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Air-Ship.
Patent for a self-propelled, navigable air ship. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 12, 1891
Creator:
Walker, James C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Arch-Bar for Cultivators
Patent for arch bar for cultivators that connects the respective cultivator rigs together.
Date:
January 27, 1903
Creator:
Sullins, Cale M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Train-Pipe Coupling
Patent for a coupler adapted to be employed for operatively uniting the fluid pressure pipes of a pair of railway vehicles, when the vehicles are coupled up. The invention aims to improve the construction of the main pipe through the instrumentality of which the coupling operation is immediately effected, and to provide a means whereby the pipe is mounted in such a way as to have the necessary movemtns.
Date:
January 11, 1916
Creator:
Cobb, John Ollen
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Block.
Patent for improvements to automobile blocks, specifically employed for pulling automobiles from muddy or other places where the power of the car cannot be utilized. The patent is for a small, portable device that can be conveniently carried in the vehicle.
Date:
January 17, 1922
Creator:
Schaudies, Charles E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie.
Patent for a new and improved bale-tie that eliminates the need for buckles. This design achieves this with a hook and a U-shaped piece of iron to be riveted to the band, thus fastening the bale without buckles.
Date:
January 29, 1878
Creator:
Lenard, William R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for improving the baling press in which a rectangular bale of hay is formed. Compared to the traditional press the lever movement is circular and continuous.
Date:
January 2, 1906
Creator:
White, Edgar Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cable Clip or Hanger
Patent for invention of improvements of cable clips or hangers.
Date:
January 2, 1912
Creator:
Davidson, Charles G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Checkrein-Holder.
Patent for a checkrein-holder for harness-saddles that has a hook grooved on one side, a plate or wire inside the groove that attaches the hook to a smaller hook, a link that engages one end of the hook and as connected to a bell-crank lever, the bell crank lever that locks the link into the hook, and a screw bolt for the bell-crank lever.
Date:
January 1, 1895
Creator:
Winans, Myron L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for an automatic butter churn with illustrations.
Date:
January 28, 1902
Creator:
Fitzhugh, James, S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Hook and Buckle.
Patent for a new and improved combined hook and buckle. This design "protect[s] straps from wear at the point of attachment to or contact with rings or eyes" (lines 12-14). This patent references another, the invention of which this one is intended to supplement.
Date:
January 13, 1880
Creator:
Padgitt, Tom.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition Fuel
Patent for "a new and useful improvement in composition fuel, the object being to produce fuel in compact form which will burn quickly, rapidly generating an intense heat, and leaving but a small quantity of a residue or ash" (lines 10-15).
Date:
January 15, 1901
Creator:
Patterson, Warren A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for improvements to Cotton-Choppers. The invention relates to the agricultural implements and more particularly to machines for thinning rows of cotton, whereby to prevent crowding of the plants and insuring a stocky growth which will under favorable condition produce a good crop.
Date:
January 20, 1920
Creator:
Ogden, James D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Elevator.
Patent for improvement in cotton-elevators by providing means for the air-conduit and the cotton-conduit to communicate with the body of the elevator; and means for the air-conduit to communicate directly to the cotton conduit in order to effectively and uniformly distribute the cotton when fed to the gins. Thus preventing the cotton from being fed unevenly, which would clog and otherwise retard the action of the gins. (Lines 11-15) Illustration is included.
Date:
January 9, 1900
Creator:
Williams, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for a cotton-press that makes "tightly wound bales from the cotton bats formed upon the condenser, and fed into the press" (lines 13-15).
Date:
January 22, 1895
Creator:
Banister, Charles
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for a cotton-press that does not allow the cotton to rebound after the plunger compresses it because of teeth in the box. When the operator wishes to remove the cotton, the teeth automatically disengage in order for the cotton to be removed easily.
Date:
January 22, 1895
Creator:
Banister, Charles & Hollingsworth, Joseph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Evaluation of Water Resources in Part of Central Texas
Report studying the central Texas region's water resources, with notes that there has been rapid decline and contamination in the area. The aquifer is also being used faster than it can naturally replenish.
Date:
January 1990
Creator:
Baker, Bernard; Duffin, Gail; Flores, Robert & Lynch, Tad
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hair-Clipper
Patent for hair clippers in which the power-driven device will move positively in action comprises a few numbers of parts and is easy to operate.
Date:
January 14, 1920
Creator:
Jones, Sidney P. & Wallace, David P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Propulsion of Vessels.
Patent for an improvement on a previous patent granted to the inventor (No. 480,533). "It consists in means for draining the bearings of the jet nozzles, and in means for ventilating and draining the ship's hold" (lines 12-16).
Date:
January 9, 1894
Creator:
Walker, James C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ice-Cream Freezer.
Patent for an ice-cream freezer which can also be used as a churn, with an improved drum that revolves and its lower half sitting in ice or hot or cold water. It has a central shaft and flat heads on the ends of the drum so it can rotate.
Date:
January 14, 1896
Creator:
Harton, Thomas Jefferson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ice-Cream Freezer.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive combined ice cream freezer and milk shaker that makes different flavors of ice cream at the same time and can also make a milk shake or lemonade. The machine consists of five receptacles lined up on a frame, with a crank going through the middle of each. The crank mixes the contents of the receptacles.
Date:
January 30, 1894
Creator:
Harton, Thomas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Cooling the Air of Buildings.
Patent for improvements to cooling apparatus for buildings, especially distilleries and breweries. Illustration included.
Date:
January 6, 1874
Creator:
Mühl, Andrew
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ironing Machine.
Patent for a new and useful ironing-machine. "Invention is to improve the construction of ironing-machines and to provide a simple, efficient, and comparatively inexpensive one, designed for use both in laundries and elsewhere and capable of advantageously operating on all kinds of garment" (line 10-15).
Date:
January 28, 1902
Creator:
Dunn, William H. & McCurdy, Delo
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Liquid Dispensing Apparatus.
Patent for liquid dispensing apparatus to dispense and simultaneously measure liquid.
Date:
January 14, 1919
Creator:
Reid, Elton F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Massage Device.
Patent for an adjustable massage device that may be used as an attachment to a shaving brush or as a separate shaving tool. The device includes a rubber head that is moved over the face to “soften the beard” (line 83) for shaving and discourage discomfort and irritation.
Date:
January 6, 1914
Creator:
Luzzi, August F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History