Machine for Compressing and Rolling Bats (open access)

Machine for Compressing and Rolling Bats

Patent for a machine used to compress bats from cotton before the bailing or packing process. Illustrations included.
Date: June 10, 1910
Creator: Ball, Samuel M.; McNiel, Benjamin N. & Pennington, Harry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Incubator Alarm (open access)

Incubator Alarm

Patent for incubator alarm in which an audible signal will be triggered when the temperature of the incubator is above or below the normal predetermined degree.
Date: June 10, 1913
Creator: Kelley, Clyde W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut Lock. (open access)

Nut Lock.

Patent for a new and improved nut lock. This design "is to provide a spring-washer of great stiffness and strength, which, when applied to a bolt beneath a nut, serves to prevent the latter from turning, and also acts to firmly hold the parts of a rail-joint after there has been some wear thereof, thus keeping the bolts from becoming loose and rattling from such wear" (lines 13-20).
Date: June 10, 1884
Creator: Campbell, Eli F.; Noble, Laroy C. & Howe, Milton G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drill-Bit (open access)

Drill-Bit

Patent for Drill-Bit that is especially designed for purpose of drilling through rock, or other hard formations and is also adapted for use in drilling through softer formation, such as shell.
Date: June 10, 1919
Creator: Culmore, March J. A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Road-Surfacing Machine. (open access)

Road-Surfacing Machine.

Patent for improvements to road surfacing machines, "specially designed for applying a surface of concrete or other similar material to roads and streets,... spreading the surfacing material over the foundation of the roadway," (lines 13-17) and "tamping said material, so as to give a true and even surface" (lines 18-19), including illustrations and instructions.
Date: June 10, 1919
Creator: Reynolds, Robert E.
System: The Portal to Texas History