Resource Type

Embroidering Attachment For Sewing Machines (open access)

Embroidering Attachment For Sewing Machines

Patent for an emboidering attachment for sewing machines. Illustration included.
Date: July 4, 1905
Creator: Johnson, Billie
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railroad-Tie. (open access)

Railroad-Tie.

Patent for a railroad tie, which can be used with ordinary rails that improves the fastening and unfastening process and forms a track gage.
Date: July 20, 1909
Creator: Whitaker, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail Connection (open access)

Rail Connection

Patent for a rail connection which provides a smooth connection between rails and "dispenses with the angle bars which the ordinary rail connection requires" (lines 15-17). Illustrations included.
Date: July 20, 1909
Creator: Matějka, Frank
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pin for Engravers' Blocks. (open access)

Pin for Engravers' Blocks.

Patent for a pin for engravers' blocks for holding items to be engraved on the block. It has grooves of various widths on the sides to fit different size objects.
Date: July 16, 1907
Creator: Martin, Joseph Clay
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pin (open access)

Clothes Pin

Patent for clothes pin. Illustration included.
Date: July 4, 1905
Creator: Grubbs, Marion F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Capsule-Filler (open access)

Capsule-Filler

Patent for a capsule filler which allows a prescriptionist to simultaneously fill multiple capsules with medication. Illustrations included.
Date: July 20, 1909
Creator: Brown, Patrick Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History