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Lifting-Jack.
Patent for a simple and durable lifting jack for wagons that is easily operated and does not move the hoisting lever in the post.
Date:
December 5, 1893
Creator:
Ball, Charles W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Switch Throwing Apparatus
Patent for a device that will automatically throw a switch upon the presence of an on-coming train, and switch it back after the train has passed.
Date:
December 5, 1916
Creator:
Bida, Frank
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
Hog Trough
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Hog-Troughs" (lines 5-6).
Date:
December 5, 1905
Creator:
Bookout, Hugh B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Fence Tool.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in wire fence tools, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 5, 1899
Creator:
Boynton, John Blijah
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
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
Automatic Gas Valves
Patent for automatic gas valve that will close if the pressure is detected to be too low.
Date:
December 5, 1916
Creator:
Chism, Sylvester J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Packing-Case.
Patent for new and improved shipping case to store and transport oysters so that they may be surrounded by ice in travel and not be subjected to a great amount of pressure or damaged during transit.
Date:
December 5, 1905
Creator:
Clement, Thomas Houlten, Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Low-Pressure Tire-Signal.
Patent for a device that attaches to the valve of an automobile tire and creates a warning noise if the tire pressure is too low. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 5, 1911
Creator:
Collins, Joseph M.
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
Lawn Mower
Patent for a lawn mower in which the means for adjusting the intermediate blade has been created so that a groove for a predetermined depth can be cut, and easy removal of the blade when it is desired to sharpen the same. Additionally, a ground-engaging roller is included to keep the machine at the same level so that the knife will cut into the ground at an even depth.
Date:
December 5, 1919
Creator:
Coniglio Carmelo
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draft Attachment for Carriages and Wagons.
Patent for a device that can be secured to a swingle-tree or vehicle axle to allow shafts to be secured or instantly released.
Date:
December 5, 1911
Creator:
Darden, George 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
Telpherage Apparatus
Patent for Telpherage Apparatus
Date:
December 5, 1916
Creator:
Drinkard, Ithamar B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Turbine for Locomotives.
Patent for a compact mechanism related to steam turbines, which has positive geared connections with the driving access of the locomotive, resulting in reduced friction. This increases efficiency of the driving action while reduced the expenditure of elastic fluid in order to run smoothly.
Date:
December 5, 1911
Creator:
Dumas, Joel Benjaman
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washboard
Patent for washboard that "is made for automatically moving, step by step, a cake of soap inclosed in a housing" (lines 9-11) against the cloths being washed and is "operated by the pressure exerted through the rubbing action upon a rubbing board associated with the device" (lines 22-24).
Date:
December 5, 1916
Creator:
Durden, Perrey Milton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Excavating Bucket.
Patent for an "excavating bucket designed for use in connection with an excavating machine" (lines 10-12).
Date:
December 5, 1922
Creator:
Dyke, Samuel
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
Plow.
Patent for a plow that has "a mold-board of independently-yielding bars and the upper end thereof mounted upon yielding supports so that better results are attained and the earth broken up as it is thrown up by the point and turned aside and completely over as soon as it comes in contact with the said wires or spring rods" (lines 12-19). The mold board can easily be changed.
Date:
December 5, 1893
Creator:
Fancher, Alexander R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spring Foot Cultivator Attachement
Patent for device that spreads the links that lead from a spring foot cultivators to the tilling shoes.
Date:
December 5, 1916
Creator:
Grayson, Wilbur D.
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
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
Railway-Switch.
Patent for a railway switch that has an oscillatory rail.
Date:
December 5, 1911
Creator:
Hensley, Thomas L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History