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Automatic Gun
Patent for an automatic gun which automatically sends the next cartridge to the gun barrel after firing.
Date:
May 18, 1909
Creator:
Lovelace, Charles D.
System:
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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:
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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:
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Cotton and Cane Cultivator
Patent for Cotton and Cane Cultivator. Laterally-movable hoe that can be thrown in and out of action.
Date:
October 18, 1902
Creator:
Dodd, John A. & Dodd, J. A.
System:
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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:
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Copy Holder
Patent for a copy holder. This invention is designed to hold a manuscript so as allow for ease of reading. Illustration included.
Date:
December 18, 1906
Creator:
Sharp, Joshua H. & Haberzettle, Fred S.
System:
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Coin-Controlled Apparatus.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and durable coin-controlled apparatus that is "designed to indicate by the varying positions occupied by the spheres, the nature of a dream, the apparatus being designed primarily as a dream-revealer" (lines 17-20). The operator pulls a lever which forces the dice inside the glass container to move into holes. The operator reads a key on the outside of the device that indicates what he will dream.
Date:
July 18, 1893
Creator:
Taylor, James P.
System:
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Combination Stock and Freight Car.
Patent for stock cars and means for converting a stock car in part or as whole into a freight car.
Date:
March 18, 1913
Creator:
Bertsch, John Charles
System:
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Cold Process of Repairing Radiators of Internal-Combustion Engines.
Patent for repairing breaks in radiator pipes caused by freezing, by which can be repaired quickly and efficiently at a low cost.
Date:
May 18, 1920
Creator:
Henderson, Thomas E.
System:
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Wagon Break
Patent for improvements in wagon-breaks, with the object of providing simple, effective, and durable means by which the breaks may be applied by either foot or hand power (lines 8-12). Additionally, provides "improved means for altering the power of the breaks" (lines 18-19).
Date:
September 18, 1888
Creator:
Baker, Owen T.
System:
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Lock Hopple.
Patent for a new and improved lock-hopple. This design consists in "the combination of the semi-circular section provided at its free end with the latch-hook and concave edge, and the semi-circular section provided with the perforated projection for the attachment of the lap-ring, and with the lock" (lines 95-100). It further consists in "the partition, the cap-piece having the central key-opening, the journaled latch-hook having the end of its journal formed to fit in the recess in the end of the key, the curved double-arm spring, the lid, and the lid-stem having upon it a block provided with the shoulders" (lines 1-8).
Date:
December 18, 1888
Creator:
White, Elisha Lafayette
System:
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Improvement In Water-Elevators.
Patent for improvements to water-elevators using water-vessels which are suspended from a chain or cord, also known as endless carriers.
Date:
August 18, 1877
Creator:
Wright, Martin Van Buten
System:
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Magneto-Electric Telegraphy.
Patent for a machine that telegraphs messages between distant points by means of induced currents that produce magnets without the use of battery current, including illustrations.
Date:
August 18, 1885
Creator:
Brown, Fred H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Liquid-Fuel Burner.
Patent for a liquid fuel burner for use in stoves that completely burns the fuel.
Date:
July 18, 1911
Creator:
Hawkins, William L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements for Apparatus for Sealing Pipe-Joints
Patent for apparatus for sealing pipe-joints. Improvements and unique changes are explained in the text of the patent submission, accompanied by diagrams of the patent.
Date:
September 18, 1917
Creator:
Woodward, Edwin C
System:
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Well-Cleaner.
This invention relates to an improved well cleaner, and has for its principal object to provide a device of this kind adapted to be positioned in a well casing to direct a volume of air into the casing for cleaning the valves and straining elements thereof. A further object of the invention is to provide an automatic means for sealing the cleaner for holding the fluid within the well casing, against back pressure, during the cleaning operation. (Lines 8-19)
Date:
October 18, 1919
Creator:
Sargent, Lemuel H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark Plug for Internal-Combustion Engines
Patent for an improved automobile spark-plug with both insulated and non-insulated cylinders that will activate with any spark to the device.
Date:
January 18, 1915
Creator:
Loose, Robert D.
System:
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Mechanical Dentistry.
Patent for new and improved mechanical dentistry. This design consists in "[a] dental plate provided with a series of holes or perforations and a continuous groove upon the upper surface of the plate communicating with the holes or perforations therein" (lines 62-65).
Date:
May 18, 1886
Creator:
Mayfield, William Dudley
System:
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Mixing-Machine
Patent for a mixing machine for confectioners. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 18, 1910
Creator:
Vlahoyanes, Nickolas P.
System:
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Trolley-Pole.
Patent for inventing a trolley pole which is easy to build, comparatively inexpensive and easy to use. This is an improvement for the older version.
Date:
July 18, 1916
Creator:
Kirkpatrick, Otey. R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Striking Mechanism for Clocks
Patent for a striking mechanism for clocks which strikes a bell a number of times to indicate the hour of the day. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 18, 1913
Creator:
Friedman, Bernhard Z.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Screen-Door Hinge
Patent for a screen door hinge for both half or full length screens. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 18, 1913
Creator:
McFarland, Frank H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Foldable Tent Bed
Patent for a Combination Folding Tent Bed and Tent
Date:
June 18, 1918
Creator:
Marsh, Willard E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gas-Generating Apparatus.
Patent for a gas generating apparatus that produces combustible gas.
Date:
July 18, 1911
Creator:
O'Neall, James M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History