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Head Rest for Chairs.
Patent for a new and improved head-rest for chairs. This design consists in "[a] head-rest for chairs, comprising a top support . . . a plate fixed thereto and provided with a socket and guides . . . a ball, fitting socket, and retaining-jaws held in the guide of the plate around the ball" (lines 81-86).
Date:
August 3, 1886
Creator:
Ashby, Daniel S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fish-Grapple
Patent for a fish-grapple device with parts "embodying prongs or hooks which will engage the fish and prevent its escape" (lines 16-17).
Date:
August 3, 1915
Creator:
Batla, Thomas, H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Means for Opening or Closing Elevator-Doors.
Patent for a device which is mounted upon the traveling car and automatically opens and closes elevator doors. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 3, 1897
Creator:
Bell, Chester L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Safety Target.
Patent for a target device for pistols and rifles which allows for the motion of the target being hit to move another target into view.
Date:
August 3, 1920
Creator:
Briggs, George F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Economy Air-Brake Apparatus
Patent for improvements to railway air-brake apparatuses, including specifications for such improvements.
Date:
August 3, 1915
Creator:
Canion, William G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Surgical Instrument.
Patent for a tonsilotome/enucleator for cutting the tonsils out during a tonsillectomy without injuring the pillars.
Date:
August 3, 1909
Creator:
Combs, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Fishing-Floats.
Patent for a device to attach fishing floats to fishing lines.
Date:
August 3, 1915
Creator:
Davis, Samuel William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bedstead Fastener.
Patent for a new and improved bedstead-fastener. This design "relates to the construction of a fastener for bedsteads, the object of the invention being to provide a fastener by which the parts are firmly held together and prevented from springing; and to these ends the invention consists of certain details of construction and combination of parts" (lines 8-14).
Date:
August 3, 1886
Creator:
Dickey, John S. & McKinney, William P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cloth-Measuring Machine.
Patent for for a new cloth-measuring machine design, including illustrations.
Date:
August 3, 1880
Creator:
Dodson, Orson W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Transmission-Gear
Patent for improvements in motor vehicle transmissions in which all gears mesh at one time as opposed to being shifted and are "obtained by clutching different selected drive gears to the drive shaft of the transmission." (lines 18-20)
Date:
August 3, 1920
Creator:
Downie, James H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Screen.
Patent for a wire netting screen that can be used on doors or windows.
Date:
August 3, 1915
Creator:
Faires, Elisha J.
System:
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Improvement in Apparatus for Destroying the Cutting Ant.
Patent for "an improved apparatus for destroying the cutting ants in their nests." (Lines 9-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 3, 1875
Creator:
Fenner, Ferdinand A. & Power, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Power-Transmitting Device
Patent for improvements to a power transmitting device, the likes of which may be attached to motor vehicles or other motor operated machinery.
Date:
August 3, 1915
Creator:
Foster, Frank A. & Rockwell, Clayton S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drag-Sawing Machine.
Patent for improvements in "sawing-machines adapted for using both circular and reciprocating saws, and especially designed for general sawing in cabinet-makers’ and carpenters’ shops, its object being to provide for the proper guiding and support of the reciprocating saw and for the ready adjustment and firm maintenance of the articles to be sawed in proper position.” (Lines 9-16) Illustration is included.
Date:
August 3, 1880
Creator:
Gardner, Robert J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock.
Patent for a combined nut lock and washer for use on railroad track joints.
Date:
August 3, 1909
Creator:
Garner, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock.
Patent for a nut lock for railroad joints, which includes spring washers.
Date:
August 3, 1909
Creator:
Garner, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Moldboard and Landside Plow and Gage-Wheel
Patent for modifications to a plow which allow the user to adjust the depth, which lists the components of such modifications.
Date:
August 3, 1915
Creator:
Haferkamp, August
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Car-Step.
Patent for "a supplemental folding step which may be lowered into position for use when passengers are boarding or leaving a [railway] car and which may be folded back out of the way when the train is about to leave the station." (Lines 12-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 3, 1897
Creator:
Hamilton, Samuel R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Crate.
Patent for a crate that is "readily folded into a small compass when not in use and easily unfolded and adjusted, so as to serve the purpose of an ordinary crate, and when so adjusted it will be as rigid as though of ordinary construction." (Lines 11-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 3, 1897
Creator:
Hausmann, Otto
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bat-Making Machine.
Patent for a cotton bat making machine which allows the cotton lint to be positioned better on the press and the outer bag material covering the cotton lint to be attached together quickly. Illustration is included.
Date:
August 3, 1909
Creator:
Haynes, Daniel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ink Feeder for Pens.
Patent for a wire attachment to be added to the hollow of a writing pen. This attachment would enable more ink to be drawn into the interior of the pen, therefore allowing more words to be written from a single dip into an ink well.
Date:
August 3, 1915
Creator:
Hine, Frank B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe Tongs Support.
Patent for pipe tongs supports to provide a pipe tongs support that will permit a pipe tongs to be so balanced that it will tend to maintain itself in a horizontal position which is the position in which its use is required.
Date:
August 3, 1915
Creator:
Hoffer, Temple B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a cotton chopper attachment, which can be connected to a cultivator to thin cotton.
Date:
August 3, 1909
Creator:
Joiner, Preston
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lace-Rack.
Patent for an improved design for a lace-rack, or a container to stow away lace boards. Illustrations included.
Date:
August 3, 1912
Creator:
Jones, Laurence E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History