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Animal-Trap (open access)

Animal-Trap

Patent for an animal trap whose specially designed cylinders play a crucial role in tiring the animal while it is struggling to escape the trap doors Ultimately, succumbing to exhaustion and hastening its drowning in the trap's water reservoir.
Date: January 14, 1913
Creator: Link, William A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Weighing-Machine. (open access)

Automatic Weighing-Machine.

Patent for an automatic weighing machine.
Date: July 14, 1914
Creator: Ball, Andrew J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Balancing Attachment (open access)

Balancing Attachment

Patent for a balancing attachment. Illustration included.
Date: March 14, 1905
Creator: Coons, Charles E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bedclothes-Clamp. (open access)

Bedclothes-Clamp.

Patent for new clamping device that holds the mattress and bedding of a folding bed in place, is adjustable, and is not in the way when the bed is in use.
Date: August 14, 1906
Creator: Baley, Katie
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Seat. (open access)

Car-Seat.

Patent for improvement in regular car-seating (not baby car-seat) by enabling the seat to recline “like an ordinary sleeping-coach without the necessity of the upper berths required in a sleeping-coach.” (Lines 45-48) Illustration is included.
Date: December 14, 1886
Creator: Goelet, Edward B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pounder. (open access)

Clothes-Pounder.

Patent for an improved clothes washer that is made up of a cylinder, a piston that is two disks attached together with notches and flared edges, and a packing strip in the groove of the disk edges.
Date: August 14, 1894
Creator: Lewis, Nathan D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Inkstand and Pen-Rack. (open access)

Combined Inkstand and Pen-Rack.

Patent for a inkstand with a magnetized pen-rack. If the pen or pencil isn't metal, a metal sleeve is provided to put around the utensil so it can sit on the rack. There is a space for ink-wells, pen-boxes, and a space for advertisements. It is meant for customers to use in lobbies.
Date: July 14, 1896
Creator: Moyer, Herman
System: The Portal to Texas History
Conveyer. (open access)

Conveyer.

Patent for a conveyor for grain or gravel, which is made up of a series of trucks on rails which dump the materials out at set points and then right themselves.
Date: April 14, 1908
Creator: Schubert, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draw-Bridge (open access)

Draw-Bridge

Patent for improvements in the construction and design of draw bridges.
Date: August 14, 1888
Creator: Briggs, William J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gas- Generator (open access)

Gas- Generator

Patent for improvements in gas generators relating to machines that use acetylene gas. These improvements are meant to make gas generators easy to use and easy to construct.
Date: November 14, 1905
Creator: Ferguson, Andrew J
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gas-Producing Furnace (open access)

Gas-Producing Furnace

Patent for a gas producing furnace that is "highly efficient in the combustion of slack coal, lignite, and other gas producing material" (lines 12-14).
Date: January 14, 1908
Creator: Gamer, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Band-Tying Machines. (open access)

Improvement in Bale-Band-Tying Machines.

Patent for a device that automatically ties bands of cotton bales by mechanical means.
Date: October 14, 1879
Creator: Matthews, James H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Instep Bearing Or Guard For Stirrups. (open access)

Instep Bearing Or Guard For Stirrups.

Patent for a new and improved instep bearing or guard for stirrups, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 14, 1899
Creator: Kellner, Charles J. E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive number Plate and Holder Therefor (open access)

Locomotive number Plate and Holder Therefor

Patent for a locomotive number plate and holder therefor. Illustration included.
Date: July 14, 1908
Creator: Lape, John K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Marine Illusion Apparatus (open access)

Marine Illusion Apparatus

Patent for a Marine Illusion apparatus. This invention is to fit between two boats so that passengers can travel from one boat to another that is attached to a dock. Illustration included.
Date: August 14, 1906
Creator: White, Francis Marion & Langever, James J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mirror Support (open access)

Mirror Support

Patent for improvements in mirror supports are primarily adapted by travelers. The mirror can also be supported by an electric bulb and can also be turned at varying desired angles.
Date: March 14, 1922
Creator: Reavis, Jesse O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Molds for Making Blocks of Plastic Material. (open access)

Molds for Making Blocks of Plastic Material.

Patent for an invention related to molds used to form plastic blocks for building purposes. Objectives and illustrations of invention are included.
Date: August 14, 1917
Creator: Hawkins, William L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Passenger Mileage-Recorder. (open access)

Passenger Mileage-Recorder.

Patent for "new and useful improvements in mileage recorders for steam railway coaches and similar vehicles" (lines 8-10) including illustrations.
Date: August 14, 1888
Creator: West, Samuel M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pipe-Wrench (open access)

Pipe-Wrench

Patent for a pipe wrench. Illustrations included.
Date: January 14, 1908
Creator: Lubke, Ernest F. & Reed, Edmund C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Puncture-Proof Auto-Tire (open access)

Puncture-Proof Auto-Tire

Patent for puncture-proof auto tires aimed at reducing (or eliminating entirely) automotive tire punctures and blowouts. The design prioritizes the protection and strengthening of tire walls for these purposes alongside a simplicity in design which lends itself toward (comparatively) low manufacturing costs.
Date: June 14, 1921
Creator: Fenley, Robert H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint. (open access)

Rail-Joint.

Patent for the "improvements in rail joints, the object being to so construct and arrange the meeting ends of two railway rails as to provide interlocking members..." (lines 8-12). The patent includes specifications and illustrations.
Date: April 14, 1914
Creator: Evans, James B., Sr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway Car (open access)

Railway Car

Patent for a railway car. Illustration included.
Date: November 14, 1905
Creator: Brownfield, James Garrett
System: The Portal to Texas History
Running-Gear for Vehicles. (open access)

Running-Gear for Vehicles.

Patent for a simple and inexpensive running gear for vehicles that allows the vehicles to turn in a small space. An ordinary running gear can be easily modified into this invention.
Date: May 14, 1895
Creator: Keith, George A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Saddle-Pad. (open access)

Saddle-Pad.

Patent for inflatable saddle pads designed "to do away with the use of one or more blankets which have been placed between the saddle and the back of the animal, and substitute therefor inflatable pads, which not only prevent the back of the animal from being chafed, but to do away with the jar and concussion from the animal to the rider and from the rider to the animal." (Lines 18-26) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 14, 1895
Creator: Wall, Frederic Watson
System: The Portal to Texas History