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Acetylene Gas Generator.
Patent for a new and improved acetylene gas generating machine, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 12, 1899
Creator:
Miller, Frank A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene Generator
Patent for an acetylene generator. Illustration included.
Date:
December 12, 1905
Creator:
Sinclair, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adding-Machine.
Patent for am adding machine by using two disks, one a units-disk with pins in multiples of ten, one a tens-disk, is an annular disk with pin surrounding the units disk, an outwardly spring-pressed holder having a beveled outer end frictionally engaging the pins of the tens-disk and a carrier having oppositely-beveled ends engaged a supplemental pin and one pin on the tens-disks, teeth in the adjacent faces of the holder and carrier, and an idle-gear between them to enable the adding operation. (Lines 50-62) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 12, 1891
Creator:
Wright, Joseph W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adding-Machine.
Patent for a new and improvement in adding-machines in which a mechanical wheel has teeth. " The object of the invention is to provide the means for adding columns of figures by machinery"(lines 13-15), with instruction and illustration
Date:
February 12, 1884
Creator:
Barmore, Albert King
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Device for Dressing Down Bearings
Patent for a tool that dresses down bearings. Railroad engine journals and their corresponding bearings show wear over time. When replacing bearings into such a journal, without adaptation of the bearing there will be an improper fit, resulting in "hot journals" or "hot boxes". This tool adapts a bearing to a proper fit for the journal into which it will be installed.
Date:
December 12, 1922
Creator:
Mitchell, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Table.
Patent for a new and useful adjustable table, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 12, 1899
Creator:
Congour, Presley Alpheus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane.
Patent for improved propulsion for airplanes involving propellors in the front and rear of the plane. This aids in regulating air currents to stabilize flight, landing and speed. The patent includes illustrations.
Date:
June 12, 1917
Creator:
Campbell, John R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Ship.
Patent for a self-propelled, navigable air ship. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 12, 1891
Creator:
Walker, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Amalgamator.
Patent for a new and improved amalgamator. This design "consists in placing in the bottoms of the chambers a number of iron balls or other suitable-shaped pieces of amalgamated iron, which have sufficient room to move freely among themselves, and then forcing up through the balls or pieces of iron, in contradistinction to forcing it down over their tops, the amalgamated ore and water, so as to cause the pieces of iron to vibrate, and thus to grind and break the pieces of quartz passing up through them" (lines 14-24).
Date:
September 12, 1882
Creator:
Schmidt, Erich Franz & Streernwitz, William Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Feed Device
Patent for an animal feed device that is collapsible and that can be suspended from fences, vehicle wheels, other structures, the ground, or the animal itself. (lines 10-15
Date:
December 12, 1905
Creator:
Russell, George Washington
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Poke.
Patent for a device that prevents animals such as cows from tearing down fences.
Date:
February 12, 1901
Creator:
Specht, W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Trap.
Patent for a new and improved animal trap. This design consists in "a platform having a rod or bar secured to its upper face, and having the ends of the choke-spring coiled thereon, pins or prongs extending from one edge of the platform for engagement with a side of a box, a box having one of its sides elevated, against which the pronged end of the platform abuts for engagement therewith, and having recesses in its opposite ends for the recession of a loop, which passes thence over the free end of the platform for binding the same to the box" (lines 3-14).
Date:
June 12, 1888
Creator:
Beach, Philemon Theodore
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap.
Patent for an animal trap "having a vestibule which will be operated by the weight go the animal entering the same to close the entrance-door and open an exit-door into a receiving compartment or cage" (line 13-18) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 12, 1905
Creator:
Kirk, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Yoke
Patent for an animal-yoke.
Date:
May 12, 1903
Creator:
Landers, Willis M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant-Trap.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in ant-traps.
Date:
April 12, 1898
Creator:
Selvidge, Charles W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant Trap.
Patent for an in-ground ant trap that prevents the ants from escaping once caught in the trap, including instructions and illustrations
Date:
September 12, 1911
Creator:
Knox, Jessie Lonzo
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Delivering and Hauling Seines
Patent for an apparatus for delivering and hauling seines that can be used in deeper water and is safer than the ordinary method of using seines.
Date:
December 12, 1911
Creator:
Duffy, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Elevating, Distributing, and Feeding Seed-Cotton to Gins
Patent for improvements to cotton gins so that seed cotton can be fed to two gins at the same time, while using the same power as would normally be necessary for one gin.
Date:
April 12, 1892
Creator:
Murray, Stephen D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Floating Vessels.
Patent for a mechanism for raising, and hauling into deeper water, a floating vessel that has run aground.
Date:
November 12, 1901
Creator:
Debose, Albert S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
APPARATUS FOR HANDLING AND CLEANING SEED COTTON
Patent for an improvement to the method of cleaning seeded cotton.
Date:
November 12, 1889
Creator:
ELAM, WILLIAM E.; THOMAS, ROBERT S.; CRAWFORD, DWIGHT H. & HARDWICK, SAUNIE W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Hoisting Bales on Wagons.
Patent for a new and improved bale hoister. This design "relates to apparatus for loading and unloading wagons, and it has for its object to provide an apparatus of this character which shall be cheap and simple in its construction, effective in its operation, strong and durable, an apparatus by the use of which a wagon may be quickly loaded and unloaded" (lines 9-15).
Date:
May 12, 1885
Creator:
Lamb, George Washington
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Separating Wax from Plants
Patent for an apparatus for separating the wax from plants. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 12, 1911
Creator:
Hill, Conrad
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Supplying, Heating, and Burning Crude Oil and Air
Patent for an apparatus for supplying, heating, and burning crude oil and air for use in heating stoves.
Date:
October 12, 1909
Creator:
Weaver, Henry Ellis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Armor for Pneumatic Tires.
Patent for a new and useful armor for pneumatic tires.
Date:
April 12, 1898
Creator:
Hansell, Robert Clark
System:
The Portal to Texas History