Resource Type

Folding Cot or Bedstead. (open access)

Folding Cot or Bedstead.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in folding cots or bedsteads, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 19, 1898
Creator: Rimmelin, Edward H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Compress (open access)

Cotton Compress

Patent for improvements to the cutting mechanism in cotton compresses to "provide positive and reliable means for severing the full-grown or completed bale from the remaining column of compressed material and yieldingly supporting the said remaining column of compressed material under pressure to permit the baling operation to continue" (lines 21-27).
Date: March 26, 1900
Creator: Griffin, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Blind-Stop (open access)

Blind-Stop

Patent for a blind stop for windows and doors. Illustrations included.
Date: April 30, 1912
Creator: Labit, Girard E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fluid Pressure Regulator (open access)

Fluid Pressure Regulator

Patent for a new and useful gas pressure regulator. This invention "relates to gas-pressure regulators especially adapted for use with gas stored under high pressure in a cylinder or similar portable storage vessel" (line 8 - 11).
Date: December 28, 1897
Creator: Clark, George Greenleaf
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Torpedo (open access)

Automobile Torpedo

Patent for a shell torpedo launcher for submarines.
Date: December 20, 1910
Creator: Douglas, William M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle-Gear. (open access)

Bicycle-Gear.

Patent for a Bicycle-Gear meant to rotate the sprocket or other gear wheel on a bicycle, Including Illustrations.
Date: July 3, 1900
Creator: Brady, Alford
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Laundry-Extractors (open access)

Attachment for Laundry-Extractors

Patent for a time cut-off and brake attachment for laundry extractors for preventing accidents. Illustrations included.
Date: January 23, 1912
Creator: Moore, Robert Marion
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner. (open access)

Crude-Oil Burner.

Patent for a crude oil burner for use in steam boilers, which reduces fuel usage.
Date: September 13, 1910
Creator: Owin, Elijah J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Changeable Gearing. (open access)

Changeable Gearing.

Patent for changeable gearing by using an axle, bevel-gears, stub-shafts and a crank-axle to construct the changeable gear, so that the “sprocket is locked to rotate with the crank-axle in one direction, while it may rotate freely of the axle in opposite direction, and, furthermore, that the sprocket may be locked to rotate with the axle or may be caused to rotate at a higher-speed than the axle.” (Lines 8-14.) Illustration is included.
Date: January 8, 1901
Creator: Brady, Alford
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electrical Furnace. (open access)

Electrical Furnace.

Patent for
Date: May 16, 1899
Creator: Eldridge, Hilliary
System: The Portal to Texas History
Game Apparatus. (open access)

Game Apparatus.

Patent for a certain new and useful improvement in game apparatus, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 16, 1898
Creator: Hutches, Benjamin F. Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cash-Box (open access)

Cash-Box

Patent for "a device adapted for persons making a great number of small collections, such as railway conductors" (lines 8-10).
Date: March 4, 1902
Creator: Peetz, John J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fiber Separating Machine (open access)

Fiber Separating Machine

Patent for machines for separating the textile fiber of various plants, and has for its objects generally to simplify such machines, perfect their product, and avoid waste (lines 11-15) with illustrations.
Date: May 13, 1902
Creator: Allision, Samuel Benjamin & Dorrestein, C. A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dredge For Hard Or Soft Mud. (open access)

Dredge For Hard Or Soft Mud.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in dredges for hard or soft mud, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 6, 1899
Creator: Ford, James Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Domestic Boiler. (open access)

Domestic Boiler.

Patent for a boiler for boiling milk and other liquids prone to boiling over, which prevents the overflow of liquid from the boiler.
Date: October 8, 1907
Creator: Rahm, Phillip
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Gun or Rifle. (open access)

Automatic Gun or Rifle.

Patent for a gun or rifle with a magazine, which quickly and automatically ejects spent cartridges and reloads.
Date: May 7, 1912
Creator: Douglas, William M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fastener for Blind Slats (open access)

Fastener for Blind Slats

Patent for fasteners for blind slats. This invention is an improved spring actuated device attached with a central rod of the shutter. Illustration included.
Date: December 10, 1912
Creator: Franklin, Robert M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Expressing the Fluids Out of Paraffin Compositions and Separating the Scale Therefrom (open access)

Apparatus for Expressing the Fluids Out of Paraffin Compositions and Separating the Scale Therefrom

Patent for an apparatus for expressing the fluids out of paraffin compositions and separating the scale therefrom. Illustrations included.
Date: March 4, 1913
Creator: Hansen, Julius
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hose-Nozzle (open access)

Hose-Nozzle

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in hose nozzles, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 25, 1898
Creator: Schraubstadter, George E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
CORE HOLDING AND DROPPING DEVICE FOR COTTON PRESSES. (open access)

CORE HOLDING AND DROPPING DEVICE FOR COTTON PRESSES.

Patent for Core Holding and Dropping Device For Cotton Presses.
Date: February 4, 1897
Creator: Griffin, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gage for Deep-Sea Soundings (open access)

Gage for Deep-Sea Soundings

Patent for a liquid recorder for deep sea sounds. Illustrations included.
Date: September 21, 1909
Creator: Mel, John & Jones, Levin Thomas, Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Compress (open access)

Cotton Compress

Patent for a cotton compress. Illustration included.
Date: August 30, 1904
Creator: Griffin, Thomas J.; Riedel, Harmon; McCarthy, Edward; Weeks, Nicholas; Snow, Chester A. & Siggers, Edward G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle (open access)

Bicycle

Patent for a bicycle propelled by the front wheel. Illustrations included.
Date: May 17, 1910
Creator: Franklin, Robert M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Signaling Device. (open access)

Electric Signaling Device.

Patent for an electric signal device which has a shelf with a pad of paper, which when lowered signals a central location elsewhere. It is optimized for use by manufacturing companies watchmen and telegraph operators to send in reports of their location at various intervals.
Date: August 13, 1907
Creator: Baker, John A.
System: The Portal to Texas History