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Electric Release Mechanism (open access)

Electric Release Mechanism

Patent for an electric release mechanism. This invention is designed to allow the main signal to sound an alarm by the fire telegraph to open doors restraining horses. Illustration included.
Date: August 28, 1906
Creator: Ochs, Jack
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drill (open access)

Drill

Patent for a drill. Illustration included.
Date: August 28, 1906
Creator: Decker, Harry R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rein-Holder For Cultivators (open access)

Rein-Holder For Cultivators

Patent for a rein-holder for field cultivation.
Date: August 28, 1900
Creator: Stockton, James Silas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Boring-Drill. (open access)

Rotary Boring-Drill.

Patent for a rotary boring-drill that can easily be assembled or disassembled without the aid of a special tool, is equipped with removable cutters, has clearance between the cutters to prevent material becoming packed around them, and is arranged to mix material disintegrated by the cutters into a mud.
Date: August 28, 1917
Creator: Hughes, Howard R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fence-Post Extractor. (open access)

Fence-Post Extractor.

Patent for a fence-post extractor that is used by placing the extractor alongside the fence-post and extracting it in a vertical line including illustrations.
Date: August 28, 1900
Creator: Morgenthaler, Frank
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fly Fan or Brush. (open access)

Fly Fan or Brush.

Patent for a new and improved fly fan or brush. This design consists "[i]n an automatic fly fan or brush, a suitable hollow post terminating at its upper end in a casing, a crank-shaft and conical pulley located therein, and gearing connecting the crank-shaft with the pulley-shaft, in combination with a cord connected to the pulley and to a rubber band or cord passing around a pulley at the base of the post, said rubber cord or band at one end being connected thereto, a pitman-rod connecting the crank-shaft with the arm carrying the fan or brush" (lines 84-94).
Date: August 28, 1888
Creator: Rembert, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pipe-Clamp. (open access)

Pipe-Clamp.

Patent for "a new and useful pipe clamp" (line 5), including illustration and instructions.
Date: August 28, 1900
Creator: Stewart, Warren Walter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect Destroying Apparatus. (open access)

Insect Destroying Apparatus.

Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design "relates to apparatus . . . in which a vessel having an open bottom, but closed top and sides, and containing a furnace for burning obnoxious substances, is projected into or made to form a close joint with the ground, and which has a fan or pump combined with it that causes the fumes from the furnace to enter the ant-holes in the ground. [They] have been . . . attended with so many disadvantages . . . [t]he object of [the] invention is to remove these defects . . . [it] shall be efficient, durable, and labor-saving" (lines 8-25).
Date: August 28, 1883
Creator: Matthews, James M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Horse-Power (open access)

Horse-Power

Patent for "a machine adapted for operation from an auxiliary motor actuated by horse or animal power, and has for its object to provide a simple, efficient, and durable machine of this character by or from which a cotton-gin, agrist or saw mill, or other machinery may be driven" (lines 7-13).
Date: August 28, 1888
Creator: Sampson, Allen
System: The Portal to Texas History
Account-Book. (open access)

Account-Book.

Patent for improvements in account books to "facilitate the identification of pass books and to expedite the keeping of accounts by enabling the cashier, or bookkeeper, or other clerk concerned, to readily identify the book of the depositor or other owner and thereby more readily post the entries from one book to another in keeping accounts" (lines 16-22); includes illustration.
Date: August 28, 1917
Creator: Exline, Marcus, P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drill (open access)

Drill

Patent for a drill. Illustrations included.
Date: August 28, 1906
Creator: Decker, Harry R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drill (open access)

Drill

Patent for a improvement for Drills and its usefulness.
Date: August 28, 1906
Creator: Decker, Harry R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dental or Surgical Chair. (open access)

Dental or Surgical Chair.

Patent for a dental or surgical chair that is adjustable, light and portable. The chair can be adjusted "without the employment of a raising device using fluid or any sub-basal mechanism" (lines 57-59), and can be adjusted with little effort. The chair's decent can be monitored. It can be easily assembled and disassembled for transport.
Date: August 28, 1894
Creator: Stiles, Edmund Pease
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Corn and Cotton Planter (open access)

Combined Corn and Cotton Planter

Patent for an improvement in the construction and design of combined cotton and corn planters.
Date: August 28, 1888
Creator: Schofield, James Drommond
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cord Wood Saw Cradle (open access)

Cord Wood Saw Cradle

Patent for cord wood saw cradle. Illustration included.
Date: August 28, 1906
Creator: Taylor, Lawrence S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brake Mechanism For Hand Cars (open access)

Brake Mechanism For Hand Cars

Patent for a brake mechanism for rail hand cars.Illustration included.
Date: August 28, 1906
Creator: Allison, Andrew J.
System: The Portal to Texas History