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Bit Attachment (open access)

Bit Attachment

Patent for "improved means for stopping runaway horses and to arrange for mounting the same upon a harness-bit so as to be under the control of the driver for convenient and effective operation when required" (lines 8-13).
Date: April 30, 1901
Creator: Riley, Peter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cuff-Holder (open access)

Cuff-Holder

"This invention is an improvement in cuff-holders for detachably attaching cuffs to garments; and the object of the invention is to provide a simple device whereby the cuff can be readily attached to or detached from the garment without annoyance" (lines 10-15).
Date: July 2, 1901
Creator: Hughes, Russell M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Candy and Process of Making Same (open access)

Candy and Process of Making Same

Patent for a "fruit or nut taffy, comprising two distinct kinds of candy, which are separately manufactured and afterward combined in a single article or piece of confectionery" (lines 11-14), including ingredients and process.
Date: June 18, 1901
Creator: Webb, Jesse B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Tool (open access)

Combination-Tool

Patent for improvements in combination-tools especially adapted for repairing rubber tires.
Date: January 1, 1901
Creator: Green, Samuel Milton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bung and Air Connection for Beer-Kegs, &c. (open access)

Bung and Air Connection for Beer-Kegs, &c.

Patent for improvements in bungs and air connections for beer-kegs by using a metallic bung which has an opening (a bung-hole), “and provided atone side with a passage, the passage being interiorly threaded at its outer end, an air-tube provided with a valve and having a swiveled member exteriorly threaded and engaging the threaded portion of the passage, and the cork or stopper arranged within the inner portion of the bung-hole and closing the inner end of the passage.” (Lines 116-123, p. 3) Illustration is included.
Date: January 1, 1901
Creator: Morawetz, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle-Frame (open access)

Bicycle-Frame

Patent for "a bicycle-frame which shall be yielding and support the motor mechanism in such manner that it shall be upheld by the part of the frame which yields to the greatest extent without adding appreciably to the rigidity of the frame" (lines 11-17).
Date: July 2, 1901
Creator: White, Edward Young
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crutch. (open access)

Crutch.

Patent for improvements in crutches by making the crutch adjustable in length according to a person’s height and “overcome the jerks by the movements with the crutches.” (Lines 15-16) Illustration is included.
Date: January 8, 1901
Creator: Hough, Orson E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for making mattresses. (open access)

Machine for making mattresses.

Patent for a machine for making mattresses with compressed lint-cotton inserted into a tick.
Date: June 4, 1901
Creator: Morgan, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water Heater. (open access)

Water Heater.

Patent for easy to clean water heater that is meant to deal with issues of hard water residue collecting on parts. Includes Illustrations.
Date: January 22, 1901
Creator: McKinnon, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lock (open access)

Lock

Patent for a keyless combination lock, including illustrations.
Date: July 23, 1901
Creator: Katzenberger, Oscar
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ink-Fountain (open access)

Ink-Fountain

Patent for "improved means for supplying only a sufficient quantity of ink for immediate use, while at the same time securing a hermetical sealing of the ink within its reservoir, so as to prevent evaporation and thickening thereof" (lines 13-17).
Date: July 9, 1901
Creator: Holden. Elbridge G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transmitting-Gear for Windmills. (open access)

Transmitting-Gear for Windmills.

Patent for an improved transmitting-gear for windmills "which is simple and durable in construction, very effective in operation, and arranged to impart a long stroke to the pump-rod or other device to be actuated" (lines 11-14), including one illustration.
Date: January 22, 1901
Creator: Allison, Jesse H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner (open access)

Hydrocarbon-Burner

Patent for invention relates to improvements in hydrocarbon-burners of that class which are employed in apparatus for destroying vegetable growths, such as cactus-plants, for heating asphaltum, for concrete and surface drying, and for other purposes where great heat is required.
Date: February 21, 1900
Creator: Neuendorff, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Motor-Bicycle. (open access)

Motor-Bicycle.

Patent for a motorized bicycle with pedal gears.
Date: March 19, 1901
Creator: White, Edward Y.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Motor-Bicycle (open access)

Motor-Bicycle

Patent for "a frame in which the motor shall be firmly supported without undue strain on any part of the machine and in which the weight of the motor shall be as low as may be and to connect the motor to the driving-axle in such way that a pedal shall also be utilized for driving the machine with little interference from the motor and with a proper balance of friction and to improve certain details and combinations of the driving-gear" (lines 10-20).
Date: June 4, 1901
Creator: White, Edward Y.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Scraper for Mixing-Machines (open access)

Scraper for Mixing-Machines

Patent for a now and useful Scraper for Mixing-Machines, which is specifically a scraper attachment for the mixing-cylinder wherewith the material that may cling to the inner surface of the cylinder may be scraped off and the mixing operation may be thoroughly performed.
Date: June 4, 1901
Creator: Sliger, Charles F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Elevator-Controller. (open access)

Elevator-Controller.

Patent for improvements to elevator-controllers, related "to a hand-power rope-elevator equipped with electrical operating mechanism and means whereby the elevator may be quickly and effectually controlled either automatically or manually" (lines 11-15), including illustrations.
Date: February 5, 1901
Creator: Dubinski, Benjamin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine (open access)

Rotary Engine

Patent for "a light-running high-speed rotary engine which does not have any dead-center and to avoid back pressure from the exhaust" (lines 15-17).
Date: April 9, 1901
Creator: Schleicher, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mattress-Machine (open access)

Mattress-Machine

Patent for "an improved machine for making mattress from lint-cotton and the like materials, which is compressed into a bat, ejected from the press, and in the process of being ejected inserted in the tick" (lines 9-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 1, 1901
Creator: Morgan, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Photographic-Printing Frame. (open access)

Photographic-Printing Frame.

Patent for a new Photographic-printing frame. The "invention relates to certain improvements in photographic-printing frames, and has for its object to construct a frame of such character as to readily permit of the raising of the glass negative from its printing position for the inspection of the sensitized paper and to return the same accurately to printing position." (Lines 8-15) Illustration is included.
Date: December 31, 1901
Creator: Callaway, Alonzo N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Program-Clock. (open access)

Electric Program-Clock.

Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Electric Time-Reminder Clocks" (lines 5-7) which are "designed for service in furnishing notice to the user of acts to be performed at previously-specified times or periods" (lines 12-14).
Date: September 24, 1901
Creator: Dubinski, Benjamin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dental Clamp. (open access)

Dental Clamp.

Patent for a dental clamp "for holding pins for securement to metallic cover-plates for fillings" (lines 8-10), with illustrations.
Date: January 29, 1901
Creator: Mayes, Robert Martin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Frame for Motor-Bicycles (open access)

Frame for Motor-Bicycles

Patent for "a strong frame at low cost in which the motor shall be yieldingly supported and wherein by preference the rider may be sustained on an elastic support, so as to maintain a uniform relation with the pedal-shafts, and the movement of the engine properly guided" (lines 11-17).
Date: July 2, 1901
Creator: White, Edward Y.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cushion-Tire for Vehicles. (open access)

Cushion-Tire for Vehicles.

Patent for a sectional metal tire cushion that is applied over a preexisting wheel.
Date: April 2, 1901
Creator: Millen, George
System: The Portal to Texas History