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Cattle-Yoke. (open access)

Cattle-Yoke.

Patent for a new and useful cattle yoke for preventing them from breaking, tearing down, jumping over, or crawling through the openings in fences (line 6 -8).
Date: March 22, 1898
Creator: Kirk, Robert S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clock Attachment. (open access)

Clock Attachment.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in clock attachments.
Date: March 8, 1898
Creator: Schindler, Joseph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Molding Pipe (open access)

Apparatus for Molding Pipe

Patent for device that allows multiple sized pipes or pipe sections to be milded.
Date: March 17, 1903
Creator: Bergstrom, Otto
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Tie-Plate and Rail Anticreeper (open access)

Combined Tie-Plate and Rail Anticreeper

Patent for a railroad tie plate designed to remained locked to the base of the rail and to prevent dislocation of the base. Illustrations included.
Date: March 29, 1910
Creator: Clarke, Marcus S. & Adreon, Edward L., Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Making Carbureted Hydrogen Gas. (open access)

Apparatus for Making Carbureted Hydrogen Gas.

Patent for improved apparatus for manufacturing carbureted gas at small cost for illuminating and general heating and power purposes.
Date: March 5, 1912
Creator: Herndon, Joseph R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Arm for Telegraph - Poles. (open access)

Arm for Telegraph - Poles.

Patent for a new and useful arm for telegraph poles.
Date: March 8, 1898
Creator: Anderson, Lee
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bat-Former (open access)

Bat-Former

Patent for a cotton bat former that produces a bat of uniform size and weight.
Date: March 21, 1911
Creator: Ball, Samuel M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Composition for Tanning (open access)

Composition for Tanning

Patent for new and useful improvements in compounds for tanning, using water, four gallons, fluid extract of phytolacca or common poke root, quarter of an ounce, gum gambier, four pounds, and alum, one pound.
Date: March 9, 1909
Creator: Burrows, Ira I
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Conductor (open access)

Electric Conductor

Patent for electric conductor with switch cord and plug especially designed for use with multiple electrical circuits, as with a telephone switchboard.
Date: March 20, 1906
Creator: Weir, Welby D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Hay-Press (open access)

Automatic Hay-Press

Patent for an automatic hay press that ties three sides of the bale while in the press and the fourth outside of it.
Date: March 14, 1911
Creator: Parvin, William S. & Muse, Warwick J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cooking by Superheated Steam. (open access)

Apparatus for Cooking by Superheated Steam.

Patent for improvements in apparatus for cooking by using superheated steam. “A boiler which is supported by a fire-box. An oven is mounted on the boiler and provide with a plurality of compartments and ventilators. A drip-pipe, and a pipe connected to the boiler and circulated through the fire-box and extended up to the oven, and provided with a plurality of valves for supplying the compartments of the oven with superheated steam.” (Page 2, line 25-34) Illustration is included.
Date: March 22, 1904
Creator: Harrington, David
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bat Roost (open access)

Bat Roost

Patent for a bat roost. Illustration included.
Date: March 1, 1910
Creator: Campbell, Charles A. R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard (open access)

Cattle-Guard

Patent for a cattle guard for use at railroad tracks incorporating a depressible platform connected to a closing mechanism which will impede movement of cattle across the track, but allow for unobstructed movement at other times.
Date: March 20, 1906
Creator: Richter, Fred Otto & Richter, Gustav Adolph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bat-Former (open access)

Bat-Former

Patent for a cotton bat former for use in cotton gins.
Date: March 28, 1911
Creator: Ball, Samuel M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Lister or Breaking Plow and Seed Planter (open access)

Combined Lister or Breaking Plow and Seed Planter

Patent for Combined Lister or Breaking Plow and Seed-Planter.
Date: March 31, 1903
Creator: Sylvester, C.T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Easel (open access)

Easel

Patent for an adjustable easel.
Date: March 11, 1902
Creator: Mueller, Carl P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Refining Crude Petroleum (open access)

Apparatus For Refining Crude Petroleum

Patent for an apparatus for refining crude petroleum. This invention seeks to process oil containing burned, scorched, or charred particles. Illustration included.
Date: March 15, 1904
Creator: O'Neall, James M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Wringers and Washing-Machines (open access)

Attachment for Wringers and Washing-Machines

Patent for an attachment for wringers and washing machines that allows the washing machine to be moved directly from the washing tub to the rinsing tub.
Date: March 21, 1911
Creator: Flood, William E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Expressing the Fluids Out of Paraffin Compositions and Separating the Scale Therefrom (open access)

Apparatus for Expressing the Fluids Out of Paraffin Compositions and Separating the Scale Therefrom

Patent for an apparatus for expressing the fluids out of paraffin compositions and separating the scale therefrom. Illustrations included.
Date: March 4, 1913
Creator: Hansen, Julius
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie (open access)

Bale-Tie

Patent for a bale tie made of aluminum which has a fastener attached to the band.
Date: March 3, 1908
Creator: Brigance, Alice Osborne
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane (open access)

Aeroplane

Patent for an improvement to aeroplanes which includes movable horizontal and vertical planes (or curtains).
Date: February 25, 1911
Creator: Blewett, Baxter W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Lifting-Jacks (open access)

Attachment for Lifting-Jacks

Patent for an attachment for lifting jacks.
Date: March 28, 1911
Creator: Porter, Horton B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Conveyer. (open access)

Conveyer.

Patent for the invention of a new conveyor, designed to simplify handling sacked grain.
Date: March 26, 1912
Creator: King, Marion A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Appliance for Protecting Oil-Wells from Fires. (open access)

Appliance for Protecting Oil-Wells from Fires.

Patent for an appliance for protecting oil-wells from fires. As stated within the patent, "this invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in appliances for protecting oil-wells from fires; and to this end it consists of the novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more specifically described in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the claims herein appended" (Lines 9-16).
Date: March 11, 1902
Creator: Cochran, James M.
System: The Portal to Texas History