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Adjustable Device for Dressing Down Bearings
Patent for a tool that dresses down bearings. Railroad engine journals and their corresponding bearings show wear over time. When replacing bearings into such a journal, without adaptation of the bearing there will be an improper fit, resulting in "hot journals" or "hot boxes". This tool adapts a bearing to a proper fit for the journal into which it will be installed.
Date:
December 12, 1922
Creator:
Mitchell, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Antifriction Device for Cranks and Pitmen
Patent for an antifriction device used to "prevent dust and grit from accumulating in the anti-friction bearings" (lines 17-18). Illustrations included.
Date:
December 24, 1907
Creator:
Neighbour, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Raising and Lowering Wagon Bodies.
Patent for a new and improved wagon jack. This design consists "[i]n a wagon body raiser, the combination of vertical supports, a lever pivotally supported therefrom between its ends and having a roller in one end, a shaft adapted to be secured to one end of the body, a cord having one end connected with the same end of the body as the shaft and passing over the roller and its opposite end attached to the shaft, and a cord attached to the opposite end of the body and to the adjacent end of the lever" (lines 69-78).
Date:
December 9, 1890
Creator:
Scott, Eugene Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design consists in "a box having its upper end open and having an outwardly-opening door at the lower portion of one side, a plunger in the box having a post provided with a braced cross-piece near the upper end, ropes secured to the ends of the cross-piece, a drum under the lower end of the box, having a helical pulley at one end and a small drum at the other end, and having the ropes secured to it and winding upon it, a rope passing over guide-pulleys above the upper end of the box and winding upon the small drum" (lines 16-28).
Date:
December 13, 1887
Creator:
Weddle, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Barrel-Cover
Patent for a barrel cover. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 6, 1910
Creator:
Andrews, James R. & Waldrum, Joseph W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Board Roofing.
Patent for a new design of roofing board. The wooden boards are designed to "contract and expand with changes of temperature" (para. 3) and to allow rain to run off without seeping into the joints of the boards.
Date:
December 19, 1876
Creator:
Zimmerman, Arnold W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bran Dresser
Patent for new and valuable Improvement in Bran-Dressers
Date:
December 13, 1881
Creator:
De Haven, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Can Cover
Patent for a can cover. Illustration included.
Date:
December 1, 1908
Creator:
Pratt, James R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Brake.
Patent for improvements in car brakes, "wherein the ordinary brake-beams are dispensed with and wherein the several brake-shoe-carrying levers will be self-adjusting." (lines 8 - 11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 17, 1891
Creator:
Braun, Henry F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Child's Garment
Patent for a child's garment. Illustration included.
Date:
December 25, 1906
Creator:
Hanks, Edith & Anderson, George B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coupling.
Patent for a coupling invention that consists of a detachable key member and locking key member for a valve plug. It is meant to improve couplings for detachable handles of drain-cocks.
Date:
December 3, 1918
Creator:
Copeland, Joe S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for an improved cultivator that utilizes wheels and implements adapted for working in adjacent parallel furrows. The cultivator can be used to remove potatoes and similar crops from the earth.
Date:
December 17, 1901
Creator:
Sheridan, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator
Patent for a cultivator. Illustration included.
Date:
December 3, 1907
Creator:
McDonald, Thomas Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Curtain Fixture.
Patent for a new and improved curtain fixture. This design "consist[s] of the brackets secured to the window-frame, and a frame consisting of a single continuous integral U-shaped bar having its arms bent outward from its shoulders . . . and having the end of one of its arms pivoted to the adjacent bracket and the end of the other arm bent laterally and journaled in the other bracket, the curtain-roller being journaled in and extending between the arms" (lines 60-69).
Date:
December 24, 1889
Creator:
Bomar, Mattie A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Holding Paper over Cakes in Ovens.
Patent for a new and improved paper-holder for cake baking. With this design, "[a] cake is placed in the oven, the holder placed in position over it, the hoop or frame raised, and a paper placed upon [another] hoop. The [first] hoop is then pressed down upon it, when the cake may be baked without the top being scorched" (lines 40-45).
Date:
December 3, 1889
Creator:
Balfour, Emma
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Elastic Chain
Patent for this invention is to provide a chain which yield longitudinally when subjected to a tensile strain and to this end arrangement of parts, as will be herein after described and claimed. [5-10]
Date:
December 3, 1889
Creator:
Redwood, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electrode-Holder
Patent for "an electrode holder for the head lights of steam locomotives, interurban cars and analogous vehicles" (lines 11-13), including illustrations.
Date:
December 28, 1915
Creator:
Pratt, James R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Expansible Pulley
Patent for an expansible pulley. This invention is constructed to expand and contract easily with great durability. Illustration included.
Date:
December 1, 1903
Creator:
Peters, William Arthur & May, Reynolds
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire Kindler.
Patent for a new fire-kindler which lists the composition of ingredients. Patent for "a new and improved fire-kindler can containing the composition" (lines 15-16) including instructions and illustrations. Patent for a new fire-kindler design, including illustrations.
Date:
December 20, 1892
Creator:
Rogers, Silas M. N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Freezer
Patent for a portable freezer designed to freeze cream and milk. Illustration included.
Date:
December 28, 1909
Creator:
Milburn, William M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for a new and improved gate. This design "relates to improvements in gates that are balanced by a weight and opened in either direction by ropes operating in conjunction with circular inclined tracks and rollers; and the object of [the] improvement is to provide a gate that may be readily opened and closed by a person seated in a vehicle" (lines 7-14).
Date:
December 30, 1884
Creator:
Drake, Edwin L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame-Hook.
Patent for a hame hook for horse harnesses that allows it be used on different size horses and for both heavy and light work.
Date:
December 8, 1908
Creator:
Willis, James F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hand Sawing Machine.
Patent for a new and improved hand sawing-machine. This design "relates to improvements in hand sawing-machines in which a vertically-movable frame-work supporting the driving mechanism operates in conjunction with a horizontally-reciprocating cross-head for carrying the saw; and the object of [the] improvements is to provide a portable hand-power machine for the rapid cutting of stove-wood, and for other light sawing" (lines 8-16).
Date:
December 5, 1882
Creator:
York, Martin V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Headlight-Reflector
Patent for a headlight reflector to be adapted to trains. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 20, 1910
Creator:
Pratt, R. James
System:
The Portal to Texas History