Car Truck Bolster (open access)

Car Truck Bolster

Patent for a car-truck bolster. The design improves upon existing versions to bolster a car or truck in order to readily makes repairs in a simple and expeditious manner. The bolster can be taken apart which allows for each part to be replaced separately.
Date: January 30, 1906
Creator: Fowler, T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic And Continuous Film Distillation Apparatus. (open access)

Automatic And Continuous Film Distillation Apparatus.

Patent for Automatic film distillation apparatus.
Date: August 21, 1906
Creator: Clemenger, F. J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bandage. (open access)

Bandage.

Patent for bandage that prevents and/or reduces the occurrence of "double chin."
Date: March 20, 1906
Creator: Hardee, Virginia E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Swivel. (open access)

Hydraulic Swivel.

Patent for "new and useful improvements in hydraulic swivels" (lines 1-6).
Date: January 16, 1906
Creator: Wiggs, James A., Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hotel Office Dinkey (open access)

Hotel Office Dinkey

Patent for an hotel office dinkey. Illustration included.
Date: July 31, 1906
Creator: Browder, Henry Worden
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump. (open access)

Pump.

Patent for a pump. This patent claims improvements in the design of pumps used for oil or water.
Date: March 6, 1906
Creator: Nevins, Ennis M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method Of Drilling Wells (open access)

Method Of Drilling Wells

Patent for a method of drilling wells. This invention is known as the rotary process that deals with alluvial deposits at different levels such as sand, water flows, gravel, gas under pressure, and boulders. Illustration included.
Date: October 30, 1906
Creator: Decker, Harry R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shear-Sharpener. (open access)

Shear-Sharpener.

Patent for an improved shear sharpener which has a "new and novel construction by which shears are quickly and properly sharpened, ... whereby a shear is held at the proper bevel while being moved over an oilstone or the like" (lines 12-16), including illustrations.
Date: April 3, 1906
Creator: Jeffrey, James C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary for Oil-Wells. (open access)

Rotary for Oil-Wells.

Patent for a pipe rotary for use "in sinking oil-wells" (line 10). The patent allows for the power to be applied to the "pipe-sections which constitute the casing of the well" (line 14-15).
Date: February 6, 1906
Creator: Bernard, Horace D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fence Post Mold (open access)

Fence Post Mold

Patent for fence post mold. Illustration included.
Date: October 9, 1906
Creator: Collier, William Reid
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shoe (open access)

Shoe

Patent for a shoe that describes the benefit for shoe. Shoe control overall health well-being with its flexibility and support.
Date: September 11, 1906
Creator: Evesson, Martin V. B.
System: The Portal to Texas History