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Shell.
Patent for improvements to explosive projectile shells. Provides a shell adapted to contain gas and high explosives with constructed multi-layered shells with the intent to inflict as much damage as possible.
Date:
April 29, 1919
Creator:
Aoughsten, Richard G. & Aoughsten, Otto L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Splicing Device.
Patent for a new and improved wire splicer. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the casing, of the wires entering the casing at the opposite sides of the respective ends and bent in opposite directions, so as to interlock within the casing, said casing being bent down . . . at each end" (lines 62-67).
Date:
April 9, 1889
Creator:
Basel, John Conrad
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Floor-Sweeping Compound
Patent for an improved floor-sweeping compound which changes the traditional woody filler with a less flammable and more absorbent mineral wool filler.
Date:
April 1, 1913
Creator:
Boddeker, James A. & Stratford, John E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Back-Band Buckle.
Patent for an improved back-band buckle and an improved hook that connects the buckle with the trace-chain. The lever-hook snaps "into position and is held secure in a pane substantially flush with the lower portion of the buckle-frame when the buckle is closed by the forcing down of the lever" (lines 15-19).
Date:
April 20, 1897
Creator:
Brown, John Staddart
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trace Carrier.
Patent for a new and improved trace-carrier. This design consists in "[a]n improved back-band buckle with hooks, consisting of a body portion formed of a single piece of wrought-wire, the meeting ends of each bent downward, upward, outward, and again downward to form chain-holding hooks or loops, and the tongues pivoted upon the said body portion" (lines 89-95).
Date:
April 15, 1890
Creator:
Brown, John Stoddart
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flower Pot Trellis
Patent for a flower pot trellis which is used "to be applied to flower-pots of various sizes to support plants or vines without interfering with their roots" (p.2).
Date:
April 15, 1890
Creator:
Brown, John Stoddart, of Galveston, Texas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Winch Attachment
Patent for an improved automobile winch attachment.
Date:
April 22, 1919
Creator:
Bush, E. E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Furnace.
Patent for a new and useful electric furnace.
Date:
April 19, 1898
Creator:
Clark, George Greenleaf
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Road-Grading And Ditching Machine.
Patent for a new and improved road grading and ditching machine, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 18, 1899
Creator:
Cornett, James William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improved Process of Sterilizing and Packaging Rice
Patent for sterilizing and packaging rice by subjecting it to heat for twenty minutes or more. After this, the rice is sorted in a shaker and put into packaging while maintaining the air temperature. This prohibits the rice kernels from cracking.
Date:
April 21, 1914
Creator:
Davis, Waters Smith, Jr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Jetty.
Patent for a new and improved jetty. This design "is to provide structures . . . for protecting shores, and other similar work. . . . [The] invention consists, mainly, in the utilization of a central or interior core of clay, or clayey substance, about which is formed a retaining envelope in connection with suitable substructures, coping, walls, and tracks" (lines 15-27).
Date:
April 16, 1889
Creator:
Douglas, William M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electrical Retort.
Patent for a new and useful electrical retort.
Date:
April 6, 1898
Creator:
Eldridge, Hilliary
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Channel Cleaner.
Patent for a new and improved channel cleaner. This design "is to construct an apparatus which may be anchored in a channel where there are sand-bars, for the purpose of agitating the water and stirring up the sand, so that the current may remove it. [The] invention consists in a trunk or large tube perforated along the bottom and provided at one end with a flaring mouth for concentrating the current within the trunk; also, in the combination, with the trunk, of a stirrer and a motor-screw for driving the same" (lines 17-28).
Date:
April 22, 1890
Creator:
Evans, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crab and Fish Trap.
Patent for a new and improved seafood trap. This design consists in "a net or trap for crabs or fish, which comprises flat frame-sections hinged together, netting attached to said sections, and a rod or bar extending across said sections and engaging with suitable devices thereon for holding said sections partly extended until the hinged sides strike bottom and thereby release the rod or bar" (lines 83-90).
Date:
April 1, 1890
Creator:
Franklin, Robert M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Decorticating Jute, Ramie, and Other Fibrous Plants
Patent for "a machine for separating the valuable fibrous portions of the stems of the plants of the jute, ramie, flax, and hemp, and like varieties from refuse matter and preparing the same for use with the least possible injury and waste" (lines 10-15).
Date:
April 19, 1892
Creator:
Fremery, Felix B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ground-Water Withdrawals and Changes in Water Levels in the Houston District, Texas 1975-79
Report on the published data on ground-water development in the Houston, Texas district.
Date:
April 1984
Creator:
Gabrysch, R. K.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Paddle-Wheel.
Patent for improvements in paddle-wheels by transferring the combined power of the outer paddle-wheel and the inner drum to the shaft thus increased the driving power of the wheel. Illustration is included.
Date:
April 15, 1902
Creator:
Glardon, Henri
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Gins.
Patent for the improvement of the cotton-gin by the arrangement of two cylindrical brushes and rollers to reduce damaging the staple of the cotton, illustrations included.
Date:
April 19, 1859
Creator:
Gottheil, Edward
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin.
Patent for a saw-cleaning attachment for cotton gins. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 20, 1897
Creator:
Griffin, Thomas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for "a compress having a continuous operation, whereby one bale of cotton is being formed by the compress all the time the same is working, and thereby rendering it unnecessary to completely stop the working of the entire press for every single bale made until the bale can be wrapped and discharged out of the press." (Lines 15-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 14, 1896
Creator:
Griffin, Thomas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wagon Attachment
Patent for a footrest attachment to a child's wagon allowing the operator to push the wagon like a scooter.
Date:
April 15, 1913
Creator:
Hammond, Jay D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wax-Press
Patent for a wax press for pressing oil out of wax that does not have to be opened to test the wax or remove it for use.
Date:
April 23, 1912
Creator:
Hansen, Julius
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drying and Stretching Frame
Patent for a frame used to stretch and dry fabrics such as curtains. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 20, 1909
Creator:
Hargrave, Thomas A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Sawing Marble in Obelisk Form.
Patent for "a new and Improved Machine for Sawing Marble Blocks in Polygonal Taper Form" (lines 4-6), including illustration.
Date:
April 15, 1856
Creator:
Haviland, J. E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History