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Crude Oil Burner (open access)

Crude Oil Burner

Patent for a crude oil burner. Illustration included.
Date: January 24, 1905
Creator: Lewis, Thomas E.; Ray, Albert J. & Wesson, Miley B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Back-Pedaling Brake. (open access)

Back-Pedaling Brake.

Patent for a new and improved brake and coasting pocket wheel for velocipedes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 24, 1899
Creator: Wallerich, Nicholas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner. (open access)

Crude-Oil Burner.

Patent for a crude oil burner for stoves, which will convert most of the oil put into the stove into gas to provide better heating of the stove.
Date: May 24, 1910
Creator: Bass, Robert E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for "baling-presses, and has for its objects to provide a simple and efficient apparatus embodying a rebounding plunger; to provide means for regulating the resistance offered to the advance movement of the forward head-block; to provide improved means for tucking the material during the advance movement of the plunger; to provide means for regulating the length of a bale; to provide means for automatically inserting a head-block when a bale of the desired length has been formed; and to provide means whereby the raising and lowering of the press-box or baling-chamber is accomplished by the draft-horses through the sweep, and without the use of jacks or other analogous devices." (Lines 8-24) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 24, 1895
Creator: Keith, George A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brush. (open access)

Brush.

Patent for a brush used with pressurized water to clean floors, walls, ceilings, horses, buggies, animal carcasses, etc. The brush can have a hose hooked up to it and has a valve. The water goes into the top of the brush and is distributed evenly throughout with holes in the top of the brush, and the water is sprayed through the bristles.
Date: March 24, 1896
Creator: Zandt, Luther H. van
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Roller and Protector. (open access)

Combination Roller and Protector.

Patent for a new and improved roller and protector for maps and charts. This design consists, "with the case having longitudinal slot at its under side, the caps upon the ends of the case and formed with ears, the springs upon the case having their ends engaging the ends of the caps, metal bearings in the ends of the caps, the roller within the case with its pintles journaled in said bearings, and the cord wound upon the roller at one end in a reverse direction to the article carried by the roller with its free end passed through the opening in the under side of the cap at that end of the roller" (lines 21-32).
Date: June 24, 1890
Creator: Turner, Ephraim M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Auxiliary Air-Feed for Carbureters. (open access)

Auxiliary Air-Feed for Carbureters.

Patent for a carbureter that improves auxiliary air feed, wherein gradually increased quantities of air are harnessed as the speed of the motor increases.
Date: October 24, 1916
Creator: Bills, Thomas M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench (open access)

Wrench

Patent for a wrench. Illustration included.
Date: September 24, 1907
Creator: Boaz, Emery Hatcher
System: The Portal to Texas History
Visual Automatic-Setback Annunicator. (open access)

Visual Automatic-Setback Annunicator.

Patent for an indicator dial controlled by magnets to read out a display for an instrument via a lever.
Date: July 24, 1917
Creator: Stephens, Lee
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect Destroyer (open access)

Insect Destroyer

Patent for an insect destroyer. This invention is designed to destroy insects on growing cotton plants. Illustration included.
Date: November 24, 1903
Creator: Butz, John F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Train-Order Signal. (open access)

Train-Order Signal.

Patent for a train order signal device, which sets off an alarm or signal when the train order pad is removed, which cannot be turned off until the pad is replaced.
Date: November 24, 1908
Creator: Van Zandt, Luther H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water-Conveyer. (open access)

Water-Conveyer.

Patent for a water conveyer for irrigation, which has a series of buckets on a conveyer belt which pour over a waterwheel to power the motor of the machine. This model has streamlined the buckets water flow to minimize the power used from the motor.
Date: December 24, 1907
Creator: Dove, John Oliver & Wirsing, Charley
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydraulic Pressure and Time Indicator (open access)

Hydraulic Pressure and Time Indicator

Patent for hydraulic pressure and time indicator for "recording the times when hydraulic cylinders are in operation and to indicate when the cylinders commence work or reach the required pressure" (lines 10 - 14).
Date: December 24, 1918
Creator: Helm, Clyde D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spark-Arrester for Smoke-Pipes. (open access)

Spark-Arrester for Smoke-Pipes.

Patent for improvements in spark-arresters for smoke-pipes by using a “combination of a bent smoke-pipe having one complete turn downward, a cinder-piper opening into the lowest portion of said turn, and a coarse wire screen titled backward and overhanging said turn, a receptacle having a slanting bottom hinged at the upper end and secured at the lower end by means of a chin passing over a suitable roller and leading to the rear of the boiler,” (p. 2, lines 20-28) illustration is included.
Date: March 24, 1891
Creator: Hale, William B. & Duringer, Robert E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock (open access)

Nut-Lock

Patent for locking-washer "so that the nuts will not come off or be knocked from the bolts" (Lines 8-9) including illustrations.
Date: April 24, 1906
Creator: Palmer, Clyde E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feed-Trough (open access)

Feed-Trough

Patent for a feed trough for chickens and other small animals.
Date: September 24, 1912
Creator: Davis, James H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rock Drill (open access)

Rock Drill

Patent for a rock drill. This invention is designed for use with a pitman driven by a crank movement or a direct ratchet connected to a driving rod. Illustrations included.
Date: December 24, 1912
Creator: Speer, George F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gas Generator. (open access)

Gas Generator.

Patent for a gas generator. The object is intended to efficiently regulate gas in cars.
Date: November 24, 1914
Creator: Walton, James C. & Wisherd, John A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint. (open access)

Rail-Joint.

Patent for a durable, inexpensive rail component which bridges two rails and relieves strain and stressing caused by passing rail-cars. Furthermore, this component does not require existing rails to become obsolete.
Date: September 24, 1901
Creator: Gillen, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feeding Chute for Stoves. (open access)

Feeding Chute for Stoves.

Patent for a new and improved feeding chute for stoves. This design "is to provide the chute with a pivoted latch or other like device that will securely hold the door closed, the device operating automatically in locking the door closed. A further object of the invention is to provide a pivoted chute with a swinging door, so that the two will act conjointly with each other" (lines 36-43).
Date: February 24, 1885
Creator: Mayfield, William Dudley
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pass Book (open access)

Pass Book

Patent for a book cover that can be easily written on with ink.
Date: June 24, 1914
Creator: Roystone, W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nozzle-Tip. (open access)

Nozzle-Tip.

Patent for a nozzle tip for fire hoses, which allows water to be sprayed in all directions and requires less effort to use.
Date: November 24, 1908
Creator: Bideker, William E.
System: The Portal to Texas History