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Handle for Pans, Tubs, &c. (open access)

Handle for Pans, Tubs, &c.

Patent for a wire handle for pans, tubs, &c that consists of two handles on either side of the tub, which are connected via a wire that fits in the lip of the rim of the receptacle. The handles, when taken out of the receptacle, consist of one single frame.
Date: February 6, 1894
Creator: Brown, John Stoddart
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trace Carrier. (open access)

Trace Carrier.

Patent for a new and improved trace-carrier. This design consists in "[a]n improved back-band buckle with hooks, consisting of a body portion formed of a single piece of wrought-wire, the meeting ends of each bent downward, upward, outward, and again downward to form chain-holding hooks or loops, and the tongues pivoted upon the said body portion" (lines 89-95).
Date: April 15, 1890
Creator: Brown, John Stoddart
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trussed Axle for Wheeled Vehicles. (open access)

Trussed Axle for Wheeled Vehicles.

Patent for improvements in trussed axle for wheeled vehicles: "The invention relates to that class or type of axles for wheeled vehicles wherein a metal truss rod or bar running longitudinally under the axle body has its end portions extended through the axle skeins and secured by screw nuts which abut the outer ends of the skeins." (lines 9-14).
Date: October 12, 1897
Creator: Brown, John Stoddart
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flower Pot Trellis (open access)

Flower Pot Trellis

Patent for a flower pot trellis which is used "to be applied to flower-pots of various sizes to support plants or vines without interfering with their roots" (p.2).
Date: April 15, 1890
Creator: Brown, John Stoddart, of Galveston, Texas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flexible Joint. (open access)

Flexible Joint.

Patent for a flexible joint for rigid pipes that allows the pipes to be taken around a bend or moved around easily in the operation of a sand pump or hydraulic dredging machine.
Date: July 7, 1908
Creator: Brown, Martin William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle-Gearing. (open access)

Bicycle-Gearing.

Patent for "gearing for bicycles, and has for its object to furnish a train of gearing for the connection of the treadles with the rear wheel of a bicycle, whereby the usual sprocket-and-chain gearing may be dispensed with." (lines 7-12).
Date: August 16, 1898
Creator: Brown, Wilson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mail-Bag-Handling Apparatus. (open access)

Mail-Bag-Handling Apparatus.

Patent for "a mail-bag handing apparatus, and more specifically [an] apparatus designed to practically simultaneously deliver and receive bags or pouches containing mail or other matter, to and from a moving train or body" (lines 9-14), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 18, 1913
Creator: Brunkenhoefer, Henry F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Winch Attachment (open access)

Winch Attachment

Patent for an improved automobile winch attachment.
Date: April 22, 1919
Creator: Bush, E. E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Carpenter's Square. (open access)

Carpenter's Square.

Patent for a new and improved carpenter's square. This design calls for ribs or ridges running lengthwise along the blades and a thicker, more durable square between the blades. In this way, only the ribs or ridges suffer wear, and the square lasts longer.
Date: October 3, 1882
Creator: Callihan, Willie Hoyle
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling Lint-Cotton. (open access)

Apparatus for Handling Lint-Cotton.

Patent for an apparatus for handling lint-cotton that allows air to move freely without back pressure while putting the fiber into a bat. It has a "trunk into which a series of gins deliver, of a primary condenser having a high surface speed, so that it will rapidly remove the fiber and prevent the bat from building up of such thickness as to check the escape of air, and a second condenser having a slower surface speed and arranged to receive the lint from the first condenser and form it into a thicker bat" (lines 29-37).
Date: March 19, 1895
Creator: Campbell, Douglas M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Furnace. (open access)

Electric Furnace.

Patent for a new and useful electric furnace.
Date: April 19, 1898
Creator: Clark, George Greenleaf
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fluid - Pressure Regulator. (open access)

Fluid - Pressure Regulator.

