Crate or Box. (open access)

Crate or Box.

Patent for "a crate or box of knockdown form consisting of a crate or box made of separable sections and bound together by wires and stay-bolts that are loosely set into the sections" (line 11-16) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 26, 1905
Creator: Hines, Warren H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Breast Pump (open access)

Breast Pump

Patent for a maual breast pump. Illustration included.
Date: September 5, 1905
Creator: Ezell, Uberto Desaix
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cleaning-Rod for Rifled Firearms. (open access)

Cleaning-Rod for Rifled Firearms.

Patent for a cleaning rod for rifles, which allows rapid movements in and out and turns a rag easily inside the barrel without tearing the cloth.
Date: September 10, 1907
Creator: Price, Thomas Martin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cord Wood Machine (open access)

Cord Wood Machine

Patent for cord wood machine. This machine is designed for splitting wood. Illustration included.
Date: September 26, 1905
Creator: Taylor, Lawrence S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crate (open access)

Crate

Patent for a cylindrical crate. Illustration included.
Date: September 14, 1909
Creator: Burwell, Charles B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Composition Railroad-Tie And Means For Securing Rails Thereto. (open access)

Composition Railroad-Tie And Means For Securing Rails Thereto.

Patent for new and useful improvements in composition railroad ties and means for securing rails thereto, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 19, 1899
Creator: Baca, August
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin (open access)

Clothes-Pin

Patent for a clothes pin. Illustrations included.
Date: September 20, 1910
Creator: Wiley, Alvin Herbert & Banger, John Edward Armenious
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bridle-Bit. (open access)

Bridle-Bit.

Patent for new and improved bridle-bits, including illustrations.
Date: September 25, 1900
Creator: Lee, Joseph Loverel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Building Block Machine (open access)

Building Block Machine

Patent for a building block machine. This invention is used to mold concrete and other artificial stone blocks. Illustration included.
Date: September 18, 1906
Creator: Latimer, Samuel A. & Krischke, Joseph, Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Railway Switch (open access)

Automatic Railway Switch

Patent for an automatic railway switch. Illustration included.
Date: September 19, 1905
Creator: Ditmars, Frederick R. S. & Hendrix, A. S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap (open access)

Animal-Trap

Patent for an animal trap with a unique construction. It can be used for many animals but is specially made for salamanders or other burrowing type animals.
Date: September 9, 1902
Creator: Hetherington, Sam
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bat Compressing and Feeding Mechanism for Cotton Presses (open access)

Bat Compressing and Feeding Mechanism for Cotton Presses

Patent for an improved bat system to compress a bat of cotton into a number of individual sheets or laminae and to automatically feed same after being compressed into the baling box of an ordinary cotton press for forming cubical or square bales of cotton.
Date: September 3, 1901
Creator: Rembert, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boiler (open access)

Boiler

Patent for a steam boiler "to provide simple and effective means for quickly generating steam by exposing the water fully to the caloric influence of the furnace or fire in the latter through the medium of radial tubular attachments" (lines 9-14), including illustrations.
Date: September 3, 1901
Creator: Hensley, Frank Alfred
System: The Portal to Texas History
Caster. (open access)

Caster.

Patent for a new and useful caster to be "applied to light and heavy furniture" (line 13-14).
Date: September 13, 1898
Creator: Gluck, Solomon
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bearing. (open access)

Bearing.

Patent for improvements in bearings, in which a liquid-step bearing “contains a closed receptacle for oil or other liquid and co-acting with a movable piston or shaft, and adapted to resist end thrust by means of the liquid.” (Lines 11-14) Illustration is included.
Date: September 17, 1907
Creator: Godsey, Henry M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Hydrant and Stop and Waste Cock. (open access)

Combined Hydrant and Stop and Waste Cock.

Patent for a hydrant water cock, which stops water from flowing into the hydrant when it is turned and drains the hydrant.
Date: September 17, 1907
Creator: Bunch, Walter R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Buckle. (open access)

Buckle.

Patent for a "buckle which may be quickly and readily attached to or detached from the straps and which will permit of the ready and rapid adjustment of the straps and at the same time will positively hold the same in their adjusted positions" (lines 13-18).
Date: September 1, 1903
Creator: Pool, Robert C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chicken-Roost. (open access)

Chicken-Roost.

Patent for a chicken roost, which has a receptacle for droppings that is easily cleaned.
Date: September 14, 1909
Creator: Kaneaster, Henry R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boiler Cleaning Compound (open access)

Boiler Cleaning Compound

Patent for a boiler cleaning compound for steam-boilers and furnaces to prevent buildup from hard water.
Date: September 27, 1904
Creator: López, Néstor
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ant-Trap (open access)

Ant-Trap

Patent for an ant trap with a removable bottom which allows the trap to be emptied easily.
Date: September 20, 1910
Creator: Miller, Charles R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cross-Head (open access)

Cross-Head

Patent for a cross-head for piston pumps which helps prevent breakage of the other pump parts.
Date: September 14, 1909
Creator: Dubuque, Arthur
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ant Trap. (open access)

Ant Trap.

Patent for an in-ground ant trap that prevents the ants from escaping once caught in the trap, including instructions and illustrations
Date: September 12, 1911
Creator: Knox, Jessie Lonzo
System: The Portal to Texas History
Piston Rod Packing (open access)

Piston Rod Packing

Patent for piston rod packing. Illustration included.
Date: September 21, 1909
Creator: Rhodes, Hampton P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boiler Stay Bolt (open access)

Boiler Stay Bolt

Patent for a boiler stay bolt. Illustration included.
Date: September 20, 1904
Creator: Peters, Joseph & Coleman, John
System: The Portal to Texas History