Texas Patents - 20 Matching Results
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- Improvement in Pile-Drivers.
- Patent for an improved pile-driver device which automates the release of the pile-driver hammer as well as including a perpendicular device which advances the device longitudinally as the work progresses.
- Improvement in ventilating cars, &c.
- Patent for a system which prevents ashes and cinders from railroad engines from entering the train cars and also allows for ventilation of the cars. Includes illustration.
- Improvement in Manufacturing Anti-Corrosive Compounds.
- Patent for "an anti-corrosive coating for iron and all other metals, and one which in all respects does positively preserve the same, and into the composition of which enters as an element neither lead, oil, nor any other ingredient that contains any destructive or otherwise deleterious acid or alkali." (Lines 7-13) Includes instructions.
- Improvement in Putting Up Caustic Alkalies.
- Patent for a method of packaging caustic alkalies inside of treated paper or wood. This patent describes the mixture and use of this treatment.
- Child's Carriage.
- Patent for a new and improved stroller. This design consists in "[a] running-gear, of the vertical hoop secured thereto, the brackets extending outward and upward from the hoop, and notched in their upper ends, the body, the brackets at opposite sides of the body, and the knife edge projections resting on the upper notched ends of the brackets . . . a vertical encircling hoop carrying buffers, standards, and brackets formed with edges, which rest upon the standards . . . an axle, wheels fitted to the axle, a forwardly extending bracket carrying a fixed wheel . . . and a sunshade" (lines 81-98).
- Car-Fender.
- Patent for a simple car-fender that improves on the types of "fenders which are attached to the front end of street and other car trucks for the purpose of saving human life by preventing a body from being thrown under the car wheels" (lines 10-14). The invention does not let a body under the car wheels.
- Channel Cleaner.
- Patent for a new and improved channel cleaner. This design "is to construct an apparatus which may be anchored in a channel where there are sand-bars, for the purpose of agitating the water and stirring up the sand, so that the current may remove it. [The] invention consists in a trunk or large tube perforated along the bottom and provided at one end with a flaring mouth for concentrating the current within the trunk; also, in the combination, with the trunk, of a stirrer and a motor-screw for driving the same" (lines 17-28).
- Coin Sorter.
- Patent for a new and improved coin sorter. This design "consists of a cabinet or coin-receptacle divided horizontally by a vertical series of drawers, each of which, except the lower one, is formed with a bottom that is provided with closely-set rows of circular openings that communicate with the drawers beneath, the openings in the bottom of each drawer being smaller than those in the bottom of the next drawer above, whereby the larger coins are retained in the upper drawer or drawers, while the smaller coins will pass successively through the several drawers to the bottom" (lines 15-27).
- Baling-Press.
- Patent for improvements in baling-presses by “simplify and strengthen the frame and operating parts, to secure a better distribution of the strains between the operating parts and the frame, and to increase the speed at which the press may be operated by permitting the platen to rise and fall to a limited extent independent of the power mechanism, so that after the loose fiber is introduced the platen may be dropped instantly a portion of the distance to effect a partial compression of the charge by its weight before bringing the power mechanism into play.” (Lines 17-29) Illustration is included.
- Hub Attaching Device.
- Patent for a new and improved arrangement of axles and boxes for vehicles. This design calls for a solid axle formed with a shoulder and screw-threads, an axle-box closed at its outer and provided at the other end with an annular wall, a collar formed with internal screw-threads, annular flange, bearing surface, wrench-gripe surfaces, and a cap or ring (lines 16-22).
- Railway Steam Car Brake
- Patent for improvement in railway car brake by adding a steam actuating device attached to the locomotive.
- Show-Globe.
- Patent for "a globe adapted to serve simply for the purpose of illumination and furnishing a pure white bright light for general purposes, or to serve as an illuminated show-globe for druggists," (lines 10-14) including instructions and illustrations.
- Cushion-Tire.
- Patent for a more durable bicycle tire. Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Bicycle-Tire.
- Patent for certain new and useful improvements in tires for "use with bicycles" (line 10).
- Index
- Patent for "a simple and compact index in which the available space will be utilized as perfectly as possible". (lines 10-13) including instructions and illustrations.
- Stirrup
- Patent for a stirrup. Illustration included.
- Selective Telegraph System.
- Patent for a selective telegraph switch which allows current to be directed to a specific place and will minimize resistance.
- Landing-Net.
- Patent for improvements to landing nets to make them foldable or collapsible, providing for easier storage when not in use.
- Trap-Net.
- Patent for improvements in net traps for fish. The trap is constructed of two sections that "can be held open at any depth" and automatically close when lifted.
- Winch Attachment
- Patent for an improved automobile winch attachment.