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Axle Box.
Patent for a new and improved self-oiling axle box. This design utilizes a sleeve with several small, oil-filled holes to be placed between the spindle and the axle box, which lubricates the machine and reduces friction. A nut keeps the spindle and axle box together.
Date:
April 26, 1881
Creator:
Barnes, Thomas J.
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:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton or Hay Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling-press. This design consists in "[a] duplex cotton or other press comprising connected pressing-boxes, each having a loose lower platen and platen-supports on its sides, devices . . . for raising said lower platens, a truck for supporting said boxes, traveling wheels or rollers journaled to said truck and having bevel or V-shaped treads or peripheries, a track mounted upon suitable supports and having a V-shaped or recessed top face to receive and guide said wheels or rollers during the reciprocatory movements of said truck and the thereto-connected boxes" (lines 15-27).
Date:
April 26, 1887
Creator:
Berry, William Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, durable, and efficient car coupling "which will insure positive automatic coupling when two opposite draw-heads come together" (lines 16-18).
Date:
April 26, 1892
Creator:
Bird, Robert L. & Bird, John L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Portable Bracket.
Patent for a portable bracket for mirrors, which can be mounted on the body and then folded back up.
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
Mote Board For Cotton Gins
Patent for mote board for cotton gins. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 26, 1904
Creator:
Bodungen, Clemens G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seat Shaping Implement
Patent for seat shaping implement. This invention is designed to form seats in the prongs of studs employed in the setting of precious stones. Illustration included.
Date:
April 26, 1904
Creator:
Bolding, James P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tire-Tool.
Patent for a tool designed for mounting pneumatic tires on wheel rims.
Date:
April 26, 1921
Creator:
Boone, Daniel M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Railroad-Tie.
Patent for railroad ties and especially for a fie made from a log of wood.
Date:
April 26, 1921
Creator:
Bryant, Joseph D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Burner.
Patent for oil burner adapted for using heavy oil (with wide flat flame) for distribution (wide flat flame with adjustable burner tip).
Date:
April 26, 1921
Creator:
Chadbourne, Vaughn, R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pouncing-Machine.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in pouncing machines.
Date:
April 26, 1898
Creator:
Clarke, George R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pouncing-Machine.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in pouncing-machines.
Date:
April 26, 1898
Creator:
Clarke, George R.
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
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
Sawing Machine.
Patent for a new and improved drag-saw. This design "consists in the combination of a drag-saw, an operating-lever, and a wheelbarrow or truck, the wheelbarrow being made to support the saw and move it . . . [t]he object of [the] invention is to provide an easy and ready means of transporting the saw from place to place, and to so connect it to the wheelbarrow or truck which supports it that they can be readily separated, so that the wheelbarrow or truck can be used by itself" (lines 13-24).
Date:
April 26, 1881
Creator:
Crump, Thomas Jefferson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Building Construction.
Patent for new and improved building constructions which will help the economy, steadiness, benefit, and rapidity of erection.
Date:
April 26, 1921
Creator:
Eldridge, Leonard L.
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
Car-Coupling.
Patent for automatic car-coupling for passenger and freight cars.
Date:
April 26, 1887
Creator:
Ferguson, George Jones
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
Grapple.
Patent for improving grapples for regaining tools, particularly those that can be hidden and submerged.
Date:
April 26, 1921
Creator:
Ginter, James. C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History