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Adjuster for Locomotive-Headlights
Patent for a mechanism for adjusting and mounting train headlights. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 17, 1910
Creator:
McCoy, Olan B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Poke.
Patent for a new and improved animal poke. This design "is to construct a device which may be secured to horses, cattle, and other animals, and which will effectually prevent fence-jumping, while at the same time allow the animal free use of [its] head and limbs, doing away with any tendency to cramp the wearer" (lines 17-23). It consists, "with bar and a means for suspending it beneath the animal's body and the bar, which is secured at its outer end to the animal's head, of a hinge to the opposite side of which the adjacent ends of the said bars are pivoted" (lines 78-83).
Date:
May 17, 1892
Creator:
Stracener, Upton W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Dispensing Oil, &c.
Patent for a new and useful apparatus for dispensing oil, &c.
Date:
May 17, 1898
Creator:
Haye, August
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Coffins
Patent for a coffin attachment which supports the head and shoulders of the body and allows them to be adjusted vertically. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 17, 1910
Creator:
Deering, Uriah H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Wheel-Cultivators
Patent for a new and useful improvement in attachments for wheel cultivators, including description and illustrations.
Date:
May 17, 1887
Creator:
Brown, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Railway Switch Lock
Patent for an automatic railway switch lock. Illustration included.
Date:
May 17, 1904
Creator:
Sulfer, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in baling presses.
Date:
May 17, 1898
Creator:
Holmgreen, Julius H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for improvements of patent no. 685838, dated November 5, 1901 by the same inventor George Daniel Hayes. The improvements included “the mounting of the plunger-operating lever, so as to insure a quick and positive disengagement thereof from the plunger-rod at the completion of the stroke and also to arrange for applying the power to the lever in such a manner as to obviate twisting thereof.” (Lines 14-19) Other improvements such as improved tension device for the plunger-operating lever, to provide the press with means whereby all of the bales may be formed of equal lengths and, means for preventing backward movement of the bales. Illustration is included.
Date:
May 17, 1904
Creator:
Hayes, George Daniel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle
Patent for a bicycle propelled by the front wheel. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 17, 1910
Creator:
Franklin, Robert M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pounder
Patent for a clothes pounder. Illustration included.
Date:
May 17, 1910
Creator:
Turner, James S. & Campbell, John Luther
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Steeper and Dripper.
Patent for improvements of steeper and drippers combinations, specifically for tea or coffee, where a container the same depth of the pot will be provided in order to steep grounds easily and quicker.
Date:
May 17, 1920
Creator:
Nicholls, George Habberton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn or Cotton Planter
Patent for a corn and cotton planter. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 17, 1910
Creator:
Wilks, Chance
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton and Corn Scraper.
Patent for a new and useful cotton and corn scraper.
Date:
May 17, 1898
Creator:
Dove, Thoms F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cultivator.
Patent for an improved cultivator used for tillage when the plows are not in the ground. The cultivator can also lighten the heaviness felt by the operator while the plow is being used.
Date:
May 17, 1921
Creator:
Barnett, James Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Sprinkler.
Patent for a new and improved sprinkler. This design consists "[i]n a cotton or other plant sprinkler, the reservoir or tank mounted upon a suitable carriage or truck, and having connected thereto a pump, in combination with the grooved pulley, rigidly secured to the wheel of the carriage or truck, belt or chain, pulley, clutch, and crank, connected by suitable levers or arms to the piston-rod . . . with the pipes, provided with roseheads, of the arm or carrier, formed in sections and connected to a suitable lever for raising or lowering it" (lines 20-33).
Date:
May 17, 1881
Creator:
Wolfram, John Arnold
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivating Machine
Patent for a cultivating machine. Illustration included.
Date:
May 17, 1904
Creator:
Gray, Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cushion-Padded Horseshoe
Patent for a horseshoe with cushion padding. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 17, 1910
Creator:
Gowing, William N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Trouser-Fastener Member.
Design patent for a trousers-fastener with duplicate compoundly curbed edges converging to a common point.
Date:
May 17, 1898
Creator:
Salich, August
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Door Hanger.
Patent for a new and improved hanger for doors and gates. This design consists in "the brackets secured to a door or gate way at intervals apart and having the horizontal supporting arms, the track made of angle-iron and having the horizontal treadway secured to the arms of the brackets, and the upwardly-extending flange at the outer edge of the treadway, and the hangers secured to the door or gate and having their upper portions bent to form an inverted U-shaped yoke or frame, and rollers journaled between the sides of the frame" (lines 80-91).
Date:
May 17, 1887
Creator:
Charlton, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draft Attachment for Motor-Vehicles.
Patent for a draft attachment by which a motor vehicle may "pull itself free when its traction wheels have become embedded in a soft or muddy road" (lines 14-16).
Date:
May 17, 1921
Creator:
Worsham, Louis W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draft Producing Device
Patent for a draft producing device. This invention is placed under the eye of a kiln or under a boiler to increase air to the furnace. Illustration included.
Date:
May 17, 1904
Creator:
Miles, Joseph Furnas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dust Guard for Car Windows.
Patent for a new and improved dust guard for windows. This design consists in "the body . . . which is of concavo-convex form, closed at its upper end by a transverse plate and provided at its lower end with a contracted opening for the discharge of cinders, dust, &c., said body portion being provided with means . . . for affecting its attachment to a window frame" (lines 77-85).
Date:
May 17, 1887
Creator:
Duzan, Thomas H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Expanding Hub.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in metallic vehicle wheel hubs, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 17, 1898
Creator:
Vollrath, Louis F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Filter For Rain Spouts
Patent for a filter for rain spouts. Illustration included.
Date:
May 17, 1904
Creator:
Moechel, Aratine G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History