Headlight. (open access)

Headlight.

Patent for Locomotive-headlights, "and has for its principal object to so construct the lamp and its casing as to permit of the lighting or adjusting the lamp-blaze from the back of the headlight box…” (lines 8-13) including illustrations.
Date: December 2, 1902
Creator: Stanton, James Robertson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle Guard (open access)

Cattle Guard

Patent for a cattle guard. This cattle guard is a useful improvement in use on railway-tracks.
Date: September 15, 1903
Creator: Frownfelter, George C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
APPARATUS FOR PUMPING WATER, SAND, &c. (open access)

APPARATUS FOR PUMPING WATER, SAND, &c.

Patent for "an apparatus for emptying sandboxes of locomotives" (lines 13-14) "operated by compressed air to elevate and discharge sand, water, &c." (lines 10-11).
Date: October 30, 1900
Creator: Butler, Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compound Engine (open access)

Compound Engine

Patent for a compound railroad engine. This design is capable of operating under conditions resulting from an accident, the ability to start under full load via live steam to both the high and low pressure cylinders, and its working parts may be operated with one or both compounds. Illustration included.
Date: June 18, 1907
Creator: Symons, Wilson E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bearing. (open access)

Bearing.

Patent for improvements in bearings, in which a liquid-step bearing “contains a closed receptacle for oil or other liquid and co-acting with a movable piston or shaft, and adapted to resist end thrust by means of the liquid.” (Lines 11-14) Illustration is included.
Date: September 17, 1907
Creator: Godsey, Henry M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ant Trap (open access)

Ant Trap

Patent for an ant trap. Illustration included.
Date: December 28, 1909
Creator: Mercer, John W.; Hasha, W. C. & Estes, W. N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Revolving Harrow and Cultivator (open access)

Combined Revolving Harrow and Cultivator

Patent for a Combined Revolving Harrow and Cultivator that is used to cultivate cotton, corn and nature like plants.
Date: May 22, 1888
Creator: Evans,Lucius Sandiford
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Emptying Barrels Or Other Receptacles Containing Liquids. (open access)

Apparatus For Emptying Barrels Or Other Receptacles Containing Liquids.

Patent for a device to empty barrels and other receptacles containing liquids, including illustrations.
Date: March 3, 1885
Creator: Hudson, Benjamin Franklin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cleaning Cotton Device. (open access)

Cleaning Cotton Device.

Patent for an apparatus to clean cotton and feed it into a cotton gin, including illustrations.
Date: August 10, 1915
Creator: Dickerson, Eustice E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrap. (open access)

Wrap.

Patent for a wrap for babies, which encloses the body except for the face that is closed with hooks at the arms, legs and head, which can be opened to free any of those members.
Date: August 2, 1910
Creator: Mercey, Nettie T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Basket. (open access)

Wire Basket.

Patent for a wire basket, which is sturdier than previous ones for use in groceries.
Date: October 6, 1908
Creator: Goodwin, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wing Sweep Attachement for Plows (open access)

Wing Sweep Attachement for Plows

Patent for "an attachment for plows, cultivators or the like whereby the implement may readily be provided with wing sweeps without disarrangement or reconstruction of the old parts of implement, and in such connection it relates more particularly to the form, constuction and arrangement of the attachment" (lines 9-16).
Date: August 28, 1916
Creator: Skinner, M. T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine. (open access)

Washing-Machine.

Patent for a practical, simple, and efficient washing machine that cleans soiled fabrics with the minimum amount of labor in a small amount of time, without wearing out the fabrics.
Date: March 28, 1893
Creator: Snider, Henry C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wagon Jack. (open access)

Wagon Jack.

Patent for a new and improved wagon jack. This design "relates to wagon-jacks, the object being to provide a jack of simple and economical construction which will be applicable alike to light and heavy vehicles. The invention consists in [an] improved construction" (lines 9-14).
Date: March 28, 1882
Creator: Clark, James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Irrigating Apparatus. (open access)

Irrigating Apparatus.

Patent for new and useful improvements in irrigation apparatuses. The design includes "a system of surface irrigation comprising a main supply tank, a series of reservoirs, pipes connecting said tank and reservoirs" (lines 95-98). It is intended to allow for irrigating large and small plats of land simply and efficiently.
Date: October 12, 1920
Creator: French, Horatio Benjamin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Incubator Regulator. (open access)

Incubator Regulator.

Patent for an incubator with an automatic regulator for the flame of an incubator or heating lamp. The invention also provides an improved regulator arranged to raise or lower the wick of an incubator lamp in accordance with the heat in the incubator itself.
Date: January 15, 1918
Creator: Harris, Luster. F. & Williams, Walter. L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lubricating Apparatus (open access)

Lubricating Apparatus

Patent for "lubricating the bearings of locomotives while moving or standing still." (lines 8-10)
Date: June 19, 1900
Creator: Dangler, Hank
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lunch Box (open access)

Lunch Box

Patent for a lunch box.This invention is designed with a secured latching lid. Illustration included.
Date: November 5, 1912
Creator: Christian, Carl
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wheel-Cultivators. (open access)

Improvement in Wheel-Cultivators.

Patent for "an improved wheel-cultivator, which shall be so constructed that it may be readily adjusted for use in marking the ground, covering the seed, and cultivating the plants." (Lines 9-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 25, 1876
Creator: Riddle, William N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Irrigation-Pipe. (open access)

Irrigation-Pipe.

Patent for an invention relates to an improved irrigation pipe which is to be used in connection with a sub-irrigation system.
Date: October 27, 1914
Creator: Cooke, Joe R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compressed-Air-Feed Liquid-Container. (open access)

Compressed-Air-Feed Liquid-Container.

Patent for compressed air feed liquid container uses compressed air to move the liquid through tubes and out the pipe.
Date: May 10, 1921
Creator: Posa, Emit M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher. (open access)

Wire Stretcher.

Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a block carrying bails or loops, and longitudinally grooved, of racks mounted within said grooves, a crank-shaft carrying a pinion, said shaft being mounted in standards secured to the block, pawls arranged to engage with ratchet-teeth formed in the racks, and clamping-jaws fixed to opposite ends of the racks" (lines 87-94).
Date: December 14, 1886
Creator: Graham, Andrew Bascome
System: The Portal to Texas History
Weighing Attachment for Wagons (open access)

Weighing Attachment for Wagons

Patent for improvements in the weighing attachments for wagons so that "the wagon body with its contents may be weighed without removing it from the holsters; and it has for its object to provide a device which shall be simple in construction, accurate, and easily operated" (lines 10-14).
Date: December 31, 1889
Creator: Gragg, Zachry Taylor
System: The Portal to Texas History
Liquid for Exterminating Grass or Similar Growths. (open access)

Liquid for Exterminating Grass or Similar Growths.

Patent for a new and useful liquid for exterminating grass or similar growths, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 5, 1898
Creator: Chapman, William A.
System: The Portal to Texas History