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Automobile-Alarm.
Patent for a device to prevent the theft of automobiles capable of producing audio and visual signals as warnings of unauthorized access.
Date:
April 22, 1919
Creator:
Smith, Thomas H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Derailer
This is a patent for a railway Derailer. This new derailer is less expensive, easier to manufacture, and will be an improvement over older models. For example, it is easier to attach to the rail track and more efficient at stopping railroad collisions.
Date:
April 22, 1919
Creator:
Gravis, James. C
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fluid- Dispensing Control
Patent for the improvement of fluid dispensing controls. The invention provides a more efficient way to discharge fluid from a storage container by using compressed air, and valve arrangement.
Date:
April 22, 1919
Creator:
Catron, John J
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Reproducing Device for Graphophones.
Patent for a reproducing device for graphophones improving the objects that transmit sound to the horn or like element and provide a new means to mount the tone arm. It further improves the means for mounting the needle on the device.
Date:
April 22, 1919
Creator:
Adams, Henry Rolland
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Submarine Telescope.
Patent for submarine telescope using a pair of longitudinal tubes, mounted lens, rigid rods, electric light bulb, and chains for securing to the boat. Intended as useful improvements to submarine telescopes with the objection to assist in locating submerged objects. Accompanied with illustrations.
Date:
April 22, 1919
Creator:
Armstrong, William S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Winch Attachment
Patent for an improved automobile winch attachment.
Date:
April 22, 1919
Creator:
Bush, E. E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Car-Dump
Patent for automatic dumpers that can be readily and inexpensively fitted and adapted to most forms of dump car.
Date:
April 22, 1913
Creator:
Putnam, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin
Patent for new and useful improvement to clothes pins to automatically lock themselves against accidental disengagement from the clothes line.
Date:
April 22, 1913
Creator:
Ingersoll, Charles J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-chopper.
Patent for a cotton chopper. The text describes the construction of the machine and explains how it is different from current cotton choppers.
Date:
April 22, 1913
Creator:
Forrest, Bedford W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a cotton chopper that connects to other machines, such as cultivators.
Date:
April 22, 1913
Creator:
Jones, Martin A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crate
Patent for improvements for shipping crates, including illustrations.
Date:
April 22, 1913
Creator:
Dick, Archie P., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Culvert.
Patent for metal road culvert improvements. Light weight, but sturdy, interlocking metal sheets are used. They can be stacked for cheaper and easier shipping. The culvert allows large amounts of water to flow through.
Date:
April 22, 1913
Creator:
Youngblood, David Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner.
Patent for "a new and useful Hydrocarbon-burner...equipped with a safety device adapted to admit only a limited supply of gasolene or other fuel to the burner to enable the latter to be operated with absolute safety by either a woman or a child" (lines 5-19), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 22, 1913
Creator:
Nemec, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Listing-Plow.
Patent for a listing plow, "more particularly an improvement upon the structure disclosed in Patent No. 866,679, issued to [Gottfried Persson] on September 24, 1907" (lines 9-11), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 22, 1913
Creator:
Persson, Gottfrid
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Non-refillable bottle
This is a patent for non-refillable bottle and it is made to provide a simple efficient device which can be cheaply constructed and which can effectually prevent from the refilling of the bottle after the original contents have been dispersed.
Date:
May 8, 1912
Creator:
Bentinck, Grover C. & Bentinck, Henry W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sanitary Drain-pan for Refrigerators.
Patent for a sanitary drain pan for refrigerators, specifically pertaining to sliced meats. The text explains the benefits of the new drain pan and its components.
Date:
April 22, 1913
Creator:
Schmalzried, John F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saw-Filing Machine.
Patent for a saw-filing machine that automatically sharpens the teeth of gin and linter saws.
Date:
April 22, 1913
Creator:
Ross, Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tie-Plate.
Patent for Tie-Plate, which is an improvement on rail ties for railroad use. The Tie-Plate is a "single piece of material", providing a "rail supporting surface" (pg. 2, lines 13-17). Ribbing in the plate, allow for adjustable height to support the rails and a seat for the spikes.
Date:
April 22, 1913
Creator:
Clarke, Marcus S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type-Writer Cabinet.
Patent for a typewriter cabinet with swinging typewriter support held in position by foot pressure.
Date:
April 22, 1913
Creator:
Keltz, Eugene L. & Rhoads, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for an improved bailing-press.
Date:
April 22, 1902
Creator:
Atkinson, Joseph J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for baling-presses to prevent the inward-drawing or centripetal movement of the fiber in a press of the roller type (lines 96-97) by “disposed intermediate of the rollers and within the plane of the baling-cylinder for opposing resistance to the inward movement of the fiber and overcoming to a greater or less extent the tendency of the upper layer of cotton to form waves or billows in advance of the rollers.” (Page 1, lines 101-102, page 2, lines 1-6.) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 22, 1902
Creator:
Atkinson, Joseph J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bit for Well-Drilling Apparatus.
Patent for a rotary expansion bit for use with well-drilling apparatuses. The bit can be adjusted without removing the well tubing, and can drill a hole large than the tubing in order to insert casing sections.
Date:
April 22, 1902
Creator:
Sloan, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Check-Line Buckle.
Patent for "...a novel means for connecting a check-line to the main line..." (lines 11-12) including illustrations.
Date:
April 22, 1902
Creator:
Snell, David C. F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cigar-Cutter and Match-Safe.
Patent for a match-safe and cigar-cutter “receptacle for holding matches from which only one match can be taken at one time and to means for shifting the matches and at the same time cutting a cigar-tip.” (Lines 7-11) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 22, 1902
Creator:
Taylor, James P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History