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Car-Seal.
Patent for a car seal, made of a long, thin, and narrow metallic strip. When it is looped through two parts of the car body, the ends can be pinned together with sealing irons. This car seal cannot be tampered with without visible evidence showing.
Date:
December 5, 1911
Creator:
Lawler, Claude B.; Bryan, William A. & Keller, John.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aerial Vehicle
Patent for an aerial vehicle. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 2, 1912
Creator:
Rex, Cleveland A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clevis.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and improved clevis that can be easily manufactured and employed to a draft-beam. It can be used without a lapring in order to connect to a singletree. The singletree can have its "staple or eye...disposed in a plane with the said singletree" (lines 16-17).
Date:
January 30, 1894
Creator:
Word, Aaron Matthias
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Diving Gear for Motor Vehicles
Patent for new type of driving gear for motor-vehicles that allows power to be carried independent of the direct drive to improve the life of the engine and fuel efficiency.
Date:
March 9, 1914
Creator:
Byars, Edgar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Rack
Patent for Clothes Rack. This helps dry clothes indoors when the weather is bad outside.
Date:
March 22, 1921
Creator:
Wells, Lillie Bell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for a wrench specifically made to remove well drill bits from the drill.
Date:
April 13, 1920
Creator:
Stover, Willard L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Interior Bracing For Silos
The invention relates to silos and the removable devices that prevent the silos from collapsing when empty. The object is to provide wooden stave silos with certain adjustable and economical braces which are easily and quickly applied. It will be highly efficient in preventing the blowing down or collapsing of silos when empty. They would also be able to be easily and quickly removed when the silos are being filled.
Date:
August 31, 1915
Creator:
Galbraith, Henry William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Internal-Combustion Engine.
Patent for a two-cycle, reciprocating piston internal combustion engine that preheats incoming fuel and is designed to run smoothly and reduce vibration, including illustrations.
Date:
January 12, 1915
Creator:
Bukoviny, Frank W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vise for Drilling-Machines
Patent for a vise for drilling-machines with a novel construction and combination of parts. The work is positioned and clamped under the drill.
Date:
September 9, 1919
Creator:
Joyce, James M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Sprinkler.
Patent for a water sprinkler with adjustable nozzles and pipes.
Date:
July 5, 1910
Creator:
Alden, James M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Interior Bracing of Silos.
Patent for removable parts for silos to prevent the silo from collapsing when empty, including illustrations.
Date:
June 23, 1914
Creator:
Galbraith, Henry W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window Frame And Sash.
Patent for new and useful improvements in window frames and sashes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 6, 1900
Creator:
Wood, Alpheus H. & Tunnell, John D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve Setting Machine
Patent for a valve setting machine. This invention is a machine for "revolving the main driving wheel of a locomotive to set the valves (11-12). Illustration included.
Date:
August 4, 1908
Creator:
Wyllie, Robert E. & Twohig, John D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve-Controlling Mechanism for Train-Air-Brake Systems
Patent for a valve controlling mechanism for train air brake systems that can be used when a car derails.
Date:
June 11, 1912
Creator:
Strader, Perry T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Veterinary Tool
Patent for a veterinary tool designed to drenching, floating or treating animal teeth. Illustration included.
Date:
July 14, 1908
Creator:
Jenkins, Thomas E. & Cator, Bert O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock-Plate
Patent for improvements in lock-plates for the stays of wire fences.
Date:
March 22, 1900
Creator:
Wood, Alpheus H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel-Tread.
Patent for improvements on tractor wheel tread design, the structure of which was previously submitted by the inventor in 1918. This improved wheel tread makes the structure stronger and more compact.
Date:
March 29, 1921
Creator:
Ingram, Joseph D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel Tread.
Patent for wheel treads designed for heavy vehicles. The metal shoes on the tread are to help enable the vehicle to go over both hard and soft surfaces.
Date:
February 8, 1921
Creator:
Ingram, Joseph D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Transmission-Gearing.
Patent for "improvements in variable speed transmission gearing, adapted for use upon automobiles or the like, while not necessarily restricted to such use. An important object of the invention is to provide apparatus of the above mentioned character, which is so constructed that the various speeds may be obtained in a highly expeditious and convenient manner" (lines 11-17) including an illustration and instructions.
Date:
June 4, 1918
Creator:
Pilcher, Newton R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vending-Wagon
Patent for a wagon used for selling and distributing goods. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 7, 1910
Creator:
Boyle, Dad
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stock Tank
Patent for an improved water tank for livestock, connecting an elevated reservoir to a trough at ground level.
Date:
August 19, 1902
Creator:
Wright, Wayne C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Triple-Valve Mechanism.
Patent for a triple-value mechanism that "appertains to automatic fluid pressure brake systems and involves certain improvements &c., &c.” (lines 9-11) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 8, 1914
Creator:
Atwood, Walter F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Telephone System.
Patent for improvements to an automatic switchboard "to provide a construction of board and a connected system of wiring which will permit a subscriber at a telephone in one town to call up the operator or central at a distant point and converse with him without operating the other instruments in his town and at the same time preventing other subscribers from breaking into the line" (lines 12-20).
Date:
December 23, 1902
Creator:
Wright, Wayne C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Tightener
Patent for a tire tightener for wagons. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 15, 1910
Creator:
Ryan, George A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History