Blind Stops. (open access)

Blind Stops.

Patent for a new and improved stop for blinds. This design "is to provide a convenient means by which blind-slats may be swung on their pivots, so as to open or close to the extent desired" (lines 8-11).
Date: June 5, 1883
Creator: Vandervoort, Charles Frederick
System: The Portal to Texas History
Check-Writer. (open access)

Check-Writer.

Patent for a new check-writer machine capable of typewriting bank checks and similar documents with two sets of type, allowing for the printing of payee names, numerical amounts, and word amounts in a single movement.
Date: June 28, 1921
Creator: Wendelken, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Attaching Pumps to Oil and Other Cans. (open access)

Device for Attaching Pumps to Oil and Other Cans.

Patent for a device for attaching pumps to oil and other cans.
Date: June 12, 1883
Creator: Holden, William G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Signal (open access)

Electric Signal

Patent for an alarm device to indicate overheating of an internal combustion engine.
Date: June 1, 1915
Creator: Lièvre, Joseph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Velocipede. (open access)

Improvement in Velocipede.

Patent for improvement in velocipedes by using “two levers that are secured by a pivot-connection to pendent vibrating fulcra, on each side of the machine, and to the cranks of the driving-wheel; this would develop greater power than can be brought to bear by the placing of the feet of the driver directly on pedals on the crank-pins, or wrists.” (Lines 32-37) Illustration is included.
Date: June 15, 1869
Creator: Flint, Daniel P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Velocipede. (open access)

Improvement in Velocipede.

Patent for an improved arrangement of velocipedes "to allow the use of a much larger driving-wheel than is compatible with the use of pedals that are placed directly on the crank pins or wrists, and to increase the power that can be applied to the propulsion of the machine by the feet of the driver, and the the speed at which is may be driven." (Lines 16-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 15, 1869
Creator: Flint, Daniel P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Irrigating Implement (open access)

Irrigating Implement

Patent for an irrigating implement. Illustration included.
Date: June 13, 1905
Creator: Banks, William L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lantern. (open access)

Lantern.

Patent for a lantern "in which a candle is used as a light-giving medium, and in which the chimney is tightly supported on the base of the lantern and around the candle, so that the light is fully protected against extinguishment by wind, and a cheap and convenient article is supplied" (lines 9-15). The lantern has a raised base with a candle socket in the middle, and the glass chimney is securely attached to the base. A frame and handle is attached to the base and top of the chimney.
Date: June 26, 1894
Creator: Jarmin, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Preserving Apparatus (open access)

Preserving Apparatus

Patent for a preserving apparatus. This invention is designed to impregnate articles of food with preservatives or saccharine substance for the use of making catsups, nut syrups, fruit candy, and other like items. Illustration included.
Date: June 18, 1907
Creator: Holden, William G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Razor. (open access)

Razor.

Patent for a safety razor, with the objects of a creating a novel frame for holding a razor blade of any desired sort, and so that the vibrations will not be transferred to the carrying frame.
Date: June 22, 1920
Creator: Brasier, William Harry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shirt. (open access)

Shirt.

Patent for an improvement in shirts which have the ability to be reversed in the event that one side should become soiled; includes illustration.
Date: June 22, 1915
Creator: Miles, John J. & Williams, Jerome A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Track-Rail Brace (open access)

Track-Rail Brace

Patent for a track rail brace that connects the rails of a track and prevents spreading.
Date: June 15, 1909
Creator: Snodgrass, Willie B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve (open access)

Valve

Patent for an automatic valve for use upon hydraulic or suction dredges to prevent sore material such as clay, sand and mud from preventing the efficient use of the dredge sure to the closing of heavy material in the mouth of the dredge. The valve is intended to supply water to flush out the mouth of the dredge.
Date: June 12, 1917
Creator: Miller, Henry L.
System: The Portal to Texas History