Texas Patents - 633 Matching Results
Search Results
- Acetylene Gas Generator
- Patent for an acetylene gas generator. Illustration included.
- Acetylene Gas Generator
- Patent for an acetylene gas generator. This invention is designed to be automatic, use non-freezing fluids, and work on railway trains or ships. Illustrations included.
- Adjustable Rack for Railway-Cars.
- Patent for improvements on racks in railway-cars including more storage for smaller items, an adjustable rack for children or elderly persons to be able to reach without needing to stand on the car seat, a titled hinge that allows a rack to be pulled for ward and pushed back, and other improvements.
- Adjustable Split Lock-Nut or Union
- Patent for an adjustable split cock-nut or union that is of a simple, cheap, and efficient construction with an intended use on valve rods of internal combustion engines. This device is designed to withstand direct pressure, blows, and torque forces.
- Advertising Clock
- Patent for an advertising clock. This invention is designed to display advertisement at regular intervals. Illustration included.
- Aerial Vehicle
- Patent for an aerial vehicle. Illustrations included.
- Agricultural Implement
- Patent for an agricultural implement. This invention allows for the interchangeability of different blades. Illustration included.
- Agricultural Implement.
- Patent for "agricultural implements to be used for tilling the soil and planting, either separately or at one and the same operation, and has for its object to reduce the expense incurred by the general practice of first preparing the land for planting and subsequently sowing the seed. By this inventions the land can simultaneously prepared and the grain deposited therein." (Lines 8-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Air Compressor for Deep Well Pumps.
- Patent for a new and improved air-compressor. This design "relates to improvements in air-compressing mechanism for the purpose of pumping for forcing from deep wells and performing similar work; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of a larger and smaller air-cylinder, and the combination therewith of mechanism to force the air from the larger into the smaller cylinder to increase the air-pressure in the latter" (lines 22-30).
- Air-Pipe Coupling.
- Patent for an improved air-pipe coupling that is airtight and watertight and has a flexible union for railroad cars.
- Airship.
- Patent for an airship with multiple gas bags inside an outer enclosing casing, which maintain the buoyancy of the airship in case one or more of the smaller bags should rupture. This airship also supports one or more persons other than the pilot, has an "envelop adapted to serve as a parachute in the event of danger", and can "alight upon and rise from the surface of a body of water".
- Animal Hopple
- Patent for certain new improvements in animal hopples. This device prevents animals from rearing up in the front when it is worn. The device consists of several plates and a collar with a connecting chain.
- Animal-Trap.
- Patent for an animal trap that allows an animal, most suitably animals of the rodent species, to enter a rectangular box from any of its four sides through a gate formed of downwardly inclined wires pivoted above each of said openings inside of the box. When an animal enters the trap, they are unable to leave because of the downwardly bent ends of transverse bars secured to the said inclined wires.
- Ant-Trap
- Patent for "a simple device of this kind which will excel the former traps in depositing the ants within the annular pan and in efficiency for convenient discharge of the trapped insects" (lines 18-22).
- Antiseptic Shaving Outfit.
- Patent for a more compact and improved version of an antiseptic shaving outfit, including illustrations.
- Apparatus for Building Circular Walls and Means for Adjusting the Apparatus.
- Patent for a "scaffold adjusting apparatus, and particularly to means for elevating and lowering scaffolds for building circular wills or silos, circular tanks, smoke stacks, and similar circular walls "(lines 10-14), including illustrations.
- Apparatus for Curing Tire Casings.
- Patent for a more efficient system for curing tire casings. The new patented apparatus was capable of providing both smooth and ribbed tire textures by way of aluminum tips and molds. Additionally, the apparatus provided retreading and faster curing of pneumatic tires.
- Apparatus for Demonstrating and Testing Piston Packing Rings
- Patent for an apparatus that allows for a more accurate and efficient way to test piston packing rings by measuring ease of movement.
- Apparatus for Destroying Insects.
- Patent for a new and improved apparatus for killing ants. This design "consist[s] of frame, levers, pivoted arms, piston-rod, piston provided with valves and openings, air-tight iron chamber having opening pipe, furnace provided with double lid, lugs, pipe, clamp, and wedge . . . whereby the flame as well as the poisonous vapors are injected into the insect chambers" (lines 50-58).
- Apparatus for Handling and Cleaning Seed-Cotton.
- Patent for improvements in apparatus for handling and cleaning seed-cotton by “conveying cotton through a pneumatic tube and for automatically delivering therefrom to each of a series of gins an amount of cleaned cotton graduated at all times to the need of each gin. The flow of the main current in the tube is not interrupted by the several subtractions.” (Lines 17-23) Illustration is included.
- Apparatus for Handling Seed Cotton.
- Patent for cotton house with bins and conveyors that prevent the cotton from being contaminated.
- Apparatus for Handling Seed-Cotton.
- Patent for a "mechanism for handling seed-cotton [...] to provide novel means for conveying said cotton directly from the wagon or from the cotton-house to the ginning mechanism, whereby the cotton is cleansed and dried during its passage" (lines 7-13). It also helps to prevent fires and contamination of ginned cotton, and to reduce labor handling seed-cotton.
