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Gate
Patent for a gate. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 24, 1907
Creator:
Aeschlimann, Adolf E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lamp Chimney and Burner.
Patent for securely fastening the lamp chimney when it is placed on top of a burner to prevent the two from coming detached. Includes illustrations.
Date:
December 24, 1918
Creator:
Anderson, Laura
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
Carrier-Frame for Baskets.
Patent for a carrier frame for moving baskets up and down in a store, which does not get tangled with the basket ropes.
Date:
December 24, 1907
Creator:
Cameron. James H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Derailing Device.
Patent for a derailing device to stop trains from colliding with one another by derailing the oncoming train.
Date:
December 24, 1907
Creator:
Clegg, William Owen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin
Patent for a clothes pin. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 24, 1907
Creator:
Cooke, Jasper Newton & Moeller, John Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insulator and Protector for Electric Conductors
Patent for a casing for electric wires made to protect them from wear, abrasion, or contact from other objects. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 24, 1907
Creator:
Copping, Thomas Cary
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beam or Girder.
Patent for a new and improved girder. This design is "composed of a vertical web and a flange or flanges, a mass of the metal in a flange or flanges projecting from the web at and near one-half the distance between the axis and the neutral line" (lines 48-53).
Date:
December 24, 1889
Creator:
Cousins, Robert Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saw-Swage
Patent for " a certain new and useful Saw-Swage." (Lines 5-6) including illustrations.
Date:
December 24, 1901
Creator:
Davis, James E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water-Conveyer.
Patent for a water conveyer for irrigation, which has a series of buckets on a conveyer belt which pour over a waterwheel to power the motor of the machine. This model has streamlined the buckets water flow to minimize the power used from the motor.
Date:
December 24, 1907
Creator:
Dove, John Oliver & Wirsing, Charley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash Fastener
Patent for a sash fastener. The invnetion is designed to be of durable use as a window sash fastener. Illustration included.
Date:
December 24, 1912
Creator:
Flaniken, William F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dredging-Machine
Patent for "a dredger which shall in an improved manner co-operate with and utilize the current in removing accumulations from the bed of channels" (lines 13-17).
Date:
December 24, 1889
Creator:
Fletcher, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a sulky-plow with adjustable front and rear ground-wheels that control the depth at which the ground is plowed.
Date:
December 24, 1895
Creator:
Gupton, Kindred
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mechanism for Hanging Car-Doors and The Like
Patent for a mechanism for hanging car doors and similar objects. The tool reduces the amount of people needed to install a car door or similar object, providing a more efficient installation.
Date:
December 24, 1918
Creator:
Hartough, Edward W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Pressure and Time Indicator
Patent for hydraulic pressure and time indicator for "recording the times when hydraulic cylinders are in operation and to indicate when the cylinders commence work or reach the required pressure" (lines 10 - 14).
Date:
December 24, 1918
Creator:
Helm, Clyde D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Distributing Insect Powder.
Patent for a new and improved bug sprayer. This design consists in "the combination of the body of the bellows and the perforate wall or sieve arranged longitudinally therein, dividing the bellows into two compartments, with a nozzle or an air-outlet communicating with one compartment, whereby material placed in the other compartment on the opposite side of the sieve is agitated by the operation of the bellows and delivered to the air-blast in a comminuted state" (lines 25-35).
Date:
December 24, 1889
Creator:
Hogarth, William H. J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drilling Apparatus.
Patent for a well-drilling apparatus meant "to provide improved means for adjusting and withdrawing drill-tools without removing the drill-rod to provide a folding reamer and means for adjusting the blades thereof, and to provide means for conveying water to the drill, whereby the drillings are carried up outside of the drill-rod or barrel" (lines 9-16).
Date:
December 24, 1895
Creator:
Horton, Stephen A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Rake and Stacker.
Patent for an improved combined rake and stacker. The improvement includes an added horse-rake for hay, which can be used to load hay into a wagon or place in a stack.
Date:
December 24, 1901
Creator:
Jahns, R. H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for improvement to cylindrical baling-press for packing cotton, cotton-seed hulls, bran and similar objects into cylindrical bales, including illustrations.
Date:
December 24, 1901
Creator:
Jones, Isaac Van Zandt
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for "baling-presses, and has for its objects to provide a simple and efficient apparatus embodying a rebounding plunger; to provide means for regulating the resistance offered to the advance movement of the forward head-block; to provide improved means for tucking the material during the advance movement of the plunger; to provide means for regulating the length of a bale; to provide means for automatically inserting a head-block when a bale of the desired length has been formed; and to provide means whereby the raising and lowering of the press-box or baling-chamber is accomplished by the draft-horses through the sweep, and without the use of jacks or other analogous devices." (Lines 8-24) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 24, 1895
Creator:
Keith, George A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fly-Trap
Patent for an insect trap for flies. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 24, 1912
Creator:
Krueger, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plastic Fence-Post.
Patent for a plastic fence post that wire fencing or wooden rails can be attached to that has the connection areas on the post hollowed out to protect the parts from the weather.
Date:
December 24, 1907
Creator:
Libhart, Hugh P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harvester Attachment.
Patent for an attachment that cleans and scrapes the drive wheels of mowing machines and harvesters, to keep them free of accumulated mud and running smoothly.
Date:
December 24, 1901
Creator:
Marshall, John Henry.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plunger-Operating Means of Hay-Presses
Patent for "new and improved horse-power, which will operate four or less hay-presses by the movement of one operating-lever, and which can be used for a great variety of other purposes" (lines 8-12).
Date:
December 24, 1889
Creator:
Mayo, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History