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Knee Pad.
Patent for an improved knee pad, which provides better ventilation and cushioning to the knee, including illustrations.
Date:
November 21, 1922
Creator:
Rylander, Parrish H.
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
Liquid Fuel Burner
Patent for fuel burner that can be dismantled and easily moved around the kitchen.
Date:
June 20, 1920
Creator:
Tucker, William A.
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
Machine for Making Tamales
Patent for a Machine for Making Tamales
Date:
July 2, 1918
Creator:
Winfrey, Herbert O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window-Fastener.
Patent for a spring lever for fastening sliding windows, including illustration.
Date:
August 31, 1858
Creator:
Root, Irving
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill.
Patent for windmills by making them self-regulating and "it consists in the construction and arrangement of devices whereby the force of the wind is made to move the wind-wheel and crank-shift backward and turn the vane, and also in the devices for turning the vane at will" (lines 14-18).
Date:
February 3, 1880
Creator:
Tevis, James H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Cleaning, Polishing, and Assorting Nuts.
Patent for a new and improved nut cleaner, polisher, and sorter. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the nut-cleaning cylinder having the longitudinal door and transversely-arranged wire cylinders having doors, of the intermediate hopper, arranged lengthwise of the cylinder, as well as under it, and having apertures over the doors of the wire cylinders . . . and a series of sieves, successively increasing in mesh, of a perforated floor, an end plate terminating in [an] eccentric, an elevator, and a delivery spout" (lines 28-34).
Date:
September 13, 1881
Creator:
Koerber, Rudolph C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive Head-Light
Patent for improvements to locomotive headlights granted to John Robert McCormick in order to make the headlights movable by levers or gears.
Date:
March 31, 1885
Creator:
McCormick, John Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Cracking Nuts
Patent for a machine for cracking nuts of various types but especially pecans.
Date:
November 5, 1912
Creator:
McDonald, Charles Walton
System:
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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:
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Water-Heater
Patent for a device whereby water or other liquid may be heated instantaneously. (line 10-11)
Date:
December 12, 1905
Creator:
Hutchins, Rufus J.
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
Weeding Machine
Patent for a weeding machine to run between rows of crops. Illustration included.
Date:
March 29, 1904
Creator:
Lloyd, William Daniel & Steck, E. L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Rounding Leather.
Patent for a machine for rounding leather in harness making shops, which produces a uniform product and requires less time and effort than hand rounding leather.
Date:
November 17, 1908
Creator:
Pfeifer, Reinhold A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weeder
Patent for an invention "to provide a simple, light, and durable implement which will effectually remove weeds, rubbish, and all foreign matter simultaneously from each side of a row or drill of corn, cotton, or other plants and direct the removed material to the longitudinal center of the row or drill" (lines 8-14).
Date:
February 11, 1902
Creator:
Lloyd, William Daniel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Spraying Liquids And Powders.
Patent for a new and useful machine for spraying liquids and powers for " destroying insects and capable of spraying both liquid and powder separately or simultaneously" (line 13 - 16).
Date:
October 10, 1899
Creator:
Franklin, Edward A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Cracking Nuts
Patent for a machine that is able to crack multiple types of nuts at a rapid rate.
Date:
June 22, 1915
Creator:
McDonald, C. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Jack.
Patent for a vehicle-jack that can raise and lower all of the supporting legs using a single lever, as well as lengthen and shorten the jack at will to adapt it to vehicles of different sizes.
Date:
June 16, 1914
Creator:
Douglass, John A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Indicating Apparatus for the Spark Plugs of Hydrocarbon Engines.
Patent for an indicating apparatus for the spark-plugs of hydrocarbon-engines. The apparatus allows the motor vehicle driver to determine "which spark plug is connected in circuit with the timer" (lines 20-21). The patent includes illustrations and specifications.
Date:
June 13, 1916
Creator:
Remmert, Otto H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle.
Patent for a vehicle that is "designed particularly for travel through the water but adapted through the peculiarity of its construction for travel with practically equal facility on the land." (p. 1, lines 9-12), including illustrations.
Date:
May 4, 1915
Creator:
Ramsey, Frank T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Life-Preserver
Patent for Life-Preserver. Can be used in any emergency situation but mostly in the water.
Date:
February 29, 1916
Creator:
Carlson, Carl O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Writing Pen.
Patent for a new and improved pen. This design has for its object "to provide a simple implement which may be readily employed for writing purposes; and it consists in a thimble-like sleeve having a writing-pen arranged at its outer end, adapted to be easily applied to the index or fore-finger; and it further consists in the peculiar construction of implement" (lines 7-14).
Date:
October 16, 1888
Creator:
Seabaugh, Conrad
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill.
Patent for an automatic windmill "which will be capable of obtaining a large amount of power from a comparatively light wind." (Lines 14-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 24, 1897
Creator:
Hardaway, Robert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History