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Combined Wire and Wireless Telephone System.
Patent for a combined wire and wireless telephone system that allows 2 people who are calling through two different central operating stations to talk to each other even though there is no wire directly between the 2 parties, through the use of a wireless system.
Date:
June 27, 1911
Creator:
Johnson, Maurice Bernays
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Box for Carrying Wireless Signalling Apparatus
Patent for a box for carrying wireless signaling equipment that fits the equipment well and has a handle or strap for carrying the box with.
Date:
June 27, 1911
Creator:
Johnson, Maurice Bernays
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Convertible Churn And Ice-Cream Freezer.
Patent for a new and useful convertible churn and ice cream freezer, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 27, 1899
Creator:
Everhard, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Wire and Wireless Telegraph System.
Patent for a combined wire and wireless telephone system that has a wireless system in between two wired systems.
Date:
June 27, 1911
Creator:
Johnson, Maurice Bernays
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aerodrome
Patent for an aerodrome/helicopter with improved wing design.
Date:
June 27, 1911
Creator:
Snow, Guy
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bonnet
Patent for a bonnet. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 27, 1905
Creator:
Hancock, Mollie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compound for Making Brick, Tile, &c.
Patent for creating brick, tile and other material using hydraulic cement and magnesian lime-stone.
Date:
June 27, 1882
Creator:
Hunt, Henrey Hardon
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Caster.
Patent for a new and improved insect-killing furniture-caster. This design "consists in a cup shaped shell having a bowl or liquid-receptacle at its lower edge and a filling orifice or passage extending through the shell and leading to the bottom of the liquid-receptacle. A socket or inwardly-projecting tube at the top of the shell encircles the shank of the caster and rests upon a shoulder on said shank, which serves to hold the insect guard in position" (lines 17-25).
Date:
June 27, 1882
Creator:
Tumey, Charles Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton-Planter, Cultivator, and Double-Shovel, Single-Shovel, Turning Plow.
Patent for the novel design for combination plow-beams or shovel-stocks which allows parts to be attached and detached.
Date:
June 27, 1882
Creator:
Le Roy, Charles Jerome
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a car coupling that consists of a pin, a lever, a catchbar, a drawhead that sits under the catchbar and guides it, a rack slide, and a curved lifter. It improves on a patent previously granted to the inventor (No. 437,734).
Date:
June 27, 1893
Creator:
Testard, Adrian
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Funnel.
Patent for an improved funnel that is meant to transfer liquids into receptacles with small openings, "the object being to provide a novel construction whereby a valve is automatically closed when the receptacle is full or the liquid has reached the proper level, so as to cut off the supply and prevent overflow which frequently occurs in using the ordinary funnels, resulting in loss and waste" (lines 16-23).
Date:
June 27, 1893
Creator:
Wright, George H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Enteric Lavage.
Patent for an enteric lavage for the use of emptying the bowels of any liquid after use of an enema. The device will remove the waste and deposit it into a separate receptacle.
Date:
June 27, 1916
Creator:
Pair, Laura Costello
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Molding and Sinking Concrete Piling
Patent for methods and apparatus for forming and sinking piles, blocks, slabs, and concrete.
Date:
June 27, 1916
Creator:
Hildebrand, Henry W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burner.
Patent for "the improvement of burners. The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of burners and to provide a simple, practical an comparatively inexpensive burner of strong and durable construction"
Date:
June 27, 1916
Creator:
Messerli, J.J. & Miller, Fred. F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Press
A press adapted for packing cotton (line 13).
Date:
June 27, 1916
Creator:
Cameron, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wireless-Telephone System.
Patent for a wireless telephone system that does not require the user to flip a switch in between receiving and sending a message.
Date:
June 27, 1911
Creator:
Johnson, Maurice Bernays
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a new and useful wire stretcher, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 27, 1899
Creator:
Yankee, Elmer
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Truck for Railway-Carriages.
Patent for an improved truck for railway carriages that is meant "to construct surface-rollers which have their center of bearing above the center of the traction of surface roller, and which have traction rollers bearing upon the upper portion of the main surface-roller, and upon which the load is supported equally upon two points of the surface or traction roller" (lines 17-23).
Date:
June 27, 1893
Creator:
Turner, Ephraim M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Exterminating Insects.
Patent for a machine for exterminating insects on plants by sucking them off the plants and then dropping them into a fire chamber in the machine.
Date:
June 27, 1911
Creator:
Hill, Leonidas C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lumber Conveyor and Separator.
Patent for a lumber conveyor and separator that sends cut lumber automatically away from the machine to a storage area.
Date:
June 27, 1911
Creator:
Williams, Charles H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weighing-Scale
Patent for an improved weighing scale that is made in a way that prevents error in weighing objects.
Date:
June 27, 1905
Creator:
McKee, Clarence W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Yielding and Buoyant Pile Breakwater.
Patent for a new and improved breakwater. This design is "of a cheap, durable, and efficient breakwater for localities exposed to the destructive action of the waves; and it consists mainly in a line of single-column buoyant piles, arranged side-by-side, and grouped together in sections . . . and anchored to their water-bed, and also in certain constructions and combination of parts" (lines 28-35).
Date:
June 27, 1882
Creator:
Franklin, Robert M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drilling Machinery.
Patent for a mechanism that drills and bores; it attaches to a vehicle so the engine can be used to power the mechanism.
Date:
June 27, 1893
Creator:
Lee, Joseph G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Driving Horses.
Patent for an improved, simple, and efficient horse-whipping or driving machine that is meant to whip horses that are connected to machines that are powered by horses, such as thrashers, fans, and bark-mills. "The invention comprises a whip-carrying lever pivotally mounted on one end of the sweep-lever of a draft horse power, and means for moving said lever so that the whip will be caused to strike the draft horses" (lines 18-22).
Date:
June 27, 1893
Creator:
Williams, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History