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Apparatus for Cooling Water.
Patent for a water-cooling apparatus composed chiefly of a subterranean cistern and a water-supply source.
Date:
May 20, 1901
Creator:
William J. Dossey
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Coffee or Tea Pots.
Patent for "attachment for coffee or tea pots or other receptacles" (lines 5-7) designed to materially improve the construction of the pot or urn, whereby the same will be simple and effective and the process of treating the coffee or tea by the action of the boiling water or steam materially enhanced.
Date:
May 21, 1901
Creator:
Darden, George Albion
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Regulator for Pneumatic Flues
Patent for a regulated valve to automatically maintain air pressure in a pneumatic conveyor flue. Excessive air pressure causes a secondary valve to open and vent the pressure while at the same time impeding air flow downstream.
Date:
May 28, 1901
Creator:
Caffey, Charles B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bottle-Vent
Patent for "an open-sided vent-passage at the neck of the bottle, thus permitting the formation thereof at the time the bottle is blown and rendering the construction more simple and economically produced" (lines 16-20).
Date:
May 28, 1901
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buckle
Patent for an improved buckle that will hold straps in place, particularly those straps with irregularly sized and spaced openings.
Date:
May 29, 1901
Creator:
Pool, Robert C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buckle
Patent for "a fastening device for securely holding the meeting ends of straps together, and is particularly applicable to stirrup-straps, in which, because of the strain thereon, the ordinary fastener is quickly broken or the strap is torn from the same" (lines 9-15).
Date:
May 7, 1901
Creator:
Stulting, John C. & Wiseman, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Burial Apparatus
Patent for improvements in burial apparatus, relating particularly to linings and coverings for graves, which are designed to do away with all appearance of earth or dirt in the placing of caskets or coffins in the ground.
Date:
May 7, 1901
Creator:
Spear, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Brake
Patent for an invention that relates to innovations and improvements to railroad car-brakes.
Date:
May 28, 1901
Creator:
Boyers, Thomas Albert.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Center Foot for Cultivators
Patent for "an improved center foot or standard which is adapted to be readily attached to and detached from a beam or beams of a cultivator adjusted thereon and adapted for the attachment of a shovel, plow, or sweep of any kind required" (lines 8-15).
Date:
May 21, 1901
Creator:
Greathouse, James E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin
Patent for "a clothes pin or clasp which will have a clamping-spring action and which can be conveniently manipulated to apply or remove it to and from a holding position and one wherein the clamping members mainly he within the same plane" (lines 7-13).
Date:
May 21, 1901
Creator:
Horsley, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton-Seed and Corn Planter
Patent for "a truck having operating mechanism changeable to either cotton or corn seeders and in combination therewith a hopper formed in sections, one of which is removable" (lines 14-17).
Date:
May 28, 1901
Creator:
Droitcourt, Adam
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for an improvement to "shovel-plows" that "is adapted to cultivate between the rows of corn, &c., and one in which the rearwardly-extending moldboards can be adjusted [...] in case the rows are close together or far apart. The cultivator is also arranged so that the depth of the furrow can be regulated" (lines 14-21).
Date:
May 28, 1901
Creator:
Dinkins, James Oscar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator
Patent for improvements to cultivators.
Date:
May 21, 1901
Creator:
Skeen, Virgil G.
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
Felly-Expander
Patent for "the provision of a device which will be simple in construction, yet strong and efficient in operation" (lines 14-16).
Date:
May 28, 1901
Creator:
Barber, James A. & Adams, Frederic A.
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
Hay-Press
Patent for a press for hay, straw, and similar. This device, intended for horse-powered bailing processes, is designed for cheap and efficient hay press for the bailing process.
Date:
May 7, 1901
Creator:
Armstrong, James McRae
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
Lapel-Spring for Coats.
Patent for improvements in lapel-springs for coats and similar articles of clothing by using a loop-shaped spring and a rod or bar pivotally connected with or hinged to both ends of the spring. It will hold the lapels of a coat or similar garment in proper position. Illustration is included.
Date:
May 7, 1901
Creator:
Crow, Robert Dlouglas
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
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
Multiple Telegraph
Patent for "a simple device of this character by means of which any one of a number of instruments or translating devices at a distance may be operated over a single line-wire and by means of a single flow of electric current through said wire" (lines 10-15).
Date:
May 7, 1901
Creator:
Foster, Samuel T., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow
Patent for "means which will rigidly hold the point against independent movement toward the landslide of the plow" (lines 45-47).
Date:
May 7, 1901
Creator:
Kelly, George Addison
System:
The Portal to Texas History