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Fuse Block
Patent for improvements to Patent No. 1113528. Invention provides a fuse block where the fuses can be replaced by a lineman without being in close proximity to the primary circuit wires. Invention also allows various types of fuses to be used.
Date:
May 3, 1921
Creator:
Anderson, Lou Belle
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ice Hook
Patent for an ice hook.
Date:
May 3, 1904
Creator:
Ball, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect Destroyer
Patent for an insect destroyer. Illustration included.
Date:
May 3, 1904
Creator:
Beasley, Henry & Huber, Gauttleb
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Cutting off the Soiled Butts of Grain Stalks.
Patent for a new and improved cutting machine for grain stalks. This design consists in a "table slotted in its middle part and slotted and recessed at or near one edge, the parallel endless bundle-carrying chains working in said slots and having arms, the chain-wheels, the shafts thereof and their supports, the circular saw in the recess at the edge of the table, the mandrel and the gage-plate" (lines 98-105).
Date:
May 3, 1887
Creator:
Becker, Lothar
System:
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Apparatus For Handling Seed Cotton
Patent for an apparatus for handling seed cotton. Illustration included.
Date:
May 3, 1904
Creator:
Benefield, Chauncey R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Baling Cotton.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in processes of baling cotton.
Date:
May 3, 1898
Creator:
Bessonette, Charles L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Box and Package Elevating Apparatus
Patent for an elevator for boxes and packages. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 3, 1910
Creator:
Brigance, Alice Osborne
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Marking Goods.
Patent for a new and improved price tag. This design "consist[s] of a strip of ductile metal or any other material comprising a tapering finger, having a pointed hook or prong at its outer end and a square or rectangular plate integral with the tapering finger" (lines 96-100). It it further "provided on three sides with overturned edges or flanges and on the fourth side with a raised shoulder or offset adapted to form a stop for the removable marking-tag, so as to hold the same in place removably" (lines 1-5).
Date:
May 3, 1892
Creator:
Brown, Sampson H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buckle.
Patent for a new and improved buckle. This design utilizes two separate tongues that run freely along a middle bar, which lengthens the life of the strap by distributing pressure and allowing for broken out, frayed, or otherwise worn holes to be circumvented for new ones.
Date:
May 3, 1881
Creator:
Burket, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burner
Patent for a hydrocarbon oil burner. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 3, 1910
Creator:
Butler, Albert C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hook and Bushing for Same.
Patent for a hame hook and a bushing for hame-hooks, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 3, 1898
Creator:
Carder, Joshua W.
System:
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Self-Closing Bundle-Receptacle.
Patent for a receptacle basket that attaches to the side of an automobile and closes automatically using springs and hinges.
Date:
May 3, 1921
Creator:
Cardwell, Charles E.
System:
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Cotton-Baling Apparatus
Patent for a cotton baling machine in which "the condensing and bat-forming devices will condense and press the lint-cotton so close that the spring of the cotton is broken, thereby avoiding the necessity of providing additional compressing-rollers intermediate the condenser and the press-box. A further object of my invention is to arrange a condenser in such a manner as to save room in the gin-house and to provide means for carrying off the dust and air made by the gin and condenser to the outside of the building" (lines 12-24).
Date:
May 3, 1892
Creator:
Carter, Edward D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pounder.
Patent for a new and improved clothes pounder. This design "consist[s] of an outer cone with openings and socket near its upper end, a plurality of smaller cones with open bottoms within the outer cone and having their upper ends secured to the bottom of the said socket of the larger cone, and a conical guard around the upper end of the outer cone and extended below said openings independent of the outer cone and terminating in a vertical depending flange at a distance from the said outer cone" (lines 77-87).
Date:
May 3, 1892
Creator:
Davis, Jordan G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pneumatic Tire
Patent for pneumatic tires. Illustration included.
Date:
May 3, 1910
Creator:
Dazey, Harry L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
The patent is for a wire stretcher used to repair fencing.
Date:
May 3, 1892
Creator:
Dean, G. A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ditching-Machine.
Patent for a certain new, useful, and valuable improvement in ditching machines for cutting ditches.
Date:
May 3, 1898
Creator:
Dillahay, John G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Working Tool
Patent for a wire working tool. Illustration included.
Date:
May 3, 1904
Creator:
Dodd, Joseph W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spectacles
Patent for reading glasses. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 3, 1910
Creator:
Donaldson, James W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect Trap.
Patent for a new and improved insect trap. This design is "for catching such insects as are attracted by light, more especially cotton-flies, potato-bugs, and the like" (lines 11-13). It consists "of a frame having a bottom provided with an approximately star-shaped opening, the transparent walls mounted in the frame and forming re-entrant angles and providing entrance-openings and being adjustable to vary the size of the entrance openings, a receptacle arranged beneath the opening in the bottom of the frame, and a lamp arranged within the frame" (lines 72-80).
Date:
May 3, 1892
Creator:
Edwards, Joseph H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Removable Pass-Book.
Patent for a book with a removable cover that lies flat when open and fits within a pocket. Particularly suited for bank books, also known as passbooks.
Date:
May 3, 1921
Creator:
Exline, Marcus P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Trap.
Patent for Animal Trap especially adapted for the extermination of mice and similar rodents.
Date:
1920-09-5
Creator:
Fredrick, Willaim.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stringed Instrument
Patent for "an instrument that may be conveniently supported upon the lap of the player without any supporting-bands, that is of unique and handsome appearance, that is strong and durable, not liable to be injured by ordinary falls, in which the bridge is secure, the neck properly braced, and to give to the body such shape as will increase its resonance, while at the same time preserving the musical sweetness inherent in instruments of this class" (lines 13-22).
Date:
May 3, 1892
Creator:
Ganss, Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Fire Guard and Screen.
Patent for a new and improved fireplace screen. This design "is to provide a simple and efficient device which may be suspended in front of open fireplaces or grates for the purpose of preventing the frequent and sometimes fatal accidents which are directly due to the absence of reliable safe-guards. The invention consists of a series of shields or plates of suitable size and material, which are so connected that when not in use they may be easily drawn upward in succession side by side and compactly placed in an appropriate receptacle attached to the front of a mantel or to a wall above a fireplace" (lines 16-29).
Date:
May 3, 1892
Creator:
Gibson, Nathaniel B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History