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Apparatus for Electroplating Small Metallic Articles. (open access)

Apparatus for Electroplating Small Metallic Articles.

Patent for "apparatus for electroplating small metallic articles, and more particularly certain small clamps used in building fences" (lines 8-11), including illustrations.
Date: August 25, 1903
Creator: Shelton, John F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coin Controlled Feeding Apparatus for Coin Controlled Machines (open access)

Coin Controlled Feeding Apparatus for Coin Controlled Machines

Patent for a coin controlled feeding apparatus for coin controlled machines. The design is to prevent the use of iron slugs and spurious coins.
Date: November 3, 1903
Creator: Scheble, Eugene S.
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
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
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
Vending-Machine. (open access)

Vending-Machine.

Patent for device to improve price display, movement of goods, and correct coin measurement of coin-controlled vending machines.
Date: July 7, 1903
Creator: Scheble, Eugene Stiles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Toy Figure or Doll. (open access)

Toy Figure or Doll.

Patent for a new model of doll or toy figure made partially from eggshells. Includes illustration.
Date: June 2, 1903
Creator: French, Carrie A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon Vapor Generator (open access)

Hydrocarbon Vapor Generator

Patent for a hydrocarbon vapor generator. This is an invention for the vaporizing hydrocarbon fluids. Illustration included.
Date: August 11, 1903
Creator: Shelton, John Franklin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plunder for Baling-Presses (open access)

Plunder for Baling-Presses

Patent for a plunger for baling presses.
Date: May 12, 1903
Creator: Schubert, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Planter, Cotton Chopper, and Cultivator (open access)

Combined Planter, Cotton Chopper, and Cultivator

Patent for the improved construction, arrangement, and combination of parts of a combined planter, cotton chopper, and cultivators.
Date: June 23, 1903
Creator: McKenzie, John D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feeding Trough (open access)

Feeding Trough

Patent for a feeding trough. This invention is designed to prevent the waste of feed by collecting the feed pushed out during feeding. Illustration included.
Date: December 22, 1903
Creator: Butz, John F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cylinder-Cock (open access)

Cylinder-Cock

Allows the cylinder cocks on a steam engine to be opened or closed using a coiled spring instead of steam or air pressure to ensure it is opened only when the engineer wants.
Date: August 25, 1903
Creator: Galey, John Martin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Harvesting Machine (open access)

Cotton Harvesting Machine

Patent for a cotton harvester. Illustrations are included.
Date: May 16, 1903
Creator: Jackson, A. L.
System: The Portal to Texas History