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Trolley-Wire Crossing.
Patent for "a trolley-wire crossing in which the bottom part of the cross on which the trolley runs is on a level with the trolley-wire, whereby all hindrances to the trolley are prevented." (Lines 13-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 3, 1895
Creator:
Kinney, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate
Patent for a gate. This invention allows a movable gate to hang on ball bearing hangers without sagging. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 3, 1912
Creator:
Wade, William & Peterson, Mack C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sound Record Tablet
Patent for a sound record tablet. This device is designed to allow "sound grooves may be in the form of a volute and in which space for a label is provided" (line 11-13). Illustration included.
Date:
December 3, 1912
Creator:
Moses, Jacob B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hole-Straightener
Patent for a hole straightener for use in drilling oil wells.
Date:
December 3, 1912
Creator:
Decker, Harry R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grain Header and Loader
Patent for grain header and loader with improved structure and adjustable height, designed to be fitted onto and powered by a moving wagon for the efficient harvesting of crops, including illustrations.
Date:
December 3, 1918
Creator:
Sullins, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-planter.
Patent for a machine that can plant any kind or size of seed or grain at any desired distance apart.
Date:
December 3, 1878
Creator:
Hoshall, David W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Planter
Patent for a seed planter. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 3, 1907
Creator:
McGuire, Daniel Harry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway Tie Lifter
Patent for railway tie lifter. Illustration included.
Date:
December 3, 1907
Creator:
Norton, James W. & Collins, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway Cattle-Guard.
Patent for a railway cattle-guard meant to be used "where the track of a railroad passes between the adjacent ends of fence-sections; and the invention seeks to provide elevated pricking-points in connection with adjacent guides inclining toward such points to direct the legs of the stock to such points so the latter will prick the lags at or above the top of the hoof" (lines 9-16).
Date:
December 3, 1895
Creator:
Jack, Harvey M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fish Trap
Patent for a fish trap. Illustration included.
Date:
December 3, 1907
Creator:
Carwile, Eugene B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine
Patent for a rotary steam engine with an improved steam cylinder.
Date:
December 3, 1912
Creator:
Lawrenson, Judge Peck
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Axle Bearings.
Patent for improvement in car-axle bearings in which "it consists in a box having a chambered back for containing oil, and having grooves along the straight edges of its bearing-surface for receiving a wick, the ends of which extend through holes in the box into the oil reservoir.”
Date:
December 3, 1878
Creator:
Stratton, Asa E., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Motion-Picture Machine.
Patent for "improvements in motion picture machines and more particularly to means for automatically shutting the lights off the head or film operating part of the machine" (lines 9-13) "in case of accident, as when the film breaks." (lines 15-16)
Date:
December 3, 1918
Creator:
Dodd, David P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe-Wrench.
Patent for "a pipe-wrench with a pivoted jaw which shall rest at its rear end against a solid support when gripping the pipe, so that all strain shall be taken from its pivot, while the wrench shall also have a stationary jaw with two bearings for pipes of varying sizes to rest against and shall also have a setter to act against the rear of the movable jaw." (Lines 15-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 3, 1895
Creator:
Riza, Mike Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Burner
Patent for an oil burner that converts petroleum fuel into gas with its own heat. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 3, 1907
Creator:
Ziegler, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planter
Patent for a planter. Illustration included.
Date:
December 3, 1907
Creator:
Schofield, James Drummond & Ray, Charles T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plumb-Level
Patent for a plumb level that can have its stock changed.
Date:
December 3, 1912
Creator:
Niedergang, Antoine
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Game Apparatus
Patent for a folding game table apparatus for playing bowling type games.
Date:
December 3, 1912
Creator:
Warren, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harrow.
Patent for "a simple, inexpensive and efficient implement by which roots of weeds and obnoxious grasses may be removed from the ground and destroyed," while also leaving the ground plowed (lines 9-12). The object also provides a simple way to remove accumulation of roots that generally clog implements of this type.
Date:
December 3, 1918
Creator:
Garrett, Jefferson D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dumping-Car.
Patent for a dumping car in "which contents of the car may be readily discharged" (lines 11-12) including illustrations.
Date:
December 3, 1889
Creator:
Bogusch, Gustav & Zincke, August
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Elastic Chain
Patent for this invention is to provide a chain which yield longitudinally when subjected to a tensile strain and to this end arrangement of parts, as will be herein after described and claimed. [5-10]
Date:
December 3, 1889
Creator:
Redwood, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Disintegrating-Machine.
Patent for "bodily revolving a mass of fibrous material over a disintegrating member whereby a shearing action is had and the material disintegrated." (lines 13-16)
Date:
December 3, 1918
Creator:
Patterson, Warren A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Holding Paper over Cakes in Ovens.
Patent for a new and improved paper-holder for cake baking. With this design, "[a] cake is placed in the oven, the holder placed in position over it, the hoop or frame raised, and a paper placed upon [another] hoop. The [first] hoop is then pressed down upon it, when the cake may be baked without the top being scorched" (lines 40-45).
Date:
December 3, 1889
Creator:
Balfour, Emma
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lumber-Trimmer.
Patent for an improved lumber-trimmer that has "a suitable carriage or number of carriages for conveying the lumber a series of swinging frames, which carry belted saws and also supporting-wheels, which wheels, if not tripped, will ride over the lumber, carrying the saws up with them out of an operative position, but which wheels, if tripped, will ride over the lumber, but permit the suspended saws to remain in operative position to trim the lumber at different points in its length, as may be desired" (lines 23-33).
Date:
December 3, 1895
Creator:
Coleman, Thomas A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History