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Cloth Measuring and Cutting Device.
Patent for a new and improved cloth measuring device.
Date:
April 5, 1898
Creator:
Hood, William B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Antifriction-Bearing.
Patent for a new and useful improvements in anti-friction bearings.
Date:
April 5, 1898
Creator:
Hobron, Charles B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Stone
Patent for artificial stone.
Date:
April 5, 1904
Creator:
Steger, Virge
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cement Plaster Kettle
Patent for a cement plaster kettle. This "invention is an improvement in kettles for cooking gypsum in order to convert the same into cement-plaster" (line 8-10). Illustration included.
Date:
April 5, 1904
Creator:
Malone, Charles Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 5, 1910
Creator:
Thomas, Edward E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Recutting Files.
Patent for a new and improved file re-cutter. This design consists "[i]n an apparatus for recutting files by electro-chemical action, the dialectric plates and the carbon plates having their upper ends attached to said non-conducting plates, whereby the files to be recut are disposed between the carbon plates when in the solution" (lines 76-82).
Date:
April 5, 1887
Creator:
Emley, James E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupler.
Patent for a car-coupler, with illustrations. The purpose of this patent for a car-coupler was to improve existing car-couplings by providing, "safe, convenient, and expeditious means for readily coupling and uncoupling sections of cars with the danger incurred of getting between them" (lines 12-16).
Date:
April 5, 1887
Creator:
Williamson, John A., JR.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Brake.
Patent for a new and improved car-brake. This design consists in "brake-shoes [which] are jointed by pivots to brake-blocks of the usual form, which are suspended from the truck-timbers by suitable suspending links or clevises, so that they may have a free longitudinal movement when acted upon by the actuating mechanism, and said blocks and brake-shoes are separated by transverse brake-bars, in order that they may be kept truly in-line with the car-wheels at all times" (lines 16-25).
Date:
April 5, 1887
Creator:
Greer, John William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Dasher.
Patent for "reciprocating churn-dashers with rotary heads." (Lines 11-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 5, 1891
Creator:
Sterling, Isaac F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Trap.
Patent for a new and improved animal-trap. This design consists "[i]n a trap comprising a well having ingress-openings in diametrically-opposite sides, the combination, with a cage constructed to move vertically in the said well, of plates mounted in ways and constructed to slide past and cover the said openings and having connection with the cage to counterbalance the same" (lines 86-93).
Date:
April 5, 1892
Creator:
McLeod, Charlie Mike
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Boring Artesian Wells.
Patent for a new and improved artesian-well borer. This design "has for its object to furnish a combination tool which will wear or cut the harder grades or rock frequently met with in boring wells of this class, and also to furnish a tool which will be harder than the common steel too or auger, thereby dispensing with the necessity of taking out and sharpening" (lines 13-20). It consists in "[a] fluted hemispherical mass of corundum for boring Artesian wells, said mass being provided with cutting-edges which extend from the apex to the base, [and] a metallic core embedded within the mass" (lines 16-20).
Date:
April 5, 1892
Creator:
Brown, Frank O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design utilizes "a draw-head, formed with the usual flaring mouth, and interior cavity. . . . the interior of the draw-head is narrowing from the mouth to the center of the pin, and widening from the latter backward. The object of this construction is, that it directs the entering link to the pin, and increases the power of resistance of the latter to the strain" (lines 23-33).
Date:
April 5, 1881
Creator:
Nuckols, William L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aircraft
Patent for Improvements to aircraft steering. The invention allows the pilot to adjust the center of mass.
Date:
April 5, 1921
Creator:
Johnson, Louis V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Priming-Cup
Patent for an improved version of the priming cup "shown in Patent No. 1,329,464, granted February 3, 1920" (lines13-14). Includes illustrations.
Date:
April 5, 1921
Creator:
Martinek, Stanley A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Means For Protecting Vaults.
Patent for protecting bank vaults by using metal shells (that are adapted to receive frangible gas containers containing asphyxiating or other disabling gas) as inner linings inside and next to the brick wall of the vault. The metal shells containing the gas containers will break upon contact when a person or persons are trying to breach the outer (brick wall) to gain access to the bank vault.
Date:
April 5, 1921
Creator:
Bumpass, Leonard E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Luggage-carrier
Patent for a luggage carrier that attaches to vehicles to carry packages of various sizes. Includes illustrations.
Date:
April 5, 1921
Creator:
Green, John R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Brace and Angle-Bar for Vehicle-Bodies.
Patent for braces and angle bars on vehicle bodies that improves the brace to hold buggy beds together with illustration that shows improvements. "When these braces are secured on the bed they will prevent the adjacent parts of the bed from splitting, spreading or dropping down and they will hold the ends and sides, as well as the bottom of the bed securely in place" (lines 61-66).
Date:
April 5, 1921
Creator:
Kilpatrick, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap
Patent for an animal trap which is to be sprung by the animal when the bait is touched. It is constructed in such a manner that the animal will be instantly killed. The metal parts of the trap are to create a strong and durable trap and to be manufactured at a small expense.
Date:
April 5, 1921
Creator:
Brewington, Philip Jennings
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Digging-Machine.
Patent for a digging machine specialized in breaking hard soil and creating ridges that attempt to reduce erosion.
Date:
April 5, 1921
Creator:
Holly, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Garment-Hanger.
Patent for a new garment hanger with supported arms that can be folded for storage, including illustrations.
Date:
April 5, 1921
Creator:
Morton, John R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Separator and Evaporator.
Patent for an improved automatic separator and evaporator which controls the intake with an included air-lift or jet-ejector, including illustrations.
Date:
April 5, 1921
Creator:
Allen, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Word Counting Device for Type-Writers
Patent for a word counting device to be used with a typewriter. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 5, 1910
Creator:
Girand, Wilberforce D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Window-Sash.
Patent for a window sash, which can have window panes installed in it without the use of putty.
Date:
April 5, 1910
Creator:
Perkins, Wallace P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher
Patent for a wire stretcher. Illustration inlcuded.
Date:
April 5, 1904
Creator:
Montgomery, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History