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Cooking-Stove (open access)

Cooking-Stove

Patent for a stove "with an oven, and a combustion chamber, so arranged . . . that the heat will completely surround said oven, said stove being equipped with a novel form of oil burner which is contained in the combustion chamber and adapted to utilize oil as a fuel" (lines 14-19).
Date: March 18, 1919
Creator: Cook, Charles F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Countersink and Bit-Gage. (open access)

Combination Countersink and Bit-Gage.

Patent for a tool to be used with a drill or bit that allows the user to simultaneously drill and form a countersink. It also has a bit gauge that allows it to be used for drills of varying sizes.
Date: March 23, 1920
Creator: Storey, Henry L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Motion-Picture and Sound-Reproducing Mechanism. (open access)

Combination Motion-Picture and Sound-Reproducing Mechanism.

Patent for a connecting mechanism between the motion picture and sound reproducing mechanisms. If the two get out of sync, there are manually operable means to halting one until the other has caught up.
Date: June 4, 1918
Creator: Kirkwood, Abraham L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin. (open access)

Clothes-Pin.

Patent for improvement on clothing pin by using a single wire.
Date: March 11, 1919
Creator: Neal, William C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Mail-Box and Door-Bell (open access)

Combined Mail-Box and Door-Bell

Patent for a combined mailbox and doorbell. The invention automatically sounds a bell when mail is placed inside that can be set up directly on the house or at a distance. The invention also serves to protect the mail from rain and mail thieves.
Date: July 9, 1918
Creator: McDonald, James A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combine Dimmer and Adjuster for Headlights (open access)

Combine Dimmer and Adjuster for Headlights

This patent is for the improvement of illumination and more particularly relates to a combined dimmer and adjuster for headlights. The primary aim is for the improvement of dimmers on the lamps of a motor vehicle so that the dimmers might be adjusted together with respect to the lamps so that various positions of vertical and horizontal adjustment are possible and if necessary, the removal of the cover of the lamps.
Date: April 9, 1918
Creator: Averitt, Robert W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ironing-Table. [Copy #2] (open access)

Ironing-Table. [Copy #2]

Patent for an ironing board that has adjustable height and can be folded for storage.
Date: February 11, 1902
Creator: Click, John Jones
System: The Portal to Texas History
Reversible Spring-Motor. [Copy #1] (open access)

Reversible Spring-Motor. [Copy #1]

Patent for a spring motor "particularly designed for use in connection with bicycles, polycycles, and all foot-propelled vehicles, but applicable also to all kinds of vehicles, as well as street and railway cars" (lines 11-15). It is intended to accumulate surplus power for use in propelling a vehicle up an incline, or for other propulsion either forward or backward.
Date: April 20, 1897
Creator: Click, John Jones
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ironing-Table. [Copy #1] (open access)

Ironing-Table. [Copy #1]

Patent for an ironing board that has adjustable height and can be folded for storage.
Date: February 11, 1902
Creator: Click, John Jones
System: The Portal to Texas History
Reversible Spring-Motor. [Copy #2] (open access)

Reversible Spring-Motor. [Copy #2]

Patent for a spring motor "particularly designed for use in connection with bicycles, polycycles, and all foot-propelled vehicles, but applicable also to all kinds of vehicles, as well as street and railway cars" (lines 11-15). It is intended to accumulate surplus power for use in propelling a vehicle up an incline, or for other propulsion either forward or backward.
Date: April 20, 1897
Creator: Click, John Jones
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wild Well Control (open access)

Wild Well Control

Patent for a device to help get oil or gas wells back under control from a distance if they have developed excessive gas pressure which may cause fluid to blow out of the well or fires.
Date: July 11, 1933
Creator: Whitwam, Wallace W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Manufacture of Bricks (open access)

Manufacture of Bricks

Patent for an improvement in the manufacturing of bricks, using the waste products of a coal burning furnace and other cheap ingredients.
Date: December 22, 1922
Creator: North, Clarance Lupfer
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench (open access)

Wrench

Patent for tools used for construction, plumbing, machinery, home renovations, and many more.
Date: February 27, 1923
Creator: Edwards, Charles R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sheet-Placing Machine. (open access)

Sheet-Placing Machine.

Patent for improvements in sheet-placing machines for pushing and pulling devices to their correct orientation of oil tanks (lines 10-13) roof construction without the possibility of injury to mechanics.
Date: March 13, 1923
Creator: Brock, Verita Belle
System: The Portal to Texas History
Slime-Pulp Thickener. (open access)

Slime-Pulp Thickener.

Patent for a machine used in the wet milling process. It allows proportionate distribution of liquids to aide during the thickening process.
Date: April 17, 1923
Creator: Allen, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupler. (open access)

Car Coupler.

Patent for car coupler heads. This object has coupler heads that, when set in position, automatically lock.
Date: September 11, 1923
Creator: Tucker, Roger V.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Salad Dressing (open access)

Salad Dressing

Patent for improving salad dressing. This salad dressing has high quality ingredients to go with any salad.
Date: November 20, 1923
Creator: Scholl, William H. & Scholl, Barney
System: The Portal to Texas History