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Fluid Pressure Regulator
Patent for a new and useful gas pressure regulator. This invention "relates to gas-pressure regulators especially adapted for use with gas stored under high pressure in a cylinder or similar portable storage vessel" (line 8 - 11).
Date:
December 28, 1897
Creator:
Clark, George Greenleaf
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire Alarm
Patent for a fire alarm. Illustration included.
Date:
December 28, 1909
Creator:
Andrews, Bolivar C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coop
Patent for a coop. Illustration included.,
Date:
December 28, 1909
Creator:
Mann, John P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crude Oil Burner
Patent for a crude oil burner. Illustration included.
Date:
December 28, 1909
Creator:
Payne, William H. & Rice, Newton M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Incandescent Lamp
Patent for incandescent lamp. Illustration included.
Date:
December 28, 1909
Creator:
Crutchfield, Charles H. & Deshong, Andrew W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in plows. This improvements are to " render the plow right and strong and easy-running, reducing the effort required by the plowman to handle the plow to a minimum, and to render the handles and beam and plow-plate readily adjustable as regards pitch and height (line 10 - 16).
Date:
December 28, 1897
Creator:
Kirkpatrick, James M. & Files, Jerry B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Disk Plow.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements relates to disk or revolving plows.
Date:
December 28, 1897
Creator:
Wolcott, Oliver P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant Trap
Patent for an ant trap. Illustration included.
Date:
December 28, 1909
Creator:
Mercer, John W.; Hasha, W. C. & Estes, W. N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Freezer
Patent for a portable freezer designed to freeze cream and milk. Illustration included.
Date:
December 28, 1909
Creator:
Milburn, William M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electrode-Holder
Patent for "an electrode holder for the head lights of steam locomotives, interurban cars and analogous vehicles" (lines 11-13), including illustrations.
Date:
December 28, 1915
Creator:
Pratt, James R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Bath-Tubs.
Patent for a removable and adjustable wash cloth attachment "in such a position within the tub that a person bathing may readily move the back and shoulders over the wash cloth or other cleaning element to effect a thorough cleansing thereof" (lines 14-18) including illustrations.
Date:
December 28, 1915
Creator:
Seib, Lee R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Collapsible Box
Patent for an improved pasteboard collapsible box for use by tailors, laundries, etc.
Date:
December 28, 1915
Creator:
Houghland, Frank H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Wheel Cultivator And Plow
Patent for improvements to a combined wheel cultivator and plow, "whereby either mold-board plows or shovel-cultivators may be used upon a common frame" (lines 16-18). Includes illustrations.
Date:
December 28, 1886
Creator:
Wahrmund, Charles, Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Attachment for Freight-Car Doors.
Patent for a mechanism that creates "an adjustable attachment for freight-car doors, for preventing sparks and other objectionable matter from getting into the cars, and means for operating the attachment that is adapted for use in securing the door in different positions of adjustment, and for connection with the body of the car by means of a seal-support, in order that the fixed adjustment of the door cannot be changed without breaking the seal" (lines 12-21).
Date:
December 28, 1886
Creator:
Duzan, Thomas H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Door Check.
Patent for a new and improved door-check. This design "consists in a slotted plate provided at one end with a buffer for arresting the door, and having in the walls of the longitudinal slot series of diagonal slots, in combination with a counterweighted latch provided with trunnions received in the diagonal slots" (lines 21-27).
Date:
December 28, 1886
Creator:
Hinkle, William A. & Jeffery, Franklin C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design, when used "as a corn-planter the slotted plate upon the inclined portion of the bottom is adjusted to cover the entire slot, and the pitman is attached to the pin projecting from the bar operating the seed slide, and when the machine is to be used as a cotton-planter the pitman is attached to the crank at the side of the seed-box, and the plate in the bottom of the box is adjusted so as to give the slot sufficient width to allow the cotton-seed to be forced through it" (lines 84-94).
Date:
December 28, 1886
Creator:
Armstrong, John J. & Lowrey, Andrew S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Heel Brace.
Patent for a new and improved heel-brace. This design "consist[s] in a semi-circular rim provided with two downward side extensions, the lower ends of said extensions being provided with inwardly extending lugs adapted to lie under the heel of a boot or shoe, said rim being also provided on its rear side with a downwardly-extending projection shorter than the side extensions, the lower ends of the extensions being provided with openings for the reception of screws" (lines 63-73).
Date:
December 28, 1886
Creator:
Edney, Cartwright Jones
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed
Patent for a hospital bed. Provide a bed with separate adjustment support for the sick or people with a disability.
Date:
December 28, 1920
Creator:
Wallace, John. M
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Furniture Polish
Patent for a furniture polish, in liquid compound form, for use in cleaning and polishing furniture, vehicles, woodwork, and other similarly coated or enameled surfaces.
Date:
December 28, 1920
Creator:
James, John F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil Device.
Patent for a cost-effective device that can remove and exterminate parasites from cotton as it's being harvested without damaging the cotton itself, including illustrations.
Date:
December 28, 1920
Creator:
Reeder, Leonard F. & Jackson, Walter B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Bed.
Patent for Automobile-Bed which creates a bed space in the back of automobiles for users to comfortably sleep on roll-out mattresses in their vehicles.
Date:
December 28, 1920
Creator:
John S. Turner
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire - Stretcher.
Patent for a new and improved wire-stretcher to "attached to the wires direct or have bearing against the post, as stated, but wherein when the device is placed in engagement with the post it need not be secured thereto" (line 22 - 26).
Date:
December 28, 1897
Creator:
McNeill, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wagon Bow Socket.
Patent for new and improved wagon-bow sockets. This design "furnishes a firm support for the [wagon] bow at both top and bottom of the socket, by which it is evident it will be rigidly secured against all lateral motions" (lines 38-41). This eliminates the "unsightly appearance, leaking, and other defects of the uneven height of bows so often resulting from the use of ordinary staples" (lines 44-47).
Date:
December 28, 1880
Creator:
Williams, Richard P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lining for Tin Cans.
Patent for a new and improved method of canning seafood with tin cans. This design calls for perforated paper to line the cans, which prevents the discoloration of the seafood inside.
Date:
December 28, 1880
Creator:
Bartlett, Frederick W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History