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Vending-Machine.
Patent for device to improve price display, movement of goods, and correct coin measurement of coin-controlled vending machines.
Date:
July 7, 1903
Creator:
Scheble, Eugene Stiles
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Breaker.
Patent for "an improved stalk breaker and means for mounting it on an ordinary farm-wagon and making it adjustable and possible to raise the breaker up, so that it will not strike obstructions when being moved from place to place;" (lines 8-13) including illustrations.
Date:
July 10, 1900
Creator:
Shaw, Drury P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Freight Gang-Plank.
Patent for freight gang-planks embodying hinged sections which may be adjusted at any angle with relation to each other so that the upper section may be disposed on a horizontal plane for the purpose of allowing a loaded truck to come to rest and remain immovable until manual or mechanical power is applied to move it.
Date:
July 3, 1917
Creator:
Simpson, Louis
Object Type:
Patent
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
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Coin-Controlled Apparatus.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and durable coin-controlled apparatus that is "designed to indicate by the varying positions occupied by the spheres, the nature of a dream, the apparatus being designed primarily as a dream-revealer" (lines 17-20). The operator pulls a lever which forces the dice inside the glass container to move into holes. The operator reads a key on the outside of the device that indicates what he will dream.
Date:
July 18, 1893
Creator:
Taylor, James P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hollow Building-Tile.
Patent for hollow building blocks or tile in a block form with a groove to easily insert a nailing strip which can be secured with nails or screws.
Date:
July 15, 1919
Creator:
Taylor, James T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Box Bull and Calf Wheel Gudgeon.
Patent for protection and strengthening of box bull and calf wheel gudgeons. The purpose is to prevent various troubles with well drilling (oil, etc.).
Date:
July 19, 1921
Creator:
Taylor, James Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1091
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: The validity of H.B. 626, 57th Legislature, Regular Session, 1961, in prescribing, inter alia, a chief clerk for the Probate Court of Tarrant County.
Date:
July 18, 1961
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Truck or Vehicle for Elevated Railways.
Patent for an improved, strong, simple, inexpensive, and durable truck or vehicle for elevated railways that is meant to throw the lateral force of the car-body is exerted vertically downward onto the car's wheels.
Date:
July 11, 1893
Creator:
Turner, Ephraim M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Life-Saving Device for the Cabs of Locomotives.
Patent for a life-saving device for the cabs of locomotives. The device is used to safely help the engineer or fireman escape from the locomotive engine cab should danger arise. The device is used to protect an individual against fire, hot water, or some other forms of danger.
Date:
July 20, 1915
Creator:
Uttz, William A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hook and Eye.
Patent for a hook and eye especially designed for clothing and keeps the area where the invention is being used is perfectly aligned and does not accidentally unhook.
Date:
July 3, 1894
Creator:
Wall, Frederic Watson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
General Index and Alphabetical Record.
Patent for a general index and alphabetical record that organizes records in an index instead of a book.It is a chest of shallow drawers, each having a letter of the alphabet printed on its front. Attached to each drawer is a blank book.
Date:
July 28, 1896
Creator:
Ward, George C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Scarifier and Blocker.
Patent for a scarifier and blocker designed specifically to go around small plants that is mounted on wheels.
Date:
July 10, 1917
Creator:
Weisenborn, George P. A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Letter-Box.
Patent for improvements in mail-boxes, where a movable partition is place inside of a mail-box “which is raised by the cover or lid so as to receive the mail and then drop it into the box as soon as the lid is closed, to attach to the lid an apron which rises in the box so as to make connection with the inner edge of the partition when the lid is raised to deposit mail-matter, and thus prevent any possibility of the content of the box from being abstracted when the cover is raised.” (Lines 18-27)Illustration is included.
Date:
July 7, 1891
Creator:
Wesson, Miley B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hog-Pen.
Patent for a hog pen and feed trough that can hold and feed a variety of variety of animals. It consists of an inclosure with an opening, ways extending into and out of the opening, a sliding trough mounted in the pen, rollers that slide into and out of the pen, pulleys in the trough, a shaft journaled in the front of the trough, ropes that go around the pulleys, and a turning mechanism for the shaft.
Date:
July 4, 1893
Creator:
Wilkinson, Benjmon M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Stalk Chopper.
Patent for a new and improved stalk cutter. This design consists in "[t]he frame mounted upon sled-runners and provided with braces, draft pole, and knives, in combination with the rake having check-bar, the sliding bar, connecting bar, and lever, all co-operating" (lines 89-92).
Date:
July 28, 1885
Creator:
Woodard, James A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Making Mattresses
Patent for mattress making machine, which cleans, compresses, and stuffs cotton or other materials into a mattress, including illustrations.
Date:
July 30, 1901
Creator:
Woolery, John T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mattress Stuffing Machine
Patent for a mattress stuffing machine that holds material to form mattresses, as well as compressing and stuffing the material into ticks.
Date:
July 30, 1901
Creator:
Woolery, John T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Manufacturing Heating and Illuminating Gas
Patent for an apparatus for manufacturing heating and illuminating gas. Illustration included.
Date:
July 19, 1910
Creator:
Wynne, Milton P. & Wagley, Samuel L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Converting Motor-Propelled Vehicles into Tractors.
Patent for a device which attaches a "tractor which can be used to draw plows, harrows, cultivators, mowers, reapers, and other agricultural implements" (lines 12-17) to motor vehicles, thus converting the motor vehicle into a tractor.
Date:
July 20, 1915
Creator:
Wynne, William P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History