Button (open access)

Button

Patent for a button that holds articles of clothing securely with a combination of rings
Date: January 11, 1916
Creator: Karger, Rose
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bat-Forming Apparatus. (open access)

Bat-Forming Apparatus.

Patent for an apparatus to form bats, made of fibrous material, to be placed in the coverings or tickings to make mattresses. The apparatus works so that "the bat-forming fibrous material may be evenly distributed, and by which the mattress-forming operation may be expeditiously carried on" (lines 16-19). The patent includes illustrations.
Date: September 23, 1913
Creator: Haynes, Daniel & Haynes, Richard H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Collapsible Crate (open access)

Collapsible Crate

Patent fora collapsible crate used specifically for "shipping poultry or other live animals" (lines 11-12).
Date: March 23, 1915
Creator: Master, Chester A. & Wolnitzek, Oscar T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Phonographic Reproducers. (open access)

Attachment for Phonographic Reproducers.

Patent for a device that reduces the crackling sound of records playing on a phonograph.
Date: March 20, 1917
Creator: Gollmer, Edmund
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Electric-Light Holder. (open access)

Adjustable Electric-Light Holder.

Patent for an adjustable electric-light holder for automobiles.
Date: November 26, 1918
Creator: Balke, Morris
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator. (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator.

Patent for "an improved apparatus for generating acetylene gas" (lines 12-13). The apparatus includes a carbid receptacle with a conical bottom and a cylindrical valve for better control of the carbid, as well as a gas tank with a gasometer-bell which operates the system.
Date: December 3, 1918
Creator: Lay, Claud
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Rack. (open access)

Clothes-Rack.

Patent for "a new and improved clothes rack, adapted to be carried in one's pocket," (lines 8-10) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 1, 1919
Creator: Walling, Carl H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ventilator. (open access)

Ventilator.

Patent for a ventilating cowl for buildings for fire prevention by causing smoke and sparks to pass outside of a building or deflate to the surface below. The cowl is cone shaped with a deflecting surface and has several rings through which smoke and sparks can pass through to the outside.
Date: November 30, 1915
Creator: Ashorn, Inshrish
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stationery Filing-Case (open access)

Stationery Filing-Case

Patent for a stationery filing case. Illustrations included.
Date: March 29, 1910
Creator: Bane, Hamilton Sayers
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mailing-Galley. (open access)

Mailing-Galley.

Patent for a mailing galley for cleaning type, which allows the cleaning fluid to drain but keeps the type in the galley.
Date: April 19, 1910
Creator: Zeiske, Richard E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Triple Valve. (open access)

Triple Valve.

Patent for a triple valve for brake systems on trains, which reduces pressure in the air pipes of the train and automatically brakes if there is a broken air hose.
Date: July 26, 1910
Creator: Torbron, Orin F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stock Food (open access)

Stock Food

Patent for a food stock product for cows, sheep, goats and other herbivore farm animals.
Date: October 5, 1915
Creator: Walker, Thomas Bailey
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hammock (open access)

Hammock

Patent for a hammock for jails and ships. Illustrations included.
Date: January 3, 1911
Creator: Palm, Jay Dee & Palm, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Corn Hanger. (open access)

Seed-Corn Hanger.

Patent for Seed-Corn Hangers "for holding ears of seed-corn during the period of drying".
Date: July 6, 1915
Creator: Weaver, Willis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Tester (open access)

Seed-Tester

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Seed-Testers" (lines 5-6), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 7, 1913
Creator: Weaver, Willis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Moldboard and Landside Plow and Gage-Wheel (open access)

Moldboard and Landside Plow and Gage-Wheel

Patent for modifications to a plow which allow the user to adjust the depth, which lists the components of such modifications.
Date: August 3, 1915
Creator: Haferkamp, August
System: The Portal to Texas History
Elevated Railway (open access)

Elevated Railway

Patent for an elevated railway track system including motorized elevators in each tower/station/terminal to access the railcar platform.
Date: August 10, 1915
Creator: Hinsen, William
System: The Portal to Texas History