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Telephonometer
Patent for measuring and recording the length of time when a telephone has been in use. It is simple and inexpensive.
Date:
October 15, 1918
Creator:
Gray, Frank
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Progress letter No. 11 for January 1, 1960 through January 31, 1960
A stainless steel autoclave for superheated water corrosion test was installed and "conditioned". Tests were begun to investigate the feasibility of densifying slip cast stainless steel by means of liquid phase sintering. Attempts to prepare tubular fuel elements by vacuum forming were resumed. Although thick-walled vacuum formed casting have been sintered on the aluminum mandrels without cracking, this has not yet been accomplished with the think sections of interest.
Date:
February 15, 1960
Creator:
Baron, Edeard H.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Plow.
Patent for a new and improved plow. This design "has for its object to produce a plow suitable for general purposes, of great durability and efficiency, and provided with a reversible share and landside, which are so arranged that while the point or the one and edge or flange of the other are being worn away or dulled the reversed point of the former and reversed edge or flange of the latter are being pointed and sharpened by contact with the soil through which the plow is driven, thus compensating for the wearing and dullness of the cutting-points and flanges in operation" (lines 23-34).
Date:
November 15, 1881
Creator:
Holland, Joseph J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Brooms.
Patent for improvement in the manufacture of corn brooms.
Date:
August 15, 1871
Creator:
Anderson, Edward Americus
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horse-Power
Patent for an alternative horse power design without cogs that has the same level of efficiency with an increased speed of output as well.
Date:
November 15, 1892
Creator:
Walton, Jacob Gipson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hose-Bridge.
Patent for a hose bridge for placing on street car rails over fire hoses to allow the street cars to run while a hose is crossing the tracks.
Date:
November 15, 1910
Creator:
Troutt, Martin E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Massage-Machine.
Patent for a massage machine, which can dispense a liquid antiseptic for softening the skin.
Date:
October 15, 1907
Creator:
Davenport, Walter D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Match-Box.
Patent for a match box, which will dispense one match at a time.
Date:
November 15, 1910
Creator:
Moore, David Cleveland
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Heat-Producing Process.
Patent for Improvements in Heat-Producing Processes by way of "process of producing heat and conserving heat..." for use in various types of furnaces (lines 9-10).
Date:
October 15, 1918
Creator:
Bone, David R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in cellular-wall building-blocks.
Patent for a building block that has an offset in the middle that allows one side of the block to make the outer wall while the other side makes an inner wall while leaving space between the two walls. Includes illustrations.
Date:
August 15, 1876
Creator:
Clayton, Nicholas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Journal Boxes.
Patent for the improvement in car-journal boxes. This invention "relates to oil-boxes used upon journals of car-axles, the object being to prevent the lid from shaking off of the oil-stop or oil-packing surrounding the axle to be removed and replaced by a new one without removing the box from the journal."
Date:
October 15, 1878
Creator:
Alexander, Francis M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a cotton chopper, which attaches to a cultivator that throws the dirt out of the way to allow the plants to be chopped more easily.
Date:
March 15, 1910
Creator:
Arthur, George P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaner.
Patent for machine that cleans seed cotton before it is ginned by removing dirt, twigs, and other foreign matter.
Date:
July 15, 1913
Creator:
Patterson, Warren A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Making Vessels Invisible.
Patent for improvements in "air and water craft" (line 13) invisible including illustrations. These improvements include invisibility through "plurality of plates or sections" (lines 18-19) and diffuse light, disguising the vessels.
Date:
July 15, 1919
Creator:
Chaddick, Mark
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flour Sifter and Mixer.
Patent for a "simply constructed" (line 11-12) flour sifter and mixer wherein the flour can be "thoroughly mixed without removal of the sifter" (line 12-13) including an illustration.
Date:
July 15, 1913
Creator:
Newcomer, Stella B. S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Demountable Cutting Edge for Drilling Tools.
Patent for a rotary cutter with a detachable cutting edge and shearing portion that can be easily renewed or replaced.
Date:
June 15, 1915
Creator:
Hughes, Howard R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Display Device for Doors.
Patent for a display case that may be fastened to a door with glass panes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 15, 1914
Creator:
Nunn, John M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shifting Camera Back.
Patent for a shifting camera back that allows a photographer to take a large number of photographs on a single plate or film, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 15, 1914
Creator:
Moine, Selest E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Cuspidor.
Design patent for a cuspidor. The sides of which are nearly perpendicular and the extended base-supporting flange of which is in the form of a rope or cable, while the upper edge is ornamented by milling.
Date:
March 15, 1898
Creator:
Hart, Samuel Harp
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drier Rack
Patent for a drier rack on rail-cars to for drying bricks. Illustration included.
Date:
March 15, 1904
Creator:
Zilker, Andrew J.; Tidmarsh, Albert L. & Armstrong, Charles J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Distilling Device
Patent for a water distilling device which connects to a hot water boiler in a house.
Date:
March 15, 1910
Creator:
Nenninger, Oscar A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Display Stand for Doors
Patent for display stand for doors.
Date:
September 15, 1903
Creator:
Raum, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Saddle-Pad.
Design patent for a saddle-pad with longitudinal rows of scalloped ribs.
Date:
August 15, 1899
Creator:
Padgitt, Tom
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene Gas Generator.
Patent for a new and useful improvements in apparatus for generating acetylene gas. This design is to "provide with few applicances a simple and compact apparatus requiring little attention for generating acetylene gas for light, heat, and power purposes" (line 11 - 14).
Date:
February 15, 1898
Creator:
Dederick, Zadoc P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History