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Air-Brake
Patent for an air brake for trains that reduces jerking when the brakes are applied.
Date:
February 6, 1912
Creator:
Mead, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive Driving-Box
Patent for a locomotive driving box which provides shoes, wedges, and other train parts for repair. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 30, 1912
Creator:
Walsh, Frank A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grain-Doors for Railroad-Cars.
Patent for the grain doors that will improve better access through the use of double doors.
Date:
May 7, 1912
Creator:
Loe, James T. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ever-Level Table.
Patent for tables designed for trains or ships where it is important for maintaining the table top constantly level. It allows for the top to be held constantly level and for maintaining its position without sudden movement or causing overbalancing.
Date:
July 4, 1911
Creator:
Etheridge, Thomas H., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail Fastening
Patent for a rail fastening device that does not require spikes. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 14, 1913
Creator:
Hellner, Peter Herm
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Hammer.
Patent for an electric hammer operated by magnetic pull.
Date:
February 14, 1911
Creator:
Smith, Reuben S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for a baling press that has an improved plunger.
Date:
September 26, 1911
Creator:
Hightower, William M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Monkey-Wrench.
Patent for a wrench, which can be used as a S wrench or a monkey wrench and is durable.
Date:
March 22, 1910
Creator:
Post, Parley C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Headlight for Automobiles
Patent for a headlight for automobiles that turns with the steering rod.
Date:
April 23, 1912
Creator:
McKiel, James B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Headlight.
Patent for a headlight that turns with a cars body and will not accidentally turn from bumps.
Date:
July 4, 1911
Creator:
Bell, Robert A. & McKiel, James B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compressor.
Patent for a refrigerating machine compressor, which compresses more gas, cools the compressor with the incoming gas, and uses excess heat to dry the gas coming in.
Date:
April 19, 1910
Creator:
Mayhew, John Daugherty
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Connector for Lamps
Patent for a connector for headlights that allows them to turn and to be operated from one location in the car.
Date:
April 30, 1912
Creator:
McKiel, James B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hoe.
Patent for a new and improved garden hoe used for weeding purposes. The improvement is related to, "...the handle of the implement being hollow" (lines 11-12) and able to receive a quantity of seed, and a mechanism that controls the delivery of seed to the hoe.
Date:
May 6, 1913
Creator:
Etheridge, John B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Peanut Picker and Pea Huller.
Patent for a new and improved Peanut Picker and Pea Huller, which picks peanuts from the vines and removes them without damaging the peanuts through beating or flailing. The invention also operates at a minimum amount of power while discharging the peanuts or peas free of dust.
Date:
May 13, 1913
Creator:
Berry, William C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Angle Cock Device
Patent for "stop cocks for controlling the flow of fluids and more particularly to what are known as angle cocks for use in train pipes of air brake and other fluid pressure systems upon railway cars" (lines 8-13) including illustrations.
Date:
March 9, 1915
Creator:
Ellwood, Thomas B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve Mechanism For Steam Engines
Patent for useful improvements to the valve mechanism for steam engines. The invention allows an improved means for actuating the slide valve without the use of eccentrics. The valve can also be operated into closed positions at various degrees, and also to reverse the direction of travel of the valve.
Date:
June 9, 1914
Creator:
Wright, Ed W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type-Writer Attachment.
Patent for a typewriter attachment that shifts the carriage by foot rather than by hand.
Date:
August 15, 1916
Creator:
Ward, Mizell Benjamin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grate
Patent for grate that are applied to the fire box of a boiler.
Date:
January 30, 1917
Creator:
Brown, Sidney E. & Kain, Harry C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Expansion Reamer
Patent for expansion reamer provides scope for a better and improved expansion reamer.
Date:
September 7, 1915
Creator:
Scheuber, William F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Side Frame for Railroad Trucks
Patent for side frame for railroad trucks to prevent the accidental detachment of the binder or tie bar.
Date:
December 22, 1914
Creator:
Horton, James M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harness-Collar.
Patent for harness collars for horses and mules. This harness collar "is to provide a collar having adjustable fastening mean which preferably are also adjustable as between themselves whereby a better adjustment of the collar is made possible" (lines 22-27)
Date:
January 2, 1917
Creator:
Mahone, Edwin W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric-Heated Steering-Wheel.
Patent for a steering wheel with an electrical heating unit for an automobile.
Date:
December 30, 1913
Creator:
Smith, Reuben S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draft-Gear for Railway Cars
Patent for a draft gear for railway cars that allows a simple and efficient means of repairs or substitutions of sills or beams that may be done without dissociating the draft bar so that a car may not be out of commission for a considerable length of time.
Date:
August 17, 1915
Creator:
Moorman, James M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Pilot.
Patent for Improvements in Adjustable Pilot for locomotives
Date:
November 11, 1913
Creator:
Sledge, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History