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Acetylene-Gas Machine (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Machine

Patent for a acetylene gas machine that automatically controls the flow of carbid or gas producing material into the generator "by means of a float and lever connection with the valve of the carbid hopper" (lines 19-21).
Date: May 7, 1907
Creator: Ricketts, James R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator

Patent for a acetylene gas generator with an improved valve for sending carbide into the generator which is more efficient and cheaper to make.
Date: July 30, 1907
Creator: Menczer, Samuel A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Auxiliary Piano Pedal (open access)

Auxiliary Piano Pedal

Patent for an auxiliary piano pedal. This invention is an improvement to the construction of an auxiliary pedal and foot-rest for children. Illustration included.
Date: March 19, 1907
Creator: Norcross, Levi Watson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coupling for Connecting Plows Tandem. (open access)

Coupling for Connecting Plows Tandem.

Patent for a coupling for holdings plows together that allows for the plows to be close together, easily turned, and lets each plow perform its full function uninhibited by the other plows.
Date: April 23, 1907
Creator: Brooks, John L. M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Davenport. (open access)

Davenport.

Patent for a davenport, which can be used as wardrobe, settee, or bed that includes a wider bed, extensions for head and foot rests, and a larger wardrobe door than previous models.
Date: July 9, 1907
Creator: Hartshorn, Guy C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Coiling Machine. (open access)

Wire-Coiling Machine.

Patent for a a wire coiling machine, which can make wire coils out of different types of wires for use in making doormats.
Date: November 5, 1907
Creator: Horsley, Robert L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Coiling Machine. (open access)

Wire-Coiling Machine.

Patent for a coil wiring machine, which is affordable to make and efficient in operation.
Date: November 5, 1907
Creator: Horsley, Robert L.
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
Light-Reflecting Device. (open access)

Light-Reflecting Device.

Patent for a simple and portable light reflecting device designed to be placed on top of a piano, organ, or other musical instrument. The device is designed to amplify light from a lamp or other lighting device and reflect it downward and backward onto an instrument's music board. The device also shades the eyes of a performer and allows music to be read without straining the eyes.
Date: April 9, 1907
Creator: Schelb, Peter Jay
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
Tie for Wire Fencing. (open access)

Tie for Wire Fencing.

Patent for tie for woven fencing that holds the vertical and horizontal wires firmly together and uses less wire in the tie, thereby making the ties more cost effective.
Date: February 19, 1907
Creator: Collar, Charles T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tobacco Pouch (open access)

Tobacco Pouch

Patent for a tobacco pouch. The invention is a case that contains tobacco and cigarette-papers. There is a trough in the case to hold the perfect amount of tobacco to make a proper cigarette. Illustration included.
Date: March 26, 1907
Creator: Head, Benson J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump (open access)

Pump

Patent for a pump whereby for use with deep wells. Pump uses relate to oil, water, sand and other articles. Illustration included.
Date: January 1, 1907
Creator: Butler, Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stove. (open access)

Stove.

Patent for a stove, which circulates air through a central drum and increases the amount of heat put out by the stove.
Date: September 3, 1907
Creator: Sanders, Ira B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hair-Spring Locator (open access)

Hair-Spring Locator

Patent for a hair spring locator, a tool used to locate and measure the hair spring of a watch. Illustrations included.
Date: November 26, 1907
Creator: Friedman, Bernhard Zadoc
System: The Portal to Texas History
Float Valve (open access)

Float Valve

Patent for a float value. This invention is designed to automatically close. Illustration included.
Date: January 29, 1907
Creator: Axtell, Fred W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring-Bed (open access)

Spring-Bed

Patent for a spring-bed. Illustrations included.
Date: April 16, 1907
Creator: Cohron, John M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Saw-Filing Machine. (open access)

Saw-Filing Machine.

Patent for a gin and linter saw filing machine that is fully automatic and can sharpen multiple saws in succession and then stop when finished without resetting the device or manually stopping it. It also can sharpen saws of varying sizes and thicknesses to different levels of sharpness.
Date: March 5, 1907
Creator: Beaver, John M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sleeping-Car Seat and Berth. (open access)

Sleeping-Car Seat and Berth.

Patent for a sleeping car berth, which has pneumatic elevators for raising and lowering the top bunk, and folds the bunks and sheets between the car seats during the day.
Date: August 6, 1907
Creator: Butz, John F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Self-Feeding and Power Pull-Back Hay-Press. (open access)

Self-Feeding and Power Pull-Back Hay-Press.

Patent for a automatic hay baling machine, which has a power pull-back mechanism on a beam extending from the machine.
Date: September 17, 1907
Creator: Schubert, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
Self-Feeding Hay-Press. (open access)

Self-Feeding Hay-Press.

Patent for an automatic hay baling machine with a new type of hopper made of of 4 plates, which sends the hay into the compression chamber.
Date: September 17, 1907
Creator: Schubert, George
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sash Balance and Lock (open access)

Sash Balance and Lock

Patent for a sash balance and lock made to "simplify and improve the construction and operation of windows" (lines 13-14) by the use of a self-locking system.
Date: August 20, 1907
Creator: Hill, Ulysses H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Illusion-Boat. (open access)

Illusion-Boat.

Patent for a boat ride at amusement parks, which allows the participant to have the illusion of going on a boat ride in the arctic during a thunderstorm.
Date: July 9, 1907
Creator: Jossenberger, Victor E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hanger For Draw Heads (open access)

Hanger For Draw Heads

Patent for a hanger for draw heads. This invention is designed to support draw-heads in use with street-railways cars. Illustration included.
Date: January 29, 1907
Creator: Savage, Harley G.
System: The Portal to Texas History