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Design for a Knife
Patent for a design for a knife that has a curved terminal that forms a shield.
Date:
May 11, 1897
Creator:
Albert, Alfred K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Telephone-Transmitter.
Patent for a granulated-electrode phone transmitter that is designed to be simple and "constructed so that the granulated-electrode cannot become displaced from the cell" (lines 10-12).
Date:
May 11, 1897
Creator:
Alexander, Horace C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Setting-Basin Separating Device
Patent for Settling Basin-Separating Devices. This device improves the issue of unwanted discharge shown in prior devices
Date:
May 11, 1990
Creator:
Allen, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buckle
Patent for a buckle. Illustration included.
Date:
May 11, 1909
Creator:
Allen, Orcenith F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nuclear Storage Overpack Door Actuator and Alignment Apparatus
The invention is a door actuator and alignment apparatus for opening and closing the 15,000-pound horizontally sliding door of a storage overpack. The door actuator includes a ball screw mounted horizontally on a rigid frame including a pair of door panel support rails. An electrically powered ball nut moves along the ball screw. The ball nut rotating device is attached to a carriage. The carriage attachment to the sliding door is horizontally pivoting. Additional alignment features include precision cam followers attached to the rails and rail guides attached to the carriage.
Date:
May 11, 2005
Creator:
Andreyko, Gregory M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Plow.
Patent for a plow, which attaches to cultivators that both turns the earth destroying weeds and puts some soil around the tops of the young plants to keep them low growing.
Date:
May 11, 1909
Creator:
Avery, Charles Lafayette
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Time-Check for Oil-Presses and Other Machines
Patent for a device that records the time in which a machine is in operation and in which it is idle to check the efficiency of the workmen and the work plant as a whole.
Date:
May 11, 1915
Creator:
Bell, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Separating Decorticated Cotton-Seed.
Patent for a machine dedicated to "increase the capacity of machines for separating decorticated cotton-seed" (lines 9-10) and to "separate the meal from the husks of the decorticated cotton-seed, whereby perfectly clean meal is collected" (lines 12-15)
Date:
May 11, 1897
Creator:
Bell, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed Rail Fastener
Patent for a bed rail fastener. "The purpose of this invention is to provide novel features of construction for a bed rail fastener, which afford a very secure connection of the ends of the side rails of a metal bedstead with the head and foot posts of the bed." (lines 9-14). Illustration included.
Date:
May 11, 1909
Creator:
Berry, Thomas O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Engine Fan Belt Guard.
Patent for Engine Fan Belt Guards. This device helps the fan shift from slipping off mother vehicle engines.
Date:
May 11, 1920
Creator:
Brackett, Edward B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Two Wheeled Vehicle.
Patent for a new and improved vehicle. This design "is to provide a vehicle in which a person can ride over rough ground without serious inconvenience or discomfort incident to travel over such roads. . . . [and] to so construct a gig that a person can get into the same without serious inconvenience, and to this end it is made low, the rear of the shafts being extended in line with the axle and the step secured to the shaft and extending somewhat below it. . . . [and] to provide a gig with springs that will work in two directions—laterally and vertically" (lines 20-34).
Date:
May 11, 1886
Creator:
Buckel, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sanitary Cover-Pad for Mattresses.
Patent for an improvement in sanitary pad covers for mattresses that is washable and contains pocket flaps underneath that can hold a sheet of waterproof material to protect the mattress beneath.
Date:
May 11, 1920
Creator:
Callahan, John William & Callahan, Maud B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Magazine Rifle
Patent for a magazine rifle. Illustration included.
Date:
May 11, 1909
Creator:
Catron, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Motor.
Patent for a hydraulic motor designed for water intake through top ring.
Date:
May 11, 1886
Creator:
Cooper, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drinking-Cup.
Patent for a collapsible drinking cup for children, whose parts are attached together to prevent loss of parts and which can be hung from the waistband of the child.
Date:
May 11, 1909
Creator:
Dacus, Augusta
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.
Date:
May 11, 1909
Creator:
Dewald, Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ore Separator
Patent for ore separator. This invention "relates to separators or concentrators for separating or extracting gold from pulverized quartz sand or bearing dirt" (line 8-11). Illustration included.
Date:
May 11, 1909
Creator:
Donovan, John T., Sr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Producing Tire-Patch Material.
Patent for an improved tire patch material combination and production process, which results in less water absorption and better adhesion to the tire.
Date:
May 11, 1920
Creator:
Duffy, Clarence O.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rotary Cultivators and Choppers
Patent for an improvement to the design of a rotary cultivator and chopper, including illustrations.
Date:
May 11, 1875
Creator:
Fenley, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stovepipe-Cap.
Patent for a stove pipe cap that attaches to the top of a chimney and prevents "birds from building their nests in the smoke stack or pipe, which causes chimney fires" (lines 21-23) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 11, 1920
Creator:
Fojtik, Peter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rug-Hanger.
Patent for the improvement of rug-hangers. The invention consists of multiple rollers that facilitate both the mounting and disengagement of rugs or other large flexible articles of merchandise from the hanger.
Date:
May 11, 1915
Creator:
Griffin, James S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Weed-Burner
Patent for "a railroad weed-burning device in which a large sheet-iron shield is suspended underneath and between the trucks of any ordinary railroad car for the purpose of confining the flame and heat produced by oil-atomizing burners or other means to direct and maintain continued contact with grass and weeds on the ground between and along the outside of the rails" (lines 9-18).
Date:
May 11, 1897
Creator:
Hancock, Geroge A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cabinet
Patent for a cabinet for storing lace or ribbons.
Date:
May 11, 1909
Creator:
Hayden, Frank A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Raising Liquids from Deep Wells.
Patent for improvements for raising liquids from deep wells. "It has a particular application to the raising of fused sulfur from the well in the liquid state" (lines 14-16).
Date:
May 11, 1920
Creator:
Hebert, Joseph A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History