Automatically-Adjustable Headlight for Locomotives (open access)

Automatically-Adjustable Headlight for Locomotives

Patent for an automatically adjustable headlight for locomotives or streetcars which rotates when the vehicle is tilted going around a curve to allow the light to shine around the curve.
Date: March 2, 1909
Creator: Cooper, William M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Advertising Clock (open access)

Advertising Clock

Patent for an advertising clock. This invention is designed to display advertisement at regular intervals. Illustration included.
Date: March 2, 1909
Creator: Barnett, John Beverly & Turner, W. N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner. (open access)

Crude-Oil Burner.

Patent for crude-oil burner that has excellent combustion, it is simply constructed to to make it easier to use, and requires little or no attention. It is adaptable to be used in fire-boxes (cooking and heating stoves, furnaces, and ranges).
Date: December 2, 1902
Creator: Bateman, Talbot O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene Gas Generator (open access)

Acetylene Gas Generator

Patent for an acetylene gas generator. This invention is designed to be automatic, use non-freezing fluids, and work on railway trains or ships. Illustrations included.
Date: October 2, 1906
Creator: Woodson, Jacob W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wood-Conveyor (open access)

Wood-Conveyor

Patent for a wood-conveyor that will "provide a practical device for hauling or conveying wood from a sawing or splitting machine to a convenient place of stacking the wood" (lines 9-12).
Date: January 2, 1906
Creator: Hughs, George G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well Drilling Machine (open access)

Well Drilling Machine

Patent for well drilling machine. Illustrations included.
Date: October 2, 1906
Creator: Boaz, Ernest O. & Kenehan, John
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
Metallic Packing. (open access)

Metallic Packing.

Patent for metallic packing for piston rods and valve stems of engines to create a tight joint.
Date: February 2, 1909
Creator: Fulford, Marcus F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harness Saddle (open access)

Harness Saddle

Patent is for "improvements in harness saddles" (lines 6-7) that will "not injure animals' backs and which will be automatically adjustable to a back of any size or shape."
Date: February 2, 1909
Creator: Edelbrock, Frank E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Portable Concrete Mixer (open access)

Portable Concrete Mixer

Patent for a portable concrete mixer. Illustration included.
Date: March 2, 1909
Creator: Leake, Boudinot G.
System: The Portal to Texas History