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Sash Lock
Patent for an improvement for window sash locks, with an improved ability to hold windows in place.
Date:
January 10, 1922
Creator:
Brown, John A.
System:
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Drafting Implement
Patent for drafting implement, for laying out or plotting curves of different degrees and combining the functions of a plurality of implements into a single implement.
Date:
January 3, 1922
Creator:
Tanner, John L.
System:
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Dental-Broach Holder.
Patent for a dental broach holder that can be easily cleaned, and that includes certain structural elements that keep a dental broach more secure during use. The broach fastens on the outside of the holder, the mechanism of which "[prevents] loss of the broach in the patient's mouth during operation" (lines 92-94).
Date:
January 24, 1922
Creator:
Gilbert, James M.
System:
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Lubricating Device.
Patent for a new and improved lubricating device. This design consists of "[t]he combination, with the cross-head of an engine or other reciprocating part of machinery, and the guides or ways on which it works, of a reservoir for the lubricant, a wheel for taking up and applying the same to the friction-surface with which the wheel works in contact, and a spring for supporting the wheel" (para. 10). This design prevents dust and other pollutants from entering the reservoir.
Date:
January 22, 1878
Creator:
Walton, Franklin B.
System:
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Window and Roof Jack
Patent for a window and roof jack. Illustration included.
Date:
January 3, 1911
Creator:
Fry, Toy B.
System:
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Kite.
Patent for a new design of kite in which the frame is adjustable and able to form different shapes. Illustrations and instructions included.
Date:
January 4, 1916
Creator:
Exline, Marcus P.
System:
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Violin.
Patent for violin with special arrangement of two strings. The two strings produce similar tones when vibrated.
Date:
January 30, 1917
Creator:
Rice, John Henry
System:
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Work Engaging Support for Surface Treating Machines
Patent for work engaging support for surface treating machines. Intent of patent is to provide support for revolving sections of machinery in order to provide greater stabilization.
Date:
January 13, 1920
Creator:
Clark, Alex A.
System:
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Improvements in Attachments for Lathe Head-Stocks
Patent for an attachment for lathe-head stocks. It is "a device that may be readily adjustable to provide a backing... that may be gripped by the chucks of a jewelers or watch-makers lathe" (lines 26-29).
Date:
January 9, 1912
Creator:
De Long, Charles E.
System:
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Type Writing Machine
Patent for a type writing machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 3, 1911
Creator:
Ireland, Ward S.
System:
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Type Writing Machine
Patent for a type writing machines. Illustration included.
Date:
January 3, 1911
Creator:
Ireland, Ward S.
System:
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Insect Trap
Patent for an insect trap. Illustration included.
Date:
January 10, 1905
Creator:
Smith, Charles F.
System:
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Type Writing Machine
Patent for a type writing machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 3, 1911
Creator:
Ireland, Ward S.
System:
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Type Writing Machine
Patent for a type writing machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 3, 1911
Creator:
Ireland, Ward S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vapor-Burner
Patent for a vapor burner and generator. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 5, 1909
Creator:
Jordan, James T.
System:
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Type Writing Machine
Patent for a type writing machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 3, 1911
Creator:
Ireland, Ward S.
System:
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Type Writing Machine
Patent for a type writing machine. Illustration included.
Date:
January 3, 1911
Creator:
Ireland, Ward S.
System:
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Improvements in Apparatus for Collecting and Handling Lint
Patent for improvements in apparatus for collecting and handling lint. This apparatus will more thoroughly collect and handle lint so that less lint winds up in the linter room, and can be thoroughly collected.
Date:
January 2, 1919
Creator:
Nolen, Robert Rufus
System:
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Transmission-Lock
Patent for a mechanism to be added onto a motor vehicle transmission to prevent unwarranted action on the transmission.
Date:
January 25, 1916
Creator:
McDonald, James
System:
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Transmission Gear Shifting Device.
Patent for a new transmission gear shifting device will "provide means for shifting the transmission parts of an automobile or other motor driven vehicle, without employing the usual hand levers and appliances, and to do so by means of electrically controlled operating mechanisms in combination with certain component parts." (Lines 12-18) including illustrations.
Date:
January 5, 1915
Creator:
De Witt, G.
System:
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Improvement in Plows.
Patent for improvements in adjusting devices and attachments for sulky plows, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 1, 1878
Creator:
Payne, Joseph Mott
System:
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Steam-Engine.
Patent for "a high-speed rotary engine wherein the steam-impelled wheel shall revolve in a horizontal plane within an upright open cylinder." (Lines 10-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 19, 1897
Creator:
Slaughter, Joel C.
System:
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Hydrocarbon-Burner.
Patent for improvements in hydrocarbon-burners by providing “a burner constructed to cause a complete combustion, a more intense heat, and to obviate to a marked degree, the noise occasioned by the down draft and the combustion.” (Lines 11-15) Illustration is included.
Date:
January 18, 1910
Creator:
Rork, Clare M.
System:
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Hot Pan Lifter.
Patent for a new and improved potholder. This design is "to provide novel means whereby the various sizes of baking and other pans in the equipment of a kitchen can be conveniently and safely handled without danger of the pan being accidentally disengaged from the implement . . . to provide a novel hot-pan lifter which will in use have a positive toothed engagement with the rim of a hot-pan . . . to provide novel, simple, and efficient means whereby the lifter or implement can be promptly and conveniently released from . . .the pan . . . by the simple pressure of the thumb" (lines 18-31).
Date:
January 13, 1891
Creator:
Penfield, Matie B.
System:
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