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Fire-Clay Charcoal-Furnace
Patent for fire clay charcoal furnace. "The object of the invention is to provide a furnace of this character which shall be simple of construction, durable in use, comparatively inexpensive of production, and efficient in action" (lines 13-17).
Date:
December 9, 1902
Creator:
Koch, Charles Jean
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Reflector Attachment for Lamps.
Patent for a new and improved reflector for oil lamps. This design's object "is to provide a cheap, simple, and durable device for attaching and detaching a reflector to the bottom of the chimney of an ordinary coal-oil or other hand-lamp" (lines 13-17).
Date:
December 9, 1884
Creator:
Hayes, Elbert N. & Kimball, Walter J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sample-Taking Device
Patent for a sample taking device "for use in preserving the log of the well in drilling operations in earth, rock or other similar formations." (lines 12-14). Specially adapted for use in drilling wells for oil and sulfur, specifically in the Gulf Coast region.
Date:
December 9, 1919
Creator:
Carmichael, Robert E. & Hamman, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Screen-Hanger.
Patent for more accessible window screen hangers. The inventors claimed that these improved screen hangers eliminated the challenge of hanging window screens on the exterior of tall buildings. These screen hangers allowed customers to hang, adjust, and clean screens from the inside of buildings.
Date:
December 9, 1919
Creator:
Agee, Howard L. & Agee, Sidney A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Reed-Organ.
Patent for reed-organs that is needed in the construction of reed-board to improve the quality and volume of the tone, produce a uniform pipe-tone throughout the different registers.
Date:
December 9, 1902
Creator:
Preston, Percy C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Remedial Appliance.
Patent for a remedial appliance, intended to be worn as a bracelet or an "anklet," through which a person receives medication that he/she needs. Such an appliance is intended to improve treatment through facilitating the application of medication throughout the body.
Date:
December 9, 1913
Creator:
Quayle, Sidney
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fly Wheel.
Patent for a design for "improvements in balance or fly wheels, and is adapted to be applied to many different classes of machinery" (lines 15-17). Includes illustrations.
Date:
December 9, 1890
Creator:
Cameron, Neill A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Evaporator.
Patent for a new evaporator design used for evaporating cane-juice, including illustrations.
Date:
December 9, 1890
Creator:
Johnson, William Oscar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a new and improved plow. This design is "to provide a plow adapted for steady and easy running, capable of combining therewith various styles of shovels or shears, and so constructing said plow as to be readily adjusted to form furrows of varying depths" (lines 9-14). This design consists, "with the beam and the loosely-depending standard provided at its lower end with a shovel, of the angular brace pivoted at its angle to the standard, adjustably connected at its upper end or branch to the beam, and having its lower end adapted to travel along the furrow in rear of the shovel" (lines 7-14).
Date:
December 9, 1890
Creator:
Peterson, Hans
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad-Script Holder.
Patent for cutting the correct length of script. and keeping in shape for future use with illustrations.
Date:
December 9, 1913
Creator:
Cleveland, George H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting Frame.
Patent for a new and improved quilting frame for sewing machines. This design consists "[i]n a quilting frame, the combination, with suitable supporting standards having an inclined V-shaped track secured thereto, of a rail having rollers mounted upon the side thereof and traveling upon said track, depending brackets secured to the ends of said rail, transverse secured to the ends of said depending rods, and rollers having bearing in said transverse strips" (lines 3-11).
Date:
December 9, 1884
Creator:
German, Francis M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe-Wrench.
Patent for the improvement of pipe wrenches necessary for use in well drilling or other circumstances where a wrench of strong construction is needed. This patent provides for a pipe wrench that can be easily adjusted to fit pipes of differing sizes and is easily manipulated for use regardless of direction.
Date:
December 9, 1919
Creator:
Carmichael, Robert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mosquito Net Frame.
Patent for a new and improved mosquito-net frame. This design "has for its object to provide a frame . . . capable of convenient attachment to or of detachment from any bedstead, and which when attached will be firmly braced and firmly held against lateral movement" (lines 9-14). It consists, "with the standards having tenons at their upper ends, the rear and side bars having eyes receiving said tenons, and a front bar connecting the front ends of bars, of the horizontal angle-plates mounted at their rear ends on the ends of the bar" (lines 22-28).
Date:
December 9, 1890
Creator:
Lottman, Albert C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gage for Job Printing Presses.
Patent for a new and improved gage. This design consists in "the gage-bar provided at both ends with spring-clasps for engaging the platen, combined with gage-pins doubled upon themselves at their inner ends and engaging the gage bar and adjustable laterally" (lines 83-88).
Date:
December 9, 1890
Creator:
Jones, Charles E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Galvanizing Process.
Patent for a galvanizing process which simplifies the galvanizing of small articles such as bolts, nails, or the like.
Date:
December 9, 1919
Creator:
Watrous, Edward L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Egg Holder.
Patent for a new and improved egg holder. This design consists "[i]n an egg-holder, the combination, with two hollow semi-ellipsoidal sections, having downwardly-projecting stems terminating in legs, the stems being pivoted to each other, of the spring interposed between the lower ends of the stems" (lines 70-75).
Date:
December 9, 1884
Creator:
Hervey, Frances P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin Feeder and Cleaner
Patent for cotton gin feeder and cleaner in which cotton passes over the screening surface by means of a picker-roller.
Date:
December 9, 1902
Creator:
Seifert, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Running gear for railway cars.
Patent for improved running gear for street and other railway cars.
Date:
December 9, 1884
Creator:
Mackey, Thomas B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Unscrewing and Withdrawing Pipe
Patent for "an improvement in devices for unscrewing and withdrawing pipe or casing from wells, mines, etc. or for other similar uses" (lines 11-14) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 9, 1919
Creator:
Fletcher, Harold W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dental Appliance.
Patent for a dental appliance attachment for a dental engine.
Date:
December 9, 1913
Creator:
Ballenger, Curtis M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Patent for Diver's Mask
Patent for Diver's Mask that has a water-tight contact with the wearer's face. This mask allows for an inlet and outlet for air and eliminates the need for an ordinary diver's helmet and suit.
Date:
December 9, 1919
Creator:
Runyan, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harrow and Cultivator.
Patent for harrow and cultivator improvements. Earth engaging members can be lowered and raised. Implement carrying beams and wheels are connected via the body of the implement.
Date:
December 9, 1913
Creator:
Stavinoha, Adolph
System:
The Portal to Texas History