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Flushing Tank
Patent for a flushing tank. Illustration included.
Date:
June 21, 1904
Creator:
Walker, Benjamin, Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electrical Battery
Patent for an electrical battery. Illustration included.
Date:
June 14, 1904
Creator:
Haschke, Juluis E. & Haschke, Feodor G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ice Conveying Apparatus
Patent for an ice conveying apparatus. Illustration included.
Date:
June 14, 1904
Creator:
Westergaard, Helge & Smith, Noyes D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Pulling Cotton Stalks
Patent for a machine for pulling cotton stalks. Illustration included.
Date:
June 14, 1904
Creator:
Swenson, Werner
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sulfuric-Acid Process of Extracting Precious Metals From Solutions
Patent for "new and useful Imporivements in Processes of Recovering Precious Metals from Their Solutions, and which I designate as the 'Sulfuric-Acid Process;' [...] to separate the precious metals from their cyanid solutions in a rapid and thorough matter and to recover the precious metals from solutions thereof." (lines 5-8 & 22-26)
Date:
June 23, 1903
Creator:
Bahn, Gustavus A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay Press
Patent for a hay press. "This invention has relation to presses having a rebounding and intermittently-operated plunger, and aims to provide a novel and positive actuating means for utilizing the power applied to the sweep in any accustomed manner (line 9-15) illustrations included.
Date:
June 16, 1903
Creator:
Ziller, August & Bouchard, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Casing Water Packer
Patent for improved casing water-packer used for Artesian wells.
Date:
June 9, 1903
Creator:
Haas, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay Press
Patent for a hay press as it "relates to certain improvements in hay-presses, and has for its principal object to improve the construction of the power-head and pitman connection" (lines 7-10). Illustrations included.
Date:
June 9, 1903
Creator:
Dixon, Albert S. & Schneider, Jacob P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Child's Bib.
Patent for improvement in children’s bibs, by providing bibs with a pocket at its lower end to catch any food or drink that might be dropped or spilled, thereby preventing soiling of the clothes and the carpet or floor. (Lines 12-16) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 25, 1901
Creator:
Ziller, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tellurian.
Patent for a device "which shall illustrate the axial and orbital movements of the earth and the directions of the sun's rays upon our globe... by simple and effective means of automatic character." (Lines 17-24) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 22, 1897
Creator:
McArthur, Neel John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Door-Check.
Patent for an improvement on door-stops meant to "check the door at any point in its traverse and at the same time serve as a door fastening and stop" (lines 14-16). It is hand adjustable operating-rod.
Date:
June 2, 1896
Creator:
Campbell, Thomas Jefferson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pinless Clothes-Line.
Patent for "pinless clothes-lines consisting of a series of wire sections connected loosely together at their adjacent ends by means of rings or links, each section having formed on its ends suitable spring-clamps to engage the articles of apparel hung on the line." (Lines 18-24) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 2, 1896
Creator:
Sterzing, Fred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a simple, efficient, and improved churn that thoroughly aerating and stirring the cream. It has a removable vertical dasher and two dasher cups.
Date:
June 11, 1895
Creator:
Franklin, Edward A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cigar-Package.
Patent for an improved cigar-package that complies "with all the requirements of the revenue laws, to be retailed to purchasers, who destroy the stamp upon opening the package, the construction being such that the packages thus opened can be used as pocket cases for the protection of the cigars" (lines 21-27).
Date:
June 5, 1894
Creator:
Philipson, Sigmund
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash-Holder
Patent for "an improved device, easily attached,cheap of manufacture, and durable and efficient in use, which will dispense with the employment of weights and cords, and which will not be affected by the Weather to allow the window to fall by the shrinkage of the holder" (lines 14-20).
Date:
June 10, 1890
Creator:
Stukes, John Marion
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Base Ball Game.
Patent for a new and improved board game. This design "consists of a game-board marked out to represent a baseball field and provided with a series of marked depressions and a number of baffle-pins, guideways, or gutters being arranged in either side of the board, and a back-stop being arranged at the upper end of the board, provision being made for imparting a proper inclination to the board and for the propulsion of marbles through the gutters or troughs" (lines 13-22).
Date:
June 3, 1890
Creator:
Maxcy, John Wharton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nutshell Cutting Machine.
Patent for a new and improved nutshell-cutting machine. This design consists in "the ring provided with slots, the apertured plate, the cutters inserted in the slots, the set-screws adapted to hold the cutters in the slots, and the follower . . . arranged to force the nut through between the cutters, and means for supporting the cutters in the position of use" (lines 72-80).
Date:
June 21, 1887
Creator:
Pecht, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark-Arrester.
Patent for an improvement to spark-arresters, which deflect sparks and cinders released by locomotive engines. Includes illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1886
Creator:
McCormick, John Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Shears.
Patent for new and improved animal shears. This design is "of a platinum or other wire or conductor heated to a high temperature, sufficient to burn through the fibers of the wool or hair, and [is] passed over the surface of the body as close as may be deemed desirable to the roots. No injurious effects are produced upon the animal or upon the wool or hair removed, while at the same time the same may be removed with great uniformity and expedition" (lines 28-36).
Date:
June 8, 1886
Creator:
Harrell, Joseph J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fruit Squeezer.
Patent for a new and improved fruit juicer. This design consists "[i]n a fruit-squeezer having flat or nearly flat pressing-surfaces, the combination of jaws having lever-handles integral therewith, and face-plates held in transverse dovetail seats in the faces of the respective jaws by means of clamping-screws, and supported therein by central set-screws" (lines 89-95).
Date:
June 26, 1883
Creator:
Stein, Philip H. & Tams, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Caster.
Patent for a new and improved insect-killing furniture-caster. This design "consists in a cup shaped shell having a bowl or liquid-receptacle at its lower edge and a filling orifice or passage extending through the shell and leading to the bottom of the liquid-receptacle. A socket or inwardly-projecting tube at the top of the shell encircles the shank of the caster and rests upon a shoulder on said shank, which serves to hold the insect guard in position" (lines 17-25).
Date:
June 27, 1882
Creator:
Tumey, Charles Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed Planter.
Patent for a new and improved seed planter. This design consists in "[t]he combination [of] a lever, shaft, bars, and ring-plate on a wheel, [and] of the four fixed cams and intermediate detachable cams" (lines 66-69).
Date:
June 28, 1881
Creator:
Gallway, Richard James.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seeding-Machine.
Patent for "a new and useful improvements in Seeding-Machines" (lines 5-6) the light draft interchangeable seeding-machine can be converted from a cotton-planter to a corn-planter, and vice versa. The invention is "compact, simple, and durable" (line 13)
Date:
June 29, 1880
Creator:
McCall, John L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in the Manufacture of Hydraulic Cement
Patent for the improvement in the manufacture of hydraulic cement with specifications for the manufacturing process and a description of usage.
Date:
June 25, 1878
Creator:
Dimelow, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History