Churn-Cover. (open access)

Churn-Cover.

Patent for an improvement in churn covers "which will embody a closed dead-air space above the body of the churn, a guide-tube for the dasher-rod, and the special construction at the outer edge of the base of the cover by which to provide a channel to fit upon the upper edge of the churn-body" (lines 10-15).
Date: May 27, 1902
Creator: Van Hoozer, Thomas H. B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Casting Dental Plates. (open access)

Casting Dental Plates.

Patent for casting dental plates which builds upon a previous patent by the same inventor, Patent No. 633,222, accepted on September 19, 1899. This patent professes to eliminate previous issues with casting metal such as pinholes and air bubbles that create imperfections in the dental plates.
Date: May 27, 1902
Creator: Streetman, Willard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin. (open access)

Clothes-Pin.

Patent for clothes pins made from non-oxidizable wire, including illustrations.
Date: May 27, 1913
Creator: Buckley, John Lee
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Separating Liquids in Emulsion. (open access)

Apparatus for Separating Liquids in Emulsion.

Patent for improved apparatus for separating liquids in emulsion (relates to improved apparatus for separating one liquid from another) when found in emulsion and has especial reference to means for rapidly and effectually dehydrating petroleum oil emulsion.
Date: May 27, 1919
Creator: McKibben, Charles W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Checking Attachment for Planters (open access)

Checking Attachment for Planters

Patent for a checking attachment for planters that is "easily adjusted to drop seed at various distances" (lines 16-17).
Date: May 27, 1919
Creator: Sprowl, Wiliam L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Irrigating Apparatus. (open access)

Irrigating Apparatus.

Patent for a new and improved irrigation apparatus. This design "pertains to improvements in irrigating apparatus, having for its object to prevent the choking or obstructing of the nozzle and to effect the proper distribution of the water; and it consists of the combination and construction of parts" (lines 13-18).
Date: May 27, 1884
Creator: Chisholm, William R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well-Screen. (open access)

Well-Screen.

Patent for improvements in the construction of well-screens in order to increase efficiency and prevent clogs using a "cheap and durable construction" (lines 11-12) that includes illustrations and a description.
Date: May 27, 1913
Creator: Layne, Mahlon, E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lantern. (open access)

Lantern.

Patent for an "improved lantern for switchmen and other railroad men for use in signaling and the like, and which is susceptible of being used for prolonged signals without extinguishing the flame and which is not liable to be accidentally blown out by a strong wind or current of air either" (lines 10-16).
Date: May 27, 1913
Creator: Moore, Thomas L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Loading and Unloading Mechanism for Mixing-Drums or Other Receptacles (open access)

Loading and Unloading Mechanism for Mixing-Drums or Other Receptacles

Patent for improving the regulating of asphalt and concrete mixers.
Date: May 27, 1913
Creator: Hahn, William Berton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Piano-Forte Actions. (open access)

Improvement in Piano-Forte Actions.

Patent for a new piano forte design which "consists in certain novel details of construction, arrangement, and combination of the key-lever and its fulcrum and rest, a receiving-lever, a transmitting-eccentric, a secondary hammer, a principal hammer and its rest, and a damper-action and its connections, whereby greater simplicity and efficiency are obtained" (lines 10-17) including illustrations.
Date: May 27, 1879
Creator: Roedern, George O. V.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ventilator-Flue. (open access)

Ventilator-Flue.

Patent for a flue made of separate parts so that it can be disassembled for more efficient transport, including illustrations.
Date: May 27, 1902
Creator: Goodwin, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wheel-Rim. (open access)

Wheel-Rim.

Patent for improvement to wheel rims providing "means for introducing oil thereinto and distributing it throughout the whole periphery" (lines 10-12).
Date: May 27, 1902
Creator: Harville, Walter S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Clay Grinder and Mixer. (open access)

Improvement in Clay Grinder and Mixer.

Patent for a new clay grinder and mixer design which "will be found to be especially useful in connection with brick-machines" (p. 2) including illustrations.
Date: May 27, 1879
Creator: Kennedy, John M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Telegraph system (open access)

Telegraph system

Patent for telegraph system using keyboard operated remotely.
Date: May 27, 1913
Creator: Edward, Claude M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Track-Laying Machine (open access)

Track-Laying Machine

Patent for Tracking Laying machine.The combination of train of cars, sectional tramway, and extending along the sides of the car gives means for disconnecting the connection. The fore-mentioned applications improves tack laying machines.
Date: May 27, 1913
Creator: Simpson, Charles, M. & Smith, Howard F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method of Forming Concrete Foundations and the Like. (open access)

Method of Forming Concrete Foundations and the Like.

Patent for forming concrete foundations and piers by placing metal tubes into the ground and enveloping them with gravel.
Date: May 27, 1913
Creator: Layne, Mahlon E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Metal Cross Tie for Railroads. (open access)

Metal Cross Tie for Railroads.

Patent for a new and improved cross-tie for railroads. This design consists, "with a plate-metal cross-tie body having inclined sides which are integrally joined at an apex and longitudinally-slotted, forming rail-seats, and integral lips on said apex, of a rod oppositely threaded at its ends, nuts which fit in the cross-tie body and are adapted to engage the right and left hand threads on the ends of the rod, integral lugs formed on the nuts, means to rotate the rod, and means to lock the rod from rotation" (lines 29-39).
Date: May 27, 1890
Creator: Taylor, James P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Steam Engine (open access)

Steam Engine

Patent for an improved steam engine design.
Date: May 27, 1919
Creator: Edwards, James L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pneumatic Tool (open access)

Pneumatic Tool

Patent for a Pneumatic Tool that is capable of operating automatically at a very high speed." (line 20)
Date: May 27, 1913
Creator: Townsend, Isaac W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Platform for Harvesters. (open access)

Platform for Harvesters.

Patent for a new and improved platform for harvesters. This design "has particular reference to the platform thereof or that portion designed to receive the grain as it is cut by the reaping mechanism; and among the main objects in view is to provide a platform located in rear of the reaping mechanism that is capable of being contracted and extended, and also to provide other parts that may be withdrawn inward, whereby the machine, as a whole, is decreased in width, and its passage through farm-gates from field to field and over unbroken ground is facilitated" (lines 11-22).
Date: May 27, 1890
Creator: Lewis, Thomas E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process for Treating Cotton-Seed (open access)

Process for Treating Cotton-Seed

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Processes for Treating Cotton-Seed"(lines 6-8), which expresses oil from cotton and neutralizes it with "alkali... and precipitating solid matter"(lines 26-27).
Date: May 27, 1919
Creator: Fee, Horatio A. & Aeveaenes, Garciea H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil Retaining Internal Gear Drive (open access)

Oil Retaining Internal Gear Drive

Patent for automotive drive shaft that retains oil.
Date: May 27, 1919
Creator: Hereford, Adolph P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fly-Trap. (open access)

Fly-Trap.

Patent for a fly/insect trap with a unique construction that includes an upright cylindrical casing, a peripheral rib, a transparent funnel, and a mesh bait holder, including illustrations.
Date: May 27, 1913
Creator: Buck, Daniel Luther
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fence. (open access)

Fence.

Patent for a new and improved fence. This design "compris[es] the main end and intermediate posts anchored in the ground, the longitudinal wires connected to said main end posts and let into said intermediate posts, said end posts being suitably braced and said longitudinal wires being connected together by tie-wires, and the supplemental posts, to which are also bound or secured said longitudinal wires, having the horizontal feet of approximate figure-8 shape resting squarely on the ground or surface" (lines 69-79).
Date: May 27, 1890
Creator: Kerr, James, Sr.
System: The Portal to Texas History