub-Axle Adjustment Device.
Patent for useful improvements for Stub-Axle Adjustment Devices. This device will allow for the stub-axle to be efficiently adjusted in both a vertical plane and a transverse plane with respect to the machine.
Date:
November 8, 1921
Creator:
Kopplin, Otto E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wagon Spring.
Patent for a new and improved wagon spring. This design "is to provide a vehicle in which springs of great strength may be employed which will not require stay-chains, and which will not increase the height of the wagon-body and cause inconvenience in loading and unloading the vehicle and in getting in and out, and, furthermore, to provide a vehicle in which the wagon-body may be but slightly elevated above the axles, and in which the springs will have great play" (lines 17-26).
Date:
February 25, 1890
Creator:
Conley, Miles D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill.
Patent for a new and improved windmill. This design "consists in the combination of a central vertical shaft a series of supporting-arms projecting horizontally out from this shaft, a number of curved buckets which are pivoted at or near their centers between these supporting-arms, and suitable springs or weights which are attached to the inner edges of these buckets" (lines 13-20).
Date:
June 13, 1882
Creator:
Lowther, Lorenzo Dow
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well Drilling Machine.
Patent for an improvement in well drilling.
Date:
April 10, 1900
Creator:
Wiedner, Friedrich R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Knee-Pad
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Knee-Pads" (lines 5-6), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 30, 1913
Creator:
Schmitt, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lineman's Portable Telegraph and Telephone Pole Seat.
Patent for a seat for linemen when stringing telegraph or telephone poles, which has clamps that go around the pole.
Date:
March 24, 1908
Creator:
Troell, Charles T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Induction Coil
Patent for induction coil. Illustration included.
Date:
April 18, 1905
Creator:
Baker, John A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Tanning.
Patent for improvements in tanning materials: "extractive matter for the manufacture of leather from the wood and bark of the mesquit - a tree of extensive growth on the prairies of western and north western Texas" (lines 9-13).
Date:
December 5, 1865
Creator:
Park, John E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Shot-Cases and Distributers
Patent for a "new receptacle for holding several grades of shot, and to an adjustable distributing device for the same. Its object is to enable traders to keep the several kinds or grades of shot in one receptacle, but so that suitable quantity of any one kind can be readily and conveniently measured out" (lines 20-26).
Date:
January 3, 1871
Creator:
Booton, Sinclair
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Cutter
Patent for a cotton stalk cutter. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 1, 1910
Creator:
Werner, Fridolin, Sr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump.
Patent for a new and improved pump. This design utilizes a new combination and arrangement of cylinders, pistons, pipes, chambers, valves, screws, levers, and air and water vessels to pump water more effectively.
Date:
May 31, 1881
Creator:
Maney, Henry, Sr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tongue for Farm Implements.
Patent for a tongue for farm implements, which regulates the draft of the implement.
Date:
January 19, 1909
Creator:
Mader, August W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History