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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.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Load-Transferring Apparatus.
Patent for load transferring apparatus, important for its innovations "applicable to the operation of unloading bulk material from boats or barges and of transferring said material to stationary bins or ships at sea" (lines 11-15).
Date:
June 23, 1914
Creator:
Hildebrand, Henry W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Laundry-Extractors
Patent for a time cut-off and brake attachment for laundry extractors for preventing accidents. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 23, 1912
Creator:
Moore, Robert Marion
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wax-Press
Patent for a wax press for pressing oil out of wax that does not have to be opened to test the wax or remove it for use.
Date:
April 23, 1912
Creator:
Hansen, Julius
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trap For Crustacea
Patent for a crustacea trap. This device is designed for use in catching crabs, lobsters, and other crustacea. Illustrations included.
Date:
October 23, 1906
Creator:
Franklin, Robert M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sheet Metal Fireproof Window
Patent for a sheet metal, fireproof window. The design is a window where the frame and the sash is constructed out of sheet-metal in order for it to be fireproof. The design also allows the sashes to be opened and held in that position but will close automatically when high temperature air comes into contact with them.
Date:
January 23, 1906
Creator:
Miller, W. H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston Operating Budget: 2013
Operating budget of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston for fiscal year 2013, including information about planned appropriations and expenditures.
Date:
August 23, 2012
Creator:
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tuning Device for Pianos.
Patent for "a means whereby the strings of a piano may be easily and deliberately tuned, and when tuned they will be held absolutely rigid and unyielding under all circumstances while the pins are set in wood, thus avoiding any possibility of the jarring of the parts." (Lines 36-42) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 23, 1895
Creator:
Orser, Levi
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of Treating Cotton-Seed Hulls
Patent for "to utilize a heretofore waste product, and by means of a dry process to reduce the same to fine particles, which, being capable of felting, constitute stock" (lines 14-18).
Date:
September 23, 1890
Creator:
Bohn, Emil
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Ejector for Presses.
Patent for the improvement in cotton-bale presses or compressors; and it has for its object to provide a means whereby the bale, after being properly compressed, will be automatically ejected from the press, as more fully hereinafter specified.
Date:
December 7, 1880
Creator:
Riesel, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Camel for Lightening Vessels.
Patent for a new and improved camel. This design "is to provide an apparatus that can be used for lifting or lightening deep-draft ships at sea or in roadsteads, for taking them over bars or through shallow water. To that end [the] invention consists in a floating apparatus or dock constructed so as to be sunk for receiving the vessel, and so as to be afterward raised for lifting and carrying the vessel" (lines 7-16).
Date:
October 23, 1883
Creator:
Peetz, John J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History