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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
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
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
Vaporizer
Patent for a vaporizer. Illustration included.
Date:
April 25, 1905
Creator:
Beaumont, Godfrey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wind-Wheel.
Patent for "connecting the wheel shaft with the driving shaft and [...] the provision of a wind wheel having wind collecting faces or pockets extending in vertical planes surrounding a vertical driving shaft as an axis" (lines 25-38), including illustrations.
Date:
April 25, 1916
Creator:
Iley, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History