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Spring-Bed
Patent for a spring-bed. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 16, 1907
Creator:
Cohron, John M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway Switch
Patent for a railway switch. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 4, 1911
Creator:
Sydnor, Leslie A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saw-Filing Machine.
Patent for a saw fling machines for gin saws, which has less parts than previous models.
Date:
April 27, 1909
Creator:
Blain, F. A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sanitary Drain-pan for Refrigerators.
Patent for a sanitary drain pan for refrigerators, specifically pertaining to sliced meats. The text explains the benefits of the new drain pan and its components.
Date:
April 22, 1913
Creator:
Schmalzried, John F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Whiffletree.
Patent for an improvement in whiffletrees, made out of steel. It includes a description and illustration.
Date:
April 21, 1891
Creator:
Flatau, Louis S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Road-Working Machine.
Patent for a road working machine, which claims to simplify and improve the type of this machine that is designed to "operate upon banks at the sides of the road for the purpose of trimming such banks and moving the surplus dirt in the direction of the center of the road." (lines 11-14)
Date:
April 3, 1906
Creator:
McBride, William J. & Alford, John J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rein Holder.
Patent for a new and improved rein-holder. This design "has relation to that class of driving rein-holders in which a bracket is employed for attaching to the dash-board of the vehicle, and provided at one end with a standard, to which is pivoted a swinging jaw held down in position to hold the reins by means of a spring coiled around the pivot, the jaw having a convex corrugated face to more securely hold the reins" (lines 16-24).
Date:
April 27, 1886
Creator:
Winfrey, Edgar M. & Branham, Albert G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fence.
Patent for a new and improved fence. This design consists in "[t]he combination of upright posts having top cross-pieces provided with depending hooks at their ends, hooks pivoted at the bottom portion of the posts and extending laterally in opposite directions, and the panels comprising a series of longitudinal rails, the lower one of which is provided with staples at its ends, and provided with wire strands engaging the ends of the rails and extending longitudinally above the series of rails, the strands being engaged with the hooks upon the cross-pieces" (lines 83-94).
Date:
April 7, 1885
Creator:
Tillman, William A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Bed.
Patent for a bed that is collapsible and portable but still safe and sturdy. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 6, 1897
Creator:
Dodge, Israel A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flushing Apparatus.
Patent for a flushing apparatus to be used to flush tanks that are normally kept empty. It is also "an improved siphon for emptying the tank, and also an improved mechanism for starting the siphon" (lines 22-24).
Date:
April 3, 1894
Creator:
Ackley, George D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Safety Starting Device for Internal-Combustion Motors
Patent for the improved "Safety Starting Device for Internal-Combustion Motors (line 6-8)."
Date:
April 9, 1918
Creator:
Todd, James T. A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Planter and Fertilizer-Distributer.
Patent for improvements in seed planter and fertilizer distributers: "can be readily and easily adapted to planting seed in drills or check rows, or to distributing fertilizer and in which the operator can always tell where the last hill was planted so that he will know where to commence his next row" (lines 18-23).
Date:
April 25, 1893
Creator:
Kemp, Amos John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings.
Patent for improvement upon train car coupling. Invention includes use of draw-heads, drop-gates, etc.
Date:
April 2, 1878
Creator:
Hogan, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
Patent for an improved Cotton-Press that will grant double work from an applied power, including illustrations.
Date:
April 8, 1879
Creator:
Matthews, James Hamilton. & Morehead, Charles Robert, Jr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Crossing
Patent for a railway crossing which will not sink in mud and will not be as loud as previously.
Date:
April 22, 1902
Creator:
Cooper, William M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump-Jack for Double-Acting Pumps
Patent for a stronger, more compact pump jack for double acting pumps. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 30, 1912
Creator:
Axtell, Fred W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint.
Patent for the "improvements in rail joints, the object being to so construct and arrange the meeting ends of two railway rails as to provide interlocking members..." (lines 8-12). The patent includes specifications and illustrations.
Date:
April 14, 1914
Creator:
Evans, James B., Sr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Piano
Patent for an invention related to instruments with sounding-boards, particularly upright pianos, that allows for volume control.
Date:
April 12, 1910
Creator:
Norcross, Levi Watson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Piano.
Patent for a piano with reversible boards below the keyboard and on the side of the piano. The board below the keyboard can be reversed to hide wear and the board on the side has foot pedals and a foot-rest for children or beginners to use which can be hidden inside the piano when not in use by reversing the board.
Date:
April 9, 1907
Creator:
Norcross, Levi Watson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pedal-Action.
Patent for a piano pedal action, which can be used in different types of pianos and is adjustable for different users.
Date:
April 5, 1910
Creator:
Norcross, Levi Watson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Elevated Railway, &c
Patent for improvements "to provide an improved track having provisions for readily tightening the track, each span or section being tightened by means of a single tightening device arranged, preferably. . . second, to provide an improved truck with guiding rollers or pulleys, the weight of the truck being carried upon yielding supports; third, a simple and improved swivel or turning device or connection between the car and track, whereby the turning of curves is more easily accomplished with a minimum of friction; fourth, to so mount the truck upon the track that displacement or removal thereof sidewise is impossible fifth, to provide an improved switch; sixth, to provide for a road-bed upon a span in crossing a stream or other analogous obstruction" (lines 14-31).
Date:
April 1, 1890
Creator:
Turner, Ephraim M. & Taylor, James P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Door.
Patent for a door for bathrooms that adjoin two rooms that turns a partition door around 180 degrees when a person enters the bathroom and has locks to prevent the entrance of a person from the other room.
Date:
April 5, 1910
Creator:
Van Zandt, John H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Eight-Lens Telescope.
Patent for improvements in refracting-telescopes in which the instrument may be readily and accurately focused by adjustment of the lenses within the telescoping sections; and by having one or more perforated diaphragms for avoiding errors due to spherical aberration, an adjustable and removable transmitter for the light passing through the object-glass, for the purpose of toning the quantity of light. Illustration is included.
Date:
April 28, 1891
Creator:
Riddle, William Nelson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Post for Fences
Patent for a design for new, unique, and decorative fence posts.
Date:
April 21, 1908
Creator:
Shelton, John F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History