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Accident Brake Appliance
Patent for an accident brake appliance for trains.
Date:
November 15, 1910
Creator:
Troutt, Martin E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane.
Patent for aeroplane construction to include improvements to air motor protection to minimize resistance and the use of air cups to direct the full force of air to the motor shaft, including illustrations.
Date:
November 15, 1921
Creator:
Smith, Joseph A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Cylindrical Power.
Patent for a new and improved cylindrical power-source. This design "consists in the combination of a cylindrical slotted frame with a series of blades which are connected together in pairs, and which are alternately forced through the slots in the frame to receive the force of the wind or water and then retracted, so that they will offer no resistance during a portion of the revolution of the frame. . . . The object of [the] invention is to produce a motor which is adapted for use either as a wind-wheel or a water-wheel" (lines 13-27).
Date:
November 15, 1881
Creator:
Hutchinson, Thomas E.
System:
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Automobile-Signal.
Patent for turn signal improvements with an aim to improve visibility of signal and ease of replacement with the goal of communicating vehicular movement and reducing accidents.
Date:
November 15, 1921
Creator:
Squier, William Ernest
System:
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Axle Lubricator.
Patent for axle lubricator. This invention makes it so that manual lubrication of spindles is eliminated.
Date:
November 15, 1921
Creator:
Bass, Thomas G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brick Kiln
Patent for a brick kiln. Illustration included.
Date:
November 15, 1904
Creator:
Sonka, Joesph & Metzner, Robert A.
System:
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Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "consists, [primarily], of certain devices whereby the coupling-pin raised in the draw-head is supported until the draw-heads strike each other in coupling, when the coupling-pin falls by gravity" (lines 17-21).
Date:
November 15, 1881
Creator:
Thomason, John W.
System:
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Clamp.
Patent for a new and useful clamp, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 15, 1898
Creator:
Hauff, Isaac F.
System:
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Clamping Device for Shutters
Patent for a clamping device for shutter slats.
Date:
November 15, 1910
Creator:
Kyler, William
System:
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Coin-Wrapping Device.
Patent for a coin wrapper (primarily used in banks) that uses a strip of carbon paper to create an imprint of the coins contained inside, which will remain after the coins are removed. The purpose of this is to create a record of the original number of coins to facilitate their counting and verification.
Date:
November 15, 1921
Creator:
Mohr, Arthur D.
System:
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Combined Scraper and Fender.
Patent for a combined scraper and fender for plows.
Date:
November 15, 1910
Creator:
Buttrill, David B.
System:
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Condenser.
Patent for a condenser for converting exhaust steam from motors into potable water for ice making.
Date:
November 15, 1910
Creator:
Galbraith, David G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Attachment For Cultivators
Patent for a cotton attachment for cultivators. This invention allows for the attachment to any normal cultivator of cotton attachment to cultivate cotton. Illustration included.
Date:
November 15, 1904
Creator:
Willis, George
System:
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Cotton-Cleaner and Boll-Breaker.
Patent for cotton cleaning and boll-breaking apparatus that simplifies assembling, disassembling, and adjusting parts. The apparatus uses a suction that feeds the material into the rotating blades for cleaning. Special features include removable screen frames, refuse collecting pockets, and replaceable blades.
Date:
November 15, 1921
Creator:
Stacy, Grover C.
System:
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Cotton Cleaning Apparatus
Patent for cotton cleaning apparatus. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 15, 1904
Creator:
Murray, Stephen D.
System:
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Cylinder-Mounting for Carriage-Feeds
Patent for a cylinder mounting for carriage feeds in sawmills which wears less easily than other models.
Date:
November 15, 1910
Creator:
Myer, Clayton Pittinger
System:
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Disk Plow-Scraper.
Patent for a disk plow scraper.
Date:
November 15, 1910
Creator:
Shackelford, James J.
System:
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Farm-Gate
Patent for an addition to self-closing swinging farm gates where a latch locks the gate with the force of the weight of the gate along with a modification to the attachment of the gate wherein the gate is made stronger and more efficient for it.
Date:
November 15, 1892
Creator:
Miller, Wilson B.
System:
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Filter.
Patent for a new and improved filter. This design "consist[s] of the receptacle having the receiving, settling, and filtering chambers, in the bottom of which filtering chamber are formed transverse wedge-shaped ridges, and at the bottoms of the settling, receiving, and filtering chambers and of the basin are arranged outlet pipes, which receiving, settling, and filtering chambers are separated from one another by walls or partitions of successively varying or lesser heights, and which basin is arranged lower than the filtering chamber, together with a branched supply pipe" (lines 16-27).
Date:
November 15, 1887
Creator:
Waespi, Jacob; Fretz, Emil; Spellman, John & Frey, John
System:
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Fire-Engine.
Patent for improvements to fire engines, designed for rural use and places where water may be scarce by the inclusion of storage tank and a pump.
Date:
November 15, 1910
Creator:
Minnis, Henry M.
System:
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Floor Jack
Patent for floor jack. Illustration included.
Date:
November 15, 1904
Creator:
Millican, Charles M.
System:
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Flue Expander
Patent for a flue expander. This invention is a tool for expanding boiler flues in flue sheets. Illustration included.
Date:
November 15, 1904
Creator:
Player, James Arthur
System:
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Folding Bedstead.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in folding bedsteads, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 15, 1898
Creator:
Evans, Joseph W.
System:
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Gate Latch.
Patent for a new and improved gate-latch. This design consists in "the rings loosely suspended on opposite sides of a central line, levers extended past such central line, and having their inner ends engaged with the rings on the opposite sides of the center from the handle ends, and partition-plates interposed between such levers and the rings past which they are extended" (lines 79-86).
Date:
November 15, 1887
Creator:
Charleville, George William
System:
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