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Combined Filtering and Heating Device (open access)

Combined Filtering and Heating Device

Patent for a combined filtering and heating device for water that is attached to a dentist chair.
Date: February 21, 1911
Creator: Gambati, Olympio F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bat-Former (open access)

Bat-Former

Patent for a cotton bat former that produces a bat of uniform size and weight.
Date: March 21, 1911
Creator: Ball, Samuel M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Heater and Filter (open access)

Combined Heater and Filter

Patent for a combined heater and filter. This invention is used in a dentists office to regulate the water supply for at the dentists chair. Illustration included.
Date: February 21, 1911
Creator: Gambati, Olympio F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Battery-Receptacle and Bell-Support (open access)

Combined Battery-Receptacle and Bell-Support

Patent for a battery receptacle and bell support for doorbells and alarms. Illustrations included.
Date: June 21, 1910
Creator: Koerber, James L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Heating up Locomotive-Boilers. (open access)

Apparatus for Heating up Locomotive-Boilers.

Patent for an "apparatus for kindling fires in locomotives; and it is intended to provide an improved apparatus by which the fires may be rapidly and economically kindled and steam may be gotten up without much of the tedious delay now ordinarily incident to raising steam in a cold locomotive-boiler." (Lines 13-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 21, 1896
Creator: Connor, John T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Axle Lubricator. (open access)

Axle Lubricator.

Patent for a new and improved axle lubricator. This design "consist[s] of a box provided with bearings in which the axle works, and with a cellar below the said bearings for the reception of the waste for containing the lubricant; [and] . . . of a frame in which the box fits, . . . being provided with screws for elevating or depressing the box, whereby it may be kept always in contact with the axle . . . The object is to produce an axle or journal lubricator . . . [that] will keep the bearings of an axle or journal shaft thoroughly lubricated at all times, thereby preventing the same becoming heated and swelling" (lines 14-35).
Date: May 21, 1889
Creator: Good, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Retailing Shot. (open access)

Apparatus for Retailing Shot.

Patent for a new and improved round dispenser. This design "consists in a receptacle or multiple bin the several compartments of which are provided with valves controlling exit-openings, whereby any desired quantity of shot, descending by gravity from the appropriate compartment, may be directed into the scale-pan of a scale without the necessity of lifting the receptacle or bin or any part of its contents" (lines 35-43).
Date: September 21, 1880
Creator: Stokes, Micajah
System: The Portal to Texas History
Button. (open access)

Button.

Patent for a button that can fit in any buttonhole. It is "a bar having a button or know affixed thereto and having key-hole-slots, of a button attached to an arm having a tongue and a contracted offset portion adjacent thereto and between the same and the button carried thereby, the said tongue being of a thickness substantially the same as the width of the slot" (lines 55-62).
Date: July 21, 1896
Creator: Burroughs, John J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Plow and Harrow. (open access)

Combined Plow and Harrow.

Patent for combined plows and harrows, which operates to break up the earth after it has been plowed, while the plow is opening another furrow. This invention also features the provision of a harrow attachment which can be readily applied to or removed from various types of plows.
Date: October 21, 1913
Creator: Rohrer, Darius B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Carbureter-Regulating Mechanism. (open access)

Carbureter-Regulating Mechanism.

Patent for improvements in carbureter-regulating mechanism by "automatically regulate the air and fuel valve of a carbureter, according to the speed of the engine and the load being carried thereby" (lines 12-15, p.1.) Illustration is included.
Date: October 21, 1913
Creator: Carpenter, John C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Break-Out Pin. (open access)

Break-Out Pin.

Patent for a modified break-out pin on an oil derrick which makes it easier to release a wrench for unscrewing pipes when done, but still holds the wrench in place while in use.
Date: October 21, 1919
Creator: Headrick, James O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cleaning Device for Wells (open access)

Cleaning Device for Wells

Patent for a device that removes loose debris in wells
Date: July 21, 1917
Creator: Carden, David A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Vaporization and Distillation of Petroleum and Other Hydrocarbon Oils. (open access)

Apparatus for Vaporization and Distillation of Petroleum and Other Hydrocarbon Oils.

Patent for a device that helps in the distilling process of gasoline.
Date: January 21, 1919
Creator: Humason, Granville A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Belt-Buckle (open access)

Belt-Buckle

Patent for belt-buckles that design "to be worn around the waist, without injuring or mutilating the ends of the belt (lines 13-15)."
Date: May 21, 1918
Creator: Hall, Cyrus M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coffee Pot. (open access)

Coffee Pot.

Patent for a new and improved coffee pot. This design consists in "tubes having their upper ends bent downward, a bridge or cross-piece connecting their upper ends, the suspending-rods depending from the bridge, the ring on the lower ends of the suspending-rods, the [other] ring, and the separate strainer held removably between the two said rings" (lines 84-90).
Date: September 21, 1886
Creator: Lawrence, Joseph Martin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator. (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator.

Patent for an acetylene gas generator that automatically feeds carbide into the water tank and cleans the feed valve.
Date: January 21, 1919
Creator: Furr, Oscar M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bridge Construction. (open access)

Bridge Construction.

Patent for '' bridge improvements, especially for placement over gutters, ditches, and alike ''
Date: May 14, 1920
Creator: McKenzie, Philip A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothespin (open access)

Clothespin

Patent for an improved version of the clothespin, which is simple to use, durable, and cheap to manufacture.
Date: March 21, 1922
Creator: Ingersoll, Charles James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle. (open access)

Vehicle.

Patent for improvements to vehicle structure. This includes adjustments to the wheel base for better steering movements and vehicle capacity.
Date: November 21, 1922
Creator: Furlong, Martin J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Winding Machine (open access)

Wire-Winding Machine

Patent for a wire winding machine for well screens that allows for winding wire around a tube with notches for the wire to fit into.
Date: May 21, 1907
Creator: Stancliff, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well Screen (open access)

Well Screen

Patent for a well screen. This invention is intended to screen sand used in well drilling. Illustration included.
Date: November 21, 1905
Creator: Layne, Mahlon E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well-Strainer (open access)

Well-Strainer

Patent for a well-strainer, specifically to "a cap or plug applied directly to a cap or plug applied directly to an aperture in a pipe-section used for wells." (lines 9-12)
Date: August 21, 1906
Creator: McEvoy, J. H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well-Boring Rod. (open access)

Well-Boring Rod.

Patent for a well boring rod in which a hollow rod or shaft is used as a rotary power transmission shaft. The invention has for its primary objects the provision of means for reinforcing or stiffening a well boring rod so that a lighter tube may be used than would otherwise be the case.
Date: May 21, 1918
Creator: Layne, Mahlon E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mail-Station Device (open access)

Mail-Station Device

Patent for a mailbox in rural areas for outgoing and incoming mail to be placed in a convenient manner in a designated area. The mailbox will also have individual receptacles for individual persons to access with their designated key.
Date: December 21, 1915
Creator: Gibson, Joe
System: The Portal to Texas History