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Buggy-Top Support. (open access)

Buggy-Top Support.

Patent for buggy-top support by providing a device that can “secure the folding top of any vehicle and will protect the bows from strain and breakage, when in lowered position and will also prevent all rattling of and shocks of the folding top.” (Lines 11-15) Illustration is included.
Date: June 4, 1901
Creator: Mason, Everett H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for making mattresses. (open access)

Machine for making mattresses.

Patent for a machine for making mattresses with compressed lint-cotton inserted into a tick.
Date: June 4, 1901
Creator: Morgan, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mail-Box (open access)

Mail-Box

Patent for "a mail-box adapted to be placed at or on the house of the person receiving the mail, so as to facilitate a house-to-house delivery" (lines 8-11).
Date: June 4, 1901
Creator: Myer, Clayton Pittinger
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring-Gun (open access)

Spring-Gun

Patent for "a cheap and simple device of this nature wherein the projectile will be held in such manner as not to interfere with sighting the catapult and wherein derived will be held in place in such manner as will prevent their accidental displacement and will yet permit of ready removal when desired" (lines 9-17).
Date: June 4, 1901
Creator: Wilkins, Willie A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pneumatic Sand Flue And Netting Cleaner (open access)

Pneumatic Sand Flue And Netting Cleaner

Patent for improved Pneumatic Sand Flue and Netting Cleaners that "provide portable means for blowing sand through locomotive flues and nettings when coal-burners are employed for the purpose of cleaning said flues or nettings" (lines 13-17)
Date: December 4, 1901
Creator: Gibson, Robert W. & Best, William N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stump-Puller (open access)

Stump-Puller

Patent "to improve the construction of stump-pullers and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient one which will possess great strength and durability and which ma be readily operated with a minimum amount of power" (lines 10-15).
Date: June 4, 1901
Creator: Bethel, Ion Maywood
System: The Portal to Texas History
Motor-Bicycle (open access)

Motor-Bicycle

Patent for "a frame in which the motor shall be firmly supported without undue strain on any part of the machine and in which the weight of the motor shall be as low as may be and to connect the motor to the driving-axle in such way that a pedal shall also be utilized for driving the machine with little interference from the motor and with a proper balance of friction and to improve certain details and combinations of the driving-gear" (lines 10-20).
Date: June 4, 1901
Creator: White, Edward Y.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Scraper for Mixing-Machines (open access)

Scraper for Mixing-Machines

Patent for a now and useful Scraper for Mixing-Machines, which is specifically a scraper attachment for the mixing-cylinder wherewith the material that may cling to the inner surface of the cylinder may be scraped off and the mixing operation may be thoroughly performed.
Date: June 4, 1901
Creator: Sliger, Charles F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Heater (open access)

Heater

Patent for "a heater of the above-described character which may be used in connection with a stove or furnace or a fire built on the ground in the open air and be more effective and economic in its heating and more convenient in operation than the usual methods heretofore pursued in such instances where an inexpensive and portable device of this kind could be used to great advantage" (lines 13-22).
Date: June 4, 1901
Creator: Harrison, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History