Ant-Trap (open access)

Ant-Trap

Patent for an ant trap "to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient one of great strength and durability adapted to be place over an ant-hill and capable of capturing the ant in the hill as they leave the same and also of catching the outside ants as they attempt to enter the hill. (line 11-17)
Date: May 26, 1903
Creator: Finley, William Frederick
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Controlling Trolley Poles (open access)

Apparatus for Controlling Trolley Poles

Patent for an apparatus for controlling trolley poles. "This invention relates to an apparatus for controlling trolley poles employed for effecting electrical connection between a trolley wire and a motor on a car, and has for its object to provide improved means for automatically throwing the trolley into position to be placed in engagement with the trolley wire" (line 9-15). Illustrations included.
Date: November 10, 1903
Creator: Bogue, Judson L. & Jennings, David M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draft-Equalizer. (open access)

Draft-Equalizer.

Patent for improvement in draft-equalizers in which the draft-equalizer will “first, take away the side draft; second, to enable the plow to follow the furrow; third, to work three, four, or five horses to the same bars by simply adjusting the bars; fourth, to enable all horses except one to walk on solid ground, the one to walk in furrow; fifth, to enable the operator to place load on any point of the bars he chooses and still have a straight pull.” (Lines 25-34) Illustration is included.
Date: February 10, 1903
Creator: Lawrence, David & Vincent, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dry Closet (open access)

Dry Closet

Patent for a dry closet.
Date: April 14, 1903
Creator: Davis, Samuel & Hanson, A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Expansible Pulley (open access)

Expansible Pulley

Patent for an expansible pulley. This invention is constructed to expand and contract easily with great durability. Illustration included.
Date: December 1, 1903
Creator: Peters, William Arthur & May, Reynolds
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Trap (open access)

Insect-Trap

Patent for an insect trap.
Date: March 31, 1903
Creator: Estep, Samuel Richard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine (open access)

Rotary Engine

Patent for rotary engine.
Date: February 17, 1903
Creator: May, Reynolds
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sewing Machine Attachment (open access)

Sewing Machine Attachment

Patent for a sewing machine attachment that "aims to provide an attachment for use in connection with any sewing machine combining means for hemming, tucking, and braiding, the several parts being adjustable to admit of making hems any width and tucks any size and distance apart, the device being simple and comprising a minimum number of parts" (lines 9-16). Illustration included.
Date: June 9, 1903
Creator: Fain, Eliza Jane
System: The Portal to Texas History
Surgical Applicator (open access)

Surgical Applicator

Patent for a surgical applicator "which may be employed for the application of a suitable medicament to the membranous lining of the urethral canal of the phallus.(line 10-14).
Date: May 26, 1903
Creator: Ridgeway, Elzie L. & Bailey, Dan H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Telephone Transmitter and Receiver (open access)

Telephone Transmitter and Receiver

Patent for a telephone transmitter and receiver. The device is for lines "known as 'long-distance' telephones for the purpose of taking up the weakened vibrations and re-energizing them...transmitting them with increased volume" (line 12-15) illustration included.
Date: June 30, 1903
Creator: Sammons, Oliver P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trolley-Controller (open access)

Trolley-Controller

Patent for a means to "instantly pull down the trolley-pole when its trolley jumps the conductor-wire." (line 15-17)
Date: November 24, 1903
Creator: Leecraft, Walter, B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve Stem Packing (open access)

Valve Stem Packing

Patent for "valve-stem packing for locomotives and steam engines." (lines 8,9) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 25, 1903
Creator: McComas, Charles F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washing Machine (open access)

Washing Machine

Patent for a washing machine. "This invention relates to washing-machines in the nature of a combined boiler and washing machine" (8-10). Illustration included.
Date: October 13, 1903
Creator: Pollard, Louis Edgar
System: The Portal to Texas History