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Acetylene-Gas Generator (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator

Patent for an improved acetylene-gas generator with a carbid receptacle on top of of the gasometer an an improved automated valve mechanism to assist with gas maintenance.
Date: October 7, 1902
Creator: Loyer, William Joseph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design for Match and Cigar Safe. (open access)

Design for Match and Cigar Safe.

Design patent for a match and cigar safe that looks like a house.
Date: October 19, 1897
Creator: Weiss, Martin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Arch for Cultivators (open access)

Adjustable Arch for Cultivators

Patent for an adjustable arch for cultivators.
Date: October 27, 1903
Creator: Porter, Harrison B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Agricultural Implement (open access)

Agricultural Implement

Patent for an agricultural implement. This invention allows for the interchangeability of different blades. Illustration included.
Date: October 2, 1906
Creator: Messer, Jeremiah Clark
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Fan. (open access)

Automatic Fan.

Patent for a new and improved automatic fan. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the attaching-plate, the depending rod, the fixed plate on the lower end thereof, the socket arms pivotally connected to said plate at their inner ends, and the fans held in the sockets in said arms, of the plate loosely mounted on the rod above [the] plate, having arms, the rods pivotally connecting the outer ends of said arms, the pitman connected to [another] plate, and the operating crank" (lines 67-76).
Date: October 9, 1888
Creator: Goodspeed, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tray-Holding Attachment for Bedsteads (open access)

Tray-Holding Attachment for Bedsteads

Patent for an attachment for a bedstead in order to hold a tray. The invention allows a tray, or trays, to be held over a bed to hold food, drink, or other items closer to the occupant.
Date: October 27, 1914
Creator: Beechie, Simon Alfred
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improved Stitching-Horse. (open access)

Improved Stitching-Horse.

Patent for improvements in the construction of stitching-horses by re-configuring the original constructions, in order to make them better for users. The patent includes instructions and a single illustration.
Date: October 27, 1868
Creator: Depp, Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Packing attachment for cotton presses. (open access)

Packing attachment for cotton presses.

Patent for improvement of packing attachment for cotton presses.
Date: October 6, 1885
Creator: Bradford, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gin Saw. (open access)

Gin Saw.

Patent for a new and improved cotton-gin saw. This design's "object is to provide means for enabling the ready and convenient detachment of the teeth for substitution or other purposes, whereby superior advantages in point of simplicity, inexpensiveness, durability, and general efficiency are secured" (lines 10-15).
Date: October 30, 1883
Creator: Mann, Charles Wesley
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plumb-Level. (open access)

Plumb-Level.

Patent for a new and useful level of " that class embodying a pivoted index-finger operating in conjunction with a graduated dial" (line 7 10).
Date: October 31, 1899
Creator: Jordan, John J. & Wallace, Olifford L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Planter (open access)

Planter

Patent for a new improved planter. "It consists in the peculiar construction and combination of devices, that will be more fully set forth hereinafter, and particularly pointed out in the claims" (p. 1; lines 10-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 6, 1885
Creator: Morris, John Edwin
System: The Portal to Texas History