Resource Type
States
Counties
Decade
Month
304 Matching Results
Results open in a new window/tab.
Hotel Office Dinkey
Patent for an hotel office dinkey. Illustration included.
Date:
July 31, 1906
Creator:
Browder, Henry Worden
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic-Drill
Patent for an improved hydraulic drill to penetrate and bore holes into earth, clay and similar materials, including illustrations.
Date:
August 11, 1903
Creator:
Higgins, Pattillo
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Drill
Patent for a hydraulic drill. This invention is a class of drill for deep drilling that delivers water to the bottom of the opening.
Date:
August 11, 1903
Creator:
Higgins, Pattillo
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Swivel.
Patent for "new and useful improvements in hydraulic swivels" (lines 1-6).
Date:
January 16, 1906
Creator:
Wiggs, James A., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Swivel
Patent for the hydraulic swivel. This is an improvement to the hydraulic swivel that already exists. It involves "the rotary well-drilling machines, to permit the flow of water to the point of the drill." (Black)
Date:
December 1, 1914
Creator:
Black, Lee J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Swivel
Patent for a new and useful improvement in hydraulic swivels by simplifying the structure and making the device more efficient and reliable.
Date:
March 7, 1922
Creator:
Black, Lee J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Swivel.
Patent for a hydraulic swivel valve, to allow water to flow to the drill stem for purposes of cooling and lubrication.
Date:
March 22, 1921
Creator:
Black, Lee J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner.
Patent for a hydrocarbon burner for stoves, which stores and feeds the hydrocarbon to the stove.
Date:
August 4, 1908
Creator:
Callihan. Willie H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ice Hook
Patent for an ice hook.
Date:
May 3, 1904
Creator:
Ball, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ice-Making Apparatus
Patent for an ice-making apparatus that both cools the brine and makes the ice.
Date:
December 31, 1912
Creator:
Bell, Samuel Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ignition-Tube Heater
Patent for "fire prevention, or explosions, by gas or oil surrounding the heater of the ignition-tube of a gas engine." (lines 11-14) including illustrations.
Date:
August 10, 1915
Creator:
Kincade, Elmer C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Drawing Off Tallow, Lard &c., from Rendering-Tanks.
Patent for a new method for drawing off tallow, lard, etc. from pressure tanks by introducing water. This includes illustrations.
Date:
June 7, 1870
Creator:
Archer, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Jack-Screws and Clamps Combined.
Patent for an invention "to combine a jack-screw or lifting-jack with a clamp, so that they may be interchangeably used." (Lines 19-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 20, 1873
Creator:
Jackson, Thomas R.; Jackson, Asberry C. & Watson, Claudius S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Percussion-Shells.
This patent was created for individuals to be able to hit an object with the instrument and the oject immediately explodes on impact. It then produces an excessive amount of explosions. The invention is made out of shells with sections assembled together infused with different substances, and connected by a fuse.
Date:
April 9, 1878
Creator:
Urquhart, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Shingle-Bolting Machines.
Patent for a shingle-bolting machine.
Date:
December 1, 1874
Creator:
Fletcher, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Windmills
Patent for the improvement of wind mills, that includes a detailed description as well as labeled figure drawings.
Date:
May 20, 1873
Creator:
Jackson, Thomas R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Apparatus for Concentrating Acid
Patent for an apparatus for concentrating acid. This apparatus relates to concentrating weak acid taken from petroleum sludge.
Date:
October 10, 1911
Creator:
Gray, Elisha Burritt
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Burners
Patent for improvements for burners. It is related explicitly to hydrocarbon burners. Its purpose is to keep the oil and steam separate as they leave the burner by keeping them in two separate streams.
Date:
June 19, 1918
Creator:
Trahan, Clair A
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Processes of Distillation and Apparatus Therefor
Patent for improvements in processes of distillation and apparatus therefor in petroleum refineries.
Date:
April 30, 1918
Creator:
Prichard, George L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improving Oils.
Patent for a method of improving the quality of more volatile petroleum oils, such as gasoline and burning oils.
Date:
December 23, 1919
Creator:
McAfee, Almer M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvment in Steam-Plows.
Patent for one machine that plows, sows, roles and harrow soil in one operation or separately, including illustrations.
Date:
June 25, 1861
Creator:
Saladee, Cyrus W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Inductance Device for Wireless Electrical Signaling
Patent for device to "receive messages transmitted in the form of dots, dashes or spoken words through space" (lines 16-17)
Date:
March 30, 1915
Creator:
Lorenz, Charley O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Injector-Burner
Patent for an injector burner which "consumes a mixture of oil and steam" (lines 10-11). Illustrations included.
Date:
August 27, 1907
Creator:
Wiggs, James A., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Journal-Bearing
Patent for a self-lubricating journal bearing that is protected from foreign matter. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 13, 1909
Creator:
Lanaux, Alfred A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History