Automatic Railway-Switch. (open access)

Automatic Railway-Switch.

Patent for a railway-switch by enabling the switch operate automatically when a train is passing by. Illustration is included.
Date: June 25, 1901
Creator: Wilson, James Newton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boiler Stay Bolt (open access)

Boiler Stay Bolt

Patent for a boiler stay bolt. This design is made of flexible stay-bolts for boiler allowing for movement bracing sheets. Illustration included.
Date: June 16, 1908
Creator: Borneman, Lewis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compress and Packer (open access)

Compress and Packer

Patent for a device that provides improvements in machines for compressing, packing, and baling cotton, hay, straw, and the like; and the object is to provide a machine of this character operating automatically to form the bat as the material is received from the gin or condenser and folding the bat back and forth in even layers in the press, forming a complete and symmetrical bale (lines 9-17) Illustrations are included.
Date: June 10, 1902
Creator: Griffin, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Replacer (open access)

Car Replacer

Patent for a car replacer. This invention is designed for the replacement of derailed locomotives, cars, and stock pens to the rails. Illustration included.
Date: June 18, 1907
Creator: Bowman, James M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn Motor. (open access)

Churn Motor.

Patent for a new and improved churn-motor. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the frame, the rock-shaft arranged longitudinally in the top of the same and having the arm and the cross-head, the dasher-rods pivoted to the cross-head, the crank-shaft journaled transversely in the frame below the rock-shaft and having the fly-wheel and the pulley, the pitman connecting the crank-shaft and the arm, the driving-shaft arranged transversely in the frame, the pulley thereon, and the belt connecting the pulleys" (lines 64-74).
Date: June 18, 1889
Creator: Anderson, Henry C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for a new improvement in baling presses that improves strength, durability and handling and is cheap to manufacture, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 14, 1887
Creator: Mansfield, James Edward.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boll Cotton Gin. (open access)

Boll Cotton Gin.

Patent for an improved boll-cotton gin which gathers the cotton bolls without crushing them or intermingling the product with impurities by separating the seed cotton from the bolls and hulls.
Date: June 9, 1914
Creator: Hopper, James F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for effective removal of cotton plants in an alternating pattern with a standard chopping depth, distance, and speed, with illustrations.
Date: June 28, 1921
Creator: Antoni, Ernst J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pocket. (open access)

Pocket.

Patent for a new and improved pouch. This design "is to provide for the use of ladies and others a sheet-metal pocket lined with soft material and provided with a pin by means of which it may be secured to the garments" (lines 7-11).
Date: June 16, 1885
Creator: Roberts, Lilly Forentha
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties. (open access)

Improvement in Bale-Ties.

Patent for improvement in bale-ties, with description and illustrations.
Date: June 8, 1875
Creator: Chadwick, Edwin D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Telephone Transmitter and Receiver (open access)

Telephone Transmitter and Receiver

Patent for a telephone transmitter and receiver. The device is for lines "known as 'long-distance' telephones for the purpose of taking up the weakened vibrations and re-energizing them...transmitting them with increased volume" (line 12-15) illustration included.
Date: June 30, 1903
Creator: Sammons, Oliver P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sewing Machine Attachment (open access)

Sewing Machine Attachment

Patent for a sewing machine attachment that "aims to provide an attachment for use in connection with any sewing machine combining means for hemming, tucking, and braiding, the several parts being adjustable to admit of making hems any width and tucks any size and distance apart, the device being simple and comprising a minimum number of parts" (lines 9-16). Illustration included.
Date: June 9, 1903
Creator: Fain, Eliza Jane
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grease Dispensing Pump (open access)

Grease Dispensing Pump

Patent for improvements upon "grease-dispensing pumps"(line 7) which removes old grease and dispenses "mobile grease"(line 13) easily to machinery.
Date: June 3, 1919
Creator: Miller, Charles R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ice-Cream Freezer (open access)

Ice-Cream Freezer

Patent for an ice-cream freezer. Illustrations included.
Date: June 11, 1907
Creator: Milburn, William M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Screen Attachment for Suction or Exhaust Fans. (open access)

Screen Attachment for Suction or Exhaust Fans.

Patent for a screen attachment that protects fan blades from damaging and being damaged by debris. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 29, 1897
Creator: Davis, Micajah R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shade-Roller Bracket (open access)

Shade-Roller Bracket

Patent for brackets for adjustable window shades without using screws or nails.
Date: June 8, 1912
Creator: Tune, Brooks H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sign. (open access)

Sign.

Patent for signs, bulletin boards and other display apparatus; the purpose of this device is that display elements may be reversed from time to time to change announcement displayed.
Date: June 21, 1921
Creator: Nowlin, Aubrey C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings. (open access)

Improvement in Car-Couplings.

Patent for improvement in car-couplings, including description and illustrations.
Date: June 29, 1875
Creator: Ramage, Charles E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene Gas Generator (open access)

Acetylene Gas Generator

Patent for an acetylene gas generator. Illustration included.
Date: June 20, 1905
Creator: Dickey, John Splann
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for raising water. (open access)

Device for raising water.

Patent for device for raising water. "Our invention relates to water-elevators in which a bucket or like receptacle is periodically lowered into a well and then raised to be emptied."
Date: June 1, 1897
Creator: Poe, Herbert L. & Sparkman, William C.
System: The Portal to Texas History