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Can-Opener
Patent for a new and improved can opener. This design "consists of can-opener comprising a blade or cutter vertically adjustable to allow it to be forced into a can-head to be cut" (lines 34-36).
Date:
August 9, 1898
Creator:
Connett, Matthew F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Pump for Internal Combustion Engines
Patent for an automatic pump for internal combustion engines. Illustration included.
Date:
August 9, 1910
Creator:
Smith, Robert W. J.; Anderson, John C. & Rowe, Robert J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Back or Lining for Fireplaces.
Patent for improvement linings of fireplaces including the cost for creation, the adaption to fireplaces of different sizes, the expansion and contraction of parts under the influence of heat.
Date:
August 9, 1898
Creator:
Dickson, John Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Rake and Harrow.
Patent for a combined rake and harrow.
Date:
August 9, 1910
Creator:
Ross, William M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Advertising Device.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in advertising device, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 9, 1898
Creator:
Hefley, Jefferson D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compound For Treating Seeds.
Patent for a new and useful composition of matter to be used for killing weevils in corn, beans, or peas, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 9, 1898
Creator:
Thiele, Gustav
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Breakwater, &c.
Patent for an improved way of constructing piers, jetties, breakwaters, and similar structures. "It can be constructed from boats, barges, or from a trestle, or can be built continuously from a starting-point on shore to the objective point in the lake, bay, gulf, or other body of water" (lines 17-21). This invention is especially useful for places that don't have banks or ledges.
Date:
August 9, 1892
Creator:
Shannon, Alexander M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Pianos or Organs
Patent for "an attachment that can be used on pianos or organs, whereby the manipulation of the keys is greatly facilitated and playing upon the instrument greatly simplified, and the attachment is especially designed for those who do not to any great extent understand music or beginners who find it difficult to make the several chords in any particular key, the device being capable of ready attachment to the keyboard of any piano or organ and removed when not required for use" (lines 27-37).
Date:
August 9, 1892
Creator:
Stukes, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bill or Paper File.
Patent for a new and improved bill or paper file. This design "relates to hook-files, the object being to so improve their construction as to prevent the bills or papers on the file from working off. The invention consists, essentially, in a file provided with a tongue pivoted near the point of the hook" (lines 7-13).
Date:
August 9, 1887
Creator:
Gilbert, Frank B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Breakwater.
Patent for a new and improved breakwater. This design "furnish[es] breakwaters for protecting harbors and roadsteads, and keeping open channels through bars at the entrances of harbors, the mouths of rivers, and in other places, and which shall not be liable to be destroyed by the marine worm" (lines 13-19).
Date:
August 9, 1881
Creator:
Follett, Alexander Glass
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Internal Combustion Engine
Patent for a improved Internal Combustion Engine. The improvement is the construction of the ignition of the internal combustion engine where the fuel in the compression chamber is ignited explosion of a different fuel of a more highly explosive nature.
Date:
August 9, 1921
Creator:
Simpson, Joseph Ryan.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weather Board Gage.
Patent for a new and improved gauge for weatherboards. This design utilizes a guiding loop and a hinged part to create a gauge that, "after it has been attached to the house, will support at least two boards in position while they are being nailed on, before it is necessary to the move the gage [sic] into another position, and which gage will be so securely held in place that the boards can be moved back and forth without displacing it in any manner" (lines 27-34).
Date:
August 9, 1881
Creator:
Lawrence, John Madison
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trap-Gun.
Patent for a trap gun, which can be mounted on a post or in the ground.
Date:
August 9, 1910
Creator:
Lindsey, William Milton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Warning Strip for Wire Fences.
Patent for a new and improved warning strip for wire fences. This design "relates to warning-strips for wire fences designed as a visible signal to indicate the presence of the fence, and thus prevent cattle from running against the same and tearing themselves on the barbs" (lines 9-13).
Date:
August 9, 1887
Creator:
Cloud, William Johnston
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton and Hay-Presses
Patent for a new and useful improvement in cotton and hay-presses. It includes a description and an illustration.
Date:
August 9, 1870
Creator:
Stopple, Charles W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Station-Indicator
Patent for a station indicator for showing the names of street or stations on a web.
Date:
August 9, 1910
Creator:
Hathhorne, Robert A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Motor
Patent for hybraulic motor. Illustration included.
Date:
August 9, 1904
Creator:
Allen, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Cooker.
Patent for an improved version of the inventor's previous steam cooker.
Date:
August 9, 1910
Creator:
Daniels, Laura Eugenia
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Propulsion of Vessels.
Patent for a new and improved hydraulic propulsion. This design "is to provide an improved means for the application of the jet principle in the hydraulic propulsion of vessels; and it consists in the combination, with the hull of the vessel, of one or more main or trunk tubes arranged longitudinally to the vessel and of tapering shape, largest at its front end, which is open, and provided along its length with a series of nozzles opening along the side of the vessel in rearward direction, and one or more propeller-wheels arranged within the main tube and adapted to suck water in at the front" (lines 8-20).
Date:
August 9, 1892
Creator:
Walker, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock
Patent for a nut lock. Illustration included.
Date:
August 9, 1904
Creator:
Payne, Newton & Guynes, Allen Perry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Protector and Antiskidding Device.
Patent for a tire protector and anti-skidding device, which is made up of a flexible metal cover to prevent punctures and reduce wear on the tires, as well as reduce skidding.
Date:
August 9, 1910
Creator:
Bell, Charles D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Track Raising, Lowering, and Ballasting Machine.
Patent for a track raising, lowering, and ballasting machine for use in building railroads.
Date:
August 9, 1910
Creator:
Sparks, Walter F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Land Bedder And Cultivator.
Patent for a new and useful land bedder and cultivator, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 9, 1898
Creator:
Parker, Middleton N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tool-Handle
Patent for a tool handle for "hoe-handles, rake-handles, and other like farming implements."
Date:
August 9, 1898
Creator:
Pederson, Fred
System:
The Portal to Texas History