Air-Craft Propeller (open access)

Air-Craft Propeller

Patent for an air craft propeller that reduces air resistance.
Date: October 8, 1912
Creator: Koiw, Julius
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Impregnating Liquids with Gases. (open access)

Apparatus for Impregnating Liquids with Gases.

Patent for a new and improved apparatus for impregnating liquids with gases. This design "relates to apparatus for impregnating water or other suitable liquid with the fumes emanating from the consumption of a combustible composition of matter, such as sulphur, which when ignited emits a gas containing suitable medicinal qualities" (lines 14-19). It consists in "the closed reservoir for containing the liquid, having windows upon opposite walls thereof, of the transverse beam having its ends supported in said windows, the sulphur-containing vessel . . . the man-hole, the air-hole, and cocks" (lines 4-10).
Date: October 8, 1889
Creator: Radam, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment dated October 8, 1918 (open access)

Cultivator Attachment dated October 8, 1918

Patent for cutting cotton and maintaining it at a certain height. This can be mounted to different cultivators without any need of change or alteration.
Date: October 8, 1918
Creator: Fletcher W. Vaughn
System: The Portal to Texas History
Irrigation Device. (open access)

Irrigation Device.

Patent for a new and improved irrigation device consisting of a swivel joint that can be quickly moved to start or stop the flow of water. The device is designed to be water tight and easily manipulated.
Date: October 8, 1918
Creator: Howard, Charles Samuel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wall Construction (open access)

Wall Construction

Patent for type of wall construction that have plastic slabs (spacers) that are superimposed and secured together by concealed mortar joints.
Date: October 8, 1918
Creator: Sawyer, Frank McM.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Kitchen-Sink (open access)

Kitchen-Sink

Patent for a kitchen sink. Illustrations included.
Date: October 8, 1912
Creator: Ogle, Thomas Scott & Polansky, Robert F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churns. (open access)

Improvement in Churns.

Patent for improvement in churns by using an oblong box with a diamond-shaped dash fixed in the box. The churning is done by rapidly swing the box back and forth until butter is obtained. Illustration is included.
Date: October 8, 1872
Creator: Cottingham, Gideon W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Chopper

Patent for an improved Cotton Chopper. The device is horse drawn with adjustable wheels, plows and drivers seat (pg 2). Illustration Included.
Date: October 8, 1872
Creator: Matthews, Ebenezer T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hot-Air, Steam, and Water-Gauge. (open access)

Improvement in Hot-Air, Steam, and Water-Gauge.

Patent for improvements in hot air, harmonic steam, and water gauges: "In this invention several tubes pass through the boiler, some under and some above the water, through which currents of air are induced by the heat of the water or steam surrounding them" (lines 8-9).
Date: October 8, 1867
Creator: Walker, James C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydrant (open access)

Hydrant

Patent for a hydrant. Illustrations included.
Date: October 8, 1912
Creator: Smith, Ollie F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Paper-Guide (open access)

Paper-Guide

Patent for a paper guide for paper and carbon paper for typewriters.
Date: October 8, 1912
Creator: Davis, Alice Urilla
System: The Portal to Texas History
Knockdown Tank or Cistern (open access)

Knockdown Tank or Cistern

Patent for the construction of vessels to hold water for the purpose of lessening "the labor in handling and hauling them and to reduce the cost of shipping" (lines 16-17).
Date: October 8, 1898
Creator: Harry, Hugh W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Paper-Binder (open access)

Paper-Binder

Patent for a binder for papers, bills, etc. Illustrations included.
Date: October 8, 1912
Creator: Byron, James A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gravity Dump Car (open access)

Gravity Dump Car

Patent for gravity dump-car cheaper in cost and easy in construction and operation.
Date: October 8, 1901
Creator: Swindall, S. M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grain-Scourer. (open access)

Grain-Scourer.

Patent for invention and improvements in grain-scourers such as the addition of a pulley for driving the device.
Date: October 8, 1901
Creator: McLellan, Frederick A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fire-Kindling Cartridge. (open access)

Fire-Kindling Cartridge.

Patent for an improved fire-kindling cartridge which "consists, essentially, in a cartridge made in two sections, each composed of coiled wire, with their outer end tapering or contracted, forming a conical point, a sleeve of coiled wire with which the inner ends of said sections engage, and a filling of asbestos or other material." (Lines 25-31) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 8, 1895
Creator: Flatau, Louis Spencer
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Tooth-Brush (open access)

Rotary Tooth-Brush

Patent for a crank powered rotary toothbrush. Designed with the purpose of easily cleaning teeth with a simple automatic mechanism, with added projection via a shield around the brush for protecting gums and cheeks from being scraped by the brush.
Date: October 8, 1918
Creator: Abel, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed Planter (open access)

Seed Planter

Patent for a seed-planter designed primarily for corn, but can be used with other seeds. The primary mechanical construction consists of a wheel.
Date: October 8, 1901
Creator: Everhart, Martin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rein-Holder. (open access)

Rein-Holder.

Patent for a device that holds reins at the front of a carriage.
Date: October 8, 1901
Creator: Palm, George William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Folding Luggage-Carrier (open access)

Folding Luggage-Carrier

Patent for improvements on rear folding luggage-carriers for motor cars.
Date: October 8, 1918
Creator: Kirkpatrick, Monroe C. & Dobbs, Charles S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fly Trap. (open access)

Fly Trap.

Patent for improvements in flytraps that traps flies in cage. includes illustration.
Date: October 8, 1901
Creator: Manning, James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Film-Mask for Cameras (open access)

Film-Mask for Cameras

Patent for adjustable (improved) mask plate for different film widths (sizes) for cameras.
Date: October 8, 1918
Creator: Burdette, Richard S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Expansible Pulley (open access)

Expansible Pulley

Patent for "expansible pulleys, or pulleys of that character or description which may be expanded or contracted, so as to increase or decrease the circumference thereof." (Lines 15-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 8, 1895
Creator: Kennerly, Samuel J. & Cox, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fence-Wire Stretcher. (open access)

Fence-Wire Stretcher.

Patent for an efficient, compact, and durable fence-wire stretcher that works on any size fence-post. It is an "easily and quickly applied means for clamping and drawing together the ends of a broken fence-wire" (lines 14-16).
Date: October 8, 1895
Creator: Day, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History