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Automatic Machine for Forming Plastic Bodies
Patent for a machine which quickly and automatically forms plastic bodies and blocks when fed the material. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 13, 1909
Creator:
Burton, Luther L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buggy-Top Support
Patent for a supporter for the top of a buggy. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 29, 1909
Creator:
Putman, William C.
System:
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Closet-Cistern and Valve Therefor
Patent for "a cistern which needs no valve to start the siphon to work and to construct a valve which can be operated by a rod which runs up through the supply-pipe, thus doing away with the stuffing-box for a rod for operating the valve" (lines 11-16).
Date:
April 23, 1901
Creator:
Wilkes, George W.
System:
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Automobile-Radiator
Patent for an automobile radiator which does not leak.
Date:
September 27, 1910
Creator:
Garrison, Fernando G.
System:
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Continuous Oil-Press.
Patent for a continuous oil press for use in pressing oil from seeds, nuts, and fruits.
Date:
October 31, 1911
Creator:
Blain, Frank A. & Hill, Clyve D.
System:
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Bag-Holder
Patent for bag holder " an improved cabinet for holding paper bags and the like articles; and the object is to construct a useful, inexpensive cabinet which will be light and compact and practical and in which bags may be placed and taken out when needed without mutilating the bags" (lines 7-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 19, 1901
Creator:
Thompson, King D.
System:
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Balancing Attachment
Patent for a balancing attachment. Illustration included.
Date:
March 14, 1905
Creator:
Coons, Charles E.
System:
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Combined Socket and Switch for Electric Lights
Patent for a combined socket and switch for electric lights that allows different bulbs of a chandelier to be turned on separately.
Date:
August 20, 1912
Creator:
Bailey, Douglas A.
System:
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Controller Attachment for Levers
Patent for improvements on controllers for levers
Date:
February 6, 1912
Creator:
Smith, David C.
System:
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Corset.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in corsets, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 6, 1900
Creator:
Marple, Grace
System:
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Cigar-Cutter and Match-Safe.
Patent for a match-safe and cigar-cutter “receptacle for holding matches from which only one match can be taken at one time and to means for shifting the matches and at the same time cutting a cigar-tip.” (Lines 7-11) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 22, 1902
Creator:
Taylor, James P.
System:
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Acetylene Gas Generator
Patent for an acetylene gas generator. This invention is designed to be automatic, use non-freezing fluids, and work on railway trains or ships. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 2, 1906
Creator:
Woodson, Jacob W.
System:
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Automatic Elevator Gate
Patent for an elevator gate that will automatically be raised or lowered upon ascent or descent of the elevator, with illustrations.
Date:
October 7, 1902
Creator:
McNaught, Ira S.
System:
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Conveyer.
Patent for a conveyor for grain or gravel, which is made up of a series of trucks on rails which dump the materials out at set points and then right themselves.
Date:
April 14, 1908
Creator:
Schubert, George
System:
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Combined Music-Rack and Front Panel for Pianos
Patent for a music rack and front panel for pianos. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 22, 1910
Creator:
Norcross, Levi Watson
System:
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Baling-Press.
Patent for "baling-presses, and has for its objects to provide a simple and efficient apparatus embodying a rebounding plunger; to provide means for regulating the resistance offered to the advance movement of the forward head-block; to provide improved means for tucking the material during the advance movement of the plunger; to provide means for regulating the length of a bale; to provide means for automatically inserting a head-block when a bale of the desired length has been formed; and to provide means whereby the raising and lowering of the press-box or baling-chamber is accomplished by the draft-horses through the sweep, and without the use of jacks or other analogous devices." (Lines 8-24) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 24, 1895
Creator:
Keith, George A.
System:
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Car-Coupling
Patent for "an automatic car-coupling which may be uncoupled from the sides of the cars, and which will allow of a car on which it is provided being coupled to a car provided with the ordinary link-and-pin coupling" (lines 7-12).
Date:
October 30, 1888
Creator:
Eddleman, Thomas J.
System:
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Band-Cutter and Feeder
Patent for "new and useful improvements in band-cutters and feeders" (lines 6-7).
Date:
February 26, 1889
Creator:
King, Charlie C. & Trimble, Alonzo D.
System:
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Car-Seat
Patent for "an inexpensive form of car-seat, wherein the parts are so arranged that the back of the seat may be adjusted to almost any angle desired, a leg or foot rest, which also may be adjusted to suit the convenience of the occupant of the seat" (lines 7-13).
Date:
April 2, 1889
Creator:
Goelet, Edward B.
System:
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Car Door.
Patent for a new and improved door for railroad cars. This design consists in "a car having a door-opening, top and bottom tracks, and perpendicular door-posts, one post provided with a series of recesses in its side next to the opening and the other having recesses in its outer side or side nearest the end of the car . . . the door sliding on said tracks and having forwardly-projecting cleats on its front edge to enter the recesses in the first-named post, and provided on its inner side at its opposite end with cleats projecting toward its front edge to enter the recesses in second-named strip" (lines 83-95).
Date:
April 2, 1889
Creator:
Goelet, Edward B.
System:
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Car Axle and Wheel
Patent for a new and improved wheel and axle for cars. This design calls for "providing each of the axle with a fixed ratchet-wheel and providing the car-wheels with spring-pawls adapted to engage with the ratchets" (lines 21-24). This overcomes the strain that the wheels place on the axles when making turns, which reduces the chance of the car leaving its tracks.
Date:
May 16, 1882
Creator:
Pendleton, William S.
System:
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Brush.
Patent for a brush used with pressurized water to clean floors, walls, ceilings, horses, buggies, animal carcasses, etc. The brush can have a hose hooked up to it and has a valve. The water goes into the top of the brush and is distributed evenly throughout with holes in the top of the brush, and the water is sprayed through the bristles.
Date:
March 24, 1896
Creator:
Zandt, Luther H. van
System:
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Coin-Controlled Apparatus.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and durable coin-controlled apparatus that is "designed to indicate by the varying positions occupied by the spheres, the nature of a dream, the apparatus being designed primarily as a dream-revealer" (lines 17-20). The operator pulls a lever which forces the dice inside the glass container to move into holes. The operator reads a key on the outside of the device that indicates what he will dream.
Date:
July 18, 1893
Creator:
Taylor, James P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard.
Patent for a cattle guard that prevents cattle from blocking railroad tracks. It consists of sharp edged cross ties that sit on the bottom of a shallow pit, guard rails that cover the cross ties, bolts that hold the rails together, and end planks forming v-shaped serrations.
Date:
October 10, 1893
Creator:
Lynch, Michael L.
System:
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