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Improvement in Water-Tanks.
Patent for an improved water-tank built with lumbers that are thoroughly dried and covered with asphaltum as waterproof agent. It includes illustrations.
Date:
January 28, 1879
Creator:
Bardon, Prosper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Loose Leaf Binder
Patent for a loose leaf binder. The invention consists of two adjustable sections in order to lengthen or shorten the post. Illustration included.
Date:
January 28, 1913
Creator:
Bickley, William P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial-Stone Composition
Patent for "an artificial stone adapted for all purposes to which natural stone can be applied, and which can be given any desired shape while in a plastic state, or carved and polished after hardening" (lines 12-18).
Date:
January 28, 1890
Creator:
Blackmon, Albert M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for an automatic car-coupling that is designed to be operated from either side of the car. The danger of an operator passing between cars to couple or uncouple the cars is avoided in this invention, and the coupling can be adapted to couple cars that have draw-bars to unequal height. The coupling can be manually operated if wished.
Date:
January 28, 1896
Creator:
Boyd, James S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for "car-couplers of the link-and-pin type which couple automatically and are provided with unlocking-levers operated from the top and side of a car, and designed to avoid the necessity of passing between the cars to couple or uncouple the same." (Lines 11-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 28, 1896
Creator:
Boyd, James S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gearing for Windmills
Patent for gearing used in the operation of windmills. This invention improves the rotary motion of the wheel shaft that operates the pump. "A further object of the invention is to provide a wheel supporting frame in which is mounted for vertical movement the pump actuating rod" (13-16). Illustration included.
Date:
January 28, 1908
Creator:
Brown, Herbert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Disk Plow.
Patent for a revolving disk plow that pulverizes the soil. The plow is especially designed to prepare the soil for cotton and cultivating between rows of crops. It has a tongue, a cross-bar with a sloping edge, spindles set at an angle to the cross-bar, disks mounted on the spindles, a double scraper for the disks, a gage-wheel, and a pivoting and locking lever on the tongue.
Date:
January 28, 1896
Creator:
Campbell, Singleton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dry-Earth Closet
Patent for "a commode which may be placed in a bed-room or other suitable place in a house without .danger to occupants on account of disease which would be superinduced by the presence of impure odors, as would be the case where an ordinary receptacle is used" and where the solid and liquid waste would be separated (lines 26-36).
Date:
January 28, 1890
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Demountable Rim
Patent for a demountable rim. This invention is used for automobile wheels for readily mounting and remounting. Illustration included.
Date:
January 28, 1913
Creator:
Cox, Eli R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Controlling Electric Current.
Patent for an improved device for controlling electric current. The device can control electric current from a generator specifically for the use in automobiles not to exceed a certain limit in high speed situations.
Date:
January 28, 1919
Creator:
Duke, Earle H. & Brown, James D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher.
Patent for new and useful improvements in wire-stretchers. The "invention has relation to improvements in wire-stretchers, and especially to that class of wire-stretchers employed in wire-fence building or repairing" line 10).
Date:
January 28, 1902
Creator:
Dunlap, Sam H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cane-Mill
Patent for improvements in the mechanical make up and physical functionality of cane mills.
Date:
January 28, 1890
Creator:
Dunlap, William O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ironing Machine.
Patent for a new and useful ironing-machine. "Invention is to improve the construction of ironing-machines and to provide a simple, efficient, and comparatively inexpensive one, designed for use both in laundries and elsewhere and capable of advantageously operating on all kinds of garment" (line 10-15).
Date:
January 28, 1902
Creator:
Dunn, William H. & McCurdy, Delo
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut Removing Device
Patent for a nut removing device. This device is designed for the removing of lug nuts from vehicle wheels. Illustration included.
Date:
January 28, 1913
Creator:
Easley, Thomas L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for an automatic butter churn with illustrations.
Date:
January 28, 1902
Creator:
Fitzhugh, James, S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Refrigerator
Patent for a refrigerator. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 28, 1908
Creator:
Frank, Gustav
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Measuring Apparatus.
Patent for an improved measuring apparatus. This apparatus improves the measuring of dry goods through a measuring tape that is affixed to the measured goods. The invention allows for goods to be cut to exact lengths.
Date:
January 28, 1919
Creator:
Garrett, Thomas B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nursing Bottle.
Patent for a new and improved nursing bottle. This design consists in "[t]he combined breast-pump, feeding-tube, nursing-bottle, and nipple-shield, comprising the bottle, the stopper having the openings, the tube, the plug, the flexible tube, and the nipple-shield having the nozzle adapted to be inserted in[to the] opening and attached to the flexible tube" (lines 6-12).
Date:
January 28, 1890
Creator:
Graves, Henry North
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Roll-Holder
Patent for roll holder for cotton rolls or bandages. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 28, 1913
Creator:
Griswold, John Lee Roy
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dental Occluding Frame
Patent for Dental Occluding Frame
Date:
January 28, 1914
Creator:
Hall, Rupert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Scraper.
Patent for a scraper with interchangeable blades, which can be used "for glue joints, and... scraping molded surfaces" (lines 25-26) that includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 28, 1919
Creator:
Hartmann, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harrow.
Patent for a riding harrow, which can have its teeth lifted up and out of operation.
Date:
January 28, 1908
Creator:
Hosford, Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Boring-Drill.
Patent for improvements in rotary boring drills. The invention provides a fluted drill collar for a drill bit designed to "break up the rock and other material tending to wedge in around the upper part of the head" (lines 19-21). The drill collar forms "a connection between the main rotary drill shaft and the drill bit" (lines 13-15).
Date:
January 28, 1919
Creator:
Hughes, Howard R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Repeating Railroad-Signal.
Patent for an automatic repeating railroad-signal designed to be used with semaphore and other train-signaling apparatus. It eliminates mistakes made in notifying the central office and automatically reports "any change in the position or color of the signal to a central office over the ordinary telegraph-wire" (lines 14-16). The signal is a wheel that operates a key to send a message to the central office.
Date:
January 28, 1896
Creator:
Innes, Robert Hayward
System:
The Portal to Texas History