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Can-Opener.
Patent for a can opener, which has a movable blade to allow for easy cleaning.
Date:
May 31, 1910
Creator:
Allen, Jasper McDonnel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wick Trimmer.
Patent for a new and improved wick trimmer. This design "is to provide a lamp-wick trimmer with adjustable guides that will afford means to retain the implement in correct position for use on lamp-wick tubes of different sizes, and furthermore to furnish the wick-trimmer with blades that will shear the wick from each side edge toward the center simultaneously" (lines 7-14).
Date:
May 31, 1892
Creator:
Andrews, Daniel L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Power-Transmitting Means
Patent for improving power-transmitting means. The patent reduces the ratio of rotary to reciprocatory movement, with illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1921
Creator:
Benson, Madison H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Liner Clamp.
Patent for a well-liner clamp for oil, gas, and other similar wells that prevents the well from caving in. The well-liner clamp is made of resilient material to hold in place, contracts while being placed into the well, and can be released after being placed into the well to expand to fit the walls of the well.
Date:
May 31, 1921
Creator:
Bigelow, Robert J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fish and Game Trap.
Patent for a design for improvements of fish and game traps, including illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1892
Creator:
Bolling, Allen G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stock-Chute for Dipping-Vats.
Patent for new improvements that allow for easier transition of animals from a stock-chute into a dipping vat because the "animal will overcome the effect of the counterbalancing weight and will cause the discharge end of the chute to move downwardly precipitating the animal into the vat or trough" (lines 20-26) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1921
Creator:
Burt, Clement P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Tire.
Patent for a vehicle tire composed of laminate fiber board and wooden spokes covered in a oil based mixture, which hardens on the outside of the tires to waterproof them.
Date:
May 31, 1910
Creator:
Carhart, John Wesley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Non Refillable Bottle
Patent for a non refillable bottle. Illustration included.
Date:
May 31, 1904
Creator:
Carriker, Samuel M. & Miller, Lawrence M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine.
Patent for a washing machine that launders articles of clothing. The machine has a plunger that causes rotary movement allowing cleaning fluid to reach all articles, including illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1921
Creator:
Carroll, Houston M., Sr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Return-Envelop.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in return envelops, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1898
Creator:
Carter, Jessee M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Elevated Electric Car-Line.
Patent for a new and useful improvements in "elevated double-track electric car lines and car and electric-wire supports combined, including instructions and illustrations" (line 5 - 7).
Date:
May 31, 1898
Creator:
Cooley, Joe H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Extension-Ladder.
Patent for a new extension ladder, including illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1892
Creator:
Crews, Dayton H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Excavator
Hydraulic dredging machine in which a revolving bucket wheel is used in excavating silt and sand
Date:
May 31, 1892
Creator:
Douglas, William M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment For Horse Powers
Patent for attachment for horse powers. This invention is an attachment for the power transmission for hay presses. Illustration included.
Date:
May 31, 1904
Creator:
Gentry, Arthur Q. & Burk, Jasper A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shoe-Blackener.
Patent for a shoe blacking device, which has a tank for holding the shoe blacking, a dispenser with a cut off valve and a dauber to apply the blacking to the shoe.
Date:
May 31, 1910
Creator:
Glasgow, Samuel G. H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Chair and Sleeping Car.
Patent for railway passenger train combined chair and sleeping car. The combined chair and sleeping car were designed to utilized less space on the train.
Date:
May 31, 1887
Creator:
Goelet, Edward B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock-Corner.
Patent for a lock corner for attaching the corners of cardboard or paper boxes.
Date:
May 31, 1910
Creator:
Hall, Edgar R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mechanical Attachment for Pianos and Organs
Patent for a "mechanical attachment for pianos and organs whereby and musical composition executed upon the instrument shall be automatically recorded upon a travelling strip or band or, if preferred, on the cylindrical surface of a revolving drum" (lines 10-15).
Date:
May 31, 1892
Creator:
Harriman, John Emery, Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Roller-Drill
Patent for a roller drill for drilling deep into rocks which bores small holes and is stronger than other models of roller drills.
Date:
May 31, 1910
Creator:
Hughes, Howard R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil Pump
Patent for an oil pump that may be attached to a barrel or container and dispense liquid in predetermined quantities.
Date:
May 31, 1921
Creator:
Hughes, Stanley R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive Ash Pan.
Patent for a new and improved locomotive ash pan. This design "relates to ash-pans for locomotive and other fire-boxes; and it has for its object to provide a simple and improved device of this character in which the contents of the pan may be discharged therefrom by a single operation of a controlling-lever. To this end the invention consists . . . in a sliding frame working in guides, a series of slats forming the entire bottom of the pan pivoted to the frame and carried thereby, a lever for operating said frame, and means for sustaining the slats normally in horizontal position" (lines 11-23).
Date:
May 31, 1892
Creator:
Johnson, Charles J. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tying Attachment For Baling Presses
Patent for tying attachment for baling presses for hay. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 31, 1904
Creator:
Johnson, Robert S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Tool.
Patent for a new and useful combination tool, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1898
Creator:
Karner, Joseph C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brace for Bedsteads, Gates, &c.
Patent for a new and improved brace for bed frames. This design consists in "the posts having the hooks or eyes, the head-board, foot-board, and rails, also provided with hooks or eyes, the swivel, the wires, each having one end secured to one of the corner hooks or eyes, passed through the eye-bolt and screw-bolt, respectively" (lines 97-102). Said wires are further "given a half-turn on themselves, and their other ends secured to the opposite corner hooks, and the [other] wire having one end secured to one of the center hooks or eyes and woven in and out over the hooks or eyes" (lines 1-5).
Date:
May 31, 1887
Creator:
Lenix, John M. & Swann, George B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History