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Keying Device for Cutter Heads (open access)

Keying Device for Cutter Heads

Patent for a keying device for cutter heads. This invention is designed attaches cutter heads to rotate shafts to align the cutter head. Illustration included.
Date: December 10, 1912
Creator: Ash, William D. & Herndon, James A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Resilient Wheel (open access)

Resilient Wheel

Patent for new wheel that helps vehicles drive over uneven roadways, providing "proper traction between the road surface and the wheel" (lines13-14).
Date: December 10, 1918
Creator: Bauer, Frederick H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Resilient Wheel. (open access)

Resilient Wheel.

Patent for "resilient wheels for use in carrying heavy loads across soft, sandy, or rough ground, being primarily intended for use upon farming machinery, trucks, gun carriages, and the like. One of the primary objects of the invention resides in providing a resilient wheel having a flexible yielding rim of relatively great width so constructed that it may flatten to a certain extent under a load to provide a large ground engaging surface so that a firm grip upon the road bed may be obtained and a large bearing surface to support the load provided" (lines 9-24) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 10, 1918
Creator: Bauer, Frederick H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Discharge Pipe (open access)

Discharge Pipe

Patent for a discharge pipe. This invention is a flexible connection for use between the sections of metallic pipe in order to discharge material out of the dredger. Illustration included.
Date: December 10, 1912
Creator: Berndt, Frank
System: The Portal to Texas History
Production of Chlorinated Hydrocarbons. (open access)

Production of Chlorinated Hydrocarbons.

Patent for the new and improved production of Chlorinated Hydrocarbons; "[t]his invention relates to the production of dichlorinated hydrocarbons of the ethylene series, and particularly to the production of mixtures of dichlorinated hydrocarbons containing dichlor-ethylene and dichlor-propylene from mixtures of ethylene hydrocarbons containing ethylene and propylene." (lines 13-20)
Date: December 10, 1915
Creator: Brooks, Benjamin T. & Smith, Dillon F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hay Press. (open access)

Hay Press.

Patent for a new and improved hay-press. This design consists in "the combination of the frame, the king-bolt at the center of the same, the plunger, the pitman pivoted thereto, the double-armed lever centrally-mounted on the king-bolt and provided with loops or bridles at its ends and acting on the pitman, and the supplemental lever having its end engaging one of said loops or bridles" (lines 24-31).
Date: December 10, 1889
Creator: Brown, Lemuel J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Separating and Cleaning Hulls and Trash from Seed Cotton. (open access)

Apparatus for Separating and Cleaning Hulls and Trash from Seed Cotton.

Patent for a machine for separating and cleaning hulls and trash from seed cotton. It is intended to be used in conjunction with a boll threshing machine.
Date: December 10, 1918
Creator: Cass, Thomas M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cutter-Casing (open access)

Cutter-Casing

Patent for a detachable casing for fruit and vegetable cutters. Illustrations included.
Date: December 10, 1912
Creator: Cass, Thomas N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Multifunctional Micropipette Biological Sensor (open access)

Multifunctional Micropipette Biological Sensor

Patent relating to a multifunctional micropipette biological sensor.
Date: May 7, 2010
Creator: Choi, Tae-Youl
System: The UNT Digital Library
Quilting-Frame. (open access)

Quilting-Frame.

Patent for a quilting frame designed to be used with a sewing machine and "which may be easily set up and be supported from the floor, and not in any manner mar or injure the walls or ceilings." (Lines 15-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 10, 1895
Creator: Click, John J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dredging Scraper. (open access)

Dredging Scraper.

Patent for a new and improved dredging-scraper. This design "has for its object the production of a marine plow which shall serve to raise and remove obstructions and accumulations from the beds or channels of rivers, bays, harbors, and other water-courses; and the invention consists in a device for this purpose of novel construction . . . The plow, which is to be drawn over the bed of the water-course to be cleared—as, for instance, by drag chain or cable attached to a steamboat—operates to raise a few inches in depth of the deposit each time it passes over the bed or bottom of the water-course" (lines 9-22).
Date: December 10, 1889
Creator: Coult, Joseph C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spreader for Telephone Receiver Casings (open access)

Spreader for Telephone Receiver Casings

Patent for a spreader whereby the casing of a telephone receiver has shrunk in a manner the cap has become loose. Illustration included.
Date: December 10, 1912
Creator: Cox, Pierre M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Syringe. (open access)

Syringe.

Patent for a syringe that has "vaginal points adapted to be connected with the tube of a hand-bulb or fountain syringe" (lines 13-15). There is a tube with a bulb in the middle, a syringe on one end, and a cap on the other end.
Date: December 10, 1895
Creator: Day, Elisha Little
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Condensers. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Condensers.

Patent to improve the compressing-roller design in a cotton gin, to keep the mechanisms from clogging. This is an addition to a previous patent by the same inventor that improved methods of cleaning the cotton. It includes an explanation with references, and illustrations.
Date: December 10, 1878
Creator: Donovan, John T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fastener for Blind Slats (open access)

Fastener for Blind Slats

Patent for fasteners for blind slats. This invention is an improved spring actuated device attached with a central rod of the shutter. Illustration included.
Date: December 10, 1912
Creator: Franklin, Robert M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Locking Device for Blind Slats (open access)

Locking Device for Blind Slats

Patent for a locking device for blind slats. "The object in view is the provision of improved means formed with a resilient member for engaging the slat adjusting strip for turning the same and exerting strain thereon for preventing accidental movement thereof and of the slats" (lines 17-22). Illustration
Date: December 10, 1912
Creator: Franklin, Robert M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gas-Producer (open access)

Gas-Producer

Patent for a gas producing apparatus that can be used for cars, factories, shops, or even cities. Illustrations included.
Date: December 10, 1907
Creator: Gamer, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soldier's Cart (open access)

Soldier's Cart

Patent for an "inexpensive, light, strong, and conveniently-arranged carts adapted for carrying the rations, baggage, and accouterments of one man, and adapted also when coupled together for the safe carriage of disabled men from the field by the least possible number of attendants, and adapted also to be coupled together in pairs side by side, and to be coupled infront of each other and also to a mule-cart to allow one animal to draw the baggage of from six to ten or more men, and to carry from the field two, four, or six men at a time, the carts .being thus as well adapted for hospital service as they are for relieving or lessening the fatigues of the march" (lines 9-24).
Date: December 10, 1889
Creator: Gentzen, Herman
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint (open access)

Rail-Joint

Patent for a rail joint. Illustrations included.
Date: December 10, 1912
Creator: Giddings, Homer E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton and Corn Planters. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton and Corn Planters.

Patent for a new and improved cotton and corn planter design with an axle that has agitators, including illustrations.
Date: December 10, 1878
Creator: Hall, James Madison
System: The Portal to Texas History
Piano-Sling (open access)

Piano-Sling

Patent for a piano sling used for handling pianos. Illustrations included.
Date: December 10, 1907
Creator: Hanson, Henry Harrison
System: The Portal to Texas History
Interest-Computing Device. (open access)

Interest-Computing Device.

Patent for a mechanical interest computing device, which is designed to be simple to build, maintain, and operate.
Date: December 10, 1918
Creator: Harris, Ira S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator (open access)

Cotton Chopper and Cultivator

Patent for a cotton chopper and cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date: December 10, 1907
Creator: Higgs, William A. & Hamilton, Morgan S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insulator Support for Line Wires (open access)

Insulator Support for Line Wires

Patent for an insulator support for line wires. This invention is designed to support the cross arms used with telephone and telegraph poles. illustration included.
Date: December 10, 1912
Creator: Hoybook, Henry L.
System: The Portal to Texas History