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Wagon Brake.
Patent for a new and improved wagon-brake. This goal of this design "is to provide an automatic brake for wagons and other wheeled vehicles running on dirt roads" (lines 11-13).
Date:
May 23, 1882
Creator:
Le Roy, Charles Jerome & Henson, John Wesley
System:
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Seed-Planter
Patent for a new construction of rotary seed planter, with illustrations and description and arrangement of parts.
Date:
September 23, 1884
Creator:
Daniel, Ellison A.
System:
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Fruit Picker.
Patent for a new and improved fruit picker. This design consists in "two bags or receptacles [which] are secured upon an endless chain or cord, which passes over a pulley at the top of the pole of the picker and under a pulley near the lower end of the pole, so that the weight of one fruit picked and received in the bag will draw the other bag upward ready to receive another fruit, while the fruit in the descended bag may be removed from the said bag, which will thus be ready to ascend, when another fruit is picked" (lines 24-34).
Date:
November 23, 1886
Creator:
Arnold, Hudson H. C.
System:
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Automatic Printing Device
Patent for "improvements in automatic printing devices. . .whereby the printing is effected b the movement of the paper or fabric on which the printing is done" (lines 10-16).
Date:
July 23, 1889
Creator:
Barradall, Norborne D. & Bradley, Andrew Jackson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn Husker and Sheller
Patent for new and useful improvements to corn husker and sheller machines
Date:
July 23, 1889
Creator:
Whiting, Louis Rossell
System:
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Dilator.
Patent for a dilator meant to enlarge the urethral and other canals of the human body. It is meant of "elastic material and capable of distention, or dilation, under the pressure of air, water, or other fluid introduced and to combine with said dilator means whereby its uniform enlargement under internal pressure shall take place without increase of length, thereby avoiding the objection common to all, rubber and similar structures heretofore, that interior pressure produced elongation at the expense of increase in diameter, while any inequality of strength, or thickness, caused unequal expansion" (lines 13-24).
Date:
April 23, 1895
Creator:
Parker, Elisha J.
System:
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Method of and Apparatus for Protecting Electric Circuits.
Patent for a method of and apparatus for protecting electric circuits from unauthorized use. The inventor uses the arrangement of circuits described in an expired patent (No. 110,362).
Date:
April 23, 1895
Creator:
Oram, John M.
System:
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Garbage-Furnace.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and durable garbage-furnace that can be easily operated, the moisture from the garbage completely evaporates, and the material before and after can be easily handled.
Date:
July 23, 1895
Creator:
Hull, William S.
System:
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Axle - Nut.
Patent for a new and useful improvements in Axle-Nuts for wagons and carriages.
Date:
November 23, 1897
Creator:
Collins, Corties
System:
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Knockdown Tank
Patent for a sheet metal tank that is created in sections, able to be dismantled or "knocked down" in sections, and able to be transported in sections, including illustration.
Date:
July 23, 1901
Creator:
Harry, Hugh W. & Harry, Thomas C.
System:
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Bank Register and Remittance Sheet
Patent for a bank register and remittance sheet. Illustration included.
Date:
August 23, 1904
Creator:
Exline, Marcus P. & Bourke, Edmund
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Check Book Cover
Patent for a check book cover. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 23, 1905
Creator:
Templeton, David A.; Exline, Marcus P. & Bourke, Edmund
System:
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Fishing Float
Patent for a fishing float. Illustration included.
Date:
May 23, 1905
Creator:
Jones, Daniel M.
System:
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Washing Machine
Patent for a washing machine. The design includes a plunger that reciprocates up and down in order to agitate the contents. It is operated by a foot-plate and is meant to be easy-to-use.
Date:
January 23, 1906
Creator:
Moeckel, A. G.
System:
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Composition of Matter.
Patent for a briquet fuel formula made primarily from lignite and other derived products, which is cheaper to produce than other formulas.
Date:
July 23, 1907
Creator:
Lohmann, August Samuel Frederic
System:
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Sign.
Patent for a rotating metal sign, which does not warp from the turning action.
Date:
March 23, 1909
Creator:
Dazey, Nathan P. & Hall, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Switch Operating Mechanism
Patent for a switch operating mechanism. Illustration included.
Date:
March 23, 1909
Creator:
Eads, John William
System:
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Harness-Loop
Patent for a harness loop for connecting the bands and trace of a harness. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 23, 1910
Creator:
Padgitt, Jesse D.
System:
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Holder for Sound-Record Tablets.
Patent for a holder for square sound record tablets that are 10 or 12 inches.
Date:
August 23, 1910
Creator:
Moses, Jacob Bernhard
System:
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Staple-Set
Patent for a staple set for building and fixing wire fences. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 23, 1911
Creator:
Highsmith, Aubrey O.
System:
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Automatic Computing Device
Patent for an automatic computing device that can calculate the price of goods and be used to take inventory of stock.
Date:
July 23, 1912
Creator:
Miracle, Meredith W.
System:
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Counting Attachment for Type-Writers
Patent for a counting attachment for type writers that provides signals when various word counts are reached.
Date:
July 23, 1912
Creator:
Walker, Jack L.
System:
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Combined Filler and Packer for Baling Aparatus
Patent for improvements in apparatus to combined filler and packer for association with cotton press or baling and operations to receive lint cotton.
Date:
September 23, 1913
Creator:
Murray, Stephen D.
System:
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Process of and Apparatus for Progressive Electrostatic Separation of Comminuted Materials
Patent for a process of electro-static separation which is the improvement and consists in establishing three different types of electro-static fields upon a single conveying or electrical surface, shifting these fields across the line of normal movement.
Date:
September 23, 1913
Creator:
Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History