Clothes Clamp for Bedsteads (open access)

Clothes Clamp for Bedsteads

Patent for clothes clamp for bedsteads. Illustration included.
Date: December 21, 1909
Creator: Taylor, Fannie L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Door. (open access)

Car-Door.

Patent for improvements in car doors. These improvements make the doors fire and water proof and allow the door to be locked. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 23, 1891
Creator: Moore, Francis A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Separating and Cleaning Hulls and Trash from Seed Cotton. (open access)

Apparatus for Separating and Cleaning Hulls and Trash from Seed Cotton.

Patent for a machine for separating and cleaning hulls and trash from seed cotton. It is intended to be used in conjunction with a boll threshing machine.
Date: December 10, 1918
Creator: Cass, Thomas M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bottle Holder. (open access)

Bottle Holder.

Patent for a bottle holder, to hold ink bottles to a surface such as a desk or table. It is designed to be both a permanent or detachable fixture.
Date: December 3, 1918
Creator: Kayser, Mary Louise
System: The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive Valve Gear. (open access)

Locomotive Valve Gear.

Patent for a new and improved valve-gear. This design "is especially designed for locomotive-engines; and the invention consists of a combination of rockers, shafts, arms, levers, links, and connecting-rods worked from the cross-head of the locomotive exclusively, and so arranged as to give the valve a correct motion" (lines 7-13).
Date: December 8, 1885
Creator: Lewis, Wallace James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insulator Support for Line Wires (open access)

Insulator Support for Line Wires

Patent for an insulator support for line wires. This invention is designed to support the cross arms used with telephone and telegraph poles. illustration included.
Date: December 10, 1912
Creator: Hoybook, Henry L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Top Rest (open access)

Vehicle Top Rest

Patent for a vehicle top rest. Illustration included.
Date: December 13, 1904
Creator: Martin, Edward Gale & Miller, Joseph Sherman
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combination-Hoes. (open access)

Improvement in Combination-Hoes.

Patent for "hoes in which the blade is made detachable from the handle-eye, and the latter made to receive several blades or other attachments." (Lines 13-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 4, 1877
Creator: Nelson, David A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale - Ties. (open access)

Improvement in Bale - Ties.

Patent for new and improved bale - tie, and to be applied to other things, such as barrels, tubs, bracelets, and ladies' garters.
Date: December 29, 1874
Creator: Cain, Washington G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Excavator (open access)

Excavator

Patent for excavator.
Date: December 19, 1916
Creator: Story, Ela D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plastic Fence-Post. (open access)

Plastic Fence-Post.

Patent for a plastic fence post that wire fencing or wooden rails can be attached to that has the connection areas on the post hollowed out to protect the parts from the weather.
Date: December 24, 1907
Creator: Libhart, Hugh P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sand-Band for Vehicles. (open access)

Sand-Band for Vehicles.

Patent for an inexpensive improved sand band for vehicle hubs that can be easily installed.
Date: December 12, 1893
Creator: Darby, Robert J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Refrigerating Apparatus (open access)

Refrigerating Apparatus

Patent for a refrigerating apparatus for the purpose of regulating the liquid refrigerant agents in the expansion coils. Illustrations included.
Date: December 15, 1908
Creator: Mayhew, John Daugherty
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gas-Generator. (open access)

Gas-Generator.

Patent for a gas generator "which will be entirely automatic in its action so long as the supply of oil is kept up and thereby render the use of weights and winding apparatus unnecessary." (Lines 21-24) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 17, 1895
Creator: Henderson, Thomas & Stapp, William A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seat Brace (open access)

Seat Brace

Patent for a seat brace. Illustration included.
Date: December 6, 1904
Creator: Limerick, Clem B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grocer's Bin. (open access)

Grocer's Bin.

Patent for a new and improved grocer's bin. This design "consists, broadly, in a box or bin pivoted so that its upper open end may be conveniently tilted out for the purpose of replenishing or taking therefrom, and may as conveniently be pushed back into the casing or framing" (lines 9-13).
Date: December 11, 1888
Creator: Johnston, Lysander
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed Cotton Cleaner (open access)

Seed Cotton Cleaner

Patent for a cleaner for seed cotton, in preparation for supplying the cotton to gins.
Date: December 19, 1916
Creator: Cass, Thomas M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Piano-Sling (open access)

Piano-Sling

Patent for a piano sling used for handling pianos. Illustrations included.
Date: December 10, 1907
Creator: Hanson, Henry Harrison
System: The Portal to Texas History