Casing Water Packer (open access)

Casing Water Packer

Patent for improved casing water-packer used for Artesian wells.
Date: June 9, 1903
Creator: Haas, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Child's Bib. (open access)

Child's Bib.

Patent for improvement in children’s bibs, by providing bibs with a pocket at its lower end to catch any food or drink that might be dropped or spilled, thereby preventing soiling of the clothes and the carpet or floor. (Lines 12-16) Illustration is included.
Date: June 25, 1901
Creator: Ziller, Robert L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water-Heater. (open access)

Water-Heater.

Patent for a compact gas powered water heater that runs the water through firmly attached tubes that expand and contract with the water temperature and are placed in between heating elements. The machine can also be packed with ice to cool water in the tubes.
Date: June 18, 1907
Creator: Haynie, Brooks
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Pulling Cotton Stalks (open access)

Machine For Pulling Cotton Stalks

Patent for a machine for pulling cotton stalks. Illustration included.
Date: June 14, 1904
Creator: Swenson, Werner
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sulfuric-Acid Process of Extracting Precious Metals From Solutions (open access)

Sulfuric-Acid Process of Extracting Precious Metals From Solutions

Patent for "new and useful Imporivements in Processes of Recovering Precious Metals from Their Solutions, and which I designate as the 'Sulfuric-Acid Process;' [...] to separate the precious metals from their cyanid solutions in a rapid and thorough matter and to recover the precious metals from solutions thereof." (lines 5-8 & 22-26)
Date: June 23, 1903
Creator: Bahn, Gustavus A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hay Press (open access)

Hay Press

Patent for a hay press. "This invention has relation to presses having a rebounding and intermittently-operated plunger, and aims to provide a novel and positive actuating means for utilizing the power applied to the sweep in any accustomed manner (line 9-15) illustrations included.
Date: June 16, 1903
Creator: Ziller, August & Bouchard, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hay Press (open access)

Hay Press

Patent for a hay press as it "relates to certain improvements in hay-presses, and has for its principal object to improve the construction of the power-head and pitman connection" (lines 7-10). Illustrations included.
Date: June 9, 1903
Creator: Dixon, Albert S. & Schneider, Jacob P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electrical Battery (open access)

Electrical Battery

Patent for an electrical battery. Illustration included.
Date: June 14, 1904
Creator: Haschke, Juluis E. & Haschke, Feodor G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ice Conveying Apparatus (open access)

Ice Conveying Apparatus

Patent for an ice conveying apparatus. Illustration included.
Date: June 14, 1904
Creator: Westergaard, Helge & Smith, Noyes D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flushing Tank (open access)

Flushing Tank

Patent for a flushing tank. Illustration included.
Date: June 21, 1904
Creator: Walker, Benjamin, Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fertilizer (open access)

Fertilizer

Patent for fertilizer.
Date: June 28, 1904
Creator: Wright, Edward Fondi
System: The Portal to Texas History
Portable Cotton Compress or Baling Machine (open access)

Portable Cotton Compress or Baling Machine

Patent for a portable baling machine used to compress cotton bales more uniformly and efficiently. Illustrations included.
Date: June 11, 1907
Creator: Phillips, John William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn Dasher (open access)

Churn Dasher

Patent for a churn dasher. Illustration included.
Date: June 9, 1908
Creator: Franklin, Edward A.
System: The Portal to Texas History