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Cooling Device (open access)

Cooling Device

Patent for a refrigerator for dairy products. Illustrations included.
Date: October 24, 1911
Creator: Burkhalter, Milo W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Carpenter's Jack (open access)

Carpenter's Jack

Patent for a carpenter's jack specifically designed for "carpenters or workmen in laying flooring, putting up siding, or any similar operations" (lines 9-11).
Date: October 24, 1905
Creator: McCulley, Perry J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Back-Pedaling Brake. (open access)

Back-Pedaling Brake.

Patent for a new and improved brake and coasting pocket wheel for velocipedes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 24, 1899
Creator: Wallerich, Nicholas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cross-Tie. (open access)

Cross-Tie.

Patent for a railroad cross tie made of concrete and metal, which can be attached without spikes or bolts.
Date: October 24, 1911
Creator: Whaley, Albert L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Auxiliary Air-Feed for Carbureters. (open access)

Auxiliary Air-Feed for Carbureters.

Patent for a carbureter that improves auxiliary air feed, wherein gradually increased quantities of air are harnessed as the speed of the motor increases.
Date: October 24, 1916
Creator: Bills, Thomas M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letters Patent for Flutter Wheels] (open access)

[Letters Patent for Flutter Wheels]

Letters patent granting rights to James Stewart for an improvement to flutter wheels used to drive gins, mills, and other machinery.
Date: October 24, 1828
Creator: United States. Patent Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Wire-Stretcher (open access)

Wire-Stretcher

Patent for improvements to wire-stretchers, "particularly to those arranged for disposal upon wagons, and has for its object to provide a wire-stretcher with which a plurality of wires may be stretched simultaneously and which will be arranged to hold the spools containing the wire which is to be strung." (lines 12-18), including illustrations.
Date: October 24, 1905
Creator: Manning, Butler S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel. (open access)

Vehicle-Wheel.

Patent for a vehicle wheel that imitates a pneumatic tire.
Date: October 24, 1911
Creator: Goss, Charles E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment For Wheeled Plows Or Cultivators. (open access)

Attachment For Wheeled Plows Or Cultivators.

Patent for certain new and useful improvement sin attachments for wheeled plows or cultivators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 24, 1899
Creator: Fullerton, John C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Machines for Making Paving-Blocks. (open access)

Improvements in Machines for Making Paving-Blocks.

Patent for the improvement in machines for making paving-blocks.
Date: October 24, 1871
Creator: Brooks, Samuel Wallace
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ventilators and Protectors for Roofs. (open access)

Improvement in Ventilators and Protectors for Roofs.

Patent for improvements in ventilators and protectors for roofs relating to "a ventilating combing or ridging for roofs of houses" (lines-15-16) including illustrations and instructions.
Date: October 24, 1876
Creator: Brock, Ernst Moritz
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ironing Apparatus. (open access)

Improvement in Ironing Apparatus.

Patent for "a machine for ironing clothing by means of a revolving heated roller, under which is passed a reciprocating table, on which the clothing is placed." (Lines 7-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 24, 1876
Creator: Bailey, Charles F. & Perrenot, George F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washboard. (open access)

Washboard.

Patent for a washboard, with improvements to the conventional washboard such as "having a scrubbing surface formed of transversely arranged, longitudinally twisted wires, which (...) have their ends cleated to the board which prevent displacement" (lines 15-19), including illustrations.
Date: October 24, 1916
Creator: Butler James. F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk- Cutter (open access)

Stalk- Cutter

Patent for a Stalk-Cutter, a "simple, durable and efficient device for cutting stalks, like cotton, cornstalks or weeds, while standing" (lines 13-14).
Date: October 24, 1905
Creator: Wilburn, Sylvestor
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gasoline Burner for Incandescent Lighting (open access)

Gasoline Burner for Incandescent Lighting

Patent for Gasoline Burner for Incandescent Lighting
Date: October 24, 1916
Creator: Volz, William E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil Well Strainer (open access)

Oil Well Strainer

Patent for an oil well strainer that increases the surface area of the inlet, and also provide protection to the person straining.
Date: October 24, 1916
Creator: Hardin, Otis & Daniels, Veerin B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Clipper (open access)

Nut-Clipper

Patent for a Nut-Clipper with a special "cutting-jaw" (line 91-92), which is designed to detach rusted nuts from bolts.
Date: October 24, 1905
Creator: Pulvitt, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump (open access)

Pump

Patent for pump that has "a valve chest which is formed of a single casting removably mounted on the pump cylinder, and carrying all the valves of the pump."
Date: October 24, 1916
Creator: Black, Lee J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Feeding Fuel to Furnaces (open access)

Apparatus for Feeding Fuel to Furnaces

Patent for device that aids in the separation of bolls and burrs in cotton ginning, and makes use of undesired material as a fuel for power.
Date: October 24, 1916
Creator: Williams, Edward
System: The Portal to Texas History
Track-Laying Apparatus (open access)

Track-Laying Apparatus

Patent for a track laying apparatus to be adapted to a self-propelled car or truck. Illustrations included.
Date: October 24, 1911
Creator: Leon, Creed
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spark Plug. (open access)

Spark Plug.

Patent for a spark plug with the capacity to afford an intense spark, prevent leakage of current, and to preclude fouling of the plug in carbon.
Date: October 24, 1922
Creator: Bronson, Fred L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pressure-Regulator (open access)

Pressure-Regulator

Patent for a Pressure-Regulator, which is a device for "automatically regulating the pressure of steam, compressed air, or other gases while passing through a conduit" (lines 8-10).
Date: October 24, 1905
Creator: Moffett, James D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow Attachment. (open access)

Plow Attachment.

Patent for a new and useful plow attachment, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 24, 1899
Creator: Pool, Benjain L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Planter Attachment For Cultivators. (open access)

Planter Attachment For Cultivators.

Patent for a new and useful planter attachment for cultivators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 24, 1899
Creator: Collier, Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History