Breast Connector (open access)

Breast Connector

Patent for a breast connector for horses. Illustration included.
Date: March 14, 1905
Creator: Mills, Virgel H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Canning Furnace (open access)

Canning Furnace

Patent for a canning furnace. Illustration included.
Date: March 23, 1909
Creator: May, Callie C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Lister or Breaking Plow and Seed Planter (open access)

Combined Lister or Breaking Plow and Seed Planter

Patent for Combined Lister or Breaking Plow and Seed-Planter.
Date: March 31, 1903
Creator: Sylvester, C.T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Refining Crude Petroleum (open access)

Apparatus For Refining Crude Petroleum

Patent for an apparatus for refining crude petroleum. This invention seeks to process oil containing burned, scorched, or charred particles. Illustration included.
Date: March 15, 1904
Creator: O'Neall, James M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Envelop. (open access)

Envelop.

Patent for a new envelop that allows for "greater privacy and safety" (line 17) and "to be readily opened by the recipient" (line 19).
Date: March 26, 1901
Creator: Keller, John & Titsworth, Richard
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Cut-Off for Cisterns (open access)

Automatic Cut-Off for Cisterns

Patent for a automatic cutoff for cisterns which prevents the first muddy water coming down a rain spout from going into the cistern by sending it into a separate waste pipe.
Date: March 9, 1909
Creator: Estes, Robert Ephriam
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn Picker and Husker. (open access)

Corn Picker and Husker.

Patent for a corn picker and husker, "wherein the ears of corn are delivered directly from the picker-arms to husking-rolls." (lines 11-13)
Date: March 20, 1906
Creator: Hancock, Charles E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Boll Weevil Destroyer (open access)

Cotton Boll Weevil Destroyer

Patent for a cotton boll weevil destroyer. Illustration included.
Date: March 19, 1907
Creator: Bergmann, Bertha
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press Attachment (open access)

Baling Press Attachment

Patent for baling press attachment. Illustration included.
Date: March 17, 1908
Creator: Jackson, James H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boll Weevil Catcher (open access)

Boll Weevil Catcher

Patent for a boll weevil catcher. Illustration included.
Date: March 15, 1904
Creator: Ivy, Sanford V.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Air-Brake Coupling. (open access)

Automatic Air-Brake Coupling.

Patent for "coupling devices for connecting the air-brake hose of railway-cars" (lines 9-10) automatically, including illustrations.
Date: March 20, 1906
Creator: Simecek, Vaclav
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Buggy Tops (open access)

Attachment for Buggy Tops

Patent for an attachment for buggy tops. Illustration included.
Date: March 2, 1909
Creator: Fullerton, Phillip Y.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil or Other Insect Destroyer. (open access)

Boll-Weevil or Other Insect Destroyer.

Patent for improvement to the machine set forth in the patent granted to John S. Doak and Alexander G. Farrington on April, 1902, No. 696419. (Page 1, lines 12-14.) The improvements are to use “a pair of troughs connected to a truck and provided with upwardly-projecting wings on their outer edges, spring-arms attached to the truck and pressing normally against the wings and the outside parts of the troughs, spiral springs adjustably mounted on the truck and pressing against the spring-arms, and means for forcing insects from growing plants into the troughs.” (Page 3, lines 74-83.) Illustration is included.
Date: March 28, 1905
Creator: Doak, John S. & Farrington, Alexander G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Land Roller, Furrow Opener, And Marker (open access)

Combined Land Roller, Furrow Opener, And Marker

Patent for a device that combines the function of a land-roller, furrow opener, and marker. Illustration included.
Date: March 13, 1906
Creator: MacDonell, Allan
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Fire-Alarm. (open access)

Automatic Fire-Alarm.

Patent for the automatic fire alarm system relates to a fusing wire that reacts to any heat or fire by closing circuit inside of the battery resulting in sounding off the alarm, and thus, improving the fire-alarm system structure.
Date: March 15, 1904
Creator: Fred, Mason K.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History