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Improvement in Measuring Packaged Fabrics (open access)

Improvement in Measuring Packaged Fabrics

Patent for an improved device to measure textiles and other similar fabrics, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 13, 1877
Creator: Bond, Virgil A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lock Mortiser (open access)

Lock Mortiser

Patent for a lock mortiser. The object of this invention "is to provide a light, portable machine arranged to be clamped to the work piece, so that the lock mortise as well as the key hole and the bolt opening may be conveniently cut with one adjustable of the machine" (lines 11-15). Illustrations included.
Date: September 13, 1910
Creator: New, Luke Mosely
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator

Patent for an acetylene-gas generator. Illustrations included.
Date: April 26, 1910
Creator: Moberley, Oscar R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Signal (open access)

Signal

Patent for an automobile to signal the direction the car will go. The signal tool functions as a hand on each side of the car and can withstand the weather.
Date: October 15, 1918
Creator: Hibbert, Lammers R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sewing-Machine Attatchment (open access)

Sewing-Machine Attatchment

Patent for an attachment for sewing machines. Illustrations included.
Date: June 7, 1910
Creator: Griffin, Patrick
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring-Full for Locks (open access)

Spring-Full for Locks

Patent for a spring-full for locks that is "automatically spring actuated" (lines 12-13) by a button including illustrations and instructions.
Date: June 22, 1915
Creator: Ewing, Harry L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drill Head For Oil Wells (open access)

Drill Head For Oil Wells

Patent for Drill Head for oil wells, one object of the invention is to provide a drill head having the capacity to drill through strata of soft formation as may exist between rock layers and in broken formations of clay and boulders, as well as through rock formations themselves, the said drilling head being provided with roller bits or cutters and also with a fish tail cutter.
Date: October 25, 1921
Creator: Sorensen, Sam
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bit-Brace with Right-Angled V-Guide Frame. (open access)

Bit-Brace with Right-Angled V-Guide Frame.

Patent for a bit-brace with right-angled V-guide frame, with description and illustrations.
Date: June 8, 1897
Creator: McClellan, Stephen
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Manufacturing Anti-Corrosive Compounds. (open access)

Improvement in Manufacturing Anti-Corrosive Compounds.

Patent for "an anti-corrosive coating for iron and all other metals, and one which in all respects does positively preserve the same, and into the composition of which enters as an element neither lead, oil, nor any other ingredient that contains any destructive or otherwise deleterious acid or alkali." (Lines 7-13) Includes instructions.
Date: December 22, 1874
Creator: Lee, Archibald K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Table Attachment for Beds. (open access)

Table Attachment for Beds.

"Patent for beds and is particularly designed as an improvement on the attachment covered." (lines 10).
Date: February 29, 1916
Creator: Thorniley, Clarence W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Music-Indicator. (open access)

Music-Indicator.

Patent for a music indicator that shows the names of the notes on the piano and how to form various chords and scales to assist the user in learning music.
Date: July 4, 1911
Creator: MacMaster, James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chimney Holder (open access)

Chimney Holder

Patent for chimney holder. This design is a "means for holding a chimney upon a burner of any kind for the purpose of preventing the accidental tilting of the chimney" (lines 11-13). Illustrations included.
Date: March 7, 1911
Creator: Elkins, Thomas M.
System: The Portal to Texas History