Airship (open access)

Airship

Patent for a dirigible airship for aerial navigation, "to provide the balloon or gas bag with aeroplanes which serve to steady the balloon during the flight of the ship, and to increase the lifting power of the balloon when the ship is under motion, the arrangement being such as to enable said aeroplanes to be converted into a parachute, should the balloon or gas bag become deflated" (lines 20-28).
Date: January 17, 1911
Creator: Keller, James M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Railway-Tie and Rail-Clamp. (open access)

Combined Railway-Tie and Rail-Clamp.

Patent for a combined railway tie and rail clamp, which is made of metal rather than wood.
Date: January 3, 1911
Creator: Finley, Jefferson L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydrostatic Control for Pumps (open access)

Hydrostatic Control for Pumps

Patent for improvements in the hydrostatic control located in the pump. It is used as an automatic pressure governor.
Date: January 7, 1919
Creator: William M. Stephenson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fence Stay Machine (open access)

Fence Stay Machine

Patent for a machine coils the wire around the fence stay within one device.
Date: January 7, 1919
Creator: Lewis Alverson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Window and Roof Jack (open access)

Window and Roof Jack

Patent for a window and roof jack. Illustration included.
Date: January 3, 1911
Creator: Fry, Toy B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Kite. (open access)

Kite.

Patent for a new design of kite in which the frame is adjustable and able to form different shapes. Illustrations and instructions included.
Date: January 4, 1916
Creator: Exline, Marcus P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Violin. (open access)

Violin.

Patent for violin with special arrangement of two strings. The two strings produce similar tones when vibrated.
Date: January 30, 1917
Creator: Rice, John Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Attachments for Lathe Head-Stocks (open access)

Improvements in Attachments for Lathe Head-Stocks

Patent for an attachment for lathe-head stocks. It is "a device that may be readily adjustable to provide a backing... that may be gripped by the chucks of a jewelers or watch-makers lathe" (lines 26-29).
Date: January 9, 1912
Creator: De Long, Charles E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Type Writing Machine (open access)

Type Writing Machine

Patent for a type writing machine. Illustrations included.
Date: January 3, 1911
Creator: Ireland, Ward S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Type Writing Machine (open access)

Type Writing Machine

Patent for a type writing machines. Illustration included.
Date: January 3, 1911
Creator: Ireland, Ward S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Type Writing Machine (open access)

Type Writing Machine

Patent for a type writing machine. Illustrations included.
Date: January 3, 1911
Creator: Ireland, Ward S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Type Writing Machine (open access)

Type Writing Machine

Patent for a type writing machine. Illustrations included.
Date: January 3, 1911
Creator: Ireland, Ward S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Type Writing Machine (open access)

Type Writing Machine

Patent for a type writing machine. Illustrations included.
Date: January 3, 1911
Creator: Ireland, Ward S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Type Writing Machine (open access)

Type Writing Machine

Patent for a type writing machine. Illustration included.
Date: January 3, 1911
Creator: Ireland, Ward S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Apparatus for Collecting and Handling Lint (open access)

Improvements in Apparatus for Collecting and Handling Lint

Patent for improvements in apparatus for collecting and handling lint. This apparatus will more thoroughly collect and handle lint so that less lint winds up in the linter room, and can be thoroughly collected.
Date: January 2, 1919
Creator: Nolen, Robert Rufus
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transmission-Lock (open access)

Transmission-Lock

Patent for a mechanism to be added onto a motor vehicle transmission to prevent unwarranted action on the transmission.
Date: January 25, 1916
Creator: McDonald, James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transmission Gear Shifting Device. (open access)

Transmission Gear Shifting Device.

Patent for a new transmission gear shifting device will "provide means for shifting the transmission parts of an automobile or other motor driven vehicle, without employing the usual hand levers and appliances, and to do so by means of electrically controlled operating mechanisms in combination with certain component parts." (Lines 12-18) including illustrations.
Date: January 5, 1915
Creator: De Witt, G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner. (open access)

Hydrocarbon-Burner.

Patent for improvements in hydrocarbon-burners by providing “a burner constructed to cause a complete combustion, a more intense heat, and to obviate to a marked degree, the noise occasioned by the down draft and the combustion.” (Lines 11-15) Illustration is included.
Date: January 18, 1910
Creator: Rork, Clare M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gin (open access)

Gin

Patent for cotton gin
Date: January 2, 1917
Creator: Henry, Nelson B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Radiator Supporting Frame (open access)

Radiator Supporting Frame

Patent for support structure for car radiators.
Date: January 23, 1917
Creator: Neveu, Frank A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Measuring-Tool (open access)

Measuring-Tool

Patent for a measuring tool which uses a bevel and square to provide measurements (like a try-square). It also incorporates an adjustable blade and a protractor.
Date: January 14, 1919
Creator: Greene, Saunders T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Map Cabinet (open access)

Map Cabinet

Patent for a storage device designed to store maps, blueprints, artworks, and other flat objects.
Date: January 12, 1917
Creator: Fanning, Samuel H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Patent Awning (open access)

Patent Awning

Patent for awning.
Date: January 16, 1917
Creator: Foord, Charles L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Post Hole Digger (open access)

Post Hole Digger

Patent for machine that digs holes for posts for construction.
Date: January 30, 1917
Creator: Holsomback, Lee N.
System: The Portal to Texas History