Cotton-Picker for Forming Mattress-Bats. (open access)

Cotton-Picker for Forming Mattress-Bats.

Patent for improvements in cotton-pickers for forming mattress-bats is to prepare the cotton to be light and elastic when the cotton is compressed into mattress-bats. Illustration is included.
Date: April 29, 1902
Creator: Morgan, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
CAR - SEAT CLEANER. (open access)

CAR - SEAT CLEANER.

Patent for new and improved car-seat cleaners, including illustrations.
Date: May 6, 1902
Creator: Ridd, John A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cheese Cutter (open access)

Cheese Cutter

Patent for a cheese cutter which includes a scale to determine the amount of cheese including illustrations.
Date: June 10, 1902
Creator: Niggli, Emil
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cheese-Cutter (open access)

Cheese-Cutter

Patent for cheese cutter that features improvements which include guides for the knife, the box and cover, and the means for holding the cheese in place on a rotatable platform.
Date: December 30, 1902
Creator: Niggli, Emil
System: The Portal to Texas History
Auger. (open access)

Auger.

Patent for a new auger designed "to provide a construction in which the parts may be adjusted to cut angular holes entirely through a body, and also to cut angular countersinks concentric with cylindrical openings, such as are made for the reception of the square heads of bolts lag screws, &c.," (lines 10-16), which includes illustrations and instructions.
Date: April 29, 1902
Creator: Bundy, John J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench. (open access)

Wrench.

Patent for "wrenches; and it consists in the improved means for operating the movable jaw thereof." (lines 12-13) including illustrations.
Date: July 1, 1902
Creator: Boozer, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lining for Cells, Vaults, or the Like (open access)

Lining for Cells, Vaults, or the Like

Patent for Lining for Cells, Vaults, or the Like. The Linings whether employed in Jail-Cells or other Similar Buildings , and the object thereof is to provide a structure made up of parts which may be placed within a room or enclosure and securely built therein without necessity of using patch-bolts or screws.
Date: November 25, 1902
Creator: Youngblood, David F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Interlocking-Bar Grating for Jails. (open access)

Interlocking-Bar Grating for Jails.

Patent for gratings used in jails. "In these structures as ordinarily made upright and horizontal bars are provided which are located at right angles to each other, these bars being necessarily secured together at their points of intersection to prevent their being spread apart" (lines 11-16).
Date: November 25, 1902
Creator: Youngblood, David Franklin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well-Boring Machine. (open access)

Well-Boring Machine.

Patent for improved mechanism of well-boring machine in which it “composed of as few parts as possible, which will effectively grip and rotate a drill-rod or pipe containing coupling and reducing - nipples, or composed of length or sections of varying diameters without impeding the end movement or deranging the central position of said drill-rod or pipe, and without delaying the progress of the machine, to adjust or change any part or parts thereof, also to improve the means for gripping the drill-rod or pipe and to eliminate the tendency to split or longitudinally furrow the latter, which would render the same liable to open and twist off when subject to high pressure during the progress of boring.” (Lines 20-34) Illustration is included.
Date: June 17, 1902
Creator: Woods, Frank J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Packing Compound for Eggs, &c. (open access)

Packing Compound for Eggs, &c.

Patent for a food packing compound made out of clay, chalk, and lime.
Date: January 21, 1902
Creator: Stukes, John Marion
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sulky-Lister (open access)

Sulky-Lister

Patent for an improved sulky-lister for planting listed corn, cotton, and other crops.
Date: November 25, 1902
Creator: Engelmann, Gustav
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring-frame for Motor-cycles (open access)

Spring-frame for Motor-cycles

Patent for a suspension spring-frame that is lighter and provides better absorption of shock for motorbikes, with illustrations.
Date: December 23, 1902
Creator: White, Edward Young
System: The Portal to Texas History
Preserving and Storing Building. (open access)

Preserving and Storing Building.

Patent for a preservation and storing building which uses ventilation and air purification to preserve perishable items. Includes a description of the building design and illustrations.
Date: August 5, 1902
Creator: Stukes, John Marion
System: The Portal to Texas History
Packing Compound for Eggs. (open access)

Packing Compound for Eggs.

Patent for a mixture of shale dust, gypsum, wood ash, sulfur, borax, saltpeter, and salicylic acid. This compound is to be layered around eggs, fruits, or vegetables for the purpose of preserving them.
Date: May 6, 1902
Creator: Stukes, John Marion
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sulky-Lister (open access)

Sulky-Lister

Patent for improved version of sulky-lister, with more effective spring between planter and lister-plow. Improvements include ability for covering disks to move downward and function at required drill depth.
Date: April 1, 1902
Creator: Engelmann, Gustav
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Cracker. (open access)

Nut-Cracker.

Patent for improvements in nut-cracker by using “a pair of bent handle-limbs pivoted together near the bends of the limbs, a hammer-block rigidly secured on the opposite end of each handle-limb; each hammer-block having a cavity, these cavities being formed in opposed ends of the hammer-blocks; a handhold in each handle-limb, and a guide-piece having parallel members affixed by their ends on one of the handle-limbs, and loosely embracing the other handle-limbs.” (P. 2, lines 42-51.) Illustration is included.
Date: April 1, 1902
Creator: Dickey, William V.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hammock-Support. (open access)

Hammock-Support.

Patent for hammock support which is securely fastened and can be readily removed.
Date: November 25, 1902
Creator: Youngblood, David Franklin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Eyeglasses. (open access)

Eyeglasses.

Patent for eyeglasses that builds upon the inventor's previous patent, No. 654,523, and utilizes a set of nose pieces, lenses, and springs to improve upon existing eyeglasses technology.
Date: May 20, 1902
Creator: Critzer, Augustus B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Scraper for Asphalt Cooking Drums (open access)

Scraper for Asphalt Cooking Drums

Patent for a tool to facilitate the cleaning of the interior of asphalt cooking drums in order to prevent clogging, with illustrations.
Date: July 29, 1902
Creator: Nelson, John P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Force-Pump (open access)

Rotary Force-Pump

Patent for an improved type of water pump that operates using a method where "valves of each piston work parallel to each other and through the cylinders at points diagonally opposite" (lines 15-17)
Date: September 23, 1902
Creator: Frank, Samuel M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fireproof Floor. (open access)

Fireproof Floor.

Patent for an improved fireproof floor, which provides a light, rigid fire- and sound-proof flooring that is simple in construction. In addition, the ceiling construction allow the walls of a building to be strengthened against sagging or bulging, and also provides a continuous concrete-ceiling surface, allowing plaster coating or other material to be securely held without the need of another surface to support it.
Date: November 18, 1902
Creator: Shields, Patrick T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety-Platform for Railway-Cars. (open access)

Safety-Platform for Railway-Cars.

Patent for an improvement to safety platforms for freight cars and other railway cars, intended to "protect the lives of trainment and others whose duties demand the rapid passing from car to car of a train while in motion" (lines 12-14).
Date: May 27, 1902
Creator: Holland, John & Wickline, William P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Siphon. (open access)

Siphon.

Patent for a siphon attachment to be used on bottles of liquid.
Date: October 7, 1902
Creator: Müntzer, William C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety Device for Steam-Boilers (open access)

Safety Device for Steam-Boilers

Patent for a safety device designed to cut off steam in the even of an accident.
Date: July 15, 1902
Creator: Foskett, Fred
System: The Portal to Texas History