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Advertising Attachment for Scales. (open access)

Advertising Attachment for Scales.

Patent for improvements in advertising attachments for scales to "provide an attachment of the character specified, wherein a series of display members are provided, mounted to be moved into different positions, to bring different matter into different positions, and controlled to movement by the stepping onto the weighing platform of the one to be weighed." (lines 11-18)
Date: July 13, 1920
Creator: Funk, Arthur Neal
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane (open access)

Aeroplane

Patent for an aeroplane that is inexpensive and easily built, while preventing the aeroplane from going into a tailspin.
Date: December 13, 1921
Creator: {McGee, Dan}
System: The Portal to Texas History
Analgetic Bandage. (open access)

Analgetic Bandage.

Patent for a new and useful "analgetic bandage for curing headaches and oher disorders of the nervous system" (line 5-7) including illustrations.
Date: May 13, 1902
Creator: Ray, Thomas L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Change-Over Signal for Motion-Picture Machines (open access)

Automatic Change-Over Signal for Motion-Picture Machines

Patent for an automatic change-over signal for motion picture machines that signals the approach of the end of the film reel.
Date: August 13, 1918
Creator: Wood, Victor & Feegles, De Witt C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Machine for Forming Plastic Bodies (open access)

Automatic Machine for Forming Plastic Bodies

Patent for a machine which quickly and automatically forms plastic bodies and blocks when fed the material. Illustrations included.
Date: April 13, 1909
Creator: Burton, Luther L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tie Buckle. (open access)

Bale-Tie Buckle.

Patent for a buckle that secures ends of bale ties so that they are not exposed nor endanger the hands of farm workers.
Date: May 13, 1913
Creator: McFarland, Frank Hays
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boltless Fish and Bed Plate for Railway Rails (open access)

Boltless Fish and Bed Plate for Railway Rails

Patent for "fish-plates and bed-plates so constructed that rails can be secured in place without the necessity of making holes in the ends of the rails [...]; and the object is to simplify rail-joints and make the ends of the abutting rails stronger and to repair broken rails" (lines 10-17).
Date: October 6, 1902
Creator: Crawford, William, R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bracket (open access)

Bracket

Patent for an improved bracket.
Date: March 13, 1917
Creator: Mertz, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Candy Wrapping Machine (open access)

Candy Wrapping Machine

Patent for a machine that will enrobe stick cand with a wrapper. It will recieve the candy stick by stick, wrap it in paper, and twist the ends.
Date: March 13, 1917
Creator: Greer, Jesse W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for improvements in car-couplings in which it can be adapted “to the draw-heads of car-couplings that is already in used and that there need not be two similar couplings of this character in order to permit the device to operate successfully.” (Lines 74-78) Illustration is included.
Date: October 13, 1891
Creator: Yates, Junius E. M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coin-Controlled Slide (open access)

Coin-Controlled Slide

Patent for a coin-controlled slide used for operating mechanical musical instruments and vending machines. Illustrations included.
Date: September 13, 1910
Creator: Hammond, Robert P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coin Operated Vending Machine (open access)

Coin Operated Vending Machine

Patent for a coin operated vending machine that is meant to be inexpensive and adapted to protect the items being vended, and to allow adjustment for coins of different denominations.
Date: September 2, 1902
Creator: Fender, John Brown
System: The Portal to Texas History
Collapsable Carrying Crate (open access)

Collapsable Carrying Crate

Patent for carrying case that can be folded up to be put away when unused.
Date: February 13, 1917
Creator: Bomar, Thomas B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Educational Chart, Drawing-Board, and Writing-Desk. (open access)

Combined Educational Chart, Drawing-Board, and Writing-Desk.

Patent for "a combined desk and blackboard" (line 68) that includes illustrations.
Date: January 13, 1914
Creator: Henderson, George A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn Sheller. (open access)

Corn Sheller.

Patent for a new and improved corn-sheller. This design, "[o]n its rear face, at the upper end of the body of the corn-sheller . . . provide[s] a hinged nubber-plate, which serves as a supporting-arm, and is constructed . . . for use in breaking or cutting off the smaller end of the ear of corn, at which end unsound kernels of corn are frequently found. The nubber-plate is hinged . . . to the upper end of the rear face of the body, and when opened out extends at nearly a right angle from the body and inclines slightly downward. When folded, the nubber-plate rests against the rear face of the body" (lines 39-52).
Date: September 13, 1887
Creator: Price, Benjamin B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper. (open access)

Cotton Chopper.

Patent for a new and improved cotton-chopper. This design consists in "the combination, with the frame and wheels, of the axle, journal-boxes for said axle adjustable lengthwise of said frame, a gear-wheel on said axle adjustable longitudinally thereon, the shaft parallel with the axle, a plurality of gear-wheels of varying diameters on said shaft, a bevel-pinion also on said shaft, and an inclined shaft carrying the hoe and provided with a bevel-pinion engaging the pinion on the shaft" (lines 8-17).
Date: December 13, 1887
Creator: Marshall, Benjamin C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Hanging Wall-Paper. (open access)

Device for Hanging Wall-Paper.

Patent for a device for hanging wall paper that includes a paper holder and paper brush/roller.
Date: February 13, 1912
Creator: Randle, Millard F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Elevated Railway. (open access)

Elevated Railway.

Patent for a new elevated railway, consisting of the arrangement and parts described. Patent for "a new and improved elevated railway structure for moving cars or vehicles." (line 14) including perspective views, description and illustrations. Patent for a new elevated railway design including illustrations.
Date: December 13, 1892
Creator: Turner, Ephraim, M. & Maddox, R. E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Elevated Railway. (open access)

Elevated Railway.

Patent for improvements to elevated railways via the new and different way parts are combined and arranged.
Date: December 13, 1892
Creator: Turner, Ephraim M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gas-Generator. (open access)

Gas-Generator.

Patent for Gas Generator. This patent improves previous gas generators, that include generator casings having air inlets and gas inlets. this invention provides a form of automatic feed of air, oil, and acid to the generator in proper proportions.
Date: May 13, 1913
Creator: Gregson, William & Wisherd, John A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Guard Doors and the Like (open access)

Guard Doors and the Like

Patent for improved guards for doors.
Date: February 13, 1917
Creator: Agee, Howard L. & Agee, Sidney A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hinge For Gates (open access)

Hinge For Gates

Patent for hinge for gates. Illustration included.
Date: June 13, 1905
Creator: Shelton, John F. & Texas Anchor Fence Company
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hoe-Sharpener. (open access)

Hoe-Sharpener.

Patent for a new and useful hoe sharpener, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 13, 1898
Creator: Foster, James T. & Miller, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Twine-Holders (open access)

Improvement in Twine-Holders

Patent for improvement in twine-holders to help hold twine, cloth and wrapping to counters for ease of cutting, with illustration.
Date: August 13, 1878
Creator: Turner, John William
System: The Portal to Texas History