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Stock-Weaner.
Patent for improvements in stock weaners. The invention is used for weaning cattle and "may be applied to either the parent or the offspring to prevent abstraction of the lacteal fluid from the udder by either. The purpose of the invention is to devise a device of the character and for the purpose aforesaid which will be simple, effective, light, not interfere with grazing or feeding, and which can be easily and quickly placed in position without the use of tools and adapted to be readily removed and applied to another animal" (lines 12-22). Includes specifications and illustrations.
Date:
July 17, 1900
Creator:
Looby, Hiram R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mail Box Signal
Patent for a mail box signal. Illustration included.
Date:
July 17, 1906
Creator:
Forwood, Reginald
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trolley
Patent for "a peculiar construction" (lines 11-12) that will reduce the liability of a trolley running off of the trolley-wire. This construction "involves a trolley-wheel carried on an axis fixed on the trolley pole or harp and an auxiliary wheel yieldingly mounted on the pole and pressed against the under side of the wire, so that should the pole drop slightly the auxiliary wheel will move relatively to the pole and reduce this contact with the wire." (lines 12-19)
Date:
July 17, 1906
Creator:
Ward, Gurney Enoch
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay Press.
Patent for improvements to a hay press to be manufactured easily and cheaply while maintaining its effectiveness in pressing hay into bales.
Date:
July 17, 1917
Creator:
Pate, William H. & Rhyne, Arthur M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soot-Preventing Composition.
Patent for "an improved soot-preventing composition, which is used by being sprinkled over the coal and which furnished a more complete combustion of the carbon-particles carried along by the products of combustion, so that the deposit of soot into smoke-pipes, flues and chimneys is prevented from forming cinders and large clinkers." (Lines 9-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 17, 1894
Creator:
Givens, Royall
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Gang-Plows.
Patent for improvements to the gang-plow consisting of "an adjustable frame, within which two or more ordinary plows can be arranged to form the gang, said frame being constructed so as to enable one set of plows to run deep, while the other set can be made to run shallow." (Lines 15-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 17, 1877
Creator:
Crump, Thomas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Project Semiannual Progress Report for Period Ending April 30, 1961
This report includes a summary of materials research and engineering of the aircraft nuclear propulsion project.
Date:
July 17, 1961
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Quilting Frame.
Patent for a new and improved quilting frame. This design "consists of an improved arrangement of apparatus for suspending the quilting-frame from overhead rods, on which it is made to traverse for passing the quilt along the sewing-machine to be quilted, the essential object being to contrive a simple means of shifting the frame with relation to the machine and for placing it diagonally and for turning it around from side to side, so that when the quilt is very heavy one half can be quilted, and then the quilt turned and the other half quilted on the other side" (lines 7-18).
Date:
July 17, 1883
Creator:
Bledsoe, Robert B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump.
Patent for pump that allows for ease of maneuvering, via balanced operating mechanism; as well as ease of access and repacking, via a simpler valve.
Date:
July 17, 1906
Creator:
Terry, Hiram
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint.
Patent for an improved rail joint that utilizes an interlocking system, thus eliminating the need for connections using nuts and bolts, resulting in a smoother, continuous rail.
Date:
July 17, 1917
Creator:
Luker, Luther V.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Means For Automatically Inflating Pneumatic Tires.
Patent for new and improved means for "pumping air into the tires and actuated from the wheel when the latter is in motion" (lines 18-20), including illustrations.
Date:
July 17, 1900
Creator:
Mills, John Andrew
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Overshot Fishing-Tool
Patent for improvements to overshot fishing tools, particularly for the use of removing, fishing out, "tools, parts of tools and other articles from" bored or drilled wells (lines 20-21). These improvements are designed to be manufactured cheaply.
Date:
July 17, 1919
Creator:
Kliewer, Edward A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment.
Patent for " agricultural implements, more especially harrows or cultivators ; and it has for its objects a device which can be conveniently attached to the standards or footpieces of any cultivator and which may hold or carry different numbers of small plows or harrow-teeth for the cultivation of any crops or at any place where a small harrow is needed;" (lines 7-15) including illustrations.
Date:
July 17, 1900
Creator:
Crosby, Henry T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a cultivator attachment which is designed to be "a guard to protect the young growing crop from being covered by dirt when it is being cultivated." (Lines 14-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 17, 1894
Creator:
Maxfield, Nelson; Griffin, Richard Frankling & Speer, Henry Alson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History