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Cattle Guard
Patent for a cattle guard. This cattle guard is a useful improvement in use on railway-tracks.
Date:
September 15, 1903
Creator:
Frownfelter, George C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Antifriction-Bearing.
Patent for a new and useful improvements in anti-friction bearings.
Date:
April 5, 1898
Creator:
Hobron, Charles B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Stone.
Patent for a process of manufacturing artificial stone in which “it will not cracked by reason of exposure and which may be readily engraved, impressed or otherwise marked to form letters, characters, emblems and etc….” (Lines 16-20). No illustration.
Date:
August 28, 1900
Creator:
Johnson, Jesse W. & Hendrix, Albert S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Air-Brake Coupling.
Patent for "a new and useful improvements in automatic air-brake couplers to enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, the invention also relates to improvements in automatic air-brake couplings in cars". (lines 5-10) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 17, 1900
Creator:
Cary, Lewis C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Closet
Patent for a dry closet. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 2, 1912
Creator:
Crow, Levi H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compound Implement.
Patent for a compound tool for building and repairing fences, which combines a post hole digger and a wire stretcher.
Date:
January 21, 1908
Creator:
Haynes, James H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Calcining Plaster
This patent is for an apparatus for calcining plaster of any kind. Or an apparatus that keeps clean the inner surface of a revoluble drum for ventilating the drum during the calcining operation. The apparatus also provides for easily removing the material after the completion of the cooking operation (Lawrence, 1902).
Date:
March 12, 1902
Creator:
Lawwrence, Ambrose
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap
Patent for an animal trap. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 25, 1907
Creator:
Nance, Joseph J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition for Tanning
Patent for new and useful improvements in compounds for tanning, using water, four gallons, fluid extract of phytolacca or common poke root, quarter of an ounce, gum gambier, four pounds, and alum, one pound.
Date:
March 9, 1909
Creator:
Burrows, Ira I
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bank Register and Remittance Sheet
Patent for a bank register and remittance sheet. Illustration included.
Date:
August 23, 1904
Creator:
Exline, Marcus P. & Bourke, Edmund
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Poke
Patent for an animal poke worn on the head of cattle to prevent jumping outside the field which allows the cow to graze freely while wearing the poke.
Date:
July 16, 1907
Creator:
Seay, Mark Machel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Non-Explosive Oil-Container.
Patent for a protective screen of refractory filaments for "containers holding inflammable, explosive fluids such as naphtha, benzin, gasolene, etc." (lines 10-12)
Date:
December 12, 1911
Creator:
Ziller, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Treating Timber.
Patent for an invention to aid in the treatment of treating timber. The invention is said to "provide a simple, inexpensive, durable, and efficient apparatus by means of which railroad cross-ties, fence-posts, and the like may be expeditiously and economically treated by immersion in a bath of some preserving liquid" (lines 16-22) including illustrations.
Date:
July 11, 1905
Creator:
Gerhard, Philip H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Advertising Street Car Sign
Patent for an advertisement sign located on the top of street cars. Illustration included.
Date:
February 11, 1908
Creator:
King, Alphonse
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Popper
Patent for a corn popper used for popping corn and general cooking. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 25, 1907
Creator:
Young, G. B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Airship
Patent for a dirigible airship. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 3, 1911
Creator:
Bradford, William J. D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Tight Heating-Stove
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in air tight heating stoves, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1898
Creator:
Wilson, John Wesley & Wilson, William Wharton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Trousers Stretchers And Coat Hanger
Patent for a combined trousers stretcher and coat hanger. Illustration included.
Date:
September 11, 1906
Creator:
Bedinger, Singleton Berry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Angle-Bending Machine
Patent for angle-bending machine.
Date:
December 16, 1902
Creator:
Dillon, Ivy Hancock
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Tooth.
Patent for a new and useful artificial tooth for "supplying missing teeth or crowning roots" (line 10 -11).
Date:
January 11, 1898
Creator:
Carroll, Houston Monroe
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gage for Plows.
Patent for a new type of gage for a running plow, that can be adjusted for a specific depth
Date:
December 17, 1901
Creator:
Wilson, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Photographic-Printing Device.
Patent for a new photographic-printing device featuring an improved apparatus, as well as new exposure and printing capabilities, including illustrations.
Date:
February 20, 1906
Creator:
Brown, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History