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Paper Clip.
Patent for new and useful improvements in a paper clip. This invention relates to a paper clip a has for its principal object the production of a simple and efficient device for holding numbers sheets of paper together.
Date:
October 21, 1920
Creator:
Holt, Frank P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Cutting Tire-Casing Treads and Removing Beads
Patent for machines for extracting beads and for cutting treads of tire casings. It is to provide a convenient device for operating on tire casings which are to be stripped and separated into the original elements and to save much labor and avoid much expense.
Date:
October 4, 1921
Creator:
Hibbs, Cassell D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for an improved, simple, and inexpensive wire-stretcher that enables "one person to stretch fence wires conveniently for the purpose of mending them, or for stapling or otherwise securing them to fence posts in constructing fences" (lines 13-17).
Date:
October 30, 1894
Creator:
Crisp, James E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Land-Breaking Plow
Patent for a plow that also includes rotary drums. The rotary drums carried "sub-soiling and breaking plows; and the object is to provide plows which can be used to break the land to any desirable depth in any kind of soil without turning over the soil."
Date:
October 13, 1914
Creator:
Reed, Arthur
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Buffing Inner Tubes and the Like.
Patent for a more efficient and adjustable machine to buff inner tubes and other fabrics.
Date:
October 21, 1919
Creator:
Hibbs, Cassell D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well Drilling Machine
Patent for well drilling machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 2, 1906
Creator:
Boaz, Ernest O. & Kenehan, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wheel-Cultivators.
Patent for "a new and useful machine for Plowing"
Date:
October 10, 1876
Creator:
Hodges, Ludia H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Jack for Pumps and Other Purposes
Patent for a jack, that can be used for a variety of purposes.
Date:
October 10, 1916
Creator:
Dayton, William L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for new and useful improved invention of wrenches include both pipe wrenches and general-purpose wrenches particularly.
Date:
October 26, 1920
Creator:
Kirkpatrick, Otey R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Cleaner.
This invention relates to an improved well cleaner, and has for its principal object to provide a device of this kind adapted to be positioned in a well casing to direct a volume of air into the casing for cleaning the valves and straining elements thereof. A further object of the invention is to provide an automatic means for sealing the cleaner for holding the fluid within the well casing, against back pressure, during the cleaning operation. (Lines 8-19)
Date:
October 18, 1919
Creator:
Sargent, Lemuel H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Oil-Burners
Patent for an oil burner to be used with heating ranges, stoves, boilers, and furnaces.
Date:
October 17, 1911
Creator:
Essex, Winfield S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Telephone-Call Recorder
Patent for a telephone call recorder that allows the number of who is calling to be recorded when the phone is not answered and tell a person already on the phone who is trying to call them.
Date:
October 15, 1912
Creator:
Warwick, Harold L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Switch-Throwing Mechanism for Railway-Cars.
Patent for improvements in switch-throwing mechanism for railway-cars in which the motor operator can throw a switch without stopping the car and it will be accurate. Illustration is included.
Date:
October 14, 1913
Creator:
Slate, William L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tongue
Patent for a tongue. "This invention has relation to tongues, especially adapted to be applied to agricultural machines, as for instance wheel mounted plow frames, and has for its object the provision of a tongue structure with means for connecting the same to the frame of the machine so that frame may be swung under the tongue laterally while the frame is being over the ground." (line 8-16). illustration included.
Date:
October 29, 1912
Creator:
Brown, Bartley
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Measuring Vessel.
Patent for a new and improved measuring vessel. This design consists in "a measuring-vessel provided with a funnel projecting from right angles at the top of it, and a hinged lid wholly covering the opening to the funnel and to the vessel" (lines 54-58).
Date:
October 11, 1887
Creator:
Reeves, Virgil A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Medicine Dial.
Patent for a new and improved medicine-dial. This design "consists in the combination of an upright or standard, which is suitably bent, with a revolving dial, which is placed thereon and which can be turned so as to indicate the time when the next dose of medicine is to be taken. The object of [the] invention is to produce a medicine-dial which can be stuck into the cork of the bottle of medicine or cover of any kind and set so as to indicate when the next dose is to be administered" (lines 13-23).
Date:
October 30, 1888
Creator:
Wesson, Miley B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stirrup.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in stirrups, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 10, 1899
Creator:
Turner, Ephraim M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Medical Compound.
Patent for an improvement in medicinal preparations by combining Mexican sarsaparilla, broom-sage, alcohol and sugar to treat yellow fever, chills and fever, diphtheria, and other diseases; exact amount of the ingredients and instructions on how to mix them are detailed in the patent. No illustration.
Date:
October 6, 1891
Creator:
White, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mixing-Machine
Patent for a mixing machine for confectioners. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 18, 1910
Creator:
Vlahoyanes, Nickolas P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Post Card
Patent for a post card. Illustration included.
Date:
October 11, 1910
Creator:
Graham, Tilghman
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Paper-Binder
Patent for a binder for papers, bills, etc. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 8, 1912
Creator:
Byron, James A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pass-Book
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in pass books, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 17, 1899
Creator:
Martin, Thomas P., Jr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Center Rail for Key-Actions.
Patent for an easily adjustable, simple, and durable center rail for key actions in pianos which does not require chiseling holes.
Date:
October 21, 1919
Creator:
Swallow, Oscar L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trolley-Catcher.
Patent for a simple and efficient trolley pole that can be "dropped to a position of safety when the trolley wheel leaves the wire, whereby the pole is prevented from coming in contact with the supports of the trolley wire, the feeders, &c." (lines 10-14). The pole is easily re-engaged.
Date:
October 30, 1894
Creator:
Cobb, Woodson D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History