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Arm for Telegraph - Poles.
Patent for a new and useful arm for telegraph poles.
Date:
March 8, 1898
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bottle
Patent for a a nursing bottle employing a jacket designed to hold the parts of the bottle together. Illustration included.
Date:
September 18, 1906
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bottle-Vent
Patent for "an open-sided vent-passage at the neck of the bottle, thus permitting the formation thereof at the time the bottle is blown and rendering the construction more simple and economically produced" (lines 16-20).
Date:
May 28, 1901
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the fork-shaped draw-heads having under-beveled bearings between the branches, the slotted coupler-bars having hook-lugs in front of the slots and adapted to interlock, the side bearings or ledges on each side of each hook-lug, designed to support the sides of the bar and to allow the hook-lugs to enter the slots in coupling" (lines 19-27).
Date:
June 20, 1882
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the draw-head having the downwardly and forwardly inclined floor and the floor slot or opening, of the coupling-bar having a curved or angular lever secured to its rear end and extending first downward through said opening and then under the draw-head" (lines 82-88).
Date:
June 30, 1885
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cylindrical-Bale Cotton-Press.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cylindrical bale cotton presses, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 19, 1899
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Elevated Railway.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in elevated railways, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 6, 1900
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Elevated Railway.
Patent for improvements in elevated railways: "provide simple means for regulating and adjusting the weight of the car so as to throw the preponderence thereof upon either the upper or the lower track or to equally divide the weight so that each track bear a like proportion" (lines 12-17).
Date:
April 10, 1894
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame.
Patent for a new and improved hame. This design "has relation to hames, and more particularly to the means of securing the hames adjustable to each other, and for connecting the usual parts of the harness thereto; and among the objects in view are to provide an easily-manipulated serviceable hame connection that may be adjusted to fit any sized collars, and which may be constructed at a minimum cost" (lines 11-19).
Date:
November 13, 1888
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame.
Patent for a hame that has an improved fastening device that easily secures trace chains or tugs to the harness. It is easily adjustable.
Date:
September 26, 1893
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame.
Patent for a harness-hame and "contemplates the provision of improved means forming a part of the hames for securing the trace-chains thereto; also the provision of an improved trace-link adapted for connection with said securing means in a manner to insure maximum strength" (lines 15-21).
Date:
November 19, 1895
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame Fastener.
Patent for a new and improved hame-fastener. This design "is to provide a fastener . . . which is of simple construction, which can be readily adjusted, and in which all strain is removed from the pivot of the locking-dog, thus obviating any breakage of the pivot, whatever may be the strain" (lines 17-23).
Date:
July 9, 1889
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame Fastener.
Patent for a new and improved hame fastener. This design consists, "with the bar provided with a rack and longitudinal ways, of the housing provided at each end with downwardly and inwardly projecting lugs engaging said ways, and a spring provided with a stop, the link seated in a groove on the housing provided with a finger-hold, and an offset on said link adapted to strike against a projection on the spring for limiting the movement of said link" (lines 64-73).
Date:
May 20, 1890
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame-Fastener.
Patent for a new kind of fastener for draft animal harnesses that is inexpensive and has no springs or buckles. Illustration included.
Date:
November 17, 1891
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame-Fastener.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive hame-fastener that has "two adjustable parts, one of which is provided with hooks to be engaged by means on the other part" (lines 11-13). The invention is adjustable and does not unlock or disengage accidentally but can easily be unlocked on purpose.
Date:
October 15, 1895
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame Lock.
Patent for a new and improved lock for hames. This design "consist[s] of the coupling branches . . . [one] being composed of the two pivoted sections forming the bell-mouth, the section having the slot and spring secured to its opposite end and pressing against the underside of the section, and the branch having the catch-tooth adapted to enter the bell-mouth and engage the slot" (lines 67-75).
Date:
February 9, 1886
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Knockdown Crate
Patent for material improvements to a knockdown crate, including an insertable locking board.
Date:
September 19, 1911
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locking Joints for Railway-Rail Joints.
Patent for a locking device for railway-rail joints. It improves how the meeting rail ends are fastened, and prevents accidental disconnection. It is "a locking fish-plate having keyhole bolt-slots, the narrow portion of the slots having inclined sides, the inclination diminishing gradually toward the end, and double-headed bolts, one of the heads being tapered, whereby the bolt is subjected to a double wedging action" (lines 56-61). A face-plate is perforated and receives the tapered heads and securing-rivets.
Date:
July 21, 1896
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Non-refillable bottle.
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Non-Refillable Bottles" (line 5). "This invention relates to non-refillable bottles, and more particularly to mean sfor admitting air to such bottles, in connection with a valve-stopper for preventing the introduction of liquid into the bottle after the stopper has been placed in position." (lines 9-10)
Date:
January 1, 1901
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nursing-Bottle
Patent for nursing bottle with a removable side wall so the it can be easily cleaned.
Date:
November 25, 1902
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock.
Patent for a new and improved nut lock. This design has, "[i]n combination with a bolt having a cylindrical stem and a head beveled on its inner face, a nut tapped to receive the threaded end of the bolt and prevented from turning" (lines 73-77).
Date:
January 31, 1888
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock.
Patent for a new and improved nut-lock. This design consists in "the plate having the outstanding lugs, the retaining arms pivoted to one of said lugs, the detent between said lugs, and the locking-bolts having the head portion and the corrugated shank" (lines 64-68).
Date:
June 19, 1888
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock.
Patent for a new and improved nut-lock. This design "consist[s] of a strip of metal having the looped portion adapted to embrace the bolt, and having the downwardly-bent spring portion or end forming a biting-edge, the rearwardly-extending straight portion bent upward . . . to form a bearing point or edge, which is also adapted, in conjunction with the edge to grip the fish-plate . . . the forwardly-extending straight spring portion overlapping the straight portion, the inner curved edge of which lies in the path of the edge of the nut when the latter is turned upon the bolt" (lines 76-89).
Date:
January 14, 1890
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint
Patent for improvements in the construction and design of rail-joints.
Date:
May 17, 1887
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History