Sash Fastner (open access)

Sash Fastner

Patent for a windows sash fastener. Illustration included.
Date: December 27, 1904
Creator: Sanford, James Dobbs
System: The Portal to Texas History
Quilting Frame (open access)

Quilting Frame

Patent for a quilting frame. This invention is constructed to be suspended from the ceiling so as to be able to lift the quilt when not in use. Illustration included.
Date: February 5, 1907
Creator: Gaines, Wister F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Burner. (open access)

Oil-Burner.

Patent for an oil-burner for stoves, which sends heats the oil using steam and sends it through a pipe into the stove burners.
Date: March 16, 1909
Creator: Pippin, John William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Receptacle For Attachment To Vehicles (open access)

Receptacle For Attachment To Vehicles

Patent for a receptacle for attachment to vehicles. Illustration included.
Date: November 14, 1905
Creator: Wright, William E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect Destroying Machine (open access)

Insect Destroying Machine

Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Insect-Destroying Machines,"(lines 6-7) including description and illustrations.
Date: September 9, 1904
Creator: Doak, John S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Heating System (open access)

Heating System

Patent for a heating system. This invention is to distribute heat vie flues throughout multiple rooms from a common source. Illustration included.
Date: April 30, 1907
Creator: Jones, Jefferson Davis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Heating System. (open access)

Heating System.

Patent for a heating system using a grate placed in an open fireplace.
Date: March 30, 1909
Creator: Jones, Jefferson Davis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Bell-Ringer (open access)

Electric Bell-Ringer

Patent for an electric bell ringer that is "operated either by electric wires from a distance or by merely pressing a push-button" (lines 11-13).
Date: October 24, 1905
Creator: Hall, Ira W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draft Appliance (open access)

Draft Appliance

Patent for a draft attachment to be used with a animal-drawn vehicle to hitch a third horse to the vehicle if need be. Illustrations included.
Date: October 19, 1909
Creator: Gaines, Wister F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment (open access)

Cultivator Attachment

Patent for a cultivator attachment. Illustration included.
Date: January 24, 1905
Creator: Joyce, John Worth
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment (open access)

Cultivator Attachment

Patent for a cultivator attachment. Illustration included.
Date: December 25, 1906
Creator: Wright, William E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picker (open access)

Cotton Picker

Patent for a cotton picker. This invention consists is a "pneumatic apparatus for conveying cotton when picked from the plant, and comprises a suction-fan and casing therefor, which latter has pipes and through which air is drawn" (lines 15-19). Illustration included.
Date: May 24, 1904
Creator: Bennie, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Blade (open access)

Cultivator Blade

Patent for a cultivator blade. Illustration included.
Date: November 7, 1905
Creator: Harlow, James S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for improvements in baling-presses by using a “duplex baling-press wherein the power is alternately applied by novel mechanism to the two baling-plungers in such manner that only one plunger at a given time is operating to compress the bale, and at the completion of the stroke thereof the other plunger is operated to compress its bale, the arrangement being such that the plungers are alternately engaged and released by the power mechanism and are automatically returned to operative position after they have been released.” (Lines 9-21.) Illustration is included.
Date: September 18, 1900
Creator: Watkins, William D. & Pruit, Trose P.
System: The Portal to Texas History