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Nut-Lock. (open access)

Nut-Lock.

Patent for new qualities of nut-lock security, efficiency, and convenience, including illustrations.
Date: April 24, 1906
Creator: Payne, Lewis.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cleaning Apparatus. (open access)

Cleaning Apparatus.

Patent for a vacuum for cleaning cotton gins that attaches to the pneumatic elevators generally found in cotton gins.
Date: April 9, 1907
Creator: Sadler, Arthur E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Brake-Setting Appliance (open access)

Air-Brake-Setting Appliance

Patent for an air brake apparatus for train cars which automatically activates when a train car is derailed. Illustrations included.
Date: April 13, 1909
Creator: Gale, Albert & Lilley, Doc M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Antifriction-Bearing. (open access)

Antifriction-Bearing.

Patent for a new and useful improvements in anti-friction bearings.
Date: April 5, 1898
Creator: Hobron, Charles B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Closet (open access)

Closet

Patent for a dry closet. Illustrations included.
Date: April 2, 1912
Creator: Crow, Levi H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Armor for Pneumatic Tires. (open access)

Armor for Pneumatic Tires.

Patent for a new and useful armor for pneumatic tires.
Date: April 12, 1898
Creator: Hansell, Robert Clark
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard. (open access)

Cattle-Guard.

Patent for an improved cattle-guard by using a guard that has a plurality of spurs, should an animal step thereon its foot will be directed against one or more of these spurs, thus causing the animal to withdraw its foot and not attempt to pass over the rail. This will prevent the animal from crossing railway-tracks, but the spurs will not interfere with the free passage of trains. (Lines 10-20) Illustration is included.
Date: April 2, 1901
Creator: Steinmann, Herman Werner
System: The Portal to Texas History
Composition for Removing Boiler-Scale (open access)

Composition for Removing Boiler-Scale

Patent for "an extract of the plant know to botanists by the name 'Larrea Mexican,' to be used in removing boiler-scale and in preventing the reformation of the same" (lines 9-13).
Date: April 16, 1901
Creator: Pena, Benjamin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Cleaning System (open access)

Air-Cleaning System

Patent for an air cleaning system to be used in homes. Illustrations included.
Date: April 20, 1909
Creator: Mayo, William C. & Houlehan, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Antifreezing Valve and Closet-Cistern (open access)

Antifreezing Valve and Closet-Cistern

Patent for "valves which will allow all the water to flow out of the popes to a position below freezing-point after each application of water, whether the water is used in a closet-cistern or drawn out of a hudrant or other application is made, and to arrange the valves so that the supply-valves will be automatically closed by water-pressure in connection with the operation of a siphon in a closet-cistern and the waste-valve will be closed by the pressure of water, siphonic action, or both, when the supply-valves are opened." (lines 18-28).
Date: April 23, 1901
Creator: Wilkes, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Bleaching Seed-Cotton (open access)

Apparatus for Bleaching Seed-Cotton

Patent for a machine for bleaching seed cotton before it ginned.
Date: April 14, 1908
Creator: Brennan, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compound Railway-Rail (open access)

Compound Railway-Rail

Patent for a compound railway-rail. This invention is a solid open jointed rail whereby two longitudinal section may be brought together without creating open joints. Illustration included.
Date: April 23, 1907
Creator: Stephens, George B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Stone (open access)

Artificial Stone

Patent for artificial stone.
Date: April 5, 1904
Creator: Steger, Virge
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Window-Scaffold (open access)

Adjustable Window-Scaffold

Patent for an adjustable window scaffold. Illustrations included.
Date: April 11, 1911
Creator: Wright, Scott W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Canning Fruits or Vegetables. (open access)

Apparatus for Canning Fruits or Vegetables.

Patent for an improvement to canning fruits and vegetables.
Date: April 3, 1900
Creator: Compton, Anna & Jackson, A. L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale Tie Buckle (open access)

Bale Tie Buckle

Patent for bale tie buckle. Illustration included.
Date: April 25, 1905
Creator: Jenkins, John C. & Flowers, W. H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Advertising-Machine (open access)

Advertising-Machine

Patent for an advertising machine for displaying various advertising cards in a motorized machine that displays all the different cards as it goes around in a circle.
Date: April 18, 1911
Creator: Helm, Virgil L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compressed-Air Machine. (open access)

Compressed-Air Machine.

Patent for an "an automatically acting compressed air machine where a reciprocating action is desired" (lines 9-11) "which will be automatic and positive in its action, which may be operated with minimum amount of compressed fluid, and which has relatively few parts that might get out of order" (lines 12-18).
Date: April 9, 1912
Creator: Saurenmann, Jacob Gilmore
System: The Portal to Texas History
Articulating Plate (open access)

Articulating Plate

Patent for "new and useful articulating plate" (lines 5-6), including illustration and instructions.
Date: April 11, 1900
Creator: Driskill, T. F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ant Trap (open access)

Ant Trap

Patent for an ant trap. Illustration included.
Date: April 14, 1908
Creator: Howard, Martin T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Fly Fish Hook (open access)

Artificial Fly Fish Hook

Patent for an artificial fly fish hook. Illustration included.
Date: April 27, 1909
Creator: Caldwell, Charley D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aerodrome (open access)

Aerodrome

Patent for an aerodrome. Illustrations included.
Date: April 16, 1912
Creator: Helm, Amos J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ant-Trap. (open access)

Ant-Trap.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in ant-traps.
Date: April 12, 1898
Creator: Selvidge, Charles W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cooling Journal-Boxes on Railway-Trains (open access)

Apparatus for Cooling Journal-Boxes on Railway-Trains

Patent for an apparatus for cooling journal boxes on trains by sending water to the journal boxes from a water system installed in each car.
Date: April 19, 1910
Creator: Andrews, Walter P.
System: The Portal to Texas History