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Apparatus for Handling Brick. (open access)

Apparatus for Handling Brick.

Patent for an apparatus for handling brick "whereby the number of brick handled by a single hand may be greatly increased" (lines 9-11) including illustrations.
Date: January 3, 1888
Creator: Aber, Edgar
System: The Portal to Texas History
Veneer Basket. (open access)

Veneer Basket.

Patent for stronger, lighter construction of baskets frequently used in shipping fruit, although the improvement "may be used for any and all purposes of which it is capable" (lines 13-15).
Date: June 3, 1902
Creator: Aber, Edgar
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flushing Apparatus. (open access)

Flushing Apparatus.

Patent for a flushing apparatus to be used to flush tanks that are normally kept empty. It is also "an improved siphon for emptying the tank, and also an improved mechanism for starting the siphon" (lines 22-24).
Date: April 3, 1894
Creator: Ackley, George D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Curtain-Pole Remover (open access)

Curtain-Pole Remover

Patent for a curtain pole remover that allows the user to remove or put in place curtain poles without climbing on anything.
Date: December 3, 1912
Creator: Adair, Lulu N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tile-Machine. (open access)

Tile-Machine.

Patent for a tile pipe molder that "expeditiously and cheaply make subirrigating pipe right at the side of the ditch where it is to be laid" (lines 10-13).
Date: April 3, 1894
Creator: Adamson, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aparatus for Cleaning Lechuguilla, Henequen, and Analogous Fibrous Plants. (open access)

Aparatus for Cleaning Lechuguilla, Henequen, and Analogous Fibrous Plants.

Patent for an improved apparatus for scraping lechugilla, henequen, and analogous fibrous plants. This apparatus scrapes the stalks of the plants mechanically and separates the pulp from the fiber of the plant so that the fiber will be cleaned and ready for use.
Date: September 3, 1918
Creator: Aguilar, Alfonso
System: The Portal to Texas History
Upward-Current Separating Process and Device. (open access)

Upward-Current Separating Process and Device.

Patent for upward-current separation processes and devices to allow for working with changes in conditions and proportions with ease.
Date: July 3, 1917
Creator: Allen, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fuse Block (open access)

Fuse Block

Patent for improvements to Patent No. 1113528. Invention provides a fuse block where the fuses can be replaced by a lineman without being in close proximity to the primary circuit wires. Invention also allows various types of fuses to be used.
Date: May 3, 1921
Creator: Anderson, Lou Belle
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grading Apparatus. (open access)

Grading Apparatus.

Patent for improvements in grading apparatus to make it "comparatively simple and inexpensive in construction" (line 10) and readily adjustable.
Date: April 3, 1917
Creator: Anderson, Lycurgus
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for "certain new and useful improvements in baling-presses." (Lines 5-6) Illustrations are included.
Date: April 3, 1888
Creator: Archer, Roger W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Tool. (open access)

Combination Tool.

Patent for a new and improved multi-tool. This design "consists of a tool having a staple-holder, a driver, a chisel, a vise attachment, and a detachable driver adapted to be used with the vise to splice the ends of the wire in building wire fences, in which the tool is used for driving staples, cutting the wire, and splicing the wire, the several devices forming a combination-tool disposed for convenient use upon a stock or holder" (lines 9-17).
Date: March 3, 1885
Creator: Archer, Roger Williams
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picking Machine. (open access)

Cotton-Picking Machine.

Patent for a sack laborers drag around the fields with them to store cotton in. It has a shoulder-strap that fits around the sack's mouth. There are two wheels, and a platform is attached to the axle. The sack is strapped to the platform.
Date: November 3, 1896
Creator: Armstrong, Henry T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press (open access)

Baling Press

Patent for "an improvement in that class of presses adopted for baling hay" (lines 10-11) with illustrations.
Date: June 3, 1902
Creator: Arnold, Cyrus M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle Guard (open access)

Cattle Guard

Patent for a cattle guard that will turn horses, cattle, mules, etc.
Date: December 3, 1901
Creator: Arnold, Eliphalet Lester
System: The Portal to Texas History
Head Rest for Chairs. (open access)

Head Rest for Chairs.

Patent for a new and improved head-rest for chairs. This design consists in "[a] head-rest for chairs, comprising a top support . . . a plate fixed thereto and provided with a socket and guides . . . a ball, fitting socket, and retaining-jaws held in the guide of the plate around the ball" (lines 81-86).
Date: August 3, 1886
Creator: Ashby, Daniel S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water Cup for Stove Pipes. (open access)

Water Cup for Stove Pipes.

Patent for a new and improved water-cup for stove pipes. This design "relates to water cups or vessels arranged on the outside of stove-pipes, and whereby the heat of the pipe of the stove is made to evaporate the water for the purpose of imparting moisture to the air of the apartment containing the stove and so improving the healthiness and pleasantness of the atmosphere of the room" (lines 8-15).
Date: March 3, 1885
Creator: Atkin, Samuel T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring (open access)

Spring

Patent for a spring "wherein all of the parts are removably connected to each other so as to be convenient and inexpensive to repair." (Line 11-14)
Date: November 3, 1914
Creator: Avera, Lawrence A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plowshare. (open access)

Plowshare.

Patent for a plowshare with a reinforced and self-sharpening point.
Date: November 3, 1908
Creator: Awalt, Francis Marion
System: The Portal to Texas History
Door Check. (open access)

Door Check.

Patent for a new and improved door check. This design consists in "the combination, with a wheel provided with annular offsets and journaled in a movable bearing, the brake, and the spring, of the sheath provided with vertical grooves for the U-shaped bearing" (lines 54-58).
Date: July 3, 1888
Creator: Bachman, Joseph A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Holding Paper over Cakes in Ovens. (open access)

Device for Holding Paper over Cakes in Ovens.

Patent for a new and improved paper-holder for cake baking. With this design, "[a] cake is placed in the oven, the holder placed in position over it, the hoop or frame raised, and a paper placed upon [another] hoop. The [first] hoop is then pressed down upon it, when the cake may be baked without the top being scorched" (lines 40-45).
Date: December 3, 1889
Creator: Balfour, Emma
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for an improvement in plows by using a series of spring-tines that are secured above the mold-board, when in operation these independently-moving tines “serve to jar and break the clods, thus not only pulverizing the clods to a certain degree but also insuring the freeing of the tines of all dirt” (lines 90-93), including illustration.
Date: March 3, 1891
Creator: Ball, Alfred Fine
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ice Hook (open access)

Ice Hook

Patent for an ice hook.
Date: May 3, 1904
Creator: Ball, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Convertible Furniture. (open access)

Convertible Furniture.

Patent for convertible furniture used in education. Features a table which can be easily converted from a flat desk, to an inclined black-board, and can store building blocks and similar items.
Date: October 3, 1916
Creator: Barler, Eugene M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Bed and Means for Securing Rails Thereon (open access)

Railway-Bed and Means for Securing Rails Thereon

Patent for a concrete railway bed which holds the rails in place securely.
Date: October 3, 1911
Creator: Barry, Albert T.
System: The Portal to Texas History