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Permutation Locking Device For Lockets
Patent for a permutation locking device for lockets. Illustration included.
Date:
May 9, 1905
Creator:
Katzenberger, Oscar
Object Type:
Patent
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
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash Cord Holder
Patent for a sash cord holder. Illustration included.
Date:
May 10, 1904
Creator:
Haas, Edward
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Fuel
Patent for artificial fuel.
Date:
May 12, 1903
Creator:
Russi, Charles & Cadena, Celedonio
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Touch-Regulator for Pianos
Patent for a touch regulator for pianos.
Date:
May 5, 1903
Creator:
Goggan, Michael
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Safety-Platform for Railway-Cars.
Patent for an improvement to safety platforms for freight cars and other railway cars, intended to "protect the lives of trainment and others whose duties demand the rapid passing from car to car of a train while in motion" (lines 12-14).
Date:
May 27, 1902
Creator:
Holland, John & Wickline, William P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Eyeglasses.
Patent for eyeglasses that builds upon the inventor's previous patent, No. 654,523, and utilizes a set of nose pieces, lenses, and springs to improve upon existing eyeglasses technology.
Date:
May 20, 1902
Creator:
Critzer, Augustus B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
CAR - SEAT CLEANER.
Patent for new and improved car-seat cleaners, including illustrations.
Date:
May 6, 1902
Creator:
Ridd, John A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Packing Compound for Eggs.
Patent for a mixture of shale dust, gypsum, wood ash, sulfur, borax, saltpeter, and salicylic acid. This compound is to be layered around eggs, fruits, or vegetables for the purpose of preserving them.
Date:
May 6, 1902
Creator:
Stukes, John Marion
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Guard-Rail.
Patent for guard rails for use in connection with frogs or switches, including illustrations.
Date:
May 8, 1900
Creator:
Murphy, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lock.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in locks, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 30, 1899
Creator:
Katzenberger, Oscar
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horse-Power And Pumping-Jack.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in a horse power and jumping jack, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 23, 1899
Creator:
Darlington, Benjamin F. & Clary, Edwin P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition Pulp Plaster and Process of Manufacturing Same.
Patent for "a composition pulp plaster designed as a substitute for ordinary lime-plaster and equivalent materials and particularly adapted for use in warm moist climates, where the ordinary lime-plaster lacks durability and is rendered non-adherent. A further objective of the invention is to provide a cheap substitute for plaster which will be not only waterproof, but also fireproof and gas-proof or practically impervious to air" (lines 9-18). It includes instructions for manufacturing the plaster with various proportions of the ingredients depending on the purpose.
Date:
May 9, 1899
Creator:
Blake, David H. & Ray, Jeramiah P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Liquid-Dispensing Apparatus.
Patent for a new and useful liquid dispensing apparatus, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 2, 1899
Creator:
Haye, August
Object Type:
Patent
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
Object Type:
Patent
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.
Object Type:
Patent
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.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for "automatic pin-and-link car-couplings in which a sliding spring-actuated block is employed for supporting the coupling-pin in an elevated position preparatory to coupling." (Lines 8-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 25, 1897
Creator:
Lee, Charles
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Cigar-Lighter.
Patent for a cigar lighter in which the cigar is lit on a glowing surface, improves on the ease of operating a cigar lighter, and provides space for an advertisement.
Date:
May 4, 1897
Creator:
Handshy, Henry M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lifting-Jack.
Patent for "an improved lifting-jack designed expressly for track-levelers, although the construction may be varied for other purposes." (Lines 9-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 12, 1896
Creator:
Arnold, Raiford A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Measuring and Proportioning Machine.
Patent for "a device by which the mixing of various ingredients in certain desired proportions may be easily and accurately accomplished" (lines 8-11). It is meant for industrial measuring.
Date:
May 5, 1896
Creator:
Collins, Alonzo G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Uterus-Battery.
Patent for "a simple and compact electrical or galvanic device, adapted, when placed in the womb of a patient, to develop a mild electric action and thereby promote the flow of the menses and render the same regular and painless" (lines 16-19).
Date:
May 22, 1894
Creator:
Hinkley, Charles Samuel Whitney
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pneumatic Cotton-Picker.
Patent for an improved pneumatic cotton-picker that is meant "to produce a simple machine having a cotton receiving box or vacuum box and arranged to use both a blast and suction pipe, these pipes being oppositely arranged and the suction pipe being made to deliver into the cotton box" (lines 10-17). The cotton is sucked from the plants and delivers it into a cotton box. A guide lines the machine up with the row of cotton.
Date:
May 23, 1893
Creator:
Mauermann, Gustav A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fan and Motoro Therefor.
Patent for a motor-propelled fan that can attach to any support, especially beds steads and other furniture. The motor is simple and can be easily manipulated.
Date:
May 9, 1893
Creator:
Sneckner, George A. & Roth, Charles E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History