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Check Row Planter
Patent for check row planter. Illustration included.
Date:
July 19, 1904
Creator:
Perkins, Albert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Colter Attachment for Plows.
Patent for a new and useful colter attachment for plows, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 19, 1898
Creator:
Haynes, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coffee - Pot.
Patent for a new and useful coffee pot, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 19, 1898
Creator:
Ingle, Jacob Odem
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Back Spacing Attachment for Type Writing Machines
Patent for an attachment to provide type writing machines with back space. Illustration included.
Date:
July 19, 1904
Creator:
Parker, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Manufacturing Heating and Illuminating Gas
Patent for an apparatus for manufacturing heating and illuminating gas. Illustration included.
Date:
July 19, 1910
Creator:
Wynne, Milton P. & Wagley, Samuel L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Fuel
Patent for artificial fuel made from coal.
Date:
July 19, 1904
Creator:
Thomas, Adelaide M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Canopy for Folding Beds.
Patent for a new and improved canopy for folding beds. This design "will automatically fold up within the bed when the same is closed, and will similarly open out with the opening of the bed without any other attention than the proper arrangement of the folds of the mosquito or fly netting" (lines 21-25). It consists in "an automatically raising and lowering canopy consisting of a raising-frame having vertical bars pivoted to the bed at the bottom and a horizontal connecting-bar at the top, a canopy-top frame pivoted to the bed-casing, having side bars and a horizontal connecting-bar, and couplings" (lines 13-19).
Date:
July 19, 1892
Creator:
Eva, Addison H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bag.
Patent for a new and improved bag. This design is "compris[ed of] the body divided down its front, one edge having staples and the other edge having openings adapted to engage said staples, a covering-flap provided with an opening adapted to engage one of said staples, and a flexible fastening device secured to said bag and adapted to be passed through said staples for securing the edges and covering-flap" (lines 62-71).
Date:
July 19, 1887
Creator:
Franks, Lewis Wigfall
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design is "to provide a novel car-coupling pin and means for operating the same to automatically couple cars through the medium of ordinary links without the use of triggers located within the draw-head . . . The invention consists, essentially, in a vertically-movable coupling-pin adapted to rotate axially in the pin-hole of the draw-head, and having a wing or lug for supporting it in its elevated position, combined with a yielding draw-head having a vertical slot to receive the wing or lug and a shoulder to support the same" (lines 8-22).
Date:
July 19, 1887
Creator:
Power, Kelsey L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Fire Screen and Fender.
Patent for a combined fire screen and fender. This design "works in the mantle-piece by means of weights, and is secured in position by by means of a spring-latch that catches in notches in the jamb. This screen thus arranged can be made to answer for three purposes: By letting it down nearly to the hearth it acts as a blower; by letting it entirely down accidents from fire are prevented, and when let down in the summer time it makes a handsome summer screen" (lines 21-30).
Date:
July 19, 1881
Creator:
Matthews, James Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale Tie.
Patent for a new and improved bale tie. This design is of a metal band with several slots, so that the accompanying metal button can pass through any two overlapping slots, securing the bale within the band.
Date:
July 19, 1881
Creator:
Griffin, James Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Guano Distributor
Patent for the distribution of guano for fertilization over a given area of territory.
Date:
July 19, 1912
Creator:
H. D. Pate
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method and Apparatus For Improving Computer Cache Performance and for Protecting Memory Systems Against Some Side Channel Attacks
Patent relating to a method and apparatus both for improving execution performance and for protecting memory system against some side channel attacks.
Date:
November 22, 2012
Creator:
Kavi, Krishna M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Electric-Current Relay
Patent for Electric-Current Relay to allow capability of use with either a direct or alternating current. This is adapted for economical use in constant temperature apparatus. Further, this technology avoids the possibility of "sticking of relay movable contacts".
Date:
July 19, 1921
Creator:
Lorenz, Charles O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for a wrench with a head having a pair of rigid jaws to engage the object. One unique use of this wrench is that it can tighten any threaded joint beyond the degree of tightness that can be obtained by pulling the handle of an ordinary wrench in the usual manner.
Date:
July 19, 1921
Creator:
Duda, Oswald
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher.
Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design consists in "the combination of a bar provided with a toothed quadrant and with a boss having an overhanging projection at its rear end, an eccentric pivoted on the face of the said boss for holding the wire against the projection, a hand-lever pivoted to the bar, and provided with a spring-detent engaging with a toothed quadrant, a plate pivoted at one end to the hand-lever and provided with an overhanging projection, and a second eccentric pivoted upon the face of the plate for gripping the wire against the projection" (lines 77-88).
Date:
July 19, 1887
Creator:
Mason, James Alexander
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water Elevator.
Patent for a new and improved water-elevator. This design consists in "a supporting frame, a drum journaled therein, a rope wound on the drum, a bucket attached to the rope, mechanism for turning the drum to lift the bucket, and a fork journaled below the drum and provided with a central arm adapted to catch under the raised bucket resting in the fork to discharge its contents as the fork is tilted" (lines 21-28).
Date:
July 19, 1887
Creator:
Mefferd, George Washington
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Indicator for Pressure Gages
Patent for an indicator for pressure gages. Illustration included.
Date:
July 19, 1910
Creator:
Fields, Roberts E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Incubator.
Patent for an incubator, which automatically turns all the eggs to allow them to get the same amount of warmth and light.
Date:
July 19, 1910
Creator:
Gerard, Alonzo
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thill Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved thill-coupling. This design is "compris[ed of] perforated checks . . . a coupling-bolt, a locking-lever hinged to said bolt, said lever being provided with knob and notch, a cover -plate having groove and catch, and a spring-pin adapted to hold the lever and cover in engagement" (lines 81-87).
Date:
July 19, 1887
Creator:
Owens, Israel P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump.
Patent for a new and improved pump. This design "has been specially devised for use in pumping gas, air, or vapor — as in ice-machines, for instance — and mainly with reference to attaining circulation with low pressure; but when operated at high speed considerable pressure may be attained therewith, whether operating upon vapors or liquids, as . . . [the] pump involves a novel mode of operation, in that it possesses characteristics partially common to pumps of the rotary system, as well as to those having a reciprocating piston" (lines 10-21).
Date:
July 19, 1881
Creator:
Rose, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trace Carrier.
Patent for a new and improved trace-carrier. This design consists in "the combination of a cylindrical body of elongated form and obliquely arranged and having slots in the upper part thereof to form bars, a central top slot between said bars, and a lower bar having a recess therein, an obliquely-inclined spring-latch extending across one of the open ends of said body, the back-band having a strap to pass around said body, and a girth-strap connected to said lower recessed bar" (lines 13-22).
Date:
July 19, 1892
Creator:
Wellborn, Samuel Houston
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Manure-Spreader
Patent for a manure spreader that can be connected to the back wheels of a farm wagon. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 19, 1910
Creator:
Echols, John D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Puzzle
Patent for a puzzle. Illustration included.
Date:
July 19, 1904
Creator:
Strickland, M. Nichols
System:
The Portal to Texas History