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Window-Shade Bracket. (open access)

Window-Shade Bracket.

Patent for a window shade bracket, which holds the shade straight.
Date: December 7, 1909
Creator: Brown, Colbert W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Compounds for Destroying Trees, Roots, &c. (open access)

Improvements in Compounds for Destroying Trees, Roots, &c.

Patent for a new and useful improvements to compouds used in the destroying of trees. Lists ingredients and dosages.
Date: October 21, 1879
Creator: Buchanan, William T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Quilting Frame and Table. (open access)

Combined Quilting Frame and Table.

Patent for a quilting frame which can be quickly set up and collapsed, which folds up to occupy a minimum amount of space, and which can be converted for use as cutting and ironing table. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 14, 1896
Creator: Burns, Robert Llewellwynn
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling (open access)

Car-Coupling

Patent for improvements to railroad car couplings granted to Conrad H. Carpenter. Improvements simplify the coupling construction and allow the cars to be couples automatically.
Date: December 27, 1892
Creator: Carpenter, Conrad H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Liquid Storage and Dispensing Apparatus. (open access)

Liquid Storage and Dispensing Apparatus.

Patent for an economically efficient liquid storage and dispensing apparatuses. The device is aimed at providing an air pressurized system to discharge inflammable liquids.
Date: September 14, 1920
Creator: Carton, John J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fluid- Dispensing Control (open access)

Fluid- Dispensing Control

Patent for the improvement of fluid dispensing controls. The invention provides a more efficient way to discharge fluid from a storage container by using compressed air, and valve arrangement.
Date: April 22, 1919
Creator: Catron, John J
System: The Portal to Texas History
Anti-Agitating Device. (open access)

Anti-Agitating Device.

Patent for anti-agitating device, including two figures describing said device, with illustrations. Author describes improvements for liquid dispensers on previous anti-agitating devices by altering the cylinder duties during its performance.
Date: February 3, 1920
Creator: Catron, John J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Magazine Rifle (open access)

Magazine Rifle

Patent for a magazine rifle. Illustration included.
Date: May 11, 1909
Creator: Catron, John J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Magazine Rifle (open access)

Magazine Rifle

Patent for a magazine rifle. This invention consists of a combined breech block and cartridge carrier. Illustrations included.
Date: March 24, 1908
Creator: Catron, John J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Recording Apparatus (open access)

Recording Apparatus

Patent for "Improvements in Recording Apparatus" including illustrations.
Date: February 3, 1920
Creator: Catron, John J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety-Razor. (open access)

Safety-Razor.

Patent for a safety razor with innovations for effective use, convenient features (including for beard combing), and thorough cleaning of all components. Notable is a spring action mechanism controlled by the user's thumb, which causes the blade to move back and forth "to carry out a satisfactory cutting action" (lines 45-46).
Date: October 25, 1921
Creator: Catron, John J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fluid-Dispensing Apparatus. (open access)

Fluid-Dispensing Apparatus.

Patent for improvements to a fluid-dispensing apparatus for fluids such as oil. Safety features relieve air pressure through a valve and a pressure tank.
Date: July 21, 1914
Creator: Catron, John James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Machines for Washing Photographs (open access)

Improvement in Machines for Washing Photographs

Patent for "a new and improved apparatus for washing photographic prints after fixing, for the purpose of removing the double hyposulphite of soda and silver formed in the body of the paper during the process of fixing" (lines 6-11).
Date: August 17, 1875
Creator: Caylor, J. L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dish-Drainer (open access)

Dish-Drainer

Patent for dish-drainer.
Date: April 21, 1903
Creator: Cleek, Florence
System: The Portal to Texas History
Non-Refillable Bottle. (open access)

Non-Refillable Bottle.

Patent for non-refillable bottles "which in order to obtain access to its contents will have to be sufficiently mutilated or altered in appearance so that it cannot be again used as an original package for the fraudulent sale of an imitation liquid." (Line 13-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 4, 1897
Creator: Clinton, John S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Appliance for Protecting Oil-Wells from Fires. (open access)

Appliance for Protecting Oil-Wells from Fires.

Patent for an appliance for protecting oil-wells from fires. As stated within the patent, "this invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in appliances for protecting oil-wells from fires; and to this end it consists of the novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more specifically described in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the claims herein appended" (Lines 9-16).
Date: March 11, 1902
Creator: Cochran, James M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wind-Motor. (open access)

Wind-Motor.

Patent for wind motors that has new and useful improvements," is simple and durable in its constructions, very effective and powerful in operation, transmits the force of a series of wind-wheels to a common shaft for driving pumps or other machines" (lines 11-16).
Date: December 16, 1902
Creator: Cochran, James M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wind-Motor. (open access)

Wind-Motor.

Patent for a "new and improved wind-motor" (line 10) including illustrations.
Date: July 1, 1902
Creator: Cochran, James Madison
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hinged Connection (open access)

Hinged Connection

Patent for a simply designed, durable, and inexpensively produced hinged connection between any swinging item (i.e., door) and non-swinging item (i.e., door jam).
Date: April 13, 1915
Creator: Coleman, Paul H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hay-Press. (open access)

Hay-Press.

Patent for improvements in baling-presses and is practically adapted to bale hay, in which “the hay may be held at the rear end of the frame against the pressure of the follower and head-blocks or presser-blocks.” (Lines 17-20) Illustration is included.
Date: August 11, 1891
Creator: Cox, Benjamin G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Demountable Rim (open access)

Demountable Rim

Patent for a demountable rim. This invention is used for automobile wheels for readily mounting and remounting. Illustration included.
Date: January 28, 1913
Creator: Cox, Eli R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Extension-Ladder. (open access)

Extension-Ladder.

Patent for improvements in extension ladder by using two sliding ladder sections, "these two sections can be secured by a windlass and a hook detachably bolted to the upper rung of the upper section." (Lines 38-40, p.3) Illustration is included.
Date: November 3, 1891
Creator: Crews, Dayton H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Extension-Ladder. (open access)

Extension-Ladder.

Patent for a new extension ladder, including illustrations.
Date: May 31, 1892
Creator: Crews, Dayton H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coffee-Pot. (open access)

Coffee-Pot.

Patent for a coffee pot that has "a movable handle whereby the same may be placed on the opposite side of the pot from the spout or to one side thereof as may be preferred" (lines 18-21). It also has an acting slide or valve that keeps the spout closed when liquids are not being poured out of it.
Date: April 18, 1893
Creator: Cummings, James K.
System: The Portal to Texas History