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Acetylene-Gas Generator.
Patent for certain new and useful improvement sin acetylene gas generators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 20, 1900
Creator:
Pitts, William Wirt
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Window-Shade
Patent for an adjustable window-shade that is more useful and can be "raised and lowered in its entirety" (lines 10-11) including instructions and illustration.
Date:
December 5, 1916
Creator:
Hayes, George Daniel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Window Shade and Curtain Hanger.
Patent for an adjustable window shade frame that can be mounted on an existing window to allow curtains or shades to be adjusted from the top or the bottom, and secured at any desired level for privacy and/or ventilation.
Date:
December 31, 1918
Creator:
Edens, Myrtle J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Advertising Device.
Patent for "a simple and inexpensive advertising device adapted to be placed on street corners and other public places and capable of exciting the curiosity and attracting attention, and thereby directing the attention of persons to the advertisement" (lines 11-16).
Date:
March 20, 1894
Creator:
Attaway, Henry F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Supply-Valve Attachment
Patent for a valve add on for a carburetor in order to control the air flow.
Date:
January 24, 1918
Creator:
Kirkpatrick, Monroe C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Trimming Hooves of Animals.
Patent for a new and improved hoof trimmer. This design "consists in an upright standard or support having a concaved supporting-recess adapted to receive the animal's hoof, with parallel guide-ways arranged in rear thereof, a trimming implement moving in said guides, and so constructed as to operate upon the hoof without injury to the frog, and means for reciprocating the trimming device from either side of the animal" (lines 16-25).
Date:
December 11, 1883
Creator:
Mullins, Joshua C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Cultivators.
Patent for an improved arch-bar for cultivators that allows increasing and decreasing the space between drag bars without having to stop the team of horses.
Date:
July 31, 1906
Creator:
Weempe, Charles M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Lifting-Jacks
Patent for an attachment for lifting jacks.
Date:
March 28, 1911
Creator:
Porter, Horton B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Autographic Register.
Patent for a device to register fares in situations where passengers pay to be transported from one location to another, specifically by train. The fare-collector needs a way to have accurate receipts as fares are collected. The invention is a "small portable ticket-holder and registering device (lines 38-39), that issues valid tickets "which will enable a conductor to keep a correct current amount of fares as received as well as a record of tickets sold and mileage traveled on same" (lines 41-45), and prevents dishonesty in fare-collectors.
Date:
November 3, 1896
Creator:
Bond, George D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Feed-Water Steam-Generator
Patent for a steam generator for hydrocarbon burners. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 4, 1913
Creator:
Mills, John H. T. & Mills, Virgil H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bailing Press
Patent for a baling press. This invention combines a truck and horse that facilitates the pressing of hay.
Date:
June 30, 1903
Creator:
Moore, James Solomon; Adams, Barnett V.; Roy, Ransom J. & Jack, I. Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for improvements of patent no. 685838, dated November 5, 1901 by the same inventor George Daniel Hayes. The improvements included “the mounting of the plunger-operating lever, so as to insure a quick and positive disengagement thereof from the plunger-rod at the completion of the stroke and also to arrange for applying the power to the lever in such a manner as to obviate twisting thereof.” (Lines 14-19) Other improvements such as improved tension device for the plunger-operating lever, to provide the press with means whereby all of the bales may be formed of equal lengths and, means for preventing backward movement of the bales. Illustration is included.
Date:
May 17, 1904
Creator:
Hayes, George Daniel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for Baling-Press designed particularly as a further improvement of the press and eliminate the long operating lever. (lines 12-14).
Date:
December 12, 1905
Creator:
Hayes, George Daniel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for an improvement in baling-presses that uses a plunger operated press for maximum compression and minimum power.
Date:
November 5, 1901
Creator:
Hayes, Daniel George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle-Frame
Patent for a bicycle frame that can be used on bicycles in general, but is particularly suited for spring frame bicycles including illustrations.
Date:
September 11, 1900
Creator:
Mills, Virgel H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle-Frame.
Patent for a new and useful bicycle frame, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 23, 1899
Creator:
Mills, Virgel H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boring-Tool.
Patent for "a boring tool for boring scarred and worn engine cylinders" (lines 14-15) that allows for more customization when cutting.
Date:
January 4, 1921
Creator:
Adams, George Reese.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Breast Connector
Patent for a breast connector for horses. Illustration included.
Date:
March 14, 1905
Creator:
Mills, Virgel H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bridle Bit.
Patent for a new and improved bridle-bit. This design consists "[i]n a bridle-bit, the combination, with the bit-bar, provided with the loops of the angle-levers mounted on the said bar and having their corresponding arms respectively connected by the curb-chain and provided with rein loops or rings and the studs or pins on the levers engaging the loops" (lines 70-76).
Date:
May 21, 1889
Creator:
Bowles, Zachary Taylor
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bundle-Tie
Patent for a bundle tie particularly designed for mail packages. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 9, 1909
Creator:
Price, Thomas M. & Richard, Jay S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burial-Vault
Patent for an air and moisture proof burial vault which can also expel gases. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 3, 1911
Creator:
Pepple, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Calipers and Dividers.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in measuring instruments, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 12, 1898
Creator:
Taulman, Joseph Edwin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Brake
Patent for a rail car brake. Illustration included.
Date:
April 18, 1905
Creator:
Pepple, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Caster.
Patent for an improved design for casters, otherwise known as "rollers for bedsteads and the like" (lines 15-16), including illustrations.
Date:
April 19, 1881
Creator:
Custer, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History