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Beer Tapping Apparatus.
Patent for a new and improved beer tap. This design calls for the air pipe to go within the beer tapping pipe and for a pump to supply the air pipe with air. This eliminates the need of a rubber nipple to connect the air pipe, easily cleans the pipe coil, and allows for the tapping of the keg from without the icebox.
Date:
February 2, 1897
Creator:
Haenig, Emil
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Construction of Privy-Vaults and Apparatus for Use Therewith.
Patent for "a new and useful Improvements in the Construction of Privy-Vaults and Apparatus for Use Therewith"(lines 4-6)" to insure cleanliness in around privy-vaults and to prevent accumulations therein, especially in localities where water is not easily available"(lines 9-12), instructions and illustrations included.
Date:
February 2, 1886
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[a] car-coupling link having a slotted spring-head adapted to hold the link in a draw-head by frictional contact therewith, and arranged and adapted to permit a coupling-pin to pass through the slots in the said link and its spring-head" (lines 48-53).
Date:
February 4, 1890
Creator:
Thompson, James Alfred M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Box for Washing Gravel, &c.
Patent for washing gravel and other material for making concrete.
Date:
February 28, 1888
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Construction of Privy-Vaults.
Patent for an improvement of privy-vaults using a soil-pipe with sleeve adapted to be connected with the trap-door of the vault-floor into an air-chamber where a ventilating-pipe is placed directly above a furnace; the noxious gases along with the products of combustion in the furnace would be drawn from the air-chamber and carried off to the outer air. Illustration is included.
Date:
February 3, 1891
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Truck.
Patent for a new and improved car-truck. This design "consists in providing the lateral guide-wheels with long axles which are inclined at an angle of about forty-five degrees to the ordinary truck-wheels, and in providing the bolsters of the truck with a central opening, and otherwise constructing the same with a view to attachment of such inclined axles" (lines 17-24).
Date:
February 22, 1881
Creator:
Beaumont, Franklin, Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for a new ratchet-wrench with "improved construction and combination of parts" (lines 26-27), including illustrations.
Date:
February 2, 1886
Creator:
Rettberg, Ernest Frederick & Ellis, Charles Carroll
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Press.
Patent for a new and improved press. This design "consists in compressing-rollers placed in suitable bearings, so as to coincide with an inlet-channel which receives and guides the fibrous substance to be baled into the baling-box of a press after the compressing-rollers have given it a preparatory pressing" (lines 10-16).
Date:
February 9, 1886
Creator:
Holmgreen, Julius H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Faucet and Attachments Therefor.
Patent for "an improved faucet, and attachment, for use in drawing beer, or any other liquid with which it is desirable to prevent the contact of air within the keg." (Lines 8-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 19, 1895
Creator:
Wright, Joseph Earl & Grover, Edwin A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Single-Seed Planter.
Patent for a single-seed planter using “grasping-jaws pass through the seed box …to gather a seed and carry it to the discharge tube or place of deposit" (lines 9-12), illustration is included.
Date:
February 3, 1891
Creator:
Hurd, Judson B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Safety Oil-Can
Patent for a safety oil can. There are two items that are described in the figures. The first is intended to "prevent the contents of the can from becoming inflamed" and the second is to "provide a can from which oil may be poured into a blazing fire without danger from lighting and exploding the oil" (p. 6).
Date:
February 23, 1886
Creator:
Steeneken, Diedrich
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horse-Detaching Device.
Patent for a horse-detaching device that attaches to the forward axle of a vehicle. The invention will not affect the seating capacity of the vehicle, and can be used to release the thills of the vehicle quickly if the driver loses control of the horse. The device can be used to guide the vehicle after the horse is released.
Date:
February 4, 1896
Creator:
Friedlander, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Advertising Street Car Sign
Patent for an advertisement sign located on the top of street cars. Illustration included.
Date:
February 11, 1908
Creator:
King, Alphonse
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane
Patent for an aeroplane. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 11, 1913
Creator:
Goodrich, Luman L., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bottle - Stopper.
Patent for a new and useful bottle-stopper. This design is to "improve the construction of bottle-stoppers and to enable a metallic sealing-cap to be readily removed from the neck of a bottle without the use of an instrument" (line 11 - 14).
Date:
February 15, 1898
Creator:
Neuendorff, John B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Pump
Patent for an automobile pump. This invention is designed for quick mounting and dismounting in order to lift an automobile to remove its tires. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 22, 1910
Creator:
Goeth, Richard Anton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Brake
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Car-Brakes" (lines 6-7) relating to a railroad brake operating mechanism, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 6, 1912
Creator:
Klasing, Augustus Frederick
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive-Pilot Coupling
Patent for new and useful improvements in locomotive-pilot couplings (lines 5-6), including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
February 8, 1900
Creator:
Butcher, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wave-Motor
Patent for a wave motor for vehicles that travel on water. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 4, 1913
Creator:
Stribling, Samuel L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Key.
Patent for a key, which can be produced in quantity but without any of them being able to open the same door.
Date:
February 4, 1908
Creator:
Katzenberger, Oscar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock
Patent for a lock. This invention is a design of door lock that uses a key and combination. Illustration included.
Date:
February 12, 1907
Creator:
Katzenberger, Oscar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock.
Patent for a new and useful combination lock designed for safe.
Date:
February 15, 1898
Creator:
Wise, Harry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tool.
Patent for a new and improved tool for "various uses, being especially adapted as a clamp, vise, brace or drill-stock, or wrench" (line 9 -10).
Date:
February 15, 1898
Creator:
Poor, Morrill Hart
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Milk Cooler
Patent for a milk cooler. Illustration included.
Date:
February 8, 1910
Creator:
McNeel, James S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History