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Tape-Measure.
Patent for a tape measure with a claw on one end that the user can affix to a surface to hold one end of the measuring tape and aid in the measuring process.
Date:
December 4, 1917
Creator:
Anderson, Andrew E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for an improved car-coupling that automatically couples cars by "striking together adjacent couplers of the same class, and which may be conveniently uncoupled by a person standing at a distance from the coupler without going between the cars, as with the ordinary couplers" (lines 10-15).
Date:
December 4, 1894
Creator:
Bishop, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tillage Implement.
Patent for an improved type of tillage implement of the harrow type that can be used in places other harrows can't operate, as well as being capable of being operated in close proximity to plants without damaging them. Illustration included.
Date:
December 4, 1917
Creator:
Bonds, Walter P. Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn or Cotton Planter.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and efficient adjustable corn or cotton planter. It has a frame, ground-wheel, furrow opening and closing apparatuses, a hopper, seeding devices, a crank-arm, an agitator shift, a set-screw, a crank-pin, and bearings on the sides of the hopper.
Date:
December 4, 1894
Creator:
Brown, Mathias
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gasoline and Oil Renovator
Patent for a device that can take the impurities from gasoline and oil, thus making them reusable. Development and use are within text; includes illustrations to demonstrate the object of the patent.
Date:
December 4, 1917
Creator:
Caen, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Continuous Weighing Scale
Patent for continuous weighing scale. Illustration included.
Date:
December 4, 1906
Creator:
Carter, Edward D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Feeder for Printing-Machines.
Patent for a feeder for printing machines that supplies sheets for them to be printed automatically. It has a reciprocating bed with a cylinder over it which rotates when the bed moves. Blank sheets are on the beds, and the cylinder moves the sheets off the beds, into rollers.
Date:
December 4, 1894
Creator:
Clarke, George R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Main Slide-Valve and Throttle-Valve for Steam-Engines.
Patent for a simple main slide-valve and throttle-valve for steam-engines. The throttle valve is a flat plat and slides in a channel between the valve seat and the cylinder head. The twin engine cylinders are horizontally placed at the same height as the throttle valve. The main slide valve "affords a complete and superior valve mechanism for a quick speed steam engine" (lines 29-30).
Date:
December 4, 1894
Creator:
Devoissaud, John P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk Cutter
Patent for stalk cutters.Invention can be horse drawn to fell stalks. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 4, 1906
Creator:
Durham, Thomas L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Indicator
Patent for an indicator. This invention is for keeping track of a grocer's list. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 4, 1906
Creator:
Ellis, Harley Sigal
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gas-Compressing Pump.
Patent for a gas-compressing pump used in refrigeration and ice making. "The object of [the] invention is to reduce the height of a vertical machine, to facilitate access to the parts and relieve the foundation of strains; to reduce to a minimum the angularity of the connecting rod during the latter part of the stroke, and to improve various details of construction" (lines 19-25).
Date:
December 4, 1894
Creator:
Farnsworth, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vaginal Irrigator
Patent for a vaginal irrigator. Illustration included.
Date:
December 4, 1906
Creator:
Farrington, Charles Oliphint & Watson, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pneumatic Sand Flue And Netting Cleaner
Patent for improved Pneumatic Sand Flue and Netting Cleaners that "provide portable means for blowing sand through locomotive flues and nettings when coal-burners are employed for the purpose of cleaning said flues or nettings" (lines 13-17)
Date:
December 4, 1901
Creator:
Gibson, Robert W. & Best, William N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Smoking Device.
Patent for a improving the art of smoking meat by providing a smoking device adapted to be positioned in the smoke house which provides a means for controlling the amount of smoke that comes from the fire and covers the fire allowing for safe operation.
Date:
December 4, 1917
Creator:
Halata, Joseph J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Washing Dishes.
Patent for a new and improved dish-washing machine. This design "relates to machines for cleansing dishes, clothes, and other articles of that class in which the water is agitated. The object of the invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive, and generally efficient machine that will perform its functions speedily, and will require but very little expenditure of operating power" (lines 10-17).
Date:
December 4, 1883
Creator:
Harris, Charles Alexander.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wagon-Brakes.
Patent for "wagons which have brakes applied to them, so constructed that in descending a grade the brakes will be automatically applied, and, in moving on a level or ascending a hill, the brakes will be relieved from the wheels." (Lines 6-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 4, 1877
Creator:
Hart, Alfred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Paracentesis Needle or Trocar
Patent for a needle with the purpose of injecting fluids or extracting excess fluids from the body. Includes illustrations to demonstrate the object of the patent.
Date:
December 4, 1917
Creator:
Hill, Phillip
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Stalk-Cutters.
Patent for an attachment for stalk cutters to help prevent corn stalks from clogging the cutter after being cut.
Date:
December 4, 1917
Creator:
Jansky, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Fence-Post
Patent for a new, original, and ornamental design for fence posts.
Date:
December 4, 1906
Creator:
Jasper, Tolbert Fanning
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Treadle.
Patent for a new and improved treadle. This design "has for its object to provide an adjustable pad . . . preferably formed of rubber, to the ordinary iron treadle . . . and may be detached therefrom, as desired. . . . whereby wear of the shoes is saved and cold feet will be avoided" (lines 10-24).
Date:
December 4, 1883
Creator:
Johnson, William Oscar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle Guard
Patent for a cattle guard. This invention is for use with railways to prevent passage of stock over the tracks. Illustration included.
Date:
December 4, 1906
Creator:
Jungman, Leo A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Support for Cutter-Heads.
Patent for a support for cutter-heads that allows the operator to easily sharpen, dress, and treat the bits or cutters of the head. It has a spindle that turns and slides in a bearing and supports a cutter-head a pin in the spindle that is seated inn the grooves in the bearings, and a spring loaded bolt in the end of the spindle.
Date:
December 4, 1894
Creator:
Kendig, Andrew
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ventilating-Flue.
Patent for ventilating-flue made from sheet-metal tubes, and "can be placed in any building without necessitating making the same in one length, the sections being constructed so as to be readily adjusted on each other" (lines 12-15).
Date:
December 4, 1894
Creator:
Lange, Fritz
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil Distributer for Harbors, &c.
Patent for a new and improved oil-distributor. This design consists "in a device for distributing oil upon the waves in the vicinity of piers and harbors, the combination, with the main tank upon the shore, of a main pipe extending from it into the water, auxiliary tanks along the main line, and perforated auxiliary lines connected with the auxiliary tanks" (lines 23-30).
Date:
December 4, 1888
Creator:
Lyle, John Newton
System:
The Portal to Texas History