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Check-Line Buckle.
Patent for "...a novel means for connecting a check-line to the main line..." (lines 11-12) including illustrations.
Date:
April 22, 1902
Creator:
Snell, David C. F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Tool.
Patent for a combination tool that provides "a novel form of tool-head arranged to interchangeably carry a plurality of tools of different characters, whereby the single tool-head may be employed in various capacities" (lines 8-12), including illustrations.
Date:
January 30, 1906
Creator:
Spicer, John R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper and Planter
Patent for a combined cotton chopper and planter, made to be easy to construct and easy to convert between functions.
Date:
October 11, 1892
Creator:
Parker, Francis H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Tool.
Patent for a new and improved multi-tool. This design "consists in a combination-tool embodying in a single implement a nail and staple-puller, pinchers, nail-straightener, and wire-cutters, the device being more particularly designed for use in constructing, taking down, and resetting wire fencing" (lines 7-12).
Date:
July 22, 1884
Creator:
Beazley, James Harvey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Game-Board
Patent for "a game-board having a trough at its head and squared apertures near said head, and numbered cubical blocks adapted to be revolved in said apertures" (lines 18-21) and "has relation to games to be played on bowling-alleys or boards with balls" (lines 16-17) including illustrations.
Date:
June 22, 1880
Creator:
Thompson, James Whiteford.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed Attachment for Invalids.
Patent for a new and improved bed attachment for bed-ridden persons. This design "consists, principally, of a frame, hinged between the side boards of the bedstead, said frame having a removable seat and adapted to be brought to a vertical position for supporting the [bed-ridden person] in a sitting position. The invention also consists in the construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 10-16).
Date:
October 11, 1881
Creator:
Brown, Joshua Perry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Circuit Maker and Breaker
Patent for automatic circuit maker and breaker that automatically cuts off the circuit to electric lights. Also for automatically completing circuits to said lights at the proper time
Date:
November 2, 1915
Creator:
Scholl, Max
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Water Cut-Off
Patent for improvements to automatic water cut-offs adapted to be useful "in the event of the falling of temperature to freezing or any other predetermined degree of automatically cutting off the flow of the water." (Lines 18-22).
Date:
November 13, 1917
Creator:
Goodridge Wilson B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher
Patent for a wire stretcher to stretch regular wires or barbed wired for fencing. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 20, 1908
Creator:
Tyer, Sampson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Load-Indicating attachment for drilling-rigs
Patent for the invention is to provide a character to be attached on a mounted on the derrick of a drilling rig and which will accurately indicate the cooperative weight of the load attached to the back of rig.
Date:
May 16, 1916
Creator:
Hughes, Howard R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve.
Patent for a valve for suction and blower conduits. This particular device is designed for use in cotton ginneries and saw mills.
Date:
March 6, 1917
Creator:
Guice, Bengamen R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lifting-Jack.
Patent for a lifting-jack that has "strength with durability necessary in this class of devices and that will be simple in construction and easy of operation" (para. 2).
Date:
September 24, 1895
Creator:
Lynn, John McKinzie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Loading Apparatus
Patent for a loading apparatus that uses flexing sections that open and closes. Illustration included.
Date:
June 2, 1908
Creator:
Lipscomb, William C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Truss.
Patent for a new and improved truss for relieving or supporting hernia, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 22, 1899
Creator:
Oliver, Zebulon
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Spark-Arresters.
Patent for a new and useful Improvements in Spark-Arresters
Date:
April 25, 1876
Creator:
Liscow, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ditching and Excavating Machines.
Patent for "an improved machine for making ditches and other excavations, which shall be so constructed as to separate the slice from the soil, raise it, and deposit it at the side of the cut, which will feed itself forward automatically." (Lines 14-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 18, 1877
Creator:
De Force, Samuel A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seed Planters
Patent for "improvement in Seed Planters as herein described and pointed out in the claim..."(paragraph 4 contains instructions and references to the illustration Fig 1 and Fig 2 as well as these illustrations labeled parts)
Date:
February 25, 1873
Creator:
Friday, Reuben
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washboard.
Patent for a new washboard with "simple durability, and cheap construction, . . . [which is] serviceable and efficient in its use" (lines 12-14), including illustrations.
Date:
July 28, 1914
Creator:
Bush, Henry C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ventilating Apparatus.
Patent for a ventilating apparatus for railway cars for the purpose of supplying air to railway car interiors without needing to open a window (which tends to also let in smoke and dust), including illustrations.
Date:
March 6, 1906
Creator:
Parrish, Ezekiel L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churns.
Patent for a better churn which makes butter faster, releases butter from the churn more easily, and is simple to create and use. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 1, 1878
Creator:
McConnell, John A. & McConnell, William V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner
Patent for a burner constructed to admit a force of steam or air is sent through the nozzle with assigning to the fuel in fuel reservoir. This invention is used to burn the heavy crude oil.
Date:
July 4, 1916
Creator:
Nicholson, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tourist's Glass.
Patent for improvements to tourists' glasses, "intended for use to tourists, hunters, ranchmen, botanists, minerologists, and analogous purposes" (lines 25-27) including illustrations.
Date:
July 21, 1914
Creator:
Faehrmann, John M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trace Carrier.
Patent for improvements to a harness back band buckle and chain carrier, so that "strain is taken off from the center of the buckle, where the ordinary buckles often break" (lines 71-73), including illustrations.
Date:
January 31, 1893
Creator:
Nichols, Edward A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Propelling Attachment for Garden or Like Implements.
Patent for "a harness so constructed that it may be comfortably worn by the operator, male or female, and further to provide an adjustable attachment between the harness and the implement or machine, being so made that all the force or weight that the operator is capable of exerting may be brought to bear upon the implement to propel it, without unduly fatiguing the operator or rending the work disagreeable, and whereby further the work of propelling the implement or machine will be beneficial to the operator, inasmuch as the harness will compel the operator to assume an upright position and expand the lungs." (Lines 10-26) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 12, 1895
Creator:
Wilson, Hampden
System:
The Portal to Texas History