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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
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
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
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.
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.
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-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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
Vehicle-Wheel.
Patent for a strong, durable, and inexpensive vehicle-wheel in children's carriages with a double-felly wheel meant to broaden "the tread thereof sufficiently to prevent the wheels falling into cracks between boards of board walks, such as are common in the suburbs or rural districts" (lines 15-19). The spokes are like that of a single-felly wheel.
Date:
July 23, 1895
Creator:
Laube, Godfried
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam Coffee or Tea Pot.
Patent for a steam coffee or tea pot that has "double walls forming an inner and outer chamber, an interiorly arranged spout connecting said chambers and a vent tube arranged in the spout communicating with the inner chamber" (lines 77-81).
Date:
August 7, 1894
Creator:
Laube, Godfried
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock.
Patent for new and improved Nut-Locks, allowing for "a simple, strong, durable, and efficient arrangement for effectually locking a nut on a bolt..." (lines 16-18), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 29, 1916
Creator:
Portesi, Santos & Taini, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Track Walker's Tool.
Patent for a new and improved track-walker's tool. This design "consist[s] of a sectional handle or body having a claw-bar and spiking-maul at one end and a wrench at the opposite end, the said wrench being provided with a stud upon one face, the distance between the outer face of said stud and the outer surface of the maul when the sections are joined together and the maul faces the stud being such as to correspond to the standard distance between rails" (lines 14-23).
Date:
December 2, 1890
Creator:
Rohrbach, Gabriel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Medical Compound
Patent for a medical compound which "when taken internally, is a cure for gonorrhea, gravel, dysentery, and diarrhea, and when applied externally a cure for rheumatism" (lines 12-14).
Date:
September 4, 1906
Creator:
Mendez, Jesus M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Post Hole Digger
Patent for a post hole digger with an illustration.
Date:
November 13, 1906
Creator:
Wall, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Panorama-Camera.
Patent for a panorama camera to adjust or remove the film without exposing it, including illustrations.
Date:
May 16, 1905
Creator:
Baker, Franklin James
System:
The Portal to Texas History