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Adjustable Electric-Light Holder.
Patent for an adjustable electric-light holder for automobiles.
Date:
November 26, 1918
Creator:
Balke, Morris
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cleaning and Handling Seed-Cotton
Patent for "improved means for conveying seed-cotton from wagons or store-houses to a series of gins, to clean it during its passage, and to avoid clogging the gins or the devices themselves by rapid feeding of the cotton" (lines 14-18).
Date:
November 26, 1889
Creator:
Elam, William E.; Thomas, Robert S. & Hardwick, Sauny W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Poultry-Disinfector
Patent for an automatic poultry disinfector that is applied to the chickens necks while they are eating.
Date:
November 26, 1912
Creator:
Donathan, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Safety-Burner
Patent for an automatic safety burner for lamps that turns off the flame if the lamp is tilted.
Date:
November 26, 1912
Creator:
Splettstosser, Fritz
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Door Mechanism
Patent for a sliding car door mechanism.
Date:
November 26, 1912
Creator:
Gradick, Wiley Sr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Card-Cutting Attachment for Printing-Presses.
Patent for an attachment for printing presses that not only acts as a card cutter, but can also change the shape of the design and automatically eject the paper.
Date:
November 26, 1901
Creator:
Speight, Winchester Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Card-File Cabinet.
Patent for a lockable card file cabinet or casing that allows for viewing through a transparent top with use of a rod for moving cards back and forth. The transparent top allows customer information to be stored and used, but not edited without a key.
Date:
November 26, 1918
Creator:
Reeves, John R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clip
Patent for a clip that may be used to bind paper, plies of fabric, or as a clothes pin. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 26, 1907
Creator:
Porter, Louis H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Farming Implement.
Patent for "agricultural implements and particularly to soil tilling machines of the rotary type" (lines 9-11) ... "of simple and improved construction embodying a carrying frame, a swingingly supported adjustable frame, and a rotary tilling device mounted on the swinging frame for direct engagement with the ground" (lines 13-18).
Date:
November 26, 1918
Creator:
Corbin, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Educational Chart, Drawing Board, and Writing-Desk
Patent for a piece of furniture that can act as an educational chart, drawing board, or a writing desk. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 26, 1907
Creator:
Henderson, George A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Pen and Pencil Rack
Patent for a pen and pencil rack. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 26, 1907
Creator:
Twaddell, Janie S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Tabled, Copy, and Bill Holder.
Patent for a combined tablet, copy, and bill holder meant to hold "file-pins in their operative and inoperative positions, to provide simple and improved means whereby a tablet or bills may be covered when not in use or when carrying the device, to protect the same from dirt, &c. and, furthermore, to provide improved means for supporting the holder in position for transcribing" (lines 12-18).
Date:
November 26, 1895
Creator:
Stuart, Benjamin Franklin & Willson, Frederick WIlliam
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compression Indicator
Patent for a device that determining the compression of engine cylinders. Is meant to provide a more efficient and quicker way to test compression in explosive engine cylinders.
Date:
November 26, 1918
Creator:
Lambeth, Acey L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper that attaches to a cultivator.
Date:
November 26, 1912
Creator:
Parsley, Samuel E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Desk-Cabinet
Patent for a metal desk cabinet for holding office supplies.
Date:
November 26, 1912
Creator:
Grogan, Edward W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Switching Device
Patent for an electric switch for railways. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 26, 1907
Creator:
Posey, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Engine.
Patent for "engines which employ governors" (lines 11-12) "desirably located within the crank cases to be effectively lubricated by the oil which is dashed about in engine operation." (lines 13-16)
Date:
November 26, 1918
Creator:
Pratt, Clarence E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Filter and Water Purifier.
Patent for a new and improved water filter. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a water-pump having upwardly-opening valves, an air-pump having downwardly-opening valves, and two perforated cylinders surrounding the pump-tubes and provided with a packing of filtering material, the water-pump tube opening into the inner cylinder, and the pump-tube passing entirely through both heads of the same" (lines 61-68).
Date:
November 26, 1889
Creator:
Stiles, Frederick
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Stool
Patent for folding stool which may be used alternatively as a sun-shade or cane, including illustrations.
Date:
November 26, 1918
Creator:
Bachtel, Sidney J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grain-Door
Patent for a grain car door that keeps the grain securely in the railroad car.
Date:
November 26, 1912
Creator:
Gradick, Wiley, Sr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grain-Heading Machine.
Patent for a grain-heading machine for "gathering broom corn, sorghum, maize and the like" (lines 12-13).
Date:
November 26, 1918
Creator:
Davidson, Rufus Burley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grease-Gun
Patent for an applicator of grease to targeted areas with improved method for refilling, including illustration.
Date:
November 26, 1918
Creator:
Miller, Charles R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hair-Spring Locator
Patent for a hair spring locator, a tool used to locate and measure the hair spring of a watch. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 26, 1907
Creator:
Friedman, Bernhard Zadoc
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horizontal-Drilling Machine
Patent for a horizontally boring drill for use in trench warfare, including illustrations.
Date:
November 26, 1918
Creator:
Hughes, Howard R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History