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Attachment for Coffee or Tea Pots.
Patent for "attachment for coffee or tea pots or other receptacles" (lines 5-7) designed to materially improve the construction of the pot or urn, whereby the same will be simple and effective and the process of treating the coffee or tea by the action of the boiling water or steam materially enhanced.
Date:
May 21, 1901
Creator:
Darden, George Albion
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Tight Heating-Stove
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in air tight heating stoves, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1898
Creator:
Wilson, John Wesley & Wilson, William Wharton
System:
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Automatic Filling-Machine
Patent for a filling machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 26, 1908
Creator:
Humphreys, Jerome N.
System:
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Check Book Cover
Patent for a check book cover. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 23, 1905
Creator:
Templeton, David A.; Exline, Marcus P. & Bourke, Edmund
System:
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Apparatus For Handling Seed Cotton
Patent for an apparatus for handling seed cotton. Illustration included.
Date:
May 3, 1904
Creator:
Benefield, Chauncey R.
System:
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Combination Key and Automatic Stop Cock
Patent for "new and improved Combination Key and Automatic Stop-Cock" (lines 6-7) for the purpose of providing "an automatic arrangement for cutting off the water-supply in hydrants and like appliances when the weather becomes so cold as to endanger the freezing of the water" (lines 11-14).
Date:
May 7, 1900
Creator:
Randall, C. T.
System:
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Combined Penholder And Eraser
Patent for a combined penholder and eraser. Illustration included.
Date:
May 31, 1904
Creator:
Tucker, Albert S.
System:
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Child's Seat for Vehicles.
Patent for a removable child's seat for buggies, phaetons, carriages, sleighs, and similar vehicles that folds up so it can be stored under the seat when not in use. The chair sits next to the dash, and is locked into place so the child is safe.
Date:
May 15, 1894
Creator:
Padgitt, Thomas B.
System:
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Axle Box for Locomotives.
Patent for a new and improved axle-box for locomotives. This design "has relation to self-adjusting wedges for axle or driving boxes for locomotives, and has for its objects to produce a wedge that is controlled by a spring, which can be readily and easily adjusted for removing the pounding and lost motion between the axle-box and pedestal" (lines 11-17).
Date:
May 21, 1889
Creator:
Carlson, Frank August
System:
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Bed Spring.
Patent for a new and improved bed-spring. This design consists in "the adjustable tie that connects the springs beneath the slats. This device is simple, cheap, convenient, and durable. It is adjustable to slats placed at different distances apart, and will remain in position when placed upon the slats, holding the diagonal rows of springs in a straight line, causing the springs to remain uniform all over the bed" (lines 72-80).
Date:
May 19, 1885
Creator:
Davis, Charles Robert
System:
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Automatic Track Sweeping and Oiling Attachment for Street-Cars.
Patent for improvements in automatic track sweeping and oiling attachments to street cars by having a transverse shaft carries a hub which has a series of brushes. When “the street car moves forward, the brushes on the transverse shaft are revolved, which sweep the rails and keep them clean.” (Lines 90-93) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 12, 1891
Creator:
Nesmith, Robert Henry
System:
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Combined Pump and Motor.
Patent for a new and improved pump and motor. This design "is to produce a simple apparatus which may be connected with a main water or service pipe and which will operate by the fluctuation of pressure in said main or pipe so as to operate the pump. The device is especially advantageous in raising water from a well or cistern to a tank placed at a higher elevation, or it may be placed on a pump in place of an air-chamber and used as a feed-pump for a boiler or on a hydraulic ram as an auxiliary pump" (lines 9-18).
Date:
May 3, 1892
Creator:
Henderson, Thomas
System:
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Car Wheel and Axle.
Patent for a car wheel and axle made up of a built-up metallic wheel with dished side-plates that have flanged and riveted rims, hub-nuts, a lock-plate, hollow screw-threaded ends, hexagonal offsets, tubular journals, a tubular journal, and a radial lubricating feed-tube with a cross-head and a collar.
Date:
May 14, 1895
Creator:
Flatau, Louis Spencer
System:
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Amusement Device.
Patent for an invention relating to the amusement device. Advantages and illustrations of the invention and amusement device are included.
Date:
May 15, 1917
Creator:
Moore, Charles L.
System:
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Adjustable Lamp-Shade.
Patent for a simplified, detachable, and adjustable lamp shade that is "more practical and efficient without increasing the cost of manufacture" (lines 27-29), including illustrations.
Date:
May 16, 1916
Creator:
Landers, Charles G.
System:
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AUTOMOBILE-TOOL.
Patent for an automobile tool for the Ford make of automobiles that "will hold the springs away from the bands and allow the bands to be removed and replaced or adjusted, when necessary" (lines 29-32) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 4, 1920
Creator:
ROBERGE, JAMES Z.
System:
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Composition of Matter for Treating Concrete Flooring
Patent for improvements to treating concrete flooring. The process described for mixing animal, mineral, and vegetable waxes to produce a treatment which renders already poured concrete floors (or other cement or stone) dustless and waxy to prevent disintegration of the floor's components.
Date:
May 12, 1917
Creator:
Annan, Alfred H.
System:
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Air-Regulating Attachment.
Patent for a new attachment in a carburetor that regulates air through suction and has a valve to release pressure from an engine, including illustrations.
Date:
May 14, 1918
Creator:
Kimbler, Henry R.
System:
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Coffee Roaster.
Patent for a coffee roaster, with key features such as electric heat and agitation of coffee beans during roasting, including illustrations.
Date:
May 6, 1918
Creator:
Shortt, Everett T.
System:
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Camp-Cooker.
Patent for "a new and useful improvement in a form of camp cooker, or camp stove and particularly appertains to a folding and demountable cooker" (lines 8-11), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 21, 1918
Creator:
Hanson, Frank
System:
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Churn.
Patent for a churning receptacle for improvement in ease of operation, efficiency, and sanitation.
Date:
May 18, 1920
Creator:
Thompson, Robert A. & Morris, Lute P.
System:
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Wrench.
Patent for an improved wrench that has two movable jaws and can separate about the length of the handle. The wrench's "head or nut for operating the upper jaw is swiveled and forms a part of the handle" (lines 14-15). The wrench can be converted into a pipe-wrench.
Date:
May 9, 1893
Creator:
King, Will Henry Thomas
System:
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Wagon Brake.
Patent for a new and improved wagon-brake. This goal of this design "is to provide an automatic brake for wagons and other wheeled vehicles running on dirt roads" (lines 11-13).
Date:
May 23, 1882
Creator:
Le Roy, Charles Jerome & Henson, John Wesley
System:
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Kitchen Cabinet.
Patent for a new and improved cabinet. This design consists in "the combination, with a hinged door or lid, of [a] . . . separate bail" (lines 99-100). Further, said bail is "pivotally secured at its upper ends to the cabinet, and adapted to support on its middle portion the free end of the said door when the latter is in its horizontal position . . . [and it consists in] a suitable frame, the drawers having compartments on either side thereof, in combination with the hinged pie-board having the opening . . . which when raised closes said compartments" (lines 1-10).
Date:
May 24, 1887
Creator:
Dollens, Wood C.
System:
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