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Resilient Filler for Elastic Rubber Vehicle Tires
Patent for filler material to support the exterior casing of rubber tires for vehicles. The patent illustrates and describes filler material to enhance an improved rubber tire of efficient and superior quality to previous vehicle tires.
Date:
May 26, 1914
Creator:
Staten, Claude S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump for Hydraulic Presses
Patent for a hydraulic pump that drives at a uniform speed as the pressure of the press increases, and connects the pistons with two pairs of cylinders moving in opposite cycles.
Date:
May 10, 1921
Creator:
Henry, Nelson B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Power-Transmission Mechanism
Patent for a power transmission with improvements to mechanisms related to frame adjustment, lubrication, motion transmission, and speed gearing, among others.
Date:
May 2, 1922
Creator:
Mays, James L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Crate
Patent for folding crate. Illustration included.
Date:
May 8, 1906
Creator:
Anderson, Oliver Lacy
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fishing Float
Patent for a fishing float. Illustration included.
Date:
May 23, 1905
Creator:
Jones, Daniel M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shade and Curtain Fixture
Patent for a fixture that holds a variety of curtain rod sizes, preventing the need to mount a new fixture every time a rod is mounted.
Date:
May 22, 1906
Creator:
Staten, Claude S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Running-Gear for Aeroplanes.
Patent for an improvement to the running gear of aeroplanes in which the running gear can be moved out of the way so as not to create unnecessary head resistance when the plane is in flight.
Date:
May 26, 1914
Creator:
McCarroll, Frank
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Garbage Burning Furnace
Patent for a new and useful garbage burning furnace that burns garbage efficiently in a combustion chamber. Illustrations are included.
Date:
May 9, 1916
Creator:
Stokes, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saw Jointer.
Patent for a new and improved saw-jointer. This design consists in "two casts having longitudinal triangular grooves upon their inner facing sides, having the lower portions of their inner facing sides cut away to form a longitudinal groove, and having the upper portions of their inner facing sides bulged to form longitudinal halves of a socket, with a screw passing through the castings in the space between the bulged socket portions and the longitudinal grooves, the said grooves being adapted to receive a triangular file having its lower face at right angles to the sides of the groove" (lines 64-76).
Date:
May 26, 1885
Creator:
Fitzpatrick, Francis B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Shank-Stiffener and Heel-Plate for Shoes.
Patent for "shank stiffener and heel securing plate for use in the manufacture of shoes or in the repair work" (lines 25-27) to prevent or repair buckling, loosening, and breaking of heels due to shanks of soles being made from "leather, compressed paper, or steel" (lines 18-19) which historically have not been able to support the heel of the shoe.
Date:
May 7, 1918
Creator:
Cobler, Lee Ora
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Roofing-Tile.
Patent for an improved plastic roofing tile with sealing, locking, pseudo-dove tail joints.
Date:
May 4, 1920
Creator:
Martin, John M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tractor.
Patent for a tractor in which the placement of the power source reduces dead weight and provides a low center of gravity, thereby increasing stability.
Date:
May 24, 1921
Creator:
Martin, John J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Money-Changing Machine.
Patent for improvements on money-changing machines to include multiple coin holding tubes and require the user to push only one key lever for change.
Date:
May 29, 1917
Creator:
Furttinger, Fred P.
Object Type:
Patent
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.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Handle Bar
Patent for a bicycle handlebar
Date:
May 18, 1915
Creator:
Cortines, Ernest J.
Object Type:
Patent
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.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method and Apparatus for Generating Motive Fluid
Patent for improvement in methods and apparatus for generating motive fluid "to provide a source of combustion" and dispose of it outside the generator to generate steam (lines 11-12).
Date:
May 1, 1917
Creator:
Reordan, Charles, E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Overalls.
Patent for a type of overalls where the jumper is elevated from the seat. The jumper is elevated from the jumper to prevent rain and other substances from saturating the seat. The jumper can also be removed from the seat by unfastening a concealed button hole band.
Date:
May 25, 1920
Creator:
Godchaux, Herbert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pneumatic Tire
Patent for pneumatic tires. Illustration included.
Date:
May 3, 1910
Creator:
Dazey, Harry L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electric Bath-Brush
Patent for improvements to an electric brush so that it is "exceedingly effective in its operation and at the same time simple in construction, combining lightness with durability, and securing the best results medicinally to the user. A further object consists in providing a construction whereby the entire brush may be dismantled, so as to obtain access to the interior when necessary, and to permit of the brush being used as an ordinary bath-brush by simply removing the batteries" (lines 15-25).
Date:
May 20, 1890
Creator:
Williams, Robert E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Doffer.
Patent for a doffer for removing cotton lint from gin saw blades, which does not harm the saws and is very sturdy.
Date:
May 25, 1909
Creator:
Vardell, Arthur A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draft-Equalizer.
Patent for a "draft even or equalizer...for various cultivators, and particularly for disk plows" (lines 10-12).
Date:
May 27, 1902
Creator:
Dysart, William C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draft-Equalizer
Patent for "a draft-equalizer that the draft will be equally distributed among each of the animals attached thereto, so that one may travel in the furrow, if desired, and the remainder permitted to move over the unplowed ground" (lines 22-27).
Date:
May 14, 1901
Creator:
Anderson, Samuel Cornelious
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Distant Control Switch Socket For Electric Lights
Patent for an improved electric light control switch design meant to decrease the rate of energy consumption.
Date:
May 13, 1919
Creator:
Davis, James Mattison
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History