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Compressed-Air Engine
Patent for a compressed air engine. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 5, 1911
Creator:
Murray, Dick H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Wheel
Patent for an automobile wheel. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 5, 1911
Creator:
Messerli, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animated Sign
Patent for a display apparatus to be implemented as animated advertising signs which successively display different images by controlling the timing of changes in the colors of light used to flood the front and to backlight the display surfaces. The images are created in such a way that certain elements created in certain colors become absorbed or are made invisible when illuminated by certain colors of light. An apparatus controls the cyclical changes of the colored lights used by the sign.
Date:
September 5, 1922
Creator:
Craig, Richard M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Generating And Utilizing Noxious Fumes.
Patent for new and useful improvements in machines for generating noxious fumes and utilizing the same for destruction of animal life, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 5, 1899
Creator:
Hanaway, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wheel-Plows.
Patent for an improvement in wheel plows made so that "the plowing may be done by passing back and forth in parallel lines" (lines 17-18).
Date:
September 5, 1871
Creator:
Coreth, Rudolph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Destroyer.
Patent for boll-weevil insect destroyer to that can be attached to cotton cultivator device and used to remove and destroy boll weevils simultaneously to plowing the cotton with the cultivator.
Date:
September 5, 1916
Creator:
McCracken, Ninian S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Truss
Patent for a truss for the use of alleviating abdominal hernias. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 5, 1911
Creator:
Baker, Littleton Lafayette
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Elevator.
Patent for a water elevator that is composed of a band with buckets attached that goes around the structure in a circle delivering water.
Date:
September 5, 1911
Creator:
Thompson, James W. & Hathaway, James F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Cooler.
Patent for a simple, efficient, and inexpensive portable water cooler that refrigerates the water "by the action of the air and the evaporation of the liquid or vapor percolating the material" (lines 12-14). It does not use ice and can be used in rural areas.
Date:
September 5, 1893
Creator:
Hymans, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mechanical Toy Hoop
Patent for improved features for mechanical toy hoops, particularly for toys utilizing trundling hoops.
Date:
September 5, 1916
Creator:
Giesecke, Leo
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Tie Buckles.
Patent for an improved bale-tie buckle which will not slip or break under great strain.
Date:
September 5, 1876
Creator:
Bunker, Thaddeus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Spading, Plowing, and Stalk-Cutting Machines.
Patent for an earth working machine that can be used for spading, plowing and stalk-cutting by arranging “a series of spades in a plane parallel with the axis of the machine and interposed spades in planes at right angles thereto, all attached to a reciprocating cross-bar.” (P. 2, lines [29]-[33].) The spades are adjustable in height and, it can be removed to use as a cultivator. For stalk-cutting, the plows may be removed. Illustration is included.
Date:
September 5, 1876
Creator:
Mathes, William McConnell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hunting-Knife.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in hunting knives, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 5, 1899
Creator:
Shelton, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Cutter
Patent for a stalk cutter. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 5, 1911
Creator:
Scott, Oscar F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Engine.
Patent for a two cylinder steam engine.
Date:
September 5, 1911
Creator:
Putman, Lewis S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hot and Cold Cotton Seed Cake Cutter
Patent for Hot and Cold Cotton Seed Cake Cutter
Date:
September 5, 1916
Creator:
Helm, Clyde D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flexible Stay Bolt
Patent for Flexible Stay Bolt
Date:
September 5, 1916
Creator:
Bearicks, Charles F
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe Tongs
Patent for Pipe Tongs
Date:
September 5, 1916
Creator:
Hill, Richard Dennie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Heat Distributor
Patent for Heat Distributor
Date:
September 5, 1916
Creator:
Jueschke, Charles A
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow Colter
Patent for plow colter. Illustration included.
Date:
September 5, 1905
Creator:
Cone, Jesse Fielder
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Non-Refillable Bottle
Patent for Non-Refillable Bottle
Date:
September 5, 1916
Creator:
Burch, Charles E
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pan or Lid Lifter.
Patent for a new and useful pan or lid lifter, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 5, 1899
Creator:
Jones, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Paper File.
Patent for a new and improved paper file. This design "provide[s] a simple, cheap, and effective wire clamp for . . . holding bills, papers, cards, and the like . . . that can be secured to a table, desk, wall, or other object, thereby dispensing with the strips of wood or other material to which the wire clamps are usually connected" (lines 18-29).
Date:
September 5, 1882
Creator:
Clark, Chester Cady
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame And Trace Connector.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in Hames, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 5, 1899
Creator:
Dodson, Roy
System:
The Portal to Texas History