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Neck-Yoke.
Patent for "a safety attachment for neck yokes which, if the neck yoke or the straps which connect it to the pole or to the collars break, will come into action and prevent the pole from dropping" (lines 8-13).
Date:
July 24, 1894
Creator:
Hobron, Charles B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Non-Refillable Bottle.
Patent for a specification to improve the design and function non-refillable bottles.
Date:
July 24, 1900
Creator:
Bonner, James A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Optical State-of-Change Monitor for Lead-Acid Batteries
A method and apparatus for determining the instantaneous state-of-charge of a battery in which change in composition with discharge manifests itself as a change in optical absorption. In a lead-acid battery, the sensor comprises a fiber optic system with an absorption cdl or, alternatively, an optical fiber woven into an absorbed-glass-mat battery. In a lithium-ion battery, the sensor comprises fiber optics for introducing light into the anode to monitor absorption when lithium ions are introduced.
Date:
July 24, 1998
Creator:
Weiss, Jonathan D.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Pipe Grip
Patent for pipe grip. Illustration included.
Date:
July 24, 1906
Creator:
Griffin, Claud Champ
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Making Hydrochloric Acid and Calcium Carbid
Patent for "new and useful processes in treating fused calcium chlorid with acetylene gas or other gases mixed therewith, whereby hydrochloric-acid gas and calcium carbid may be produced," (lines 12-16) thus making the manufacturing processes of hydrochloric-acid cheaper while also producing calcium carbid more economically.
Date:
July 24, 1906
Creator:
Seamon, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting Frame.
Patent for a new and improved quilting frame. This design "is to improve the means for suspending a quilting-frame, so that a sewing-machine may be more conveniently used in the quilting operation" (lines 7-10).
Date:
July 24, 1883
Creator:
Bledsoe, Robert B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail Joint
Patent for a rail joint. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 24, 1906
Creator:
Wingren, Eric Peter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Reversible Steam-Engine.
Patent for "reversible reciprocating steam engines, its objects being to simplify the mechanism for reversing the valve, and to provide a valve in which the area of steam pressure upon its face is reduced to the minimum." (Lines 14-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 24, 1894
Creator:
Lester, Frank
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Saw-Handle.
Patent for Saw-Handle that blows air out of its handle to clear the saw's teeth of dust.
Date:
July 24, 1917
Creator:
Whitworth, John Luther
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Screening Device.
Patent for a screening device that offers "an improved means for imparting motion to and controlling or varying the motion of the screen to affect a separation of the materials undergoing treatment." (lines 10-13).
Date:
July 24, 1917
Creator:
Cole, David
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Still for Distillation of Petroleum
Patent for improvements in still design for distillation of petroleum or its products, providing relief for any suddenly formed vapors and preventing the oil from boiling over.
Date:
July 24, 1917
Creator:
Gallsworthy, Benjamin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sulky Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved sulky cultivator. This design consists in "the beam having the cross-bar at its rear end, and the rearward-diverging brace-arms connecting the beam to the ends of the cross-bar, the links hinged to the rear ends of the brace-arms and pivoted to the sulky-frame, the hand lever fulcrumed on the frame, and the rod connecting the hand-lever to the front end of the beam" (lines 40-48).
Date:
July 24, 1888
Creator:
Hazlewood, James Allan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trawl-Line.
Patent for a trawl-line that is supported so that it "can be caused to travel continuously in the same or reversed directions at will" (lines 12-14). The invention prevents "the choking of the line supporting pulleys with grasses and other foreign matter, and also to enable the ready adjustment of the pulley son the posts to change the elevation of the trawl-line and the depth of dip of the hooks in the water" (lines 16-21).
Date:
July 24, 1894
Creator:
White, Warren Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Visual Automatic-Setback Annunicator.
Patent for an indicator dial controlled by magnets to read out a display for an instrument via a lever.
Date:
July 24, 1917
Creator:
Stephens, Lee
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wagon-Bed Elevator
Patent for a wagon-bed elevator that "is to provide an elevator for wagon-beds by means of which a single person can raise the bed from the wagon to any desired height and leave it suspended in position where it can be readily lowered upon the wagon again at any time" (p. 2).
Date:
July 24, 1888
Creator:
Holliday, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Watch-Pocket.
Patent for a holder or pocket for a watch that provides a simple, safe, and handy device which is detachable fastened to a garment.
Date:
July 24, 1906
Creator:
Greenwald, Louis.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weaning-Bit
Patent for a weaning-bit. This bit "[admits] air into the mouth of the animal, thus obviating any drawing or sucking action." (lines 10-12) Additionally, this bit was created to be of better construction which would make it cheaper and longer-lasting.
Date:
July 24, 1917
Creator:
Turner, Wiley Ernest
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Windmill.
Patent for a new and improved windmill. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the horizontal wind-wheel, the semi-cylindrical case partly inclosing the same and independently revoluble, the case having the notches in its upper side, the vane having the shaft or port whose lower end forms the upper pivot for the said case, and the lever having its inner end fast to the vane shaft or port, and adapted to engage the said notches, and thereby cause the case to expose any desired area of the wheel to the wind" (lines 89-99).
Date:
July 24, 1888
Creator:
Hamm, Jordan
System:
The Portal to Texas History