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Acetylene Gas Machine
Patent for a new and useful improvement in gas-machines.
Date:
December 14, 1897
Creator:
Bryant, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Extracting Oils
Patent for a new and useful improvement "in a novel process and combination of devices or apparatus for extracting the oil from cotton seeds and other oil bearing seeds" (lines 8-12). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 14, 1886
Creator:
Baumgarten, Christian
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
Automatic Signal System
Patent for an automatic signal system for use with railways. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 14, 1909
Creator:
Adams, Powell O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bag Fastener
Patent for a bag fasteners. Illustration included.
Date:
December 14, 1909
Creator:
Brown, Flavius J. & Lasater, A. M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale Tie
Patent for a new and improved bale tie. This invention is to "provide a new and improved bale-tie which is simple and durable in construction, not liable to become accidentally unlocked, and arranged to permit its use on ordinary compresses" (line 7 - 11).
Date:
December 14, 1897
Creator:
Edmonston, Thomax Cole
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
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
Bolsters for Log Wagons
Patent for a bolster for use with log wagons by aiding in the arrangement of varying sizes of log loads. Illustration included.
Date:
December 14, 1909
Creator:
Warren, John Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bottle
Patent for a new and useful improvements in bottles. This invention is to "provide an improved vessel of this class the neck of which is formed in such manner and provided with attachments so constructed that when the vessel has been filled and the attachment applied the vessel may be emptied of its contents, but cannot be refilled or reused" (line 12- 18).
Date:
December 14, 1897
Creator:
Saunders, David Robert
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
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
Combustion Apparatus
Patent for a combustion apparatus that will maximize the heat produced with any given amount of fuel.
Date:
December 14, 1920
Creator:
Anderson, Robert James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for improvements on cotton choppers, primarily consisting of "a pair of oscillating hoes swinging in opposed relation and supported in vertically adjustable bearings suspended from a main frame" (lines 11-14).
Date:
December 14, 1915
Creator:
Strong, Harold
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
Cotton-Tramper
Patent for
Date:
December 14, 1915
Creator:
Murray, Russell
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
Cultivator Attachment
Patent for a cultivator attachment. Illustration included.
Date:
December 14, 1909
Creator:
Ross, Edgar L.
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
Drill-Bit-Retaining Device
Patent for a new and improved “drill bit retaining devices for drills of the hammer type”(lines 12-13), including an illustration.
Date:
December 14, 1915
Creator:
Weiner, Rudolph S.
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
Expanding Device For Can Bumping Presses
Patent for expanding device for can bumping presses including the illustrations.
Date:
December 14, 1915
Creator:
Drake, Rollin L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Extension Step Ladder
Patent for an extension step ladder. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 14, 1909
Creator:
Binger, Nickolaus & Burgstaller, Ernest F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fastening for Eyeglass-Lenses.
Patent for an improved device for fastening eyeglass and spectacle lenses to an eyeglass frame.
Date:
December 14, 1915
Creator:
Thompson, Albert F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History