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Nut-Lock.
Patent for new qualities of nut-lock security, efficiency, and convenience, including illustrations.
Date:
April 24, 1906
Creator:
Payne, Lewis.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bottle-neck
Patent for "an improved neck for bottles and jars; and it consists, essentially, of a notch formed on each side of the cork to enable the fingers of the operator to obtain a firm grip thereon in order to extract same." (lines 8-12)
Date:
April 10, 1906
Creator:
Huffer, Tilghman A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buckle-Hook.
Patent for a new buckle hook, specifically a back-band buckle for use with a harness that is "of simple and inexpensive construction designed to firmly grip the back-band or strap of the harness and retain the same in adjusted position" (lines 12-15), including illustrations.
Date:
April 17, 1906
Creator:
Reid, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pin
Patent for metallic clothes pins. Illustration included.
Date:
April 24, 1906
Creator:
Boese, Charles W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crate.
Patent for a crate which can be knocked down and folded, including illustrations. The crate is designed with novel features.
Date:
April 24, 1906
Creator:
La Bauve, Odelon Joseph.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Phonograph-Machine.
Patent for a new phonograph machine with improvements of sound-box-transversing mechanisms and uniformity of movements, including illustrations.
Date:
April 17, 1906
Creator:
Dubinski, Benjamin.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined System of Electric Signaling and Switch Setting for Railroads
Patent for improved system of electric signaling and opening and closing rail systems.
Date:
April 17, 1906
Creator:
Wagner, Bruno Otto
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pencil-Holder.
Patent for a pencil-holder designed to quickly attach to pencils or pens of different sizes, including illustrations. This pencil-holder features a clip which clamps onto the edge of one's pocket to prevent the pencil from falling out or damaging the pocket.
Date:
April 24, 1906
Creator:
Eldredge, Alva Ray
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench
Patent for a wrench. Illustration included.
Date:
April 17, 1906
Creator:
Hall, Samuel N. & Lawlor, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wrench.
Patent for a wrench with an adjustable handle for multiple uses, with illustrations.
Date:
April 10, 1906
Creator:
Land, Henry Clay
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a wire-stretcher used in the building and repair of wire fences, including illustrations. This wire-stretcher's design has features which improve the efficiency of the construction of wire fences.
Date:
April 17, 1906
Creator:
Feist, Felix L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill.
Patent for an improved windmill, a wind-driven wheel which will operate with the wind blowing in any direction and without the necessity of a typical vane and which produces a maximum velocity with a minimum amount of wind.
Date:
April 17, 1906
Creator:
Bartlett, Robert S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Fence Tool.
Patent for a new wire fence tool for "applying binding members at the crossings of the strand and stay wires, and has for its object to simplify and improve the construction and increase the efficiency of devices of this character" (lines 10-14), including illustrations.
Date:
April 3, 1906
Creator:
Harris, Edwin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Exterminator
Patent for an insect exterminator to be transported to and used within crop fields which separates insects from plants by means of brushes and kills the insects by depositing them into a pan containing liquid insecticide. Exterminator also includes a sprayer to deliver insecticide onto crops. Exterminator is designed to be pulled by draft animals.
Date:
April 17, 1906
Creator:
Thompson, Everett Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Cutter
Patent for a tool that can be attached to cultivators and harrows to make stalk and vine cultivation more efficient.
Date:
April 24, 1906
Creator:
Dorris, William P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock
Patent for locking-washer "so that the nuts will not come off or be knocked from the bolts" (Lines 8-9) including illustrations.
Date:
April 24, 1906
Creator:
Palmer, Clyde E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Equalizing Device for Pump-Rods.
Patent for an improved equalizing device for pump-rods used in hand or windmill pumps that increases the operating efficiency and decreases the manufacture cost of the device.
Date:
April 10, 1906
Creator:
Shipman, John Davis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Piston-Rod Connection
Patent for a connector between a cross-head and a piston-rod that reduces strain by using a double taper and binder elements in line with the thrust of the piston-rod to prevent fractures and breaks as a result of the end thrust.
Date:
April 17, 1906
Creator:
McElvaney, Charles T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shear-Sharpener.
Patent for an improved shear sharpener which has a "new and novel construction by which shears are quickly and properly sharpened, ... whereby a shear is held at the proper bevel while being moved over an oilstone or the like" (lines 12-16), including illustrations.
Date:
April 3, 1906
Creator:
Jeffrey, James C.
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.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway Gate
Patent for improved railway gate which functions as cattle-guard and prevents foot traffic on railroad bridges, and opens and closes automatically for trains.
Date:
April 10, 1906
Creator:
Lowe, William Madison
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint Chair.
Patent for improvements to rail joint chairs, which claims to provide "an integral-joint chair and means for clamping the chair upon the joint and without the use of any form of fastening which may or can become loosened by use." (lines 16-19)
Date:
April 10, 1906
Creator:
Crawford, Hezekiah H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Match-Box.
Patent for match boxes that automatically opens when unlatched and has a projecting member arm that slides the lid with a match for removal conveniency.
Date:
April 17, 1906
Creator:
Whiteker, Bosque M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Derrick
Patent for a derrick. Illustration included.
Date:
April 3, 1906
Creator:
McClain, Thomas & McDaniel, Robert S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History