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Air-Brake
Patent for an air brake for trains that reduces jerking when the brakes are applied.
Date:
February 6, 1912
Creator:
Mead, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air Filtering Gas Burner
Patent for device that helps prevent air from choking burners when used in cooking.
Date:
February 6, 1917
Creator:
Parks, William B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bag Holder and Filler.
Patent for a new and improved bag holder and filler. This design "consists of an expansible bag holding and filling funnel composed of a metallic strip having overlapping edges and provided with attached spring-wires, such funnel being capable of contraction to enter a bag, and of expanding therein for the purpose of holding and filling the bag" (lines 13-19).
Date:
February 6, 1883
Creator:
Adkisson, Duncan Rudolph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beverage Cooler And Dispensing Apparatus.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements i beverage coolers and dispensing apparatus, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 6, 1900
Creator:
Sidoti, Antonio
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Brake
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Car-Brakes" (lines 6-7) relating to a railroad brake operating mechanism, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 6, 1912
Creator:
Klasing, Augustus Frederick
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard for Railroads.
Patent for a cattle-guard for railroads that is "a series of plates or slates mounted with the capability of partial or complete rotation on axes substantially parallel with the rails and between the said rails and on either side of the track so as to span the road bed or space between the ends of the fence" (lines 25-31). The plates have longitudinal flanges with serrated edges.When the cattle step on the guard, they will experience pain and avoid the spot.
Date:
February 6, 1894
Creator:
Lee, Jacob M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chicken Coop
Patent for an improved chicken coop.
Date:
February 6, 1917
Creator:
Harp, Charles A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Controller Attachment for Levers
Patent for improvements on controllers for levers
Date:
February 6, 1912
Creator:
Smith, David C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in cotton choppers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 6, 1900
Creator:
Bartels, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a sulky having a loop secured to its axle, of a pair of hoes secured to a pair of pivoted bars, which are adapted to slide up and down in the loop, and a spring arranged between the bars to hold the hoes in a closed position . . . [and] provided with foot-rests for the driver, whereby the hoes may be forced into the ground" (lines 55-67).
Date:
February 6, 1883
Creator:
Craig, William Sinclair
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper
Patent for chopper blade for cotton.
Date:
February 6, 1917
Creator:
Jones, Martin A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Treating Apparatus and Process
Patent for cotton treating apparatus and process, cleaning the cotton as it is removed from bolls and then formed in to bales.
Date:
February 6, 1917
Creator:
Dunlap, Samuel H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Detaching Device for Wheel-Hubs.
Patent for an attachment for a wheel-hub that allows for the hub to be quickly and easily removed or engaged. The invention does not require a nut wrench; "devices for screwing and unscrewing the axle nut are carried by the wheel-hub, and are always in proper position for immediate use whenever it is necessary to detach the nut" (lines 16-19).
Date:
February 6, 1894
Creator:
Butler, George H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dirigible Headlight
Patent for rotating combination lamp and spindle.
Date:
February 6, 1917
Creator:
Wogenstahl, Leo J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Egg-Crate.
Patent for an egg-crate that has "hinged sections, the middle section being composed of a solid block with cavities top and bottom corresponding with cavities formed in the lower and the top surface respectively of the upper and the lower portions which fit on opposite sides of the middle solid portion, the said three portions or sections being hinged together and provided with a suitable fastening" (lines 16-25).
Date:
February 6, 1894
Creator:
West, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Elevated Railway.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in elevated railways, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 6, 1900
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Extensible Car-Step.
Patent for an extensible car-step for trolleys that attaches to the ordinary steps of a trolley car.
Date:
February 6, 1912
Creator:
Uhl, Edgar G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fastener
Patent for improved fastener for boxes.
Date:
February 6, 1917
Creator:
Lewis, Alfred M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fishing-Reel.
Patent for a new and improved fishing reel that allows an angler to control the tension of the line when unwinding.
Date:
February 6, 1906
Creator:
Dickson, Frederick Lindsay
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Handle for Pans, Tubs, &c.
Patent for a wire handle for pans, tubs, &c that consists of two handles on either side of the tub, which are connected via a wire that fits in the lip of the rim of the receptacle. The handles, when taken out of the receptacle, consist of one single frame.
Date:
February 6, 1894
Creator:
Brown, John Stoddart
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hitching Device
Patent for a hitching device
Date:
February 6, 1912
Creator:
McClendon, James T. & McClendon, Fred H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hook For Wagon-Covers.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in hooks for wagon covers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 6, 1900
Creator:
Wright, Robert G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hotel Key Tag
Patent for key tag.
Date:
February 6, 1917
Creator:
Rosenfield, Clarence
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hulling Machine
Patent for sifting out leaves and detritus from harvesting of pecan nuts.
Date:
February 6, 1917
Creator:
Huegele, Alvin
System:
The Portal to Texas History