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Clevis
Patent for "improvements in clevises or draw-bars for plows and other similar implements" (Lines 8 – 10) including illustrations.
Date:
August 28, 1900
Creator:
Hendon, Walter Preston
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Canopy
Patent for an invention that relates to certain improvements in carriage-covers; and it consists in the peculiar construction of the frame and cover and the manner of operating the same; and the object of the invention is to produce a cover for the protection of carriages while standing idle (Winants, 1902).
Date:
September 28, 1899
Creator:
Winants, Frank C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coffee and Spice Mill.
Patent for a new and improved mill for coffee and spices. This design "consists in constructing a coffee and spice mill with a hopper having arms for attaching the mill to a wall and for supporting the gear-wheel formed upon it, an inner cone-burr formed solid with the hopper, an outer shell-burr suspended from and swiveled to the inner burr by a cross-bar, rod, and hand-nut, and the gear-wheels and crank for rotating the outer-burr" (lines 22-30).
Date:
March 28, 1882
Creator:
Andrews, Thomas A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Boring Artesian Wells.
Patent for an improved and simple apparatus for boring wells that is easily adjustable. The drill head will stay intact in most drilling situations with this apparatus.
Date:
February 28, 1893
Creator:
Brown, Frank O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Black-Land Plow.
Patent for a plow that operates in mud or sticky dirt without becoming clogged and has an improved share and mold board.
Date:
March 28, 1893
Creator:
Vestal, William B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baby-Walker.
Patent for improvements in baby-walkers by using the combination of a circular base, standards, a rim connecting the tops of the standards, a rotating plate having runners on its lower side engaged with the rim, a guide-flange, a rigid central shaft having a ratchet-wheel, and a pawl for engaging the ratchet. Illustration is included.
Date:
April 28, 1891
Creator:
Lawson, Henry William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Shading Adjuster.
Patent for a car-shade adjuster in passenger-coaches of street-cars that allows shades to "be raised or lowered at will and held firmly in any desired position" (lines 18-19). It is set in tracks in the window frame, held in place by springs, and bearings to keep friction between the shade-roller and track.
Date:
July 28, 1896
Creator:
Smith, Earl W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bur-Extractor for Cotton-Feeders
Patent for bur extractor for cotton feeders. This device is unique in that it raises and distributes "systems for cotton gins...[and] provide[s] means whereby all burs or hulls will be effectually extracted from the cotton before the cotton passes to the gin feeders or gins" (lines 11-15).
Date:
July 28, 1914
Creator:
Lamb, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Book-Cover
Patent for a book cover that can be adjusted to fit any book size.
Date:
September 28, 1920
Creator:
Toland, Thomas L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weather-Strip.
Patent for an improved door weather strip and stop. The device atuates to be both a door stop and a weather strip.
Date:
May 28, 1919
Creator:
Campbell, Thomas M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Processes of Refining Crude Cotton-Seed Oil
Patent for a process to refine oil, specifically crude, cotton-seed oil, using caustic soda. Includes an explanation of how the process works.
Date:
November 28, 1911
Creator:
Chisholm, Jesse C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve Gear
Patent for a valve gear. Illustration included.
Date:
June 28, 1904
Creator:
McCain, Sidney Lea
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Stilts
Patent for improved stilts "whereby a stilt-stirrup may be quickly, easily, and securely fastened at different elevations on the standard" (para. 3).
Date:
March 28, 1876
Creator:
Beaumont, Franklin, Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Flat-Iron Heaters.
Patent for a device which rapidly heats a flat or smoothing iron utilizing a lamp with multiple burners which can be adjusted to raise the temperature of the flat iron to the desired degree.
Date:
July 28, 1874
Creator:
Wilmot, Byron
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Farm-Fences.
Patent for "a new and useful improvements in Fences"
Date:
November 28, 1876
Creator:
Sullivan, J. L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ventilated Body-Garment.
Patent for new ventilated body-garments "known as union-oversuits or "unionalls"" (lines 15-16) which improves the shoulder coverings and open armpit areas, allowing the passage of air but covering the area from rain.
Date:
December 28, 1920
Creator:
Jenkins, William M. & Vaughan, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nailless Horseshoe.
Patent for a nailless horseshoe made of adjustable metallic straps, including illustrations.
Date:
August 28, 1900
Creator:
Hughes, John V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Switch Cord Plug
Patent for a switch cord plug that can be adapted to cords and used with telephone switchboards. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 28, 1908
Creator:
Smith, Eugene Lamar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Printer's Cabinet
Patent for a printer's cabinet. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 28, 1905
Creator:
Dorsey, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for the invention of gate which can be opened inward and outward by certain features such as supporting brackets and a spirally grooved shaft that can rotate between brackets.
Date:
August 28, 1906
Creator:
Gilbert James Madison
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grate-Bar.
Patent for a grate bar for furnaces, which allows for proper air distribution in the furnace.
Date:
June 28, 1910
Creator:
Wilderspin, Anderson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thermostat.
Patent for an improved and automatic thermostat tool to regulate temperature including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 28, 1915
Creator:
Royall, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for a new and improved gate. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the gate composed of the latch-upright, hinge-upright, longitudinal wires and cross-braces, of the spring-depressed latch, pivoted to the brace just in front of the crossing part of the opposite brace, the double-armed lever pivoted through its center to the inner surface of the top of the latch-upright, and the cords connecting said arms to a proper point of the latch" (lines 82-90).
Date:
August 28, 1888
Creator:
England, David
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Separator
Patent for separating oil or grease, grit and water of condensation from steam, either live steam or exhausted-steam, as it passes to or from an engine or steam-pump (lines 10-14).
Date:
May 28, 1901
Creator:
Hanson, Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History