Resource Type

Kettle Attachment. (open access)

Kettle Attachment.

Patent for a new and improved kettle attachment. This design "provides an attachment to be used with the kettle, whereby the "boiling over" of the material and the consequent running of the same down the sides of the said kettle are prevented. The material that would ordinarily flow over the sides of the kettle and waste is by the use of [a] device . . . saved, and any and all danger of fire from the overflowing sugar in candy manufacture is prevented" (lines 11-20).
Date: February 17, 1885
Creator: Lamme, William W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine. (open access)

Rotary Engine.

Patent for a new and improved rotary engine. This design consists "[i]n a rotary engine, the combination of the wheel having two circumferential channels and radial recesses, with the notched pistons, fitted in the radial recesses of the wheel, and the adjustable cam connected with the side casings and fitted into the notches of the pistons" (lines 90-96).
Date: August 17, 1880
Creator: Cross, David L.
System: The Portal to Texas History