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Acetylene-Gas Generator. (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator.

Patent for certain new an useful improvements in acetylene gas apparatus, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 30, 1900
Creator: Ruthenberg, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator. (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator.

Patent for a new and useful acetylene gas generator, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 30, 1899
Creator: Camp, Charles M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator

Patent for a acetylene gas generator with an improved valve for sending carbide into the generator which is more efficient and cheaper to make.
Date: July 30, 1907
Creator: Menczer, Samuel A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Advertising-Fan. (open access)

Advertising-Fan.

Patent for "an attractive sign, which by reason of its revolutions will receive notice from the general public and illustrate business cards or signs, and furthermore to operate the same by and in conjunction with a fan, such as is commonly used in public places." (Lines 15-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 30, 1895
Creator: Lo Casto, Tony
System: The Portal to Texas History
Agricultural Machine. (open access)

Agricultural Machine.

Patent for an agricultural machine, a frame structure that can hold multiple types of agricultural devices and allows for the proper adjustment and manipulation of said devices without changing the frame's structure.
Date: December 30, 1919
Creator: Northcutt, John & Crawford, Miner
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air Brush (open access)

Air Brush

Patent for new and useful air brushes that are "intended for spraying paints, or colors, where it is desired to frequently change the color employed or to spray a combination of colors at the same time" (lines 16-20). Illustrations are included.
Date: May 30, 1916
Creator: Philibert, Joseph E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Air-Lift Pump (open access)

Air-Lift Pump

Patent for an air lift pump. Illustrations included.
Date: July 30, 1912
Creator: Holmgreen, Julius H. & Underwood, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Alarm Attachment for Electric Bells. (open access)

Alarm Attachment for Electric Bells.

Patent for "an Alarm Attachment for Electric Bells." "The object in view is the provision of means for facilitating the change of an ordinary door-bell into a continuously-ringing alarm apparatus, while leaving the mechanism free to be changed back into its former operative condition as a door-bell."(Lines 10-15) Including illustrations and instructions.
Date: June 30, 1902
Creator: Blakeney, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ant-Trap (open access)

Ant-Trap

Patent for an ant trap,with illustrations. Purpose of the invention was to be efficient more efficient in both cost and use in comparison to other ant traps being sold at the time.
Date: July 30, 1889
Creator: Davis, Edwin E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Checking Runaway Horses. (open access)

Apparatus for Checking Runaway Horses.

Patent for a new and useful apparatus for checking runaway horses, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 30, 1898
Creator: Singleton, James M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Making Mattresses (open access)

Apparatus For Making Mattresses

Patent for mattress making machine, which cleans, compresses, and stuffs cotton or other materials into a mattress, including illustrations.
Date: July 30, 1901
Creator: Woolery, John T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
APPARATUS FOR PUMPING WATER, SAND, &c. (open access)

APPARATUS FOR PUMPING WATER, SAND, &c.

Patent for "an apparatus for emptying sandboxes of locomotives" (lines 13-14) "operated by compressed air to elevate and discharge sand, water, &c." (lines 10-11).
Date: October 30, 1900
Creator: Butler, Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Automobile-Footboards. (open access)

Attachment for Automobile-Footboards.

Patent for a device to attach to an automobile footboard that can swing out and right angles to the automobile and act as a receptacle for packages. The device can be folded under the footboard when not in use.
Date: May 30, 1916
Creator: Woodley, Henry J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Cream-Separators. (open access)

Attachment for Cream-Separators.

A patent for a strainer rack attachment "which is cheap and simple in construction, which may be very readily attached to the milk bowl supporting stand, and by means of which a strainer may be arranged over the milk bowl or turned back out of the way as desired." (lines 22-27)
Date: May 30, 1916
Creator: Miller, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Harness. (open access)

Attachment for Harness.

Patent for a new and improved attachment for harnesses. This design "relates to attachments for harness; and it consists of a plate having a safety-hook, a back-band buckle, and guide-rings" (lines 20-23).
Date: August 30, 1881
Creator: Applewhite, David T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Tractors. (open access)

Attachment for Tractors.

Patent for attachments in tractors. "This invention relates to tractors and has for its object the provision of means where by when the front axle and wheels of the tractor rise caused by rearing of the tractor, the clutch will be automatically disconnected and remain so until the front wheels of the tractor descend again into engagement with the ground. An important and more specific object is the provision in a tractor of a front axle formed n sections pivotally connected, one section being connected by suitable means with the clutch mechanism and the wheels serving as weights whereby when the tractor rears back and the front wheels leave the ground the axle sections will move relatively and exert a pull upon the means connected with the clutch whereby the clutch will be thrown out."
Date: August 30, 1921
Creator: Cholick, Joseph John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Adjustable Feeder Valve (open access)

Automatic Adjustable Feeder Valve

Patent for fluid pressure regulation valves.
Date: January 30, 1917
Creator: Hard, Raymond E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Air-Brake Coupling (open access)

Automatic Air-Brake Coupling

Patent for "improved automatic pipe-coupling which shall overcome the difficulties found in the devices of this class heretofore in use, and which shall be cheap to manufacture, easy to repair, simple in construction, and extremely effective in use and operation" (lines 27-33).
Date: July 30, 1889
Creator: Roquemore, Peter G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Circuit-Closer Attachment for Telegraph-Keys (open access)

Automatic Circuit-Closer Attachment for Telegraph-Keys

Patent for an attachment for telegraph keys, so that the line circuit closes automatically upon the release of the key.
Date: April 30, 1918
Creator: White, James L
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Dumping Cage (open access)

Automatic Dumping Cage

Patent for a new and improved automatic dumping cage. This invention is to "use in the shafts of coal and other mines"(line 9-10).
Date: November 30, 1897
Creator: Gordon, William K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Engine-Starter. (open access)

Automatic Engine-Starter.

Patent for "new and useful Automatic Engine-Starter, of which the following is a specification. The present invention appertains to engine starters, and aims to provide a novel and improved automatic spring-actuated starter for internal combustion engines" (lines 5-11).
Date: November 30, 1915
Creator: Beck, John Wesley & Gaines, Nolan T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Fire Extinguisher. (open access)

Automatic Fire Extinguisher.

Patent for a new and improved fire extinguisher. This design is "to provide for automatically putting out a fire in any building in which [the] apparatus may be located, upon the temperature in said building or room reaching any predetermined degree. This result is accomplished by the action of an expansible fluid—such as mercury—in a contained vessel, which actuates certain . . . mechanism, causing the structure to be flooded with water or with a fire-extinguishing gas or fluid" (lines 22-32).
Date: December 30, 1890
Creator: Fuller, Wily Scott
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Reversing Mechanism (open access)

Automatic Reversing Mechanism

Patent for an automatic reversing mechanism for cotton presses.
Date: April 30, 1912
Creator: Cameron, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Switch (open access)

Automatic Switch

Patent for an automatic switch for street railways.
Date: November 30, 1909
Creator: Godoy, Jose Ma
System: The Portal to Texas History