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Buggy-Spindle
Patent for a buggy spindle for "taking up lost motion in the axle box should it be too short or too worn" (lines 10-11). Illustrations included.
Date:
April 21, 1908
Creator:
Messer, Jeremiah Clark
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator
Patent for a combined cotton chopper and cultivator. Illustration included.
Date:
April 6, 1909
Creator:
Krueger, Gustav Adolf
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a churn for separating butter. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 6, 1897
Creator:
Franklin, Edward A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Mosquito-Canopy.
Patent for an adjustable, simple, and easily used mosquito-canopy for beds that fits over any style and size of bed, and is easily removed.
Date:
April 25, 1893
Creator:
Eva, Addison H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition for Preserving Food
Patent for "combustible compositions which, when ignited, produce a gas or gasses which have preservative and purifying effects upon various substances and surfaces or places exposed to the fumes. It is more especially designed, however, for preserving fruits, vegetables, meats, and other perishable articles." (lines 12-19).
Date:
April 15, 1890
Creator:
Radam, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Brake.
Patent for a new and improved car-brake. This design consists in "brake-shoes [which] are jointed by pivots to brake-blocks of the usual form, which are suspended from the truck-timbers by suitable suspending links or clevises, so that they may have a free longitudinal movement when acted upon by the actuating mechanism, and said blocks and brake-shoes are separated by transverse brake-bars, in order that they may be kept truly in-line with the car-wheels at all times" (lines 16-25).
Date:
April 5, 1887
Creator:
Greer, John William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dental Chair.
Patent for a dental chair improvement.
Date:
April 26, 1887
Creator:
Stiles, Edmund P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design utilizes "a draw-head, formed with the usual flaring mouth, and interior cavity. . . . the interior of the draw-head is narrowing from the mouth to the center of the pin, and widening from the latter backward. The object of this construction is, that it directs the entering link to the pin, and increases the power of resistance of the latter to the strain" (lines 23-33).
Date:
April 5, 1881
Creator:
Nuckols, William L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Case for Rural-Mail Carriers.
Patent for a device to enable rural mail carriers to efficiently carry and store postal items for sale. The storage unit (device) is water-resistant to protect the items inside from inclement weather while delivering mail.
Date:
April 24, 1917
Creator:
Campbell, Guy
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Mowers
Patent for a dividing and feeding mower attachment to guide grain into the cutters of the mowers in an upright position.
Date:
April 13, 1915
Creator:
Mosely, Jimmie E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Training Troop in the Pointing of Guns
Patent for improvements to apparatus to train troops in pointing and aiming various firearms. An electric lamp shines light through a tube to point at the target, with a shutter that can operate simultaneously with the trigger or remain open.
Date:
April 26, 1921
Creator:
Place, Olney
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wireless-Telegraph Receiver
Patent for a wireless telegraph receiver which receives incoming intelligence through electric waves and uses crystalline substances as its detector. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 20, 1909
Creator:
Way, Wesley M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tuck Creasing and Marking Attachment for Sewing Machines.
Patent for a new and improved tuck creasing and marking attachment for sewing machines. This design "is to provide a simple and effective tuck creaser or marker to be operated directly by the needle-bar of a sewing machine; and it consists, essentially, of a creaser and an arm attached to the needle-bar and carrying an indent-piece, which strikes the creaser to mark or crimp the tuck. The creaser is formed upon a slide adjustable upon a graduated plate or bar attached to the plate of the sewing machine" (lines 15-24).
Date:
April 2, 1889
Creator:
Crawford, Alice Ann
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Incinerator
Patent for improvement in incinerators by unique arrangement of receiving passage and receiving post closing the lower end with a second passage inclining.
Date:
April 8, 1919
Creator:
McCutcheon, Joe Alford
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wave-Motor.
Patent for a wave motor including an apparatus within a wave disturbed liquid using a power converting mechanism to convert energy in a more convenient form, including illustrations.
Date:
April 4, 1916
Creator:
Fousek, Karl
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lining for Pneumatic Tires and Other Pneumatic Articles
Patent for a lining for pneumatic tires and other pneumatic articles. The invention is designed to immediately close ruptures. It applies to bicycles, automobiles, and the like. Illustration included.
Date:
April 30, 1907
Creator:
Petmechy, Fred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Saws.
Patent for improvement in saws by way of the construction of beveled edged teeth with concave sides.
Date:
April 26, 1870
Creator:
Littlepage, C. V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ironing-Tables.
Patent for ironing tables in use with ironing machines. Consist of adjustable frame for stretching and holding garments for ironing.
Date:
April 2, 1878
Creator:
Becker, Rudolph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Boring Artesian Wells.
Patent for improvement in pump-drills for boring artesian wells by “combining pump-valves and pistons with a drill for boring artesian or other wells” (lines 21-23), including illustration.
Date:
April 17, 1860
Creator:
Taney, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hunting or Shooting Garment.
Patent for a coat for use while using firearms that has pads built into the shoulders to absorb the impact of the recoil of the gun and protect the shoulders from rubbing while carrying the gun.
Date:
April 2, 1907
Creator:
Petmecky, Fred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tongue-Scraper.
Patent for improvements in tongue-scrapers in which it will “not only used for scraping the coating from the tongue, but also for removing the small particles from the papillae which remain after the scraping operation.” (Lines 13-16) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 8, 1902
Creator:
Hagerty, Ida
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Gang-Plows and Cultivators.
Patent for an improved gang-plow and cultivator, including illustrations.
Date:
April 6, 1875
Creator:
Clements, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churns.
Patent for improvements to the design of the butter churn, to ease labor and improve efficiency, including illustrations.
Date:
April 18, 1876
Creator:
Rost, Otto
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hat-Fastener.
Patent for an adjustable hat holder using a band and fasteners, with illustrations.
Date:
April 9, 1901
Creator:
Huppertz, Lina
System:
The Portal to Texas History