Airship. (open access)

Airship.

Patent for improved airship design involving the containment of gas in an envelop and the passage of gas through multiple compartments with the purpose of facilitating, "steering or repairing of the machine." (line 17) including illustrations.
Date: August 13, 1918
Creator: Rainey, James E. J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Amusement Device (open access)

Amusement Device

Patent for an amusement device. Illustrations included.
Date: August 13, 1912
Creator: Dougherty, James P. & Beeman, Mark
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Cotton or Corn Planter. (open access)

Automatic Cotton or Corn Planter.

Patent for an automatic cotton or corn planter that is simple and inexpensive, and is a line of planters that sows in parallel rows that does not need to be guided by hand. The devices are independently adjustable.
Date: March 13, 1894
Creator: Nehrmeyer, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Railway-Gate. (open access)

Automatic Railway-Gate.

Patent for an automatic railway gate that consists of a picket shaft under the rails, cranks between the rails that are connected to the picket shaft, springs holding the shaft, tread rails that run along the rails and join the cranks, and guide blocks along each tread rail.
Date: February 13, 1894
Creator: Warren, Governor D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cabinet (open access)

Cabinet

Patent for a cabinet. Illustration included.
Date: March 13, 1906
Creator: Dorsey, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Door. (open access)

Car-Door.

Patent for a door for railroad boxcars, which locks tightly and does not swell.
Date: September 13, 1910
Creator: Ward, Frank & Hollingsworth, Joseph C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clamp. (open access)

Clamp.

Patent for a new clamp to improve support functionality in household construction, including illustration.
Date: February 13, 1906
Creator: Stevens, John J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Flower and Meal Bin and Flour Sifter. (open access)

Combined Flower and Meal Bin and Flour Sifter.

Patent for a new and improved flour and meal bin and flour sifter. This design "has relation to that class of flour-sifters in which the sifting mechanism is secured at the lower end of a bin or receptacle containing the flour or meal; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of such a device in which the bin is divided in two receptacles opening into the sifting mechanism, and having suitable cut-off slides" (lines 21-29).
Date: October 13, 1885
Creator: Williams, Robert E. & Trammell, William A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Supplemental Gas Reservoir and Burner (open access)

Combined Supplemental Gas Reservoir and Burner

Patent for an improved gas burner and reservoir meant to be used with gas blow torches. It was meant to be used with natrual gas and to help equalize its pressure in order to produce a steady flame.
Date: October 13, 1914
Creator: Gilbert, James Madison
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Feeder. (open access)

Cotton-Feeder.

Patent for cotton feeders to facilitate the replacement of feed rollers without damage to the cotton feeder and be disposed of efficiently, including illustrations and instructions.
Date: February 13, 1912
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picking Machine (open access)

Cotton-Picking Machine

Patent for improvements to a cotton picking machine complete with illustrations
Date: April 13, 1915
Creator: Meier, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Reginning Machine (open access)

Cotton Reginning Machine

Patent for machine that improves the grade of harvested
Date: February 13, 1917
Creator: Stephens, Louis K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dish-Washing Machine. (open access)

Dish-Washing Machine.

Patent for an improved dish-washing machine with removable platforms to hold the dishes to be cleaned and water spraying from both top and bottom of the device, including illustrations.
Date: November 13, 1917
Creator: Crow, Jesse J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dispensing Liquids (open access)

Dispensing Liquids

Patent for device used to dispense liquids such as gasolene or the like.
Date: March 13, 1917
Creator: Bruce, Thomas S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Distant Control Switch Socket For Electric Lights (open access)

Distant Control Switch Socket For Electric Lights

Patent for an improved electric light control switch design meant to decrease the rate of energy consumption.
Date: May 13, 1919
Creator: Davis, James Mattison
System: The Portal to Texas History
Elevator Controlling Device (open access)

Elevator Controlling Device

Patent for improvements to the elevator controlling device. These improvements have to do with the main circuit being broken while the elevator doors are open, thus stopping the elevator from moving before the doors are fully closed.
Date: September 13, 1921
Creator: Quick, Charles F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Float Drive For Cotton Linters (open access)

Float Drive For Cotton Linters

Patent for a float drive. This invention is for cotton seed linters as a means for imparting rotative movement to the float. Illustration included.
Date: November 13, 1906
Creator: Kimbrough, Jacob Wheeler
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fuse-Block. (open access)

Fuse-Block.

Patent for the Fuse Block. Patent is an improvement to the existing Fuse Block. It allows safer working conditions for those who have to replace or install new fuse blocks at night and/or the rain.
Date: October 13, 1914
Creator: Anderson, Ulin S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gin-Saw. (open access)

Gin-Saw.

Patent for a saw toothed drums or cylinders (such as used for gins that denude cotton seeds).
Date: February 13, 1912
Creator: Garner, James C. & Reynolds, Charles S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hot Pan Lifter. (open access)

Hot Pan Lifter.

Patent for a new and improved potholder. This design is "to provide novel means whereby the various sizes of baking and other pans in the equipment of a kitchen can be conveniently and safely handled without danger of the pan being accidentally disengaged from the implement . . . to provide a novel hot-pan lifter which will in use have a positive toothed engagement with the rim of a hot-pan . . . to provide novel, simple, and efficient means whereby the lifter or implement can be promptly and conveniently released from . . .the pan . . . by the simple pressure of the thumb" (lines 18-31).
Date: January 13, 1891
Creator: Penfield, Matie B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Couplings. (open access)

Improvement in Car-Couplings.

Patent for an improvement in railroad-car couplings, including illustration.
Date: January 13, 1874
Creator: Jackson, Thomas Rivers
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lemon Squeezer (open access)

Lemon Squeezer

Patent for a lemon squeezing mechanism, designed to be more convenient for convenience store clerks.
Date: September 7, 1915
Creator: Cooper, James A. & Cooper, Joel C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Liquid Fuel Burner (open access)

Liquid Fuel Burner

Patent for a liquid fuel burner. Illustration included.
Date: September 13, 1910
Creator: Phillips, Bradford R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Locking Device for Motor Vehicles (open access)

Locking Device for Motor Vehicles

Patent for lock device for motor vehicles
Date: March 13, 1917
Creator: Gulden, Richard A.
System: The Portal to Texas History