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Process of Producing Metallic Zinc (open access)

Process of Producing Metallic Zinc

Patent for a process of producing metallic zinc. Illustration included.
Date: November 22, 1910
Creator: Dawson, Oliver B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Planter Attachment For Cultivators. (open access)

Planter Attachment For Cultivators.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in corn and cotton planter attachments for cultivators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 22, 1898
Creator: Brock, Samuel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate. (open access)

Gate.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in gates, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 22, 1898
Creator: Billingsley, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Guard for Horned Stock (open access)

Guard for Horned Stock

Patent for an attachment to be fitted to any horned animal to prevent it from going over, under, or through wire fences using hooks attached to the horns to hook the fence as the animal attempts to cross it. Hooks can be made to any length specification.
Date: November 22, 1892
Creator: Tackitt, Louis L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gin Rib (open access)

Gin Rib

Patent for a gin rib. This is an improvement on the ribs/grates for cotton gins. Illustration included.
Date: November 22, 1904
Creator: Ellman, Louis W. & Davis, James L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hay-Press (open access)

Hay-Press

Patent for improvements in the construction and design of hay presses.
Date: November 22, 1887
Creator: Flato, Friderich W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow (open access)

Harrow

Patent for an improved harrow. Illustration included.
Date: November 22, 1910
Creator: McWilliams, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Self Supporting And Extension Ladder Elevator (open access)

Self Supporting And Extension Ladder Elevator

Patent for self supporting and extension ladder elevator. This invention is for moving materials and tools to an elevated position. Illustrations included.
Date: November 22, 1904
Creator: Maxey, Ernest & Moreland, Quinn T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Repair-Tool For Wire Fences. (open access)

Repair-Tool For Wire Fences.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in repair tools for wire fences, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 22, 1898
Creator: Major, John H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring Wheel (open access)

Spring Wheel

Patent for improvements on spring wheels especially those adapted for motor vehicles.
Date: November 22, 1911
Creator: Coble, Ernest L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sash Fastener (open access)

Sash Fastener

Patent for a window sash fastener. Illustration included.
Date: November 22, 1904
Creator: Clements, John H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Saddle Stirrup (open access)

Saddle Stirrup

Patent for stirrups. This invention is designed to be automatically detached from the stirrup strap in the case of the rider being thrown. Illustration included.
Date: November 22, 1910
Creator: Shultz, James F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shoe-Plate. (open access)

Shoe-Plate.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in shoe plates, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 22, 1898
Creator: Long, Francis F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety-Truck for Cars (open access)

Safety-Truck for Cars

Patent for safety trucks for railway cars to help prevent the derailment of cars.
Date: November 22, 1892
Creator: Moore, George Wash.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Headlight (open access)

Headlight

Patent for a headlight used with automobiles. Illustration included.
Date: November 22, 1910
Creator: {Kohout, Frederick & Langley, Robert C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil Trap (open access)

Oil Trap

Patent for improvements to floating oil traps. Floating oil traps are used to catch excess oil floating on top of refinery discharge canals. These improvements include increased flexibility, thus allowing the trap to move with the flow of the water.
Date: November 22, 1921
Creator: Jones, Robert P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Piano Tuning-Pin (open access)

Piano Tuning-Pin

Patent for a piano tuning pin that has "superior advantages and of a simple and effective construction and arrangement of parts, which will provide for a more accurate tuning of the piano with which the device is used and at the same time preserve the strings against breakage by avoiding the use of sharp corners" (lines 14-18).
Date: November 22, 1892
Creator: Enos, Henry B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Joint (open access)

Railway-Joint

Patent for improvements onto railway joints to "omit the declining surfaces of the fish-plate and to employ in conjunction with my other devices or wedges an ordinary fish-plate, whereby the invention may be applied to the joints of rails now in use any change whatever either to the fish-plates or the bolts" (lines 22-28).
Date: November 22, 1892
Creator: Greenwell, Robert E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway Cattle-Guard. (open access)

Railway Cattle-Guard.

Patent for a new and useful railway cattle guard, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 22, 1898
Creator: Sivley, John J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump Pipe Insertor and Remover (open access)

Pump Pipe Insertor and Remover

Patent for pump-pipe insertor and remover. Illustration included.
Date: November 22, 1910
Creator: Rhodes, Waddill L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Ticket (open access)

Railroad Ticket

Patent for railroad ticket. Illustration included.
Date: November 22, 1904
Creator: Lyon, Leonidas N. & Donaldson, Westbrook
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow. (open access)

Harrow.

Patent for a new and improved harrow. This design "consist[s] of a central longitudinal beam having perforations, the jointed toothed frame pivoted to supports on the beam, the handles connected at their forward ends to the said beam, the brace-rods pivoted to the handles and to a cross-bar resting on the beam, and the vertical bolt adapted to the perforations in the beam to adjust the cross-bar thereupon, and thereby raise and lower the handles" (lines 85-94).
Date: November 22, 1887
Creator: Wilson, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Game Apparatus (open access)

Game Apparatus

Patent for a game that is designed to impart instruction or information according to subject or topic desired.
Date: November 22, 1910
Creator: Prickett, Clinton E. & Cool, Roy D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draft Device. (open access)

Draft Device.

Patent for a draft device, which can have three animals attached to it.
Date: November 22, 1910
Creator: Rouse, Spencer
System: The Portal to Texas History