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Coin Operating Vending Machine
Patent for a coin operated vending machine. Illustration included.
Date:
December 6, 1904
Creator:
Davis, Alvah B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in car couplings, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 13, 1898
Creator:
Thompson, George C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane
Patent for an aeroplane which has its equilibrium maintained by the operator through levers that bring the plane up or down.
Date:
December 6, 1910
Creator:
McManus, Augustus F. W.
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
Acetylene Generator
Patent for an acetylene generator. Illustration included.
Date:
December 12, 1905
Creator:
Sinclair, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Barrel Swing for Store Counters
Patent for a barrel swing that allows the barrel to swing out from under the counter. Illustration included.
Date:
December 21, 1909
Creator:
Gimbal, Charles C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Railway Switch
Patent for a automatic railway switch. Illustration included.
Date:
December 20, 1904
Creator:
Lee, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-brake
Patent for a car-brake that improves the ability of a train to stop its forward motion.
Date:
December 29, 1900
Creator:
Wise, Harry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cheese-Cutter
Patent for cheese cutter that features improvements which include guides for the knife, the box and cover, and the means for holding the cheese in place on a rotatable platform.
Date:
December 30, 1902
Creator:
Niggli, Emil
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
Bottle
Patent for a bottle. Illustration included.
Date:
December 27, 1904
Creator:
Marion, John B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Amusement Device
Patent for an amusement device. This invention is designed as an apparatus for a swing, a trapeze, a horizontal bar, and seesaw. Illustration included.
Date:
December 18, 1906
Creator:
Haye, August, of San Antonio, Texas
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
Combined Switch Socket and Plug
Patent for a combined switch socket and plug for lamps and light bulbs. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 13, 1910
Creator:
McNeel, William Pinkney
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Service Cock.
Patent for a new and improved automatic service cock. This design "furnish[es] an improved automatic valve to form the connection between the water-main or distributing pipe and the service-pipe of a building for regulating the flow and pressure of water in such service-pipe and preventing overpressure" (lines 7-12).
Date:
December 20, 1881
Creator:
Freeman, William R.
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
Car-Coupling
Patent for "invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Couplers" (lines 4-5) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 6, 1892
Creator:
Lee, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Barrel-Truck.
Patent for a new barrel truck or wheeled dolly design for moving barrels or boxes more easily, including illustrations.
Date:
December 27, 1887
Creator:
Wilson, William W. & Newton, Jeremiah L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bitters.
Patent for stomach-bitters (a bittersweet digestive aid) “a new and healthy composition of matter to be used as a tonic, and to be known as the ‘Improved Bitters,’ ” (lines 5-7) which includes ingredients and dosage. Ingredients are Cologne spirits (the highest grade of distilled alcohol), Ceylon cinnamon, orange-peel, galanga-root, zedoary-root, cloves, star aniseed, coriander, Roman chamomile-flowers, cassia-buds, juniper-berries, gentian-root, wormwood, peppermint herb, calamus-root, elder-flowers, lavender-flowers, cardamom-seed, and mace.
Date:
December 9, 1884
Creator:
Kieffer, Nickola
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Match-Box.
Patent for an improved match box that holds at such an angle to a supporting wall that the matches will slide down to the delivery end of the match safe. The invention also includes a receptacle for burned matches.
Date:
December 12, 1911
Creator:
Deaton, George H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bedclothes Clamp
Patent for a bedclothes clamp to hold covers on a bed.
Date:
December 3, 1912
Creator:
Giordano, Anthony
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Coffee-Roasters.
Patent for an attachment to a coffee-roaster that assists in separating coffee beans from foreign matter.
Date:
December 25, 1917
Creator:
Liberto, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Axle Lubricator
Patent for Car Axle Lubricator created with the specific intent of better lubricating the journals and bearings of car axles to prevent overheating with less waste of oil.
Date:
December 23, 1919
Creator:
Urbieta, Jose M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Screen Frame.
Patent for a more economical, foldable wire screen frame for doors with removable wire mesh, and included illustration.
Date:
December 18, 1917
Creator:
Carroll, Houston Monroe
System:
The Portal to Texas History