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Conveyor-Bucket. (open access)

Conveyor-Bucket.

Patent for a conveyor bucket, which reduces waste of material.
Date: July 28, 1908
Creator: Barnett, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Advertising Device (open access)

Advertising Device

Patent for Advertising Device
Date: July 28, 1903
Creator: Smith, John D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Poke (open access)

Animal-Poke

Patent for an animal poke which is worn around the belly of the cow or other animal, and pokes the animal when it pushes against a fence and has a hook attached to the back of the poke which will catch onto the fence if they try to go underneath or over the fence.
Date: July 28, 1908
Creator: Bush, Caswell C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Can Opener. (open access)

Can Opener.

Patent for a new and improved can opener. This design consists "[i]n a can-opener, the combination, with a radius-bar having a handle at one end and a vertical fulcrum or pivot-pin, of an adjustable sleeve mounted on the bar and carrying two cutters, one being adapted to act as a guide and the other as a cutter" (lines 27-32).
Date: July 28, 1885
Creator: Misener, Richard Oliver
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clevis. (open access)

Clevis.

Patent for improvements in clevises in which a clevis can be used upon plows or harrows. When it is used, it “will obviate the necessity of using links or open rings in connection with the clevis and the singletree, as well as enable the plowman to cause his plow to run in the soil any desired depth or to cut a narrow or wide furrow.” (Lines 16-20) Illustration is included.
Date: July 28, 1891
Creator: Bruton, Alonzo D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Construction of Doors or Window-Sashes. (open access)

Construction of Doors or Window-Sashes.

Patent for "improvements in the construction of doors and window-sashes, the object being to provide a door or window-sash which shall be constructed of two pieces of timber united by means of a key to prevent warping or twisting" (lines 8-13). The panel of the door or the pane of glass can also be united by the key. This design lightens and cheapens doors and window-sashes.
Date: July 28, 1896
Creator: Cordray, Henry A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Shading Adjuster. (open access)

Car-Shading Adjuster.

Patent for a car-shade adjuster in passenger-coaches of street-cars that allows shades to "be raised or lowered at will and held firmly in any desired position" (lines 18-19). It is set in tracks in the window frame, held in place by springs, and bearings to keep friction between the shade-roller and track.
Date: July 28, 1896
Creator: Smith, Earl W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Ruler and Blotter (open access)

Combined Ruler and Blotter

Patent for a combined ruler and blotter (used for writing with ink). Proposed improvement of basic design by being more compact, cheaper to make, and includes a way to tear paper along the ruler's edge.
Date: July 28, 1914
Creator: Schmidt, Edward
System: The Portal to Texas History
Biplane (open access)

Biplane

Patent for a biplane design that has improved lift, steering, stability, and landing, including illustrations.
Date: July 28, 1914
Creator: Herrmann, Ernst W. F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Automatically Photographing Persons Moving Along a Confined Way. (open access)

Apparatus for Automatically Photographing Persons Moving Along a Confined Way.

Patent for a device to automatically take photographs of persons as they walk over a pressure sensor. The inventor suggests the device be used for ticket fare enforcement.
Date: July 28, 1914
Creator: Cannon, Burrell
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for baling presses that press for balling hay that simplify the construction of presses of this type and produce a press readily movable from one place to another.
Date: July 28, 1914
Creator: Redding, Robert B. & Barnett, James W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baking-Pan (open access)

Baking-Pan

Patent for a Baking Pan for bread and similar foods, noted for its unique construction, such "that the heat given off from the fuel burner will be confined so as to completely surround the pan, in which the articles to be cooked, are located" (lines 13-17).
Date: July 28, 1914
Creator: Boger, Daniel W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bur-Extractor for Cotton-Feeders (open access)

Bur-Extractor for Cotton-Feeders

Patent for bur extractor for cotton feeders. This device is unique in that it raises and distributes "systems for cotton gins...[and] provide[s] means whereby all burs or hulls will be effectually extracted from the cotton before the cotton passes to the gin feeders or gins" (lines 11-15).
Date: July 28, 1914
Creator: Lamb, William R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Andiron. (open access)

Andiron.

