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Sounding Toy
Patent for a sounding toy. The toy is in the form of windmill whereby an object generates noise as the wheel spins. Illustration included.
Date:
December 14, 1909
Creator:
Exline, Marcus P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Toy Grasshopper
Patent for a toy grasshopper that is able to jump on surfaces once it is set down to simulate the propelled jumping of a grasshopper. Because of its design, primarily of rubber bands and levers, the movement is unique. It is also able to be formed into other animals or insects, as the body is made of wood.
Date:
December 14, 1920
Creator:
Ford, George E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Revolving Fan
Patent for a new and useful revolving fan. This design "relates to certain improvements in revolving fans, such as are employed especially in connection with tables and the like for fanning the persons seated thereat" (line 8-11).
Date:
December 14, 1897
Creator:
Gibson, Levi A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Seat.
Patent for improvement in regular car-seating (not baby car-seat) by enabling the seat to recline “like an ordinary sleeping-coach without the necessity of the upper berths required in a sleeping-coach.” (Lines 45-48) Illustration is included.
Date:
December 14, 1886
Creator:
Goelet, Edward B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fence.
Patent for a new and improved fence. This design "consist[s] of posts, a barbed-wire line connecting the top portions of the posts, the horizontal slats, the vertical wires secured at their lower ends to the lower portions of the post, and looped around the slats and connected at their upper portions to the wire line, and thence extending upward and secured to the upper ends of the posts above said wire line, and wire loops passing around the ends of the lower slats and connected with the lower portions of the vertical wires" (lines 82-93).
Date:
December 14, 1886
Creator:
Gordon, Marion J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher.
Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a block carrying bails or loops, and longitudinally grooved, of racks mounted within said grooves, a crank-shaft carrying a pinion, said shaft being mounted in standards secured to the block, pawls arranged to engage with ratchet-teeth formed in the racks, and clamping-jaws fixed to opposite ends of the racks" (lines 87-94).
Date:
December 14, 1886
Creator:
Graham, Andrew Bascome
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stove
Patent for a more efficient and cost effective heating apparatus. The stove is designed for coal and similar fuel sources.
Date:
December 14, 1915
Creator:
Hanna, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Silo Construction.
Patent for a new and improved silo of "simple and superior construction" (line 12) whose design is also "strong, durable, efficient, and inexpensive to produce" (lines 18-19).
Date:
December 14, 1915
Creator:
Harris, Andrew J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Stalk Puller
Patent for a new and useful cotton stalk puller.
Date:
December 14, 1897
Creator:
Harwood, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Shutter for Poultry-Houses and the Like.
Patent for automatic shutter for poultry houses, which closes with accumulation of rain water and opens upon rainwater drainage.
Date:
December 14, 1915
Creator:
Hawkins, Fletcher M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Double Acting Pump
Patent for a double acting pump. Illustration included.
Date:
December 14, 1909
Creator:
Holekamp, Richard G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fence Post
Patent for fence posts. This invention is designed with metal fence fabric set in concrete. Illustration included.
Date:
December 14, 1909
Creator:
Hughs, Wallace B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electrically Operated Railway Crossing Gate
Patent for an electrically operated railway crossing gate. Illustration included.
Date:
December 14, 1909
Creator:
Hummel, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Peach Pitter and Slicer
Patent for a peach pitter and slicer. Illustration included.
Date:
December 14, 1909
Creator:
Irwin, Wiley I.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Biblical Game Apparatus
Patent for a new and useful game apparatus. This design is to "provide a biblical game apparatus adapted to be employed in play by two or more persons" (line 8-10).
Date:
December 14, 1897
Creator:
James, Will S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drilling Register
Patent for a new, improved registering device particularly for use in well drilling, Illustrations included.
Date:
December 14, 1915
Creator:
Jones, Noah M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coin Controlled Tire Inflater
Patent for a new and useful improvements in coin controlled tire inflaters. This invention is to "provide an apparatus to be operated through the introduction of a coin of predetermined value of inflating pneumatic tires to any pressure desired automatically" (line 15 - 19).
Date:
December 14, 1897
Creator:
Ligon, John Barrows
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Revolving Sand Drag
Patent for a new and useful improvements in revolving sand drags. This design is to "provide a machine of this character by means of which the sand-bars in formed in rivers" (line 12-14)
Date:
December 14, 1897
Creator:
Murphy, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Tramper
Patent for
Date:
December 14, 1915
Creator:
Murray, Russell
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wheel Hub.
Patent for a new and improved wheel hub. This design consists "[i]n a sectional hub, each spoke-socket having a separate side opening closed by a plate [that] fit[s] into an annular groove . . . of the cylinder . . . and [is] held by bolts passing between the tenons of spokes, to allow each spoke to be separately reached and tightened by a wedge under the end of its tenon" (lines 59-65). This "obviate[s] the necessity of removing the wheel-tire for replacing a broken spoke with a new one" (lines 7-9).
Date:
December 14, 1880
Creator:
Oualline, Edward Napoleon
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine-Brake.
Patent for machine brake for regulating the speed of an automatic fan.
Date:
December 14, 1915
Creator:
Reeves, Elijah Winston
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blind-Slat Fastener.
Patent for improvements in blind-slat fasteners, in which it holds the blinds so that air can pass through. Illustration is included.
Date:
December 14, 1909
Creator:
Riley, John Brizendine
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment
Patent for a cultivator attachment. Illustration included.
Date:
December 14, 1909
Creator:
Ross, Edgar L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crayon Holder
Patent for a new and useful improvements in crayon holders. This design is to "provide an improved device which may be constructed cheaply, be light, and have a neat appearance" (line 13-14).
Date:
December 14, 1897
Creator:
Rugeley, Fannie M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History