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Animal-Trap
Patent for an animal trap. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 16, 1911
Creator:
Morris, Leopold
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ash-Pan
Patent for an ash pan for trains. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 16, 1911
Creator:
Spratley, George
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Caster.
Patent for "casters, and more especially to those of that type employing a ball and anti-friction rollers," (lines 8-10) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 16, 1911
Creator:
Taylor, Henry William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crate or Box Forming Machine
Patent for a crate or box forming machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 16, 1911
Creator:
Nitschmann, Eduard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Swivel.
Patent for a hydraulic swivel used with wells including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 16, 1911
Creator:
Layne, Mahlon E.; Hall, Samuel N. & Layne, Charles F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mattress
Patent for a mattress made with folded layers of material, such as cotton or wool, where the fibers are placed in a vertical position.
Date:
May 16, 1911
Creator:
Heermans, Wallace T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Metal Tie
Patent for a metal railroad tie. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 16, 1911
Creator:
Caton, Augustus B. & Carter, Ernest A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil Stove
Patent for an oil stove. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 16, 1911
Creator:
Young, James W. & McGee, Guy
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Portable Liquid-Cooling Tank.
Patent for a portable tank for transporting liquids, which has a compartment for ice to keep the liquids cool including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 16, 1911
Creator:
Ingram, Jonathan D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump.
Patent for "improvements in pumps which move a long column of water with each stroke but discharge a relatively small quantity" (lines 10-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 16, 1911
Creator:
Kangas, Frank Oskar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Generator and Burner
Letter from S. A. Christian to the United States Patent Office to propose an invention of new and useful improvements in combine generators and burners. This is to use with lighter hydro-carbons and adapted for services in stoves or any heat burner. The diagram showed the details of the blueprint of the device.
Date:
May 16, 1913
Creator:
S.A Christian
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Lamp-Shade.
Patent for a simplified, detachable, and adjustable lamp shade that is "more practical and efficient without increasing the cost of manufacture" (lines 27-29), including illustrations.
Date:
May 16, 1916
Creator:
Landers, Charles G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Pump.
Patent for an air pump improvement that simpler and cheaper to produce. It also provides a description of "the combination and arragement of parts" (lines 14-15), including illustrations.
Date:
May 16, 1916
Creator:
Runge, Friedrich Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Train-Stop
Patent for Automatic Train-Stops "particularly to a system operable in connection with well-known airbrake systems to apply the airbrakes, and shut off the power when an accident of a predetermined character occurs." (lines 10-14) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 16, 1916
Creator:
Estes, Betram P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Building Block
Patent for improvements in building blocks, so they would be stronger, but lighter in weight, and cheaper to transport.
Date:
May 16, 1916
Creator:
Boehm, Edward.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crutch.
Patent for crutches with adjustable pneumatic cushioned arm rests, adjustable length, absorbent hand grip, and a detachable vertical leg rest.
Date:
May 16, 1916
Creator:
Gregson, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Direction-Indicator.
Patent for a direction indicator that is "extremely simple, durable, efficient in operation, and inexpensive to manufacture" (lines 20-22). It is "an improved electrically operated direction indicator, in the nature of an arm pivotally mounted in a casing and operated by an electro-magnetically controlled lever [...] for indicating the directions in which the vehicle to which the device is applied, is about to move" (lines 10-17), including illustrations.
Date:
May 16, 1916
Creator:
Justus, Fred E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dish Washing Machine
Patent for "new and useful machine improvements for washing dishes and other articles" (lines 9-11).
Date:
May 16, 1916
Creator:
Randolph, Hallie H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drive for Motor-Vehicles
Patent for the drives of motor vehicles, which provides the means to the front wheels can be driven by a motor without the interfering with the action of the steering wheel.
Date:
May 16, 1916
Creator:
Woods, Arthur M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner.
Patent for an improved hyrdrocarbon burner that includes "an overhanging generating element of suitable construction in combination with a particular base having a burner jet surrounded by air admitting jets [...] to be installed in the various forms of stoves and grates" (lines 11-26), including illustrations.
Date:
May 16, 1916
Creator:
Franklin, Oliver H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Indicator for Mail-Boxes.
Patent for the operator indicating a mail for the mail box to the courier mans, which allows easy purchase of things.
Date:
May 16, 1916
Creator:
Hunnicutt, Wallace V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Load-Indicating attachment for drilling-rigs
Patent for the invention is to provide a character to be attached on a mounted on the derrick of a drilling rig and which will accurately indicate the cooperative weight of the load attached to the back of rig.
Date:
May 16, 1916
Creator:
Hughes, Howard R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Money-Changing Apparatus.
Patent for an apparatus for money changing and recording. The apparatus selects and ejects coins and is controlled by keys that can be pressed.
Date:
May 16, 1916
Creator:
Furttinger, Fred P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Switch Stand.
Patent for a railway switch stand that locks "a switch of this class and from which the lock cannot be removed except when the switch is fully locked, thus obviating accidents by always insuring a locked condition of the switch after operation and thereby preventing the switch from being subsequently actuated by unauthorized persons" (lines 11-20), including illustrations.
Date:
May 16, 1916
Creator:
Berger, James H. & Rosson, George T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History