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Automatic Match Box
Patent for automatic match box. This device is designed to eject matches to a suitable distance. Illustration included.
Date:
November 9, 1909
Creator:
Hanna, John Griffin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Signal
Patent for a signal of the nature indicated including a signal arm controlled in novel manner and movable from one position to another, the signal arm being inoperative in one position, and when moved to the other position being visible to other vehicles and pedestrians both in front and in rear, to warn them of the intention of the operator driver to turn.
Date:
November 27, 1917
Creator:
Deats, O.G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bailing-Press.
Patent for Bailing Press including illustrations. The purpose of the bailing press was to improve "the bailing-press especially adapted for bailing cotton, which press is simple in construction, strong and durable, and operates rapidly" ( lines 9-12).
Date:
November 24, 1885
Creator:
Clark, Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brick Machine.
Patent for a new and improved brick machine. This design consists in "a mold-wheel mounted to revolve in the horizontal plane and provided with mold-cavities, of a vertically-movable plunger in each cavity, a door for each cavity hinged on the top of the wheel, the hinge plate or lug attached to the mold-wheel being slotted to allow a vertical movement of the hinge-pin, a curved arm pivoted over the top of the mold-wheel and extending over part of the same, and a spring acting on the swinging end of said curved arm" (lines 80-90).
Date:
November 23, 1886
Creator:
Thaison, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for an improved car coupling that consists of a hollow drawhead with a pivoting knuckle, a hook on one side of the knuckle, a catch on the other side of the knuckle, a latch pivoted in the drawhead that engages the catch, a spring that presses the latch against the knuckle, a rod attached to the latch, a double crank attached to the rod, hand rods and cranks on either side of the car, and a buffer above the drawbar.
Date:
November 28, 1893
Creator:
Darrow, Nicholas & Roosevelt, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Card-Cutting Attachment for Printing-Presses.
Patent for an attachment for printing presses that not only acts as a card cutter, but can also change the shape of the design and automatically eject the paper.
Date:
November 26, 1901
Creator:
Speight, Winchester Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chain-Link.
Patent for a harness ring for connecting and disconnecting from other fastening hooks, chains, or rings, including illustration.
Date:
November 13, 1860
Creator:
Kirk, John P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Dasher.
Patent for a new and useful churn dasher, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 21, 1899
Creator:
Franklin, Edward R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Dasher.
Patent for a new and useful churn dasher, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 29, 1898
Creator:
Franklin, Edward A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn Dasher
Patent for churn-dashers of the rotary type for a churning machine. This will allow the cream upon contact with blades of the dasher to turn over and head town the bottom of the churn.
Date:
November 10, 1903
Creator:
Franklin, Edward A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cleaner for Gun Barrels.
Patent for a new and improved cleaner for gun barrels. This design "consists of a brush or cleaner formed in the main of spring metal, (preferably of brass,) and provided with bristles beveled at their free ends, so set in suitable holding parts as that when unconfined said bristles will move outward from a common axis and bear against the inner surface of a gun barrel when placed within the same" (lines 13-20).
Date:
November 27, 1883
Creator:
Petmecky, Joseph C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Oil-Can and Oiler.
Patent for combined oil-can that "combines the function of an oiler and oil can" (lines 12-13) and "is easily and simply constructed, inexpensive to manufacture and one which will be very efficient in operation" (lines 18-21).
Date:
November 12, 1918
Creator:
Tumey, Alfred S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Wardrobe and Book-Case.
Patent for a combined bookcase and wardrobe cabinet, with illustrations. The purpose of the bookcase and wardrobe cabinet is to be "used as a bookcase, wardrobe, or show-case at will" (lines 10-11).
Date:
November 30, 1886
Creator:
Schmidt, Julius Friedrich
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a cotton chopper with two independently operated plows on the front.
Date:
November 3, 1908
Creator:
Ferriott, Charles L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper. This invention consists of chopping blades attached to the rotary shaft. Illustration included.
Date:
November 5, 1912
Creator:
Carlson, Peet
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picker.
Patent for improvements on cotton pickers that allow the cotton to be collected separately from the bolls.
Date:
November 16, 1915
Creator:
Phel, Walter Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dinner Bucket.
Patent for a new and improved lunch bucket. This design consists in a "base-plate having sleeves upon two of its opposite edges, two rectangular-shaped bails secured at one end in said sleeves, the upper ends of each of said bails being bent inward or toward each other, the upper end of one of said bails being shorter than the other and bent slightly upward, and means for securing the upper ends of said bails together" (lines 1-8).
Date:
November 23, 1886
Creator:
Lederle, Edward Emil
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electrolytic Cell
Patent for an improved electrolytic cell that automatically maintains its predetermined amount of liquid.
Date:
November 20, 1920
Creator:
Walker, Thomas Bailey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fare Box.
Patent for a new and improved fare-box. This design consists in a "cylinder provided with a longitudinal slot more than half the diameter of said cylinder in depth, and weighed by means of a rotary weight secured to the shaft which forms the axis, to return said cylinder and keep it to normal position with the mouth of the slot downward, of the inclined parallel plates located, respectively, above and below said cylinder, and means for operating said cylinder composed of segment, arm, and toothed wheel secured to the shaft of said cylinder" (lines 110-122).
Date:
November 2, 1886
Creator:
Greer, John William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire Arm Holder.
Patent for a new and improved pistol holster. This design "consists of a plate of malleable iron or other suitable metal, curved to conform to the waist of a person, having secured to it on the inside a spring adapted to push outward from the waist toward an auxiliary slotted countersunk plate, serving to hold the head of the screw attached to the fire-arm" (lines 19-25).
Date:
November 21, 1882
Creator:
Petmecky, Joseph C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fishing-Float.
Patent for a new and improved fishing float, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 29, 1898
Creator:
Lubbock, William Lockart
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Framometer
Patent for a framometer. This invention is a square and to be used by house builders. Illustration included.
Date:
November 24, 1903
Creator:
Bones, Clifton Welton & Harvey, Harry F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harness-Saddle.
Patent for a harness saddle that has a metallic frame that is hinged with straps, pads, guide straps that are secured to the pads and slide along straps, plates connected to a curved plate in the saddle, plates pivotally connected to the aforementioned plates, cylindrical lugs that are attached to plates, and cylindrical apertures that slip over the lugs.
Date:
November 13, 1894
Creator:
Miller, John A. & Warmoth, James H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Breech-Loading Fire-Arms.
Patent for improvement in breech-loading fire-arms.
Date:
November 19, 1878
Creator:
Petmecky, Joseph C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History