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Buggy-Top Support
Patent for a supporter for the top of a buggy. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 29, 1909
Creator:
Putman, William C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Closet-Cistern and Valve Therefor
Patent for "a cistern which needs no valve to start the siphon to work and to construct a valve which can be operated by a rod which runs up through the supply-pipe, thus doing away with the stuffing-box for a rod for operating the valve" (lines 11-16).
Date:
April 23, 1901
Creator:
Wilkes, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Radiator
Patent for an automobile radiator which does not leak.
Date:
September 27, 1910
Creator:
Garrison, Fernando G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bag-Holder
Patent for bag holder " an improved cabinet for holding paper bags and the like articles; and the object is to construct a useful, inexpensive cabinet which will be light and compact and practical and in which bags may be placed and taken out when needed without mutilating the bags" (lines 7-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 19, 1901
Creator:
Thompson, King D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Balancing Attachment
Patent for a balancing attachment. Illustration included.
Date:
March 14, 1905
Creator:
Coons, Charles E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Socket and Switch for Electric Lights
Patent for a combined socket and switch for electric lights that allows different bulbs of a chandelier to be turned on separately.
Date:
August 20, 1912
Creator:
Bailey, Douglas A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corset.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in corsets, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 6, 1900
Creator:
Marple, Grace
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Elevator Gate
Patent for an elevator gate that will automatically be raised or lowered upon ascent or descent of the elevator, with illustrations.
Date:
October 7, 1902
Creator:
McNaught, Ira S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Conveyer.
Patent for a conveyor for grain or gravel, which is made up of a series of trucks on rails which dump the materials out at set points and then right themselves.
Date:
April 14, 1908
Creator:
Schubert, George
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Music-Rack and Front Panel for Pianos
Patent for a music rack and front panel for pianos. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 22, 1910
Creator:
Norcross, Levi Watson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trinity River Basin Environmental Restoration Initiative 2010
This report's "objectives are to use the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model to; assess current rates and sources of sediment and nutrient loading of twelve major water supply reservoirs in ten watersheds of the Upper Trinity River Basin, to predict the effects of anticipated future urbanization, and to consider possible conservation practices that could decrease sediment and nutrient loading of these reservoirs" (p. ii).
Date:
2010
Creator:
Wang, Xiuying; White, Michael; Lee, Taesoo; Tuppad, Pushpa; Srinivasan, Raghavan; Jones, Allan et al.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for "baling-presses, and has for its objects to provide a simple and efficient apparatus embodying a rebounding plunger; to provide means for regulating the resistance offered to the advance movement of the forward head-block; to provide improved means for tucking the material during the advance movement of the plunger; to provide means for regulating the length of a bale; to provide means for automatically inserting a head-block when a bale of the desired length has been formed; and to provide means whereby the raising and lowering of the press-box or baling-chamber is accomplished by the draft-horses through the sweep, and without the use of jacks or other analogous devices." (Lines 8-24) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 24, 1895
Creator:
Keith, George A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Band-Cutter and Feeder
Patent for "new and useful improvements in band-cutters and feeders" (lines 6-7).
Date:
February 26, 1889
Creator:
King, Charlie C. & Trimble, Alonzo D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Seat
Patent for "an inexpensive form of car-seat, wherein the parts are so arranged that the back of the seat may be adjusted to almost any angle desired, a leg or foot rest, which also may be adjusted to suit the convenience of the occupant of the seat" (lines 7-13).
Date:
April 2, 1889
Creator:
Goelet, Edward B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Door.
Patent for a new and improved door for railroad cars. This design consists in "a car having a door-opening, top and bottom tracks, and perpendicular door-posts, one post provided with a series of recesses in its side next to the opening and the other having recesses in its outer side or side nearest the end of the car . . . the door sliding on said tracks and having forwardly-projecting cleats on its front edge to enter the recesses in the first-named post, and provided on its inner side at its opposite end with cleats projecting toward its front edge to enter the recesses in second-named strip" (lines 83-95).
Date:
April 2, 1889
Creator:
Goelet, Edward B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Axle and Wheel
Patent for a new and improved wheel and axle for cars. This design calls for "providing each of the axle with a fixed ratchet-wheel and providing the car-wheels with spring-pawls adapted to engage with the ratchets" (lines 21-24). This overcomes the strain that the wheels place on the axles when making turns, which reduces the chance of the car leaving its tracks.
Date:
May 16, 1882
Creator:
Pendleton, William S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brush.
Patent for a brush used with pressurized water to clean floors, walls, ceilings, horses, buggies, animal carcasses, etc. The brush can have a hose hooked up to it and has a valve. The water goes into the top of the brush and is distributed evenly throughout with holes in the top of the brush, and the water is sprayed through the bristles.
Date:
March 24, 1896
Creator:
Zandt, Luther H. van
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard.
Patent for a cattle guard that prevents cattle from blocking railroad tracks. It consists of sharp edged cross ties that sit on the bottom of a shallow pit, guard rails that cover the cross ties, bolts that hold the rails together, and end planks forming v-shaped serrations.
Date:
October 10, 1893
Creator:
Lynch, Michael L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a new and improved churn. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the inner shell or cream-receptacle having the pipe formed therewith, and with the ring near its upper end, the outer shell having its upper end contracted to engage the ring of the cream-receptacle and inclose the pipe, and provided with the side opening at its upper end, and a valve located in the pipe to open and close by the action of the dasher moving in the cream-cylinder" (lines 1-10).
Date:
May 8, 1888
Creator:
Richards, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carriage Top.
Patent for a new and improved carriage top. This design consists in "the combination, with a vehicle-seat, a series of top-supporting bows pivoted thereto, and a jointed brace having its lower end pivoted to the seat and its upper end to one of the bows, of a rigid operating-lever having its upper end pivoted to said jointed brace and its lower end adjustably connected with the seat, whereby the position of the lower end of said lever may be varied and the brace and top secured in any desired position" (lines 51-60).
Date:
July 3, 1888
Creator:
Goelet, Edward Buncombe
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Arc Lamp
Patent for improvements arc lamps that "will be uninfluenced by the jar of the locomotive" (lines 17-19). Consisting of carbon-carriers rotated by clock-train.
Date:
July 10, 1888
Creator:
Gaston, E. James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Anti-Oscillating Attachment for Street-Cars.
Patent for an improved anti-oscillating attachment for street-cars. It has a car truck, equalizing pivoting bars secured between the truck ends, cushions on either side of the bars, adjustable bolts that hold the bars in place, and springs between the bolts.
Date:
July 10, 1894
Creator:
Chollar, Benjamin F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pounder.
Patent for an improved clothes washer that is made up of a cylinder, a piston that is two disks attached together with notches and flared edges, and a packing strip in the groove of the disk edges.
Date:
August 14, 1894
Creator:
Lewis, Nathan D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Box-Fastener.
Patent for an improved box-fastener for cases and boxes that hold bottled liquids. The invention allows for the cover to be easily removed, and hangs on the side of the box when not being used. The cover can be used on an ordinary box without altering the box.
Date:
October 9, 1894
Creator:
Beck, Edwin A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History