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Acetylene-Gas Generator.
Patent for a new and improved gas generator, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 5, 1899
Creator:
Schaefer, Henry P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Stalk Cutter.
Patent for a cotton stalk cutter that cuts two rows at a time.
Date:
December 5, 1911
Creator:
Leatherwood, Roy A. & Leatherwood, Charles F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Seal.
Patent for a car seal, made of a long, thin, and narrow metallic strip. When it is looped through two parts of the car body, the ends can be pinned together with sealing irons. This car seal cannot be tampered with without visible evidence showing.
Date:
December 5, 1911
Creator:
Lawler, Claude B.; Bryan, William A. & Keller, John.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device For Adjusting Sieves In Threshing Machines
Patent for a device for adjusting sieves in threshing machines. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 5, 1905
Creator:
Steelsmith, John A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Base-Ball Score-Card
Patent for a baseball score card that has spaces for putting the players name on the card from both teams on the same side.
Date:
December 5, 1911
Creator:
Dealey, Walter A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap.
Patent for a new and useful animal trap, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 5, 1899
Creator:
Buckersberg, Simon
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Supplying Device For Diving Purposes.
Patent for a new and useful air supplying device for diving purposes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 5, 1899
Creator:
Hensley, Frank A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chimney-Cowl.
Patent for an elbow-shaped chimney cowl that is simple yet durable, which may be attached to chimneys of various sizes. It It has a vane that enables the cowl to turn and send smoke in the direction the wind is blowing. It also has a screen to cover the opening, which will prevent large sparks or partially burned materials from exiting the chimney.
Date:
December 5, 1911
Creator:
Powell, John T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas-Generating Lamp.
Patent for a new and useful acetylene gas lamp, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 5, 1899
Creator:
Eldridge, Hilliary
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane
Patent for an aeroplane that will maintain its balance in the air automatically
Date:
December 5, 1911
Creator:
McManus, Augustus F. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cook-Stove.
Patent for a cook-stove, which has two ovens that can be used together or separately.
Date:
December 5, 1911
Creator:
Turbeville, John B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a car coupling that operates automatically and without causing danger to the railway employees. It operates by a lever on the side or top of the car.
Date:
December 5, 1893
Creator:
Burglin, Bernhard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Axle-Lubricator.
Patent for an axle lubricator that continuously lubricates an axle through a hollow nut in the end of the hub bushing, and the oil cup can be refilled easily and without removing the wheel.
Date:
December 5, 1893
Creator:
Miller, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buckle.
Patent for a buckle meant for use with harnesses and "wherein the ordinary movable and hinged tongue is dispensed with, and a rigid stud or pointed projection is used in reversed positions at opposite ends of connecting loops" (lines 9-13).
Date:
December 5, 1893
Creator:
Odom, Plesant W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter.
Patent for an inexpensive and simply constructed corn and cotton planter that has an "improved mechanism for transmitting motion from the drive-wheel to the seed-disk; to so construct said mechanism as to operate only when the planter is being advanced and to remain inoperative when being drawn backward; to provide for a change of speed for the seed-disk so as to plant close together or far apart as may be desired; and to provide a new and improved hood or protector for the gear connection between the drive-wheel and the power-transmitting mechanism, which hood may be readily cast and will preserve the mechanism at this point against the deleterious actions of dust and other gritty matter that would otherwise find its way therein" (lines 11-26).
Date:
December 5, 1893
Creator:
Schofield, James Drommond
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Conduit Electric Railway.
Patent for an underground conduit electric railway meant to propel cars. The conduit can be drained and kept dry, and a trolley attachment protects the conduit from dirt and water as well.
Date:
December 5, 1893
Creator:
de Voe, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Telephone-Exchange System.
Patent for "a simple system and arrangement which is especially adapted for a telephone exchange, which enables the instruments to be connected by a single wire, which dispenses with the use of an operator at the central station, which has automatic means for registering the messages sent by each subscriber, and which is provided with an automatic switching device by means of which one subscriber may connect with any other" (lines 10-19).
Date:
December 5, 1893
Creator:
Serdinko, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a cultivator "in which all of the plow shanks will be adjustable to or from the center line of the frame in order that the cultivator may be adapted for working different kinds of plants" (lines 19-23). It is laterally adjustable, and the tongue is vertically adjustable.
Date:
December 5, 1893
Creator:
Mattijetz, Andreas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the hoe, of a standard, fulcrumed to a hinged adjustable bar, and connected by mechanism[s] with the ground-wheel" (lines 77-80).
Date:
December 5, 1882
Creator:
Collins, Laura Ann & Graham, William G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed Spring (D.C. Patent).
Patent for bed spring.
Date:
December 5, 1882
Creator:
Littell, J. Reed
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Window-Shade
Patent for an adjustable window-shade that is more useful and can be "raised and lowered in its entirety" (lines 10-11) including instructions and illustration.
Date:
December 5, 1916
Creator:
Hayes, George Daniel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Pipes and Cigar-Holders.
Patent for new and improvements in Combined Pipes and Cigar-Holders which consists in "forming or constructing the pipe with an intermediate chamber which serves as a receptacle for a sponge or other absorbent porous material." (Lines 15-20) Illustrations are included.
Date:
December 5, 1871
Creator:
Bond, Virgil A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for new and useful improvements in wrenches, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 5, 1899
Creator:
Rollins, Edgar C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Manufacture of Organic Solvents
Patent for new improvements to the manufacture of organic solvents. Specifically as it it relates to the treatment of acetone oils with catalysts for the purpose of converting the ketones contained within the acetone oil into alcohol.
Date:
December 5, 1914
Creator:
Hibbert, Harold
System:
The Portal to Texas History