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Adhesive and Method of Making the Same
Patent for starch used for paper that can act as an adhesive coating. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 18, 1913
Creator:
Dunham, Andrew A. & Dunham, Henry V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Brake, Lighting, and Signaling System for Railway-Trains
Patent for an electrical system which provides air brake, lighting, and signaling mechanisms for trains. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 18, 1908
Creator:
Mayo, William C. & Houlehan, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air Heating and Regulating Means for Internal Combustion Engines
Patent for a type of air heater designed to be attached to an internal combustion engine for the purposes of regulating heat.
Date:
February 18, 1919
Creator:
Brooks, Howard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Annuciator
Patent for an annunciator. "This invention is designed for use in connection with a complete traction system" (lines 13-14). The design drives instruments via a train air system so that air pressure is constantly maintained. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 18, 1908
Creator:
Mayo, William C.; Houlehan, John & Briggs, George E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Multiple Fuse Block
Patent for an automatic multiple fuse block. This invention is "provided a normally inactive shunt circuit through which, when a fuse is blown, the current is diverted to an electro-mechanical means which, when the rush of current causing the fuse to blow" (16-21). Illustration included.
Date:
February 18, 1908
Creator:
Mayo, William C.; Houlehan, John & Briggs, George E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blank for Making Perforated Tubing
Patent for a blank for the manufacturing of well tubing used in water and oil wells.
Date:
February 18, 1913
Creator:
Layne, Mahlon E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Branding-Chute
Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Branding Chutes" (Lines 5-6) including illustrations.
Date:
February 18, 1902
Creator:
Honeycutt, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Breaking-Rig.
Patent for a "horse breaking or training apparatus, and has for its object to provide a simple and efficient device adapted to be attached to a horse to prevent kicking without preventing trotting or pacing." (Lines 7-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 18, 1896
Creator:
Kenner, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Ventilation.
Patent for an apparatus to improve car ventilation, including illustrations.
Date:
February 18, 1879
Creator:
Knipscheer, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Wheel
Patent for a car wheel made to ease turning on rounding corners and to prevent slipping due to differences in wheel sizes.
Date:
February 18, 1908
Creator:
Mayo, William C. & Houlehan, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chain Jack.
Patent for new and useful improvements in chain-jacks. "This invention aims to provide a chain-jack for lifting the boxes of axles, so that the bearings or brasses therefor can be readily replaced, and is designed especially for use in cases of hot boxes on railway-cars" (line 11-15).
Date:
February 18, 1902
Creator:
Phillips, Henry S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Check-Turning Device
Patent for improvements of check-turning devices. The improvements allow checks to be turned quickly especially by adding machine operators.
Date:
February 18, 1919
Creator:
Albaugh, Ellis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
CHURN
Patent for the improvement of a churn. The churn has a detachable support and a closure for the upper end of the body of the churn.
Date:
February 18, 1913
Creator:
HARRISON, DAVID M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Controlled Depositions of Metal and Metal Cluster Ions by Surface Field Patterning in Soft-Landing Devices
Patent relating to controlled deposition of metal and metal cluster ions by surface field patterning in soft-landing devices.
Date:
April 19, 2011
Creator:
Verbeck, Guido F. & Davila, Stephen
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Corn or Cotton Planter.
Patent for improvements to the construction of corn and cotton planters that are ridden by the user, illustrated.
Date:
February 18, 1902
Creator:
Boyd, Joseph Lonzo & Gillis, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn or Cotton-Seed Platter
Patent for improvements in "a combined plow and interchangeable revolving seed-dropper so constructed as to permit of its being readilyconverted into a corn or cotton-seed planter with the least trouble" (lines 19-23).
Date:
February 18, 1890
Creator:
Peeler, John Wiliam
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the plate, having extensions and laterally-extending arm or bracket, the hopper mounted upon the extension of the plate, the seed-slide or coiled spring connecting the front end of the latter with the bracket, metal plates secured to the front and rear sides of the rear wall of the hopper above the seed-slide, the brush or cut-off arranged between said plates, and suitable operating mechanism for retracting the seed-slide against the tension of the coiled spring" (lines 6-17).
Date:
February 18, 1890
Creator:
Cromer, Thomas L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper that can cut plants in hills or drills.
Date:
February 18, 1913
Creator:
Chenault, George N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Harvester
Patent for cotton harvesters and particularly to the picker mechanism, in which the picker is able to provide means for picking the cotton and delivering the same to the desired basket on the vehicle.
Date:
February 18, 1918
Creator:
Newman, Joe
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a blade arranged for connection with a beam and formed with cutting-edges . . . , of a wing in a horizontal plane formed with a cutting-edge and rigidly connected to the blade at some distance above its lower edge" (lines 60-65).
Date:
February 18, 1890
Creator:
Henry, Leroy Bell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Enlarging Negatives.
Patent for a new or improved device to enlarge negatives; that is simple, portable, and ready to use, including illustrations.
Date:
February 18, 1902
Creator:
Hutchings, George B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Egg Preserving Apparatus.
Patent for a new and useful egg container for packing, storing, and preserving eggs.
Date:
February 18, 1902
Creator:
Glacken Hugh
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire-Spreading Device
Patent for a portable weapon to spread fire quickly from object to object or building to building in enemy country.
Date:
February 18, 1919
Creator:
Ford, Frederick William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fish Trap
Patent for a fish trap. Illustration included.
Date:
February 18, 1908
Creator:
Angel, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History