Actuating Device for Circuit Closers (open access)

Actuating Device for Circuit Closers

Patent for an actuating device for circuit closers. Illustration included.
Date: November 5, 1912
Creator: Young, George D.
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
Combined Latch and Lock for Screen Doors, etc. (open access)

Combined Latch and Lock for Screen Doors, etc.

Patent for a combined latch and lock for screen doors and other uses. Illustration included.
Date: February 5, 1912
Creator: Hart, Joel T. & Hart, John D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clamp for Pump Rods and Well Tubes (open access)

Clamp for Pump Rods and Well Tubes

Patent for a clamp for pump rods and well tubes. Illustration included.
Date: November 5, 1912
Creator: Fisher, William W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Windmills. (open access)

Attachment for Windmills.

Patent for a windmill attachment that will increase the pumping capacity of windmills or other lifting pumps.
Date: March 5, 1912
Creator: Engle, Matthew H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane (open access)

Aeroplane

Patent for an aeroplane. This invention does not use any mechanism to maintain the planes equilibrium. Illustration included.
Date: November 5, 1912
Creator: Goebel, Alois
System: The Portal to Texas History
Can Soldering Machine (open access)

Can Soldering Machine

Patent for a can soldering machine. This device is designed to solder multiple units of lids to cans. Illustration included.
Date: November 5, 1912
Creator: Irwin, Wiley I.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper. This invention consists of chopping blades attached to the rotary shaft. Illustration included.
Date: November 5, 1912
Creator: Carlson, Peet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Blotting Pad (open access)

Blotting Pad

Patent for an ink blotting pad. Illustration included.
Date: November 5, 1912
Creator: Smith, Charles A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brooder (open access)

Brooder

Patent for a brooder which prevents chicks from entering after a certain number have gone through the door.
Date: November 5, 1912
Creator: Becker, August B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Fence. (open access)

Wire Fence.

Patent for a wire fence that allows for easy tightening of the wires.
Date: March 5, 1912
Creator: Miller, Daniel H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Cracking Nuts (open access)

Machine for Cracking Nuts

Patent for a machine for cracking nuts of various types but especially pecans.
Date: November 5, 1912
Creator: McDonald, Charles Walton
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
Improvements in Automatic Advertising Devices (open access)

Improvements in Automatic Advertising Devices

Patent for an automatic advertising device that can show various signs or display cards and provides "an endless belt of transparent material which is differently colored" (lines 12-15) so that the sign may be "artistically changed" (lines 17-18). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 5, 1912
Creator: Murphey, William A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Manufacturing Carbureted Hydrogen Gas. (open access)

Process of Manufacturing Carbureted Hydrogen Gas.

Patent for a process for manufacturing carbureted hydrogen gas.
Date: March 5, 1912
Creator: Watkins, William J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Putty-Trowel. (open access)

Putty-Trowel.

Patent for a putty trowel for use in installing windows.
Date: March 5, 1912
Creator: Wright, Sam F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fountain-Pen. (open access)

Fountain-Pen.

Patent for a new and improved fountain pen that provides a “novel means for manipulating the compressible reservoir” (lines 13-14) of the pen and of which the contents "may readily be fed manually, to the ink-applying portion of the pen" (lines 10-11) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 5, 1912
Creator: Smith, Edwin Ruthven
System: The Portal to Texas History
Suspension-Bridge. (open access)

Suspension-Bridge.

Patent for suspension bridges and a mechanism to overcome the vertical motion in floors of spans of bridges and provides a permanent anchorage for the cables.
Date: March 5, 1912
Creator: Greer, William H. C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hinge Seat Cutter (open access)

Hinge Seat Cutter

Patent for as hinge seat cutter. This device is designed to cut apertures so that mounted windows and door will be flush. Illustration included.
Date: November 5, 1912
Creator: Franklin, William E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway Tie (open access)

Railway Tie

Patent for a railway tie.
Date: November 5, 1912
Creator: McComas, Charles F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Separator-Guard. (open access)

Separator-Guard.

Patent for a separator-guard for spinning frames. It prevents "the yarn from being entangled in or caught by the devices for attaching the separators to their support" (lines 15-17). Illustrations included.
Date: July 5, 1912
Creator: Pitts, Arthur
System: The Portal to Texas History
Potato-Digging Machine. (open access)

Potato-Digging Machine.

Patent for a potato digging machine, which harvests the potatoes and puts them into bags.
Date: March 5, 1912
Creator: McIlveene, Mineola & Hayes, Lewis A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Furniture Appliance. (open access)

Furniture Appliance.

Patent for a piece of furniture that contains a retractable length of carpet material, intended for use in shoe stores to allow trial of the products without causing damage to the soles. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 5, 1912
Creator: Tudor, John H.
System: The Portal to Texas History