Cooling Device for Lard-Compounding Machines (open access)

Cooling Device for Lard-Compounding Machines

Patent for a machine that spreads melted lard into thin sheets and freezes it. Illustrations included.
Date: May 26, 1908
Creator: Wright, Robert L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coin Controlled Vending Machine (open access)

Coin Controlled Vending Machine

Patent for coin controlled vending machine. Illustrations included.
Date: April 26, 1904
Creator: Kreter, Otto
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle Guard (open access)

Cattle Guard

Patent for a cattle guard. "This invention is a cattle guard having transverse drainage conduits with overhanging plates and so proportioned that the foot of an animal will be projected into the conduit" (lines 13-17). Illustration included.
Date: June 26, 1906
Creator: Lee, Jacob Martin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for an inexpensive, simple, and efficient improved twin-jaw coupling that couples automatically and easily uncouples. Operators do not need to go between cars to uncouple the cars. "A further object of the invention is in the operation of uncoupling to open the knuckle after releasing the same in order to have the knuckle in position predatory to coupling" (lines 16-19).
Date: September 26, 1893
Creator: Anderson, Anders Peder
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shade-Bracket (open access)

Shade-Bracket

Patent for shade-brackets which connects window shades or blinds to a wall or ceiling
Date: August 26, 1919
Creator: Overman, Benjamin Franklin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Canopy-Support (open access)

Canopy-Support

Patent for canopy support for the bed where the user can attach mosquito netting. The canopy support can be removed and folded when not in use, and is designed to offer simple and efficient support.
Date: March 26, 1918
Creator: Carroll, Houston M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Burner (open access)

Burner

Patent for an oil burner, in combination with a gas generating portion of a burner pipe below and provided by a upwardly directed discharge opening, a drip pan secured in place and extending horizontally below said burning pipe.
Date: July 26, 1921
Creator: Kunkel, Albert R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel. (open access)

Vehicle-Wheel.

Patent for a vehicle wheel with no extra small parts, a tightener that tightens the whole wheel and is easily reached, and constructed in such a manner that it may be easily taken apart and put back together for repair purposes.
Date: March 26, 1907
Creator: Hadley, William Swain
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ventilator (open access)

Ventilator

Patent for low cost, improved ventilators for Pullman and passenger cars and buildings.
Date: March 26, 1918
Creator: Hedges, Robert S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method of Working Volatile Hydrates for Artificial Refrigeration. (open access)

Method of Working Volatile Hydrates for Artificial Refrigeration.

Patent for a new and improved method of working volatile hydrates for refrigeration. This invention "consists in the continuous circulation through a chamber to be refrigerated of aqueous solution of volatile matter previously cooled by the expansive elimination therefrom of a portion of said volatile matter" (lines 64-68).
Date: July 26, 1881
Creator: Rose, Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tooth (open access)

Tooth

Patent for an artificial tooth. Illustrations included.
Date: July 26, 1910
Creator: Stallman, George E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trace - Fastener (open access)

Trace - Fastener

Patent for improved spring activated trace fastener.
Date: June 26, 1900
Creator: Woods, Washington Green Lee
System: The Portal to Texas History
Press. (open access)

Press.

Patent for a new and improved press for " holding down sauer-kraut, pickles, and other articles in barrels, tubs, or like receptacles" (line 9 -10).
Date: September 26, 1899
Creator: Cross, George Francis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mixer (open access)

Mixer

Patent for an improved mixer for "use in connection with internal combustion engines" (lines 9-10). The invention is designed to simplify and increase the engine's efficiency while also making construction more affordable.
Date: March 26, 1918
Creator: Warren, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Moving-Picture Machine. (open access)

Moving-Picture Machine.

Patent for an improved machine to play films (moving-pictures), synchronizing both sound and picture in a single machine. Division of another patent by the same inventor (Serial No. 765,959) for a sound record film, and is intended to be used in conjunction with said patent.
Date: March 26, 1918
Creator: Craig, Richard M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Driving Mechanism For Automobiles And The Like. (open access)

Driving Mechanism For Automobiles And The Like.

Patent for improvements in the automobile driving mechanism thorough changes in the transmission and transmission gearing.
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Allan, William N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety Railroad Appliance (open access)

Safety Railroad Appliance

Patent for a railroad safety appliance, which "may be readily installed in connection with the air brake system of a train and be automatically operated to bleed the air line and effect the applying of the brakes in the event of displacement of the brake beam and thereby avoid possible displacement of the car."
Date: May 26, 1914
Creator: Kush, John, Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shipping Unit (open access)

Shipping Unit

Patent for "a shipping unit or carrier for the transportation of merchandise as freight, express, or baggage" (lines 8-10).
Date: January 26, 1915
Creator: Terry, James W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Headlight (open access)

Headlight

Patent for a headlight that has a dimming function.
Date: October 26, 1920
Creator: Pepple, John Pepple
System: The Portal to Texas History
Phonographic Attachment for Moving-Picture Machines (open access)

Phonographic Attachment for Moving-Picture Machines

Patent for an invention that is "the provision of mechanism whereby a sound record may be made or reproduced synchronously with the taking or reproduction of moving pictures" (Paragraph 100). In addition, the invention enables sound and picture to be recorded on the same machine, so that they sound and the picture match.
Date: March 26, 1918
Creator: Craig, Richard M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Power Multiplying Mechanism (open access)

Power Multiplying Mechanism

Patent for object that provides "a comparatively simple mechanism for multiplying the efficient power of a prime mover of any well known types" and "designed to conserve and utilize kinetic energy and apply momentum with the utmost economy in order to retain the result sought."
Date: September 26, 1916
Creator: Dominguez, Salvador
System: The Portal to Texas History
Power Multiplying Mechanism (open access)

Power Multiplying Mechanism

Patent for a power multiplying mechanism that maximizes the effect of utilized kinetic energy.
Date: September 26, 1916
Creator: Dominguez, Salvador
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method of Converting Mesquite Beans. (open access)

Method of Converting Mesquite Beans.

Patent for a new and improved method of treating mesquite beans. This is a design "whereby they are converted into a healthful easily-digestible article of food . . . or may be infused in liquid for producing a healthful or agreeable drink" (lines 8-13). It consists, "first, in a preliminary drying of the bean as a whole to eradicate moisture; second, breaking the thus-dried bean into short pieces to render it more readily affected by the heat . . . third, roasting the broken particles to render friable or more brittle; fourth, grinding the mass, and fifth, separating the powdered bean and outer pod from the hull" (lines 13-21).
Date: July 26, 1892
Creator: Jacobs, Thomas H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dip for Animals. (open access)

Dip for Animals.

Patent for a non-poisonous antiseptic and parasiticide dip to cure animal's skin diseases (including mange and Spanish itch) and stimulate the growth of wool or hair.
Date: August 26, 1913
Creator: Carpenter, Earl Collins
System: The Portal to Texas History