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Apparatus for Dispensing Oil, &c. (open access)

Apparatus for Dispensing Oil, &c.

Patent for a new and useful apparatus for dispensing oil, &c.
Date: May 17, 1898
Creator: Haye, August
System: The Portal to Texas History
Collar-Shaping Machine. (open access)

Collar-Shaping Machine.

Patent for a collar shaping machine that produces fold-over collars for shirts.
Date: February 13, 1912
Creator: Hamilton, Joseph B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Telephone-Directory. (open access)

Automatic Telephone-Directory.

Patent for a new and useful automatic telephone directory, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 17, 1899
Creator: Neuendorff, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-brake (open access)

Car-brake

Patent for a car-brake that improves the ability of a train to stop its forward motion.
Date: December 29, 1900
Creator: Wise, Harry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Switch (open access)

Automatic Switch

Patent for an automatic switch for street railways.
Date: November 30, 1909
Creator: Godoy, Jose Ma
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in baling presses.
Date: May 17, 1898
Creator: Holmgreen, Julius H.
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
Automatic Railway Switch Lock (open access)

Automatic Railway Switch Lock

Patent for an automatic railway switch lock. Illustration included.
Date: May 17, 1904
Creator: Sulfer, Charles
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
Bale-Forming Apparatus (open access)

Bale-Forming Apparatus

Patent for a bale forming apparatus for making round cotton bales.
Date: September 3, 1907
Creator: Reagan, Edgar
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
Air-Supplying Device For Diving Purposes. (open access)

Air-Supplying Device For Diving Purposes.

Patent for a new and useful air supplying device for diving purposes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 5, 1899
Creator: Hensley, Frank A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane (open access)

Aeroplane

Patent for an aeroplane. Illustrations included.
Date: February 11, 1913
Creator: Goodrich, Luman L., Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Composition Pulp Plaster and Process of Manufacturing Same. (open access)

Composition Pulp Plaster and Process of Manufacturing Same.

Patent for "a composition pulp plaster designed as a substitute for ordinary lime-plaster and equivalent materials and particularly adapted for use in warm moist climates, where the ordinary lime-plaster lacks durability and is rendered non-adherent. A further objective of the invention is to provide a cheap substitute for plaster which will be not only waterproof, but also fireproof and gas-proof or practically impervious to air" (lines 9-18). It includes instructions for manufacturing the plaster with various proportions of the ingredients depending on the purpose.
Date: May 9, 1899
Creator: Blake, David H. & Ray, Jeramiah P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Back-Pressure Valve (open access)

Back-Pressure Valve

Patent for a back pressure valve for well drilling which may be "removed from the well with facility and despatch" (lines 18-20).
Date: January 18, 1910
Creator: Neighbors, Charles C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Windmills. (open access)

Attachment for Windmills.

Patent for a windmill attachment that will increase the pumping capacity of windmills or other lifting pumps.
Date: March 5, 1912
Creator: Engle, Matthew H.
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
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
Attachment for Automobiles (open access)

Attachment for Automobiles

Patent for a spring motor attachment for automobiles.
Date: January 17, 1911
Creator: Carroll, Houston M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bottle - Stopper. (open access)

Bottle - Stopper.

Patent for a new and useful bottle-stopper. This design is to "improve the construction of bottle-stoppers and to enable a metallic sealing-cap to be readily removed from the neck of a bottle without the use of an instrument" (line 11 - 14).
Date: February 15, 1898
Creator: Neuendorff, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Furnace (open access)

Furnace

Patent for a furnace to be used in engines. Illustrations included.
Date: February 28, 1911
Creator: Beaumont, Edmund F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper for thinning young cotton plants that is cheaper to make and more efficient than previous models.
Date: March 19, 1907
Creator: Sterling, Rufus Taylor
System: The Portal to Texas History
Collector's Receipting-Recording (open access)

Collector's Receipting-Recording

Patent for a device for keeping a record of the money received in commercial transactions. Illustrations included.
Date: October 15, 1912
Creator: Hayes, Arthur Ward & Stevens, Clarence D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaner And Feeder (open access)

Cotton Cleaner And Feeder

Patent for a cotton cleaner and feeder. It is designed with an intermediate of a chute and cotton-gin to feed the cotton to the gin. Illustrations included.
Date: November 24, 1903
Creator: Seward, Marion F. & Seward, Joseph H.
System: The Portal to Texas History