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Valve for Engines.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in valves for steam engines, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 8, 1898
Creator:
Allen, Walter J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Treating Hydrocarbons.
Patent for an improved apparatus for treating hydrocarbons. This apparatus is for treating comparatively heavy petroleum and other hydrocarbon oils and their distillates and derivatives, in order to produce from such heavy oils a large yield of gasoline or other light, easily volatile liquids. This apparatus will be a safe and efficient way to produce large yield of gasoline and light hydrocarbon liquids from heavy oils and will be free from trouble arising from the accumulation of carbon.
Date:
August 5, 1919
Creator:
Andrews, Benjamin & Averill, Willard C., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Treating Petroleum.
Patent for an apparatus that is used to treat petroleum and other heavy hydrocarbons in order to produce gasoline and other liquid fuels.
Date:
October 28, 1919
Creator:
Andrews, Benjamin & Averill, Willard C., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Treating Hydrocarbons
Patent for a new or improved process which distills heavy hydrocarbon oils into large volumes of gasoline or other lighter volatile liquids.
Date:
September 18, 1918
Creator:
Andrews, Benjamin & Averill, Willard C., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Dipping Lumber.
Patent for a device for dipping lumber in a "soda" bath for preventing mildewing that allows the operator of the sawmill to determine which logs go through the bath.
Date:
August 9, 1910
Creator:
Baten, William Lucian
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sampling Device for Artesian Wells
Patent for a sampling device for artesian wells to detect when oil has been reached.
Date:
April 23, 1912
Creator:
Bettis, William I.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locking Mechanism
Patent for locking mechanism, particulalry used in locking liquid dispensing machines.
Date:
January 30, 1917
Creator:
Bradley, Richard C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Liquid Dispensing Apparatus.
Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Liquid Dispensing Apparatus" (lines 5-7) describing new improvements, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 28, 1916
Creator:
Bradley, Richard C.; Kinnebrew, Lee; Eastham, J. Malley & Ireland, C. Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oxygen-Generator
Patent for an oxygen generator that refills as it is emptied.
Date:
February 7, 1911
Creator:
Bradley, Richard Clinton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaner, Feeder, and Separator Elevator
Patent for a machine designed to take and clean cotton from a cotton supply, and then feed it directly into a cotton gin. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 19, 1908
Creator:
Carmouche, Emile A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Plow.
Patent for a combination-plow that "may be combined with facility to form a variety of plows designed for work of different kinds, the present invention being an improvement upon that shown and described in Patent No. 492,462, granted to [the inventor] February 28, 1893" (lines 10-15).
Date:
July 14, 1896
Creator:
Dean, John Rowe
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in apparatus for packing and bale cotton.
Patent for improved process and apparatus for baling cotton. Improvement relates to a mechanical device by means of which raw cotton is thoroughly compressed into bales suitable for handling.
Date:
July 18, 1876
Creator:
Drake, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in the Methods of Baling and Packing Cotton
Patent for improvement in the methods of baling and packing cotton specifically optimizations in the packing and baling of cotton by avoiding all the mechanical appliances used in forming and securing bales of cotton, such as the press, canvas bagging, band, buckles, and bale-ties.
Date:
July 18, 1876
Creator:
Drake, James A. & Singer, Edgar C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Illuminated Sign and Operating Means Therefor
Patent for an illuminated sign and how to operating means. Illustration included.
Date:
October 30, 1906
Creator:
Dunkle, George Harvey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Tube
Patent for a well tube.
Date:
April 8, 1903
Creator:
Fox, Edward P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plaiting-Irons.
Patent for an improvement to plaiting-irons: "a plaiting-iron composed of a peculiarly-constructed iron or metal plate used in connection with a correspondingly-constructed board" (lines 23-25), with illustrations.
Date:
August 14, 1877
Creator:
Gingras, Joseph E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Pencil Holder and Sharpener.
Patent for a combined pencil holder and sharpener, which uses the sharpener as a pencil cap.
Date:
November 30, 1909
Creator:
Haase, Conrad H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Engineer's Safety-Throttle for Locomotive Dry Pipes
Patent for improved safety mechanism for the dry pipe of a steam-powered locomotive engine.
Date:
November 16, 1920
Creator:
Hartman, John Wesley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Drill Bit and Drill Shank
Patent for "Improvements in Combination Drill-Bits and Drill-Shanks" (lines 6-7) including illustrations.
Date:
December 30, 1919
Creator:
Humason, Granville A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drill-Bit.
Patent for improvement to drill-bits. The object of the invention is to provide a bit of the character described which is especially adapted for deep well drilling by the rotary process.
Date:
December 30, 1919
Creator:
Humason, Granville A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Bond.
Patent for a rail bond that allows an electric current to travel through the rails.
Date:
March 14, 1911
Creator:
Humason, Granville A. & Odell, Edward F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pipe-Wrench.
Patent for improvements to pipe wrenches to a more simple design.
Date:
February 16, 1915
Creator:
Lewis, Guy V.
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.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Refining Asphaltic Mineral Oils.
Patent for process for refining asphaltic mineral oils such as might be found in wells in Texas and Louisiana. Designed to remove asphaltum.
Date:
November 11, 1902
Creator:
Mims, John Carwile
System:
The Portal to Texas History