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Hydrostatic Indicator for Weighing Scales.

Description: Patent for a new and improved hydrostatic indicator for scales. This design consists in "a reservoir, an outer cylinder, a hollow inner cylinder, an attached stand-pipe, and registering-dial, said inner cylinder being surrounded by and sliding within said outer cylinder, said outer cylinder being provided with an attached inlet-pipe communicating with said reservoir, said pipe being provided with two valves, in combination with a bearing-bar, side rods, and under bar, forming a frame bearing up… more
Date: February 5, 1889
Creator: Lewis, Henry A.

Stock Car.

Description: Patent for a new and improved animal stalls in stock cars. This design "has for its object to provide these stalls in such a manner that they can be readily and cheaply applied to and removed from the cars; and it also has for its further object to provide for rendering the stall-partitions laterally yielding or elastic, and yet under such a degree of tension as to withstand or resist the movements of the animals" (lines 11-18).
Date: April 17, 1883
Creator: Lewis, Henry A.

Gate.

Description: Patent for a new and improved gate. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the suspended rolling gate [and] the toggle-jointed levers . . . connecting the gate with a fixed point" (lines 102-104). It further consists in a lever "pivoted at one end to a fixed point, the lever pivoted to [another] lever near the outer end of the latter, the lower end of the lever being attached to the free end of the lever, the pivoted hand-levers fulcrumed on opposite sides of the gate, and the rod connec… more
Date: August 3, 1886
Creator: Lewis, John Coleman & Rainey, Willain Henry

TRIMS Therapy Notes, Volume 4, Number 1, January 1983

Description: Brief, monthly newsletter of the Texas Research Institute of Mental Sciences featuring articles by staff specialists on current treatments and other topics of importance to clinicians in the mental health profession. This issue discusses "Autistic persons in Texas: Who are they? What do they need? How can we help them?"
Date: January 1983
Creator: Lewis, Kay R. & Wood, David

TRIMS Therapy Notes, Volume 5, Number 11, November 1984

Description: Brief, monthly newsletter of the Texas Research Institute of Mental Sciences featuring articles by staff specialists on current treatments and other topics of importance to clinicians in the mental health profession. This issue discusses "Fenfluramine and autism."
Date: November 1984
Creator: Lewis, Kay R.; Wood, David; Ho, Beng T.; Kreigel, Jeannine P. & Taylor, Dorothy

Reversible Harness Hame.

Description: Patent for a new and improved hame. This design consists "of wood, properly curved to conform to the configuration of a horse-collar, and having their front and rear sides shaped alike, so that they may be applied interchangeably to the right or left sides to the collar. To accomplish such result [the design] provide[s] each hame with a swiveling trace attachment" (lines 7-14).
Date: September 29, 1885
Creator: Lewis, Lewis

Churn-Top.

Description: Patent for a churn top, which prevents the milk from splashing out of the churn while it is in use and keeps out bugs and dirt.
Date: February 1, 1910
Creator: Lewis, Lola

Clothes-Pounder.

Description: Patent for an improved clothes washer that is made up of a cylinder, a piston that is two disks attached together with notches and flared edges, and a packing strip in the groove of the disk edges.
Date: August 14, 1894
Creator: Lewis, Nathan D.

Steering Device and Brake for Tractors

Description: Patent for new and useful improvements for the steering and stopping of tractors, particularly for the machines that are extremely difficult and laborous to manually steer and apply brakes. The invention permits the controlling of the direction of movement of the behicle by disconnecting the source of power from the wheel(s) at one side while those at the other side contrinue to rotate under power. The invention allows for braking to be used to slow the motion of the tractor on downward grade o… more
Date: January 10, 1922
Creator: Lewis, Otto Leroy

Tractor.

Description: Patent for improvements to a previous patent application for a tractor (Serial No. 399599, filed 1920-07-28). The improvements include rearrangements of parts for the driving wheels from the front to the rear and the rearrangement of the transmission housing.
Date: January 10, 1922
Creator: Lewis, Otto Leroy

Blind Slat Adjuster.

Description: Patent for a new and improved blind adjuster. This design consists in "[a] shutter-stop consisting of a slotted bar linked to the end of the slat-actuating rod of a shutter, in combination with a plate having a spur on one side and a screw-threaded stud on the other, a washer, and a thumb-nut" (lines 93-97).
Date: May 4, 1886
Creator: Lewis, Paulinus Aloysius

Corn and Cotton Sweep.

Description: Patent for a new and improved corn and cotton sweep. This design "is to provide an improved sweep for the cultivation of corn, cane, and cotton plants while they are young, which shall be capable of adjustment to plow-stocks of any class; to provide removable wings which can be applied or detached when it is desired to throw the dirt or soil to either the right or left; and to provide a removable point which can be replaced when it is worn out with another point of similar construction and thus… more
Date: September 28, 1886
Creator: Lewis, Samuel Timothy & Babb, John Hendrick
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