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Aeroplane
Patent for an aeroplane that will maintain its balance in the air automatically
Date:
December 5, 1911
Creator:
McManus, Augustus F. W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Canopy For Beds, Couches, &C.
Patent for a new and useful canopy for beds, couches, and analogous furniture, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 7, 1899
Creator:
Owen, Peer M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Switch Socket and Plug
Patent for a combined switch socket and plug for lamps and light bulbs. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 13, 1910
Creator:
McNeel, William Pinkney
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Candy Pulling Machine
Patent for candy pulling machine. Illustration included.
Date:
November 14, 1905
Creator:
Jenner, Edward J. & Hildreth, Herbert L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a new and useful churn, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 14, 1899
Creator:
Neuendorff, John B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carbid Feeding Device
Patent for carbid feeding device. Illustration included.
Date:
March 14, 1905
Creator:
Sinclair, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Manufacturing Door Plates or Signs
Patent for a molding and printing device for forming hollow backed signs and name plates.
Date:
March 8, 1910
Creator:
Simmang, Charles Jr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Medina County, Community of D'Hanis Flood Protection Study
The report discuses the Medina Count-D'Hanis Flood Protection Study, which evaluates the flooding problems in the D'Hanis area within Medina County and develop cost effective flood reduction alternatives considering public safety and welfare. (Ex Summ I).
Date:
August 2011
Creator:
Texas Water Development Board
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sediment Transport Modeling of Channel Scale Geomorphic Processes
This report investigated the use of two-dimensional (2D) modeling strategy to predict channel adjustment in the lower San Antonio River in response to a range of flood magnitudes.
Date:
July 31, 2012
Creator:
Haschenburger, Judith K.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Teeth.
Patent for the lower set of artificial teeth, "and aims to provide retainers and combine them with the plate, so as to hold the denture in place against accidental displacement during the process of articulation, prehension, mastication, and deglutition" (lines 10-15). This invention "provides retainers which fill a vacuum in the mouth never heretofore utilized in the construction of artificial teeth and which form a rest for the muscles in their contraction incident to the movements of the jaws, and these retainers render a lower set of artificial teeth s comfortable and serviceable as if they were natural" (lines 22-29).
Date:
September 17, 1895
Creator:
Johnston, George A. & Carroll, Houston M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Autographic Register.
Patent for an autographic register that provides "improved means for guiding, stamping, cutting, and filling a record-bill and discharging original and duplicate bills; [provides] improved means for guiding the strips of paper and holding the carbon or duplicating paper in operative position; furthermore, [provides] improved means for operating the several parts of the mechanism to insure accuracy and facilitate the subsequent permanent filing of the record-bills" (lines 9-19).
Date:
September 17, 1895
Creator:
Norcross, George A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Repeating Railroad-Signal.
Patent for an automatic repeating railroad-signal designed to be used with semaphore and other train-signaling apparatus. It eliminates mistakes made in notifying the central office and automatically reports "any change in the position or color of the signal to a central office over the ordinary telegraph-wire" (lines 14-16). The signal is a wheel that operates a key to send a message to the central office.
Date:
January 28, 1896
Creator:
Innes, Robert Hayward
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coffin.
Patent for "a coffin of improved construction and composition, to so construct the same as to render it impervious to the action of water or moisture, and to render said coffin strong and durable and admit of the same being produced in a neat and ornamental form." (Lines 10-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 3, 1896
Creator:
Handshy, Henry M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling
Patent for "a car-coupler which will be automatic in its operation in coupling the cars as they come together on the track, and at the same time to provide a positive uncoupling device which may be operated on any part of any of the cars, as well as by an engineer, when it is desired to uncouple the cars or a car from the engine" (lines 14-21).
Date:
October 30, 1888
Creator:
Carolan, Eugene P. & Lee, Patrick H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Banana-Case
Patent for a banana case to "provide a case or crate in which bananas may be readily packed and transported without injury to the fruit."
Date:
November 13, 1888
Creator:
Aiken, Robert H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Sand and Gravel Washer
Patent for "a combined gravel and sand washing box which shall effectually serve as a means for practically removing all sand and dirt from gravel and stones and all mud and fine dirt from sand" (lines 30-34).
Date:
November 20, 1888
Creator:
Carrico, Thomas W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Service Cock.
Patent for a new and improved automatic service cock. This design "furnish[es] an improved automatic valve to form the connection between the water-main or distributing pipe and the service-pipe of a building for regulating the flow and pressure of water in such service-pipe and preventing overpressure" (lines 7-12).
Date:
December 20, 1881
Creator:
Freeman, William R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Constructing Béton or Artificial Stone Curbing.
Patent for a new and improved curbing. This design "consists in a method for constructing [artificial-stone curbing] in the trench in which it is required to be laid; and it further consists in molds for accomplishing such result with accuracy and dispatch" (lines 9-14).
Date:
June 20, 1882
Creator:
Burns, James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compound for Making Brick, Tile, &c.
Patent for creating brick, tile and other material using hydraulic cement and magnesian lime-stone.
Date:
June 27, 1882
Creator:
Hunt, Henrey Hardon
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baggage Check and Clasp.
Patent for a new and improved baggage check and clasp. This design "consists in a novel construction and arrangement of a check, a direction-plate, and a clasp for securing said parts to an article of baggage" (lines 18-21).
Date:
August 1, 1882
Creator:
McLeary, James Harvey
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Seed Planter and Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved combined seed planter and cultivator. This design "is to provide combined seed-planters and cultivators constructed in such a manner that the seed-planting mechanism can be readily detached when not required for use, and also in such a manner that each plow can be adjusted independently of the others when desired" (lines 18-24).
Date:
August 15, 1882
Creator:
Gifford, George L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clamp or Fastener for Wire Fences.
Patent for a new and improved clamp for wire fences. This design "is to make a device by which the horizontal rails of a wire fence may be conveniently fastened to the vertical stay-wires" (lines 12-15). It "consist[s] of the metallic disk or plate with the curved cross-groove and prongs to hold the horizontal rail and the perpendicular stay-wire, and the key" (lines 69-73).
Date:
June 7, 1892
Creator:
Rogers, Charles S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive car-coupling that improves on the pin-and-link car-couplings and "will be capable of coupling automatically and which may be readily uncoupled without going between cars" (lines 13-15). After the car has been separated, this coupling automatically puts its parts in position to be re-coupled. It also enables a "flying kick" to be transmitted to the car.
Date:
November 24, 1896
Creator:
Lee, Charles
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Beer Tapping Apparatus.
Patent for a new and improved beer tap. This design calls for the air pipe to go within the beer tapping pipe and for a pump to supply the air pipe with air. This eliminates the need of a rubber nipple to connect the air pipe, easily cleans the pipe coil, and allows for the tapping of the keg from without the icebox.
Date:
February 2, 1897
Creator:
Haenig, Emil
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History