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Convertible Mixing and Cleaning Machine
Patent for Convertible Mixing and Cleaning Machine offers information about the significance of mixing ingredient benefits. The mixing and cleaning machine ease the process for everyday living.
Date:
October 2, 1906
Creator:
Stacy, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Rack for Railway-Cars.
Patent for improvements on racks in railway-cars including more storage for smaller items, an adjustable rack for children or elderly persons to be able to reach without needing to stand on the car seat, a titled hinge that allows a rack to be pulled for ward and pushed back, and other improvements.
Date:
August 2, 1898
Creator:
Butler, Michael
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cement-Block Mold.
Patent for a cement block molding machine, which can produce many blocks in a short amount of time.
Date:
August 2, 1910
Creator:
Jordan, James T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Copy Holder.
Patent for a new and improved copy-holder. This design "is [for] an improved copy-holder intended especially for holding deeds when being transcribed to the records, and seeks to provide a simple, inexpensive construction by which the deed may be held and to and from which the deed or other paper may be adjusted without difficulty, such construction serving also to mark or indicate the particular line of the paper being copied" (lines 7-15).
Date:
August 2, 1887
Creator:
Adair, Irvine James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling and Cleaning Seed-Cotton.
Patent for improvements in apparatus for handling and cleaning seed-cotton by “conveying cotton through a pneumatic tube and for automatically delivering therefrom to each of a series of gins an amount of cleaned cotton graduated at all times to the need of each gin. The flow of the main current in the tube is not interrupted by the several subtractions.” (Lines 17-23) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 2, 1891
Creator:
Elam, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Boll Separator.
Patent for "cotton boll threshing machines." "Obejct of the inventions is provide means for crushing, agitating, and opening the dry cotton bolls and removing the fiber of seed cotton,,, without breaking the fiber and lowering the grade of the staple."
Date:
March 2, 1915
Creator:
Patterson, Warren A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Stop Device for Printing-Presses.
Patent for improvements to safety devices (springs, belt shift levers, guide members, rock shafts) that can be attached to a printing press to create automatic stops. These safety devices can be used to address possible accidents or emergencies by fastening down on a specific section of a printing press.
Date:
March 2, 1915
Creator:
Brown, John Walter R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ash-Sieve.
Patent for a new ash sieve for a home oven.
Date:
November 2, 1918
Creator:
Steindorf, Michael C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window Shade Guide.
Patent for window shade roller guides. This invention ensured a smooth and successful unrolling of the window shade, allowing the shade to be guided by a two-part attachment on the sides of the window shade spool. The inventor claimed that the use of this apparatus could preserve the integrity of the roller by minimizing damage during operation.
Date:
December 2, 1919
Creator:
Orr, James E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for a pipe wrench that is is strong but does not crush the pipe and eliminates the need for other specialized tools to perform work on pipes.
Date:
April 2, 1907
Creator:
Lavier, Thomas H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement to Elevator Signal Systems
Patent for an improvement to an elevator in which “to provide an elevator signal system that will permit a party at any landing to indicate his desire to go up or down to the elevator operator by pressing one of two buttons” (lines 10-15). Instructions and illustration included.
Date:
February 2, 1915
Creator:
Johnson, Charles S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Top.
Patent for a new and improved vehicle roof. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the rabbeted vehicle-top-supporting bows, of strips mounted in said rabbets and provided with overlapping upper ends, curtain-supporting frames, and clips carried by said frames and arranged to engage the overlapping strips" (lines 92-97).
Date:
August 2, 1887
Creator:
McCurdy, Thomas B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Kitchen Cabinet
Patent for a kitchen cabinet. This invention is equipped with compartments and bins that distribute granular substances via cut-off valves. Illustration included.
Date:
June 2, 1908
Creator:
Curtice, William H. & Rosser, Virgil O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Type-Writer Attachment
Patent for a type writer attachment that counts the number of words in a line and sounds a signal when a preset number of words on a line is reached.
Date:
July 2, 1912
Creator:
Walker, Jack L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trousers.
Patent for a trouser pattern, "to so construct a pair of trousers that the waist portion thereof may be readily manipulated in order that the trousers may be easily converted from a stock size into a pair of trousers having a high waist band, a low waist band or a waist band at a line between high and low" (lines 12-19).
Date:
September 2, 1913
Creator:
Ludwig, John. A. & Moses, Jacob B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Interlocking Tile.
Patent for interlocking tiles that obviate a continuous transverse mortar joint so that all liability of moisture passing through the wall is eliminated and a more substantial wall built.
Date:
October 2, 1917
Creator:
Waddell, Clarence W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Kitchen-Cabinet.
Patent for a kitchen cabinet, which is compact but has many features such as a built in sifting system from the glass fronted dry ingredient drawers, a sink, fold out counter space, and slide-out bottom drawers.
Date:
February 2, 1909
Creator:
Ridley, Richard W. & Clark, Andrew R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements to Storage House Aerating System
Patent for improvements to storage house aeration systems for agriculture and the storage of vegetables.
Date:
February 2, 1920
Creator:
Vaughan, Robert B. & Love, Ralph M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Apparatus for Collecting and Handling Lint
Patent for improvements in apparatus for collecting and handling lint. This apparatus will more thoroughly collect and handle lint so that less lint winds up in the linter room, and can be thoroughly collected.
Date:
January 2, 1919
Creator:
Nolen, Robert Rufus
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators.
Patent for improvement in cultivators in which the plows can be adjusted by width, height and laterally to regulate the depth and angle of inclination. The plows, which can be operated by a foot device, may be simultaneously thrown from the ground. (Lines 73-76) Illustration is included.
Date:
November 2, 1869
Creator:
Baker, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Watch
Patent for a watch. This inventions construction relates to the movement of the watches features. Illustration included.
Date:
April 2, 1907
Creator:
Currie, Neil; Warren, C. L. & Davies, Dan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
System of Electrical Operation.
Patent for an electrical system, which reduces the amount of power used to run a generator when there is low usage of the generator, thereby saving fuel.
Date:
July 2, 1907
Creator:
Slaughter, Joel C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Paper-Guide for Printing-Presses.
Patent for improved paper guides for printing presses (particularly stop cylinder printing presses).
Date:
November 2, 1915
Creator:
Garlick, Mark J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gin
Patent for cotton gin
Date:
January 2, 1917
Creator:
Henry, Nelson B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History