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Water-Sprinkler. (open access)

Water-Sprinkler.

Patent for a water sprinkler with adjustable nozzles and pipes.
Date: July 5, 1910
Creator: Alden, James M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Desulfurizing Oil or Distillate (open access)

Process of Desulfurizing Oil or Distillate

Patent for a process of desulfurizing oil or distillate.
Date: July 5, 1904
Creator: Amend, Otto P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety-Razor (open access)

Safety-Razor

Patent for a razor held in place by a guard that protects the user against injury and the razor against dulling. The safety razor is easy to clean and is designed to be "cheaply and easily manufactured" (lines 21-22).
Date: July 5, 1921
Creator: Benton, Columbus A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rubber Razor. (open access)

Rubber Razor.

Patent for a rubber razor. The rubber razor provides a flexible support for multiple blade and will allow the blades to contour to one's face.
Date: July 5, 1921
Creator: Billingsley, Rennie E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Collecting Insects From Plants (open access)

Machine For Collecting Insects From Plants

Patent for a machine that collects insects from plants. Illustration included.
Date: July 5, 1904
Creator: Bolen, Walter M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sash Fastener. (open access)

Sash Fastener.

Patent for a new and improved sash fastener. This design consists, "with the sliding latch provided with a handle, of a pivoted stop having a portion to engage said handle and a cam portion at its pivot end and an elongated hole in which the pivot works" (lines 18-22).
Date: July 5, 1892
Creator: Bomar, Thomas B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Tightener. (open access)

Wire-Tightener.

Patent for a new and useful wire tightener, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 5, 1898
Creator: Brown, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sectional Column (open access)

Sectional Column

Patent for a sectional column. This invention is known as the Tuscan beaded face column. Illustration included.
Date: July 5, 1904
Creator: Buckley, James D.
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
Fire-Extinguisher for Aeroplanes and the Like. (open access)

Fire-Extinguisher for Aeroplanes and the Like.

Patent for a fire extinguisher apparatus to be used in air crafts, boats, and other vehicles designed to be lightweight and to quickly extinguish fires.
Date: July 5, 1921
Creator: Clark, Walter C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Non Refillable Bottle (open access)

Non Refillable Bottle

Patent for a non-refillable bottle. This is designed to prevent fraudulent substitution of material. Illustration included.
Date: July 5, 1904
Creator: Clavin, George A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mechanical Motor. (open access)

Mechanical Motor.

Patent for a new and improved motor. This design "is to produce a simple, convenient, and efficient foot-power having a single pedal accessible from each side of the motor or a double pedal accessible at the end to an operator facing the machine" (lines 14-19). It consists "of a horizontal rock-shaft extending lengthwise of the machine, a horizontal connecting-piece running diagonally of and rigidly secured to said shaft, a seat for the operator, a pedal rigidly secured to said rock-shaft, said pedal serving as a single or double pedal and so arranged that the operator shall face the device" (lines 94-101).
Date: July 5, 1892
Creator: Cochins, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
Self-Feeding Cotton-Press (open access)

Self-Feeding Cotton-Press

Patent for a self feeding cotton press.
Date: July 5, 1887
Creator: Davis, Micajah R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Tooth (open access)

Artificial Tooth

Patent for an artificial tooth that is better able to anchor to the mouth plate.
Date: July 5, 1918
Creator: Dee, Thomas W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Tool (open access)

Combination-Tool

Patent for a tool used for wire fences. Illustrations included.
Date: July 5, 1910
Creator: Dikes, Johnnie C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Double-Stream Draft-Arm. (open access)

Double-Stream Draft-Arm.

Patent for a double stream draft arm for soda fountains, which reduces wear and allows easier cleaning.
Date: July 5, 1910
Creator: Dosterschill, Bernard K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Fish-Bucket. (open access)

Combination Fish-Bucket.

Patent for a combination fish bucket, which has two compartments for holding bait, tackle, and food and a holder for a fishing rod, which may be carried on the body or by a handle.
Date: July 5, 1910
Creator: Fly, Nathaniel D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picker's Truck (open access)

Cotton Picker's Truck

Patent for a cotton picker's truck. This invention is to provide a device for supporting the sacks of cotton pickers. Illustrations included.
Date: July 5, 1904
Creator: Franek, Jakob
System: The Portal to Texas History
Implement for Extracting Axle Boxes from Wheel Hubs. (open access)

Implement for Extracting Axle Boxes from Wheel Hubs.

Patent for a new and improved extractor of axle-boxes from wheel hubs. This design is "compris[ed of] screw-threaded rigid portion, elastic bifurcated expansible portion having ledges, abutting frame . . . consisting of bar having central hollow boss and adjustable sliding legs, in combination with the . . . operating nut" (lines 82-91).
Date: July 5, 1887
Creator: Geyer, Hermann R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for a new and improved plow. This design "may be detached and used independent of the frame or carriage; also, that the tongue or pole may be detached and removed from the axle, and such axle, together with the bolster and hounds, may be applied to and used with the farm or other wagon. Thus by means of the attachments described a farmer can, by providing himself [or herself] with the pole and the attachments thereto . . . readily convert his [or her] ordinary walking plow into a wheel-plow by the aid of the hind wheels, axle, and hounds of his [or her] ordinary farm-wagon" (lines 72-84).
Date: July 5, 1887
Creator: Green, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fuel-Supply Apparatus. (open access)

Fuel-Supply Apparatus.

Patent for an improved fuel supply apparatus for liquid fuel.
Date: July 5, 1919
Creator: Guthrie, William S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Planter (open access)

Cotton Planter

Patent for a cotton planter. Illustrations included.
Date: July 5, 1904
Creator: Guton, Isaac
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect Exterminator (open access)

Insect Exterminator

Patent for an insect exterminator to deal with cotton weevils. Illustration included.
Date: July 5, 1904
Creator: Hanus, Joseph & Tucker, William Andrewton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stock Chute (open access)

Stock Chute

Patent for Stock-Chute. "The object of my invention is to supply railroads with a cattle-chute which not only require less work and fewer laborers to operate it, but will afford a perfectly safe means of transferring stock without liability of injury to the stock during the act of transfer." (lines 56-62) With Illustrations.
Date: July 5, 1887
Creator: Hess, William
System: The Portal to Texas History