Automobile-Pump (open access)

Automobile-Pump

Patent for an automobile pump. This invention is designed for quick mounting and dismounting in order to lift an automobile to remove its tires. Illustrations included.
Date: February 22, 1910
Creator: Goeth, Richard Anton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Check-Turning Device (open access)

Check-Turning Device

Patent for improvements of check-turning devices. The improvements allow checks to be turned quickly especially by adding machine operators.
Date: February 18, 1919
Creator: Albaugh, Ellis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Brake (open access)

Car-Brake

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Car-Brakes" (lines 6-7) relating to a railroad brake operating mechanism, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 6, 1912
Creator: Klasing, Augustus Frederick
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[a] car-coupling link having a slotted spring-head adapted to hold the link in a draw-head by frictional contact therewith, and arranged and adapted to permit a coupling-pin to pass through the slots in the said link and its spring-head" (lines 48-53).
Date: February 4, 1890
Creator: Thompson, James Alfred M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Truck. (open access)

Car Truck.

Patent for a new and improved car-truck. This design "consists in providing the lateral guide-wheels with long axles which are inclined at an angle of about forty-five degrees to the ordinary truck-wheels, and in providing the bolsters of the truck with a central opening, and otherwise constructing the same with a view to attachment of such inclined axles" (lines 17-24).
Date: February 22, 1881
Creator: Beaumont, Franklin, Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Construction of Privy-Vaults and Apparatus for Use Therewith. (open access)

Construction of Privy-Vaults and Apparatus for Use Therewith.

Patent for "a new and useful Improvements in the Construction of Privy-Vaults and Apparatus for Use Therewith"(lines 4-6)" to insure cleanliness in around privy-vaults and to prevent accumulations therein, especially in localities where water is not easily available"(lines 9-12), instructions and illustrations included.
Date: February 2, 1886
Creator: Carrico, Thomas W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment For Mowers (open access)

Attachment For Mowers

Patent for an improving to attachments for mowers that can be attached to shoe of the sickle bar. This attachment helps to raise the grain or growth being cut and bring it into the path of the sickle bar. It also works to ensure the cut grain will fall away from the standing grain.
Date: February 15, 1916
Creator: Muller, Hermann W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Cake-Rack (open access)

Automatic Cake-Rack

Patent for a display device of desert type foods.
Date: February 15, 1916
Creator: Jones, Seaborn W. & Postlethwaite, Alonzo W.
System: The Portal to Texas History