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Couch
Patent for a couch. Illustration included.
Date:
April 4, 1905
Creator:
Hartshorn, Guy C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Vehicle Brake
Patent for automatic vehicle brake. The invention "provides a spring controlled rack cooperating with a gear or pinion or a vehicle wheel." (line 18-20). Illustrations included.
Date:
April 4, 1911
Creator:
Uhl, Edgar G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn Dasher
Patent for a churn dasher. Illustration included.
Date:
April 4, 1905
Creator:
Simons, Silas C.; Clark, Samuel H. & Clark, Louther M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Billiard Cue
Patent for a billiard cue. This invention is designed with removable tips. Illustration included.
Date:
April 4, 1911
Creator:
Borroughs, John Vertie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cooler
Patent for a cooler for water, milk, and other perishable items. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 4, 1911
Creator:
Langham, William Wiley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cooling Apparatus.
Patent for a cooling apparatus for food that uses the process of evaporation of water to cool the apparatus.
Date:
April 4, 1911
Creator:
Steen, Mary L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a vertical hook car coupling that also couple air-brakes. In the invention "the drawheads are provided with interlocking tongues to prevent the disconnection of the drawheads by vertical movement; the interlocking faces of the drawheads are provided with sockets to receive a plug for completing the air passage for the train pipes; the drawheads are provided with means for receiving the ordinary hose-coupling on cars not provided with [the] drawhead, and finally other features of [the] invention are the means for securing the drawhead to the car and for uncoupling" (lines 14-25).
Date:
April 4, 1893
Creator:
Ervin, Robert N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cigar-Tip Cutter and Match-Safe.
Patent for a combined cigar tip cutter and match-safe that consists of a shaft, an operating lever, a match box under the lever, a link that attaches the match box to the lever, a coiled spring that is attached to the lever, a curved lever that is lined up to the other lever, a spring connecting the two levers, and a picker.
Date:
April 4, 1893
Creator:
Briggs, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a car coupling that safe and can be operated without the operator going between cars. It consists of a car, a draw-head, a pin, a guide, a plate that holds the pin, a spring arm, and handles.
Date:
April 4, 1893
Creator:
Myers, Joseph L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Journal Lubricating Machine.
Patent for employed who related to car journal lubricating machine and oiling all classes of railroad cars and streetcars. Also, its benefits to improve the construction and increase the efficiency of machines of this character.
Date:
April 4, 1916
Creator:
Fleischer, Lewis Bernard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cooking Utensil.
Patent for a new and improved double boiler "used for continuous cooking for a long period, without replenishing the water supply" (lines 18-20) and to "improve the general efficiency of double boilers of the indicated character" (lines 22-23) including illustrations.
Date:
April 4, 1916
Creator:
Curran, William Ferris
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ointment.
Patent for a general external application ointment made of chloride of zinc, powdered metallic cobalt, blood root, and glycerine.
Date:
April 4, 1922
Creator:
Mullins, Ervin L. & Collier, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Calipers.
Patent for calipers that make it easier to read measurements, by having a strip of measuring tape at the ends that allows users to determine the distance between the arms easier. The measuring tape component is also retractable.
Date:
April 4, 1922
Creator:
Miller, William James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Universal Household Grater.
Patent for a new universal grater which eliminates the risk of injury the user may gain from grating materials.
Date:
April 4, 1922
Creator:
Lambdin, William McKendree
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ironing-Table.
Patent for an ironing table with an improved construction that makes it easily adjustable so a person of any height can iron easily and keeps clothes being ironed off the floor.
Date:
April 4, 1893
Creator:
Smith, Millage M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine.
Patent for an improved washing machine "in which is employed a rotary agitator or dasher with blades, and it has for its objects among others to provide an improved construction whereby better results are attained, the construction simplified and made cheaper, less liable to become inoperative or injured and easier to operate" (lines 16-22). It has a cover with a hinged lid.
Date:
April 4, 1893
Creator:
Anderson, Albert Grant
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insecticide Compound.
Patent for improvements in insect-exterminating compounds and processes; the ingredients for the mixture and instruction on how to prepare the compound are included. No illustration.
Date:
April 4, 1882
Creator:
Nettle, William B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wave-Motor.
Patent for a wave motor including an apparatus within a wave disturbed liquid using a power converting mechanism to convert energy in a more convenient form, including illustrations.
Date:
April 4, 1916
Creator:
Fousek, Karl
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ink-Well
Patent for an air and dust proof ink well for pens. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 4, 1911
Creator:
Banning, Frederick D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect Destroyer
Patent for an insect destroyer. Illustration included.
Date:
April 4, 1905
Creator:
Moore, Isham S. & Pace, Azie E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Trap
Patent for an insect trap which attracts insects with a light and contains them.
Date:
April 4, 1911
Creator:
La Baum, Francis M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water Cut Off
Patent for water cut off. Illustration included.
Date:
April 4, 1905
Creator:
Parker, Thomas H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hose-Supporter
Patent for a hose supporter that is worn on the leg. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 4, 1911
Creator:
Moses, Jacob Bernhard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Condenser.
Patent for an improved, simple, and compact steam-condenser that is meant to be used in tea factories and similar places where distilled water is needed, and has the minimum amount of back pressure.
Date:
April 4, 1893
Creator:
Steinbarth, Carl
System:
The Portal to Texas History