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Car Coupling
Patent for rail car coupling. Illustration included.
Date:
August 21, 1906
Creator:
Burran, William Jefferson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic And Continuous Film Distillation Apparatus.
Patent for Automatic film distillation apparatus.
Date:
August 21, 1906
Creator:
Clemenger, F. J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bit.
Patent for a bridle bit that helps a handler to hold or guide an animal without harming its mouth. Illustration included.
Date:
August 21, 1900
Creator:
Castro, Alberto
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Book-Holder for Reading-Stands.
Patent for "a book holder especially designed to receive large books for reference, such as a dictionary for example, and to so construct the mechanism of the holder that a cradle will be provided for the reception of the book, which cradle will be adapted to be carried upward and outward from the holder in a manner which will bring the book in proper position for consultation, and which mechanism will also act to lower the book, without jar or injury to it, within the holder when the book is no longer required." (Lines 14-26) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 21, 1894
Creator:
Anderson, Francis John & Irick, William Madison
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coin-Holder and Indicator for Receptacles.
Patent for a device to be placed on empty milk bottles or other receptacles that are left unattended for a delivery person to exchange for full ones, including illustrations. The device indicates to the delivery person the quantity of product desired and is equipped with a pouch or pocket into which the payment for the product can be placed. In this manner, the purchaser can communicate his or her desired purchase amount to the delivery person and provide payment for same, without the requirement of being present at the time of delivery.
Date:
August 21, 1917
Creator:
Roberts, William F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Rule and Square.
Patent for new and useful Improvements in Combined Rules and Squares which makes it "possible to form a rigid straight rule or one or more rigid squares" (lines 24-25), including illustration and instructions.
Date:
August 21, 1917
Creator:
Grossman, Edwin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Auxiliary Seeding Attachment for Planters
Patent for an attachment to existing hopper fed planters intended for larger format seeds (corn, cotton, etc.), to allow their use in distribution of smaller format seeds (cabbage, onions, etc.).
Date:
August 21, 1917
Creator:
Whitworth, John Allen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Boll Harvester.
Patent for improvements to the cotton-boll harvesters. "..has for its principal object the production of a structure which will quickly and readily strip the unopened bolls from the cotton stalks"( line 9-14)
Date:
August 21, 1917
Creator:
Smith, Millard Elmor & Simmons, J.T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Railway-Switch.
Patent for new and useful Improvements in Automatic Railway-Switches, "particularly to automatic railway switches for use in street railways or steam railways" (lines 13-15), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 21, 1917
Creator:
Eisenberg, Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insecticide
Patent for "a compound or composition for the extermination of ants, moles, salamanders, prairie-dogs, large rats, &c." (lines 11-13).
Date:
August 21, 1888
Creator:
Simpson, James Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Landside for Plows.
Patent for a new and improved plow landside. This design "consists in a landside for plows made with a slotted flange to rest upon the forward side of the plow-standard, and a flange to rest upon the bottom of the furrow, whereby the plow will be made stronger, more durable, and more effective, and will be made to run steadier . . . The object of this invention is to increase the strength and durability of plow-plates, and obtain the efficiency and steadiness of ordinary turn-plows without their weight" (lines 21-31).
Date:
August 21, 1883
Creator:
Wherry, William B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Cutting Key-Seats in Shafting
Patent for "cutting key-seats in shafting machine. It provides a portable key-seat-cutting especially adapted to operate upon the driving shafts of locomotives in key-seating eccentrics thereon." (lines 7-13)
Date:
August 21, 1906
Creator:
Matheus, Karl
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window Display and Advertising Device
Patent for Window Display and Advertising Device including platform with rotating parts, including illusrations.
Date:
August 21, 1900
Creator:
Moorefield, Armistead Younger
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Strainer
Patent for a well-strainer, specifically to "a cap or plug applied directly to a cap or plug applied directly to an aperture in a pipe-section used for wells." (lines 9-12)
Date:
August 21, 1906
Creator:
McEvoy, J. H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Watering-Trough.
Patent for a valve that controls the flow of drinking water from a reservoir or tank into a trough. It can be operated by domestic animals and automatically shuts off when they are finished drinking.
Date:
August 21, 1917
Creator:
Atkinson, George C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Oil-Burners
Patent for improvements to oil-burners. The text contains a description of the unique improvements and is accompanied by explanatory illustrations.
Date:
August 21, 1917
Creator:
Harrington, Edward A
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Baling-Presses
Patent for Improvements on Baling Presses. The patent contains an explanation of how the improvements function and their purpose, and is accompanied by illustrations of the machinery.
Date:
December 11, 1916
Creator:
Ezell, Umberto D
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lever-Operated Cutting Mechanism
Patent for lever-operated cutting mechanism, that used leavers to provide a cutting surface that is both adjustable and can be reversibly held, including illustrations.
Date:
August 21, 1900
Creator:
Orr, William Oliver
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sulky Attachments for Plows.
Patent for improvement in sulky attachments for plows. This invention allows farmers to "apply any kind of plow to the sulky-frame" (1).
Date:
August 21, 1876
Creator:
Langsford, Samuel P. & Stroud, Wiley N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Piles for Bulk-Heads and Other Structures.
Patent for improvements in piles for bulkheads: "The object of the present invention being to provide a concrete-faced bulk-head composed of piles, each of which may be sunk in position by continuously forcing the sand from beneath the lower end of the pile" (lines 15-19), with illustrations.
Date:
August 21, 1877
Creator:
Parry, Morgan L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Traffic-Signal.
Patent for a traffic signal apparatus for installation in automobiles, including illustrations.
Date:
August 21, 1917
Creator:
Valdes, Salvador M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hopples.
Patent for improvement in hopples: "consists of a metallic band composed of three equal parts, two of which are hinged to a third, and provided with a fastening, by means of which it may be secured to the leg of the animal" (lines 14-19).
Date:
August 21, 1877
Creator:
Melton, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Garden-Pumps.
Patent for improvements in garden-pumps: "a garden-pump with attachments for sprinkling liquid poison" (lines 13-15).
Date:
August 21, 1877
Creator:
Vogelsang, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner.
Patent for hydrocarbon-burners to provide a novel and improved burner for coal-oil, petroleum, or other liquid fuel.
Date:
August 21, 1917
Creator:
Hewett, John A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History