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Vehicle-Wheel.
Patent for improving a tire by providing new form of tread-holding device and using a resilient metal band encircling the tire.
Date:
March 11, 1919
Creator:
Allan, William N.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Clamping and Nailing Boards.
Patent for a "machine whereby boards for floors, ceiling or sheathing may be forced into place and into contact with previously nailed boards without damage and held clamped into position until nails can be driven into the boards and into the joints" (lines 29-34), with illustrations.
Date:
April 11, 1916
Creator:
Binger, Nickolaus
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Two Wheeled Vehicle.
Patent for a new and improved vehicle. This design "is to provide a vehicle in which a person can ride over rough ground without serious inconvenience or discomfort incident to travel over such roads. . . . [and] to so construct a gig that a person can get into the same without serious inconvenience, and to this end it is made low, the rear of the shafts being extended in line with the axle and the step secured to the shaft and extending somewhat below it. . . . [and] to provide a gig with springs that will work in two directions—laterally and vertically" (lines 20-34).
Date:
May 11, 1886
Creator:
Buckel, Charles
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Stalk-Pullers.
Patent for an "improved machine designed especially for pulling cotton-stalks, but which may be used with advantage for pulling other stalks, weeds, &c., and which shall be so constructed as to clear itself of the stalks as they are pulled" (para. 4).
Date:
April 11, 1876
Creator:
Butler, George W. & O'Connell, Timothy P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clock.
Patent for an improved alarm clock with two different alarms that sound at desired time set and when the clock is unwound, including illustrations.
Date:
April 11, 1916
Creator:
Buttigieg, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lawn-Trimming Machine
Patent for a lawn-trimming machine designed to trim the edges of lawns or other grass plots. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 11, 1907
Creator:
Cady, John P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Tooth.
Patent for a new and useful artificial tooth for "supplying missing teeth or crowning roots" (line 10 -11).
Date:
January 11, 1898
Creator:
Carroll, Houston Monroe
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Imporvement in Combined Spades and Hoes.
Patent for a new combination/convertible spade and hoe design with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 11, 1874
Creator:
Cassiano, I. Ygnacio
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Signal.
Patent for an improved signal for a vehicle that is operable by the driver from their seat, to signal whether they are turning, going straight, backing up, or stopping, and can be attached to any vehicle, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 11, 1917
Creator:
Chaffin, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Station Indicator
Patent for an indicator that lets passengers on a train know which street they are passing and which station they are at.
Date:
March 17, 1914
Creator:
Craig, Richard M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dress Stay.
Patent for a new and improved dress-stay. This design "is to avoid the use of paste or stitches in connection with the application of the stay, as well as to provide a stay which may be readily detached and reattached in case it be desired to change the location of the seam in order to make the garment either larger or smaller. To this end the invention consists in a stay-body of steel, whalebone, or some other resilient material inclosed within a suitable casing, and wire fasteners passing through said body, through the outer side of said casing, and through the edges of the seam at either side" (lines 10-23).
Date:
November 11, 1890
Creator:
Dacus, Augusta
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drinking-Cup.
Patent for a collapsible drinking cup for children, whose parts are attached together to prevent loss of parts and which can be hung from the waistband of the child.
Date:
May 11, 1909
Creator:
Dacus, Augusta
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Race-Track
Patent for a dog race track where an artificial animal is chased by the dogs which then disappears underground at the end of its cable.
Date:
February 11, 1913
Creator:
Everett, Percy
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Furniture
Patent for easy assembly and disassembly of cabinet furniture.
Date:
March 11, 1919
Creator:
Giordano, Anthony
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Working Tool.
Patent for wire working tool for attaching couplings to hoses.
Date:
August 11, 1908
Creator:
Glenn, Dan
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane
Patent for an aeroplane. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 11, 1913
Creator:
Goodrich, Luman L., Jr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Station-Indicators.
Patent for improvements in railroad-station indicators to indicate to passengers the next stations and the distances between them.
Date:
October 11, 1875
Creator:
Harris, Pliny H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Two-Row Cotton and Corn Planter.
Patent for cotton and corn planters. The invention is for a two row type planter that allows for planting on "beds" or "listed" land.
Date:
November 11, 1913
Creator:
Henefield, John B. & Henefield, Edward I.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clinical Thermometer.
Patent for a new and improved thermometer. This design has "[u]pon the body of the instrument a scale, preferably equivalent to the centigrade . . . in which the zero-sign is placed at the normal temperature of the body, each degree being divided into five or ten parts according to the size of the instrument and reading supernormal and subnormal degrees" (lines 20-26).
Date:
June 11, 1889
Creator:
Hunstock, Robert H. & Chávez, Emigdio
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Time Switch
Patent for an electric time switch. Illustration included.
Date:
April 11, 1905
Creator:
Jones, Robert D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Watch Protector
Patent for a watch casing that allows the watch face exposed. The protector can be clasped together and hung on a chain if desired.
Date:
May 11, 1915
Creator:
Kaak, Georgine
Object Type:
Patent
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
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Medical Preparation.
Patent for an invention of a powder that is said to aid in curing scurvy. The patent includes a description, instructions, but no illustration(s).
Date:
June 11, 1867
Creator:
Lege, Charles L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for Overalls.
Patent for a design for a pair of overalls that has a lengthened apron over the pant legs. This apron is fastened from its center down to its crotch.
Date:
August 11, 1896
Creator:
Lightner, Charles Eugene
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History