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Antifriction Device for Sucker-Rods.
Patent for a rod sleeve to protect the rod joints from damage or bending. The design also includes rollers to keep the rods centered in the casing to eliminate rubbing.
Date:
August 4, 1903
Creator:
Black, William L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Extermination of Boll-Weevil.
Patent for Apparatus for Extermination of Boll Weevil. A vehicle which can carry a furnace to generate noxious fumes with insecticides and cool those fumes to produce a toxic atmosphere around effected plants.
Date:
May 4, 1903
Creator:
Taylor, James Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn or Cotton Planter
Patent for improvements on corn or cotton planters, especially referring to patent no. 692,646. These improvements are meant to "Simplify the means of adjusting the position of the plows and seed-dropper, to improve the frame construction, and in general to simplify and improve the whole machine" (lines 16-19) Includes instructions and illustrations
Date:
September 4, 1903
Creator:
Simmons, Gideon B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Heater.
Patent for a water heater for use in small spaces. This water heater heats water rapidly and is less costly as well as smaller than a standard boiler.
Date:
August 4, 1903
Creator:
Damm, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Metallic Railway Tie
Patent for improvements in metallic railway-ties. Invention designed to allow for cheap production of a adequate tie that can secure a road-bed.
Date:
August 4, 1903
Creator:
Thweatt, Robert Whitley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Steam Engine
Patent for improvements in steam-engines. The goal of this invention to provide a simple construction that can be equally adapted for locomotives and high speed engines.
Date:
August 4, 1903
Creator:
Dickson, Henry L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spirometer
Patent for "an improved spirometer, and has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device of this character adapted for use by invalids, convalescents, and other persons for exercising the lungs and measuring and indicating the cubic capacity or volume of air expelled from the chest." (lines 8-15)
Date:
August 4, 1903
Creator:
Lyttleton, Henry Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale Forming Apparatus
Patent for a bale forming apparatus. This invention is designed as an improvement to existing bale-forming apparatus.
Date:
August 4, 1903
Creator:
Anderson, William E.; Dyer, Frank L. & Workum, Julius F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe
Patent for pipe. It is designed to insulate against heat and cold for all forms of fluid conveying pipes.
Date:
August 4, 1903
Creator:
Berger, Otto
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Word Counting Attachment for Type Writers
Patent for a word counting attachment for type writers.
Date:
August 4, 1903
Creator:
Coleman, James G. & Wilhite, Luther
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draft Rigging for Railway Cars
Patent for draft rigging for use with railway cars. It is designed to "provide a simple and comparatively and to provide a simple and comparatively inexpensive draft mechanism of great strength and durability adapted to be readily applied to the framework of a car and capable of effectively cushioning the car-coupling and of relieving the body of a car of shocks and strains" (line 12-18). Illustrations included.
Date:
August 4, 1903
Creator:
Saling, Thomas W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Depurator
Patent for a depurator. "This invention realtes to an improved vacuum apparatus for medicinal purposes" (line 11-12). Illustrations included.
Date:
August 4, 1903
Creator:
Richards, Lloyd H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Planter.
Patent is for a seed planter that plows and seeds at the same time.
Date:
August 4, 1903
Creator:
Ferriott, Charles L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad-Tie.
Patent for a railroad tie that locks against cross-plates to stay secure.
Date:
August 4, 1903
Creator:
Beazley, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil Burner
Patent for Oil Burner
Date:
August 4, 1903
Creator:
Neuendorff, John B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press
Patent for Baling Press
Date:
August 4, 1903
Creator:
Jones, Isaac V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History