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Sanitary Banana-Display Case.
Patent for sanitary banana display case for retail purposes, which displays bananas as well as keeping them away from insects and being touched.The display case is made of glass or other transparent material and provides both the fruit, hung from hooks within the case, and the case itself to be rotated.
Date:
September 19, 1911
Creator:
Haden, Wesley W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Scraper for Cultivators.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in scrapers for "cultivators-shovels, plows, and like tilling implements" (line 12-13).
Date:
September 20, 1898
Creator:
Butler, Albert C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Roller Bearing
Patent for improvement on roller bearings that include spaced rings and multiple rollers.
Date:
November 2, 1911
Creator:
Tatum, Franklin M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for improvements in reversible plows: "The object of the present invention is to simplify and improve the construction of reversible plows and enable them to be adjusted to any desired depth" (lines 9-12).
Date:
August 18, 1891
Creator:
McKay, Robert B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing Machine
Patent for a washing machine that works when submerged, or not submerged.
Date:
October 31, 1916
Creator:
Remley, William A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail Joint
Patent for improvements in rail joints that use fish plates
Date:
February 20, 1912
Creator:
Bogard, James T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Photographic-Printing Machine
Patent for a new and improved Photographic Printing Machine. The device allows for accurately positioning negative to contact accurately with printing paper.
Date:
September 17, 1912
Creator:
Loving, Roy R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Joint Means For Rails Or The Like
Patent for joint designed to bolt together rails so as to prevent accidental displacement of the nuts and bolts. Illustration included.
Date:
October 16, 1906
Creator:
Kline, William Bennet
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Felly for Wheels.
Patent for a felly for wheels designed to be used for a heavy wagon or cultivators. It consists of malleable iron with the inside edge being smaller than the outside, an indentation in the center going around the outside surface, and conical spoke sockets.
Date:
June 12, 1894
Creator:
Mosely, Jeremiah Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Egg-Crate.
Patent for an egg-crate that has "hinged sections, the middle section being composed of a solid block with cavities top and bottom corresponding with cavities formed in the lower and the top surface respectively of the upper and the lower portions which fit on opposite sides of the middle solid portion, the said three portions or sections being hinged together and provided with a suitable fastening" (lines 16-25).
Date:
February 6, 1894
Creator:
West, James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cupper
Patent for improvements in the type of equipment known as cotton cupers.
Date:
October 1, 1889
Creator:
Wilder, Theodore C. & Wilder, Atwood, E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shock Absorber
Patent for an improved shock absorber design to be used in motorized vehicles in order to prevent damage caused by sudden stops and jolts to the vehicle.
Date:
October 4, 1919
Creator:
Davis, Francis M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash Holder And Fastener.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in sash holders and fasteners, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 25, 1899
Creator:
Guynes, Allen Perry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Garment-Stretcher
Patent for garment-stretchers that improve the stretching and pressing of garments to keep them in better shape. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 12, 1916
Creator:
Carlson, Magnus
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saw-Swaging Machine.
Patent for an improved saw-swaging machine that is used as "an anvil-die and an independent roller-die" (lines 17-18). "The saw may be swaged from the front of the tooth without scalloping or concaving the tooth and at the same time avoiding friction thereon" (lines 21-24).
Date:
June 2, 1896
Creator:
Shepley, Benjamin A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sawing Machine.
Patent for a new and improved drag-saw. This design "consists in the combination of a drag-saw, an operating-lever, and a wheelbarrow or truck, the wheelbarrow being made to support the saw and move it . . . [t]he object of [the] invention is to provide an easy and ready means of transporting the saw from place to place, and to so connect it to the wheelbarrow or truck which supports it that they can be readily separated, so that the wheelbarrow or truck can be used by itself" (lines 13-24).
Date:
April 26, 1881
Creator:
Crump, Thomas Jefferson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Buckles.
Patent for an improvement in buckles which involves the creation of a diamond-shaped plate.
Date:
June 27, 1876
Creator:
Kennon, William F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Reciprocating Churns
Patent for "certain new and useful improvements in the construction of churns, whereby dashers are caused to rotate very rapidly, thus greatly facilitating the process of producing butter; also, the churn and its supporting frame-work being constructed and arranged in sections permits of it being taken apart very readily, and packed in a very small space for shipment." (lines 12-20) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 27, 1877
Creator:
Welch, John M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Gang-Plows.
Patent for improvements to the gang-plow consisting of "an adjustable frame, within which two or more ordinary plows can be arranged to form the gang, said frame being constructed so as to enable one set of plows to run deep, while the other set can be made to run shallow." (Lines 15-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 17, 1877
Creator:
Crump, Thomas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History