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Automatic Safety-Burner
Patent for an automatic safety burner for lamps that turns off the flame if the lamp is tilted.
Date:
November 26, 1912
Creator:
Splettstosser, Fritz
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clip
Patent for a clip that may be used to bind paper, plies of fabric, or as a clothes pin. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 26, 1907
Creator:
Porter, Louis H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Card-Cutting Attachment for Printing-Presses.
Patent for an attachment for printing presses that not only acts as a card cutter, but can also change the shape of the design and automatically eject the paper.
Date:
November 26, 1901
Creator:
Speight, Winchester Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Poultry-Disinfector
Patent for an automatic poultry disinfector that is applied to the chickens necks while they are eating.
Date:
November 26, 1912
Creator:
Donathan, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Educational Chart, Drawing Board, and Writing-Desk
Patent for a piece of furniture that can act as an educational chart, drawing board, or a writing desk. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 26, 1907
Creator:
Henderson, George A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Door Mechanism
Patent for a sliding car door mechanism.
Date:
November 26, 1912
Creator:
Gradick, Wiley Sr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Pen and Pencil Rack
Patent for a pen and pencil rack. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 26, 1907
Creator:
Twaddell, Janie S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Tabled, Copy, and Bill Holder.
Patent for a combined tablet, copy, and bill holder meant to hold "file-pins in their operative and inoperative positions, to provide simple and improved means whereby a tablet or bills may be covered when not in use or when carrying the device, to protect the same from dirt, &c. and, furthermore, to provide improved means for supporting the holder in position for transcribing" (lines 12-18).
Date:
November 26, 1895
Creator:
Stuart, Benjamin Franklin & Willson, Frederick WIlliam
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cleaning and Handling Seed-Cotton
Patent for "improved means for conveying seed-cotton from wagons or store-houses to a series of gins, to clean it during its passage, and to avoid clogging the gins or the devices themselves by rapid feeding of the cotton" (lines 14-18).
Date:
November 26, 1889
Creator:
Elam, William E.; Thomas, Robert S. & Hardwick, Sauny W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Electric-Light Holder.
Patent for an adjustable electric-light holder for automobiles.
Date:
November 26, 1918
Creator:
Balke, Morris
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compression Indicator
Patent for a device that determining the compression of engine cylinders. Is meant to provide a more efficient and quicker way to test compression in explosive engine cylinders.
Date:
November 26, 1918
Creator:
Lambeth, Acey L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Card-File Cabinet.
Patent for a lockable card file cabinet or casing that allows for viewing through a transparent top with use of a rod for moving cards back and forth. The transparent top allows customer information to be stored and used, but not edited without a key.
Date:
November 26, 1918
Creator:
Reeves, John R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planar fuel cell utilizing nail current collectors for increased active surface area
A plurality of nail current collector members are useful in the gas flow passages of an electrochemical device to optimize the active surfaces of the device and to provide structural support. In addition, the thicknesses of cathode and anode layers within the electrochemical device are varied according to current flow through the device to reduce resistance and increase operating efficiency.
Date:
November 26, 1999
Creator:
George, Thomas J. & Meacham, G.B. Kirby
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Combination Farming Implement.
Patent for "agricultural implements and particularly to soil tilling machines of the rotary type" (lines 9-11) ... "of simple and improved construction embodying a carrying frame, a swingingly supported adjustable frame, and a rotary tilling device mounted on the swinging frame for direct engagement with the ground" (lines 13-18).
Date:
November 26, 1918
Creator:
Corbin, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Cutter
Patent for a wire cutter specifically for hay bale ties.
Date:
November 26, 1912
Creator:
Grogan, Edward W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window Curtain Clasp and Holder
Patent for improvement in window curtain clasps and holders. It is a window curtain clasp used to secure drapes using a U shaped fixture.
Date:
November 26, 1902
Creator:
Murray, Rebecca F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock.
Patent for an invention that relates to locks. "The prime object of the invention is to provide a supplemental locking device for the holding element, which is entirely separate from the usual locking mechanism, so that should one unacquainted with the lock attempt to open it in the ordinary manner by operating said usual mechanism the holding element will still be securely locked and the attempt would thus be frustrated." (Lines 14-21) Illustration is included.
Date:
November 26, 1901
Creator:
Rodrigo, Hendrick
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Indicator
Patent for indicator "for vessels by which to show accurately and readily the draft of the vessel, as well as any list and pitch that may exist" (lines 8-11) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 26, 1901
Creator:
Bennison, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve
Patent for a valve for rotary steam engines.
Date:
November 26, 1912
Creator:
Faulkner, Thomas F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Liquid-Fuel Burner
Patent for a liquid fuel burner for steam engine boilers.
Date:
November 26, 1912
Creator:
Willis, Charles W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lawn-Mower.
Patent for a new and improved lawn mower that "consists in the novel construction and arrangement of its parts." (lines 13-14), including description and illustrations.
Date:
November 26, 1901
Creator:
Stewart, Henry E. & Stewart, Luther F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in bale-ties
Patent for cotton bale ties, involving a lateral arm. Includes illustrations.
Date:
November 26, 1872
Creator:
Lloyd, Arnold
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trace Attachment.
Patent for a new and improved trace attachment. This design "relates to an improvement in couplings for tug-straps, and has for its object to provide a simple, economical, and durable device, capable of convenient manipulation, and whereby the tug-strap may be expeditiously attached to the cockeye of the whiffletree or detached therefrom" (lines 8-14).
Date:
November 26, 1889
Creator:
Turman, William F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Means for Taking Up Wear on Vehicle-Axles
Patent for an "apparatus for taking up wear upon vehicle axles" (lines 17-18). Illustrations included.
Date:
November 26, 1907
Creator:
Short, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History