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Acetylene-Gas Lamp. (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Lamp.

Patent for a new and improved acetylene gas lamp, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 10, 1899
Creator: Josserand, Peter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Lamp. (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Lamp.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in acetylene gas lamps, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 20, 1900
Creator: Josserand, Peter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper. (open access)

Cotton Chopper.

Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design consists "of the wheel having the series of arms, the V-shaped fenders secured thereto, the rim having offsets and tapering side edges, the hoe-bars having rollers, and overlapping hoes at their outer ends" (lines 73-78).
Date: May 14, 1889
Creator: Woodbury, Amasa O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Power. (open access)

Churn-Power.

Patent for improvements in churn-motors by using the combination of an upright supporting frame, “a shaft journaled in the frame, means for rotating the shaft,…..corresponding with the size of the joint between the dasher-staff and pitman, substantially as specified.” (Line 5-15, p.2) Illustration is included.
Date: May 26, 1891
Creator: MaGee, William Joseph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment For Sawmill-Dogs (open access)

Attachment For Sawmill-Dogs

Patent for new and useful improvements in attachments for Sawmill-Dogs. This invention relates to sawmill dogs, and has for its primary object to provide a simple and efficient device for retaining the actuating lever of a lever mechanism in adjusted position.
Date: May 29, 1917
Creator: Lynch, C. W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Door-Check (open access)

Door-Check

Patent for "improved door-check for retaining the door in any desired open position. . . of very simple construction controlled by connection with the knob of the door" (lines 8-13).
Date: September 24, 1889
Creator: Scarborough, William Daily
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lock. (open access)

Lock.

Patent for a keyed lock with "an improved mounting and arrangement of the locking tumblers whereby the same are properly held against displacement within the body of the lock so that they will properly engage with the locking bolt."
Date: July 13, 1915
Creator: Dunaway, Harrison
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lubricator. (open access)

Lubricator.

Patent for a new and useful lubricator. This invention "relates to certain improvements in lubricators, such as are adapted for use in connection with the wheels of wagons, carriages, and other vehicles" (line 8 -11).
Date: December 28, 1897
Creator: McCall, Duncan D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lumber-Kiln (open access)

Lumber-Kiln

Patent for a "kiln proper . . . constructed with special reference to combustion of cinders or sparks, and thereby preventing their escape into the chamber containing the lumber" (lines 7-10)
Date: February 25, 1890
Creator: Anderson, Andrew T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Stalk-Pullers. (open access)

Improvement in Stalk-Pullers.

Patent for improvement in cotton-stalk pullers with beveled edges for firmer hold on the stalks.
Date: January 27, 1874
Creator: Heacock, Cadwallader
System: The Portal to Texas History
Track-Cleaner. (open access)

Track-Cleaner.

Patent for a track cleaner "particularly adapted for use in saw mills, planing mills and the like, where it is necessary to keep tracks clear of shavings, saw dust and the like" (lines 15-18), includes illustrations.
Date: July 27, 1915
Creator: Lynch, Charley W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tongs. (open access)

Tongs.

Patent for tongs with gripping jaws that are removable and have variable gripping surfaces on each vertical side of the jaws.
Date: December 11, 1900
Creator: Rice, John F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Smoke-Consumer and Artificial Draft (open access)

Smoke-Consumer and Artificial Draft

Patent for a smoke consumer used to maintain the heat of a furnace while absorbing the smoke. Illustrations included.
Date: February 18, 1908
Creator: Ford, Andrew H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate (open access)

Gate

Patent for "simple and easily-operated mechanism for opening and closing a gate and for controlling the latch thereof by the same mechanism which opens and closes the gate" (lines 12-16).
Date: June 11, 1901
Creator: Seckler, Levi W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grinding-Machine (open access)

Grinding-Machine

Patent for "a machine chiefly adapted for making or grinding molding bits or knives with either a straight or irregular cutting-edge; but my invention is also adapted for making and grinding other edged tools and implements" (lines 13-18).
Date: June 14, 1892
Creator: Ross, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sleeping-Shirt. (open access)

Sleeping-Shirt.

Patent for a sleeping shirt designed to secure infants to the bed by removable shoulder flaps.
Date: September 9, 1913
Creator: Johnson, Ira A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Folding Coop. (open access)

Folding Coop.

Patent for a folding poultry coop "which may be quickly and readily knocked down and folded after the poultry have been removed therefrom" (lines 13-15).
Date: May 12, 1914
Creator: Caldwell, Robert Lee
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feed-Cutting Machine. (open access)

Feed-Cutting Machine.

Patent for a grain-cutting apparatus with adjustable knives. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 20, 1897
Creator: Clark, William J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sewing-Machine Attatchment (open access)

Sewing-Machine Attatchment

Patent for an attachment for sewing machines. Illustrations included.
Date: June 7, 1910
Creator: Griffin, Patrick
System: The Portal to Texas History
Privy Seat. (open access)

Privy Seat.

Patent for a privy or toilet seat that is cheaper to manufacture and can be applied without extra tools.
Date: September 22, 1914
Creator: Smith, Bertram C. & Stevenson, William J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Refrigerator. (open access)

Refrigerator.

Patent for a refrigerator, which is cooled by ice water that has melted out of the ice chamber going around all the refrigeration areas.
Date: January 17, 1911
Creator: Baker, Jesse J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Door Check. (open access)

Door Check.

Patent for a new and improved door-check. This design "has relation to door-checks . . . for retaining a door or gate in any desired opened position; and it has for its objects to provide such a door-check in which the holding or clamping mechanism of the check is operated automatically from the latch or knob of the lock, to provide a strong brace for retaining the door in its adjusted position . . . a bolt casing slides upon a rail carried at the upper edge of the door and has a bolt operated from the lock of the door for engaging the said rail, and in which a brace or arm is pivoted to the door-frame" (lines 8-26).
Date: August 14, 1888
Creator: Scarborough, William Daily
System: The Portal to Texas History
Eccentric Cylinder Rotary Engine (open access)

Eccentric Cylinder Rotary Engine

Patent for eccentric cylinder rotary engine. Illustration included.
Date: September 4, 1906
Creator: Stanford, George W. & Smith, Louie F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Frame For Slates. (open access)

Frame For Slates.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in frames for slates, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 12, 1899
Creator: Mitchell, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History