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Amusement Device.
Patent for an invention relating to the amusement device. Advantages and illustrations of the invention and amusement device are included.
Date:
May 15, 1917
Creator:
Moore, Charles L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Manufacturing Carbureted Gas
Patent for an apparatus that manufactures gas for illuminating and heat generating purposes, including instructions.
Date:
May 15, 1911
Creator:
Watkins, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Cameras.
Patent for an improved camera attachment for adding titles to film that prevents the film from being exposed to light except when the title is photographed, with illustrations.
Date:
May 15, 1917
Creator:
Bretz, George W.; Lowry, Claud A.; Wood, Oscar O.; Wade, J. H.; Pirtle, P. R.; Jones, F. E. et al.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Fender
Patent for automobile fenders to provide a fender that can be used in conjunction with various types of motor vehicles and "prevent a person from being run over by the vehicle equipped with the fender" (lines 13-14).
Date:
May 15, 1917
Creator:
Uribe, Marcelino
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Wheel.
Patent for improvements and a cushion to steering wheels of automobiles to provide better grip and comfort, including illustrations.
Date:
May 15, 1917
Creator:
Dominguez, Salvador
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baby Jumper.
Patent for a new and improved baby jumper. This design consists in "the combination, with the vertically-resilient supporting-rod having a frame swiveled on its lower end, of the supporting garment adapted to be fastened around the infant and comprising the waist to be buttoned around the body, the pants depending from the waist and having the front flap and the side flaps adapted to be buttoned together in front of the infant, and the skirt attached to the waist at the top of the pants and hanging around the said pants, the upper edge of the waist being attached to the lower ends of [the] cords" (lines 1-13).
Date:
May 15, 1888
Creator:
Jones, Mary Perciller
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press
Patent for a baling press. Illustration included.
Date:
May 15, 1906
Creator:
Struve, Clemens A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design consists in "the frame, drum, the power-ropes to be wound thereon, and the platen combined with the levers having rounded upper and lower ends to operate in rounded sockets in the said platen and the upper part of the frame and the toggle-joints near the centers of the said levers, comprising the rounded projection on one of the members adapted to fit a corresponding cavity or recess in the adjacent end of the other member, the lateral ears and the pin to pass through said ears and the rounded projection" (lines 12-23).
Date:
May 15, 1888
Creator:
Bartle, John Nelson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Battery
Patent for an improvement on batteries. Meant to increase insulation and plate stability inside the battery.
Date:
May 15, 1918
Creator:
Pipkin, Maurice E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brick-Machine.
Patent for a brick machine that is "effective, yet simple and durable, machine especially adapted to receive bricks from a stiff-mud mill and re-press them and also to provide a means whereby the machine will be automatic in its action." (Lines 7-12) Illustrations included.
Date:
May 15, 1900
Creator:
Anthony, Russell
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.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Child's Seat for Vehicles.
Patent for a removable child's seat for buggies, phaetons, carriages, sleighs, and similar vehicles that folds up so it can be stored under the seat when not in use. The chair sits next to the dash, and is locked into place so the child is safe.
Date:
May 15, 1894
Creator:
Padgitt, Thomas B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cistern
Patent for the "class of cisterns used to catch rain-water from the roofs of houses or other places" (lines 9-11); including illustration and instructions
Date:
May 15, 1900
Creator:
Harry, H. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Pipe Clamp And Wrench
Patent for a combined pipe clamp and wrench. Illustration included.
Date:
May 15, 1906
Creator:
Harris, John Wesley
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Separator and Bagging Device for Grain
Patent for a thresher attachment that uses a suction fan to separate grain from lighter materials and allows the grain to be collected in a bag or other container.
Date:
May 15, 1906
Creator:
Henninger, Thomas C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cot-Canopy
Patent for a cot with a surrounding canopy that is designed to keep insects away from the user.
Date:
May 15, 1906
Creator:
Kerridge, Isaac Curtis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper and cultivator. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the chopper-handle, of the notched-roller, the mortised cross-beam, having the pivot across its mortise or hole, and the spring, attached to an upright, and the handle, whereby the chopper may be operated" (lines 73-78).
Date:
May 15, 1883
Creator:
Pettitt, Francis Alexander.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drafting-Tool.
Patent for a drafting ruler that does not need to be turned end over end to be used.
Date:
May 15, 1917
Creator:
Faas, Walter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fare-Box
Patent for new and useful improvements in electrical fare boxes.
Date:
May 15, 1888
Creator:
Crowdus, Walter A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fence-Stay.
Patent for a fence stay that can be put on without any special tools. The stay also forms a clamp in itself and does not require any other tie to keep it in place.
Date:
May 15, 1906
Creator:
Horsley, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
File-Wrapper and Package Fastener.
Patent for securing expansible envelopes and file wrappers with a flexible cord.
Date:
May 15, 1900
Creator:
Davis, Frederick Clarke
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Firing-Valve to Control the Feed of Oil in Firing Oil-Burning Locomotives.
Patent for valve changes that "provide a valve operating means whereby the valve may be very finely adjusted and prevented from being casually turned" (lines 16-18).
Date:
May 15, 1917
Creator:
Gilman, Benoist P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harrow.
Patent for an improved harrow made up of a yielding frame, an extensible truss-bar, slotted braces, an angle iron, a lever connected to the frame and the truss-bar, a hook that holds the open end of the lever, and a plate on the lever that straddles a bail.
Date:
May 15, 1894
Creator:
Johnson, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters.
Patent for covering cotton seeds by using a hoe transversely with cams and slides with the main axle of the planter, including illustration.
Date:
May 15, 1855
Creator:
Morrel, A. H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History