Resource Type
Country
States
Decade
Month
Day
Can-Opener.
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Can-Openers." (line 5-6) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 9, 1909
Creator:
Davis, James Walter & McBee, Marshall E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Window-Awning And Fire-Protector.
Patent for a collapsible window awning.
Date:
April 9, 1912
Creator:
Guy, Webb W. & Richards, Oliver L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Ventilator.
Patent for a railroad car ventilator, which supplies fresh air to the car and sends stale air out of the car. It also is equipped with an ice cooling system and a disinfectant spray system.
Date:
March 9, 1909
Creator:
Carroll, Samuel C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin.
Patent for a clothes-pin made of one piece of wire twisted around with a spring-clamping mechanism for holding clothes.
Date:
July 9, 1907
Creator:
Freeze, John A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Device for Dipping Lumber.
Patent for a device for dipping lumber in a "soda" bath for preventing mildewing that allows the operator of the sawmill to determine which logs go through the bath.
Date:
August 9, 1910
Creator:
Baten, William Lucian
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Churn and Ice Cream Freezer
Patent for a combined churn and ice cream freezer. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 9, 1909
Creator:
Jones, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boll Weevil Exterminator
Patent for a boll weevil exterminator. This invention is designed to remove boll weevils from cotton plants and crushing them between rollers. Illustration included.
Date:
October 9, 1906
Creator:
Meeks, William & Brown, Daniel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Smoke-Consumer and Vaporizer.
Patent for a combined smoke-consumer and vaporizer that increases fuel efficiency in furnaces.
Date:
January 9, 1912
Creator:
Davis, Othman
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Extracting Honey
Patent for an apparatus for extracting honey. Illustration included.
Date:
June 9, 1908
Creator:
Avant, Leonidas W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a new and useful cultivator, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 9, 1898
Creator:
Otenhouse, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
CASH REGISTER.
Patent for improvements in cash-registers for making change and with a recording mechanism for printing amounts for which change is made, including descriptions of the parts of the mechanism and with illustrations.
Date:
December 9, 1902
Creator:
Woodson, James F. & Lindsay, Oscar L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Pump for Internal Combustion Engines
Patent for an automatic pump for internal combustion engines. Illustration included.
Date:
August 9, 1910
Creator:
Smith, Robert W. J.; Anderson, John C. & Rowe, Robert J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bolt-Clipper
Patent for improvements to bolt cutters, in terms of construction and efficiency. The improvement includes "oppositely-disposed jaw members, having v-shaped cutting edges" (lines 36-37). Includes illustrations.
Date:
January 9, 1906
Creator:
Pulvitt, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ariel Navigation
Patent for an airplane which will maintain its balance in the air and can be easily maneuvered up and down and around in the air.
Date:
May 9, 1911
Creator:
Nichols, Jack Lloyd
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Compressed-Air Machine.
Patent for an "an automatically acting compressed air machine where a reciprocating action is desired" (lines 9-11) "which will be automatic and positive in its action, which may be operated with minimum amount of compressed fluid, and which has relatively few parts that might get out of order" (lines 12-18).
Date:
April 9, 1912
Creator:
Saurenmann, Jacob Gilmore
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Casing Water Packer
Patent for improved casing water-packer used for Artesian wells.
Date:
June 9, 1903
Creator:
Haas, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap
Patent for an animal trap with a unique construction. It can be used for many animals but is specially made for salamanders or other burrowing type animals.
Date:
September 9, 1902
Creator:
Hetherington, Sam
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Casing-Point
Patent for an improved casing point with improvements in the strainer or screen frame for wells.
Date:
December 9, 1902
Creator:
Lindstrom, Conrad
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Back or Lining for Fireplaces.
Patent for improvement linings of fireplaces including the cost for creation, the adaption to fireplaces of different sizes, the expansion and contraction of parts under the influence of heat.
Date:
August 9, 1898
Creator:
Dickson, John Albert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin.
Patent for an improved brush cylinder for cotton gins.
Date:
May 9, 1911
Creator:
Murray, Stephen D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Check-Row Attachment for Corn-Planters
Patent for "an improved check-row attachment for corn-planting machines, the object of my invention being to provide an efficient mechanism for actuating the seed-dropping mechanism of the corn-planter and which my be operated by the feet of the driver or by a check-wire in such manner as to cause the seeds to be planted in check-rows." (lines 8-15) including illustrations.
Date:
June 9, 1903
Creator:
Agee, George S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Disk Cultivator
Patent for an improved "disk cultivator that will be adapted for the various purposes to which such devices are ordinarily applied. The invention consists in certain details of construction and combination and arrangement of parts" (lines 13-18)
Date:
August 9, 1898
Creator:
Brock, Andrew L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Cultivator Disk
Patent for a cultivator disk. Illustration included.
Date:
May 9, 1905
Creator:
Harris, Samuel A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History