Cord-Tying Device. (open access)

Cord-Tying Device.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cord tying devices, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 1, 1899
Creator: Postley, Charles A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
CAR-COUPLING (open access)

CAR-COUPLING

Patent for a Car-Coupling. "This invention relates to car-couplings of the Janney type..." (lines 9-10) including illustrations.
Date: August 11, 1903
Creator: Yeiser, John Clarke
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boiler-Flue-Cleaning Device. (open access)

Boiler-Flue-Cleaning Device.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in boiler flue cleaning devices, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 8, 1899
Creator: Kitchen, George C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cuff Button and Holder. (open access)

Cuff Button and Holder.

Patent for a new and improved cuff button and holder. This design consists in "[a] cuff button and holder having in combination a shank-plate, two buttons, one attached at each end of the shank-plate, and a clamp-bar, one end of which is for attachment to the shirt-sleeve, and the other end having a device to couple with said shank-plate" (lines 1-6).
Date: August 11, 1885
Creator: Stuart, John A. & Woodmansee, John F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for a churn that can be easily disassembled and cleaned easily. The churn is a circular chamber with a tube in its center. The tube has a fan around it at the top of the chamber, and the air goes through the fan, is sucked into the tube, and is released at the bottom of the chamber in order to agitate the cream.
Date: August 11, 1896
Creator: Walker, Ben, Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coin-Sorter. (open access)

Coin-Sorter.

Patent for a coin sorter that sorts coins according to their dimensions and places in a receptacle with removable bottom cover to collect the sorted coins.
Date: August 19, 1913
Creator: Haynie, Brooks & Parmele, James J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Door Attachment. (open access)

Door Attachment.

Patent for a weather strip attachment for doors which would automatically extend from the bottom of the door to the floor when the door is in the closed position and retract to the bottom edge of the door when the door is opened.
Date: August 2, 1921
Creator: Swenson, Frank O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planters. (open access)

Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planters.

Patent for improvement in corn and cotton planting machinery, including illustrations.
Date: August 20, 1872
Creator: Svenson, Bengt Johan
System: The Portal to Texas History
Charcoal-Burning Apparatus. (open access)

Charcoal-Burning Apparatus.

Patent for a durable, more efficient charcoal-burning device which yields higher quality product and in greater quantity than those existing at the time.
Date: August 9, 1921
Creator: McGee, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench. (open access)

Wrench.

Patent for a new and improved wrench. This design "has for its object to provide a tool especially adapted for a pipe-wrench, but also capable of use as a monkey-wrench. A further object of the invention is to construct a wrench with practically two handles, one of which is capable of use as a lever to disengage the jaws from the pipe and to adjust the upper jaw to and from the lower jaw" (lines 8-16).
Date: August 5, 1890
Creator: Kasch, Friedrich Wilhelm
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ironing Board. (open access)

Ironing Board.

Patent for a new and improved ironing-board. This design "is to provide a simple and inexpensive ironing-table adapted to be readily attached to the edge of a table or to a cleat on the wall and capable of being adjusted vertically to accommodate itself to the height of the table or other support" (lines 10-15). It consists in "[a]n ironing-table comprising an ironing-board provided at its rear end with parallel slots . . . the ribs secured to the lower face of the ironing-board and forming grooves or ways, a prop or leg composed of parallel bars adapted to fold in said grooves or ways" (lines 68-73).
Date: August 2, 1892
Creator: Chapin, Frederick N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Window-Fastener. (open access)

Window-Fastener.

Patent for a spring lever for fastening sliding windows, including illustration.
Date: August 31, 1858
Creator: Root, Irving
System: The Portal to Texas History
Windmill. (open access)

Windmill.

Patent for an automatic windmill "which will be capable of obtaining a large amount of power from a comparatively light wind." (Lines 14-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 24, 1897
Creator: Hardaway, Robert E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Windmill. (open access)

Windmill.

Patent for a windmill that qualifies as "a substantial and strong machine capable of withstanding the high winds of the Western prairies, which will be at the same time inexpensive and simple in construction, and which will automatically regulate itself in such a manner as to run with a uniform speed in all kinds of winds" (lines 16-22)
Date: August 30, 1892
Creator: Campbell, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators. (open access)

Improvement in Cultivators.

Patent for the improvement of cultivators, consisting in the construction and arrangement of of a double-sweep plow. It includes a description and illustration.
Date: August 20, 1872
Creator: Svenson, Bengt Johan
System: The Portal to Texas History
Minnow Trap (open access)

Minnow Trap

Patent for Minnow Trap
Date: August 29, 1916
Creator: Bonner, John Sturgis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Hardening Bitminuous Substances. (open access)

Process of Hardening Bitminuous Substances.

Patent for "a process for hardening or partly solidifying to any required degree substances such as liquid or viscid bitumens, tars, or asphaltums, either natural or artificial" (lines 8-12). It hardens bitumens without evaporating oils and leaves them solid when cooled.
Date: August 11, 1896
Creator: Dumble, Edwin Theodore
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mold. (open access)

Mold.

Patent for a mold for viscous materials that are meant to be hardened in the mold or afterward. It is designed to be easily removed from the cast without damaging it.
Date: August 13, 1901
Creator: Parker, William Sink
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow (open access)

Plow

Patent for a plow. Illustration included.
Date: August 4, 1908
Creator: Messer, Jeremiah Clark & Deen, Irwin Johnson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a plow carriage, having a sprocket-wheel attached to the driving-wheel, and a rotary mold-board provided with a sprocket-hub having bearings in the plow-beam, of a shaft journaled upon the carriage-frame provided with toggle or universal joints, and suitable chain or belt connections for the sprocket-wheels" (lines 69-76).
Date: August 6, 1889
Creator: Kirk, Johnathan P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of and Apparatus for Hydrogenating Fats, Oils, Waxes, and the Like. (open access)

Process of and Apparatus for Hydrogenating Fats, Oils, Waxes, and the Like.

Patent for the Process of and Apparatus for Hydrogenating Fats, Oils, Waxes, and the like. The invention is related to the improvement of the effective the hydrogenation process of fats, oils, waxes, and similar materials.
Date: August 20, 1918
Creator: Walker, Thomas Bailey
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate. (open access)

Gate.

Patent for a new and improved gate. This design "relates to improvements in gates of that class known as 'tilting and folding' gates, and is designed to produce a gate that will automatically lock itself when down and close the passage by means which will not interfere in the least with the operation of the tilting" (lines 9-15).
Date: August 4, 1885
Creator: Howe, Charles P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Eraser for Blackboards. (open access)

Eraser for Blackboards.

Patent for a new and improved blackboard eraser. This design "is composed of a block fashioned out of any suitable material—wood preferred— with a suitable handle, and provided with a base having a bed rounding in shape, provided with a rabbet following its edge, one side of which is beveled and the other plain, the two sides of said rabbet forming an obtuse angle about the entire perimeter of the said block" (lines 15-23).
Date: August 12, 1884
Creator: Kempen, Adolph H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Skirt-Rack (open access)

Skirt-Rack

Patent for a skirt rack for holding skirts for display in stores and protecting them from wear and dust.
Date: August 6, 1912
Creator: Douglas, John A.
System: The Portal to Texas History