Apparatus For Bleaching Lard Compounds (open access)

Apparatus For Bleaching Lard Compounds

Patent for an apparatus for bleaching lard compounds. Illustration included.
Date: November 7, 1905
Creator: Humphreys, Jerome N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ore-Conveying Surface for Electrical Separators. (open access)

Ore-Conveying Surface for Electrical Separators.

Patent for “ore-conveying surface for electrical separators, and particularly to a structure adapted for use with static electricity.” (lines 11-14) including illustrations.
Date: November 25, 1902
Creator: Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Anchor Post (open access)

Anchor Post

Patent for an anchor post. This invention is designed to resist any lateral or longitudinal strain. Illustration included.
Date: November 17, 1903
Creator: Small, Wily & Brock, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Magazine-Firearm. (open access)

Magazine-Firearm.

Patent for a magazine firearm, whose breech bolt is operated with the left hand to leave the right free for pulling the trigger.
Date: November 16, 1909
Creator: Rebman, Joseph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water Hoisting Apparatus (open access)

Water Hoisting Apparatus

Patent for water hoisting apparatus. Illustration included.
Date: November 22, 1904
Creator: Moody, Winfield H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Loose-Leaf Individual or General Bank-Ledger (open access)

Loose-Leaf Individual or General Bank-Ledger

Patent for improvements to loose-leaf individual or general bank-ledgers, mainly pertaining to the ledger's structure and ease of use through adding leaves or sheets without disrupting current leaves or sheets. Includes illustrations.
Date: November 14, 1905
Creator: Exline, Marcus P. & Bourke, Edmund
System: The Portal to Texas History
Inkstand. (open access)

Inkstand.

Patent for an inkstand which draws the ink through a stopper (using capillary action) into a font. The stopper prevents "spilling of the ink in the movement or transportation of the inkstand."
Date: November 3, 1903
Creator: Taber, John C. B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Printer's Cabinet (open access)

Printer's Cabinet

Patent for a printer's cabinet. Illustrations included.
Date: November 28, 1905
Creator: Dorsey, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stirrup (open access)

Stirrup

Patent for a stirrup. Illustration included.
Date: November 7, 1905
Creator: Bantz, Frederick Wallace
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electrical Interrupter. (open access)

Electrical Interrupter.

Patent for an electrical interrupter for dividing charges of electricity into intervals.
Date: November 24, 1908
Creator: Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electrical Attachment for Movable Object (open access)

Electrical Attachment for Movable Object

Patent for "a means to prevent the retarding of a movable element, such as shovel or disk plows, road rollers and rotatable and reciprocatory devices, when the said element is traveling through or upon an adhering earthy electrical conducting substance" (lines 7-12).
Date: November 5, 1907
Creator: Dawkins, John R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed Planter (open access)

Seed Planter

Patent for a seed planter. Illustration included.
Date: November 14, 1905
Creator: Hodge, Neely B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Float Drive For Cotton Linters (open access)

Float Drive For Cotton Linters

Patent for a float drive. This invention is for cotton seed linters as a means for imparting rotative movement to the float. Illustration included.
Date: November 13, 1906
Creator: Kimbrough, Jacob Wheeler
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Magnetically and Statically Treating Ores (open access)

Process of Magnetically and Statically Treating Ores

Patent for "a process for magnetically and statically treating ore to separate the valuable metal therefrom during its passage through a single machine" (lines 11-14). In particular, the treatment helps to remove magnetic particles that have sharp corners or points that may interfere with other processes.
Date: October 5, 1901
Creator: Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pyrotechnic Device. (open access)

Pyrotechnic Device.

Patent for a firework called a crazy cracker, which prevents accidental ignition from friction by covering the firework in a wood pulp covering.
Date: November 3, 1908
Creator: Graber, Charles F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Making Butter (open access)

Process of Making Butter

Patent for a process of making butter.
Date: November 1, 1904
Creator: Irwin, William A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Burner. (open access)

Oil-Burner.

Patent for an oil burner with a method of controlling the mixing of air and oil.
Date: November 30, 1909
Creator: Young, Josiah Newman
System: The Portal to Texas History
Doll Novelty. (open access)

Doll Novelty.

Patent for a new device, which is a rounded, weighted base placed in a doll that allows the doll to raise itself when turned over on any side without external assistance by lowering the doll's center of gravity. Descriptions of materials used and illustrations are included..
Date: November 4, 1902
Creator: Flint, William G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dry Ore-Concentrator. (open access)

Dry Ore-Concentrator.

Patent for a dry ore concentrator with illustrations included.
Date: November 25, 1902
Creator: Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Steele, Edwin G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaning Apparatus (open access)

Cotton Cleaning Apparatus

Patent for cotton cleaning apparatus. Illustrations included.
Date: November 15, 1904
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Harvester (open access)

Cotton Harvester

Patent for a cotton harvester. The invention is designed to pick cotton, automatically depositing the bolls in the gin, separates the seeds, and discharges the lint. Illustration included.
Date: November 5, 1907
Creator: Williams, Edward M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Illusion Boat (open access)

Illusion Boat

Patent for an illusion boat. This "invention realtes to a carrier for amusement and pleasure , and more particularly to a carrier by which mock diving trips may be made, or trips which will have the appearance of the boat or carrier going down under water and traveling under the water" (line 6-11). Illustrations included.
Date: November 24, 1903
Creator: Smith, Marshall, E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Metallic Flue (open access)

Metallic Flue

Patent for metallic flue. Illustration included.
Date: November 9, 1909
Creator: Armstrong, Layton D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Riding-Saddle. (open access)

Riding-Saddle.

Patent for an improved riding saddle that eliminates curling of saddle jockeys and chafing of rider's legs.
Date: November 27, 1900
Creator: Hicks, Frank O.
System: The Portal to Texas History