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Bill-Posting Blanking Device.
Patent for bill-posting blanking device for applying strips of paper to bill-boards.
Date:
November 20, 1917
Creator:
Gallia, Paul
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Guard-Rail Clamp
Patent for a simple, durable and adjustable guard rail clamp for securing guard rails to the main rails of a railroad track "as at bridge approaches and opposite to frog points" (lines 11-12) without the use of drill bolt-holes.
Date:
November 28, 1905
Creator:
Butcher, Jasper; Thomas, James L. & Butcher, Jasper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Floating Body.
Patent for improvements to balloons or floating bodies in order to provide for a floating body "consisting of a flexible air or gas receiver, made to imitate or resemble animate or inanimate objects, so as to assume when inflated the shape of a human head or bust, birds, statues, animals, or any other desired object" (lines 14-19), including illustrations.
Date:
November 20, 1900
Creator:
Bailey, Edward Gray
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Post Office Case.
Patent for a new and improved carrying case for mail. This design calls for a metal cylinder with twenty-six compartments (one for each English letter) around a central compartment. The compartments may be rotated to gain access to any of them via hinged doors at the top of the case.
Date:
November 2, 1880
Creator:
Crowder, John R. & Haile, James Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Teaching Penmanship.
Patent for a device for teaching penmanship, which holds the hand in the correct writing position.
Date:
November 23, 1909
Creator:
Smith, Sidney R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "having [a] bell-mouthed draw-head, pin, plane-faced link, spring, and slide, having transverse plane face laterally secured in the draw-head by means of side guide-plates, [and] inlet into rabbets" (lines 85-90).
Date:
November 7, 1882
Creator:
Saxon, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History