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Combined Turning and Leveling Plow. (open access)

Combined Turning and Leveling Plow.

Patent for an improved combined turning and leveling plow.
Date: February 9, 1901
Creator: Collins, Frank
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Faucet and Bottle-Washer (open access)

Combined Faucet and Bottle-Washer

Patent for "a faucet which can be used merely as a faucet or which can be used for washing bottles, as may be desired" (lines 14-16).
Date: April 9, 1901
Creator: Horsley, John Shelton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ink-Fountain (open access)

Ink-Fountain

Patent for "improved means for supplying only a sufficient quantity of ink for immediate use, while at the same time securing a hermetical sealing of the ink within its reservoir, so as to prevent evaporation and thickening thereof" (lines 13-17).
Date: July 9, 1901
Creator: Holden. Elbridge G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ironing-Table (open access)

Ironing-Table

Patent for ironing table with capability of adjustable height and folding features, including illustrations.
Date: April 9, 1901
Creator: Witt, Silas Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ironing-Table (open access)

Ironing-Table

Patent for "an ironing-table of this class which may be used independently of household furniture and like means of support and at the same time provide a construction whereby the board may be used independently of its supporting-stand" (lines 16-21).
Date: April 9, 1901
Creator: Perry, Charles Albert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Generator (open access)

Steam-Generator

Patent for improvements in the construction and design of steam engines.
Date: April 9, 1901
Creator: Thompson, Samuel F. & Barnes, Robert H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Steam Trap. (open access)

Steam Trap.

Patent for invention that relates to improvements in steam and water separators, and more particularly to that class within the valve controlling the escape of the water condensation from the collecting-trap is operated by the movements of a float actuated by the water of condensation (Reynolds, 1901).
Date: July 9, 1901
Creator: Reynolds, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Projectile (open access)

Projectile

Patent for "an improved projectile for guns and ordnance of various classes and bores" (lines 7-9).
Date: April 9, 1901
Creator: Cole, William Franklin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow (open access)

Plow

Patent for improvements of plows and their agricultural implementation.
Date: July 9, 1901
Creator: Kothmann, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine (open access)

Washing-Machine

Patent for a new and improved design and construction for washing machines.
Date: April 9, 1901
Creator: Davis, John Lafayette
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hat-Fastener. (open access)

Hat-Fastener.

Patent for an adjustable hat holder using a band and fasteners, with illustrations.
Date: April 9, 1901
Creator: Huppertz, Lina
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hand-Stamp. (open access)

Hand-Stamp.

Patent for improvements in hand-stamps which “comprises a flexible bed of perculiar formation, removable type, means for securing the type in place against accidental displacement, and a bar connecting the ends of the bed when bowed and serving as a handle.” (Lines 17-22) Illustration is included.
Date: April 9, 1901
Creator: Johnson, John Calvin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Ticket, &c. (open access)

Railway-Ticket, &c.

Patent "to furnish for railway-companies a form of excursion-ticket whose return portion or stop-over portion, as the case may be, is not capable of successful use by scalpers" (lines 11-15).
Date: July 9, 1901
Creator: Smith, Lowndes G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine (open access)

Rotary Engine

Patent for "a simple and efficient construction of engine including two parallel series of piston-heads and wherein steam will be supplied to the heads of each series alternately" (lines 9-13).
Date: July 9, 1901
Creator: Keith, Jonathan
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine (open access)

Rotary Engine

Patent for "a light-running high-speed rotary engine which does not have any dead-center and to avoid back pressure from the exhaust" (lines 15-17).
Date: April 9, 1901
Creator: Schleicher, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
Piano Attachment (open access)

Piano Attachment

Patent for improvements in the medium with which the piano creates notes in correlation with the striking of the strings so that the notes may be "produced alone or in concert with the bell-like tones at the will of the performer" (lines 15-17).
Date: July 9, 1901
Creator: Deutsch, John H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dental Apparatus (open access)

Dental Apparatus

Patent for "a novel and convenient construction of apparatus for supplying medicine, hot air, and water for treating decayed, and abscessed teeth" (lines 12-15).
Date: July 9, 1901
Creator: Gilbert, James Madsen
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Measuring Logs. (open access)

Device for Measuring Logs.

Patent for device for measuring logs consisting "of a pair of calipers, a measuring-segment, an arm, a plate, and a disk" (lines 13-14) in order to measure "the number of lumber feet in a log" lines 16-17), including illustrations.
Date: July 9, 1901
Creator: Cowart, Laurance P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Curtain-Hanging Apparatus. (open access)

Curtain-Hanging Apparatus.

Patent for an apparatus to hang curtains in pairs, designed in a way so that the curtains "may be simultaneously moved in opposite directions to open and close the same" and "to provide improved means for adjustably connecting each curtain to the supporting-pole, and also to provide improved means for hanging the pole" (lines 13-19), including illustrations.
Date: April 9, 1901
Creator: Cloud, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History