Cultivator-Standard (open access)

Cultivator-Standard

Patent for a cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date: December 13, 1910
Creator: Yeatts, Edward D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Breech-Protector (open access)

Breech-Protector

Patent for a breech protector for guns which protects exposed parts of the gun and the hands of the person handling it. Illustrations included.
Date: December 15, 1908
Creator: Hann, Edmund Lyne
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device For Lifting Kettles From Stoves, &c (open access)

Device For Lifting Kettles From Stoves, &c

Patent for a device for lifting kettles from stoves. Illustration included.
Date: December 15, 1903
Creator: Fitzpatrick, John Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bench-Dog (open access)

Bench-Dog

Patent for a bench dog for holding boards while they are being cut.
Date: December 27, 1910
Creator: McCormick, Terrill W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Fence-Post (open access)

Design for a Fence-Post

Patent for a new, original, and ornamental design for fence posts.
Date: December 4, 1906
Creator: Jasper, Tolbert Fanning
System: The Portal to Texas History
Back-Band Buckle (open access)

Back-Band Buckle

Patent for a back band buckle which tightens when it is pulled on.
Date: December 27, 1910
Creator: Henson, James A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Distributer for Cotton Gin Feeders. (open access)

Distributer for Cotton Gin Feeders.

Patent for a new and improved cotton-gin distributor. This design consists in "the combination, with the casing having an upper vertical portion and chutes diverging from the lower end of the same, of an oscillating valve mounted in the said upper portion, the rotary fans or knockers mounted in the upper ends of said chutes, and mechanism for simultaneously operating said fans or knockers and valve" (lines 16-23).
Date: December 10, 1889
Creator: Williams, James Leonhard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator. (open access)

Cultivator.

Patent for a cultivator used for sub-soiling and cultivating small grain.
Date: December 1, 1891
Creator: Thomas, James C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picker's Receptacle. (open access)

Cotton-Picker's Receptacle.

Patent for a cotton picker's receptacle that enables the user to save time picking cotton. This invention is secured on the wrist of the cotton picker and serves as a receptacle for several handfuls of cotton, which are placed in said receptacle in one slight motion.
Date: December 8, 1914
Creator: Easley, Dennis J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method and Apparatus for Hydrogen Production from Greenhouse Gas Saturated Carbon Nanotubes and Synthesis of Carbon Nanostructures Therefrom (open access)

Method and Apparatus for Hydrogen Production from Greenhouse Gas Saturated Carbon Nanotubes and Synthesis of Carbon Nanostructures Therefrom

Patent relating a method and apparatus for hydrogen production from greenhouse gas saturated carbon nanotubes and synthesis of carbon nanostructures therefrom.
Date: July 26, 2005
Creator: Henley, Donald E. & Imholt, Timothy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Identification of and Composition Containing Polyphosphate Accumulating Bacteria (open access)

Identification of and Composition Containing Polyphosphate Accumulating Bacteria

Patent relating to the identification of and compositions containing polyphosphate accumulating bacteria.
Date: March 15, 2013
Creator: Allen, Michael S. & LaMontagne, Michael G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Single Reflective Optical Element for Interference Lithography (open access)

Single Reflective Optical Element for Interference Lithography

Patent relating to optical elements for use in interference lithography.
Date: August 1, 2014
Creator: Lin, Yuankun; Lutkenhaus, Jeffrey & George, David
System: The UNT Digital Library
Wire Tightener. (open access)

Wire Tightener.

Patent for a new and improved wire-tightener. This design consists, "with a curved metallic bar having a central groove in its convex side, and aligned openings of different diameters in the sides of the groove, of the looping-pin having two tapering arms at an angle to each other and of different sizes" (lines 78-83).
Date: December 9, 1890
Creator: Austin, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Windmill. (open access)

Windmill.

Patent for a windmill, which transmits its energy better to the pump and can be adjusted into and out of the wind.
Date: December 13, 1910
Creator: Dwight, James L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Picket-Fences. (open access)

Improvement in Picket-Fences.

Patent for a new design for a picket fence which is simple in construction and inexpensive in manufacture.
Date: December 24, 1872
Creator: Willhite, Joseph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Adding-Machines. (open access)

Improvement in Adding-Machines.

Patent for an improved adding-machine design.
Date: December 7, 1875
Creator: Butt, Dennis, L. R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow Foot (open access)

Plow Foot

Patent for a plow or cultivator foot.
Date: December 19, 1916
Creator: Williams, Budicille B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fence. (open access)

Fence.

Patent for a new and improved fence. This design "relates to that class of farm-fences embodying upright posts and suspended panels comprising rails and suspending-wires; and its object is to provide a simple and improved fence of this character wherein rails of any length may be used, in which but one suspending-wire to each panel is employed, in lieu of at both ends of the same, as commonly constructed, and in which one or more damaged posts may be replaced without interfering with the fence proper" (lines 8-18).
Date: December 10, 1889
Creator: Manry, William T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Gas Valves (open access)

Automatic Gas Valves

Patent for automatic gas valve that will close if the pressure is detected to be too low.
Date: December 5, 1916
Creator: Chism, Sylvester J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Display-Cabinet (open access)

Display-Cabinet

Patent for a display cabinet "whereby laces and the like may be displayed and dispensed from the cabinet" (lines 10-11). Illustrations included.
Date: December 29, 1908
Creator: Martin, Lemuel T.
System: The Portal to Texas History