Device For Pressing Trousers (open access)

Device For Pressing Trousers

Patent for a device for pressing trousers. Illustration included.
Date: March 7, 1905
Creator: Smith, William A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene Gas Generator (open access)

Acetylene Gas Generator

Patent for an acetylene gas generator. illustration included.
Date: March 7, 1911
Creator: Wyatt, William J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment (open access)

Cultivator Attachment

Patent for a cultivator attachment designed to aid in the plowing of soil. Illustrations included.
Date: March 7, 1911
Creator: Parmer, George W. & Miller, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a simple and effective cotton chopper that leaves the plants in bunches that is easily operated and uses a reciprocating motion to rotate the blades and chop the stalks.
Date: March 7, 1893
Creator: Hyde, Frank Sule
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.
Date: March 7, 1911
Creator: Carlson, Peet
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper with a solid hoe for thinning cotton and a toothed hoe for pulling weeds.
Date: March 7, 1911
Creator: Hart, Granville M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Construction of Railroads. (open access)

Construction of Railroads.

Patent for an improved railroad construction that consists of "an all metallic railroad which will not be very expensive, will be so strong that an accident is practically impossible, and which may be very rapidly laid" (lines 11-14).
Date: March 7, 1893
Creator: Arnold, Eliphalet L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Collyrium. (open access)

Collyrium.

Patent for a mixture for an eye-water; ingredients, proportions of the ingredients and instructions on how to prepare the mixture are included. No illustration.
Date: March 7, 1882
Creator: Templeton, Absalom
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Light Shade and Reflector. (open access)

Adjustable Light Shade and Reflector.

Patent for a new adjustable light shade and reflector with "a shade and a support therefor so provided with joints that the shade may be given any desired angle of reflection, relative to the light, and its relative distance from the light may be regulated" (lines 13-17), which includes illustrations and instructions.
Date: March 7, 1911
Creator: Spivey, Lillian Hale
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Funnel. (open access)

Funnel.

Patent for an improved "funnel device which is adapted to be connected to the inlet of a receptacle such as a tank and form therewith an air tight connection provided with a manually operated valve" (lines 18-23).
Date: March 7, 1916
Creator: Errington, Walter W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Carrier for Game (open access)

Carrier for Game

Patent for new and improved carrier for game. "The purpose of the invention is to provide a very light, simple, durable, economic, and effective device for carrying game adapted to be worn across the shoulder and which is held in place simply by the weight of the load". (lines 8-13). Includes description, instructions, and illustrations.
Date: March 7, 1906
Creator: Paul, James Mount
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pounder. (open access)

Clothes-Pounder.

Patent for a clothes pounder "which will inclose a body of air and expel the same when it is brought down upon the clothes forcing water through the clothes and filling with water an upper chamber, and which when lifted from the clothes will release a body of water at the top of the pounder and cause water to pass through the clothes" (lines 12-19).
Date: March 7, 1893
Creator: Beaver, William G.
Object Type: Patent
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.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Steps (open access)

Car Steps

Patent for rail car steps. Illustrations included.
Date: March 7, 1911
Creator: Collier, James Dallas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Diaphragm Face Plates (open access)

Attachment for Diaphragm Face Plates

Patent for an attachment for diaphragm face plates. Illustration included.
Date: March 7, 1911
Creator: Labadie, Victor
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History