Patent for an andiron that combines with a gated screen including illustrations.
Date: July 28, 1914
Creator: Baker, James W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
In-Line Thermoelectric Module (open access)

In-Line Thermoelectric Module

A thermoelectric module with a plurality of electricity generating units each having a first end and a second end, the units being arranged first end to second end along an-in-line axis. Each unit includes first and second elements each made of a thermoelectric material, an electrically conductive hot member arranged to heat one side of the first element, and an electrically conductive cold member arranged to cool another side of the first element and to cool one side of the second element. The hot member, the first element, the cold member and the second element are supported in a fixture, are electrically connected respectively to provide an electricity generating unit, and are arranged respectively in positions along the in-line axis. The individual components of each generating unit and the respective generating units are clamped in their in-line positions by a loading bolt at one end of the fixture and a stop wall at the other end of the fixture. The hot members may have a T-shape and the cold members an hourglass shape to facilitate heat transfer. The direction of heat transfer through the hot members may be perpendicular to the direction of heat transfer through the cold members, and …
Date: July 28, 1998
Creator: Pento, Robert; Marks, James E. & Staffanson, Clifford D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Remote Adjustable focus Raman Spectroscopy Probe (open access)

Remote Adjustable focus Raman Spectroscopy Probe

A remote adjustable focus Raman spectroscopy probe allows for analyzing Raman scattered light from a point of interest external to the probe. An environmental barrier including at least one window separates the probe from the point of interest. An optical tube is disposed adjacent to the environmental barrier and includes along working length compound lens objective next to the window. A beam splitter and a mirror are at the other end. A mechanical means is used to translate the probe body in the X, Y, and Z directions resulting in a variable focus optical apparatus. Laser light is reflected by the beam splitter and directed toward the compound lens objective, then through the window and focused on the point of interest. Raman scattered light is then collected by the compound lens objective and directed through the beam splitter to a mirror. A device for analyzing the light, such as a monochrometer, is coupled to the mirror.
Date: July 28, 1998
Creator: Schmucker, John E.; Blasi, Raymond J. & Archer, William B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Attachment for Broadcast Headers. (open access)

Attachment for Broadcast Headers.

Patent for harvesting machines that provisions for adjustable attachments and elevator mechanisms used to head maize or similar grain crops.
Date: July 28, 1920
Creator: Price, Filmore M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Clothes-Pin. (open access)

Wire Clothes-Pin.

Patent for a device which utilizes a spring to assist with the clamping of textiles.
Date: July 28, 1914
Creator: Buckley, John L. & Coin, James W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insecticide. (open access)

Insecticide.

Patent for improvements in poisons for prairie-dogs, a “chemical compositions adapted to destroy vermin and more particularly prairie-dogs; but it may also be used to destroy many other sorts of vermin, including birds and insects.” (Lines 12-16) Ingredients and instruction of how to mix this compound are included. No illustration.
Date: July 28, 1891
Creator: Staples, David W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Building and Rerolling Wire Fences. (open access)

Machine for Building and Rerolling Wire Fences.

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Machines for Building and Rerolling Wire Fences"(lines 5-7), including instructions and illustration.
Date: July 28, 1885
Creator: Edge, John S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Grinding Valve Seats (open access)

Machine For Grinding Valve Seats

Patent for a simpler machine for Grinding Valve-Seats. This machine relates to the machinery involved in the grinding and finishing of valve seats.
Date: July 28, 1905
Creator: Meyners, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Luggage-Carrier. (open access)

Luggage-Carrier.

Patent for a luggage-carrier "particularly adapted for use in conjunction with motor cycles or similar wheeled vehicles" (lines 11-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 28, 1914
Creator: Howell, Edgar A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Axle. (open access)

Vehicle-Axle.

Patent for a shock absorbing axle for vehicles including illustrations.
Date: July 28, 1914
Creator: Hartmann, Arthur R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle -Spindle (open access)

Vehicle -Spindle

Patent for Spindles of light vehicles
Date: July 28, 1908
Creator: Thompson, Travis T.
System: The Portal to Texas History