Aeroplane (open access)

Aeroplane

Patent for an aeroplane. Illustrations included.
Date: February 11, 1913
Creator: Goodrich, Luman L., Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Window Structure (open access)

Window Structure

Patent for a window structure. This invention includes upper and lower sash frames. Illustrations included.
Date: February 11, 1913
Creator: Hatzfield, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Linotype and Intertype (open access)

Linotype and Intertype

Patent for automatic stopping of matrices.
Date: February 11, 1919
Creator: Sundstrom, Herman T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well Drilling Bit (open access)

Well Drilling Bit

Patent for a well drilling bit. Illustration included.
Date: February 11, 1913
Creator: Byron, Marcus A. & English, Harry White
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ink Fountain (open access)

Ink Fountain

Patent for an ink fountain. This invention is an improvement for the feeding of ink to platen presses. Illustration included.
Date: February 11, 1913
Creator: Raymond, Charles H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Station-Indicator. (open access)

Station-Indicator.

Patent for an automatic station indicator for railway coaches.
Date: February 11, 1919
Creator: Large, WIlliam A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Still. (open access)

Still.

Patent for a still designed to refine crude petroleum and extract lighter elements, including illustrations.
Date: February 11, 1919
Creator: Gallsworthy, Benjamin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring Wheel (open access)

Spring Wheel

Patent for a spring wheel. This invention is for vehicle wheels. It is designed to be adapted as a form of shocks.
Date: February 11, 1913
Creator: Mathiesen, Marius
System: The Portal to Texas History
Register and Change-Returner (open access)

Register and Change-Returner

Patent for a fare collecting machine that also returns change.
Date: February 11, 1913
Creator: Matthews, Louis T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway Joint (open access)

Railway Joint

Patent for a railway joint. This invention consists "of a rail joint which is provided with a novel locking means whereby the fish plates will be held in engagement with the meeting ends of a pair of rails preventing any undesired disconnection of the latter" (lines 12-16). Illustrations included.
Date: February 11, 1913
Creator: Cole, Henry J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Race-Track (open access)

Race-Track

Patent for a dog race track where an artificial animal is chased by the dogs which then disappears underground at the end of its cable.
Date: February 11, 1913
Creator: Everett, Percy
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nutcracker (open access)

Nutcracker

Patent for a nutcracker. Illustrations included.
Date: February 11, 1913
Creator: Harris, Irvin F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Portable Blacking Kit. (open access)

Portable Blacking Kit.

Patent for a small affordable and portable space that "travelers, soldiers, or other parties" can carry a shoe shining kit in. The box can carry "blacking brushes, cloth and the usual articles carried in a kit of this kind".
Date: February 11, 1919
Creator: Reid, Chauncey S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper. (open access)

Cotton Chopper.

Patent for cotton chopper that frees the plants from the "weeds and the soil thereabout cultivated in but a single operation" (lines 14-16).
Date: February 11, 1919
Creator: Goodman, William T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Setting Tool for Brads &c (open access)

Setting Tool for Brads &c

Patent for a setting tool for brads that allows them to be easily placed in position.
Date: February 11, 1913
Creator: Price, Thomas Martin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Impregnator (open access)

Impregnator

Patent for an impregnator for mares.
Date: February 11, 1913
Creator: Curlee, Andrew J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Implement for Cutting and Handling Prickly-Pear (open access)

Implement for Cutting and Handling Prickly-Pear

Patent for an implement for cutting and handling prickly pear for use in clearing land.
Date: February 11, 1913
Creator: Brown, Royal H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Differential (open access)

Differential

Patent for improvements in motor vehicle differentials by connecting axle sections to a worm gear.
Date: February 11, 1919
Creator: Brown, Charles Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Alarm System (open access)

Electric Alarm System

Patent for an electric alarm system for triggering fire alarms.
Date: February 11, 1913
Creator: Weaver, Allison U. & Weaver, Spencer E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dipping-Tank for Lumber (open access)

Dipping-Tank for Lumber

Patent for a dipping tank for lumber for applying soda dips to lumber at sawmills.
Date: February 11, 1913
Creator: Trout, Walter C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Copy Holder (open access)

Copy Holder

Patent for a copy holder. This device is to hold copy for typewriters, compositors, etc. It also provides a copy holder possessing an adjustable indicating bar. Illustrations included.
Date: February 11, 1913
Creator: Newton, Marvin G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin. (open access)

Clothes-Pin.

Patent for metallic clothes pins made from a single length of wire.
Date: February 11, 1919
Creator: Atkins, Irving J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bit-Hoist (open access)

Bit-Hoist

Patent for easy removal of bits from drilling machines.
Date: February 11, 1919
Creator: Parrish, Benjamin Eugene & Stage, Solomon
System: The Portal to Texas History
Carpenter's Tool. (open access)

Carpenter's Tool.

Patent for carpenter's tool that has an "adjustable pattern" that can assist in "determining the exact size and configuration of the space in which a stair tread or riser is adapted to be fitted" (lines 9 - 12).
Date: February 11, 1919
Creator: McDermett, Jim E.
System: The Portal to Texas History