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Body Supported Brackett
Patent for body supported bracket for mirrors. Illustration included.
Date:
April 26, 1910
Creator:
Birdwell, Russell J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chain-Fastener.
Patent for a chain fastener for logging trucks, which can be easily unattached and works with most types of logging trucks.
Date:
April 26, 1910
Creator:
Biskamp, Richard A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Preserving Wooden Poles
Patent for an apparatus for preserving treated wooden poles. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 26, 1910
Creator:
Logan, John T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Safety-Valve and Waste-Cock.
Patent for a combined safety valve and waste cock for cooling engines.
Date:
April 26, 1910
Creator:
Fell, Julius P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cooling Milk.
Patent for a new and useful apparatus for regulating the temperature of milk.
Date:
April 26, 1898
Creator:
Porter, Louis H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compound Tool
Patent for a compound tool. This invention consists of multiple tools in one. Illustration included.
Date:
April 26, 1904
Creator:
Highsmith, Aubrey O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Toy Race-Course.
Patent for toy race-course.
Date:
April 26, 1887
Creator:
Cordray, Henry A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dental Chair.
Patent for a dental chair improvement.
Date:
April 26, 1887
Creator:
Stiles, Edmund P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boll Breaker and Cleaner
Patent for new and improved Boll Breakers and Cleaners "for handling and cleaning seed cotton prior to it delivery to the ginning mechanism..." (lines 9-10).
Date:
April 26, 1915
Creator:
Kinne, Tempel L.
System:
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ATTACHMENT FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION MOTORS
Patent for an Attachment for Internal Combustion Motors. This new attachment provides many improvements in the regulation of auxiliary air, whether it enters or leaves the internal combustion motor (Shine). It also regulates hot or cold air, or can shut off the air supply entirely (Shine).
Date:
April 26, 1921
Creator:
Shine, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Typewriter-Desk.
Patent for typewriter desk which has a compartment with a moveable platform. The platform supports a typewriter, and is "capable of being raised and lowered within the desk so as to position the typewriter for use or non-use as desired". The compartment has a lid, which when in closed position, provides an even writing or resting surface.
Date:
April 26, 1921
Creator:
Beard, Margurite E.
System:
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Well-Screen
Patent for a well screen with a greater amount of screen space that allows for a better flow of water while still obstructing other objects.
Date:
April 26, 1910
Creator:
Hall, Samuel N.
System:
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Wire Tightener.
Patent for a new and improved wire tightener. This design consists in "the combination of the disks or sections connected by the central bar, the oppositely-pointing lever-arms, the transverse pin fitting into corresponding openings in the disks or sections on one side of the central bar, the locking-pin adapted to fit into any two corresponding openings of the concentric series of openings made in the disks, and a rope or similar device connecting the wire to be stretched with the disks and their connections" (lines 93-103).
Date:
April 26, 1887
Creator:
Boyd, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve
Patent for a valve used with radiator heating system. Illustration included.
Date:
April 26, 1910
Creator:
Kinnison, Hallah C.
System:
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Improvement in Saws.
Patent for improvement in saws by way of the construction of beveled edged teeth with concave sides.
Date:
April 26, 1870
Creator:
Littlepage, C. V.
System:
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Hypodermic Syringe.
Patent for a new and improved hypodermic syringe. This design consists in "the combination of a barrel, a sleeve secured to said barrel and having a diaphragm adapted to close the end of the barrel, a needle-carrier having a cylindrical projection working in the sleeve, an outlet-tube secured to the needle-carrier and extending through the diaphragm in the sleeve, and a coiled spring arranged around said tube within the cylindrical projection of the needle-carrier" (lines 71-80).
Date:
April 26, 1887
Creator:
Dunbar, Addison
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tool For Removing Floors, Ceilings, Sidings, &c.
Patent for a tool that removes floors, ceilings, sidings, and more. Illustration included.
Date:
April 26, 1904
Creator:
Harmon, William O. & Quarles, Alexander H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk Cutter.
Patent for a new and improved stalk cutter. This design has "the combination of the A-shaped frame, consisting of side pieces hinged together at their forward ends, and provided with lateral projecting knives or cutters and horizontal slots, in which work set-screws for adjusting the cross-braces, tongue or pole, hinged at its rear-end to a bracket, vertically adjustable on the front side of [the] cross-brace, and the seat-bar hinged or otherwise secured to the underside of [the] cross-brace" (lines 76-85).
Date:
April 26, 1881
Creator:
Horn, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Paper-Bag Holder.
Patent for a paper holder made of wire, which allows for easy removal of bags of different sizes.
Date:
April 26, 1910
Creator:
Joiner, Preston
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Suspenders
Patent for suspenders. Illustration included.
Date:
April 26, 1904
Creator:
Scott, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in gates.
Date:
April 26, 1898
Creator:
Gilbert, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Guard Rail Clamp
Patent for a guard rail clamp. Illustration included.
Date:
April 26, 1904
Creator:
Kelly, Patrick Edward & Riordan, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame Fastener.
Patent for a new and improved hame fastener. This design utilizes a clasp that slides along a bar. When the clasp is at the desired position relative to the hame, a pin and a locking plate on the clasp lock the clasp in place; thus the hame is fastened.
Date:
April 26, 1881
Creator:
Crump, Thomas Jefferson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for centrally pivoting gates that can "be readily opened and closed from a vehicle or from on horseback" (lines 13-14).
Date:
April 26, 1892
Creator:
Pearce, William J.
System:
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