Resource Type

Automatic Cut-Off for Cisterns (open access)

Automatic Cut-Off for Cisterns

Patent for a automatic cutoff for cisterns which prevents the first muddy water coming down a rain spout from going into the cistern by sending it into a separate waste pipe.
Date: March 9, 1909
Creator: Estes, Robert Ephriam
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap. (open access)

Animal-Trap.

Patent for a new and improved animal trap.
Date: March 6, 1906
Creator: Myers, George M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well Tube (open access)

Well Tube

Patent for a well tube. "This invention relates to well pumps and particularly to a suction attachment for use in conjunction with the strainers of pumps of that character wherein a piston is operatively arranged within an outflow pipe" (line 8-12). Illustration included.
Date: March 5, 1907
Creator: Medlock, Augustus Lafayette
System: The Portal to Texas History