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Hasp-Fastener
Patent for a hasp fastener for doors.
Date:
April 16, 1912
Creator:
Matthews, Robert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Governor
Patent for Governor that improves upon a speed controlling mechanism, specifically for controlling a reciprocating element like an engine piston, including illustration and instructions. This application is a division of an earlier application (Serial Number: 843, 812 submitted June 08, 1914).
Date:
June 29, 1915
Creator:
Burrow, Edgar A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Equalizing Device for Pump-Rods.
Patent for an improved equalizing device for pump-rods used in hand or windmill pumps that increases the operating efficiency and decreases the manufacture cost of the device.
Date:
April 10, 1906
Creator:
Shipman, John Davis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Freezing-Plug.
Patent for freezing plug. This device prevents pipes from bursting when frozen.
Date:
November 2, 1915
Creator:
Howell, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Embroidery Attachment.
Patent for an embroidery attachment for sewing machines.
Date:
May 31, 1910
Creator:
Shockley, Richard Watson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Engine.
Patent for new steam engine design with illustrations
Date:
June 29, 1915
Creator:
Burrow, Edgar A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electrically-Operated Door.
Patent for am electrically-operated door. This device has mechanisms that are when stepped on automatically open and close the door.
Date:
August 1, 1916
Creator:
Cain, Ira L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ice-Tray
Patent describing a "combined water-cooler and ice tray [...for] the cooling of water by ice without the ice coming in contact with the water" (lines 9-12).
Date:
May 6, 1902
Creator:
Henning, Thomas W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ice-Cream Freezer
Patent for an ice cream freezer that may also be used as an egg beater or a churn. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 15, 1909
Creator:
Moon, Richard Davis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Self-Registering Target
Patent for "new and useful improvements in self-registering targets, whereby the shots are plainly indicated, the parts are readily returned to their normal position after the shot is fired, and the whole combining simplicity, cheapness, and durability" (lines 13-18).
Date:
April 17, 1888
Creator:
Wright, Walter K. & Brown, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed Planter
Patent for a seed planter. Illustration included.
Date:
January 10, 1911
Creator:
Dowdy, Ewell Monroe
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spring Axle
Patent for an axle to provide assistance to the wheel to adapt to the irregularities of the surface.
Date:
June 10, 1913
Creator:
Coggin, Charley J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Resilient Wheel.
Patent for a resilient wheel showcasing adjustable or sectional rims. Modification also exhibits lightness quality, balance for proper distribution, and is noiseless with easy running abilities.
Date:
February 23, 1915
Creator:
Dysart, Marby P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Road Grader and Scraper.
Patent for a road grader and scraper, which is drawn by a traction engine.
Date:
December 8, 1908
Creator:
Moon, Richard D. & Chamberlain, George N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Reinforcing Metal Yoke for Hollow Concrete Walls
Patent for reinforcing metal yoke for hollow concrete walls. Illustration included.
Date:
April 12, 1910
Creator:
Nelson, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spring-Motor
Patent for a motor used to operate light machinery such as sewing machines using spring power. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 28, 1909
Creator:
O'Bannon, William H. & Field, James M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flying-Machine
Patent for a monoplane flying machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 24, 1912
Creator:
Smith, Thomas Noah
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flooring or Ceiling Jack.
Patent for a flooring or ceiling jack that is meant to "provide a device, whereby the laying of the flooring, and the fitting of siding and ceiling strips are greatly facilitated, and enables one carpenter to do the work that ordinarily requires two" (lines 14-18).
Date:
August 22, 1893
Creator:
Holiman, William Moses
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Family Record Keeper
Patent for a family record keeper that could preserve certificates of birth, marriage, and death, in a manner that would protect them from the elements.
Date:
November 3, 1903
Creator:
Flanagan, Roland A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash Fastener
Patent for a fastener of simple, reliable for locking a sash at any given point in its path-of-movement upon the window frame, without the use of springs or any other parts.
Date:
October 20, 1914
Creator:
Shipman, John Davis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Breech-Loading Fire-Arms.
Patent for improved maneuvering and loading of firearms while riding horseback.
Date:
July 20, 1878
Creator:
Morrison, John T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gripper for Printing-Presses
Patent for a gripper for printing presses designed to hold the paper during printing more effectively. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 25, 1910
Creator:
Williams, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting Attachment for Sewing-Machines.
Patent for a new removable quilting frame for sewing machines. Patent for "improvements in sewing-machine attachments for quilting designed to support a quilting frame that can be moved from place to place" (lines 14-21) including instructions and illustrations. Patent for a new quilting attachment for sewing-machine design with, including illustrations.
Date:
January 3, 1888
Creator:
Clark, Chester Cady
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Powder-Ejector
Patent for a vaginal powder ejector. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 28, 1909
Creator:
Sands, William Walter
System:
The Portal to Texas History