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Air-Brake Governor
Patent for an air brake governor improvement that regulates the pressure of fluid or air in the braking system as to prevent it from braking with too much pressure.
Date:
July 10, 1906
Creator:
Williams, Leonard F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal Trap.
Patent for a new and improved animal trap. This design consists in "the combination of the wire frame having the parallel base-arms, the coiled-springs, the upwardly-extending arms, and the downwardly-extending loop, the loop or ring on the bend and engaged portions of said wire, and the trigger-wire having the frontwardly-projecting point engaging said ring" (lines 80-87).
Date:
July 10, 1888
Creator:
Beversdorf, Louis, Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Anti-Oscillating Attachment for Street-Cars.
Patent for an improved anti-oscillating attachment for street-cars. It has a car truck, equalizing pivoting bars secured between the truck ends, cushions on either side of the bars, adjustable bolts that hold the bars in place, and springs between the bolts.
Date:
July 10, 1894
Creator:
Chollar, Benjamin F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Arc Lamp
Patent for improvements arc lamps that "will be uninfluenced by the jar of the locomotive" (lines 17-19). Consisting of carbon-carriers rotated by clock-train.
Date:
July 10, 1888
Creator:
Gaston, E. James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Arc-Lamp.
Patent for an arc lamp that features a spring operated clutch mechanism for the upper electrode.
Date:
July 10, 1917
Creator:
Williams, Theron H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Band Fastening
Patent for "a new and useful bale-band fastening or bale-tie for an object to provide a simple and efficient device for taking up a maximum amount of slack in the band with a minimum movement, while at the same time serving to tightly secure the band about the bale and preventing the same from loosening or the ends thereof from rending apart ." (lines 5-15) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 10, 1900
Creator:
Campbell, Douglas M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Barrel-Stand.
Patent for a barrel-stand "designed to support a barrel or other like dispensing receptacle" (line 10) to be tilted for pouring and can be held in a tilted or other fixed position.
Date:
July 10, 1917
Creator:
Maier, Felix
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Book Holder
Patent for a book holder to receive or hold a book or in position for writing
Date:
March 12, 1901
Creator:
Hackworth, Riggs P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carbureter.
Patent for a carbureter that vaporizes liquid fuel, specifically kerosene, for use as an explosive charge in an internal combustion engine.
Date:
July 10, 1912
Creator:
Mack, John Rodney.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Vegetable Slicer and Grater.
Patent for a combined vegetable slicer and grater that consists of a main frame with vertical arms and bearings, a screw that attaches the arms to the frame, a shaft journaled with an annular flange into the bearings, a cylinder made of sheet metal that serves as knives, and spring tongues that regulate the thickness of the cut vegetables.
Date:
July 10, 1894
Creator:
Harpst, Edgar S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter Combined.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design "has relation to that class of cotton and corn planters in which are hoppers smaller at their top than at their bottom and hoppers larger at their top than at their bottom, to adapt them for planting cotton-seed and corn, respectively. It is the object of the invention to provide the planter with interchangeable hoppers of the above construction, whereby either can be used upon the same machine, as found desirable, the hopper-seat being especially adapted to receive and hold thereon either one of the hoppers" (lines 12-24).
Date:
July 10, 1888
Creator:
Mallison, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Scraper.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper and scraper. This design consists "[i]n a four-wheeled machine for scraping and chopping cotton, the combination of the two scrapers having their standards connected by a cross-bar at the top to form a foot-rest, and pivoted intermediately to the frame, with the rear rotary choppers connected adjustably with the same shaft, and arranged at an oblique angle thereto" (lines 86-93).
Date:
July 10, 1883
Creator:
Russell, William R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Condenser.
Patent for a new and improved cotton condenser. This design involves "[t]he lint pass[ing] from the gin through the flue and between the condensing-cylinders, by which it is formed into a bat. The blast from the gin serves to blow all dust from the lint through the wire-cloth of the cylinders and out through the openings in the ends of the latter. The upper cylinder will move vertically in its bearings . . . and thus adjust itself to any quantity of lint that may pass from the gin" (lines 46-55).
Date:
July 10, 1883
Creator:
Sewell, Franklin Milner
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Distributer.
Patent for "a new and improved cotton-distributer to provide a means for equalizing the distribution of cotton to a series of connected receptacles and for retaining the cotton in the receptacles until it is desirable to deliver it to the hoppers or feed devices for cotton-gins." (lines 5-10) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 10, 1900
Creator:
Parker, Joseph Andrew
System:
The Portal to Texas History
COUPLING PATENT
This patent is for a new coupling system to connect hollow pipes. It is specifically designed to address issues of vibration, which cause the coupling pin to become damaged.
Date:
July 10, 1919
Creator:
Hiegel, Joseph L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Decorticating Fibrous Leaves of Plants.
Patent for a machine that decorticates fibrous material from leaves and plants designed to be of low manufacturing cost and light enough to be carried on pack animals.
Date:
July 10, 1917
Creator:
Askew, Joel Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
End Door For Cars
Patent for a new end door on freight train cars including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 10, 1900
Creator:
Goodridge, Ethan A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Exhaust-Steam-Actuating Damper-Regulator.
Patent for exhaust-steam-actuating damper-regulator, including instructions and illustrations. This invention improves oil burning equipment for locomotives by "operating the dampers of the air inlet box to automatically close the dampers when the locomotive is standing and to open the dampers when the locomotive is running." (lines 12-16).
Date:
July 10, 1917
Creator:
Gilman, Benoist P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
File or Bill-Book.
Patent for a paper file that has "an index board or cover that it can be moved along the transfer wires from one side of the bottom boards to the other, the same as papers and with or without papers attached to it, and so that when brought around on top of the bottom board and interposed papers it will form therewith a book in which the papers or blanks will be retained for the ready reference or for such use as may be required" (lines 24-33). Papers can be punched with a mechanism on the invention so that papers can be placed onto the retaining wires.
Date:
July 10, 1894
Creator:
Slaton, William David
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Garment-Protector
Patent for a garment protector which functions by wrapping the wearer and her garments in heavy rubberized cloth, so that water and mud do not get on her clothes, including illustrations and instructions.
Date:
July 10, 1917
Creator:
Goode, Ovelia Mamie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gasolene-Supply-Tank Attachment.
Patent for a gasoline station attachment that monitors the amount of fuel dispersed, dispensing a specific amount of fuel based on coin deposit, and for locking the fueling station.
Date:
July 10, 1917
Creator:
Malone, Thomas W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate
Patent for an improvement to gates. This model consists of a gate mounted at the middle on a vertical post pivoted at top and bottom.
Date:
July 10, 1883
Creator:
Cope, Mason L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Billiard-Cushions.
Patent for improvement in billiard-cushions. Patent for removable billiard table cushion.
Date:
July 10, 1877
Creator:
Mansur, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ground-Squirrel Exterminators.
Patent for an "improved apparatus by means of which ground-squirrels and gophers can be destroyed in their holes, conveniently and effectively, and at small expense" (para. 4). The mechanism works by gassing underground vermin with sulphuric fumes.
Date:
July 10, 1877
Creator:
Dreyer, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History