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Checkrein Attachment
Patent for checkrein attachment. This invention is intended for use with harnessed horses. Illustration included.
Date:
April 12, 1904
Creator:
Clary, John A. & Butler, Hard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle-Support.
Patent for a bicycle support which holds "bicycles in upright position when not in use" (lines 8-9).
Date:
April 17, 1900
Creator:
Taylor, James P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Couch
Patent for a couch. Illustration included.
Date:
April 4, 1905
Creator:
Hartshorn, Guy C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Antifreezing Valve and Closet-Cistern
Patent for "valves which will allow all the water to flow out of the popes to a position below freezing-point after each application of water, whether the water is used in a closet-cistern or drawn out of a hudrant or other application is made, and to arrange the valves so that the supply-valves will be automatically closed by water-pressure in connection with the operation of a siphon in a closet-cistern and the waste-valve will be closed by the pressure of water, siphonic action, or both, when the supply-valves are opened." (lines 18-28).
Date:
April 23, 1901
Creator:
Wilkes, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Canning Fruits or Vegetables.
Patent for an improvement to canning fruits and vegetables.
Date:
April 3, 1900
Creator:
Compton, Anna & Jackson, A. L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Collector's Bill-Book.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in collectors' bill - books, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 18, 1899
Creator:
Ward, George Cooper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil or Other Insect Destroyer
Patent for
Date:
April 1, 1902
Creator:
John S. Doak & Alexander G. Farrington
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Advertising-Machine
Patent for an advertising machine for displaying various advertising cards in a motorized machine that displays all the different cards as it goes around in a circle.
Date:
April 18, 1911
Creator:
Helm, Virgil L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coupling for Connecting Plows Tandem.
Patent for a coupling for holdings plows together that allows for the plows to be close together, easily turned, and lets each plow perform its full function uninhibited by the other plows.
Date:
April 23, 1907
Creator:
Brooks, John L. M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Crude-Oil Burners" (lines 4-5), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 22, 1901
Creator:
Wilson, H.T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Scraper and Fender Attachment
Patent for a scraper and fender attachment for plows. Illustrations included
Date:
April 18, 1911
Creator:
Buttrill, David B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Closet-Cistern and Valve Therefor
Patent for "a cistern which needs no valve to start the siphon to work and to construct a valve which can be operated by a rod which runs up through the supply-pipe, thus doing away with the stuffing-box for a rod for operating the valve" (lines 11-16).
Date:
April 23, 1901
Creator:
Wilkes, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cigar-Cutter and Match-Safe.
Patent for a match-safe and cigar-cutter “receptacle for holding matches from which only one match can be taken at one time and to means for shifting the matches and at the same time cutting a cigar-tip.” (Lines 7-11) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 22, 1902
Creator:
Taylor, James P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Conveyer.
Patent for a conveyor for grain or gravel, which is made up of a series of trucks on rails which dump the materials out at set points and then right themselves.
Date:
April 14, 1908
Creator:
Schubert, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Seat
Patent for "an inexpensive form of car-seat, wherein the parts are so arranged that the back of the seat may be adjusted to almost any angle desired, a leg or foot rest, which also may be adjusted to suit the convenience of the occupant of the seat" (lines 7-13).
Date:
April 2, 1889
Creator:
Goelet, Edward B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Door.
Patent for a new and improved door for railroad cars. This design consists in "a car having a door-opening, top and bottom tracks, and perpendicular door-posts, one post provided with a series of recesses in its side next to the opening and the other having recesses in its outer side or side nearest the end of the car . . . the door sliding on said tracks and having forwardly-projecting cleats on its front edge to enter the recesses in the first-named post, and provided on its inner side at its opposite end with cleats projecting toward its front edge to enter the recesses in second-named strip" (lines 83-95).
Date:
April 2, 1889
Creator:
Goelet, Edward B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for improvements in baling presses "in which the necessary motion may be imparted to the plunger in a rapid and effective manner, and which shall be productive of considerable saving of labor and power" (lines 15-19)
Date:
April 29, 1890
Creator:
Anderson, Zachariah J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brick-Truck
Patent for improvements in trucks for carrying bricks.
Date:
April 16, 1889
Creator:
Weekes, John William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aerial Ship
Patent for "a ship for navigating the air, which shall be almost or quite as easily governed and controlled as regards its course of travel, irrespective of the direction of the wind and in other respects, as a ship provided with propelling means, used to sail in or through the water" (lines 9-15).
Date:
April 19, 1892
Creator:
Riddle, William Nelson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crate
Patent for improvements for shipping crates, including illustrations.
Date:
April 22, 1913
Creator:
Dick, Archie P., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Advertising Device
Patent for an Advertising Device. This device provides "a series of hinged leaves so mounted that those exposed to view have the experience of being part of a book." (lines 14-17). "A further object is to provide means which will conceal the operating mechanism, and mystify the observer" (lines 23-25), with a "supporting structure and a dummy provided with a movable hand...for turning said movable shaft as the leaves are turned" (lines 3-13).
Date:
April 6, 1912
Creator:
Friedman, Bernard Z.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve-Lifter
Patent for an improved device that can be applied to a valve spring plate without losing grip.
Date:
April 8, 1920
Creator:
Chaney, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Intestine-Protector.
Patent for an intestine protector that protects the intestines from needles (or other sharp instruments) after surgical procedures have concluded.
Date:
April 29, 1913
Creator:
Miller, Robert E. L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History