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Easel (open access)

Easel

Patent for an adjustable easel.
Date: March 11, 1902
Creator: Mueller, Carl P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner. (open access)

Crude-Oil Burner.

Patent for a crude oil burner for heating stoves, which heats the oil to a high temperature to provide faster vaporization of the oil.
Date: October 11, 1910
Creator: Patton, William D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Railway-Switch (open access)

Automatic Railway-Switch

Patent for an improved automatic railway switch based on an earlier model made by the same person. Illustrations included.
Date: February 11, 1908
Creator: McGee, Richard M. & Jones, William M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
PRINTER'S QUOIN (open access)

PRINTER'S QUOIN

Patent for Printer's Quoin. "The invention relates to printers' lock-ups; and its object is to provide a new and improved printer's quoin..." (lines 8-10) and illustrations.
Date: August 11, 1903
Creator: Decker, William Scott
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chemical Fire-Extinguisher. (open access)

Chemical Fire-Extinguisher.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in chemical fire extinguishers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 11, 1898
Creator: Flatau, Louis S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Street-Calling Device (open access)

Automatic Street-Calling Device

Patent for an automatic street calling device for streetcars which says the name of the upcoming street/stop and displays it in the street car.
Date: October 11, 1910
Creator: McGee, Richmond M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cooling Mechanism For Explosive Engines (open access)

Cooling Mechanism For Explosive Engines

Patent for cooling mechanism for explosive engines. Illustration included.
Date: October 11, 1904
Creator: Reaugh, Frank
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plaiting Apparatus (open access)

Plaiting Apparatus

Patent for improved apparatus for plaiter, to increase efficiency and ease of use with durable and simple design.
Date: March 11, 1902
Creator: Reynolds, Charles A. & Reynolds, Sallie A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coin-Operated Boot or Show Blackening Machine (open access)

Coin-Operated Boot or Show Blackening Machine

Patent for a shoe or boot blackening machine that operates automatically with the depositing of a coin, and as such drastically decreases labor and time needed for shoe or boot blackening.
Date: October 11, 1892
Creator: Knight, Nute B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Composition of Matter for Saving Coal During Combustion. (open access)

Composition of Matter for Saving Coal During Combustion.

Patent for cheap, effective compound to sprinkle on coal to render it more combustible so that it burns more cleanly and soot is not emitted.
Date: June 11, 1895
Creator: Stokey, David Gray
System: The Portal to Texas History
Burglar-Alarm. (open access)

Burglar-Alarm.

Patent for Buglar-Alarm. Adding protection to building windows.
Date: November 11, 1913
Creator: Ogle, Edward
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel. (open access)

Vehicle-Wheel.

Patent for a wheel that uses tubes, springs, and cushions to absorb shock and creating a smoother ride for the passenger.
Date: November 11, 1913
Creator: Milam, William A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Use of Microwaves to Crosslink Carbon Nanotubes (open access)

Use of Microwaves to Crosslink Carbon Nanotubes

Patent relating to the use of microwaves to crosslink carbon nanotubes.
Date: December 17, 2003
Creator: Tour, James M.; Stephenson, Jason J.; Imholt, Timothy; Dyke, Christopher A.; Yakobson, Boris I. & Roberts, James A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Building-Slab (open access)

Building-Slab

Patent for new invention that would improve in the construction of upright walls.
Date: February 11, 1920
Creator: Hanszen, Oscar A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin. (open access)

Clothes-Pin.

Patent for metallic clothes pins made from a single length of wire.
Date: February 11, 1919
Creator: Atkins, Irving J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Window Screen Hanger (open access)

Window Screen Hanger

Patent for a window screen hanger. Illustration included.
Date: October 11, 1904
Creator: Rust, Emory G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Separating Decorticated Cotton-Seed. (open access)

Machine for Separating Decorticated Cotton-Seed.

Patent for a machine dedicated to "increase the capacity of machines for separating decorticated cotton-seed" (lines 9-10) and to "separate the meal from the husks of the decorticated cotton-seed, whereby perfectly clean meal is collected" (lines 12-15)
Date: May 11, 1897
Creator: Bell, Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vapor-Burner. (open access)

Vapor-Burner.

Patent for a vapor burner that improves upon existing vapor burners by using steam to heat oil and mix with vapor. This invention consists of novel features within the vapor burner's arrangement and construction.
Date: August 11, 1903
Creator: Pritchard, Edward Walter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Toggle and Clip Combination. (open access)

Toggle and Clip Combination.

Patent for improvement in toggle and clip combinations, specifically simplicity and economy in construction, convenience, and efficiency in use.
Date: August 11, 1914
Creator: Schoellkopf, Jacob Frederick
System: The Portal to Texas History
Station Indicator (open access)

Station Indicator

Patent for a station indicator. Illustration included.
Date: May 11, 1909
Creator: Tanner, Theophile
System: The Portal to Texas History
Telephone Signal (open access)

Telephone Signal

Patent for a telephone signal. This invention relates to electrically operated signals whereby a visual signal for indicating when a telephone rings. Illustration included.
Date: December 11, 1906
Creator: Jordan, Thomas P. & Carden, George A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pneumatic Apparatus for Handling Seed-Cotton. (open access)

Pneumatic Apparatus for Handling Seed-Cotton.

Patent for a machine that removes cotton from a "wagon or other vehicle" (line 11), and moving it to a storage facility. It also moves the cotton from the storage facility and into the cotton gin. The cotton is elevated during movement via suction.
Date: May 11, 1897
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Producing Tire-Patch Material. (open access)

Process of Producing Tire-Patch Material.

Patent for an improved tire patch material combination and production process, which results in less water absorption and better adhesion to the tire.
Date: May 11, 1920
Creator: Duffy, Clarence O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trolley-Pole. (open access)

Trolley-Pole.

Patent for trolley-poles for electric cars which provides "a simple, inexpensive, and highly efficient trolley-wire finder, and one which is readily applicable to trolley-poles such as at present in use and is adapted to be quickly and easily raised to an operative position and when released is adapted to gravitate to a position below and out of the way of the trolley-wire" (lines 15-22).
Date: December 11, 1900
Creator: Schroeter, William & Kautzmann, August
System: The Portal to Texas History