Improvement in Seed-Planters. (open access)

Improvement in Seed-Planters.

Patent for the improvement of planting seeds using a single seed-slide and double tubes from seed box to distribute seeds to planting point in a more direct route than other seed-planters, including illustration.
Date: May 15, 1860
Creator: Pitts, W. C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trolley-Harp. (open access)

Trolley-Harp.

Patent for improvements to the efficiency of trolley harps by changing how the currents that power "overhead type electric car systems" (lines 13-14) are conducted.
Date: May 15, 1917
Creator: Carmack, James H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Packing Attachment for Baling Presses (open access)

Packing Attachment for Baling Presses

Patent for an "improved cotton packing attachment for baling-presses" (lines 9-10).
Date: May 15, 1883
Creator: Shepherd, James R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock. (open access)

Nut Lock.

Patent for a new and improved nut lock. This design utilizes "[t]he combination, with the bolt having a longitudinal groove therein, and the nut having a circular recess in its inner face and a series of perforations in its outer face, of the key having its inner end bent at right angles and fitted in said recess, and provided with an arm and pivoted catch at the outer end, which catch is adapted to engage with a perforation in the nut" (lines 47-55).
Date: May 15, 1883
Creator: Mlinarich, Gioseppe Iosef Pepos
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fare-Box (open access)

Fare-Box

Patent for new and useful improvements in electrical fare boxes.
Date: May 15, 1888
Creator: Crowdus, Walter A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
File-Wrapper and Package Fastener. (open access)

File-Wrapper and Package Fastener.

Patent for securing expansible envelopes and file wrappers with a flexible cord.
Date: May 15, 1900
Creator: Davis, Frederick Clarke
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Firing-Valve to Control the Feed of Oil in Firing Oil-Burning Locomotives. (open access)

Firing-Valve to Control the Feed of Oil in Firing Oil-Burning Locomotives.

Patent for valve changes that "provide a valve operating means whereby the valve may be very finely adjusted and prevented from being casually turned" (lines 16-18).
Date: May 15, 1917
Creator: Gilman, Benoist P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow. (open access)

Harrow.

Patent for an improved harrow made up of a yielding frame, an extensible truss-bar, slotted braces, an angle iron, a lever connected to the frame and the truss-bar, a hook that holds the open end of the lever, and a plate on the lever that straddles a bail.
Date: May 15, 1894
Creator: Johnson, John C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Riveting-Machine. (open access)

Riveting-Machine.

Patent for improvements on a riveting machine that includes a moveable anvil and a clenching hammer and also increases strength, durability, and efficiency of the machine.
Date: May 15, 1917
Creator: Norris, Henry O.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Boring-Drill. (open access)

Rotary Boring-Drill.

Patent for improvements to rotary boring drills.
Date: May 15, 1915
Creator: Hughes, Howard R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Quick-Speed Steam-Engine. (open access)

Quick-Speed Steam-Engine.

Patent for a simple, efficient, and high pressure quick speed steam-engine that maximizes power with the minimum amount of steam.
Date: May 15, 1894
Creator: Devoissaud, John P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Peanut Digger. (open access)

Peanut Digger.

Patent for new and useful improvements to a machine for harvesting or digging peanuts, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 15, 1917
Creator: Amos, Thomas E. & Abernathy, George J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Non-Refillable Bottle (open access)

Non-Refillable Bottle

Patent for a non-refillable bottle that once filled, it does not allow anything else to be added to the bottle.
Date: May 15, 1906
Creator: Burke, Joseph
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Matrix Molding Device (open access)

Matrix Molding Device

Patent for invention relating to the matrix molding device that is used in linotype or intertype or linecasting machines for molding printers' slugs. This invention is to provide devices by which type high printing slugs can be molded with printing surfaces of various designs.
Date: May 15, 1917
Creator: Markwell, Andrew E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Matrix Molding Device (open access)

Matrix Molding Device

Patent for matrix molding devices can be use in linotype or intertype or line casting machines for molding printers' slugs.
Date: May 15, 1917
Creator: Markwell, Andrew E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety Device for Elevators. (open access)

Safety Device for Elevators.

Patent for an improved elevator safety device that engages the brakes should the cable break or engine become inoperable to bring the elevator to a gradual stop, with illustrations.
Date: May 15, 1917
Creator: Davis, John L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters.

Patent for covering cotton seeds by using a hoe transversely with cams and slides with the main axle of the planter, including illustration.
Date: May 15, 1855
Creator: Morrel, A. H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drafting-Tool. (open access)

Drafting-Tool.

Patent for a drafting ruler that does not need to be turned end over end to be used.
Date: May 15, 1917
Creator: Faas, Walter
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "has for its objects to provide a coupling-pin which can be reversed when one end becomes worn, to provide a reversible pin of novel construction, which is adapted to automatically engage the ordinary coupling-link, and to provide a coupling-pin of novel construction, with a device for holding it elevated when it is not desired to engage a coupling-link" (lines 10-18).
Date: May 15, 1883
Creator: Fowler, Joseph C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press (open access)

Baling Press

Patent for a baling press. Illustration included.
Date: May 15, 1906
Creator: Struve, Clemens A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator. (open access)

Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.

Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper and cultivator. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the chopper-handle, of the notched-roller, the mortised cross-beam, having the pivot across its mortise or hole, and the spring, attached to an upright, and the handle, whereby the chopper may be operated" (lines 73-78).
Date: May 15, 1883
Creator: Pettitt, Francis Alexander.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Preprocessing of Procedure in the ORACLE-Algol Translator (open access)

Preprocessing of Procedure in the ORACLE-Algol Translator

This report describes the preprocessing stage to be added to the present ORACLE-Algol translator which will enable it to translate programs containing procedures. The Algol 60 procedure is an extremely flexible tool, and its full implementation presents a number of difficulties. Since it is undesirable to undertake major revisions of the existing parts of the translator and impossible to solve all of these difficulties in a processing stage, it was necessary to impose certain restrictions on the use of procedures. The result, however, retains the more basic features of the Algol 60 procedure concept. Most of the algorithms published in the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery can be handled by the preprocessor with few minor or no changes.
Date: May 15, 1961
Creator: Bumgarner, L. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library