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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
Hoist (open access)

Hoist

Patent for a hoist for lifting motor vehicles. Illustrations included.
Date: August 1, 1911
Creator: McCoy, Henry L. & Boatright, William B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Four-Horse Evener for Wheel-Plows (open access)

Four-Horse Evener for Wheel-Plows

Patent for a four horse evener for wheel plows that improves disk or moldboard. It corrects the plows tendency to swing when met with the ground and utilizes the same force to relieve strain from the horses.
Date: August 1, 1905
Creator: Wolcott, Oliver P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electrically Energized Fence (open access)

Electrically Energized Fence

Patent for an electrically energized fence. Illustration included.
Date: August 1, 1905
Creator: McNair, Albert Duy
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feed-Water Regulator For Boilers. (open access)

Feed-Water Regulator For Boilers.

Patent for a new and useful feed water regulator for boilers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 1, 1899
Creator: Bowles, Hardy
System: The Portal to Texas History
End Gate Fastener (open access)

End Gate Fastener

Patent for gate on the back of a wagon. Illustration included.
Date: August 1, 1905
Creator: Clarke, William K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Folding Coop (open access)

Folding Coop

Patent for folding coop. Illustration included.
Date: August 1, 1905
Creator: Franke, Herman R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Food-Tongs (open access)

Food-Tongs

Patent for
Date: August 1, 1911
Creator: Wheeler, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Folding Penholder (open access)

Folding Penholder

Patent for a foldable penholder. Illustrations included.
Date: August 1, 1911
Creator: Splettstosser, Fritz
System: The Portal to Texas History
Penholder. (open access)

Penholder.

Patent for a new and useful improvement in penholders, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 1, 1899
Creator: Thurman, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Powder-Dividing Machine (open access)

Powder-Dividing Machine

Patent for a machine used primarily by pharmacists to divide medicinal powders. Illustrations included.
Date: August 1, 1911
Creator: Brown, Patrick H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Portable and Foldable Support for Weighing-Scales (open access)

Portable and Foldable Support for Weighing-Scales

Patent for a portable and foldable support for weighing scales designed to hold the scale at any given height from ground level. Illustrations included.
Date: August 1, 1911
Creator: Roten, Owen Y.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Horse-Detacher. (open access)

Horse-Detacher.

Patent for a new and useful horse detacher, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 1, 1899
Creator: Haines, Samuel Alfred
System: The Portal to Texas History
Saw-Set (open access)

Saw-Set

Patent for a saw set. Illustrations included.
Date: August 1, 1911
Creator: Adams, Theodore C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shaft-Iron. (open access)

Shaft-Iron.

Patent for a new and useful shaft iron, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 1, 1899
Creator: Boynton, Willie Amos
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cut-Off for Concrete-Mixers (open access)

Cut-Off for Concrete-Mixers

Patent for a cut-off valve for rotary concrete mixers. Illustrations included.
Date: August 1, 1911
Creator: Shero, Clarence E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator. (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in acetylene gas machines, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 1, 1899
Creator: Henderson, Thomas & Stapp, William A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Whip Socket and Rein Holder. (open access)

Combined Whip Socket and Rein Holder.

Patent for a new and improved combined whip socket and rein holder. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the pivoted whip-socket, its serrated eccentric face and bearing-plate, and a spring connected to the socket and bearing-plate, whereby the eccentric face is brought to bear automatically" (lines 20-25).
Date: August 1, 1882
Creator: Bellah, William Newton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baggage Check and Clasp. (open access)

Baggage Check and Clasp.

Patent for a new and improved baggage check and clasp. This design "consists in a novel construction and arrangement of a check, a direction-plate, and a clasp for securing said parts to an article of baggage" (lines 18-21).
Date: August 1, 1882
Creator: McLeary, James Harvey
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Drop-Lid for Bins or Boxes. (open access)

Automatic Drop-Lid for Bins or Boxes.

Patent for "boxes or bins for store counters and shelves; and it has for its object to provide certain improvements in the lid devices for boxes or bins, so as to avoid the many objections to hinged lids, which interfere with free access to the interior of the box or bin when the same is used under the counter or on shelves" (lines 8-15).
Date: August 1, 1893
Creator: Dailey, Basil
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher. (open access)

Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for an improved, simple, and inexpensive wire stretcher "which may readily be employed for stretching wires to a post for stapling, for stretching or drawing the ends of wires together for tying and for drawing out or removing staples from a post" (lines 12-16).
Date: August 1, 1893
Creator: Palmer, Joshua C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale or Bundle Wiring Tool. (open access)

Bale or Bundle Wiring Tool.

Patent for a tool that tightly twists wire around a bale in a bale press. It works quickly and works better than other wiring tools. "This tool is so constructed that two or more wires can be grasped at two different times independent of each with one movement of the hand, not loosening the grip on the first wire while the second wire is grasped and cut off" (lines 35-40).
Date: August 1, 1893
Creator: Schubert, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gun-Magazine. (open access)

Gun-Magazine.

Patent for an improved gun magazine that consists of a glass lining with openings on its sides.
Date: August 1, 1893
Creator: Whitten, Burrel Franklin & Porcher, Joseph Ford
System: The Portal to Texas History
Swing. (open access)

Swing.

Patent for an improved and inexpensive swing that is foot-operated. The swing is built into a frame, and connects to the frame on two points on each end of the swing.
Date: August 1, 1893
Creator: Brydson, John J. & Greathouse, John A.
System: The Portal to Texas History