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Setting-Basin Separating Device
Patent for Settling Basin-Separating Devices. This device improves the issue of unwanted discharge shown in prior devices
Date:
May 11, 1990
Creator:
Allen, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Accelerator for Engines
Patent for an accelerator for engines that has an improved foot pedal that is used in connection with the throttle control on an automobile engine.
Date:
July 12, 1921
Creator:
Vineyard, Pleas E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adding-Machine
Patent for disk to make calculations.
Date:
November 2, 1899
Creator:
Work, Byron & Work, Garnder
System:
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Advertising Device.
Patent for an advertising device which may be placed on street corners and incorporate certain elements of construction whereby the same might be adapted to various forms.
Date:
192X
Creator:
Hanson, John Zacious
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Advertising- Sign
Patent for new advertising signs that "involves the elements of motion, color, illumination, and mystery" (lines 16-17), including illustrations.
Date:
May 7, 1917
Creator:
Craig, Richard Morgan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Agricultural Implement dated September 17, 1918
Patent for agricultural implement used for tilling the soil so as to prepare the land for planting. It is used to reduce clods, loosens, and levels the soil.
Date:
191X
Creator:
Powell, George D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air Lift Fluid Pump
Patent for air lift fluid pump. This invention relates to improvements in air lift fluid pumps and the primary object is to provide construction where water can be lifted from great depths with little air pressure.
Date:
September 12, 1916
Creator:
P. McCombs
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Calcining Plaster
This patent is for an apparatus for calcining plaster of any kind. Or an apparatus that keeps clean the inner surface of a revoluble drum for ventilating the drum during the calcining operation. The apparatus also provides for easily removing the material after the completion of the cooking operation (Lawrence, 1902).
Date:
March 12, 1902
Creator:
Lawwrence, Ambrose
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Grain Drying and Coffee-Roasting
Patent for "an apparatus in which grain or fruit may be dried, coffee roasted, and the water evaporated from sugar." (lines 9-12)
Date:
February 9, 1883
Creator:
Dunn, William W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Barrels of Firearms
Patent for simple, light, and durable device adapted for barrels of rifles, muskets, and other arms to prevent the noise made from when firing.
Date:
January 5, 1899
Creator:
Washington, R. M.
System:
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AUTOMATICALLY BALANCING AEROPLANE
Patent for attaching wings to a car in such a way that the wings will automatically adjust as the car shifts in flight. Detailed description and illustrations are included.
Date:
June 27, 1911
Creator:
Mathiesen, Marius
System:
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Automobile-Wheel.
Patent for Automobile-Wheel. "Its object is to provide a substitute for an automobile wheel equipped with the pneumatic tire, of cheaper and more lasting construction than such a tire" (lines 10-14).
Date:
October 11, 1909
Creator:
Wylie, Alfred R. & Wright, James G.
System:
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Bale-Tie
Patent for...Bale-Tie
Date:
December 20, 1892
Creator:
Bardon, Prosper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie Buckle
Patent for bale tie buckle that is adapted for use on high density cotton bales, and provide a simple buckle which has requisite strength, can be tied on the bales with great rapidity, can be used at the gins as the bales are first made, can be rapidly removed from the bales of cotton when taken to the compresses without injury to the buckle, and which will be ready for immediate reuse on either the standard bale or the high density compressed bale.
Date:
191X
Creator:
Todd, James T. A.
System:
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Bale-Tie Buckle
Patent for a low-cost bale tie buckle that prevents the expansion of bale when the pressure of the compress is released.
Date:
March 20, 1918
Creator:
Todd, James T. A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Barn-Door Lock
Patent for a barn-door lock that "consists in certain novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts" (lines 34-37) and "which shall be simple, durable and efficient, and which may be manufactured and sold at a comparatively low cast" (lines 29-31).
Date:
191X
Creator:
Henrichsen, F.R.
System:
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Bedstead Attachtment
Patent for improvements in Bedstead Attachments.
Date:
February 13, 1917
Creator:
Parker, Joel Daniel
System:
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Bee-Hive
Patent for an improved hive, in which bees are fed and watered more efficiently and honey can be removed without the loss of bees. Illustrations and instructions are included.
Date:
December 13, 1882
Creator:
Meyer, Edward
System:
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Beer Cooler
Patent for...Beer Cooler
Date:
December 13, 1892
Creator:
Gibson, Wyatt & Sadler, James F.
System:
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Boiler.
Patent for improving domestic boilers used in plants by adding shells and jackets, with illustration. This improved boiler will provide more hot water than traditional boilers using water backs or coils.
Date:
January 18, 1921
Creator:
McChesney, Louis Preston
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Huller and Cotton-Cleaner.
Patent for Boll-Huller and Cotton-Cleaner. "The object of the invention is to provide a simple apparatus adapted to operate upon boll cotton for the purpose of breaking the hulls and stems from the cotton and for separating said hulls and stems from the cotton and delivering the cotton in clean condition ready to be ginned" (lines 12-18).
Date:
June 22, 1910
Creator:
Postelwait, Austin T.
System:
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Boll Weevil Destroyer
Patent for Boll Weevil Destroyer. The invention "helps to dislodge the weevil and other noxious and destructive insects from the plants and to kill them". 3 pages of illustrations; 3 pages of description
Date:
June 28, 1913
Creator:
{Chandler Columbus P.}
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Box and Closure Locking Device
Patent for a box and closure locking device "that when used in connection with a box or receptacle forms a lock box, in which when the cover or closure is arranged upon the box." (lines 17-20) includes instructions and illustration.
Date:
March 19, 1915
Creator:
Rider, Clarke, W
System:
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Brick Forming Machine
Patent for an inexpensive and efficient brick forming machine.
Date:
191X
Creator:
Richmond, George E.
System:
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