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Coin Controlled Feeding Apparatus for Coin Controlled Machines
Patent for a coin controlled feeding apparatus for coin controlled machines. The design is to prevent the use of iron slugs and spurious coins.
Date:
November 3, 1903
Creator:
Scheble, Eugene S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Auto-Door Stop
Patent for a door stop that is cheap to produce and holds doors firmly.
Date:
November 3, 1908
Creator:
Hill, Ulysses H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Condenser for Cotton-Gins.
Patent for a method of compressing and baling cotton in which cotton is condensed into sheets and is then compressed and delivered to a lapping mechanism which builds up a bale from the compressed sheets, including illustrations.
Date:
November 3, 1891
Creator:
Goldthwaite, Joseph G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Autographic Register.
Patent for a device to register fares in situations where passengers pay to be transported from one location to another, specifically by train. The fare-collector needs a way to have accurate receipts as fares are collected. The invention is a "small portable ticket-holder and registering device (lines 38-39), that issues valid tickets "which will enable a conductor to keep a correct current amount of fares as received as well as a record of tickets sold and mileage traveled on same" (lines 41-45), and prevents dishonesty in fare-collectors.
Date:
November 3, 1896
Creator:
Bond, George D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spring
Patent for a spring "wherein all of the parts are removably connected to each other so as to be convenient and inexpensive to repair." (Line 11-14)
Date:
November 3, 1914
Creator:
Avera, Lawrence A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blow-Out Guard
Patent for a blow-out guard for double tube tires. It is meant to a barrier "interposed between the inner and outer tubes of a pneumatic tire, to reinforce an apertured or weakened place...preventing the inner tube from 'blowing out' at such a point." (Line 11-16)
Date:
November 3, 1914
Creator:
Holloman, Alfred A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn
Patent for an improvement to churns; this invention provides a churn in which milk is thoroughly agitated via the opposite rotation of two dashers, and will simultaneously allow for observation of the churning operation via a glass vessel.
Date:
November 3, 1914
Creator:
Samuel C.M. Anderson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a wire stretcher, which can stretch and hold a wire for a fence until it is securely fastened to the fence post and is easy to operate.
Date:
November 3, 1908
Creator:
Dobbs, John & Welborn, William P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher and Wheel-Carrier.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive wire-stretcher and reel-carrier, meant to make wire needed for fences easier to be ready at the builder's disposal and to stretch the wire to the correct amount of tension.
Date:
November 3, 1896
Creator:
Pruitt, Andrew L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Tightener.
Patent for "an improved wire-tightener especially designed for use in the tightening of wires in the construction of fences and in taking up slack after such fences have been constructed, but which instrument is also capable of use in tying packages with wire, binding planks to posts, and in other instances where it is desirable to tighten wire and secure it when so tightened." (Lines 7-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 7, 1891
Creator:
Flatau, Louis S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Auger.
Patent for a well-boring auger is designed to improve the drilling process by multi-functional features of the auger that can be placed inside of a well-casing to cut a hole or can be used itself to cut through the casing.
Date:
November 3, 1903
Creator:
Hutchins, Charles N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Splitting Hogs and Cattle Through the Backbones.
Patent for a butchering machine for cutting hogs and cattle through the backbone into two sections lengthwise.
Date:
November 3, 1908
Creator:
Burleson, Andrew M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Fence Stay.
Patent for a wire fence stay, which holds wire fences together.
Date:
November 3, 1908
Creator:
Horsley, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel.
Patent for a wheel which joins the spokes to a metal sleeve surrounding the hub of the wheel.
Date:
November 3, 1903
Creator:
Votaw, Charles Leroy
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Dressing Surfaces of Pavements.
Patent for improvements in machines for dressing surfaces of wooden or block pavements that may be operated by a traction-engine of known construction, including illustrations.
Date:
November 3, 1891
Creator:
Love, Robert Hamilton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water Elevator.
Patent for a new and improved water-elevator. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with endless chains having links provided with staples, of the buckets having apertured side flanges through which the staples pass, and fastenings passing through the staple in front of the apertured side flanges to hold the buckets in place" (lines 90-96).
Date:
November 3, 1885
Creator:
Porter, Thomas A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Inkstand.
Patent for an inkstand which draws the ink through a stopper (using capillary action) into a font. The stopper prevents "spilling of the ink in the movement or transportation of the inkstand."
Date:
November 3, 1903
Creator:
Taber, John C. B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ironing-Machines.
Patent for a new ironing machine design, including illustrations.
Date:
November 3, 1874
Creator:
Perrenet, George Francis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Transplanter
Patent for transplanter. This transplanter is designed to keep the roots compacted with the immediate soil around the root system.
Date:
November 3, 1903
Creator:
Snowden, Lewis Waller
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Automatic Fans.
Patent for "an improved device for keeping the flies off the table, bed, or other place; and it consists of a fly-brush constructed of a spiral spring attached to a shaft with rotary reciprocating motion, and provided along the convolutions of the spring with suitable wings" (para. 4).
Date:
November 3, 1877
Creator:
Boone, John Baxter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for an improved bale-hoop tie, consisting of a tongue and slot locking device, which may be used for cotton or other bales, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 3, 1874
Creator:
Davis, Waters S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for the improved design of a bale-hoop tie, including illustrations.
Date:
November 3, 1874
Creator:
Davis, Waters S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Cultivator, Plow, Harrow, and Roller.
Patent for an invention "to combine and arrange a cultivator, plow, harrow, and roller, with draught-wheels, axle, draught-pole, and an adjustable supporting-frame, in such a manner that the several parts can be used together or independently." (Lines 13-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 3, 1868
Creator:
Thornton, Sterling C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thill-Coupling.
Patent for an expansible coupling-bolt designed to not rattle and to "provide a simple but effective means for taking up the play between the coupling-pin in the lug-bearings" (lines 17-20).
Date:
November 3, 1896
Creator:
Stowe, John N., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History