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Hose-Nozzle Holder. (open access)

Hose-Nozzle Holder.

Patent for a hose nozzle holder, particularly for garden hoses, with illustrations.
Date: December 23, 1913
Creator: Austin, Hebert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Windmill Attachment. (open access)

Windmill Attachment.

Patent for an attachment for hand or windmill pumps in order to reduce stress of upward and load moving strokes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 23, 1919
Creator: Bertrand, Rabb A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Sweep. (open access)

Cotton-Sweep.

Patent for cotton sweep. This invention helps in easy spreading and setting of sweeping blades, "since it provides a novel form of brace to be interposed between the blades of the sweep and the stock" (lines 15-17).
Date: December 23, 1902
Creator: Brown, Burel J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wheels for Vehicles. (open access)

Improvement in Wheels for Vehicles.

Patent for "an improved hub for buggy and other vehicle wheels, which shall be simple in construction, strong, and durable, and which will run with little friction." (Lines 10-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 23, 1873
Creator: Brown, David
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Molds for Sewer-Building. (open access)

Improvement in Molds for Sewer-Building.

Patent for a collapsible mold on wheels, allowing a sewer to "be built in sections around the mold and the mold moved along the trench as sections are completed" (lines 13-16) including illustrations.
Date: December 23, 1879
Creator: Burns, James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Foundation and Housing for Railway or Other Signal Apparatus (open access)

Foundation and Housing for Railway or Other Signal Apparatus

Patent for improved design of railway signaling devices by combining two housing units into one unit that can be buried in the ground. The buried box will then be the foundation for the signal apparatus.
Date: December 23, 1919
Creator: Campbell, John Logan
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Buckles. (open access)

Improvement in Buckles.

Patent for improvements in buckles used for multiple purposes including illustrations.
Date: December 23, 1879
Creator: Carnes, William James Sr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wheel. (open access)

Wheel.

Patent for an improved and resilient spring wheel for a vehicle.
Date: December 23, 1913
Creator: Collinsworth, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combination-Padlocks. (open access)

Improvement in Combination-Padlocks.

Patent for "a padlock in which the permutation locking device is not permanently connected to the hasp; and said invention consists of a permutation device the fixed ends whereof are provided with sockets to receive the ends of a separate hasp, and be locked therewith by a notched bolt passing through the permutation device and both ends of the hasp, whereby the usual hinged connection of the parts is avoided, and the padlock made more secure and cheaper than when the parts are permanently united." (Lines 6-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 23, 1873
Creator: Hall, William N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Key-Hole Guards. (open access)

Improvement in Key-Hole Guards.

Patent for "a guard for key-holes of locks, to prevent the use of keys by unauthorized persons, the picking of the lock, and as a means for operating the bolt when fitted for that purpose." (Lines 7-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 23, 1873
Creator: Hall, William N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Scrapers. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Scrapers.

Patent for an improvement in the construction of cotton-scrapers, "which is secured to the stock or standard so as to project out to one side of the cultivator-shovel" (lines 14-16) including illustrations.
Date: December 23, 1879
Creator: Hill, Abner R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Devices for Transmitting Rotary Motion. (open access)

Improvement in Devices for Transmitting Rotary Motion.

Patent for an improvement to devices that transmit rotary motion from one shaft to another. It is comprised of a wheel on a rotary shaft that has has a groove that grips an angular nut mounted on a shaft.
Date: December 23, 1879
Creator: Howe, Milton G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Boring-Drill. (open access)

Rotary Boring-Drill.

Patent for a rotary boring drill that will "provide a cutting surface for the cutter" (lines 20-21) for drilling wells, particularly "roller cutters of the cone type used in drilling rock of other hard formation." (lines 13-15)
Date: December 23, 1919
Creator: Hughes, Howard R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stock-Car (open access)

Stock-Car

Patent for an improvement on stock cars to "enable the weight of the water-laden troughs to be overcome and the troughs elevated in position simultaneously through the entire length of the car; second, to regulate the movement of the water-troughs" (lines 16-20).
Date: December 23, 1890
Creator: Lazarus, Samuel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seeder and Planter. (open access)

Seeder and Planter.

Patent for a seeder and planter improvement. The invention "produce an improved leveling board to be used in connection therewith the purpose of leveling soil and crushing clods and for the additional purpose of regulating the depth to which the seed shall be planted." (lines 9-14)
Date: December 23, 1913
Creator: Mallory, Merideth T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Waterproofing Composition and Process of Making the Same. (open access)

Waterproofing Composition and Process of Making the Same.

Patent for a new and useful improvement to a soluble composition that when applied to fabrics as a fluid, allows for making it waterproof and also fabric preservation.
Date: December 23, 1919
Creator: Mayer, Max B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trap (open access)

Trap

Patent for a bird-catching trap that has an entrance that is always open but prevents exit; also includes a device that keeps the bait visible but never attainable
Date: December 23, 1919
Creator: Mayse, Henry F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improving Oils. (open access)

Improving Oils.

Patent for a method of improving the quality of more volatile petroleum oils, such as gasoline and burning oils.
Date: December 23, 1919
Creator: McAfee, Almer M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Planter, Chopper, and Cultivator (open access)

Planter, Chopper, and Cultivator

Patent for "a combined planter and cultivator, including a cotton-chopper" (lines 11-12).
Date: December 23, 1890
Creator: Murdock, Joseph Lafayette
System: The Portal to Texas History
Reversible Garden-Plow. (open access)

Reversible Garden-Plow.

Patent for a walking-plow with simple and compact construction. The depth for plowing is adjustable to height of individual operating.
Date: December 23, 1902
Creator: Nicholas, Joseph W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water-Gage-Glass Column. (open access)

Water-Gage-Glass Column.

Patent for a new water gage column, resistant to breakage, made of glass used to measure water levels indicating boiler steam pressure, with illustrations.
Date: December 23, 1913
Creator: Paul, William M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dental Instrument. (open access)

Dental Instrument.

Patent for an improved dental instrument with a pointer and plunger combination to precisely locate the opening of the root canal and fill it effectively. The simple construction with few parts efficiently produces a compact tool with low production costs.
Date: December 23, 1919
Creator: Payne, David H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planters. (open access)

Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planters.

Patent for a new and improved construction and combination of parts used by machines that convert either into a cotton or corn planter, including illustrations.
Date: December 23, 1879
Creator: Rhea, Robert H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Post Hole Auger. (open access)

Post Hole Auger.

Patent for a new and improved post-hole auger. This design consists "[i]n a post-hole auger, the combination, with the tool-guiding uprights and their revolving gearing, of the tool-carrying pinion, with the tool-securing contrivance fastened to its under side between said guiding-uprights, said pinion being adapted to revolve with said guiding-uprights, and the platform with its lowering screw or screws geared with the tool-carrying pinion" (lines 74-82).
Date: December 23, 1884
Creator: Robinson, Isiah
System: The Portal to Texas History