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Fiber Separating Machine
Patent for machines for separating the textile fiber of various plants, and has for its objects generally to simplify such machines, perfect their product, and avoid waste (lines 11-15) with illustrations.
Date:
May 13, 1902
Creator:
Allision, Samuel Benjamin & Dorrestein, C. A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for an improved bale-tie which is to be used especially with cotton, includes instructions and illustration.
Date:
May 28, 1878
Creator:
Arnold, Lloyd
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Pipe and Bar Cutters
Patent for a new and improved pipe and bar cutter, which cuts metal and steel. This design is simple, convient, and effective, including illustration.
Date:
May 21, 1877
Creator:
Astall, Jesse
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Cutting off the Soiled Butts of Grain Stalks.
Patent for a new and improved cutting machine for grain stalks. This design consists in a "table slotted in its middle part and slotted and recessed at or near one edge, the parallel endless bundle-carrying chains working in said slots and having arms, the chain-wheels, the shafts thereof and their supports, the circular saw in the recess at the edge of the table, the mandrel and the gage-plate" (lines 98-105).
Date:
May 3, 1887
Creator:
Becker, Lothar
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine
Patent is for a rotary engine. The design of this rotary engine includes an inlet and exhaust that also prevents internal leakage of working fluid under pressure.
Date:
May 8, 1912
Creator:
Bennison, Samuel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Lock.
Patent for improvement upon a combination-lock.
Date:
May 1, 1888
Creator:
Bergman, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Toy
Patent for a toy particularly adapted for the amusement of small children.
Date:
May 29, 1914
Creator:
Boyle, Frank J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lighting Apparatus for Vehicles.
Patent for a useful lighting apparatus for vehicles in general by using a power-transmitting belt properly mounted on to the car-wheels to “which energy may be drawn from the wheels of the car and supplied to a lighting-dynamo.” (Lines 12-14) Illustration is included.
Date:
May 21, 1901
Creator:
Brady, Alford
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Insect-Destroying Compounds.
Patent for "a mixture of the arseniate of soda and water, or arseniate of soda, dextrine, and water, prepared in certain proportions of the respective ingredients, for the purpose of destroying cotton-worms." (Lines 7-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 19, 1874
Creator:
Braman, John D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton Presses.
Patent for the improvement of cotton presses to bale cotton and other materials, including illustrations.
Date:
May 12, 1874
Creator:
Brown, Bartlett W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Spurs.
Patent for improvements in spurs that permanently attaches the spur to the boot, including illustrations.
Date:
May 20, 1879
Creator:
Brown, John S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Internal Combusion System
Patent for new and useful Internal-Combustion Engine. Improves the provision of an engine which the cylinder is provided with a semi-spherical upper end, fr the rotatable reception of similar shaped power cylinder carrying shell. Specification of letter patent with illustration. Serial number 789.146
Date:
May 12, 1914
Creator:
Clough, George G.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Split Switch
Patent for a split switch, with illustrations. The "invention relates to split switches; and the object of our invention is to provide a switch which will be normally in condition to prevent a train from running on the main track from the siding, and yet always keep the main track in condition for the rapid movement of trains, and at the same time allow the shunting of a train from the main track to the side track" (lines 16-24).
Date:
May 15, 1883
Creator:
Crowley, John Henry & Temple, Bernard Moore
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Gun or Rifle.
Patent for a gun or rifle with a magazine, which quickly and automatically ejects spent cartridges and reloads.
Date:
May 7, 1912
Creator:
Douglas, William M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Telegraph system
Patent for telegraph system using keyboard operated remotely.
Date:
May 27, 1913
Creator:
Edward, Claude M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electrical Furnace.
Patent for
Date:
May 16, 1899
Creator:
Eldridge, Hilliary
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of And Apparatus for Manufacturing Gas.
Patent for a new and useful method of and apparatus for manufacturing gas, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 16, 1899
Creator:
Eldridge, Hilliary; Clark, Daniel Johnson & Blum, Sylvain
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cabinet for Holding Postage Stamps, &c.
Patent for a new and improved cabinet. This design "consists in a commercial postage-stamp holding, preserving, and denomination-indicating book, the same having its blank leaves formed of paper so prepared that postage-stamps will not adhere to them, and some of said leaves being provided at intervals with exposed tabs which have numerical indices marked upon them and serve for indicating the denomination of the stamps placed between the leaves at different parts of the book. It also consists in . . . a rigid outer supporting-cabinet provided with means for confining the book" (lines 12-27).
Date:
May 24, 1892
Creator:
Exline, Marcus P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Propellor Pitchometer.
Patent for instruments which measure the pitch of propeller blades.
Date:
May 18, 1915
Creator:
Frank, Lawrence
Object Type:
Patent
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.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Mechanical Movements.
Patent for a specific arrangement of a single-cylinder engine and two shafts with connecting rods that can be used to drive boat propellers.
Date:
May 5, 1874
Creator:
Franklin, Robert Morris
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Indicator For Bottles
Patent for an indicator to show the amount of liquid removed and the amount remaining for bottles or other liquid packages of different dimensions and will help improve the process of refilling the bottle after liquid has been removed.
Date:
May 8, 1906
Creator:
Frkovic, Frank Andre
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Refining and Ageing Liquors.
Patent for improvement in refining and ageing liquors, including an illustration. The process includes expelling air from distilled liquors, heating them to a boiling point and then cooling them in a waterbath, through the use of a closed, air-tight vessel surrounded by an open water-vessel.
Date:
May 10, 1870
Creator:
Gilman, Samuel H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History