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Piston Rod Packing
Patent for piston rod packing. Illustration included.
Date:
September 21, 1909
Creator:
Rhodes, Hampton P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Comb Cleaner.
Patent for a new and useful comb-cleaner. "This invention is an improved construction of comb-cleaner, the object being to provide an exceedingly cheap, simple, and efficient device by means of which a comb can be quickly and effectively cleaned" (line 10).
Date:
January 21, 1902
Creator:
Hess, Hugo
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Producing Ammoniacal Gas.
Patent for a new and improved refrigerator and ice machine. This design "consists in an improved construction, whereby the gas is relieved of its moisture before entering the condenser, a better apparatus is obtained, and repairs are facilitated and cheapened" (lines 12-16).
Date:
July 21, 1885
Creator:
Lee, Charles B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Treating Cotton-Seed Hulls
Patent for "a simple and durable plant capable of use in carrying out a dry process of reducing the hulls to a finely-divided condition" (lines 8-13).
Date:
October 21, 1890
Creator:
Bohn, Emil
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Bale-Rolling Attachment for Compress.
Patent for improvement in automatic bale-rolling attachments for compressors.
Date:
September 21, 1875
Creator:
Reisel, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-5927
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Does the State Board of Control have authority to lease the Galveston State Psychopathic Hospital to the Federal Government for a venereal disease clinic?
Date:
March 21, 1944
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Dough Kneaders and Cutters.
Patent for new U-shaped dough kneader and cutter, with illustrations
Date:
September 21, 1874
Creator:
Mӧckli, Frank
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flushing tank for siphon closets.
Patent for flushing tanks to connect to siphon closets that is improvement vacuum
Date:
January 22, 1919
Creator:
Sweeny, John S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve for Flushing-Tanks.
Patent for a flushing tank valve that reduces the time it takes to fill the tank with a higher accuracy for shut off levels.
Date:
June 21, 1921
Creator:
Sweeny, John S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mail-Bag-Delivering Apparatus.
Patent for "a device for effecting the receipt of bags and the like from and the delivery thereof to railway trains, cars, etc., while the latter are in motion" (lines 11-14), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 21, 1918
Creator:
Kost, Joseph L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window Frame.
Patent for a new and improved window frame. This design "has for its objects to provide an improved means for holding the sash of a window in any position to which it may be elevated, and at the same time permit the sash to be readily moved up or down" (lines 11-15).
Date:
February 21, 1882
Creator:
Sturm, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lighting Apparatus for Vehicles.
Patent for a useful lighting apparatus for vehicles in general by using a power-transmitting belt properly mounted on to the car-wheels to “which energy may be drawn from the wheels of the car and supplied to a lighting-dynamo.” (Lines 12-14) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 21, 1901
Creator:
Brady, Alford
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rotary Dredgers.
Patent for an improved rotary dredging-machine operated by adjustment from the engine through gearing enabling the manipulation of "a heavier wheel than would otherwise be practicable" (lines 71-72) with illustrations.
Date:
December 21, 1875
Creator:
Hawley, Abel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Piles for Bulk-Heads and Other Structures.
Patent for improvements in piles for bulkheads: "The object of the present invention being to provide a concrete-faced bulk-head composed of piles, each of which may be sunk in position by continuously forcing the sand from beneath the lower end of the pile" (lines 15-19), with illustrations.
Date:
August 21, 1877
Creator:
Parry, Morgan L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ventilating Apparatus.
Patent for a new and improved ventilator. This design consists in "a fan casing, constructed and arranged . . . of the fan arranged therein, the gearing placed above the fan, the air-ducts leading to the fan-chamber, the endless weighted chain or cord, and drums and pulleys . . . [and] an open bottom secured to a ceiling and communicating with air-ducts passing between the floor and ceiling of a building" (lines 80-90).
Date:
September 21, 1886
Creator:
Garfield, John Morris
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Process of Sterilizing and Packaging Rice
Patent for sterilizing and packaging rice by subjecting it to heat for twenty minutes or more. After this, the rice is sorted in a shaker and put into packaging while maintaining the air temperature. This prohibits the rice kernels from cracking.
Date:
April 21, 1914
Creator:
Davis, Waters Smith, Jr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark Arrester.
Patent for a new and improved spark arrester for train smokestacks. This design is of "a locomotive-engine, a pipe or pipes for conveying sparks from the smoke-stack, in combination of a diaphragm or cone placed in the stack and a steam or water chamber placed around the discharge of said pipe or pipes" (lines 88-93).
Date:
February 21, 1882
Creator:
Nichols, George B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Suspended Safe, &c.
Patent for a new and improved safe. This design "[has a] top projecting beyond its sides . . . in combination with the upright posts having liquid-cups, the rods, and sleeves for suspending the safe from contact with any object" (lines 79-83).
Date:
March 21, 1882
Creator:
Mason, Sanford
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rocking-Chair Fan.
Patent for a rocking chair fan that spins when the operator begins rocking in the chair. It easily adjusts to any model of rocking chair and is noiseless.
Date:
July 21, 1896
Creator:
Martyr, Leonard W. & Martyr, Ernest E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car Brake and Starter.
Patent for improvements in car brakes "of novel and simple construction" (lines 24-25).
Date:
August 21, 1877
Creator:
Marean, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rectifying High-Wines.
Patent for an improved mode of rectifying high wines using a new apparatus.
Date:
March 21, 1871
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Refrigerator.
Patent for a refrigerator that consists of a rectangular chest with "the inclosing casing provided at its upper end with a compartment or ice-chest having a space surrounding the same" (lines 28-30), a gap between the ice chest and the opening, a valved opening, and a food container below the ice chest.
Date:
November 21, 1893
Creator:
Baggett, Thomas A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Switch.
Patent for a new and improved railroad switch. This design "has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, efficient, and safe switch adapted for operation by trip-bars on a locomotive engine or car to open or close the switch, and without injury to the rails or actuating mechanism of the switch or danger of derailing the cars" (lines 7-14).
Date:
February 21, 1888
Creator:
Peetz, John J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Means for Laying Dredging-Pipes.
Patent for a method of laying dredging pipes, which allows ships to pass through without removing them, allows air to release from the pipes to prevent movement of the pipes during pumping, a method of removing the contents before taking them out of the water, and an easy method removing the pipes completely.
Date:
July 21, 1908
Creator:
Smith, Phillip S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History