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Blab or Muzzle for Weaning Calves or Colts, &c.
Patent for weaning young animals and or prevent cows or such from sucking or milking themselves.
Date:
April 19, 1900
Creator:
Seay, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compressor.
Patent for a refrigerating machine compressor, which compresses more gas, cools the compressor with the incoming gas, and uses excess heat to dry the gas coming in.
Date:
April 19, 1910
Creator:
Mayhew, John Daugherty
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cooling Journal-Boxes on Railway-Trains
Patent for an apparatus for cooling journal boxes on trains by sending water to the journal boxes from a water system installed in each car.
Date:
April 19, 1910
Creator:
Andrews, Walter P.
System:
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Branding-Chute.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in branding-chutes for "securely holding live stock during the process of branding the same" (line 12 - 14).
Date:
April 19, 1898
Creator:
Bennett, Joe
System:
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Car-Coupling.
Patent for a new and useful car coupling.
Date:
April 19, 1898
Creator:
Whiting, Louis Rossell
System:
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Clothes Drier
Patent for a clothes drier. Illustration included.
Date:
April 19, 1910
Creator:
Bird, Fred E.
System:
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Blind Stop.
Patent for a new and improved blind-stop. This design is "to provide a cheap and simple device designed to be secured to a window-casing and be interposed between any two adjacent pivoted slats, and thus support the same and the series in an open position and against accidental closing by their own weight or by the wind" (lines 9-16). It consists in the "holder for slats of blinds, consisting of a spring-metal strip bent at its center to form an eye and opposite terminals, the latter being adapted to be interposed between two adjacent slats, and the ends of the terminals oppositely bent" (lines 72-77).
Date:
April 19, 1892
Creator:
Deats, Wallen S. & Brown, Daniel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blank Book.
Patent for a new and improved blank book. This design "is an improvement upon the Megee-Miller blank book which adapts it for use of type-writers and others requiring one whose sheets or leaves may be readily detached and again secured together after having been written or printed. The sheets are detachably connected with a binding-strip by means of a cord or cords" (lines 7-14).
Date:
April 19, 1892
Creator:
Burris, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aerial Ship
Patent for "a ship for navigating the air, which shall be almost or quite as easily governed and controlled as regards its course of travel, irrespective of the direction of the wind and in other respects, as a ship provided with propelling means, used to sail in or through the water" (lines 9-15).
Date:
April 19, 1892
Creator:
Riddle, William Nelson
System:
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Car Door Fastening.
Patent for a new and improved car-door fastening. This design "consists in a novel construction and arrangement of a staple, a hook-hasp, key, and a key-plate, whereby several advantages are obtained . . . for securing the sliding doors of box-cars and other railway-cars" (lines 8-14).
Date:
April 19, 1881
Creator:
Alexander, Francis Marion
System:
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Caster.
Patent for an improved design for casters, otherwise known as "rollers for bedsteads and the like" (lines 15-16), including illustrations.
Date:
April 19, 1881
Creator:
Custer, George
System:
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Canceling Stamp.
Patent for a new and improved stamp canceler. This design utilizes a washer, flanges, and vertical slots "for the purpose of adjusting the roughened face of the head . . . so that the correct operation of the face is insured" (65-68). This represents an improvement over previous stamp cancelers.
Date:
April 19, 1881
Creator:
Grothaus, Frederick E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Fender
Patent for improvements in automobile-fenders. A simple and efficient cushioning fender for breaking.
Date:
April 19, 1921
Creator:
Dodson, George W.
System:
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Grapple for Oil-Wells and the Like.
Patent for an improved grapple device that can help recover rigging parts from oil wells, including illustrations.
Date:
April 19, 1921
Creator:
Reed, Clarence E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ice-Carrier.
Patent for an adjustable ice carrier which can be attached to and removed from the running board of an automobile, including illustrations.
Date:
April 19, 1921
Creator:
Cronin, John J.
System:
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Oil Burner.
Patent for oil burner improvements, including economic and easily handle to control the pressure to control the oil and steam within the burner head.
Date:
February 9, 1920
Creator:
Obenshain, Kyle Derias
System:
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Concrete Building Mold.
Patent for Concrete Building Mold that is composed to be able to be detachable and reversible.
Date:
June 14, 1920
Creator:
Rossiter, Jay A
System:
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Filtering Material.
Patent for "improved filtering stuff composition" (lines 8-9), containing vegetable ashes and an insoluble binding agent for the purpose of purifying liquids.
Date:
April 19, 1921
Creator:
Müller, Enrique
System:
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Reagent for Liquid-Battery Cells.
Patent for a method of producing a "cheap and efficient substitute for copper sulfate for use in battery cells" (lines 14-16).
Date:
April 19, 1921
Creator:
Humphrey, David L. & Pittman, Carl L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Reamer.
Patent for rotary reamers for progressively enlarging holes in pilot drills, particularly roller disk type reamers used in oil, water, or mining applications.
Date:
April 19, 1921
Creator:
Humason, Granville A.
System:
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Process of Distilling Hydrocarbons
Patent for distilling hydrocarbons from crude petroleum oil.
Date:
April 19, 1921
Creator:
Averill, Willard C., Jr.
System:
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Wire Fence
Patent for wire fence. Illustration included.
Date:
April 19, 1904
Creator:
Hughes, Wallace B. & Samuels, Joe
System:
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Walking Seed-Planter
Patent for an improved walking seed-planter.
Date:
April 19, 1881
Creator:
Thomas, Joseph H.
System:
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Wall Construction
Patent for a relatively simple constructed wall that is built using concrete slabs. It is constructed in a manner that requires less material thus resulting in a wall that is hollow all the while providing sufficient strength to hold weight and pressure. Includes illustrations.
Date:
April 19, 1921
Creator:
Needham, Edward F.
System:
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