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Automatic Street-Calling Device (open access)

Automatic Street-Calling Device

Patent for an automatic street calling device for streetcars which says the name of the upcoming street/stop and displays it in the street car.
Date: October 11, 1910
Creator: McGee, Richmond M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bookbinder's Gluing-Press. (open access)

Bookbinder's Gluing-Press.

Patent for a bookbinder's gluing press, which can be used for books of varying thicknesses.
Date: October 11, 1910
Creator: Giesecke, Julius; Nebergall, Ben F. & Oheim, George F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chimney Holder (open access)

Chimney Holder

Patent for a chimney holder. This invention is designed to provide an improvement to lamp chimneys. Illustration included.
Date: October 11, 1910
Creator: Sparks, Litch
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator (open access)

Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator

Patent for a combined cotton chopper and cultivator. Illustration included.
Date: October 11, 1910
Creator: Carter, Chester Clark
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Checker and Cultivator. (open access)

Cotton Checker and Cultivator.

Patent for improvements in cotton checkers and cultivators by “providing a device in which the width of the hills or rows may be adjusted to suit the requirements of various grades of soil.” (Lines 15-17) Another improvement is to provide a “means to which the plows of the cultivator may be simultaneously raised or lowered, and when so raised or lowered may be kept in their adjusted positions.” (Lines 19-22) Illustration is included.
Date: January 11, 1910
Creator: Hamilton, Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Checker and Cultivator (open access)

Cotton Checker and Cultivator

Patent for a cotton checker and cultivator. Illustration included.
Date: January 11, 1910
Creator: Hamilton, Robert & Humble, Henry O. V.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cover for Culinary Utensils. (open access)

Cover for Culinary Utensils.

Patent for improvements in covers for culinary vessels in which “the cover will confine the odors arise from the vessel and at the same time the steam may be allowed to escape at any time without removing the cover from the vessel.” (Lines 16-20) Illustration is included.
Date: January 11, 1910
Creator: Reeves, Bell N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner. (open access)

Crude-Oil Burner.

Patent for a crude oil burner for heating stoves, which heats the oil to a high temperature to provide faster vaporization of the oil.
Date: October 11, 1910
Creator: Patton, William D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Teaching Penmanship. (open access)

Device for Teaching Penmanship.

Patent for a device for teaching penmanship, which can be adjusted to fit different hand sizes.
Date: October 11, 1910
Creator: Smith, Sidney R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Egg Beater (open access)

Egg Beater

Patent for an egg beater. Illustration included.
Date: January 11, 1910
Creator: Nichols, Charles A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Match-Box. (open access)

Match-Box.

Patent for improvements in match-boxes by constructing the match box “wherein matches will be picked up and delivered no matter at what angle they may be with relation to the delivering device.” (Lines 18-20) Illustration is included.
Date: January 11, 1910
Creator: Fleming, Henry C. & Royster, William F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Burner. (open access)

Oil-Burner.

Patent for a useful oil-burner by providing an “improved nozzle structure, and with improved means for regulating the flow therefrom.” (Lines 15-17) Illustration is included.
Date: January 11, 1910
Creator: Duke, Holmes
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pindal or Peanut Planter. (open access)

Pindal or Peanut Planter.

Patent for a pindal or peanut planter, which can be attached to a grain planter and make it useful for planting peanuts.
Date: October 11, 1910
Creator: May, Robert Brown
System: The Portal to Texas History
Playing Cards (open access)

Playing Cards

Patent for playing cards. Illustration included.
Date: October 11, 1910
Creator: Hammett, Walter A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow Attachment. (open access)

Plow Attachment.

Patent for a plow attachment, which holds the plow wheel in place.
Date: October 11, 1910
Creator: Dowdy, Ewell Monroe
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow Attachment. (open access)

Plow Attachment.

Patent for a plow attachment by using a socket adapted to be clamped in position upon the beam (line 15). “Plow equipped with the attachment may be used at a straddle-row cultivator, or a middle furrow cultivator, and that the teeth may be so arranged as to cast the soil toward or away from the plants, as occasion may require” (lines 35-40). Illustration is included.
Date: January 11, 1910
Creator: Farrington, Johnathan William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pneumatic Cotton-Seed Separator and Cleaner. (open access)

Pneumatic Cotton-Seed Separator and Cleaner.

Patent for a pneumatic cotton seed separator and cleaner for removing dirt and foreign objects from the cotton seeds.
Date: October 11, 1910
Creator: McDonald, Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Post Card (open access)

Post Card

Patent for a post card. Illustration included.
Date: October 11, 1910
Creator: Graham, Tilghman
System: The Portal to Texas History
Quilting-Frame. (open access)

Quilting-Frame.

Patent for improvements in quilting frames by improving the form of clamp for fastening the ends and sides of the frame together, and screw combines with the clamp which is adapted to receive the terminals of the supporting elements. (Lines 21-25) Illustration is included.
Date: January 11, 1910
Creator: Mahoney, Philip D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stack-Pipe Protector. (open access)

Stack-Pipe Protector.

Patent for an adjustable stack pipe protector.
Date: October 11, 1910
Creator: Huffman, Thadeus E. & Hammett, Isaac E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Chopper. (open access)

Stalk-Chopper.

Patent for a stalk chopper, which attaches to a plow.
Date: October 11, 1910
Creator: King, Julian
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tobacco-Pipe. (open access)

Tobacco-Pipe.

Patent for improvements in tobacco-pipes by providing “an improved construction of pipe having means for filtering the smoke, and means whereby the nicotine and tar from the tobacco will be absorbed and prevented from entering the stem of the pipe.” (Lines 14-18) Illustration is included.
Date: January 11, 1910
Creator: Miles, Joseph Furnas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washboiler (open access)

Washboiler

Patent for a washboiler. Illustration included.
Date: October 11, 1910
Creator: Cooper, James O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Winding Machine (open access)

Wire-Winding Machine

Patent for a wire winding machine for making coils of wire for well screens with notches in the wire.
Date: October 11, 1910
Creator: Johnson, John N.
System: The Portal to Texas History