End Support for Spiral Conveyers. (open access)

End Support for Spiral Conveyers.

Patent for "spiral conveyers, and more particularly to end supports for the flights or to means for securing the flights to the shafts of the conveyers" (lines 10-13) including illustrations.
Date: June 10, 1902
Creator: Van Arsdell, J. C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Engine. (open access)

Engine.

Patent for improvements in engines including governors which have "inertia bars or governing weights" (lines 12-13) including illustrations. In this improvement, the "inertia bars constitute parts of the counterweight" which "counterbalance engine cranks" (lines 14-16).
Date: June 17, 1919
Creator: Pratt, Clarence E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fan and Fixture Support. (open access)

Fan and Fixture Support.

Patent for a fan and fixture support that can be used in connection with a common type of union box for electrical conduit installations. The device provides a support or hanger that can be installed either in frame or in concrete ceilings and partitions, and it prevents rotation of the device after installation.
Date: June 1, 1915
Creator: Murph, Donald H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fare-Receiver and Automatic Change-Maker. (open access)

Fare-Receiver and Automatic Change-Maker.

Patent for a fare box and change maker mean to improve on fare-receivers and automatic change-makers that "automatically deliver the correct change to a passenger or other person, who deposits in the machine a coin of greater value than is the regulation fare" (lines 16-19).
Date: June 18, 1895
Creator: Sturgis, Herbert Marshall
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fastener. (open access)

Fastener.

Patent for a fastener to be used in the connection of doors to ensure they are locked into place.
Date: June 29, 1915
Creator: Wilson, William W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flour and Meal Bin. (open access)

Flour and Meal Bin.

Patent for a new and improved flour and meal bin. This design "is to provide a flour and meal bin for family purposes, especially where it is found desirable to economize space and have the bin conveniently at hand ready to have the desired quantity of flour or meal taken from it in a sifted condition" (lines 9-15).
Date: June 16, 1885
Creator: Clarke, Robert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fluid Dispensing Apparatus (open access)

Fluid Dispensing Apparatus

Patent for a fluid dispensing apparatus meant to improve the dispensation of oil and similar liquids from appropriate faucets.
Date: June 3, 1919
Creator: Kincaid, C. W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Game Apparatus. (open access)

Game Apparatus.

Patent for a new game apparatus that can be playing indoors or outdoors and made in both large and small sizes "in which the elements, of chance, skill, and endurance constitute important factors in the successful playing of said game." (lines 10-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 2, 1914
Creator: Schuler, Joseph & Overbeck, Harry A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gas-Meter Attachment. (open access)

Gas-Meter Attachment.

Patent for a gas meter attachment that work with sliding valves to operate the mechanism that measures the gas allowed to pass through the meter.
Date: June 5, 1917
Creator: Morris, Henry C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gas-Meter-Valve Protector (open access)

Gas-Meter-Valve Protector

Patent for an attachment for gas or fluid meters that uses the sliding valve principle. Improvments upon valve covers so that they are more firmly attached.
Date: June 5, 1917
Creator: Emerson, Bennett
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gin-Saw Cleaner. (open access)

Gin-Saw Cleaner.

Patent for a gin saw cleaner for use in cotton gins, which cleans all the teeth of the saw at once.
Date: June 14, 1910
Creator: Roberts, George P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grate-Bar. (open access)

Grate-Bar.

Patent for a grate bar for furnaces, which allows for proper air distribution in the furnace.
Date: June 28, 1910
Creator: Wilderspin, Anderson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Horse-Collar. (open access)

Horse-Collar.

Patent for a horse collar that prevents "grinning", i.e., "a slight enlarging of the apertures or slits provided in the outer edge of the lining of a horse collar to receive the thong lacing commonly employed to connect said edge to the corresponding edge of the front of the collar."
Date: June 22, 1915
Creator: Schenkenberg, Frederick
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Horse-Collar. (open access)

Horse-Collar.

Patent for a horse collar that maximizes strength and minimizes material by addition of a joint.
Date: June 27, 1914
Creator: Schoellkopf, Jacob F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Huller-Gin (open access)

Huller-Gin

Patent for a huller gin that sends the cotton hulls out of the gin machine automatically and runs continuously.
Date: June 4, 1912
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydrogenating Oils, Fats, and Fatty Acids, &c. (open access)

Hydrogenating Oils, Fats, and Fatty Acids, &c.

Patent for improvements made to a hydrogenator of saturated oils, including illustrations.
Date: June 23, 1914
Creator: Humphreys, Jerome N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ignition Device. (open access)

Ignition Device.

Patent for improvements in Ignition Devices. This device will assist in locating trouble when a multi-cylinder gasoline engine is not firing regularly and one cylinder is "missing".
Date: June 8, 1920
Creator: Wood, Robert N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fluting-Irons. (open access)

Improvement in Fluting-Irons.

Patent for "improvements in combined fluting and smoothing irons, which are made hollow for the purpose of receiving a heated metallic block which will raise the shell to the proper temperature for smoothing or fluting." (Line 16-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 6, 1876
Creator: McCausland, William I.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Machines for Oiling Slides and Glides. (open access)

Improvement in Machines for Oiling Slides and Glides.

Patent for a new machine to be used for oiling slides and glides for engines, &c., includes illustration.
Date: June 4, 1878
Creator: Bates, Asa N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Inflatable Tire. (open access)

Inflatable Tire.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in inflatable tires, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 21, 1898
Creator: Heelan, Lawrence W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Kitchen Cabinet (open access)

Kitchen Cabinet

Patent for a kitchen cabinet.
Date: June 7, 1904
Creator: Rosser, Virgil O.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Kitchen Cabinet (open access)

Kitchen Cabinet

Patent for a kitchen cabinet. This invention is equipped with compartments and bins that distribute granular substances via cut-off valves. Illustration included.
Date: June 2, 1908
Creator: Curtice, William H. & Rosser, Virgil O.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lancaster Independent School District, June 2005 (open access)

Lancaster Independent School District, June 2005

"The report reviews the management and performance of the Lancaster Independent School District's (LISD) education, financial, and operational functions."
Date: June 30, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Leather-Working Machine (open access)

Leather-Working Machine

Patent for a leather-working machine which performs the many steps involved in finishing leather straps and related items into one easy step, with illustrations.
Date: June 4, 1918
Creator: Russell, Frank K.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History