Compound for Curing and Coloring Meat (open access)

Compound for Curing and Coloring Meat

Patent for a compound to cure, preserve, and color meats, including ingredients and dosage.
Date: August 20, 1907
Creator: Gains, Edward P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin. (open access)

Clothes-Pin.

Patent for an improved clothes pin made from resilient wire stock and comprised of side by side loops and nipping jaws, including illustrations.
Date: August 11, 1915
Creator: Griffin, William Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Fountain-Brush (open access)

Rotary Fountain-Brush

Patent for a Rotary Fountain-Brush. The innovation of this item is that the water or cleaning agent fed into the brush causes it to rotate, using the medium of a water wheel or rotary.
Date: August 2, 1921
Creator: Hargis, Lawrence H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stamp Affixer (open access)

Stamp Affixer

Patent for
Date: August 16, 1910
Creator: Harwell, Marvin E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Motor-Vehicle. (open access)

Motor-Vehicle.

Patent for a motor vehicle of an ordinary farm type wagon.
Date: August 18, 1908
Creator: McCurry, James C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trace Buckle (open access)

Trace Buckle

Patent for trace buckle. Illustration included.
Date: August 1, 1905
Creator: Godfrey, Walter J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Release Mechanism (open access)

Electric Release Mechanism

Patent for an electric release mechanism. This invention is designed to allow the main signal to sound an alarm by the fire telegraph to open doors restraining horses. Illustration included.
Date: August 28, 1906
Creator: Ochs, Jack
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mattress-Stuffing Machine (open access)

Mattress-Stuffing Machine

Patent for Mattress Stuffing Machine which “consists of a bed and cover to hold the stuffing material and give it proper shape, rods to keep the stuffing material in shape while it is being inserted into the ticking, a follow-block for pushing the stuffing and rods into the ticking." (lines 9-14), including illustrations.
Date: August 7, 1900
Creator: Rehkopf, Henry C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drier. (open access)

Drier.

Patent for a new and improved drier. This design "relates to improvements in driers for lumber . . . and the objects of [the] improvement are to provide, with stackless arches having a closed top and openings in the side, a series of spark-arresting plates located opposite said openings, to deflect downward all the sparks that may escape through said openings, and thereby secure perfect safety in the use of that class of driers" (lines 9-22).
Date: August 7, 1888
Creator: McPherson, Wallace
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drier. (open access)

Drier.

Patent for a new and improved drier. This design "relates to improvements in driers for lumber . . . and the objects of [the] improvement are to provide, with stackless arches having a closed top and openings in the side, another arch or arches alongside of the first with openings in its sides, and pendent deflecting-plates to arrest all sparks that may issue from a furnace also provided with deflecting walls or plates, and thereby secure perfect safety in the use of that class of driers" (lines 9-23).
Date: August 14, 1888
Creator: McPherson, Wallace
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Seed Linter (open access)

Cotton-Seed Linter

Patent for an improvement "to prevent the accumulation of lint within the lint-chambers; to provide for the automatic discharge of the lint from the saw-teeth; to provide for a thorough agitation of the seed within the seed-reviews, and, finally, to provide for the delivery of the stripped seed from the machine" (lines 12-19).
Date: August 5, 1890
Creator: O'Brien, Edward J.
System: The Portal to Texas History