Combined Tie-Plate and Rail Anticreeper (open access)

Combined Tie-Plate and Rail Anticreeper

Patent for a railroad tie plate designed to remained locked to the base of the rail and to prevent dislocation of the base. Illustrations included.
Date: March 29, 1910
Creator: Clarke, Marcus S. & Adreon, Edward L., Jr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Making Carbureted Hydrogen Gas. (open access)

Apparatus for Making Carbureted Hydrogen Gas.

Patent for improved apparatus for manufacturing carbureted gas at small cost for illuminating and general heating and power purposes.
Date: March 5, 1912
Creator: Herndon, Joseph R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Expressing the Fluids Out of Paraffin Compositions and Separating the Scale Therefrom (open access)

Apparatus for Expressing the Fluids Out of Paraffin Compositions and Separating the Scale Therefrom

Patent for an apparatus for expressing the fluids out of paraffin compositions and separating the scale therefrom. Illustrations included.
Date: March 4, 1913
Creator: Hansen, Julius
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane (open access)

Aeroplane

Patent for an improvement to aeroplanes which includes movable horizontal and vertical planes (or curtains).
Date: February 25, 1911
Creator: Blewett, Baxter W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Shade and Current Bracket Support and Shade-Guide. (open access)

Combined Shade and Current Bracket Support and Shade-Guide.

Patent for a combined shade and curtain bracket support and shade guide, which makes shades roll up straight rather than catching on edges and tearing.
Date: March 8, 1910
Creator: Hoxworth, Edwin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ax Handle (open access)

Ax Handle

Patent for an ax handle. The handle is a tubular handle which also includes hingedly connected part fitting into the eye of the ax head. Illustration included.
Date: March 4, 1913
Creator: Burks, William Edward
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Advertising-Shield for Vehicle-Wheels (open access)

Advertising-Shield for Vehicle-Wheels

Patent for a shield for vehicle wheels that can be used for advertising.
Date: March 4, 1913
Creator: Blackshear, Robert King
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compound for Destroying Boll-Weevil. (open access)

Compound for Destroying Boll-Weevil.

Patent for a compound for destroying Boll Weevils, consisting of Sulfur, Pine Tar, Asafetida, Pulverized Bluestone, Beaumont Oil, Extract of Tobacco, and a thick adhesive oil.
Date: March 21, 1911
Creator: Armentrout, Richard B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Alarm Device (open access)

Alarm Device

Patent for an alarm device that is mounted on a house to warn of approaching wind storms.
Date: March 28, 1911
Creator: Stamps, William P. & Phillips, William R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Removing Sand or Other Fine Particles From Cotton or Other Material (open access)

Apparatus for Removing Sand or Other Fine Particles From Cotton or Other Material

Patent for a device to remove foreign particles during the processing of cotton. Illustration included.
Date: March 22, 1910
Creator: Cumpston, Frederick Bennard
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Molding Concrete Walls (open access)

Apparatus for Molding Concrete Walls

Patent for an apparatus for molding concrete walls which is easy to assemble and move around and can be used for different size and shape walls.
Date: March 15, 1910
Creator: Cross, George F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Making and Laying Continuous Concrete Pipe (open access)

Apparatus for Making and Laying Continuous Concrete Pipe

Patent for a motorized construction vehicle which has a cement mixer and a trench digger on it that allows for the continuous laying of concrete pipes for irrigation.
Date: March 22, 1910
Creator: Wiggins, John L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aerating-Churn. (open access)

Aerating-Churn.

Patent for an improved churn for aerating cream by forcing air down a pipe into the churn.
Date: March 4, 1913
Creator: Wailes, William S. H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Use in Obtaining Petroleum Products (open access)

Apparatus for Use in Obtaining Petroleum Products

Patent for an apparatus for use in obtaining petroleum products. Illustrations included.
Date: March 8, 1910
Creator: Frasch, Herman
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Amusement Device (open access)

Amusement Device

Patent for an amusement device. This invention uses a ballast and simulates the appearance and motion of a floating ship under way. Illustrations included.
Date: March 28, 1911
Creator: Corneliussen, Ivar
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Manufacturing Door Plates or Signs (open access)

Apparatus for Manufacturing Door Plates or Signs

Patent for a molding and printing device for forming hollow backed signs and name plates.
Date: March 8, 1910
Creator: Simmang, Charles Jr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Antikicking Device for Automobiles. (open access)

Antikicking Device for Automobiles.

Patent for a device that catches the crank of hand crank automobiles which were typical of the early 1900s in the United States of America. The invention addresses controlling the motion of the crank and preventing the crank from causing injury.
Date: March 20, 1917
Creator: Miller, Herman P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin. (open access)

Cotton-Gin.

Patent for improvements to Cotton-Gins' brush cylinders that includes "a longitudinal tubular member having a brush cylinder cooperating therewith and which serves as a conduit for the passage of the lint cotton from the gin and also as a connecting means for the legs of the gin frame and as an end outlet for the gin, and leaving the rear of the latter unobstructed and freely accessible" (lines 13-21), including illustrations and instructions.
Date: March 3, 1914
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
APPARATUS FOR CONTINUOUSLY DISTILLING CRUDE OIL AND OTHER SUBSTANCES (open access)

APPARATUS FOR CONTINUOUSLY DISTILLING CRUDE OIL AND OTHER SUBSTANCES

Patent for promoting the distillation of crude oil and other substances, separating the different parts of oil and impurities based on their weight.
Date: March 3, 1914
Creator: Forward, Chauncey B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Centrifugal Suction Fan (open access)

Centrifugal Suction Fan

Patent for improvements made towards in suction fans that are found in cotton picking machines to improve efficiency. The primary improvements detailed in the patent describe and illustrate an improved design of the casing inside the fan to prevent damage to the cotton or the seed once they are sucked into the fan, among other design improvements.
Date: March 10, 1914
Creator: Meier, John & Miller, T. S., Jr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Burning Unburnt Gas Products. (open access)

Apparatus for Burning Unburnt Gas Products.

Patent for a new "method for burning all of the products usually known as "waste products" and to eliminate the fumes and poisonous vapors." (lines 27-30) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 23, 1915
Creator: Jansen, Andrew
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Compressing Apparatus. (open access)

Air-Compressing Apparatus.

Patent for a new air compressing apparatus which employs two kinds of tanks called high pressure containers and low pressure containers charged by means of an air compressing engine.
Date: March 16, 1915
Creator: Gebhardt, William Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Inductance Device for Wireless Electrical Signaling (open access)

Inductance Device for Wireless Electrical Signaling

Patent for device to "receive messages transmitted in the form of dots, dashes or spoken words through space" (lines 16-17)
Date: March 30, 1915
Creator: Lorenz, Charley O.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Auto power transmitting jack (open access)

Auto power transmitting jack

Patent for auto power transmitting jack and it uses.
Date: March 29, 1915
Creator: Adolf F. Johnson, of El Campo, Texas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History