Boiler Compound (open access)

Boiler Compound

Patent for a boiler compound for purifying water in steam boilers, with ingredients included.
Date: November 29, 1910
Creator: Maule, John Quincey
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Pump for Internal Combustion Engines (open access)

Automatic Pump for Internal Combustion Engines

Patent for an automatic pump for internal combustion engines. Illustration included.
Date: August 9, 1910
Creator: Smith, Robert W. J.; Anderson, John C. & Rowe, Robert J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper that can cut plants in hills or drills.
Date: February 18, 1913
Creator: Chenault, George N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aerodrome (open access)

Aerodrome

Patent for an aerodrome/helicopter with improved wing design.
Date: June 27, 1911
Creator: Snow, Guy
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cooling Apparatus. (open access)

Cooling Apparatus.

Patent for a cooling apparatus for food that uses the process of evaporation of water to cool the apparatus.
Date: April 4, 1911
Creator: Steen, Mary L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Control Mechanism for Internal Combustion Engines (open access)

Control Mechanism for Internal Combustion Engines

Patent for an object that "[provides] economical mixtures when the engine is running under light load without affecting the power of the engine when running under a heavy load."
Date: October 17, 1916
Creator: Guthrie, William S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chopping Attachment. (open access)

Chopping Attachment.

Patent for a chopping attachment for a cultivator. The attachment has an adjustable height in order to cut shorter and taller crops.
Date: March 17, 1919
Creator: Chenault, George N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Luggage-Carrier. (open access)

Luggage-Carrier.

Patent for a luggage-carrier "particularly adapted for use in conjunction with motor cycles or similar wheeled vehicles" (lines 11-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 28, 1914
Creator: Howell, Edgar A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve Mechanism for Carburetors (open access)

Valve Mechanism for Carburetors

Patent for a valve mechanism for carburetors that supplies fuel to the engine.
Date: June 18, 1912
Creator: Guthrie, William S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trap. (open access)

Trap.

Patent for an animal trap, the unique elements of which are found in the "combination and arrangement of parts" (lines 16-17). Improvements include but are not limited to the addition of an open-ended case, a depressed platform and various links.
Date: October 9, 1917
Creator: Ward, Robert Gillespie & Clayton, John Taylor
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sulky-Plow (open access)

Sulky-Plow

Patent for the design of a plow that can "overcome obstacles without injury to"(lines 14-15) to the machine. It also includes a new design for a plow foot spring, in addition to an element that allows the foot spring to be adjusted quickly by there operator.
Date: April 24, 1917
Creator: Sanders, John T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Proportioning Weighing-Machine (open access)

Proportioning Weighing-Machine

Patent for a proportioning weighing machine. Illustrations included.
Date: August 22, 1911
Creator: Cardwell, Robert M. & Tholen, John Ben.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Middle-Breaker and Turning-Plow. (open access)

Middle-Breaker and Turning-Plow.

Patent for improvements in middle-breakers and turning-plows by providing an attachment for the middle breakers or turning plow, in which it will permit lateral adjustment of the wheel, by the use of a compound axle of adjustable length. (Lines 10-15) Illustration is included.
Date: January 4, 1910
Creator: Armstrong, Josiah B. C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Manure-Spreader (open access)

Manure-Spreader

Patent for a manure spreader that can be connected to the back wheels of a farm wagon. Illustrations included.
Date: July 19, 1910
Creator: Echols, John D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pneumatic System for Automobiles. (open access)

Pneumatic System for Automobiles.

Patent for a pneumatic system for automobiles for braking.
Date: November 15, 1910
Creator: Wallace, Robert S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Toy. (open access)

Toy.

Patent for a toy consisting of two movable figures stationed on a circular base. One figure is hinged using a cord that passes through the base and can be pulled or retracted to allow the figure to collapse and spring upright. The second figure has a spring operated arm to strike and knock down the first figure.
Date: February 25, 1919
Creator: Fermier, Victor E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Projectile. (open access)

Projectile.

Patent for elongated, simple, and efficient projectile that enables it to remain on course including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 27, 1918
Creator: Fender, Brown
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stove-Flue. (open access)

Stove-Flue.

Patent for a stove-flue, which has a stronger attachment to the casing and has a covering for keeping out rain and snow.
Date: February 8, 1910
Creator: Thompson, Everett E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drinking-Cup. (open access)

Drinking-Cup.

Patent for a collapsible holder for paper drinking cups.
Date: March 11, 1919
Creator: Fermier, Victor Emanuel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Road-Grader. (open access)

Road-Grader.

Patent for a road grader, which will "excavate a ditch at the side of a road, and distribute the dirt from said ditch at a proper gradient upon the road" (lines 11-14).
Date: January 31, 1911
Creator: Fender, John Brown
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Alarm for Railroad Crossings (open access)

Automatic Alarm for Railroad Crossings

Patent for alarm for automatic railroad crossings to alert those nearby of an oncoming train.
Date: February 13, 1917
Creator: Price, Henry A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow-Frame. (open access)

Plow-Frame.

Patent for a plow frame, which is adjustable to different widths.
Date: May 31, 1910
Creator: McDonnold, Pleasant T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fuel-Supply Apparatus. (open access)

Fuel-Supply Apparatus.

Patent for an improved fuel supply apparatus for liquid fuel.
Date: July 5, 1919
Creator: Guthrie, William S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Harvester. (open access)

Cotton-Harvester.

Patent for a cotton harvesting machine used for gathering the cotton from the plant, stripping the bolls or pods, and cleaning the cotton in one continuous operation during the traction of the harvester over a cotton field. This cotton harvester has a rotary picking member disposed forwardly and grabbing arms disposed rearwardly of the rotary picking arms. These rotary picking members are used for receiving the cotton gathered by the said picking arms and depositing it between two vertically operable crushers for crushing the bolls or pods preparatory to their passage into the ginning apparatus.
Date: July 30, 1918
Creator: Berry, Louis J.
System: The Portal to Texas History