Apparatus For Bleaching Lard Compounds (open access)

Apparatus For Bleaching Lard Compounds

Patent for an apparatus for bleaching lard compounds. Illustration included.
Date: November 7, 1905
Creator: Humphreys, Jerome N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve For Smoke-Conveyers And Spark-Arresters. (open access)

Valve For Smoke-Conveyers And Spark-Arresters.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in valves for smoke conveyers and spark arresters, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 7, 1899
Creator: Danan, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hosiery Spat. (open access)

Hosiery Spat.

Patent for hosiery spat that provides feet and ankle "protection when fancy 'open work' or thin hosiery is worn." (lines 15-16) including illustrations.
Date: November 7, 1922
Creator: von S.S. Blum, Elisa
System: The Portal to Texas History
Envelop Machine (open access)

Envelop Machine

Patent for Envelop Machine
Date: November 7, 1916
Creator: Otey, George S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stirrup (open access)

Stirrup

Patent for a stirrup. Illustration included.
Date: November 7, 1905
Creator: Bantz, Frederick Wallace
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fruit-Steamer. (open access)

Fruit-Steamer.

Patent for a new and useful fruit steamer for vegetables, canning fruits, &c., including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 7, 1899
Creator: Henderson, Alfred Jasper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Cotton Feeder. (open access)

Seed-Cotton Feeder.

Patent for a gin feeder that carries "the cotton forward, and is provided with some one or more of many additional devices to regulate the amount delivered by the conveyer, independently of the amount that may be in the feeder, provided only that the supply be not to scanty" (lines 13-18). Other feeders do this, but the patent is for an especially simply designed and does not use a belt conveyer. It also does not wear out easily.
Date: November 7, 1893
Creator: Elam, William Erwin
System: The Portal to Texas History