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Combined Tie-Plate and Rail-Anticreeper. (open access)

Combined Tie-Plate and Rail-Anticreeper.

Patent for a combined railroad tie and rail anti-creeping device, which prevents the rails from spreading.
Date: December 7, 1909
Creator: Clarke, Marcus S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Tie-Plate and Rail Anticreeper (open access)

Combined Tie-Plate and Rail Anticreeper

Patent for a railroad tie plate designed to remained locked to the base of the rail and to prevent dislocation of the base. Illustrations included.
Date: March 29, 1910
Creator: Clarke, Marcus S. & Adreon, Edward L., Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Claw and Pinch Bar (open access)

Combination Claw and Pinch Bar

Patent for a combination claw and pinch bar that is adapted for use with railway tracks. Illustrations included.
Date: May 10, 1910
Creator: Clarke, Marcus S. & Adreon, Edward L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bread-Cutter (open access)

Bread-Cutter

Patent for a bread cutter which can cut multiple loaves of bread in succession and cuts of the crust of the bread.
Date: November 12, 1907
Creator: Hassell, Frank J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Body-Bolster (open access)

Body-Bolster

Patent for a body bolster for a railway vehicle. Illustrations included.
Date: December 17, 1907
Creator: Wahlert, Henry A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Street Car Coupling (open access)

Automatic Street Car Coupling

Patent for automatic street car coupling.
Date: May 30, 1905
Creator: Cary, Lewis C.; Caldwell, Julia & Swiney, Everett E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Music-Indicator (open access)

Design for a Music-Indicator

Patent for an "ornamental design for a music-indicator" (lines 11-12).
Date: September 4, 1906
Creator: Thrash, William Edwin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Feeding Envelops to Type-Writing Machines. (open access)

Device for Feeding Envelops to Type-Writing Machines.

Patent for "a device for feeding envelops to type-writing machines, the object being to construct a device of the character described which is adapted to be mounted on the carriage of the machine and feed envelops to be addressed continuously and automatically to the platen on said machine." (Lines 26-32) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 15, 1897
Creator: Wash, Benjamin S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin. (open access)

Cotton-Gin.

Patent for a cotton-gin that "has for its object to provide means for operating upon or permitting lint cotton, wool and other fibrous material to be ginned from a roll by means of saws as is commonly done in working seed cotton without injury to the mechanism" (lines 12-17).
Date: August 7, 1894
Creator: Haynes, Daniel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Broom-Rack. (open access)

Broom-Rack.

Patent for an improvement in a device to hold brooms and items with handles by simplifying the design and making it more resistant to strain.
Date: February 14, 1893
Creator: Jones, Wesley C. P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Elevating, Distributing, and Feeding Seed-Cotton to Gins (open access)

Apparatus for Elevating, Distributing, and Feeding Seed-Cotton to Gins

Patent for improvements to cotton gins so that seed cotton can be fed to two gins at the same time, while using the same power as would normally be necessary for one gin.
Date: April 12, 1892
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Automatic Vending and Money-Changing Machine. (open access)

Combined Automatic Vending and Money-Changing Machine.

Patent for an improved combined automatic vending and money changing machine. It has "a locking mechanism constructed to lock said article and change-delivery mechanisms when a coin inserted by a purchaser is of less value than the article desired by him, and [a] mechanism for unlocking both of said delivery mechanisms while the purchaser's said coin remains in the machine and adjusting bot of said delivery-mechanisms to thereafter deliver an article corresponding to the value of said coin" (line 1-10).
Date: June 18, 1895
Creator: Sturgis, Herbert Marshall
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Weighing-Scale. (open access)

Automatic Weighing-Scale.

Patent for an automatic weighing-scale meant to be connected to a pneumatic conveyer to weigh cotton, grain, or other products. The invention weighs "any amount to which its scale may be set, and then cutting off the supply and emptying itself, when it may be reset, preferably by hand, to repeat the weighing operation" (lines 18-22).
Date: July 9, 1895
Creator: Schulze, Andrew
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adding-Machine (open access)

Adding-Machine

Patent for improvements to adding machines, which is key-operated and includes a vertically disposed shaft and a means to actuate the sliding plate.
Date: January 5, 1915
Creator: Gatewood, William F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn (open access)

Churn

Patent for a churn that can produce butter in very short period of time with minimal effort.
Date: May 19, 1913
Creator: Hoefer, Charles Jr.; Belt, Marcus L. Jr. & Belt, William R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Locking Device for Car-Doors. (open access)

Locking Device for Car-Doors.

Patent for a locking device for a sliding train car capable of locking automatically upon close, including illustrations.
Date: May 9, 1916
Creator: Tierney, Henry J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Truck for Railway-Carriages. (open access)

Truck for Railway-Carriages.

Patent for an improved truck for railway carriages that is meant "to construct surface-rollers which have their center of bearing above the center of the traction of surface roller, and which have traction rollers bearing upon the upper portion of the main surface-roller, and upon which the load is supported equally upon two points of the surface or traction roller" (lines 17-23).
Date: June 27, 1893
Creator: Turner, Ephraim M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Truck or Vehicle for Elevated Railways. (open access)

Truck or Vehicle for Elevated Railways.

Patent for an improved, strong, simple, inexpensive, and durable truck or vehicle for elevated railways that is meant to throw the lateral force of the car-body is exerted vertically downward onto the car's wheels.
Date: July 11, 1893
Creator: Turner, Ephraim M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Magazine-Hammer (open access)

Magazine-Hammer

Patent for a new Magazine-Hammer. The new and improved Magazine-Hammer consists of a setting hammer head, carrying handle, feed device for nails, tacks, or like fasteners, discharge device, and mounted setting tube. This Magazine-Hammer improvement allows the operator to drive fasteners with one hand and manipulate an object with one free hand.
Date: July 2, 1912
Creator: Smith, Oliver J. A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Cutting and Scoring Box-Blanks (open access)

Machine for Cutting and Scoring Box-Blanks

Patent for the mechanical cutting and scoring of box blanks with illustrations.
Date: July 31, 1917
Creator: Daven, Michael P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement to Lifting-Jacks (open access)

Improvement to Lifting-Jacks

Patent for the improvement of the lifting jack which allows the user to "lower the lifting bar by a step-by-step movement as well as to elevate the lifting bar by such a movement (lines 12-14). Includes instructions and illustration."
Date: January 12, 1915
Creator: Parker, Charles W. & Wittliff, Theodore H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive. (open access)

Locomotive.

Patent for an improved locomotive or traction-engine, with a series of water-shells, each containing "a series of fire-flues, a feeding-water heater, a pipe discharging steam" (lines 118-121), and a double-action plunger-pump.
Date: January 26, 1897
Creator: McCallum, Daniel W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ventilating-Fastener. (open access)

Ventilating-Fastener.

Patent for an improved tuft fastening device that provides ventilation through cushion tufts to make cushions cooler to the touch, including illustrations.
Date: May 8, 1917
Creator: Davis, Don M. & Underwood, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stationary Boiler. (open access)

Stationary Boiler.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in stationary boilers for " marine, locomotive, and stationary purposes" (line 14- 15).
Date: January 4, 1898
Creator: McCallum, Daniel W.
System: The Portal to Texas History