39 Matching Results

Search Results

Advanced search parameters have been applied.
in place name: "United States - Texas - Harris County - Houston"  
Results: 1 - 24 next

Apparatus for Cooking Cotton-Seed Meal.

Description: Patent for an apparatus for cooking cotton-seed meal meant to get the maximum amount of oil for the meal used and puts moisture into dry meal and evaporates excess moisture in meal. Meal is continuously supplied through the machine and water-bath. The steam does not burn or harm the meal.
Date: August 27, 1895
Creator: Dabney, Benjamin & Yopp, William I.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-458A

Description: 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: Whether or not an interest owned by the Federal Land Bank of Houston, in production of oil, is subject to the production tax provided for the Article 7057a, V.C.S. and the regulation pipe line tax provided for by Article 6032, V.C.S.
Date: June 27, 1958
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oil-Burner.

Description: Patent for improved design and function in oil burners, specifically on fuel nozzle and needle valve, allowing for greater control of gas that flows through to create combustion.
Date: January 27, 1914
Creator: Butler, Louis
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Well-Strainer

Description: Patent for a well strainer with a plurality of little strainers over each intake pipe in a well.
Date: July 27, 1909
Creator: Brown, Arthur Melville & Hunter, Frank
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Well-Screen.

Description: Patent for improvements in the construction of well-screens in order to increase efficiency and prevent clogs using a "cheap and durable construction" (lines 11-12) that includes illustrations and a description.
Date: May 27, 1913
Creator: Layne, Mahlon, E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Internal Combustion Engine.

Description: Patent for improvements to the class of explosive engine for a motor vehicle and internal gas combustion engine, including illustrations.
Date: March 27, 1917
Creator: Murray, Harry A.; Dorman, William T. & Pollard, Claude
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Vapor-Burners.

Description: Patent for, "an improved construction and arrangement of vapor-burner, by which the same is readily lighted, adjusted to a larger or smaller flame, or extinguished" (lines 13-17). Illustration included.
Date: February 27, 1877
Creator: Sawyer, Frederick A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Spark-Conductors for Railroad-Trains.

Description: Patent for improvement in spark-conductors for railroad trains by using a “horizontal flue in sections and use “other devices to engage and disengage the sections, where by to arrest and extinguish sparks and conduct the smoke, ashes, and cinders to the rear.” (Lines 16-20) Illustration is included.
Date: April 27, 1869
Creator: Wright, Reuben
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Trap.

Description: Patent for a small animal trap that prevents injury to the animal. When the animals step on the pedal inside the enclosure, a door is automatically dropped. The animal is trapped inside the enclosure.
Date: June 27, 1922
Creator: Dinkins, Earl T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Track-Laying Machine

Description: Patent for Tracking Laying machine.The combination of train of cars, sectional tramway, and extending along the sides of the car gives means for disconnecting the connection. The fore-mentioned applications improves tack laying machines.
Date: May 27, 1913
Creator: Simpson, Charles, M. & Smith, Howard F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Journal-Box

Description: Patent for "improvements in journal boxes, the object of my improvement being to provide simple and effective means for applying the lubricant, retaining it always within reach of the wearing surfaces, and conveying it over all of the surface which is subject to frictional content" (lines 8-14).
Date: December 27, 1892
Creator: Sneddon, William
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hydrocarbon-Burner.

Description: Patent for improvements in hydrocarbon burners that is inexpensive and can take refined oil or heavy crude oil and make it useable as fuel.
Date: July 27, 1920
Creator: St. Wrba, Joseph J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Spark-Plug

Description: Patent for a spark plug that has a cooling method for keeping the porcelain section from cracking and a better way of keeping it clean.
Date: June 27, 1911
Creator: Harpst, Fred E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Press

Description: Patent for a press that is related to "letter or book presses" and it has "a simple and comparatively inexpensive construction, and which shall at the same time be effective and strong and convenient for use" (p. 2).
Date: August 27, 1889
Creator: Kay, William V.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Holster

Description: Patent for a holster. This invention is designed for attachment to a belt or clothing. Illustration included.
Date: November 27, 1906
Creator: Townsend, Joseph W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Back to Top of Screen