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Adjustable Window-Shade Support.
Patent for an adjustable window shade support that can readily attach a shade to a window frame and the roller can be adjusted to any desired location or elevation.
Date:
July 9, 1918
Creator:
Simmons, Oscar C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Cotton-Weighing Scale.
Patent for an automatic cotton-weighing scale that is designed "to be used in connection with pneumatic conveyers, and it is of such construction that it will automatically weigh any amount that its scale may be set at, cut off the supply from the conveyer, empty itself, and immediately reset itself, the resetting of the machine opening the supply-valve from the conveyer, so that the weighing operation can be repeated" (lines 13-21).
Date:
July 9, 1895
Creator:
Schulze, Andrew
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Weighing-Scale.
Patent for an automatic weighing-scale meant to be connected to a pneumatic conveyer to weigh cotton, grain, or other products. The invention weighs "any amount to which its scale may be set, and then cutting off the supply and emptying itself, when it may be reset, preferably by hand, to repeat the weighing operation" (lines 18-22).
Date:
July 9, 1895
Creator:
Schulze, Andrew
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie Buckle.
Patent for a bale tie buckle where "an internal shoulder adapter to cooperate with the tie or band to prevent the latter from accidentally slipping through the entrance throat in the buckle when the tie is slackened" (lines 16-20).
Date:
July 9, 1918
Creator:
Schutz, Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Broom Rack
Patent for a Broom-Rack
Date:
July 9, 1918
Creator:
Horn, Jacob S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chair Cot.
Patent for "the provision of a chair or a seat which may readily be converted into a cot when occasion demands" (lines 9-12) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 9, 1918
Creator:
Griffith, James Elliott
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin.
Patent for a clothes-pin made of one piece of wire twisted around with a spring-clamping mechanism for holding clothes.
Date:
July 9, 1907
Creator:
Freeze, John A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Mail-Box and Door-Bell
Patent for a combined mailbox and doorbell. The invention automatically sounds a bell when mail is placed inside that can be set up directly on the house or at a distance. The invention also serves to protect the mail from rain and mail thieves.
Date:
July 9, 1918
Creator:
McDonald, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator
Patent for "a cultivator of simple and durable construction, capable of being adjusted laterally to any width and vertically to any desired height" (lines 9-12).
Date:
July 9, 1889
Creator:
Benthall, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Davenport.
Patent for a davenport, which can be used as wardrobe, settee, or bed that includes a wider bed, extensions for head and foot rests, and a larger wardrobe door than previous models.
Date:
July 9, 1907
Creator:
Hartshorn, Guy C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Dental Apparatus
Patent for "a novel and convenient construction of apparatus for supplying medicine, hot air, and water for treating decayed, and abscessed teeth" (lines 12-15).
Date:
July 9, 1901
Creator:
Gilbert, James Madsen
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Measuring Logs.
Patent for device for measuring logs consisting "of a pair of calipers, a measuring-segment, an arm, a plate, and a disk" (lines 13-14) in order to measure "the number of lumber feet in a log" lines 16-17), including illustrations.
Date:
July 9, 1901
Creator:
Cowart, Laurance P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Discharge-Nozzle
Patent for discharge nozzle for insecticide spraying machines. Proposed nozzle design to have adjustable opening.
Date:
July 9, 1918
Creator:
Gohmert, Otto Adolph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Extensible Ladder.
Patent for a new and useful Extensible Ladder. The improved Extensible Ladder is comprised of a ladder on each side of the structure, extendable platform, and guard rails.
Date:
July 9, 1912
Creator:
Putman, Lewis S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Bookcase
Patent for a folding bookcase that can be manufactured with any number of shelves.
Date:
July 9, 1912
Creator:
Fanning, Sam H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gin-Saw Filer and Gummer
Patent for an improved gin saw filer and gummer. This model would yield sharp conical shaped teeth, and straighten bent or deformed teeth.
Date:
July 9, 1918
Creator:
Norman, James E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Girth-Rigging for Side-Saddles.
Patent for girth-rigging for side-saddles that secure the saddles so the saddles only move when the horse does. It has an extended "saddle-tree so as to produce shoulders, the same underlying the saddle-seat at its front and in supporting upon its shoulders and also upon the tree in rear of the cantle-girth suspension-straps that are continuous" (lines 24-29).
Date:
July 9, 1895
Creator:
Padgitt, Jesse D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame Fastener.
Patent for a new and improved hame-fastener. This design "is to provide a fastener . . . which is of simple construction, which can be readily adjusted, and in which all strain is removed from the pivot of the locking-dog, thus obviating any breakage of the pivot, whatever may be the strain" (lines 17-23).
Date:
July 9, 1889
Creator:
Anderson, Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame Tug.
Patent for a new and improved hame-tug. This design consists in "the combination, with the bar provided at one end with a buckle, of the shield secured to the inner side of the bar and provided with an outward-extending guard, which extends through the loop of the buckle and is provided with a slot for the reception of the tongue of the buckle" (lines 64-70).
Date:
July 9, 1889
Creator:
McKenzie, Joseph Hyder
System:
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Harness.
Patent for a harness that is simpler and more economical to make and is efficient in use.
Date:
July 9, 1907
Creator:
Crawford, Hezekiah H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hypodermic-Needle Cleaner.
Patent for a hypodermic needle cleaner that allows the drill sizes to be easily changed for cleaning different size needles.
Date:
July 9, 1907
Creator:
Barr, George T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Illusion-Boat.
Patent for a boat ride at amusement parks, which allows the participant to have the illusion of going on a boat ride in the arctic during a thunderstorm.
Date:
July 9, 1907
Creator:
Jossenberger, Victor E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Trucks.
Patent for the improvement of car-trucks, consisting in the arrangement of each wheel of a car-truck upon the outer end of a separate short axle, the bearings of each axle being both located on the inner side of the wheel and the bearing at the inner end of the axle provided with a sliding-box and springs. It includes a description and illustration.
Date:
July 9, 1872
Creator:
Onley, Joseph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Cistern Tops and Filters.
Patent for improvements to cistern covers, combining a cast iron, charcoal filled filter and specially shaped cast perforated iron lid with handles for removing the cover and for changing the charcoal.
Date:
July 9, 1874
Creator:
Stacey, Ephraim Douglass
System:
The Portal to Texas History