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Animal-Poke.
Patent for improvements in animal-poke by providing a device which is arranged for convenient application to an animal, so as not to interfere with the grazing and drinking thereof, and will effectually prevent the animal from destroying fences and also from pushing and fighting other stock. (Lines 9-15) Illustration is included.
Date:
July 1, 1902
Creator:
Barnes, John I.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cold-Tire-Shrinking-Machine
Patent for a device that accomplishes cold-tire shrinking, in order to assure a snug tire fit onto any size cart wheel.
Date:
July 1, 1902
Creator:
House, Samuel N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Body-Brace
Patent for a body brace made of wire and padding. One pad rests against the chest and the other rests against the front of the legs. There is a coil mechanism in the center that helps the wearer stand upright.
Date:
July 1, 1902
Creator:
Russell, Manning W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Fire-Alarm
Patent for an electronic automatic fire alarm.
Date:
July 1, 1902
Creator:
Fred, Mason Kennedy
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bellows Attachment for Barrels.
Patent for a new and improved bellows attachment for barrels. This design "provide[s] means for securely attaching the bellows to the barrels, so as to exclude the admission of air, except such as is forced in by the bellows; and a further object of the same provides for the shutting off the flow of liquid, as desired" (lines 13-18).
Date:
July 1, 1884
Creator:
Park, Hardy B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Balanced Pump.
Patent for a new and improved balanced pump. This design "relates to improvements in balanced pumps having a horizontal cylinder provided with a horizontally-reciprocating plunger, and a curved cylinder placed directly under it, provided with a curved plunger, both having suitable valves operating automatically in conjunction therewith" (lines 8-14).
Date:
July 1, 1884
Creator:
Ramsey, Haley S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coaster-Brake.
Patent for a coaster brake featuring an improved positive drive and braking.
Date:
July 1, 1913
Creator:
Winfrey, Edgar M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Windmills.
Patent for improvement in attachments for windmills to “convert rotary motion of the wheel shaft into reciprocating motion for actuating the pitman of the sucker rod.” (Lines 12-14) Illustration is included.
Date:
July 1, 1913
Creator:
Burleson, Lemual R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Scrubber and Mop
Patent for a combined mop and scrubber. The invention consists of a brush, mop, wringer, and water receptacle.
Date:
July 1, 1913
Creator:
Shaw, Horace G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Electric Advertising Sign
Patent for an electronic sign that works by a conveyor-belt like band printed with advertisements being rotated, allowing the owner to show many advertisements while saving space.
Date:
July 1, 1919
Creator:
Craig, Richard M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Book-Cover.
Patent for adjustable book covers. More protection with use of thicker paper, with adjustable feature is highly important as is also the slit and tongue.
Date:
July 1, 1919
Creator:
Walraven, Albert T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Rack.
Patent for "a new and improved clothes rack, adapted to be carried in one's pocket," (lines 8-10) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 1, 1919
Creator:
Walling, Carl H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Plow
Patent for a rotary plow. "It pertains to improvements in rotary plows" (p. 4). There is a detailed illustration of the rotary plow. Each component is labeled and it is described thoroughly in the text.
Date:
July 1, 1884
Creator:
Willis, W. Beale
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for "wrenches; and it consists in the improved means for operating the movable jaw thereof." (lines 12-13) including illustrations.
Date:
July 1, 1902
Creator:
Boozer, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine-Gun
Patent for an improvement in a "battery of guns, and has for its object the operating of any one of the guns by the recoil of another and in succession as long as may be deemed necessary" (lines 7-11).
Date:
July 1, 1890
Creator:
Greer, John William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wrenches.
Patent for furnishing "an adjustable wrench for holding and turning bolts, pipes, taps, &c." (lines 7-9). Includes instructions and illustration.
Date:
July 1, 1879
Creator:
Killough, William B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle
Patent for a vehicle that can carry heavy loads and can turn around in a small space and can turn easily on a crooked road.
Date:
July 1, 1919
Creator:
Menning, Otto H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive-Headlight
Patent for a locomotive headlight in which its illuminating lights are placed directly ahead by a means of better support.
Date:
July 1, 1919
Creator:
Moody, Calvin D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Cleaning Pipe-Lines
Patent for a machine for cleaning pipe-lines. The machine uses the pipeline as a track, traveling along the track cleaning the pipeline.
Date:
July 1, 1919
Creator:
Kinzbach, Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wood Pavement.
Patent for a new and improved wood pavement. This design "consists in a pavement consisting of wooden blocks stripped of bark, cylindrical in shape, and sawed at right angles to the axis of the blocks. Said blocks of live bois d'arc or other hard timber, about six inches long, and placed on ends on a road-bed of bank sand and gravel after the same has been well and compactly rolled, and the spaces between the blocks filled with screened gravel and rammed until solid, and then coated with tar and pitch" (lines 12-22).
Date:
July 1, 1884
Creator:
Johnson, William M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Sharpening Gin-Saws
Patent for "a machine of this class which shall be simple, durable, an d easily manipulated, and by means of which the teeth of gin-saws may be sharpened in a rapid, convenient, and effectual manner" (lines 9-14).
Date:
July 1, 1890
Creator:
Smith, John Quince
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trousers-Guard
Patent for a metal guard worn around the ankle. The guard maintains the shape of the trousers when worn and keeps the material from coming in contact with the wearer's legs.
Date:
July 1, 1902
Creator:
Hardy, James H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Washing-Machines.
Patent for "washing-machines known as self-regulating machines; and consists in the arrangement for controlling at will the amount of pressure to be used, in combination with the construction of the feed and washing rollers." (Lines 11-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 1, 1873
Creator:
Rowland, William M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Steam-Engines.
Patent related to "improvements in steam-engines. The object...is to devise means whereby the valves may be actuated automatically without the employment of exterior mechanisms by the use of exhaust-steam" (lines 17-22). Includes instructions and illustration.
Date:
July 1, 1879
Creator:
Garlock, William H. & Cooke, Richard
System:
The Portal to Texas History