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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
Bolt-Jack
Patent for a bolt jack with which bolts may be pulled without bending. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 29, 1910
Creator:
Smith, Henry H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Bicycles.
Patent for a package-carrying device that attaches to the frame of a bicycle. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1897
Creator:
Saunders, David Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Bag and Twine Holder
Patent for a device which holds both string and bags, with description of construction, parts, and use, and with illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1886
Creator:
Cushing, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Lift for Elevating Liquids.
Patent for a pneumatic lift that maintains the air pressure needed to effectively move liquid through a pipe.
Date:
June 29, 1915
Creator:
Andrews, Benjamin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Journal-Box.
Patent for "new and useful improvements in car journal boxes, and more particularly to the box in which the journal of the axle of the ordinary railway car has a bearing." (lines 8-12)
Date:
August 29, 1916
Creator:
Law, Charles R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trademark Certificate: Helen Corbitt's
Certificate registering a trade-mark for "Helen Corbitt's" written in stylized text, in force from 1951-1971. It includes the official certificate and the application text explaining how the mark has been used.
Date:
May 29, 1951
Creator:
Corbitt, Helen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment For Internal-Combustion Motors
Patent for improvements in attachments for internal- combustion motors. The invention is about new and useful improvements to a specific attachment. The two stated objectives are to provide a device adapted for application to the intake pipe on an internal combustion motor and to provide a device which may be locked in a closed position, thereby preventing theft.
Date:
March 29, 1921
Creator:
Thomas, James Clarence
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lubricator.
Patent for new and improved lubricator. The invention is connected to lubricators used in earth boring drills for deep well drilling.
Date:
March 29, 1921
Creator:
Scott, Floyd L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pneumatic Tire
Patent for pneumatic tire (for use on motor vehicle wheels) with application to inner tubes that are employed within the outer casing of tire. Tire provides self-sealing inner tube for piercings or punctures.
Date:
November 29, 1921
Creator:
Allyn, Harley H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Welding Tubes.
Patent for a new and improved machine for welding tubes. This design "has relation to machines for welding flues; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of operative parts" (lines 22-25).
Date:
August 29, 1882
Creator:
Charlton, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weighing and Filling Machine
Patent for a weighing and filling machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 29, 1910
Creator:
Dunkerly, Harry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Strainer
Patent for a well strainer made of sheet metal.
Date:
August 29, 1911
Creator:
Layne, Mahlon E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well Mechanism.
Patent for an improved mechanism for drawing water from an artesian or a driven well and which can be assembled and adjusted from outside the well.
Date:
May 29, 1906
Creator:
Layne, Mahlon E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Heater
Patent for a water heater operated by heating pipes and coils. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 29, 1908
Creator:
Wood, Charles A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Instruments for Filling Teeth
Patent for improvement in instruments for filling teeth. "The object of this invention is to furnish an improved mode of filling teeth, by the use of which the filling may be built up, hardened, and polished at once, so that the filling will be as hard as marble when the patient leaves the operator's chair, and so that they can be immediately used for masticating."
Date:
February 29, 1876
Creator:
Ludwig, Carl D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Heating Tables.
Patent for improvement of heating tables, "by steam to keep the meat and other articles at proper temperature. It consist more particularly in an arrangement of the steam-heating apparatus that will admit of its application to dining-tables, and will allow the plates of the diners and such of the dishes as may be desired being kept at the desired degree of warmth without necessitating the heating of warmth without the necessitating the heating of all the articles on the table."
Date:
October 29, 1878
Creator:
Morris, Joseph R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tongs.
Patent for new and improved tongs. This design "relates to certain devices for preventing the legs of tongs from twisting, overlapping, or becoming cross-legged. This is a common fault in almost all tongs when the joint wears a little loose, and is entirely overcome and prevented by [this] invention" (lines 19-24).
Date:
April 29, 1884
Creator:
Wood, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Cooking Apparatus.
Patent for a steam-cooking apparatus, "in which the heat of steam in pipes or tubular jackets is made to cook food without the direct action of fire by radiation, conduction, or convection" (lines 8-11).
Date:
October 29, 1878
Creator:
Curtin, Martin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Manufacturing Soap.
Patent for an improved process designed "to lessen the time required for the manufacture of soaps and at the same time have all portions of a mass thereof of uniform character, also to make more soap from the same amount of fat or oils than is now done by the ordinary processes." (Lines 8-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 28, 1890
Creator:
Grant, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Poison-Distributer.
Patent for a device that is attached to a saddle in order to distribute insecticide to cotton and other crops while riding through the fields.
Date:
November 28, 1891
Creator:
Pickering, Charles H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Parcel-Delivery Apparatus.
Patent for improvements in mail and parcel delivery apparatus: "is designed particularly for use at suburban residences, or where the distance from the house to the street is considerable" (lines 11-14).
Date:
September 29, 1891
Creator:
Gieseke, Otto
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stem for Tobacco-Pipes or Cigar-Holders.
Patent for a stem for tobacco-pipes and cigar-holders designed to prevent nicotine from being inhaled. "The object in view is to provide a stem consisting of detachable members to facilitate cleansing when foul" (lines 11-14). The pipe is a serpentine shape and contains cotton filters in its crooks.
Date:
September 29, 1896
Creator:
Sjolander, Eric O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Smoothing-Drag.
Patent for useful improvements to smoothing-drags which are "designed for the purpose of smoothing roads".
Date:
May 29, 1917
Creator:
Parker, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History