Patent for a new and useful Gas pressure regulator. This invention "relates to gas pressure regulators especially adapted for use with gas stored under high pressure in a cylinder or similar portable storage vessel" (line 8-10).
Date: December 7, 1897
Creator: Clark, George Greenleaf
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fluid Pressure Regulator (open access)

Fluid Pressure Regulator

Patent for a new and useful gas pressure regulator. This invention "relates to gas-pressure regulators especially adapted for use with gas stored under high pressure in a cylinder or similar portable storage vessel" (line 8 - 11).
Date: December 28, 1897
Creator: Clark, George Greenleaf
System: The Portal to Texas History
Imposition-Furniture for Printers' Use. (open access)

Imposition-Furniture for Printers' Use.

Patent for improvements in imposition-furniture for printers’ use; in this “improved furniture, the page can be removed with the cord tied around it and set aside for future use and the improved pieces of furniture used around another and different page of type and so on indefinitely. It is made to serve the purpose of an almost endless set of furniture-pieces of that style of furniture border-piece where the groove is formed on the outside of furniture border-pieces and the tying-cord is fitted in said groove and made to serve for tying up both the furniture border-pieces and the page.” (Lines 22-34) Illustration is included.
Date: September 1, 1891
Creator: Clarke, Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Portable Type-Distributer. (open access)

Portable Type-Distributer.

Patent for improvements in portable “type-distributing device which can be comfortably held in the hand and without strain on the wrist, and which is provided with a suitable main receptacle to hold the matter being distributed and also with auxiliary receptacles for leads and spaces, whereby the labor of distributing is greatly facilitated and lessened and the work much more rapidly accomplished.” (Lines 26-34) Includes illustration.
Date: August 4, 1891
Creator: Clarke, Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sanitary Flooring (open access)

Sanitary Flooring

Patent for sanitary flooring to be used in toilet rooms to protect from unsanitary floors and odors. Illustrations included.
Date: July 6, 1909
Creator: Clayton, Nicholas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tank. (open access)

Tank.

Patent for improvements in the support structure wooden or metal tanks (portable or permanent) though sets of internal support composed of uprights, diagonal brace-rods, transversely curved plates, and tension rods, with descriptions of the structure and illustrations included.
Date: June 9, 1903
Creator: Clayton, Nicholas J., Sr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Composition To Be Used As A Non-Conductor Of Heat And For Other Purposes. (open access)

Composition To Be Used As A Non-Conductor Of Heat And For Other Purposes.

Patent for a non-conducting material designed to prevent heat loss from radiation, prevent damage from frost, for fire-proofing, and for "the deafening of floors and partitions" (lines 21-22). Ingredients and proportions are listed.
Date: August 30, 1887
Creator: Clayton, Nicholas Joseph.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Internal Combusion System (open access)

Internal Combusion System

Patent for new and useful Internal-Combustion Engine. Improves the provision of an engine which the cylinder is provided with a semi-spherical upper end, fr the rotatable reception of similar shaped power cylinder carrying shell. Specification of letter patent with illustration. Serial number 789.146
Date: May 12, 1914
Creator: Clough, George G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Internal-Combustion Engine (open access)

Internal-Combustion Engine

Patent for an internal-combustion engine with a novel form of rotary valve and other meaningful improvements to a combustion engine.
Date: September 29, 1914
Creator: Clough, George Golden
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Excavators (open access)

Improvement in Excavators

Patent for "an improvement in excavating and dredging machines" (lines 12-13).
Date: August 17, 1875
Creator: Cole, Thomas Z.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination coat and pants hanger. (open access)

Combination coat and pants hanger.

Patent for a combined coat and trousers hanger that is formed strongly of wire to maintain its shape and durability, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 20, 1912
Creator: Collier, Frank A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint. (open access)

Rail-Joint.

Patent for a rail joint that reduces the shaking and noise when a train passes over it by keeping the track in alignment.
Date: March 24, 1908
Creator: Collier, Frank A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench. (open access)

Wrench.

Patent for an improved wrench that is effective and durable. Illustration and description included.
Date: March 28, 1916
Creator: Collier, Frank A.
System: The Portal to Texas History