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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
Car Coupling
Patent for a rail car coupling. Illustration included.
Date:
December 4, 1906
Creator:
Yeiser, John Clarke & Story, Leonidas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wind and Water Motor.
Patent for improvements in wind and water motors in which it will not only increase its efficiency and durability but also, be capable of operating in tidal rivers, streams and other currents. This is an improvement of patent no. 588572 of the same inventor. Illustration is included.
Date:
January 9, 1900
Creator:
Hardaway, Robert Early
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coupling-Pin.
Patent for a coupling pin for railroad cars, which prevents the coupling from coming loose accidentally by having a key which locks the coupling in place and can only be undone by the cars operating systems. when it is time to disconnect the car.
Date:
July 23, 1907
Creator:
Yeiser, John Clarke
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brick Truck
Patent for a truck that is designed to make the transportation of bricks easier as well as the transportation of other materials.
Date:
September 22, 1905
Creator:
Sacks, Martin Kuno
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Treating Timber.
Patent for an invention to aid in the treatment of treating timber. The invention is said to "provide a simple, inexpensive, durable, and efficient apparatus by means of which railroad cross-ties, fence-posts, and the like may be expeditiously and economically treated by immersion in a bath of some preserving liquid" (lines 16-22) including illustrations.
Date:
July 11, 1905
Creator:
Gerhard, Philip H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Card-Cutting Attachment for Printing-Presses.
Patent for an attachment for printing presses that not only acts as a card cutter, but can also change the shape of the design and automatically eject the paper.
Date:
November 26, 1901
Creator:
Speight, Winchester Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cultivator and Planter.
Patent for a new part that attaches to an ordinary cultivator. The device has a plow that runs in front, and a planting mechanism that spreads seeds in the plowed rows. This device makes it possible to plough and plant in one sweep of the field.
Date:
December 31, 1901
Creator:
Noren, Peter O. & Clyburn, Mile D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
CAR-COUPLING
Patent for a Car-Coupling. "This invention relates to car-couplings of the Janney type..." (lines 9-10) including illustrations.
Date:
August 11, 1903
Creator:
Yeiser, John Clarke
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn and Freezer
Patent for a churn that may also be used as an ice cream freezer. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 26, 1908
Creator:
Lambie, Robert Common
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Dasher
Patent for an improved churn dasher "to thoroughly agitate the cream at the center of the churn-body and also around the bottom of the walls thereof" (lines 13-15) and "also to cause tangential streams or currents at the bottom of the churn, so as to thoroughly agitate all of the cream and effectively intermingle the air therewith" (lines 18-22), including illustrations.
Date:
October 23, 1900
Creator:
Franklin, Edward R.
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
Combined Concentrator, Amalgamator, and Separator
Patent for improvements to a Combined Concentrator, Amalgamator, and Separator used for ore and gravel.
Date:
December 3, 1901
Creator:
Journeay, William O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Turning and Leveling Plow.
Patent for an improved combined turning and leveling plow.
Date:
February 9, 1901
Creator:
Collins, Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Match Box
Patent for automatic match box. This device is designed to eject matches to a suitable distance. Illustration included.
Date:
November 9, 1909
Creator:
Hanna, John Griffin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn
Patent for a churn with a dasher with blades that is able to rotate to force the milk or cream in an upward and downward direction. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 5, 1909
Creator:
Franklin, Edward A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Testing Errors of Refraction
Patent for an eye testing device that has a movable lens, a measuring device for correction, and two different cards with test type on them which are fed into the machine during testing for astigmatism and myopia, presbyopia, and hyperopia to determine the level of correction needed in glasses.
Date:
July 2, 1907
Creator:
Bahn, Gustavus Adolphus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner
Patent for an oil feeder designed to burn crude oil. It features a carbon deposit chamber and a vent pipe.
Date:
May 5, 1903
Creator:
Hartung, Theodore A.
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
Blind-Slat Fastener.
Patent for improvements in blind-slat fasteners, in which it holds the blinds so that air can pass through. Illustration is included.
Date:
December 14, 1909
Creator:
Riley, John Brizendine
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie
Patent for a bale-tie fastener including illustrations.
Date:
July 31, 1900
Creator:
Cypher, David A. & Dayton, William L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Minnow Bucket and Trap.
Patent for a combined minnow bucket and trap that overcomes past disadvantages, is simple in constructions, inexpensive to manufacture and reliable.
Date:
March 27, 1906
Creator:
Petmecky, Fred
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
Water-Heater.
Patent for a compact gas powered water heater that runs the water through firmly attached tubes that expand and contract with the water temperature and are placed in between heating elements. The machine can also be packed with ice to cool water in the tubes.
Date:
June 18, 1907
Creator:
Haynie, Brooks
System:
The Portal to Texas History