Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for a new and useful baling press, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 29, 1898
Creator: Gowan, Albert G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ball Bearing Jack (open access)

Ball Bearing Jack

Patent for a ball bearing jack. Illustration included.
Date: November 14, 1905
Creator: Johnston, Horace G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Cotton Press And Feeder (open access)

Automatic Cotton Press And Feeder

Patent for automatic cotton press and feeder. Illustrations included.
Date: November 20, 1906
Creator: Cumpston, Frederick Bernard; Sewell, T. W.; Page, R. J. & Young, M. G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Base Board (open access)

Base Board

Patent for base board. Illustrations included.
Date: November 12, 1907
Creator: Bryan, Augustus M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Axle-Box Lubricator (open access)

Axle-Box Lubricator

Patent for an axle box lubricator for applying oil to the axles of railway cars. Illustrations included.
Date: November 1, 1910
Creator: Manners, Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Elevator and Distributer. (open access)

Cotton Elevator and Distributer.

Patent for a cotton elevating and distributing device, one that feeds cotton to multiple gins at the same time. This device is meant to save time and be simply and efficiently constructed.
Date: November 17, 1896
Creator: Elliott, James W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Blasting Plug. (open access)

Blasting Plug.

Patent for a new and improved blasting plug. This design is "to improve the usefulness and efficiency of the device, to render it capable of more general application, to provide a construction whereby a given charge is rendered more powerful and effective, and to provide a divided blasting-plug . . . The invention consists more particularly in a cylindrical blasting-plug divided longitudinally into two separate or independent sections, one of which is formed with a disk-head having a vent orifice and made coextensive with the external caliber of the plug when the two sections are placed together" (lines 12-29).
Date: November 5, 1889
Creator: Holsey, Julius H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Elevator. (open access)

Automobile-Elevator.

Patent for an automobile elevator for use in garages, which operates using the car's own movement.
Date: November 27, 1917
Creator: Wright, Virgil Tilden
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton and Corn Planter. (open access)

Cotton and Corn Planter.

Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "the combination of the main wheel and shaft, a dish-shaped disk mounted on the shaft, the inner side of said disk having a series of bolt-heads rigidly secured thereto, the bolts extending inward laterally and being provided with threaded ends, the main wheel being provided with openings for the reception of said bolts ends and the adjusting-nuts on both sides of said wheel" (lines 11-19).
Date: November 30, 1886
Creator: Tyus, Robert M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Load Lifter and Carrier. (open access)

Load Lifter and Carrier.

Patent for an improved, simple, efficient, and inexpensive load lifter and carrier meant to be used in warehouses in order to load and unload barrels, bales, and other loads.
Date: November 14, 1893
Creator: Butcher, Tilman H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washing Machine. (open access)

Washing Machine.

Patent for a new and improved washing machine. This design has a reversible trough, "having bearings for the detachable rollers and provided with a pair of flat springs affixed rigidly to opposite sides and at opposite ends of the trough, hooked screw-bolts having thumb-screws, and shaft of the main roller" (lines 1-6).
Date: November 15, 1881
Creator: Blake, Llewellyn A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well-Boring Apparatus (open access)

Well-Boring Apparatus

Patent for a well-boring apparatus that has a rotary drill pipe.
Date: November 12, 1912
Creator: Norris, Joseph B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hames Fastener (open access)

Hames Fastener

Patent for a hames fastener, so that the hames will fit tightly on a horse collar when a strap is adjusted.
Date: November 14, 1916
Creator: Ingram, Lewis J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spark Arrester (open access)

Spark Arrester

Patent for spark arrester. This invention is adapted for use with locomotives. Illustration included.
Date: November 9, 1909
Creator: Ridgway, Elzie L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Supporting Device for Umbrellas. (open access)

Supporting Device for Umbrellas.

Patent for a wearable umbrella holder, which holds the umbrella on the back and over the person's head to allow their hands to be free.
Date: November 10, 1908
Creator: Cumpston, Frederick B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Terracing-Machine. (open access)

Terracing-Machine.

Patent for a terracing machine to provide a device to this character constructed in such a manner that farm land can be readily terraced to prevent the soil washing away. Other features are having the means for vertically adjusting either end of the terracing scraper and to allow the scraper to easily and quickly be adjusted into different angular relations to the draft tongue.
Date: November 27, 1917
Creator: Reese, Samuel L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway Cross-Tie. (open access)

Railway Cross-Tie.

Patent for a railway cross-tie with concrete and metal parts, which is adjustable to different gages.
Date: November 24, 1908
Creator: Drane, Frank N. & Drane, Hugh A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail Joint (open access)

Rail Joint

Patent for a rail joint. This invention allows for the secure fastening of the ends of rails. Illustration included.
Date: November 14, 1905
Creator: Roberts, Elbert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drag Saw. (open access)

Drag Saw.

Patent for a new and improved drag-saw. This design "consist[s] of a standard, two beams connected to the standard on opposite sides thereof, a crank-shaft held by the standard, suitable drive-gearing for operating the same, a pitman connecting the crank-shaft and the saw, a pendulum attached to the saw and the pitman at one end and to a sliding head-block at the other end, the head-block sliding in the slotted standards and having a rack-bar extended therefrom, a pawl engaging the rack, the operating-cord attached to the head-block and passing over a guide-pulley on the slotted standards" (lines 4-16).
Date: November 3, 1885
Creator: Boston, Arnet P.
System: The Portal to Texas History