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Mop Holder (open access)

Mop Holder

Patent for an improved mop holder that will hold the mop head and the handle.
Date: February 18, 1902
Creator: Anderson, Isaac Nerie
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling - Press. (open access)

Baling - Press.

Patent for a baling press, “an improvement in that class of automatic presses adapted for baling hay, cotton, excelsior and similar materials.” (lines 8-10) including illustrations.
Date: October 21, 1902
Creator: Curry, Monroe & Roberts, William P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Rake. (open access)

Stalk-Rake.

Patent for new stalk rake design, “especially applicable as a rake for gathering corn or cotton stalks from the ground preparatory to plowing the same or otherwise fitting it for use”, (lines 13-17) including illustrations.
Date: July 15, 1902
Creator: Clark, Joesph Lauson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Headlight. (open access)

Headlight.

Patent for Locomotive-headlights, "and has for its principal object to so construct the lamp and its casing as to permit of the lighting or adjusting the lamp-blaze from the back of the headlight box…” (lines 8-13) including illustrations.
Date: December 2, 1902
Creator: Stanton, James Robertson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chain Jack. (open access)

Chain Jack.

Patent for new and useful improvements in chain-jacks. "This invention aims to provide a chain-jack for lifting the boxes of axles, so that the bearings or brasses therefor can be readily replaced, and is designed especially for use in cases of hot boxes on railway-cars" (line 11-15).
Date: February 18, 1902
Creator: Phillips, Henry S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene Gas Generator. (open access)

Acetylene Gas Generator.

Patent for a acetylene gas generator which combines "both a generator and a gasometer the parts of which are so arranged as to render the machine efficient and entirely automatic in action, as well as inexpensive of production." (lines 16-20) including illustrations.
Date: October 14, 1902
Creator: Reynolds, Pearl P. & Reynolds, Jerry J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Angle-Bending Machine (open access)

Angle-Bending Machine

Patent for angle-bending machine.
Date: December 16, 1902
Creator: Dillon, Ivy Hancock
System: The Portal to Texas History
Conveyer. (open access)

Conveyer.

Patent for a new conveyer design “which is particularly adapted to load or unload railroad-car wheels or other heavy material on and of cars” (Lines 13-15) including illustrations.
Date: July 22, 1902
Creator: St. James, Henry Livingston
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coach-Equalizing Suspender. (open access)

Coach-Equalizing Suspender.

Patent for a coach-equalizing suspender.
Date: March 4, 1902
Creator: Best, William Newton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Alarm Attachment for Electric Bells. (open access)

Alarm Attachment for Electric Bells.

Patent for "an Alarm Attachment for Electric Bells." "The object in view is the provision of means for facilitating the change of an ordinary door-bell into a continuously-ringing alarm apparatus, while leaving the mechanism free to be changed back into its former operative condition as a door-bell."(Lines 10-15) Including illustrations and instructions.
Date: June 30, 1902
Creator: Blakeney, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Easel (open access)

Easel

Patent for an adjustable easel.
Date: March 11, 1902
Creator: Mueller, Carl P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Antifriction Decive for Sucker-rods and Couplings (open access)

Antifriction Decive for Sucker-rods and Couplings

Patent for an improved method of connecting sucker-rods, couplings, or ropes so as to minimize wear and extend the life of the materials, with illustrations.
Date: November 4, 1902
Creator: Black, William L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compress and Packer (open access)

Compress and Packer

Patent for a device that provides improvements in machines for compressing, packing, and baling cotton, hay, straw, and the like; and the object is to provide a machine of this character operating automatically to form the bat as the material is received from the gin or condenser and folding the bat back and forth in even layers in the press, forming a complete and symmetrical bale (lines 9-17) Illustrations are included.
Date: June 10, 1902
Creator: Griffin, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ore-Conveying Surface for Electrical Separators. (open access)

Ore-Conveying Surface for Electrical Separators.

Patent for “ore-conveying surface for electrical separators, and particularly to a structure adapted for use with static electricity.” (lines 11-14) including illustrations.
Date: November 25, 1902
Creator: Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Appliance for Protecting Oil-Wells from Fires. (open access)

Appliance for Protecting Oil-Wells from Fires.

Patent for an appliance for protecting oil-wells from fires. As stated within the patent, "this invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in appliances for protecting oil-wells from fires; and to this end it consists of the novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more specifically described in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the claims herein appended" (Lines 9-16).
Date: March 11, 1902
Creator: Cochran, James M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie. (open access)

Bale-Tie.

Patent for "a bale-tie which may with readiness and case be locked in position upon a bale and which will be positive in operation and thoroughly efiective for the purpose designed"(lines 8-12)
Date: October 28, 1902
Creator: Griggs, James Wesley
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie. (open access)

Bale-Tie.

Patent for improvements in bale-ties is to produce a “buckle-plate having a middle portion with an opening therein, arms at each end separated from the middle portion by spaces open at one side, a longitudinal entering-passage connecting the opening with one of said spaces, and a hoop the free ends of which are looped down through said opening and up through the spaces, resting upon the arms under the standing part of the hoop.” (Lines 74-83) Illustration is included.
Date: July 8, 1902
Creator: Johnson, William T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Band Fastening (open access)

Bale-Band Fastening

Patent for bale bend fastening that includes a winding-key engaging the lapped ends of a bale-band and a lock for retaining the winding key against the reverse movement after the latter has been turned to wind the connected ends of the band for the purpose of taking up the slack in the latter (Lines 8-15)
Date: November 11, 1902
Creator: Campbell, Douglas M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
AIR-BREAK SIGNALING AND RELEASEING DEVICE. (open access)

AIR-BREAK SIGNALING AND RELEASEING DEVICE.

Patent for an improvement in air-brake release-valve in trains to signal train crews and release the breaks if they become set for any reason, or stuck, while the train is moving, including descriptions of the release valve and illustrations.
Date: November 4, 1902
Creator: Dukesmith, Frank H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap (open access)

Animal-Trap

Patent for an animal trap with a unique construction. It can be used for many animals but is specially made for salamanders or other burrowing type animals.
Date: September 9, 1902
Creator: Hetherington, Sam
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Poke. (open access)

Animal-Poke.

Patent for improvements in animal-poke by providing a device which is arranged for convenient application to an animal, so as not to interfere with the grazing and drinking thereof, and will effectually prevent the animal from destroying fences and also from pushing and fighting other stock. (Lines 9-15) Illustration is included.
Date: July 1, 1902
Creator: Barnes, John I.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cold-Tire-Shrinking-Machine (open access)

Cold-Tire-Shrinking-Machine

Patent for a device that accomplishes cold-tire shrinking, in order to assure a snug tire fit onto any size cart wheel.
Date: July 1, 1902
Creator: House, Samuel N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Antifriction-Device-For-Sucker-Rods. (open access)

Antifriction-Device-For-Sucker-Rods.

Patent for an antifriction device designed to protect the rod (sucker rod), rope, or coupler from wear. A sucker rod joins the components of a piston pump in an oil well.
Date: November 4, 1902
Creator: Black, William Leslie
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard. (open access)

Cattle-Guard.

Patent for a cattle-guard mounted on cross-ties and braces with exposed wires to permit identification of damaged wires and to be readily repaired without disturbing the remaining wires, which lists the parts for construction and illustration.
Date: May 13, 1902
Creator: Meador, Edgar T.
System: The Portal to Texas History