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Adjustable Mosquito-Canopy.
Patent for an adjustable, simple, and easily used mosquito-canopy for beds that fits over any style and size of bed, and is easily removed.
Date:
April 25, 1893
Creator:
Eva, Addison H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap.
Patent for an animal trap meant to trap animals that burrow in the ground, such as prairie dogs. The trap catches the animal when it leaves its den and the animal cannot escape the trap.
Date:
April 25, 1893
Creator:
Manning, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Valve
Patent for an automatic valve, "designed to automatically control the water-supply to a suitable reservoir through the operation of a float (lines 9-11), with illustrations.
Date:
April 25, 1905
Creator:
Pinkerton, Henry S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale Tie Buckle
Patent for bale tie buckle. Illustration included.
Date:
April 25, 1905
Creator:
Jenkins, John C. & Flowers, W. H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a car coupling that "couples automatically and by which a brakeman on a single car can uncouple one or more cars and to provide pipe connections between the cars for this and other purposes" (lines 9-13). It has a pivoted drawhead with lever connections to a piston head and uses steam connections with the cylinder in the piston head to couple.
Date:
April 25, 1893
Creator:
Gebhardt, William Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Colter.
Patent for the instructions on of how to construct a Colter including illustrations.
Date:
April 25, 1916
Creator:
James Zedrick Elder
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Faucet and Automatic Toy.
Patent for a new and improved faucet with a toy attachment. This design "relates to faucets for soda-fountains and the like; and it consists in providing the same with a jointed figure or automaton adapted to be operated by the escaping fluid" (lines 21-25).
Date:
April 25, 1882
Creator:
Zanetti, Fortonato Clemente
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Feeder and Cleaner.
Patent for feeders and cleaners for cotton gins: "provide a combined feeder and cleaner for cotton gins which is not only thoroughly and effectually cleans cotton before it passes to the gin, but at the same time it regularly and positively feeds the cotton to the gin in such cleaned condition" (lines 10-15).
Date:
April 25, 1893
Creator:
Oliphint, Alfred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fan Attachment.
Patent for providing "auxiliary fan blades attachable to a fan having permanent blades whereby to increase the fan surface, by attaching the auxiliary blades, or reducing the fan surface to its normal area by detaching the auxiliary blades" (lines 10-15). Its "intended for use in connection with the fan employed on the Ford car, although not limited to this particular use" (lines 16-19), including illustrations.
Date:
April 25, 1916
Creator:
Goss, Charles E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Feed-Regulator
Patent for a device, used in connection with crushing and/or storage machinery, to assist in the distribution of dry, powdered, or fine feeding materials.
Date:
April 25, 1911
Creator:
Searle, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Firearm.
Patent for firearm with improvements to the cartridge carries or lifter and safety device for locking the trigger, including illustrations.
Date:
April 25, 1916
Creator:
McLean, Grover C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Firearm
Patent for an improved firearm. This firearm that can transform from a rifle to a shotgun using separate barrels but the same stock mechanism.
Date:
April 25, 1916
Creator:
Burnaman, Joseph H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fireproof Flue.
Patent for a fireproof flue that prevents the roof from being burned, where the stovepipe goes through the roof.
Date:
April 25, 1911
Creator:
Davis, George W. & Shipman, Abraham T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flue-Scraper
Patent for a flue scraper with multiple self-sharpening scraper arms. The tool is "strong, durable, efficient, and simple" (lines 22-23).
Date:
April 25, 1916
Creator:
French, Elmer C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fumigator.
Patent for a fumigator for fumigating crops that can spray two rows at a time.
Date:
April 25, 1911
Creator:
Lee, Oliver W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Garden-Hose Reel.
Patent for a garden hose reel that allows the hose to be used, while still on the reel and can be easily cleaned.
Date:
April 25, 1911
Creator:
Newton, Marvin G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grave-Filler.
Patent for a grave-filler device that holds dirt from the grave and can be shifted longitudinally from the grave and be titled vertically to refill the grave.
Date:
April 25, 1916
Creator:
Imhoff, Louis P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hair-Drying Brush
Patent for a hair drying brush that has some heated teeth and some non-heated teeth for drying hair.
Date:
April 25, 1911
Creator:
Taylor, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Automatic Fan
Patent for improvement in automatic fans, specifically of a fan attached to a pendulum of a clock mechanism.
Date:
April 25, 1876
Creator:
Gollner, Ervin G. & Fretz, Emil
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Devices for Teaching Musical Transposition.
Patent for an improvement in devices for teaching musical transposition. The invention in question is composed of a keyboard "with sliding instruments and scales" (1).
Date:
April 25, 1876
Creator:
Allison, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Spark-Arresters.
Patent for a new and useful Improvements in Spark-Arresters
Date:
April 25, 1876
Creator:
Liscow, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lamp and Reflector for Same.
Patent for a new combination oil lamp and reflector. This design "has for its object the production of a lamp and a reflector adapted the one to the other, and in such points of construction as shall contribute to the effectiveness of both, in that no part of the former obstructs the rays of light reflected by the other, and both shall be of simple and cheap construction; and [it] consists in certain devices and combinations of devices" (lines 20-28).
Date:
April 25, 1882
Creator:
Cotton, Patrick H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock-Protecting Device.
Patent for combination lock for safes or vaults with added mechanism for dispensing a gas to deter robberies.
Date:
April 25, 1922
Creator:
Bumpass, Leonard E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive-Headlight.
Patent for an independent reservoir lamp for locomotive head lights. "?The conduit by which the reservoir and burner communicate is liable to be obstructed with sediment which not only interferes with the suitable flow of oil but corrodes the metal and necessitates repairs" (lines 13-17). The invention is convenient to use and inexpensive.
Date:
April 25, 1893
Creator:
Owens, Thomas B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History