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Car Coupling
Patent for rail car coupling. Illustration included.
Date:
May 23, 1905
Creator:
Rowell, Charles W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ash-Pan
Patent for an ash pan for trains. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 16, 1911
Creator:
Spratley, George
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Tool
Patent for a combination-tool which includes a putty-knife and hammer and claw. The idea is that when one tool is in use, the other portion can be closed away.
Date:
May 22, 1906
Creator:
Carlton, Thomas R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle Attachment.
Patent for "a new and improved bicycle attachment arranged to serve as a foot-rest for the feet of the rider while coasting and adapted to be lowered to support the bicycle in a vertical position when not in use and to securely lock the wheel and support together to prevent the machine from being stolen" (lines 7-14), including illustrations.
Date:
May 11, 1897
Creator:
Zintgraff, August
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brace for Bedsteads, Gates, &c.
Patent for a new and improved brace for bed frames. This design consists in "the posts having the hooks or eyes, the head-board, foot-board, and rails, also provided with hooks or eyes, the swivel, the wires, each having one end secured to one of the corner hooks or eyes, passed through the eye-bolt and screw-bolt, respectively" (lines 97-102). Said wires are further "given a half-turn on themselves, and their other ends secured to the opposite corner hooks, and the [other] wire having one end secured to one of the center hooks or eyes and woven in and out over the hooks or eyes" (lines 1-5).
Date:
May 31, 1887
Creator:
Lenix, John M. & Swann, George B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pitman Rod.
Patent for a new and improved pitman-rod. This design "consists in the combination of the flywheel, made heaviest upon one side, with the wrist-pin, connecting-rod, and the part which is to be attached to the reaper or mower knife" (lines 14-18).
Date:
May 12, 1885
Creator:
Brooks, Ambrous Adam & Brooks, Andrew Jackson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap.
Patent for improvements in animal-traps that would be capable of catching two animals; to set the trap, bait is placed upon the hooked ends of the bait-hooks, the jaws are elevated and retained in a position by the link-catches, which have the lower hooked ends engaging the trigger, which has its free end engaging the eye at the inner end of the bait hooks, thus setting the trap, (lines 66-73) ready to catch animals. Illustration is included.
Date:
May 5, 1891
Creator:
Anderson, Henry Clay
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 2937, Chapter 716
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of the office of criminal district attorney of Grayson County and to the abolition of the office of county attorney of Grayson County.
Date:
2003-05/2003-06
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Card Holder
Patent for improvements made to card holders, mostly for handbags and other cases much like luggage tags today. The patent describes and illustrates improved design and construction so they can be manufactured at an economic price.
Date:
May 19, 1914
Creator:
Grabendike, Clyde C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Checking Attachment for Planters
Patent for a checking attachment for planters that is "easily adjusted to drop seed at various distances" (lines 16-17).
Date:
May 27, 1919
Creator:
Sprowl, Wiliam L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locking Device for Car-Doors.
Patent for a locking device for a sliding train car capable of locking automatically upon close, including illustrations.
Date:
May 9, 1916
Creator:
Tierney, Henry J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Latch.
Patent for a latch for swinging doors, which can be operated from either side of the door.
Date:
May 18, 1909
Creator:
Lewis, Oliver
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Linotype Distributer
Patent for a linotype distributer. Illustration included.
Date:
May 10, 1904
Creator:
Cooney, John Macauley & Totten, Harry Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Double-Bitted Drills.
Patent for "an easy mode of straightening wells while drilling them through rock or earth, and also for enlarging the same into a cistern when it is desired to keep on hand a large supply of water." (Lines 8-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 30, 1876
Creator:
Yarbrough, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Excavators.
Patent for improvement in earth excavators combining a plow, rotating cylinder, and helical plate.
Date:
May 6, 1873
Creator:
Smith, Amroy B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ventilating-Canopy for Cook Stoves Or Ranges.
Patent for a new and useful ventilating canopy for cook stoves or ranges.
Date:
May 3, 1898
Creator:
Spurlin, Crawford
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mechanical Motor.
Patent for an improved and efficient "in motors adapted especially for domestic use, its object being to provide a cheap, compact, durable, and efficient automatic motive mechanism which may be utilized for drivers various household apparatus" including instructions and illustration.
Date:
May 25, 1880
Creator:
Miller, Noah J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Engine Governor.
Patent for a governor meant to be used with a double cylinder single-action steam engine of Devoissaud's invention. It has "a plate-like governor valve having suitable steam ports, is introduced within a vertical channel formed in the single head plat that closes one end of two steam cylinders, which are located in the same vertical plane on a bed-plate; said valve being directly attached to, and controlled by the governor, for the alternate introduction of steam directly through the cylinder head into the two cylinders, for the actuation of working parts of the steam engine" (lines 17-27).
Date:
May 15, 1894
Creator:
Devoissaud, John P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trolly Wheel and Harp.
Patent for trolley wheels, where "the transmission of the current through the wheel to the harp is maintained at the maximum and the necessary wear of the relatively movable parts reduced to a minimum" (lines 11-15).
Date:
May 7, 1912
Creator:
Neighbour, William W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Journal-Box.
Patent for a journal or wheel axle box that allows the wheel to rotate freely and reduces friction stopping the boxes from becoming hot.
Date:
May 7, 1907
Creator:
Neighbor, William W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Press-Box for Horizontal Oil-Presses.
Patent for a press-box for horizontal oil-presses that produces "a cake of even thickness and density, and without strain on any part of the box" (lines 11-13) that has "a box fitted with a strainer that will be more lasting, which can be cleaned without removing it form the box, or the box from the press, and to which the cake will not adhere; [and] to provide a box fitted with effective and economical means of raising the cake out of the box after it is pressed" (lines 13-20). This box is made out of metal.
Date:
May 7, 1895
Creator:
Lelardoux, Pierre
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trolley-Harp.
Patent for improvements to the efficiency of trolley harps by changing how the currents that power "overhead type electric car systems" (lines 13-14) are conducted.
Date:
May 15, 1917
Creator:
Carmack, James H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine
Patent for a washing machine that uses jets of boiling water and steam to clean clothes.
Date:
May 28, 1912
Creator:
Dickey, John S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant-Trap
Patent for an ant trap "to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient one of great strength and durability adapted to be place over an ant-hill and capable of capturing the ant in the hill as they leave the same and also of catching the outside ants as they attempt to enter the hill. (line 11-17)
Date:
May 26, 1903
Creator:
Finley, William Frederick
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History