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Concrete Form. (open access)

Concrete Form.

Patent for a circular concrete form. The form is adjustable and allows nesting for storage and transport.
Date: October 17, 1922
Creator: Harris, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gasoline Purifier (open access)

Gasoline Purifier

Patent for improved Gasoline-Purifiers, based off of prior models.
Date: January 10, 1920
Creator: Harris, Ward Rolland
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Lifting Grapple (open access)

Automobile-Lifting Grapple

Patent for a device to hook to an automobile and lift either the front or the rear of the chassis off of the vehicle. To be used for ease of repair and maintenance to automobile motor.
Date: November 4, 1919
Creator: Wood, Guy
System: The Portal to Texas History
Burner-Cap. (open access)

Burner-Cap.

Patent for an improved liquid fuel burner, one which can destroy the spines of cacti. The burner can also direct fuel in different angles and when ignited will move the flame onto the retort chamber.
Date: February 11, 1919
Creator: Brown, Robert L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Prod-Pole (open access)

Prod-Pole

Patent for care of live stock and particularly the pod poles. This invention is to produce a pod designed to podding the animals when they are loading or unloading for the shipment.
Date: July 4, 1916
Creator: Bishop, William P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Buggy Tops (open access)

Attachment for Buggy Tops

Patent for an attachment for buggy tops. Illustration included.
Date: March 2, 1909
Creator: Fullerton, Phillip Y.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump (open access)

Pump

Patent for a pump. Illustrations included.
Date: October 16, 1906
Creator: Ferries, James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Pipe Clamp And Wrench (open access)

Combined Pipe Clamp And Wrench

Patent for a combined pipe clamp and wrench. Illustration included.
Date: May 15, 1906
Creator: Harris, John Wesley
System: The Portal to Texas History
Float Valve (open access)

Float Valve

Patent for a float valve. This invention is intended for stock watering tanks where by it ends the flow of water when the tank is full. Illustration included.
Date: November 21, 1905
Creator: Clary, Edwin P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect Destroyer (open access)

Insect Destroyer

Patent for an insect destroyer. This invention is an inexpensive attachment with burners to burn insects between rows. Illustration included.
Date: March 8, 1904
Creator: Smith, Needham
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator. (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator.

Patent for an improved acetylene-gas generator "which is kept in a relatively-cool condition by a surrounding bath of water and which generator is removable at will from the floatable bell of the tank. A further object is to prevent the waste carbid from dropping into the water of the expansible tank and to provide for the free discharge of gas from the generator [...] while [...] permitting the expeditious removal of said generator for the purpose of cleaning and recharging" (lines 13-24).
Date: January 25, 1900
Creator: Lindholm, Charlie M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel. (open access)

Vehicle-Wheel.

Patent for a new and useful vehicle wheel, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 14, 1899
Creator: Pruitt, Andrew L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment For Wheeled Plows Or Cultivators. (open access)

Attachment For Wheeled Plows Or Cultivators.

Patent for certain new and useful improvement sin attachments for wheeled plows or cultivators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 24, 1899
Creator: Fullerton, John C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cactus-Burner. (open access)

Cactus-Burner.

Patent for a new and useful cactus burner for "removing thorns from cactus or prickly pear or similar plants or growths of a fleshy or succulent nature provided with spines" (line 10 - 13).
Date: August 8, 1899
Creator: Beever, Charles H. & McCoy, William A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher and Wheel-Carrier. (open access)

Wire-Stretcher and Wheel-Carrier.

Patent for a simple and inexpensive wire-stretcher and reel-carrier, meant to make wire needed for fences easier to be ready at the builder's disposal and to stretch the wire to the correct amount of tension.
Date: November 3, 1896
Creator: Pruitt, Andrew L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cactus-Singer. (open access)

Cactus-Singer.

Patent for a safer design of a portable flame gun, used for burning needles off cactus plants, with illustrations.
Date: November 13, 1887
Creator: Vacher, Ernest William.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Veterinary Medicine (open access)

Veterinary Medicine

Patent for the invention of screw-worm liniment, provide a description of the ingredients within liniment. Compound relates to that class of reme-wounds cause by screw-worms and all kind of parasites in or on stock and poultry (10).
Date: October 30, 1883
Creator: Miller, Thomas, L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Skirt Ironing Board. (open access)

Skirt Ironing Board.

Patent for a new and improved ironing board. This design "consists [of] an ironing-board provided with hinged detachable leaves and with devices for holding said leaves open, which board is hinged or pivoted to the end piece of a frame, the lower part of which forms a box to receive that part of the article that hangs down, while the rest is being ironed, thus protecting it from dust and dirt and keeping it moist" (lines 12-20).
Date: December 14, 1880
Creator: Baldwin, Mary Hensley
System: The Portal to Texas History