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Combination Well-Packer and Setting-Tool.
Patent for a well packer and setting tool for the prevention of intermingling between oil and water in a well when used by itself or with other pipes. The invention allows for the packer to be set using the setting tool which can then be removed once the packer is in place.
Date:
January 6, 1920
Creator:
Abercrombie, Jamie & Dunman, Nesbit M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Breakwater.
Patent for improving seawalls to "preserve channels across the bars at the mouths of rivers, creeks, or canals and between bays and gulfs" (lines 6-8), including illustration.
Date:
June 7, 1859
Creator:
Armour, D. Hillen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Two-Piece Box.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in two piece boxes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 28, 1899
Creator:
Armstrong, Martin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Fusing Sulfer from Low Grade Ores
Patent for the Apparatus for Fusing Sulfer from Low Grade Ores. This machine makes the extraction of sulfur from ores containing less than 20% sulfur, while also removing the impurities.
Date:
September 16, 1919
Creator:
Austin, Paul P. Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump.
Patent for rotary pump designed to counterbalance thrust at each step by a "series of lifting-wheels mounted upon a common shaft" (lines 10-11) in order to minimize wheel thrust.
Date:
October 22, 1901
Creator:
Baker, Josheph W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for Sugar Cane Hook.
Patent for a sugar cane hook that provides a pair of outwardly-branching and downwardly and inwardly curved hooks.
Date:
July 27, 1897
Creator:
Beall, George Ashcom
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Burner.
Patent for oil burners that is designed specifically for burning crude fuel oil that also has improved construction that centers the spray head with the burner head.
Date:
September 7, 1920
Creator:
Booker, William B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Core-Discharge Apparatus.
Patent for an Improvement in Core-Discharge Apparatus. It is meant to be used in connection with core drills in well or mine drilling. This improvement is meant to be carried to the surface by an air-lift pump.
Date:
October 1, 1918
Creator:
Carhichael, Robert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Boring Drill
Patent for a rotary boring drill to be used in mining and drilling.
Date:
March 4, 1919
Creator:
Carmichael, R. E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Sulfur Mining
Patent for "new and useful improvement" for sulfur mining by Mr. Robert Carmichael. This device has particular application for mining in subterranean environments, "by use of pumping a heated fluid down into contact with a sulfur strata" (lines 14-15).
Date:
December 9, 1919
Creator:
Carmichael, Robert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Means for Preventing Clogging of the Working Barrels of Pumps.
Patent for an apparatus that prevents the clogging of the working barrels of pumps.
Date:
November 13, 1917
Creator:
Carmichael, Robert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Means for Reducing Wear in the Working Barrels of Pumps
Patent for a means of reducing wear in the working barrels of pumps. The pumps made in this wat are specially adapted for operations in water or oil wells where the fluid being pumped is is mixed with sand and sediment.
Date:
March 4, 1919
Creator:
Carmichael, Robert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of and Apparatus for Sulphur Mining
Patent for a methodology and mechanical structure for the mining of sulfur using extendable concentric cylindrical tubes.
Date:
July 8, 1919
Creator:
Carmichael, Robert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of Sampling.
Patent for improving methods of boring wells by "raising the cuttings from an earth boring drill to the surface" (lines 70-71), including illustrations.
Date:
July 20, 1920
Creator:
Carmichael, Robert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe-Cutter
Patent for a pipe cutter used while said pipe is in use.
Date:
April 28, 1919
Creator:
Carmichael, Robert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe-Wrench.
Patent for the improvement of pipe wrenches necessary for use in well drilling or other circumstances where a wrench of strong construction is needed. This patent provides for a pipe wrench that can be easily adjusted to fit pipes of differing sizes and is easily manipulated for use regardless of direction.
Date:
December 9, 1919
Creator:
Carmichael, Robert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump.
Patent for a new and improved design for pumps as they are used in deep wells. New design meant to prevent sand from entering machine between the working barrel and plunger.
Date:
February 1, 1919
Creator:
Carmichael, Robert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sulfur-Mining
Patent for improvement on sulfur mining by which "sulfur is fused by a heated fluid forced down into the well to the vicinity of the sulfur deposit and when so fused the sulfur is forced to the surface of the ground through a return pipe" (lines 14-18).
Date:
December 17, 1918
Creator:
Carmichael, Robert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sulphur-Mining Apparatus.
Patent for a thermal solvent based sulfur mining apparatus that is placed in a sulfur mining well. Utilizing thermodynamics, the apparatus has a new way to introduce air or steam into the various parts of the apparatus. It is designed with "simplicity and durability of construction" (lines 49-50).
Date:
December 17, 1918
Creator:
Carmichael, Robert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sample-Taking Device
Patent for a sample taking device "for use in preserving the log of the well in drilling operations in earth, rock or other similar formations." (lines 12-14). Specially adapted for use in drilling wells for oil and sulfur, specifically in the Gulf Coast region.
Date:
December 9, 1919
Creator:
Carmichael, Robert E. & Hamman, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insecticide
Patent for an insecticide specifically for insects that burrow into the shucks of corn. "The general object of my invention is to provide a compound capable, when affected by moisture incidental to the sweating of the corn in the crib, of generating a poisonous gas which will permeate the shucks and reach and destroy the insect within the shucks, where it cannot be destroyed by simply sprinkling the corn with a poisonous powder or solution" (lines 17-25).
Date:
September 13, 1892
Creator:
Carter, Joseph John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Clothes-Pounder.
Design patent for a clothes-pounder that consists of a hollow conical body provided at an immediate point with a downwardly-dished diaphragm.
Date:
September 27, 1898
Creator:
Crooker, Heman D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hanging Millstones.
Patent for improvement of hanging millstones using a driver to hang the runner of a pair of millstones, “as it rotates, adjust itself to the position of the stationary stone, and the parallelism of the faces of the two stones be preserved whether the stationary one be perfectly horizontal or not” (lines 19-24), including illustration.
Date:
May 29, 1860
Creator:
Dance, G. P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adhesive and Method of Making the Same
Patent for starch used for paper that can act as an adhesive coating. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 18, 1913
Creator:
Dunham, Andrew A. & Dunham, Henry V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History