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Bung-Extractor
Patent for "an improved extractor for the bungs of casks and barrels of all kinds, so that the same can be quickly and conveniently removed from the bung-hole" (lines 8-11).
Date:
May 14, 1901
Creator:
Cathriner, Joseph
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
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gasket
Patent for improvements in "gaskets or packing rings for steam-cylinders, and is designed to prevent the gasket from becoming broken or spread apart at the port-openings therein" (lines 7-10).
Date:
May 14, 1901
Creator:
Engers, Jacob
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Heating-Drum
Patent for "a simple and efficient construction which may be readily set up and taken down, which will be durable, and in which, moreover, by operation of a single damper the smoke-pipe above the drum may be brought into direct communication with the smoke-pipe below the drum and the several compartments of the apparatus will be opened to permit ready cleaning" (lines 14-22).
Date:
May 14, 1901
Creator:
Horsley, Robert L. & Rountree, James H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Milk-Cooler
Patent for a milk cooler that is economic, simple, and efficient in cooling space.
Date:
May 14, 1901
Creator:
Burmingham, Daniel Wilson Munroe
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Refuse-Crematory.
Patent for an improvement to "crematories or furnaces for burning garbage and other matter" (lines 11-12) that has a combined furnace and garbage chamber with walls of fire-brick or tile.
Date:
May 14, 1901
Creator:
Risley, Ward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill
Patent for "a mill equipped with an automatic governor for regulating the speed of the windmill and for preventing injury to the apparatus by throwing the blades of the wheel into or out of the wind in a manner to secure the most effective operation of the device at all times" (lines 9-15).
Date:
May 14, 1901
Creator:
Stein, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Tightener
Patent for "a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device adapted to enable the slack of a wire to be readily taken up at a point between the posts and capable of enabling a wire to be readily stretched to the desired tension" (lines 12-17).
Date:
May 14, 1901
Creator:
May, Robert B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History