Automatic Safety-Burner (open access)

Automatic Safety-Burner

Patent for an automatic safety burner for lamps that turns off the flame if the lamp is tilted.
Date: November 26, 1912
Creator: Splettstosser, Fritz
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Water Cut-Off (open access)

Automatic Water Cut-Off

Patent for improvements to automatic water cut-offs adapted to be useful "in the event of the falling of temperature to freezing or any other predetermined degree of automatically cutting off the flow of the water." (Lines 18-22).
Date: November 13, 1917
Creator: Goodridge Wilson B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mirror Attachment for Bureaus. (open access)

Mirror Attachment for Bureaus.

Patent for an adjustable mirror attachment for bureaus.
Date: November 6, 1900
Creator: Horton, Mary Blanche
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wick-Regulator for Lamps. (open access)

Wick-Regulator for Lamps.

Patent for "an improvement in those lamp-wick regulators which consists of a threaded rod operated by a nut and connected to the wick, whereby the wick may be raised or lowered by operating the nut; and the invention lies in an improved connection between the wick and rod, by which the wick can be raised with more uniformity and ease." (Lines 8-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 20, 1894
Creator: Harding, Walter L.
System: The Portal to Texas History