Resource Type

Chain Pipe-Wrench. (open access)

Chain Pipe-Wrench.

Patent for certain new and improvements in chain pipe wrenches, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 26, 1899
Creator: Bohner, Philip Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cartridge-Loading Machine (open access)

Cartridge-Loading Machine

Patent for improvements to the machine originally patented on August 10, 186 by Edward A. Franklin of Brenham, patent no. 347,268.
Date: January 15, 1889
Creator: Franklin, Edward A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cartridge-Loading Machine (open access)

Cartridge-Loading Machine

Patent for "an improvement in cartridge-loaders adapted to load cartridge shells automatically, the machine being operated by suitable power. It consists in improved power mechanism and devices which may be arranged and combined with the loading mechanism of a machine cartridge-loader" (lines 38-45).
Date: November 25, 1890
Creator: Franklin, Edward A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for a baling press made up of a vertically movable core that moves up as it gets wrapped up in the internet, supporting drums, a feed apron that presses the material to the core, a pivoted swinging frame with a compression roller, a bale support, a mechanism that lifts the frame when the bale is finished, and a rack-and-pinion mechanism that raises the compression roller that moves up to let the bale get bigger, and a mechanism that rotates the rack-and-pinion.
Date: November 27, 1894
Creator: Smith, Hamilton E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process and Apparatus for Distilling Petroleum. (open access)

Process and Apparatus for Distilling Petroleum.

Patent for apparatus and improving practices associated with distillation of petroleum as undistilled residues, as well as petroleum in other forms.
Date: September 16, 1913
Creator: Van Dyke, John W.; Irish, William M.; Ellis, H. A. & Esterly, Edw. C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Heating Oil-Retorts and Apparatus Therefor. (open access)

Process of Heating Oil-Retorts and Apparatus Therefor.

Patent for "a method of securing even heating of oil retorts and the like throughout their length" and "a new apparatus, particularly intended for the heating and cracking of oils to convert the same into pyrolytic products". The invention may be used for any oil converting retort, but the patent description relates to the production of gasoline.
Date: August 16, 1921
Creator: Alexander, Clive M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Manufacture of Organic Solvents (open access)

Improvements in Manufacture of Organic Solvents

Patent for new improvements to the manufacture of organic solvents. Specifically as it it relates to the treatment of acetone oils with catalysts for the purpose of converting the ketones contained within the acetone oil into alcohol.
Date: December 5, 1914
Creator: Hibbert, Harold
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Loading Cartridges. (open access)

Machine for Loading Cartridges.

Patent for mechanizing and streamlining the steps involved in loading a cartridge.
Date: October 10, 1886
Creator: Franklin, Edward A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Manufacture of Gasolene. (open access)

Manufacture of Gasolene.

Patent for the manufacture of gasoline. The product is used as a fuel for internal combustion engines.
Date: March 9, 1915
Creator: Bacon, Raymond F.; Brooks, Benjamin T. & Clark, Clinton W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Portable Steam Engine (open access)

Portable Steam Engine

Patent for a Portable Seam Engine
Date: August 24, 1880
Creator: Kriebel, Hosea K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gasoline Burner for Incandescent Lighting (open access)

Gasoline Burner for Incandescent Lighting

Patent for Gasoline Burner for Incandescent Lighting
Date: October 24, 1916
Creator: Volz, William E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Making Amyl Acetate (open access)

Process of Making Amyl Acetate

Patent for Process of Making Amyl Acetate
Date: September 5, 1916
Creator: Essex, Harry & Brooks, Benjamin T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Production of Chlorinated Hydrocarbons. (open access)

Production of Chlorinated Hydrocarbons.

Patent for the new and improved production of Chlorinated Hydrocarbons; "[t]his invention relates to the production of dichlorinated hydrocarbons of the ethylene series, and particularly to the production of mixtures of dichlorinated hydrocarbons containing dichlor-ethylene and dichlor-propylene from mixtures of ethylene hydrocarbons containing ethylene and propylene." (lines 13-20)
Date: December 10, 1915
Creator: Brooks, Benjamin T. & Smith, Dillon F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Paper Bag Machine. (open access)

Paper Bag Machine.

Patent for an improved paper bag machine, which rapidly converts continuously moving paper into bags.
Date: December 24, 1901
Creator: Tyson, F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Paper-Bag Machine. (open access)

Paper-Bag Machine.

Patent for improvements in the paper-bag machine (related to author's previous Patent No. 689,441, December 24, 1901) for the purpose of improving the mechanism for forming the primary fold of the bag-bottom in the bag-folding process, including descriptions of the machinery, parts, and illustrations.
Date: May 5, 1903
Creator: Tyson, Frank
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stable Rosin and Process of Making the Same (open access)

Stable Rosin and Process of Making the Same

Patent for the process of manufacturing hydrogenated rosin.
Date: January 4, 1916
Creator: Brooks, Benjamin T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Utilization of Aluminum-Chlorid Residues. (open access)

Utilization of Aluminum-Chlorid Residues.

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in the Utilization of Aluminum Chlorid Residues" (lines 6-7) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 24, 1920
Creator: Abbott, Lyle Stockton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Whiffletree. (open access)

Whiffletree.

Patent for an improvement in whiffletrees, made out of steel. It includes a description and illustration.
Date: April 21, 1891
Creator: Flatau, Louis S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Making Aluminum Chlorid. (open access)

Process of Making Aluminum Chlorid.

Patent for the process of making aluminum chlorid (chloride) in which aluminum carbid "is subjected to the action of chlorin or a gas containing chlorin" (lines 17-19) and is more cost effective, uses less heat, and does not require the use of bauxite (optional) or metallic aluminum.
Date: June 18, 1918
Creator: Smith, Dillon F. & Essex, Harry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Making Aluminum Chlorid. (open access)

Process of Making Aluminum Chlorid.

Patent for the process of making aluminum chlorid (chloride) wherein solid materials are preheated to alleviate heating supply issues during the process.
Date: May 28, 1918
Creator: King, George H. & Roberts, Gerald I.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rubber Compund and Material for Use in Making the Same. (open access)

Rubber Compund and Material for Use in Making the Same.

Patent for a rubber compound, which is not damaged by oils and therefore usable in bearings. It features asphaltic bitumen rather than paraffin bitumen.
Date: December 31, 1907
Creator: Strain, Ebenezer W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Treatment of Mined Sulfur. (open access)

Treatment of Mined Sulfur.

Patent for a method to improve the free burning properties of mined sulfur by carbonizing the oil and eliminating carbon.
Date: April 19, 1921
Creator: Bacon, Raymond Foss, 1880-1954.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Treatment of Mined Sulfur. (open access)

Treatment of Mined Sulfur.

Patent for heating sulfur under appropriate conditions in order to carbonized oil contained within, allowing stationary sulfur to burn without difficulty or interference from carbon.
Date: April 19, 1921
Creator: Bacon, Raymond Foss, 1880-1954.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Processes of Reducing Asphaltum to a Liquid (open access)

Improvement in Processes of Reducing Asphaltum to a Liquid

Patent for a new and useful process of reducing asphaltum to a liquid and the patent includes a list of solvents suitable for use in the process.
Date: March 20, 1877
Creator: Lee, Archibald K.
System: The Portal to Texas History