- Apparatus for Separating Substances of Different Dielectric Capacities.
- Patent for an apparatus for separating substances of different dielectric capacities; the objective of this invention is to provide means for the material to be separated into its component particles for the purpose of producing material of dielectric hysteric impedance and collecting the separated particles according to the difference in time that the particles maintain their polarity due to the impedance generated from them.
- Apparatus for Testing Errors of Refraction
- Patent for an eye testing device that has a movable lens, a measuring device for correction, and two different cards with test type on them which are fed into the machine during testing for astigmatism and myopia, presbyopia, and hyperopia to determine the level of correction needed in glasses.
- Apparatus for the Manufacture of Ice.
- Patent for a new and improved ice maker. This design calls for "two or more sheets of galvanized iron or other metal set in a tank of fresh water, one on either side of the evaporation-pipes, and held in a position parallel to each other by anchors or yokes that connect them" (lines 15-20). This eliminates the need for strong (ammoniacal) brine and is a faster, more reliable, and less leaky ice-making process than previous ones that used said brine.
- Arc-Lamp Attachment
- Patent for improving arc lamp attachments. The attachment allows an arc lamp to be able to use an incandescent lamp in place of the electrodes in an arc lamp. The attachment increases the efficiency and durability of the arc lamp.
- Arc-Lamp Headlight
- Patent for an electric arc headlight for trains, cars, or boats which produces a steady light and lasts long enough to allow travel over long distances.
- Ash-Sieve.
- Patent for a new ash sieve for a home oven.
- Atomizer.
- Patent for an atomizer meant to distribute liquids, powders, and vapors. Its parts can be easily changed so it can be used in different situations, for cleaning, and to make its use more efficient.
- Attachment for Automobile Headlights
- Patent for an automobile headlight attachment capable of horizontal rotation.
- Attachment for Buggy Tops
- Patent for an attachment for buggy tops. Illustration included.
- Attachment for Carbureters.
- Patent for improvement in attachments for carbureters that uses a hydro-carbon engine to induce a vertical whirl.
- Attachment for Cultivators &c
- Patent for a stalk cutter attachment for cultivators.
- Attachment for Headers
- Patent for improving attachments of headers to convert horse-drawn headers into motor headers.
- Attachment for T-Stands
- Patent for improvement of T stands, which includes a vertical rod that makes attachment and removal easier.
- Attachment for Vehicle-Brakes.
- Patent for "an extension-handle for the manipulating-levers of vehicle-brakes" (lines 9-10). This invention was designed especially for vehicles with extra side-boards, so the brakes can be employed as conveniently as possible while the driver would normally have a hard time reaching the brake-lever.
- Automatic Air-Brake Appliance
- Patent for an automatic air brake appliance for railroad cars that activates if the car derails.
- Automatic Circuit Maker and Breaker
- Patent for automatic circuit maker and breaker that automatically cuts off the circuit to electric lights. Also for automatically completing circuits to said lights at the proper time
- Automatic Pipe Coupling
- Patent for improvement on the methods of controlling oil flow.
- Automatic Stop Device for Printing-Presses.
- Patent for improvements to safety devices (springs, belt shift levers, guide members, rock shafts) that can be attached to a printing press to create automatic stops. These safety devices can be used to address possible accidents or emergencies by fastening down on a specific section of a printing press.
- Automatic Switch
- Patent for an automatic switch for railroad tracks.
- Automatic Vaporizing-Plug
- Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Automatic Vaporizing-Plugs" (lines 5-6). "This invention... has for its principle object the production of a device which is adapted to be carried upon a manifold of an internal combustion engine... so that upon each stroke of the piston, or pistons, air will be drawn into the intake manifold where it will be mixed with gas passing therethrough, thus forming a charge which will have more power when exploded and which will prevent the formation of carbon deposits within the cylinders and which will also reduce the cost of operation of the engine." (lines 9-23).
- Automatic Wagon-Brake.
- Patent for a new wagon brake design which allows the break to be automatically set, with illustrations.
- Automatically-Adjustable Headlight for Locomotives
- Patent for an automatically adjustable headlight for locomotives or streetcars which rotates when the vehicle is tilted going around a curve to allow the light to shine around the curve.
- Automobile-Lock.
- Patent for a padlock and mount for the steering column of an automobile.
- Automobile-Top.
- Patent for "new and useful improvements in Automobile-Tops." (lines 5-6) and is related to "tops of automobiles having two or more seats." (lines 9-10) includes illustrations.
- Auxiliary Door-Lock
- Patent for an auxiliary door lock, that may be used with any type of door, and that is portable, with illustrations.
- Axle Box for Locomotives.
- Patent for a new and improved axle-box for locomotives. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a pedestal, of an axle-box mounted to slide vertically in the said pedestal, a second axle-box mounted with one side in a bearing in the said pedestal, and a connecting-rod secured to the last-named axle-box and pivotally connected with the first-named axle-box" (lines 67-73).
- Bale-Band Tightener
- Patent for a bale-band tightener, illustrations included.
- Bale-Forming Press.
- Patent for a new and improved hay bale forming press that compresses hay or other similar material into a bale and secures it with wire or chords that are tied around the bale, including illustrations.