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Antifriction Decive for Sucker-rods and Couplings
Patent for an improved method of connecting sucker-rods, couplings, or ropes so as to minimize wear and extend the life of the materials, with illustrations.
Date:
November 4, 1902
Creator:
Black, William L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
AIR-BREAK SIGNALING AND RELEASEING DEVICE.
Patent for an improvement in air-brake release-valve in trains to signal train crews and release the breaks if they become set for any reason, or stuck, while the train is moving, including descriptions of the release valve and illustrations.
Date:
November 4, 1902
Creator:
Dukesmith, Frank H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Antifriction-Device-For-Sucker-Rods.
Patent for an antifriction device designed to protect the rod (sucker rod), rope, or coupler from wear. A sucker rod joins the components of a piston pump in an oil well.
Date:
November 4, 1902
Creator:
Black, William Leslie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Antifriction device for sucker rods.
Patent for "an improved antifriction device for use in connection with inclosed traveling rods and the like to reduce the wear occasioned by the rubbing of the rod in its casing, and at the same time to so far reduce the area of said antifriction device which projects from the rod as to interpose the least possible obstruction to the free passage of material in the casing."
Date:
November 4, 1902
Creator:
Black, William Leslie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design "consist[s] of the frame, raised axle, and arch, having at one end the bearing, the transverse shaft carrying the bevel-gear, and journaled in said bearing, and the vertical arm, the said shaft also carrying a sprocket-wheel, which is connected to a similar wheel upon the axle by means of the endless chain, the cutter-shaft, journaled at opposite ends in the arms . . . and the removable cutter" (lines 68-77).
Date:
November 4, 1884
Creator:
Daniel, William L. & Daniel, Robbert A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Circuit-Closing Device for Doors.
Patent for a device mounted within a door jamb that closes or breaks a circuit when the door is opened or closed, respectively. The electrical connection can be used to turn on lights when the door is opened and off when closed.
Date:
November 4, 1913
Creator:
Fitch, William Hubert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cross-Roller Bit.
Patent for a certain new and useful improvement in cross-roller bits. Invention relates to "improvements in rotary boring drills for use in drilling wells for water, oil or gas and has particular reference to drills of the so called cross roller type for use in hard formation."
Date:
November 4, 1919
Creator:
Hughes, Howard R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Amusement Apparatus.
Patent for improvements to the Amusement Apparatus that can be more easily constructed and supports swimmers by the use of horizontal and vertical bars on each side of the device with the horizontal bars rotate independently. Includes illustration.
Date:
November 4, 1919
Creator:
Williams, May Brown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Lock.
Patent for an inexpensive automobile lock that is adapted to fit the front bumper of an automobile and designed to lock the two front wheels in place.
Date:
November 4, 1919
Creator:
Tiedemann, Otto
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for the Conversion of Liquids, Fluids, and Oils.
Patent for an apparatus for the conversion of liquids, fluids, and oils. This invention is to use high heat to change the original oils and fluids into oils and fluids of better quality and value.
Date:
November 4, 1919
Creator:
Adams, Joseph H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Lifting Grapple
Patent for a device to hook to an automobile and lift either the front or the rear of the chassis off of the vehicle. To be used for ease of repair and maintenance to automobile motor.
Date:
November 4, 1919
Creator:
Wood, Guy
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretching and Reeling Machine.
Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design "relates to improvements in wire-stretchers for use in building wire fences, and also adapted to take up the wire and reel the same when it is desired to take a fence down" (lines 12-16). It consists, "with the main frame, of the inclined and slotted standards secured thereto, the boxes arranged on said standards, the pivoted pawl carried by the boxes, and a reel-shaft carrying a pinion and arranged in the slots of the standards and supported by the boxes" (lines 89-95).
Date:
November 4, 1890
Creator:
Claunch, Martin B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Line Type Casting Machine.
Patent for a linotype machine with improvements to the float, the ejector, and slugs magazine.
Date:
November 4, 1919
Creator:
Wilmans, Lloyd I.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Vises
Patent for new construction for vises that will "enable the vise to be set and secutured in any desired position and thus hold the work in a position convenient to the operator" (lines 8-10).
Date:
November 4, 1879
Creator:
Zanetti, Fortonato C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Toilet-Cabinets
Patent for improved toilet cabinets in order to better arrange "cabinets for containing sewing, writing, and shaving materials and various other articles" (lines 8-10). Provides instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 4, 1879
Creator:
Zanetti, Fortonato C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sheet-Metal Hames
Patent for improvement in hames by constructing them of sheet metal in order to prevent flatenning and wear on the hame. Explains how sheet metal hames are also flexibile in many attributes and because of this they are beneficial in many ways. Illustrations provided.
Date:
November 4, 1879
Creator:
Brown, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Whiffletree
Patent for a whiffletree, a type of doubletree, which is part of a horse's harness.
Date:
November 4, 1902
Creator:
Stansell, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Honey-Boxes for Bee-Hives
Patent for the new and improved construction of bee-hives. Provides instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 4, 1879
Creator:
Connolly, Charles H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process for the Conversion of Liquids, Fluids, and Oils
Patent for a process for the conversion of liquids, fluids, and oils that converts these fluids into more buoyant products with lower specific gravities and boiling points. This process seeks to meet demand for engine fuels, gasoline, and oils, and augment the diminishing supply of these natural products.
Date:
November 4, 1919
Creator:
Adams, Joseph H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stamp and Coin Envelop.
Patent for stamp and coin envelope that has "a separate pocket for receiving coin, postage stamps or sundry articles to be transmitted through the mail in such a manner as to be kept separate from the contents of the envelop and also to insure safe delivery" (lines 9-14), including illustrations.
Date:
November 4, 1913
Creator:
Zivley, Dennis C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame Fastener.
Patent for a new and improved hame-fastener. This design consists in "the combination, with the eccentric-lever formed with the two slots . . . one of which forms the cam, of the hook secured and movable within the slot by the pivot-pin, and the [other] hook, secured and movable within the [other] slot by the [other] pivot-pin" (lines 87-93).
Date:
November 4, 1890
Creator:
Padfield, Harry V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hand-Operated Baling-Press.
Patent for improvements in Hand-Operated Baling-Presses that has a durable structure and is convenient and easy to use for baling hay and straw. Consists of "a box or body provided with a hopper of usual pattern" and "clamping rods located at the delivery end thereof" (lines 19-20) with a sliding plunger, lever, pivots, and a spring. Includes illustrations.
Date:
November 4, 1919
Creator:
Harris, Albert O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drill-Cutter.
Patent for new and improved drill cutter for rotary boring drills including exact description and illustrations.
Date:
November 4, 1919
Creator:
Godbold, Louis A. & Fletcher, Harold W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drill.
Patent for a drill especially adapted for use in rock and earth formations. The drill has a number of separate cutters that are secured onto a head and detachable, which gives the tool many advantages.
Date:
November 4, 1913
Creator:
Weathersby, Fred Richard
System:
The Portal to Texas History