Safety-Stirrup. (open access)

Safety-Stirrup.

Patent for improvements in safety-stirrups by providing a device to release the rider’s foot safely if the rider accidentally fall from a horse; and means to retain the movable member of the stirrup in its closed or open position. (Lines 10-17) Illustration is included.
Date: March 22, 1904
Creator: Parrish, Ezekiel L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety Car Step or Running-Board (open access)

Safety Car Step or Running-Board

Patent for a safety car step or running-board for freight cars. Illustration included.
Date: March 22, 1910
Creator: Dodson, Elijah C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safe (open access)

Safe

Patent for a safe. Illustration included.
Date: March 22, 1910
Creator: Smith, Virgil A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Garbage-Crematory (open access)

Garbage-Crematory

Patent for a garbage crematory which burns garbage by igniting the garbage without the use of other fuel.
Date: March 22, 1910
Creator: Thompson, James A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Monkey-Wrench. (open access)

Monkey-Wrench.

Patent for a wrench, which can be used as a S wrench or a monkey wrench and is durable.
Date: March 22, 1910
Creator: Post, Parley C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Metallic Shingle. (open access)

Metallic Shingle.

Patent for a new and improved metallic shingle. This design calls for "[t]he ends of the shingles adjacent to the groove [to be] turned up to provide a guard which, when the joints are made between the shingles, prevents the water from obtaining access to the roof-boards, and directs it down the shingle to the bead, where the water is drained off" (lines 80-86).
Date: March 22, 1887
Creator: Harry, Hugh W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Internal-Combustion Motor. (open access)

Internal-Combustion Motor.

Patent for an internal combustion engine designed for better lubrication and simplicity of repair.
Date: March 22, 1921
Creator: Sanford, Harold M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for "a plow especially adapted to be used in turning the well-known black or stiff lands in the Western States," (lines 8-10) with instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 2, 1891
Creator: Hill, David J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump (open access)

Pump

Patent for a water pump. Illustration included.
Date: March 22, 1904
Creator: Park, Henry Jackson & Darrough, Rufus Clark
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Maternity and Invalid Chair. (open access)

Maternity and Invalid Chair.

Patent for a folding chair designed specifically for the use and comfort of the sick and disabled.
Date: March 22, 1921
Creator: Read, Edwin T. & Bartz, Adolph J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pencil-Sharpener. (open access)

Pencil-Sharpener.

Patent for a new and improved pencil sharpener "which will be simple and inexpensive in manufacture, highly effective in use, durable in service, and a general improvement in the art" (lines 20-23), including illustrations.
Date: March 22, 1921
Creator: Scougale, Malcolm
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Piano Attachment. (open access)

Piano Attachment.

Patent for a new and useful piano attachment.
Date: March 22, 1898
Creator: Moyer, Jesse Hechler
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Piano Attachment. (open access)

Piano Attachment.

Patent for a new and useful piano attachment for "facilitating the adjustment of the means employed for producing said tones and for locking said means in operative position" (line 11 - 14).
Date: March 22, 1898
Creator: Moyer, Jesse Hechler
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow. (open access)

Harrow.

Patent for improvements in harrows, "so that any farmer who possesses a Georgia stock or ordinary plow-beam with its attached handles can purchase one of [these] improved harrows per se and without the exercise of any special mechanical knowledge or experience apply the harrow device or contrivance to the beam of such ordinary plow stock." (Lines 40-47) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 14, 1891
Creator: Flatau, Louis S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Game-Counter (open access)

Game-Counter

Patent for an apparatus designed to maintain a record of points earned and the number of rounds played in a game. Illustrations included.
Date: March 22, 1910
Creator: McKinney, Ansel
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for improvements in plows by providing readily-operable means for adjusting the plow-shovel on the standard, to facilitate adjustment of the shovel and of the gage with relation to each other, thereby to vary the cut of the shovel, to improve the means for holding the gage assembled with the standard, and generally to simplify and increase the efficiency of plows of this character. (Lines 14-21) Illustration is included.
Date: March 22, 1904
Creator: Wilson, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric-Circuit -Closing Device. (open access)

Electric-Circuit -Closing Device.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in electric circuit closing devices.
Date: March 22, 1898
Creator: Newman, George
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
In-Reactor Autoclave Corrosion Studies. II, Autoclave Z18 (open access)

In-Reactor Autoclave Corrosion Studies. II, Autoclave Z18

In order to test the effect of chromate ion on the corrosion of Zircaloy-2, a 0.04 m uranyl sulfate solution (enriched) containing added acid, copper sulfate and 557 ppm of Cr (VI) was autoclaved with rocking at 280 degrees C for about eight days in the HB-5 facility of the LITR. The average corrosion rate established by the rate of consumption of oxygen was 9.9 mpy at a power density of 4.9 w/ml. It is indicated by comparison with a previous corrosion study under LITR radiation that the presence of Cr (VI) had no significant effect on the radiation corrosion of Zircaloy-2 by enriched uranyl sulfate solutions. However, the data are not conclusive and may be interpreted as showing a low corrosion rate for a limited period (i.e. a short term inhibition) followed by correspondingly rapid corrosion.
Date: March 22, 1957
Creator: Warren, K. S.; Davis, R. J. & Jenks, G. H. (Glenn Herbert), 1916-
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Display-Cabinet (open access)

Display-Cabinet

Patent for a display cabinet. Illustrations are included.
Date: March 22, 1911
Creator: Douglass, John A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Exterminating Insects on Plants. (open access)

Device for Exterminating Insects on Plants.

Patent for improvements in insects control device on plants in which it allows “convenient and practicality to apply smoke and fumes to the plants at any stage of growth, whereby any insect which may prey upon the plant or its fruits may be effectually exterminated.” (Lines 13-18) Illustration is included.
Date: March 22, 1904
Creator: Cottle, Thomas M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Deep Well Pump. (open access)

Deep Well Pump.

Patent for a new and improved well pump. This design consists in "the timber bed arranged on the bottom of the well, in combination with two superposed metallic cylinders connected by a stock, said stock being provided at the bottom with inwardly-turned flanges made fast to said bed" (lines 55-60).
Date: March 22, 1887
Creator: Clark, Alexander Evans
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator (open access)

Cultivator

Patent for a durable cultivator. Illustration included.
Date: March 22, 1904
Creator: Porter, Harrison B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator (open access)

Cultivator

Patent for a cultivator designed to "regulate the pitch at which the sweep blades enter the ground" (lines 13-15). Illustrations included.
Date: March 22, 1910
Creator: Hewitt, John Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History