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Bed-Robe For Invalids.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in bed robes for invalids, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 27, 1900
Creator:
Sims, Mary E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Axle-Setting Machine
Patent for a axle setting machine that can be used on any type of axle, has its own lever, and doesn't touch the inside of the axle collar.
Date:
May 7, 1907
Creator:
Roberts, John William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Molding Hollow Concrete Walls
Patent for an apparatus that is a mold for crafting hollow concrete walls. Illustration included.
Date:
December 21, 1909
Creator:
Nelson, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap.
Patent for an animal trap meant to trap animals that burrow in the ground, such as prairie dogs. The trap catches the animal when it leaves its den and the animal cannot escape the trap.
Date:
April 25, 1893
Creator:
Manning, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Fishing-Floats.
Patent for a device to attach fishing floats to fishing lines.
Date:
August 3, 1915
Creator:
Davis, Samuel William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air Pump
Patent for an air pump for the delivery of air to the tire of a wheel.
Date:
April 15, 1913
Creator:
Scott, Charles Mack
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotter-Pin Puller
Patent for cottor-pin puller that is useful to pull cotter pins that are secured in shafts, fly wheels or any other devices without bending or twisting or damaging them.
Date:
October 31, 1916
Creator:
Hayden, Jefferson B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Tire
Patent for the improvement of cushion tires. The improvement produces a more resilient tire, less susceptible to punctures.
Date:
October 8, 1918
Creator:
Hemphill, Alwynn
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for a nut wrench with a sliding jaw.
Date:
January 24, 1911
Creator:
Mansfield, Charles L. & Matthews, Robert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lifeboat
Patent for a lifeboat that "prevents the boat from capsizing" (lines 19-20) or sinking.
Date:
November 25, 1919
Creator:
Rusk, Raymond
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill
Patent for Windmill Improvements that includes a mounted rotor for horizontal rotation, including illustrations.
Date:
June 28, 1913
Creator:
Henning, Thomas W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill
Patent for a windmill. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 23, 1912
Creator:
Moon, Richard D. & Horne, Henry J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drill Machine.
Patent for improvements in well-drill machine by improving its operating and feed mechanisms.
Date:
January 4, 1910
Creator:
Anthony, Russell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel.
Patent for a wheel, which is stronger than other wheels on the market.
Date:
September 27, 1910
Creator:
Moon, Richard D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel
Patent for a vehicle wheel with a rigid frame and a hub that has radical range of motion.
Date:
April 7, 1903
Creator:
Lasswell, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drilling Apparatus.
Patent for a well drilling apparatus, which is light and strong and easily transported.
Date:
October 13, 1908
Creator:
Moon, Richard Davis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill
Patent for a windmill. It turns creating rotary motion, caused by the wind, which is used as a pumping power source.
Date:
November 2, 1905
Creator:
Doty, David
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lawn-Mower.
Patent for lawn mower with special stationary blades; designed to improve the operation of the rotary blades with which the stationary blades come into contact, thus "insuring an easy running, and a perfectly clean and smooth shearing of the grass, and prevent any shock, grinding or clicking, when the contact is made" (lines 8-11).
Date:
July 21, 1914
Creator:
Clark, Josepsh Chester
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve-Gear.
Patent for a horizontally arranged cylinder that when used would bear no wear indefinitely. The cylinder was made specifically for steam engines.
Date:
June 29, 1915
Creator:
Burrow, Edgar A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill.
Patent for an improved wind wheel that has "every other blade...has a right angled extension or cup to catch the wind, the blades thus formed being set in the hub and rim of the wheel so as to have said right angled portions where they will receive the full force of the wind" (lines 17-22). A ring supports the angled portions of the windmill blades.
Date:
March 7, 1893
Creator:
Bowman, Charles R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Power.
Patent for a water-power. It consists of a dam built halfway across a stream, a power-house with its upper end closed and inclined towards the upstream, gated inlet openings on the side of the power-house, gates that control the inlet openings, and a water-wheel on the stream side of the power-house.
Date:
December 4, 1894
Creator:
Vernon, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Jack.
Patent for a jack for lifting heavy loads on railroads, which has an automatic steady movement of the load up and down without adjusting the jack settings.
Date:
August 6, 1907
Creator:
Blake, David Alexander & Blake, Charles William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel
Patent for a vehicle wheel with spring spokes that will not easily break on rough roads.
Date:
November 12, 1912
Creator:
Hayden, Jefferson B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Liquid-Fuel Burner.
Patent for a liquid fuel burner, which will burn semi-refined petroleum efficiently.
Date:
January 31, 1911
Creator:
Hayden, Jefferson B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History