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Design for a Game-Board (open access)

Design for a Game-Board

Patent for a design for a game-board this is both useful and ornamental.
Date: May 11, 1897
Creator: Sneddon, Guy Hoyt
System: The Portal to Texas History
Book Guard (open access)

Book Guard

Patent for a book guard with an illustration.
Date: December 21, 1909
Creator: Boatright, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Valve (open access)

Automatic Valve

Patent for an automatic valve that uses a lever to open and close quickly, with illustrations.
Date: November 20, 1906
Creator: Pinkerton, Henry S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Felly-Joint Bridge (open access)

Felly-Joint Bridge

Patent for a felly joint bridge designed to strengthen and support vehicle wheels, with illustrations.
Date: November 1, 1910
Creator: Lawrie, Alexander
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boiler Cleaning Compound (open access)

Boiler Cleaning Compound

Patent for a boiler cleaning compound for steam-boilers and furnaces to prevent buildup from hard water.
Date: September 27, 1904
Creator: López, Néstor
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Valve (open access)

Automatic Valve

Patent for an automatic valve, "designed to automatically control the water-supply to a suitable reservoir through the operation of a float (lines 9-11), with illustrations.
Date: April 25, 1905
Creator: Pinkerton, Henry S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Billiard-Ball Holder. (open access)

Billiard-Ball Holder.

Patent for a simple billiard-ball holder that is meant to "provide a means for holding the balls when not in use, so that they will not fall out of the holder to the floor, and means to provide for the tilting of the holder out of line, so that the balls will roll to the opposite end, and out of the opening into the triangle, thereby saving a good part of the time in taking the balls out of the holder" (lines 20-27).
Date: July 11, 1893
Creator: Rohrbach, Gabriel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Car and Air-Brake Coupling. (open access)

Combined Car and Air-Brake Coupling.

Patent for a simple, practical, and easy to use car coupling and in air brake coupling that automatically couples cars together. It can be easily uncoupled from the top or sides of cars. When it couples, it also connects the cars' air pipes together.
Date: November 14, 1893
Creator: Rohrbach, Gabriel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for a car-coupling "which will afford means to automatically connect cars and release them in a safe manner from the roof or side of a car" (lines 9-11) and to adapt the improved coupling for connection with one of the ordinary type, including illustrations.
Date: November 3, 1891
Creator: Rohrbach, Gabriel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow. (open access)

Harrow.

Patent for a new and improved harrow. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the revolving harrow-teeth and prong-wheels, of the centrally-hinged vibratory frame, carrying drag-hook teeth . . . [and] [t]he combination, with the harrow-frame . . . carrying the hook-teeth, of the pulley, chain, and lever" (lines 62-70).
Date: March 20, 1883
Creator: Lewis, Charles Patton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate-Hinge. (open access)

Gate-Hinge.

Patent for improvements in gate hinges, "the object being to provide hinges which will hold the gate in an open position." (Lines 9-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 2, 1891
Creator: Rohrbach, Gabriel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Door. (open access)

Car-Door.

Patent for a sliding car door and the frame that allows its sliding mechanism to work.
Date: September 7, 1915
Creator: Sneddon, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fuel-Oil-Controlling Valve (open access)

Fuel-Oil-Controlling Valve

Patent for a new fuel oil controlling valve for locomotives, with instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 27, 1913
Creator: Sneddon, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Axle Lubricator (open access)

Car-Axle Lubricator

Patent for improving parts of the journal box in car axles to simplify construction and enable access to the interior of the journal box for replacement or otherwise.
Date: May 18, 1920
Creator: Urbeita, Jose M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive Ash-Pan. (open access)

Locomotive Ash-Pan.

Patent for "locomotive ash-pans which are cleared of ashes and cinders without necessitating the stopping of the engine or requiring the fireman or other person going beneath the engine to relieve the ash-pan of its contents, thereby saving expense in labor and obviating loss of time in long runs." (Lines 8-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 9, 1897
Creator: Cummings, Summer Field
System: The Portal to Texas History
Turn-Table. (open access)

Turn-Table.

Patent for a turn table that is "used for turning locomotives engines end to end; and the object of [the] invention is to provide a simple lever attachment for an ordinary turn-table, by which one man may easily turn the table and its load, and also to arrange the lever mechanism so that it may be easily locked in place when not in use and will not be likely to get out of order" (lines 8-16).
Date: March 27, 1894
Creator: Rohrbach, Gabriel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel. (open access)

Vehicle-Wheel.

Patent for a vehicle wheel meant for children's carriages that has double fellies, spokes, and a hub that has "an interposed band connecting said fellies at suitable intervals and adapted for the attachment to the spokes" (lines 69-71).
Date: February 12, 1895
Creator: Laube, Godfried
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Wheel. (open access)

Vehicle Wheel.

Patent for a wheel attachment of "combined purposes of tire, felly and safety guard" (lines 15-16), with slight wing-like widening between spokes to prevent sinking into ruts, with optional cutouts to reduce weight, including illustrations.
Date: May 7, 1895
Creator: Laube, Godfried
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel. (open access)

Vehicle-Wheel.

Patent for a strong, durable, and inexpensive vehicle-wheel with an improved design that is meant for light vehicles. The wheel will "provide novel means whereby the wheel will be prevented from slipping into ruts in the road, thus overcoming the jar that would otherwise be caused" (lines 14-18).
Date: May 21, 1895
Creator: Laube, Godfried
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve (open access)

Valve

Patent for improvement to a valve design, with illustrations.
Date: January 8, 1907
Creator: Pinkerton, Henry S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Turn Table (open access)

Turn Table

Patent for a new and improved turn table. This invention "relates to an improvement in turn-tables, and its an improvement on that particular kind of turn-table shown and described in Patent NO.517,304" (line 7-9).
Date: December 28, 1897
Creator: Rohrbach, Gabriel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Trap (open access)

Insect-Trap

Patent for an insect trap which attracts insects with a light and contains them.
Date: April 4, 1911
Creator: La Baum, Francis M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water-Cooler. (open access)

Water-Cooler.

Patent for a simple, efficient, and inexpensive portable water cooler that refrigerates the water "by the action of the air and the evaporation of the liquid or vapor percolating the material" (lines 12-14). It does not use ice and can be used in rural areas.
Date: September 5, 1893
Creator: Hymans, Joseph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel. (open access)

Vehicle-Wheel.

Patent for an improvement on vehicle wheels to "provide a novel and inexpensive safety-guard for wheels of the above-referred-to class, whereby the wheel will be prevented from entering crevices and cracks" (lines 14-18) and to improve durability.
Date: July 23, 1895
Creator: Laube, Godfried
System: The Portal to Texas History