Revoluble Display-Case. (open access)

Revoluble Display-Case.

Patent for a revolvable display case for postcards and pamphlets.
Date: March 8, 1910
Creator: Swan, George B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hose-Coupling. (open access)

Hose-Coupling.

Patent for a hose coupling that is tighter than previous ones and can withstand great pressure.
Date: March 8, 1910
Creator: Stephens, John H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Horse - Releaser. (open access)

Horse - Releaser.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in "devices for releasing fractious animals from vehicles" (line 15 -16).
Date: March 8, 1898
Creator: Grossman, Amanda I.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Differential-Speed-Roller Cotton-Seed Huller. (open access)

Differential-Speed-Roller Cotton-Seed Huller.

Patent for a cotton seed huller with a differential speed roller that breaks the hulls off the seeds and prevents choking of the machine.
Date: March 8, 1910
Creator: McDonald, Thomas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for temporary, easily attachable and detachable coupling devices that rejoin draw-heads that have been broken or disabled in cars. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 13, 1891
Creator: Wallis, Fuller W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design for Cam Wheel. (open access)

Design for Cam Wheel.

Patent for A Cam-Wheel that has opposite reversely disposed duplicate lobes of segmental form.
Date: March 8, 1898
Creator: Wheeler, Andrew Jackson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 49, Number 10, Pages 1349-1556, March 8, 2024 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 49, Number 10, Pages 1349-1556, March 8, 2024

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: March 8, 2024
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper, which can shop two rows at the same time and performs the work faster than it can be done manually.
Date: March 8, 1910
Creator: Martin, Joseph W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling (open access)

Car Coupling

Patent for a car coupling. Illustrations included.
Date: March 8, 1904
Creator: Simecek, Vaclav
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car - Coupling. (open access)

Car - Coupling.

Patent for a new and useful car coupler.
Date: March 8, 1898
Creator: Parks, Thomas W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cistern. (open access)

Cistern.

Patent for a rain cistern, which can have oil put in it to prevent rust and sends out dirt from the cistern if it overflows.
Date: March 8, 1910
Creator: Fischer, Christian
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator (open access)

Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator

Patent for a combined cotton chopper and cultivator. Illustration included.
Date: March 8, 1904
Creator: Langford, Noah
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shock-Absorber. (open access)

Shock-Absorber.

Patent for an improved design of shock absorbers that gives vehicles a smoother ride.
Date: March 8, 1921
Creator: Swindowsky, Walter
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Arc Lamp. (open access)

Electric Arc Lamp.

Patent for a new and improved electric-arc lamp. This design consists in "the combination of a single horseshoe electro-magnet in the circuit of a main line, connected on the positive side to a binding-post having shunt material as a bushing around it, an armature hinged at its center and free to vibrate throughout its length with a carbon-rod holder, which it is adapted to clutch at the hinged part, said magnet acting upon the ends of the armature only, and an adjustable trip and limiting-stops, and means permitting both to be readily adjusted upon the outside of the casing to regulate the lamp" (lines 46-58).
Date: March 8, 1887
Creator: McDill, Henry C. & Gaston, James E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grain-Conveyer for Binders, &c. (open access)

Grain-Conveyer for Binders, &c.

Patent for improvements in grain conveyers, making the folding arms of the conveyer automatic. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 20, 1891
Creator: Schubert, George
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Valve-Cap and Tire-Deflator. (open access)

Combination Valve-Cap and Tire-Deflator.

Patent for a device which serves both as a cap for a tire valve and a tool for letting air out of said tire valve.
Date: March 8, 1921
Creator: McComb, William P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin. (open access)

Clothes-Pin.

Patent for a clothes pin, which holds clothes without stretching them and is easily taken on and off with one press of the clamp.
Date: March 8, 1910
Creator: Kitts, William Caluway
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Blackboard. (open access)

Blackboard.

Patent for a rotating blackboard that can be covered when not in use, as well as adjusted to different heights and locked into place so the writer can utilize every available space of the blackboard. The inventor designed the blackboard "for use in schools and brokerage offices."
Date: March 8, 1921
Creator: Grothaus, Julia
Object Type: Patent
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 "the combination, with a draw-bar, a sliding box, a movable eccentric secured therein, a coupling-rod, and a pivoted locking-jaw, of a locking-plate secured to said box and adapted to lock the jaw against movement" (lines 84-89).
Date: March 8, 1887
Creator: Zedler, Fridrick
Object Type: Patent
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 combination with the jaws . . . which are arranged to move laterally and simultaneously . . . each having two side hooks combined with the bar and springs . . . the levers, shaft, pulleys, and the chains which pass over the pulleys and connect the rollers with the jaws" (lines 86-96).
Date: March 8, 1887
Creator: Neal, Adam Sylvester
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Burglar-Alarm (open access)

Burglar-Alarm

Patent for improvements in burglar alarms, with horns and sirens.
Date: March 8, 1921
Creator: Sefcik, Francis
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History