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Boiler Scraper and Cleaner
Patent for a boiler scraper and cleaner. This invention is designed to remove incrustation and sediment that collects on the bottom of boilers. Illustration included.
Date:
December 1, 1903
Creator:
Miller, Hugh C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Couch-Bed.
Patent for a couch-bed, which can be folded out into a single or double bed or have a reclining back on the couch. It also has a shelf pullout for use as bedside table that is stored in the bottom of the couch.
Date:
December 1, 1908
Creator:
Hunter, Emily
System:
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Can Cover
Patent for a can cover. Illustration included.
Date:
December 1, 1908
Creator:
Pratt, James R.
System:
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Carriage Top Stop
Patent for "carriages or other vehicles, and more particularly to that portion of a vehicle which is known as the 'prop stump or stop,' which usually projects outward on each side of the vehicle-body at the rear end of the seat for support of the vehicle-hood props when the hood or top is lowered." (lines 9-16). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 1, 1905
Creator:
Smith, William Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brush
Patent for improved functions of bath-brushes, with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 1, 1905
Creator:
Williams, Robert E.
System:
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Collapsible Crate
Patent for a collapsible crate. Illustration included.
Date:
December 1, 1903
Creator:
Orr, William H.
System:
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Churn
Patent for a churn. Illustration included.
Date:
December 1, 1903
Creator:
Banks, Theodore H.
System:
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Churn.
Patent for a new and improved churn. This design consists "[i]n combination with the standard and bracket, the hinged arm having [a] bearing, oscillating driving-wheel, belt, belt-tightening wheels, dasher-wheel, and socket" (lines 94-98). It facilitates churning.
Date:
December 1, 1885
Creator:
White, Frank Lewis
System:
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Automatic Trip Gear for Power Presses.
Patent for a new and improved trip-gear for power-presses. This design "consists in providing the lever connected with an ordinary reversible gearing with a cord and weight, so that when in its normal position and not in use the small friction-wheel will not come in contact with either face of the large friction wheel. The upper end of the press is provided with a notched metallic plate connected with the reversing-lever, so that when the follow-block in its upward passage passes the said plate the lever will be released, and, falling back into its normal position by the press, is immediately stopped" (lines 24-36).
Date:
December 1, 1885
Creator:
Wilson, Martin M.
System:
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Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for improvements in cotton choppers and thinners by using a combination of “a rectangular frame having the transverse arch, the axle having the ground-wheels and the drive-gears mounted on the axle, a stirrups shafts, cogs, rotary cutters, and a bifureated cam” (p. 2, lines 85-92) to construct the chopper. This new construction will “provide means for easily adjusting the knives or cutters, and for regulating the distance between the stands of cotton.” (Page 1, lines 12-15) Illustration is included.
Date:
December 1, 1891
Creator:
McCaul, James L.
System:
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Fumigator.
Patent for an improved fumigator that's primary purpose is to kill insects within corn storage units without damaging either the corn or the building. Illustration included.
Date:
December 1, 1891
Creator:
Bozarth, Stephen P.
System:
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Andiron.
Patent for improvement of andirons, to accommodate fuel or sticks of wood and to burn either wood or coal fuel. Includes illustrations.
Date:
December 1, 1891
Creator:
Kimbro, Jeremiah H. & Kimbro, John A.
System:
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Combination-Wrench.
Patent for a combination wrench that combines a sliding-jaw wrench with a tallow box, hammer, nail claw, horseshoe-pick, plow-paddle, and screwdriver.
Date:
December 1, 1885
Creator:
McKenzie, Winfield S.
System:
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Roller Boring-Drill.
Patent for a boring-drill that can be manufactured cheaply. It provides sufficient space for the casing to follow it in order to prevent the walls from caving in. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 1, 1914
Creator:
Hughes, Howard Robard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Envelop.
Patent for an envelope "whereby the cutting device acts as a partial ejector for the letter" (lines 12-13), including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
December 1, 1914
Creator:
Donaldson, James Macon
System:
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Process of and Apparatus for Sizing Comminuted Material.
Patent for "certain new and useful improvements in process of and apparatus for sizing or classifying comminuted material according to the size of the particles of the material" (lines 13-16), including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
December 1, 1914
Creator:
Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Replacer
Patent for car replacer. It is an improvement to "what is called a 'frog' or a 'shoe'." The invention involves "two frogs or shoes which are used together" and are used "in such a way as to replace a car truck. . ." (Ledbetter)
Date:
December 1, 1914
Creator:
Ledbetter, Louis H.
System:
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Wire Stretcher
Patent for a wire stretcher. Illustration included.
Date:
December 1, 1903
Creator:
Preston, Leonidas A.
System:
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Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a wire stretcher designed "to provide simple and efficient means for twisting the terminals of a broken fence-wire together for connecting them, and also to enable a wire to be readily severed when desired." (Lines 17-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 1, 1896
Creator:
Morrow, William I.
System:
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Well Mechanism
Patent for a well mechanism. Illustration included.
Date:
December 1, 1908
Creator:
Layne, Mahlon E.
System:
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Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for an improved wire-stretcher that tightens fence wire.
Date:
December 1, 1885
Creator:
Mullinax, Eli Stephens
System:
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Water Heater
Patent for a water heater. This invention relies on the heat of a smokestack of the oven to heat the water. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 1, 1903
Creator:
Allen, William Bell
System:
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Weighing Apparatus.
Patent for a new and improved scale. This design consists in "[a]n improved apparatus for containing and weighing shot and powder, the same consisting of the box [which is] slotted . . . the pivoted bottles and connecting cords and knobs, the pan pivoted and projecting through the slot, the weighing device proper, and indicator located on top of the box, and having a rod pendent from it and supporting the said pan" (lines 13-21).
Date:
December 1, 1885
Creator:
Irvine, William Fielding
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Inking-Roller for Printing-Presses.
Patent for an inking roller for printing presses, which reduces ink waste by only putting ink on the type.
Date:
December 1, 1908
Creator:
Munzesheimer, Adolph
System:
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