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Collapsible Barrel.
Patent for a collapsible barrel for use in shipping.
Date:
October 13, 1908
Creator:
Lemly, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coin Operated Vending Machine
Patent for a coin operated vending machine that is meant to be inexpensive and adapted to protect the items being vended, and to allow adjustment for coins of different denominations.
Date:
September 2, 1902
Creator:
Fender, John Brown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beer Cooler.
Patent for a new and improved beer cooler. This design consists "in a beer-cooler, the combination of the cup-shaped rubber cap having the opening with the faucet, said cap being adapted to form an air-tight joint between the faucet and the beer-cooler" (lines 89-93).
Date:
October 13, 1885
Creator:
Follett, Charles Jonathan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Flower and Meal Bin and Flour Sifter.
Patent for a new and improved flour and meal bin and flour sifter. This design "has relation to that class of flour-sifters in which the sifting mechanism is secured at the lower end of a bin or receptacle containing the flour or meal; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of such a device in which the bin is divided in two receptacles opening into the sifting mechanism, and having suitable cut-off slides" (lines 21-29).
Date:
October 13, 1885
Creator:
Williams, Robert E. & Trammell, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Sulky-Plows.
Patent for a sulky-plow that "is designed to secure an even and steady movement of the plow when turning furrows across listed ground, whereby the work is facilitated, the draft lightened, and the task of the laborer reduced" (lines 9-13).
Date:
October 13, 1896
Creator:
Mann, John Quincy
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Change-Speed Gearing
Patent for "power transmission for automobiles... provides a driving shaft and a driven shaft arranged in alignment, and a countershaft which parallels the driving and driven shafts and carries a set of gears that continuously mesh."
Date:
October 13, 1914
Creator:
Relle, William A. So
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Supplemental Gas Reservoir and Burner
Patent for an improved gas burner and reservoir meant to be used with gas blow torches. It was meant to be used with natrual gas and to help equalize its pressure in order to produce a steady flame.
Date:
October 13, 1914
Creator:
Gilbert, James Madison
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process for Synthesizing Oil and Surfactant-free Hyaluronic Acid Nanoparticles and Microparticles
Patent relating to a process for synthesizing oil and surfactant-free hyaluronic acid nanoparticles and microparticles.
Date:
November 3, 2004
Creator:
Hu, Zhibing; Xia, Xiaohu & Tang, Liping
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Wrench
Patent for a wrench which is more balanced in the hand than other wrenches.
Date:
October 13, 1908
Creator:
Layne, Mahlon E. & Hall, Samuel N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Land-Breaking Plow
Patent for a plow that also includes rotary drums. The rotary drums carried "sub-soiling and breaking plows; and the object is to provide plows which can be used to break the land to any desirable depth in any kind of soil without turning over the soil."
Date:
October 13, 1914
Creator:
Reed, Arthur
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Twine-Cutter.
Patent for improvements in rope-cutters by designing a “cutter having a slotted bracket with a lateral extension or bearing that has a longitudinal slot and a stop,” with a “combination of a lever-handle having a projecting knife-blade, registering with the slot in the bearing.” (Lines 81-86) This enable the rope to be cut in a single operation without sever the fibers. (Lines 74-76) Illustration is included.
Date:
October 13, 1891
Creator:
Maulden, Chester Doctor
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drilling Apparatus.
Patent for a well drilling apparatus, which is light and strong and easily transported.
Date:
October 13, 1908
Creator:
Moon, Richard Davis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vermin Poison.
Patent for "insecticide compositions for exterminating prairie-dogs, ants, &c." (lines 6-7), including dosages and instructions for use.
Date:
October 13, 1885
Creator:
Womack, John David
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tie-Clasp
Patent for tie-clasp for men's neckties, which will hold the tie in place and prevent it from becoming loose or untied.
Date:
October 13, 1913
Creator:
Willingham, Charles F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Telephone-Lighting System.
Patent for an invention as specified relates to new and useful improvements in telephone lighting systems for the purpose of providing lamps on subscribers' telephones arranged.
Date:
October 13, 1914
Creator:
Boze, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Press.
Patent for a cotton seed oil press, which produces more oil with less workers and less cost and is much safer than previous machines.
Date:
October 13, 1908
Creator:
Hiegel, Joseph L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Tanning.
Patent for improvements in tanning by steaming the broom-weed (Amphiachyris dracunculoides) to extract liquor and gradually condense the liquor into a strong solution as tanning ingredient for treatment of hides or skins. No illustration.
Date:
October 13, 1891
Creator:
Turner, Robert W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Portable Press for Hay
Patent for a portable press for hay. "My invention relates to portable hay and other presses, and has for its objects, first, an improved power-transmission and lever device for pressing or forcing the hay or other material into th box or frame of the press" (line 8-13). Illustration included.
Date:
October 13, 1903
Creator:
McKean, Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Protector.
Patent for new tire-protector, introducing new and useful improvements in pneumatic tire attachments.
Date:
October 13, 1914
Creator:
La Hatte, Albert S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Table.
Patent for a new and improved table. This design "is to increase the utility of tables by providing them with drawers extending from side to side, that will open from either side of the table, and also providing the drawers with additional means of support that will enable them to contain articles of great weight without injury to the structure, and thus adapt the same for use in stores" (lines 10-18).
Date:
October 13, 1885
Creator:
Davis, James Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Paint Brush.
Patent for a new and improved paint brush. This design "consists in an extensible and contractible frame having means for clamping a brush within the same, and provided at the end of its component members or plates with a sockets or tubes, in which are fitted adjustable stems carrying brush holders or sockets at their ends which are capable of receiving an angular adjustment in relation to said stems" (lines 15-23).
Date:
October 13, 1885
Creator:
Nowlin, William Abner
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oiler
Patent for an oiler. This invention is designed to be attached to a broom for the distribution.
Date:
October 13, 1903
Creator:
Allen, George T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compositor's Stick
Patent for a compositor's stick. This invention is for the improvement of the mechanism for setting type and printing.
Date:
October 13, 1903
Creator:
Weeks, Frank W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Garment Fastening
Patent for a garment fastening.
Date:
October 13, 1903
Creator:
Peffley, Emery A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History