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Adjustable Handle-Bar for Bicycles.
Patent for adjustable handle bar for bicycles, including illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1897
Creator:
Winfrey, Edgar, M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Door-Saddle.
Patent for new and improved door saddles, which consists "of a longitudinal and cross-grooved arrangement of parts coacting with inclined surfaces and shields to cause a perfect drainage of water" (lines 11-15), including instructions and illustration.
Date:
July 13, 1897
Creator:
Vogel, Thomas.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adding-Machine.
Patent for an inexpensive, simple, easily operated, and improved registering machine that is meant to add numbers without mistakes. It uses revoluble number wheels and a spring-returned shaft among other materials.
Date:
March 21, 1893
Creator:
Brooks, Augustus J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window-Shade Raiser.
Patent for an improved way of raising, lowering, and locking window shades into place. "The operating-cord passes over a pulley located between two larger disks, one of which is screwed toward the other by a spring to clamp the folds of the cord and is screwed in the opposite direction by means of a lever, upon which the chord itself acts when drawn in the proper direction" (lines 14-20).
Date:
April 14, 1896
Creator:
McCauley, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stock Car.
Patent for a new and improved animal stalls in stock cars. This design "has for its object to provide these stalls in such a manner that they can be readily and cheaply applied to and removed from the cars; and it also has for its further object to provide for rendering the stall-partitions laterally yielding or elastic, and yet under such a degree of tension as to withstand or resist the movements of the animals" (lines 11-18).
Date:
April 17, 1883
Creator:
Lewis, Henry A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Extension-Brace for Ladders.
Patent for an extension brace for ladders that improves on the inventor's previous patent (No. 416,413). The invention's parts "are positively raised and lowered by means of direct acting mechanism which is so constructed and arranged as to obtain the most beneficial results from a comparatively small application of power, the parts being strong and durable easily operated and readily understood" (lines 20-26).
Date:
April 11, 1893
Creator:
Crews, Dayton H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad-Tie.
Patent for a "simple and effective railroad tie for supporting the rails and rigidly holding them in the position of use" (lines 19-21).
Date:
January 30, 1894
Creator:
Lee, John Chester
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad-Tie.
Patent for a railroad-tie that improves on a patent granted to John C. Lee (No. 513,792). The improvement that simplifies and makes the tie stronger and uses less materials.
Date:
November 5, 1895
Creator:
Mansfield, Robert Allen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe-Wrench.
Patent for a pipe-wrench that can "be adjusted to fit accurately pipes and rods from the smallest to the largest of those in more common use, that will grip each with almost any desired degree of force and yet will not materially mar or injure it, and that may also be used for ends not usually possible with pipe-wrenches" (lines 12-18).
Date:
October 15, 1895
Creator:
McCauley, John H. & Winfrey, Edgar M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Curtain-Fixture.
Patent for improvements in curtain fixtures "in which the brackets supporting the spring curtain-roller may be raised or lowered to admit light above the curtain." (Lines 13-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 7, 1897
Creator:
Winfrey, Edgar M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Closet
Patent for a dry closet. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 2, 1912
Creator:
Crow, Levi H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Destroying Insects
Patent for an apparatus for destroying insects. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 23, 1911
Creator:
Crow, William M. & Crow, Levi H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Placket - Fastener.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in placket holders.
Date:
February 22, 1898
Creator:
McCauley, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in wire stretchers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 13, 1899
Creator:
Smith, William C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Cleaning Vegetable Fiber
Patent fora machine for cleaning vegetable fiber. Illustration included.
Date:
May 23, 1905
Creator:
McCauley, John H. & Winfrey, Edgar M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drill Wrench
Patent for a wrench for drill pipes used in drilling wells. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 18, 1913
Creator:
Osborne, William Rush & Lebus, George Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel.
Patent for a type of vehicle wheel made of a unique hub, rim, and resilient spokes. The design allows for the hub and spokes to rotate independently of the rim, reducing the need for compensating gearing. This is done by having the spokes frictionally engaged with the rim rather than a rigid, static design.
Date:
December 26, 1911
Creator:
Bartle, John N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stopper.
Patent for improvement in stoppers by “combining a stopper and funnel adapted to be used for pouring liquids from one vessel to another without wasting, provision being made for pouring the liquid into a large vessel or into a small vessel, and when the stopper is not in use it may be closed for the purpose of preventing leakage and evaporation.” (Lines 12-19) Illustration is included.
Date:
January 1, 1901
Creator:
Hyer, William D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Making Lubricants.
Patent for "an improved process for making a lubricant especially adapted for parts of moving machinery which will be efficient to keep said parts and their bearings cool and which may also be used to cool heated journals and bearings" (lines 11-16).
Date:
March 26, 1901
Creator:
Hudnall, Millard Stewart
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a plow, by John W. Hudson. This plow has a beam that can be adjusted to carry different sizes of plows. Beam is designed to help equalize resistance between the two sides of the beam.
Date:
July 3, 1906
Creator:
Hudson, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Farm wagon Scale
Patent for a farm wagon scale. Illustration included.
Date:
June 13, 1911
Creator:
Graves, Henry Lewis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Strap Fastener
Patent for a strap fastener to be used for clamping devices such as harnesses, saddles, reins, and tie-straps. Illustration included.
Date:
February 22, 1910
Creator:
Carlson, Frank A. & Rhodes, L. D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Screw-Driver
Patent for a screwdriver. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 29, 1908
Creator:
Winfrey, Edgar M. & Lilins, Thomas W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway Tie
Patent for a metallic cross ties. This tie is an improvement on previous metallic rail-ties. Illustration included.
Date:
September 19, 1905
Creator:
Field, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History