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Adjustable Hame Fastner (open access)

Adjustable Hame Fastner

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Hame-Fastner" (lines 6-6), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 14, 1901
Creator: Boyle, F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle-Wheel. (open access)

Bicycle-Wheel.

Patent for an improved rear bicycle-wheel. It has one hub, two rims, two sets of spokes and tires. This invention is meant to be safer and has the qualities of a tricycle. It is meant for a woman's bicycle.
Date: January 14, 1896
Creator: Broers, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cooking Utensil. (open access)

Cooking Utensil.

Patent for a cooking utensil that is used to cook cereal and similar food articles "that are boiled, steamed, or heated by the agency of boiling water, the objects being to provide a sauce-pan or other suitable vessel, with novel interior parts, that will facilitate the cooking of oatmeal, mush, grits, rice, or other cereals, without danger of their burning, dispensing with need of constant attention, and effecting the operation in a speedy, thorough manner" (lines 11-19).
Date: November 14, 1893
Creator: Nicholls, George Habberton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coal-Transferring Apparatus. (open access)

Coal-Transferring Apparatus.

Patent for a machine to load and unload the transfer of coal from one vessel to another, at sea, or from a yard to a vessel, at dock.
Date: November 14, 1916
Creator: Rochel, Ken E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Writing Pen. (open access)

Writing Pen.

Patent for a dip pen or nib pen, with innovations concentrating on the tip (nib). The tip is moderately sharp to glide over paper, bent for smooth writing and ink conservation, and stiff "to enable it to be used in making carbon copies" (lines 26-27).
Date: February 14, 1922
Creator: Block, Henry, 1875-1939
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in treating grain to obtain extractive matter for coloring and flavoring spirits. (open access)

Improvement in treating grain to obtain extractive matter for coloring and flavoring spirits.

Patent for "Improvement in the Mode of extracting Flavors from Grain." (lines 3-4)
Date: June 14, 1870
Creator: Gilman, Samuel H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner (open access)

Hydrocarbon-Burner

Patent for a burner that uses crude petroleum as well as kerosene, or gasoline. This device works in a way to prevent the jets from clogging and produces a steady flame.
Date: May 14, 1902
Creator: Wadkins, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tool For Withdrawing Casings From Wells. (open access)

Tool For Withdrawing Casings From Wells.

Patent for tool for withdrawing casings from wells that is "easy to apply and convenient to manipulate while in use" (lines 15-17).
Date: October 14, 1902
Creator: Bennison, Samuel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Universal Lock and Latch. (open access)

Universal Lock and Latch.

Patent for an improved lock and latch system that can be utilized on either the left or right side of a door. The improved design is constructed using the minimum number of materials while remaining durable.
Date: September 14, 1920
Creator: Schultze, August J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Telephone-Transmitter Disinfector. (open access)

Telephone-Transmitter Disinfector.

Patent for a telephone transmitter disinfector, which kills germs on telephone mouthpieces.
Date: June 14, 1910
Creator: Peck, Frank H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Finger-Exercising Machine. (open access)

Finger-Exercising Machine.

Patent for a finger-exercising machine that is meant to improve the finger strength and flexibility of musicians. "A cylinder provided with friction-rollers imparts motion to a set of keys upon which the fingers are placed; and the object of [the invention] is to impart flexibility to the fingers, and to overcome the otherwise difficult motion" (lines 11-16).
Date: September 14, 1880
Creator: Becker, Francis L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Net-Frame. (open access)

Net-Frame.

Patent for a foldable and stable fishing net-frame.
Date: January 14, 1919
Creator: Franklin, Robert M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plant-Protector. (open access)

Plant-Protector.

Patent for an adjustable shade that protects plants from direct sunlight while still allowing some light to reach the plant.
Date: March 14, 1893
Creator: Gruetzmacher, Louis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dredging Apparatus. (open access)

Dredging Apparatus.

Patent for an improved dredging apparatus "and it consists in combining with the well known bucket chain form of excavator a suction pipe provided with a hopper and a crushing or breaking device so that the material being deposited in the hopper by the continuously moving buckets will be carried under the action of gravity to the breaking or crushing device and thence through a suction pipe and pump and delivery pipe to the place of deposit" (lines 9-18).
Date: February 14, 1893
Creator: Douglas, William M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press. (open access)

Cotton-Press.

Patent for "a compress having a continuous operation, whereby one bale of cotton is being formed by the compress all the time the same is working, and thereby rendering it unnecessary to completely stop the working of the entire press for every single bale made until the bale can be wrapped and discharged out of the press." (Lines 15-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 14, 1896
Creator: Griffin, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History