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Adjustable Book-Cover.
Patent for adjustable book covers. More protection with use of thicker paper, with adjustable feature is highly important as is also the slit and tongue.
Date:
July 1, 1919
Creator:
Walraven, Albert T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Poke.
Patent for improvements in animal-poke by providing a device which is arranged for convenient application to an animal, so as not to interfere with the grazing and drinking thereof, and will effectually prevent the animal from destroying fences and also from pushing and fighting other stock. (Lines 9-15) Illustration is included.
Date:
July 1, 1902
Creator:
Barnes, John I.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Windmills.
Patent for improvement in attachments for windmills to “convert rotary motion of the wheel shaft into reciprocating motion for actuating the pitman of the sucker rod.” (Lines 12-14) Illustration is included.
Date:
July 1, 1913
Creator:
Burleson, Lemual R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Electric Advertising Sign
Patent for an electronic sign that works by a conveyor-belt like band printed with advertisements being rotated, allowing the owner to show many advertisements while saving space.
Date:
July 1, 1919
Creator:
Craig, Richard M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Fire-Alarm
Patent for an electronic automatic fire alarm.
Date:
July 1, 1902
Creator:
Fred, Mason Kennedy
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Balanced Pump.
Patent for a new and improved balanced pump. This design "relates to improvements in balanced pumps having a horizontal cylinder provided with a horizontally-reciprocating plunger, and a curved cylinder placed directly under it, provided with a curved plunger, both having suitable valves operating automatically in conjunction therewith" (lines 8-14).
Date:
July 1, 1884
Creator:
Ramsey, Haley S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bellows Attachment for Barrels.
Patent for a new and improved bellows attachment for barrels. This design "provide[s] means for securely attaching the bellows to the barrels, so as to exclude the admission of air, except such as is forced in by the bellows; and a further object of the same provides for the shutting off the flow of liquid, as desired" (lines 13-18).
Date:
July 1, 1884
Creator:
Park, Hardy B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Body-Brace
Patent for a body brace made of wire and padding. One pad rests against the chest and the other rests against the front of the legs. There is a coil mechanism in the center that helps the wearer stand upright.
Date:
July 1, 1902
Creator:
Russell, Manning W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Rack.
Patent for "a new and improved clothes rack, adapted to be carried in one's pocket," (lines 8-10) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 1, 1919
Creator:
Walling, Carl H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coaster-Brake.
Patent for a coaster brake featuring an improved positive drive and braking.
Date:
July 1, 1913
Creator:
Winfrey, Edgar M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cold-Tire-Shrinking-Machine
Patent for a device that accomplishes cold-tire shrinking, in order to assure a snug tire fit onto any size cart wheel.
Date:
July 1, 1902
Creator:
House, Samuel N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Scrubber and Mop
Patent for a combined mop and scrubber. The invention consists of a brush, mop, wringer, and water receptacle.
Date:
July 1, 1913
Creator:
Shaw, Horace G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Current Wheel
Patent for "a new and Improved Current-Wheel" (line 6) including description and illustration.
Date:
July 1, 1902
Creator:
Wells, James Ashley & Sumrall, Jessie Daniel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Elevator and Conveyer for Concrete-Mixers.
Patent for improvements in elevators and conveyers for concrete-mixers “whereby the mixed concrete can be fed to the wall mold at different elevations, the elevator being extended and the conveyer raised for constructing the successive stories of the building.” (Lines 17-21) Illustration is included.
Date:
July 1, 1913
Creator:
Miller, Frederick
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Engraving-machine.
Patent for improvements to an engraving machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 1, 1902
Creator:
Crane, Walter E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Eyeglass Mounting
Patent for the creation of new and useful improvements in eyeglass mounting.
Date:
July 1, 1921
Creator:
Henderson, W. T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate.
Patent for a new design for a gate that "will prevent the post to which it is hung from being drawn out of line by its weight" (lines 12-14) and will stay open unaided and "automatically lock itself when closed" (line 18) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 1, 1890
Creator:
Snow, Abner
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grate
Patent for a grate utilizing a conical shape.
Date:
July 1, 1902
Creator:
Walton, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harness
Patent for "a new and Improved Harness" (line 6) with illustrations and description.
Date:
July 1, 1902
Creator:
Hawkins, Augustus Longstreet
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hat-Fastener.
Patent for improvements in hat-fasteners in which the “fastener can be adjustable to hats of different sizes and shapes, …., for securing the hat upon the head.” (Lines 10-15) Illustration is included.
Date:
July 1, 1913
Creator:
Schmidt, Harel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay Rack.
Patent for a new and improved hay rack. This design consists "[i]n a hay-frame adapted for application to a wagon-body, the combination of the base-bars, the standards or uprights . . . having outward extensions at their upper ends, provided with stop shoulders or hooks, and the side arms having their inner sections pivoted to said uprights at a point in from the stop shoulders and arranged to rest on said shoulders when turned outward . . . and the fastening bolts engaging said uprights" (lines 77-89).
Date:
July 1, 1890
Creator:
Wilkerson, John L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Buckles.
Patent relating to "improvements in harness-buckles" (lines 17-18) including instructions and illustration.
Date:
July 1, 1879
Creator:
Carnes, William J., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combination Locks.
Patent for combination latch-locks, "in such manner as that the knob-latch, while performing its special function, will also serve as the lock upon any combination to which it may be adjusted, and the said latch can be operated from either the outside or inside of the door as a latch simply, or as a combination lock, which latter is further secured from the inside by the employment of a safety pin, rendering the bolt in its locked position perfectly secure, while by its partial withdrawal it prevents the possible change of the combination from the outside, and admits of the free use of the latch independent of such combination." (Lines 29-42) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 1, 1873
Creator:
Hall, Phidello W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Devices for Securing Buckles, &c., to Straps.
Patent relating to "an improved device for securing buckles, rings, and similar articles to straps" (lines 8-10) including instructions and illustration.
Date:
July 1, 1879
Creator:
Barrow, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History