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Adjustable Split Lock-Nut or Union
Patent for an adjustable split cock-nut or union that is of a simple, cheap, and efficient construction with an intended use on valve rods of internal combustion engines. This device is designed to withstand direct pressure, blows, and torque forces.
Date:
December 2, 1919
Creator:
Dickinson, Harry E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Curing Tire Casings.
Patent for a more efficient system for curing tire casings. The new patented apparatus was capable of providing both smooth and ribbed tire textures by way of aluminum tips and molds. Additionally, the apparatus provided retreading and faster curing of pneumatic tires.
Date:
December 2, 1919
Creator:
Bongio, Philip P. & Stephenson, Elonzo
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Automobile Headlights
Patent for an automobile headlight attachment capable of horizontal rotation.
Date:
December 2, 1919
Creator:
Tripp, J. C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Headers
Patent for improving attachments of headers to convert horse-drawn headers into motor headers.
Date:
December 2, 1919
Creator:
Thomas, Samuel S. & Thomas, Elbert F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Lock.
Patent for a padlock and mount for the steering column of an automobile.
Date:
December 2, 1919
Creator:
Ritchie, Allen A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dental Implement
Patent for a dental implement that features a tool useful for dentists when filling teeth and also is adapted to contain filling material for instant availability and use during dental procedures.
Date:
December 2, 1919
Creator:
Edwards, Walker A., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Forming Screens
Patent for a device for forming screens that consist of perforated pipes and screening wires, which will prevent displaced wires and torn pipes during use.
Date:
December 2, 1919
Creator:
Edwards, Charles R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Molding Device
Patent for the improvement of multi-pieced molds through the introduction of a gate and tube that allows for rapid coring of a mold.
Date:
December 2, 1919
Creator:
Hawkins, Alda F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Circulating Gage.
Patent for an "oil circulating gage particularly designed for use in connection with the oiling system of the well known 'Ford' automobile."
Date:
December 2, 1919
Creator:
Cope, Thomas N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shock Absorber
Patent for the improvement of shock absorbers through the introduction of more flexible material into the air container.
Date:
December 2, 1919
Creator:
Crawford, Edward M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire Tool
Patent for improvements in tire tools by Mr. Preston G. Taylor. These improvements relate to "expanding demountable tire-carrying rims of split tires," the object of which is the provision of a tool by which the rim, "can easily be contracted for removal from the tire," and "expanded to its proper position after the tire has been put back on the rim" (lines 8-15).
Date:
December 2, 1919
Creator:
Taylor, Preston G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve Remover.
Patent for "an improvement in combination tools...adapted for use with internal combustion engines...mechanism is provided for assisting in valve removing." [lines 8-14]
Date:
December 2, 1919
Creator:
Ingram, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well Capping Device.
Patent for "new and useful improvements in a well capping device." [lines 9-10]
Date:
December 2, 1919
Creator:
Thrift, Homer C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window Shade Guide.
Patent for window shade roller guides. This invention ensured a smooth and successful unrolling of the window shade, allowing the shade to be guided by a two-part attachment on the sides of the window shade spool. The inventor claimed that the use of this apparatus could preserve the integrity of the roller by minimizing damage during operation.
Date:
December 2, 1919
Creator:
Orr, James E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Non-Freezing Water-Supply System.
Patent for a new water-supply draining apparatus to prevent pipes from freezing in cold weather, including illustrations.
Date:
December 2, 1913
Creator:
Hardy, Paul
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weed-Killing Train.
Patent for a train car that kills weeds on the tracks with illustrations included.
Date:
December 2, 1913
Creator:
Orton, Ingomar François
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bolting Machine
Patent for an more new and improved, more efficient bolting machine.
Date:
December 2, 1902
Creator:
Hollender, C. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner.
Patent for crude-oil burner that has excellent combustion, it is simply constructed to to make it easier to use, and requires little or no attention. It is adaptable to be used in fire-boxes (cooking and heating stoves, furnaces, and ranges).
Date:
December 2, 1902
Creator:
Bateman, Talbot O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Headlight.
Patent for Locomotive-headlights, "and has for its principal object to so construct the lamp and its casing as to permit of the lighting or adjusting the lamp-blaze from the back of the headlight box…” (lines 8-13) including illustrations.
Date:
December 2, 1902
Creator:
Stanton, James Robertson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway Gate.
Patent for improvements to "cattle-guard gate for railroads in particulars of construction (lines 8-10). Includes illustrations.
Date:
December 2, 1890
Creator:
Grisham, James M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
System of Road Drainage.
Patent for a new and improved system of road drainage. This design is "especially . . . for use on dirt and other roads, and adapted to quickly dry the road after a heavy rainfall without disturbing the road-bed. The invention consists of a drain arranged longitudinally under the road-bed and provided with outlet-pipes placed suitable distances apart, and each adapted to be closed at its outer end, and branch air-pipes also extending from the said drain and adapted to be connected with an air-pump for pumping the air out of the drain" (lines 10-21).
Date:
December 2, 1890
Creator:
Mitchell, Alexander
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Track Walker's Tool.
Patent for a new and improved track-walker's tool. This design "consist[s] of a sectional handle or body having a claw-bar and spiking-maul at one end and a wrench at the opposite end, the said wrench being provided with a stud upon one face, the distance between the outer face of said stud and the outer surface of the maul when the sections are joined together and the maul faces the stud being such as to correspond to the standard distance between rails" (lines 14-23).
Date:
December 2, 1890
Creator:
Rohrbach, Gabriel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling Seed Cotton.
Patent for cotton house with bins and conveyors that prevent the cotton from being contaminated.
Date:
December 2, 1884
Creator:
Munger, Robert S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling Seed-Cotton.
Patent for a "mechanism for handling seed-cotton [...] to provide novel means for conveying said cotton directly from the wagon or from the cotton-house to the ginning mechanism, whereby the cotton is cleansed and dried during its passage" (lines 7-13). It also helps to prevent fires and contamination of ginned cotton, and to reduce labor handling seed-cotton.
Date:
December 2, 1884
Creator:
Munger, Robert S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History