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Distributing Switch Mechanism for Electric Signs and Similar Devices (open access)

Distributing Switch Mechanism for Electric Signs and Similar Devices

Patent for "improvements in distributing switch mechanism for electric signs and similar devices" (lines 5-8)
Date: July 21, 1914
Creator: Miller, Leonard
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
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
Electric Sign. (open access)

Electric Sign.

Patent for an electric sign, which lights up each letter individually and turns them all off at the same time after being on a short while.
Date: May 24, 1910
Creator: Miller, Leonard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Eye Testing Device. (open access)

Eye Testing Device.

Patent for a neater and more attractive eye testing device, including illustrations.
Date: November 30, 1915
Creator: Jones, Aaron Leroy
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feed Cutter. (open access)

Feed Cutter.

Patent for a new and improved feed-cutter. This design consists in "a body having bottom and sides provided at their forward ends with a metallic plate and supporting-leg, and frame having sill, uprights, and panels, in combination with frame sliding in grooves in the uprights and provided with knife, lever, swinging link having offset, and inclined trough having sides provided with detents" (lines 92-100).
Date: May 4, 1886
Creator: Wilson, John Calhoun
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fish Net (open access)

Fish Net

Patent for fish net. Illustration included.
Date: May 10, 1910
Creator: Gilstrap, David P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Folding Cradle. (open access)

Folding Cradle.

Patent for a new and improved folding cradle. This design "consists of a cradle formed of two triangular folding end frames provided with folding braces and connected by longitudinal rods, from which the canvas bottom is supported, which frames are pivoted at their apex on the top of two connected triangular folding standards, and are provided with a crank for swinging the cradle. . . . [The cradle] is simple in construction and may be provided with a fan attachment" (lines 10-19).
Date: February 15, 1881
Creator: Clark, Chester Cady
System: The Portal to Texas History
Foot Bench-Shears (open access)

Foot Bench-Shears

Patent for foot-operated shears for cuttings bands on bales or general shearing, including illustrations.
Date: June 17, 1913
Creator: Howlett, Peyton L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gas Apparatus. (open access)

Gas Apparatus.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in apparatus for manufacturing gas from air and hydrocarbon, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 6, 1898
Creator: Gearing, Charles M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gas Generating and Burning Furnace. (open access)

Gas Generating and Burning Furnace.

Patent for a gas furnace which also generates gas from crude oil.
Date: June 17, 1902
Creator: Gearing, Charles M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grading Device for Seed. (open access)

Grading Device for Seed.

Patent for a new and improved grading device for seed.
Date: January 5, 1915
Creator: Leach, William Logan
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hame-Fastener (open access)

Hame-Fastener

Patent for improvements to a hame-fastener, specifically related to an easily made, inexpensively produced locking mechanism, including illustration.
Date: June 30, 1914
Creator: Fowler, Alvah W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow and Seeder (open access)

Harrow and Seeder

Patent for a harrow and seeder. This invention is an attachment for disk harrows. Illustrations included.
Date: September 10, 1912
Creator: Easterling, George M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow Attachment for Cultivators (open access)

Harrow Attachment for Cultivators

Patent for a harrow attachment for cultivators. "This inventions relates to a harrow attachment for plow or disk cultivators" (line 12-13). Illustration included.
Date: December 22, 1903
Creator: Mauldin, William E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hay Press. (open access)

Hay Press.

Patent for a new and improved hay-press. This design "consists in a horizontal frame having at its open end a pivoted and weighted abutment, a plunger adapted to reciprocate in the frame, a toggle-lever connecting the plunger with the closed end of the frame, and means for actuating the toggle-lever" (lines 14-20).
Date: September 30, 1890
Creator: Smith, John F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hay Press (open access)

Hay Press

Patent for an improvement to hay press designs resulting in a "simple, durable, and effective press" (line 13). Instructions and illustrations are included.
Date: August 10, 1897
Creator: Couch, John Calvin
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
Hoisting Bucket (open access)

Hoisting Bucket

Patent for a clam-shell hoisting bucket that automatically opens and closes as it is lowered and elevated.
Date: October 21, 1902
Creator: Gearing, Charles M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burning Furnace. (open access)

Hydrocarbon-Burning Furnace.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in hydrocarbon burning furnaces, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 6, 1898
Creator: Gearing, Charles M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Destroyer (open access)

Insect-Destroyer

Patent for an improved insect destroyer that can be fixed to farm equipment and other vehicles.
Date: March 21, 1916
Creator: King, Charles L. & McKie, Stephan A.
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
Ironing - Machine (open access)

Ironing - Machine

Patent for a new and useful improvements in ironing machines for household use to"produce a simple, effective, and inexpensive ironing-machine especially adapted for household or family use" (line 27 - 29).
Date: November 2, 1897
Creator: Walter, George P.
System: The Portal to Texas History