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Fire-Extinguishing Apparatus.
Patent for a fire-extinguishing apparatus designed for use in gin-mills, saw-mills, factories, and other buildings. The operator can quickly turn on a stream of water and extinguish the flames. The apparatus is a valved supply-pipe connected to a boiler, branch pipes extend from the supply-pipe, and discharge nozzles are connected and are flexible.
Date:
March 24, 1896
Creator:
Driver, Elias K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Expansion-Cultivator.
Patent for cultivators "which can be readily expanded or contracted to adapt the device to the distance apart of the rows to be cultivated or to cover a tract or greater or less breadth." (Lines 10-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 9, 1897
Creator:
Moore, William M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Stock-Cutter.
Patent for an improved rotary stock cutters "adapted for use as matcher heads, ship lap heads, and ogee bats" (lines 11-12). It has two disks with several curved blades sticking out from each disk.
Date:
February 28, 1893
Creator:
Hardee, Isaiah
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for "adjustable means by which the handles of the cultivator may be readily adjusted lengthwise relatively to the position of the tooth-bar when it is arranged diagonally to the beam," and "to remove the operator from possible contact with the dirt thrown by the rearmost teeth of the tooth-bar when it is arranged diagonally to the beam." (Lines 30-39) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 20, 1897
Creator:
Benfield, Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Balanced Valve
Patent for a balanced valve for a steam powered sawmill.
Date:
March 3, 1908
Creator:
Rigsby, Lewis J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Checking Runaway Horses.
Patent for a new and useful apparatus for checking runaway horses, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 30, 1898
Creator:
Singleton, James M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Advertising-Shield for Vehicle-Wheels
Patent for a shield for vehicle wheels that can be used for advertising.
Date:
March 4, 1913
Creator:
Blackshear, Robert King
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ash Pan
Patent for an ash pan. Illustration included.
Date:
August 14, 1906
Creator:
Byar, Ernest & Clopton, Mortimer L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Log Turner]
Patent for a log turner. This "invention relates to an improvement in nigger-bars used in connection with steam-cylinders to turn the logs on sawmill-carriages" (line 8-11). Illustration included.
Date:
December 22, 1903
Creator:
Edwards, Daniel R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle
Patent for a vehicle used as a truck or bolster. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 5, 1910
Creator:
Martin, W. Daniel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pressure-Regulator
Patent for a Pressure-Regulator, which is a device for "automatically regulating the pressure of steam, compressed air, or other gases while passing through a conduit" (lines 8-10).
Date:
October 24, 1905
Creator:
Moffett, James D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soda-Tank for Dipping Lumber
Patent for an apparatus which contains a tank of soda in which yellow pine lumber is dipped to prevent blue stain. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 12, 1911
Creator:
Trout, Walter Charles & Trout, William Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hitching Device
Patent for a hitching device
Date:
February 6, 1912
Creator:
McClendon, James T. & McClendon, Fred H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire-Escape
Patent for a flexible chute that attaches to the window frame. The chute uses hinges or a pivot so it can be moved out of the way when not is use.
Date:
March 9, 1909
Creator:
Woods, Murray
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drive Gear-Wheel
Patent for drive gear wheel to be used for locomotives. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 5, 1910
Creator:
Jones, James Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dipping-Tank for Lumber
Patent for a dipping tank for lumber for applying soda dips to lumber at sawmills.
Date:
February 11, 1913
Creator:
Trout, Walter C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Derailing Device.
Patent for a "portable derailing device" (line 13) including illustrations.
Date:
January 17, 1911
Creator:
Martin, Daniel W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bridle Rod
Patent for a bridle rod that will be longitudinally adjustable for taking up the space that would be likely to occur between the switch points and the rails so that both of the switch points will, when the switch is operated, move to the proper position for presenting a smooth and even surface for the wheel flange of the railway rolling stock when the same pass over the switch.
Date:
July 17, 1917
Creator:
Mc Robertson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Radius-Rod.
Patent for radius rod which will hold more effectively the front axle in alignment for steering purposes. This rod will not cause damage to the crank case, motor, or other connecting parts.
Date:
June 19, 1917
Creator:
Harpst, Frederick E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Replacer
Patent for a railway car replacer, which is used to derail vehicles as well as for, "restoring derailed railway vehicles to the track."
Date:
April 6, 1915
Creator:
Martin, Daniel W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Brake Apparatus.
Patent for an improvement to the air brake which includes new types of valves.
Date:
April 14, 1914
Creator:
Parker, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washboard
Patent for washboard that "is made for automatically moving, step by step, a cake of soap inclosed in a housing" (lines 9-11) against the cloths being washed and is "operated by the pressure exerted through the rubbing action upon a rubbing board associated with the device" (lines 22-24).
Date:
December 5, 1916
Creator:
Durden, Perrey Milton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Timber-Hook.
Patent for an improved timber hook that is capable of automatically adjusting itself "according to the various lengths of logs" (lines 18-19).
Date:
May 26, 1914
Creator:
Martin, Daniel W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Relief Valve and System for Motor or Other Driven Pumps.
Patent for "a new and useful Relief Valve and System for Motor or other Driven Pumps" (lines 5-7) as well as illustrations.
Date:
July 7, 1914
Creator:
Johnson, George Walter
System:
The Portal to Texas History