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Coffee-Mill. (open access)

Coffee-Mill.

Patent for a coffee mill that utilizes an electric motor for power (grinding).
Date: September 27, 1910
Creator: Sligar, James W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Boiler. (open access)

Clothes-Boiler.

Patent for a clothes boiler where the water circulates throughout the clothes.
Date: September 27, 1910
Creator: Smith, Victor A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boiler Cleaning Compound (open access)

Boiler Cleaning Compound

Patent for a boiler cleaning compound for steam-boilers and furnaces to prevent buildup from hard water.
Date: September 27, 1904
Creator: López, Néstor
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Radiator (open access)

Automobile-Radiator

Patent for an automobile radiator which does not leak.
Date: September 27, 1910
Creator: Garrison, Fernando G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Beamless Brake (open access)

Beamless Brake

Patent for a beamless brake for rail cars. Illustration included.
Date: September 27, 1904
Creator: Saling, Thomas W. & McKiel, James B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Carrier Iron for Draw Bars. (open access)

Carrier Iron for Draw Bars.

Patent for a new and improved carrier iron for draw-bars. This design "is to provide an improved draw-bar support exceedingly strong and durable in construction and very cheap and simple which will prevent spreading of the draft-timbers or sagging of the draw-bar and which can be reversed" (lines 19-24). It consists in "[t]he combination, in a car, of the draft-timbers, the draw-bar between the same, and the loop-shaped carrier-iron in one piece embracing said timbers and passing above and below and supporting the draw-bar and secured to said timbers by bolts" (lines 78-83).
Date: September 27, 1892
Creator: Minton, William Dryden & Douglas, Alexander Stewart
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Berth. (open access)

Car Berth.

Patent for a new and improved car berth. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a car formed with an opening, recess, or compartment, of a berth consisting of a series of parallel slats connected together by flexible connections and adapted to be rolled up . . . and end supports adapted to be independently folded each upon itself, so that they may be concealed below the rolled berth, the inner side of the berth and the inner ends of the supports being secured within the opening" (lines 49-58).
Date: September 27, 1887
Creator: Tull, Francis Schales
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "the link having a hooked front end, the lever, spring between the front end of the lever and the link, slide-bar pivoted to the rear end of the lever, the spring-actuated latch on the said bar, having the pin thereon to engage in a socket in the bottom of the car, and the retractile spring at the outer end of the lever" (lines 11-19).
Date: September 27, 1887
Creator: Stovall, John David & Whittington, William Calvin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Machines for Distributing Fertilizers. (open access)

Improvement in Machines for Distributing Fertilizers.

Patent for the improvement of fertilizer-distributer which dispense fertilizers from a hopper with revolving arms that is mounted on top of a plow like machine, which would allow the fertilizers fall into the furrow. Including illustration.
Date: September 27, 1859
Creator: Morrel, Z. N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Blade-Holder (open access)

Blade-Holder

Patent for a new and useful improvements to a blade holder. It can hold any form of razor blades can be securely held and easily released. The holder allows blades to be inserted safely and then hold blades firmly into place.
Date: September 27, 1921
Creator: Lightfoot, Roy L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pipe-Gripping Device. (open access)

Pipe-Gripping Device.

Patent for a device designed to hold and sustain a string of pipe in an elevated position during the process of unscrewing and separating it into sections, primarily used for drilling operations where pipes are connected and disconnected within a borehole.
Date: September 27, 1921
Creator: Steen, Buford J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Incubator (open access)

Incubator

Patent for an incubator designed to maintain temperature automatically.
Date: September 27, 1921
Creator: Kovar, Joe
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Packer (open access)

Cotton-Packer

Patent for cotton packer designed for use in cotton gins.
Date: September 27, 1921
Creator: Williams, French B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Serving-Table. (open access)

Serving-Table.

Patent for "a table...which is specially adapted for use in serving cold drinks, light lunches and the like to customers seated in an automobile or other similar vehicle" and the table "is adjustable so that it may be accommodated to vehicles of different heights" (lines 11-15, 18-19). It also contains an illustration.
Date: September 27, 1921
Creator: Boysen, August
System: The Portal to Texas History
Highway for Grade-Crossings. (open access)

Highway for Grade-Crossings.

Patent for highway-railroad grade crossing designed to slow the flow of traffic as it crosses an intersecting railway.
Date: September 27, 1921
Creator: Carter, Kenneth Wilson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Piston Packing (open access)

Piston Packing

Patent for an improved means of packing pistons in gas, steam, or similar engines, which reduces the likelihood of loss of compression.
Date: September 27, 1921
Creator: Williams, Nolan S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Phonograph-Needle. (open access)

Phonograph-Needle.

Patent for a phonograph needle "which is simple in construction, inexpensive to manufacture, and may be used in connection with phonograph records of different types" (lines 18-21). The needle has a flexible shank (in multiple forms) for improved audio quality, and it accommodates various tip styles for use with many brands of phonograph records.
Date: September 27, 1921
Creator: Fletcher, Theodore
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher and Fastener. (open access)

Wire Stretcher and Fastener.

Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher and fastener. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a bar constructed of metal and provided at one end with a claw and having its other end bent at right angles to form an arm provided with a slot or bifurcation forming prongs, one of the prongs being longer than the other, the stud secured to the bar on the side opposite the arm and arranged adjacent to the same and forming a hammer-head, and a handle arranged on the same side of the stud and located adjacent to the claw" (lines 55-65).
Date: September 27, 1892
Creator: Chamberlain, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insecticide Distributor. (open access)

Insecticide Distributor.

Patent for a new and improved bug sprayer. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a base, a bellows mounted thereon, a receptacle arranged in advance of the bellows and adapted to contain poison to be distributed, a forwardly-projecting discharge-tube, laterally-extending discharge-tubes comprising inner rigid sections, outer rigid sections having series of discharge-nozzles, and flexible couplings connecting the rigid sections, and the braces having their inner ends pivoted to the base and their outer ends pivoted to the outer sections and supporting the same" (lines 75-86).
Date: September 27, 1892
Creator: Talley, Reuben J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Liquid-Fuel Burner. (open access)

Liquid-Fuel Burner.

Patent for improvements in liquid fuel burners that can handle intense heat and can be mass-produced.
Date: September 27, 1921
Creator: Hosek, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wheel. (open access)

Wheel.

Patent for a wheel, which is stronger than other wheels on the market.
Date: September 27, 1910
Creator: Moon, Richard D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect Collector and Destroyer. (open access)

Insect Collector and Destroyer.

Patent for an insect collector and destroyer for removing insects from cotton plants.
Date: September 27, 1910
Creator: Greer, William J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wagon Brake (open access)

Wagon Brake

Patent for a wagon brake. Illustration included.
Date: September 27, 1904
Creator: Melton, William K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Trusses. (open access)

Improvement in Trusses.

Patent for improvements in the wiring and metal plates in self-adjusting trusses.
Date: September 27, 1870
Creator: Baker, William
System: The Portal to Texas History