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Method for removal of mercury from various gas streams
The invention provides for a method for removing elemental mercury from a fluid, the method comprising irradiating the mercury with light having a wavelength of approximately 254 nm. The method is implemented in situ at various fuel combustion locations such as power plants and municipal incinerators.
Date:
June 10, 2003
Creator:
Granite, E. J. & Pennline, H. W.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Burner for Crude Oil.
Patent for "a burner for crude oil, and particularly to a construction by means which a direct or indirect draft may be utilized in the burning of the oil." (lines 11-14) and illustrations.
Date:
June 10, 1902
Creator:
Lewis, Thomas E.; Ray, Albert J. & Wesson, Miley B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compress and Packer
Patent for a device that provides improvements in machines for compressing, packing, and baling cotton, hay, straw, and the like; and the object is to provide a machine of this character operating automatically to form the bat as the material is received from the gin or condenser and folding the bat back and forth in even layers in the press, forming a complete and symmetrical bale (lines 9-17) Illustrations are included.
Date:
June 10, 1902
Creator:
Griffin, John B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cheese Cutter
Patent for a cheese cutter which includes a scale to determine the amount of cheese including illustrations.
Date:
June 10, 1902
Creator:
Niggli, Emil
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boring-Bit.
Patent for a boring drill. The invention creates a new means "for connecting the constituent members of the head so as to provide novel means for assembling the head with a driving element" (lines 19-22).
Date:
June 10, 1913
Creator:
Larnce, John B.; Townsend, S. L. & Keith, Aubrey R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Cash-Registers.
Patent for an attachment for cash registers which makes it impossible to remove paper to wrap a customer's purchase before the cash register has been opened, for the purpose of reducing "losses due to forgetfulness or dishonesty of clerks making sales" (lines 9-11), including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
June 10, 1919
Creator:
White, Robert N., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Battery.
Patent for an improvement to batteries, particularly pertaining to their electrochemical components, including an illustration and instructions.
Date:
June 10, 1919
Creator:
Crowley, Richard Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Violin Tail Piece.
Patent for a new and improved tail piece for violins. This design "has for its object to raise or lower the pitch of the strings simultaneously, when required" (lines 10-12).
Date:
June 10, 1884
Creator:
Smith, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Compressing and Rolling Bats
Patent for a machine used to compress bats from cotton before the bailing or packing process. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 10, 1910
Creator:
Ball, Samuel M.; McNiel, Benjamin N. & Pennington, Harry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill
Patent for Windmill that is adapted to be held in various positions. This Windmill device will be strong, durable, and easy to construct.
Date:
June 10, 1913
Creator:
Houston, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Incubator Alarm
Patent for incubator alarm in which an audible signal will be triggered when the temperature of the incubator is above or below the normal predetermined degree.
Date:
June 10, 1913
Creator:
Kelley, Clyde W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Riding-Saddles.
Patent for improvement in riding saddles that are constructed from saddle-tree in a manner to facilitate the mounting of a horse, and to furnish additional safeguards against being thrown.
Date:
June 10, 1873
Creator:
Hamil, Robert C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tramping Attachment for Baling Presses.
Patent for a new and improved attachment for baling presses. This design "consists of a contrivance of trampers and a crank with power mechanism for working them, in a simple arrangement for beating in the cotton on the follower preparatory to closing the press and completing the pressing by the follower, the device being calculated to enable the bales of full size to be made in a smaller case, and with less range of movement of the follower and more economically than they can be made without the tramper" (lines 8-18).
Date:
June 10, 1884
Creator:
Thompson, Gedeon Philip
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well Bucket.
Patent for a new and improved well-bucket. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the well-bucket, having the rabbeted opening in its bottom, and provided with the apertured cross-bars of the valve-rod passing through the apertures in said cross-bars and the opening in the bottom of the bucket, and the valve secured to the lower end of said rod" (lines 56-62).
Date:
June 10, 1884
Creator:
Foat, Robert H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Photographic Backgrounds.
Patent for a new way of "holding and manipulating photographers' backgrounds" (line 19) including illustrations.
Date:
June 10, 1879
Creator:
Moberly, Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Insect-Exterminators.
Patent for an improved insect exterminator design with modifications especially suitable for cotton fields, includes illustrations.
Date:
June 10, 1879
Creator:
Walker, John Z.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vacuum-Operated Make-and-Break Spark-Plug.
Patent for simple and efficient improvements to vacuum-operated make-and-break spark plugs, including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
June 10, 1919
Creator:
Irwin, Herbert Glen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Animal-Traps.
Patent for an improvements in animal traps. It is similar to a hook and proper for mouse and rat.
Date:
June 10, 1879
Creator:
Milby, Frank Whitson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of Repairing Circular-Saw Teeth.
Patent for enabling the teeth of circular saws to be drawn out and hammered for repair, including illustration.
Date:
June 10, 1856
Creator:
Parry, M. L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Milk-Cooler.
Patent for improvements in the construction of water evaporation milk-coolers to make them more easily taken apart and arranged for shipping and preventing ants from entering the device and getting in the milk. Descriptions of the parts of the device and illustrations are included.
Date:
June 10, 1902
Creator:
Whaley, William L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Milk Cooler.
Patent for a new and improved cooler. This design "consist[s] of the main vessel adapted to contain the substance to be cooled, having its upper end open and the walls of said open end drawn or inclined inward, as described, the water vessel supported on said main vessel, with a space between its bottom and the top of the main vessel, and made larger at its bottom than the upper open end of the main vessel, and the enveloping-sheet arranged to be wet by the contents of the water-vessel and extended past the space between the said vessels, whereby to protect the contents of the main vessel" (lines 79-92).
Date:
June 10, 1890
Creator:
Stiles, Frederick
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for "an improved device of this character, which may be readily converted from a turning-plow to a shovelplow, or from a shovel-plow to a turning-plow, by resetting the bar, mold-board, and share, and which may be used either with a steel or wood beam, as desired" (lines 14-20).
Date:
June 10, 1890
Creator:
Wilhelm, Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in "[t]he slide for shovel-plows, consisting of two members having enlargements at their ends, provided with radial notches, the upper member being provided with a longitudinal slot, and a pivot-pin inserted through the enlargements of the members" (lines 62-67).
Date:
June 10, 1890
Creator:
Mason, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in "the combination of the share having the keeper on the mold-board and the arm, the detachable point bearing against the outer side of the arm and having the tongue engaging the keeper, and the lever fulcrumed to the mold-board at a point between the keeper and landside, and having the short arm adapted to lap the joint between the point and mold-board and to engage the outer end of the tongue to lock the latter in the keeper" (lines 82-92).
Date:
June 10, 1890
Creator:
Hyer, Robert Stewart
System:
The Portal to Texas History