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Anchor Post (open access)

Anchor Post

Patent for an anchor post. This invention is designed to resist any lateral or longitudinal strain. Illustration included.
Date: November 17, 1903
Creator: Small, Wily & Brock, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Match Box (open access)

Match Box

Patent for match box. This invention is designed to push matches forward and ejecting it without disturbing the other matches remaining in the box. Illustration included.
Date: November 17, 1903
Creator: Kerley, Melvie V.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Metallic End Yoke For Railway Cars (open access)

Metallic End Yoke For Railway Cars

Patent for a metallic end yoke for railway cars. Illustrations included.
Date: November 17, 1903
Creator: Kimbrough, Sidney W.; Watkins, William E. & McCarley, James W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Saddle (open access)

Saddle

Patent for a saddle. Illustration included.
Date: November 17, 1903
Creator: Moore, Sidney S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spur Attachment For Stirrups (open access)

Spur Attachment For Stirrups

Patent for spur attachment for stirrups. "The purpose of the invention is to provide a spur attachment to saddle-stirrups so constructed that a body-bar having an offset carrying a rowel is so hinged at its forward end to the stirrup that when the stirrup is not in use the body-bar carrying the rowel will hang perpendicularly downward, but wherein as soon as the foot is placed in the stirrup" (9-16). Illustration included.
Date: November 17, 1903
Creator: Poorter, Charles Louis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vending Machine (open access)

Vending Machine

Patent for a vending machine. Illustration included.
Date: November 17, 1903
Creator: Scheble, Eugene Stites & Wilmore, S. E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Molding Pipe (open access)

Apparatus for Molding Pipe

Patent for device that allows multiple sized pipes or pipe sections to be milded.
Date: March 17, 1903
Creator: Bergstrom, Otto
System: The Portal to Texas History
Garment-Supporter. (open access)

Garment-Supporter.

Patent for asuspenders-type undergarment supporter.
Date: March 17, 1903
Creator: Nye, William C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hat and Coat Hanger (open access)

Hat and Coat Hanger

Patent for a wall mounted structure on which a hat or coat can be stored.
Date: March 17, 1903
Creator: Krezdorn, Herman A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Laundry-Bag. (open access)

Laundry-Bag.

Patent for Laundry Bag, This patent is about a unique form of laundry bag which can be used as a typical laundry bag while handing it to Laundry and can be then treated as a wrapper while returning it to customer.
Date: March 17, 1903
Creator: Bourne, Edward, Jr
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Grinding Disks. (open access)

Machine for Grinding Disks.

Patent for improvements in grinding-machines in which it can “hold the disk rigidly at a desired angle and can be adjusted from or toward a grinding device;” (lines 13-15) by using a “combination of an adjustable gear, a grinding-wheel and means for imparting motion from the grinding-wheel to the gear; of a spring-pressed roller above the gear and adapted to hold a disk thereon in contact with the wheel.” (Page 2, lines 65-70) Illustration is included.
Date: March 17, 1903
Creator: Shipp, Abijah T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shaft-Tug (open access)

Shaft-Tug

Patent for a support that provides "simple and effective means whereby a shaft may be readily inserted in or removed from the top portion of the tug or support instead of by threading the shaft through the latter." (lines 9-13)
Date: March 17, 1903
Creator: Wiggs, Zeph & Henderson, James E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Window Sash. (open access)

Window Sash.

Patent for an improvement on window sashes allowing for easily removable window panes. Includes illustrations.
Date: March 17, 1903
Creator: Beazley, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Thinner. (open access)

Corn-Thinner.

Patent for improvements in corn-thinners for removing excess stalks in the field by constructing the “upper portion’s blade flat to present straight side cutting edges, and having the lower portion curved transversely to present to a lower semicircular cutting edge.” (Lines 53-56.) With this design, the operator would not have to stoop over, making the thinning operation easier. Illustration is included.
Date: February 17, 1903
Creator: Horn, Henry G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner (open access)

Crude-Oil Burner

Patent for a crude oil burner for stoves.
Date: February 17, 1903
Creator: Heffner, John H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Metal-Pipe Joint (open access)

Metal-Pipe Joint

Patent for a metal-pipe joint.
Date: February 17, 1903
Creator: West, Gustavus Hannibal
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pumping Apparatus. (open access)

Pumping Apparatus.

Patent for improvements to a pumping apparatus "to provide a simple, inexpensive, and easily-operated apparatus through the medium of which water may be forced from a well, stream, or other source of supply by the weight of a person" (lines 14-18).
Date: February 17, 1903
Creator: Simmons, Jessie W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine (open access)

Rotary Engine

Patent for rotary engine.
Date: February 17, 1903
Creator: May, Reynolds
System: The Portal to Texas History