Combined Mail Crane, Catcher, and Deliverer. (open access)

Combined Mail Crane, Catcher, and Deliverer.

Patent for a combined mail crane, catcher, and deliverer for trains, which can both drop off and pick up mail at the same time.
Date: June 1, 1909
Creator: Pepple, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Breast Connector (open access)

Breast Connector

Patent for a breast connector for horses. Illustration included.
Date: March 14, 1905
Creator: Mills, Virgel H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bundle-Tie (open access)

Bundle-Tie

Patent for a bundle tie particularly designed for mail packages. Illustrations included.
Date: September 9, 1909
Creator: Price, Thomas M. & Richard, Jay S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper, which has rotating blades on the front.
Date: November 23, 1909
Creator: Thompson, Joseph B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Heather. (open access)

Combination-Heather.

Patent for combination-heater in which it can be submerged directly in a body of water contained in any open-top vessel, such as a bath-hub, bucket or other receptacle for the purpose of raising the temperature of the water to a desired degree. (Lines 12-16) Illustration is included.
Date: March 24, 1903
Creator: Mansfield, Charles Augustus & Hayes, George Daniel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin (open access)

Clothes-Pin

Patent for "a clothes pin or clasp which will have a clamping-spring action and which can be conveniently manipulated to apply or remove it to and from a holding position and one wherein the clamping members mainly he within the same plane" (lines 7-13).
Date: May 21, 1901
Creator: Horsley, Robert L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper that can also chop or cut corn, cane, broom-corn, peas, or any similar plants that are planted thick in drills or rows. This particular chopper includes an approved arrangement and adjustment of the chopping-blades that can be set to cut at different angles.
Date: March 13, 1906
Creator: McKee, Jacob Rufus
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Brake (open access)

Car Brake

Patent for a rail car brake. Illustration included.
Date: April 18, 1905
Creator: Pepple, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cleaning-Rod for Rifled Firearms. (open access)

Cleaning-Rod for Rifled Firearms.

Patent for a cleaning rod for rifles, which allows rapid movements in and out and turns a rag easily inside the barrel without tearing the cloth.
Date: September 10, 1907
Creator: Price, Thomas Martin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle-Frame (open access)

Bicycle-Frame

Patent for a bicycle frame that can be used on bicycles in general, but is particularly suited for spring frame bicycles including illustrations.
Date: September 11, 1900
Creator: Mills, Virgel H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press (open access)

Baling-Press

Patent for Baling-Press designed particularly as a further improvement of the press and eliminate the long operating lever. (lines 12-14).
Date: December 12, 1905
Creator: Hayes, George Daniel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator. (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator.

Patent for certain new and useful improvement sin acetylene gas generators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 20, 1900
Creator: Pitts, William Wirt
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for an improvement in baling-presses that uses a plunger operated press for maximum compression and minimum power.
Date: November 5, 1901
Creator: Hayes, Daniel George
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water-Reservoir For Stoves. (open access)

Water-Reservoir For Stoves.

Patent for a new and useful improvement in water reservoirs for stoves, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 13, 1900
Creator: Horsley, Robert Lee
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Step. (open access)

Vehicle-Step.

Patent for a new and useful vehicle step, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 30, 1900
Creator: Erikson, Eduard August Olef
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journal Lubricator (open access)

Journal Lubricator

Patent for a journal lubricator. This lubricator is specially designed for rail car axles journals. Illustration included.
Date: November 6, 1906
Creator: Peeple, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lifting-Jack, Clamp, and Wire-Stretcher (open access)

Lifting-Jack, Clamp, and Wire-Stretcher

Patent for a device that combines three tools - a lifting-jack, a clamp, and a wire-stretcher all in one. It does so without sacrificing the functionality of any part.
Date: June 12, 1906
Creator: White, Andrew J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ventilator and Mirror-Protector. (open access)

Ventilator and Mirror-Protector.

Patent for improvements in ventilators and mirror-protectors is to “arranging pendent streamers and a rotatable fan near a mirror that the means for actuating the fan will serve to agitate the streamers for the chasing of flies from the mirror and also ventilate and cool a room by the current of wind produced by the fan.” (Lines 9-15) Illustration is included.
Date: July 8, 1902
Creator: McBride, William C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mail-Pouch Catcher (open access)

Mail-Pouch Catcher

Patent for a mail pouch catcher. Illustrations included.
Date: December 17, 1907
Creator: Pepple, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Map (open access)

Map

Patent for a map of New Jersey.
Date: June 16, 1903
Creator: Mayes, John F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mail-Pouch-Transferring Apparatus. (open access)

Mail-Pouch-Transferring Apparatus.

Patent for a mail pouch transferring apparatus for use on trains, which consists of a crane that can be used in the same position no matter which direction the train is going past it.
Date: December 7, 1909
Creator: Pepple, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Top. (open access)

Top.

Patent for a wind up top, which has flan blades on top that spin the opposite direction from the top.
Date: August 17, 1909
Creator: Reed, Thomas N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow Attachment (open access)

Plow Attachment

Patent for a plow attachment. Illustrations included.
Date: October 25, 1904
Creator: Smith, Fletcher & Smith, Joe Vane
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow Attatchment (open access)

Plow Attatchment

Patent for "converting walking-plows into riding or sulky plows." (lines 10 & 11) with instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 29, 1905
Creator: Smith, Fletcher & Smith, Joe Vane
System: The Portal to Texas History