Automatic Oiler (open access)

Automatic Oiler

Patent for an automatic oiler for railroad cars.
Date: January 17, 1911
Creator: Adams, Richard Field
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cloth Measuring Reel. (open access)

Cloth Measuring Reel.

Patent for a new and improved cloth-measuring wheel. This design "consists in the peculiar combination and arrangement of the cutting-board with two standards, whereby the said cutting-board is made to act as a sufficient brace for the frame, as well as to perform the offices of a cutting board. The invention also consists in means for producing a variable tension on the cloth as it passes from the roll to the reel, whereby the tendency of different thicknesses of cloth to wind the cloth in greater or lesser lengths than the register indicates is compensated for and corrected" (lines 27-39).
Date: January 3, 1882
Creator: Peters, James H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Spring-Wheel (open access)

Vehicle Spring-Wheel

Patent for improvement in vehicle spring-wheels.
Date: January 25, 1921
Creator: Harris, Walter A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive-Pilot Coupling. (open access)

Locomotive-Pilot Coupling.

Patent for a locomotive-pilot coupling that can lift or elevate locomotive pilot or draw-bars, a cylinder that can turn in all directions depending on how the bars moves and is collecting to the motor fluid supply, a piston in the cylinder that connects the bar to the cylinder, a swinging jaw, and various other parts.
Date: January 21, 1896
Creator: Heidelberg, Samuel R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hand Car. (open access)

Hand Car.

Patent for a new and improved hand car. This design consists in "[a] hand-car constructed with a frame-work . . . and provided with a propelling mechanism consisting of the bent pipe-lever in combination with the rocking lever, provided with the socket, the connecting-rod, driving wheel, and pinion" (lines 92-98).
Date: January 16, 1883
Creator: Johnson, Roberto H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sash-Holder. (open access)

Sash-Holder.

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Sash-Holders." (line 5-6) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 16, 1906
Creator: Quick, Albert A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sash Balance. (open access)

Sash Balance.

Patent for a new and improved sash balance. This design "furnish[es] a spring-tensioned sash-balance by which the top sash may be held in close contact with the top of the window-frame or adjusted at a lowered position without hoisting the bottom sash. [The] invention consists in certain peculiarities of construction and arrangement" (lines 9-15).
Date: January 3, 1882
Creator: Quick, John Albert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sanitary Cigarette Paper Receptacle (open access)

Sanitary Cigarette Paper Receptacle

Patent for a box with a cutting membrane that will cut off desired lenghts of cigarette paper for the user.
Date: January 9, 1917
Creator: Jones, John A.; Rowe, Claude O. & Johnson, Clause E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Burner (open access)

Oil-Burner

Patent for improvement in oil burners. This device allows oil to be mixed with air to allow the substance to burn more effectively.
Date: January 30, 1912
Creator: Kunkel, Albert R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draw-Bar for Locomotives. (open access)

Draw-Bar for Locomotives.

Patent for an improved draw-bar for locomotives that consists of a frame, a pilot and draw bar, a counterweight that moves vertically in the pilot, a coupler head with a knuckle and a toe and a guide arm, and a release mechanism for the locking device on the bar.
Date: January 9, 1894
Creator: Heidelberg, Samuel R.
System: The Portal to Texas History