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Coin-Controlled Slide (open access)

Coin-Controlled Slide

Patent for a coin-controlled slide used for operating mechanical musical instruments and vending machines. Illustrations included.
Date: September 13, 1910
Creator: Hammond, Robert P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coin Operated Vending Machine (open access)

Coin Operated Vending Machine

Patent for a coin operated vending machine that is meant to be inexpensive and adapted to protect the items being vended, and to allow adjustment for coins of different denominations.
Date: September 2, 1902
Creator: Fender, John Brown
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boltless Fish and Bed Plate for Railway Rails (open access)

Boltless Fish and Bed Plate for Railway Rails

Patent for "fish-plates and bed-plates so constructed that rails can be secured in place without the necessity of making holes in the ends of the rails [...]; and the object is to simplify rail-joints and make the ends of the abutting rails stronger and to repair broken rails" (lines 10-17).
Date: October 6, 1902
Creator: Crawford, William, R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Analgetic Bandage. (open access)

Analgetic Bandage.

Patent for a new and useful "analgetic bandage for curing headaches and oher disorders of the nervous system" (line 5-7) including illustrations.
Date: May 13, 1902
Creator: Ray, Thomas L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Machine for Forming Plastic Bodies (open access)

Automatic Machine for Forming Plastic Bodies

Patent for a machine which quickly and automatically forms plastic bodies and blocks when fed the material. Illustrations included.
Date: April 13, 1909
Creator: Burton, Luther L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn Sheller. (open access)

Corn Sheller.

Patent for a new and improved corn-sheller. This design, "[o]n its rear face, at the upper end of the body of the corn-sheller . . . provide[s] a hinged nubber-plate, which serves as a supporting-arm, and is constructed . . . for use in breaking or cutting off the smaller end of the ear of corn, at which end unsound kernels of corn are frequently found. The nubber-plate is hinged . . . to the upper end of the rear face of the body, and when opened out extends at nearly a right angle from the body and inclines slightly downward. When folded, the nubber-plate rests against the rear face of the body" (lines 39-52).
Date: September 13, 1887
Creator: Price, Benjamin B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper. (open access)

Cotton Chopper.

Patent for a new and improved cotton-chopper. This design consists in "the combination, with the frame and wheels, of the axle, journal-boxes for said axle adjustable lengthwise of said frame, a gear-wheel on said axle adjustable longitudinally thereon, the shaft parallel with the axle, a plurality of gear-wheels of varying diameters on said shaft, a bevel-pinion also on said shaft, and an inclined shaft carrying the hoe and provided with a bevel-pinion engaging the pinion on the shaft" (lines 8-17).
Date: December 13, 1887
Creator: Marshall, Benjamin C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Educational Chart, Drawing-Board, and Writing-Desk. (open access)

Combined Educational Chart, Drawing-Board, and Writing-Desk.

Patent for "a combined desk and blackboard" (line 68) that includes illustrations.
Date: January 13, 1914
Creator: Henderson, George A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie Buckle. (open access)

Bale-Tie Buckle.

Patent for a buckle that secures ends of bale ties so that they are not exposed nor endanger the hands of farm workers.
Date: May 13, 1913
Creator: McFarland, Frank Hays
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process for Synthesizing Oil and Surfactant-free Hyaluronic Acid Nanoparticles and Microparticles (open access)

Process for Synthesizing Oil and Surfactant-free Hyaluronic Acid Nanoparticles and Microparticles

Patent relating to a process for synthesizing oil and surfactant-free hyaluronic acid nanoparticles and microparticles.
Date: November 3, 2004
Creator: Hu, Zhibing; Xia, Xiaohu & Tang, Liping
System: The UNT Digital Library
Automatic Change-Over Signal for Motion-Picture Machines (open access)

Automatic Change-Over Signal for Motion-Picture Machines

Patent for an automatic change-over signal for motion picture machines that signals the approach of the end of the film reel.
Date: August 13, 1918
Creator: Wood, Victor & Feegles, De Witt C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Advertising Attachment for Scales. (open access)

Advertising Attachment for Scales.

Patent for improvements in advertising attachments for scales to "provide an attachment of the character specified, wherein a series of display members are provided, mounted to be moved into different positions, to bring different matter into different positions, and controlled to movement by the stepping onto the weighing platform of the one to be weighed." (lines 11-18)
Date: July 13, 1920
Creator: Funk, Arthur Neal
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane (open access)

Aeroplane

Patent for an aeroplane that is inexpensive and easily built, while preventing the aeroplane from going into a tailspin.
Date: December 13, 1921
Creator: {McGee, Dan}
System: The Portal to Texas History
Land-Breaking Plow (open access)

Land-Breaking Plow

Patent for a plow that also includes rotary drums. The rotary drums carried "sub-soiling and breaking plows; and the object is to provide plows which can be used to break the land to any desirable depth in any kind of soil without turning over the soil."
Date: October 13, 1914
Creator: Reed, Arthur
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Assorting, Stacking, and Counting Coins (open access)

Machine for Assorting, Stacking, and Counting Coins

Patent for a machine which organizes, stacks, counts, and gives the total value of a collection of coins. Illustrations included.
Date: April 13, 1909
Creator: Brewster, Bertram Forrest
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Twine-Holders (open access)

Improvement in Twine-Holders

Patent for improvement in twine-holders to help hold twine, cloth and wrapping to counters for ease of cutting, with illustration.
Date: August 13, 1878
Creator: Turner, John William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Picture Display Machine (open access)

Picture Display Machine

Patent for machines that display advertising machines that will rotate in the advertisements it displays.
Date: February 13, 1917
Creator: Osborne, James M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump-Barrel Attachment. (open access)

Pump-Barrel Attachment.

Patent for a pump barrel attachment, which has a trap to catch any material falling off the valve.
Date: September 13, 1910
Creator: Riddle, William Nelson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Press (open access)

Press

Patent for "a press adapted particularly for forcing tie-plates into railway-ties" (lines 8-10).
Date: August 13, 1901
Creator: Peter, John S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Guard Doors and the Like (open access)

Guard Doors and the Like

Patent for improved guards for doors.
Date: February 13, 1917
Creator: Agee, Howard L. & Agee, Sidney A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Patent for Matrix Broach-Molding Device (open access)

Patent for Matrix Broach-Molding Device

Patent for Matrix Broach-Molding Device
Date: March 13, 1917
Creator: Markwell, Andrew E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stirrup (open access)

Stirrup

Patent for a stirrup. This invention is intended for use when mounting difficult animals. Illustration included.
Date: December 13, 1906
Creator: Zimmerman, Gus H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hinge For Gates (open access)

Hinge For Gates

Patent for hinge for gates. Illustration included.
Date: June 13, 1905
Creator: Shelton, John F. & Texas Anchor Fence Company
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hoe-Sharpener. (open access)

Hoe-Sharpener.

Patent for a new and useful hoe sharpener, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 13, 1898
Creator: Foster, James T. & Miller, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History