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Crude-Oil Burner
Patent for a crude oil burner. Illustrations included.
Date:
June 7, 1910
Creator:
Shaeffer, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Sack Filling and Weighing Machine
Patent for an automatic sack filling and weighing machine. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 7, 1911
Creator:
Carter, Edward D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Tie-Plate and Rail-Anticreeper.
Patent for a combined railroad tie and rail anti-creeping device, which prevents the rails from spreading.
Date:
December 7, 1909
Creator:
Clarke, Marcus S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automobile-Indicator
Patent for an automobile indicator which shows the license number of the car and the state in which the license was issued. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 7, 1912
Creator:
Hoaker, John & Banks, William I.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Light Shade and Reflector.
Patent for a new adjustable light shade and reflector with "a shade and a support therefor so provided with joints that the shade may be given any desired angle of reflection, relative to the light, and its relative distance from the light may be regulated" (lines 13-17), which includes illustrations and instructions.
Date:
March 7, 1911
Creator:
Spivey, Lillian Hale
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Machine
Patent for a acetylene gas machine that automatically controls the flow of carbid or gas producing material into the generator "by means of a float and lever connection with the valve of the carbid hopper" (lines 19-21).
Date:
May 7, 1907
Creator:
Ricketts, James R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Wrench
Patent for an automatic wrench. The wrench possesses a locking movable jaw. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 7, 1913
Creator:
Clay, Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baking, Cooking, and Heating Furnace
Patent for a new and useful improvement in baking, cooking, and heating furnaces. This invention "consists in the mechanism and peculiar arrangements of parts, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings and particularly pointed out in the claims" (line 13-16).
Date:
December 7, 1897
Creator:
Harry, Owen K.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Band-Tightener.
Patent for a lever used to tighten the bands on bales of cotton or other materials, including illustrations.
Date:
July 7, 1903
Creator:
Mullane, Dennis.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Bleaching Lard Compounds
Patent for an apparatus for bleaching lard compounds. Illustration included.
Date:
November 7, 1905
Creator:
Humphreys, Jerome N.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn Or Cotton Planter.
Patent for a new and useful corn or cotton planter, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 7, 1899
Creator:
Linam, John W. & Whitworth, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Gun or Rifle.
Patent for a gun or rifle with a magazine, which quickly and automatically ejects spent cartridges and reloads.
Date:
May 7, 1912
Creator:
Douglas, William M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling
Patent for an innovation in the combination and arrangement of parts for car-couplers including illustrations.
Date:
August 7, 1900
Creator:
Hawkins, David
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Scissors or Shears.
Patent for scissors or shears which open automatically due to a central, coiled spring.
Date:
November 7, 1911
Creator:
Allison, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Planter
Patent for a single row planter for corn or cotton. The planter is to be used in virgin soil with out any soil preparation.
Date:
May 7, 1907
Creator:
Dudley, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Solidifying Cotton-Batting Preparatory for Pressing and Baling
Patent for an apparatus for forming cotton batting into dense rolls to prepare them for bailing and pressing. Illustrations included.
Date:
May 7, 1912
Creator:
Banister, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bag Holder
Patent for a bag holder. This invention is made of four frame sections that fold and when extended supports the bag. Illustration included.
Date:
January 7, 1913
Creator:
Devini, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Cultivator-Tooth Seat.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in adjustable cultivator tooth seats, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 7, 1898
Creator:
Shofield, James Drummond
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cement.
Patent for cement that is better or equivalent to Keene's cement from England, made from pure gypsum and various chemicals and only calcinated once.
Date:
May 7, 1907
Creator:
Jones, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Burial Apparatus.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in "a burial device adapted particularly for use as a cemetery hearse and also for depositing the casket in the grave" (line 12 - 15).
Date:
June 7, 1898
Creator:
Thorne, Richard Hamilton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner
Patent for a crude oil burner used for fuel.
Date:
October 7, 1902
Creator:
Seeger, John B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chimney Holder
Patent for chimney holder. This design is a "means for holding a chimney upon a burner of any kind for the purpose of preventing the accidental tilting of the chimney" (lines 11-13). Illustrations included.
Date:
March 7, 1911
Creator:
Elkins, Thomas M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin.
Patent for a clothes pin that is durable and strong.
Date:
December 7, 1909
Creator:
French, Alfonso Claude
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Key and Automatic Stop Cock
Patent for "new and improved Combination Key and Automatic Stop-Cock" (lines 6-7) for the purpose of providing "an automatic arrangement for cutting off the water-supply in hydrants and like appliances when the weather becomes so cold as to endanger the freezing of the water" (lines 11-14).
Date:
May 7, 1900
Creator:
Randall, C. T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History