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End Door For Cars (open access)

End Door For Cars

Patent for a new end door on freight train cars including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 10, 1900
Creator: Goodridge, Ethan A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Burning Fuel-Oil (open access)

Apparatus for Burning Fuel-Oil

Patent for an oil burner for stoves and furnaces. Illustrations included.
Date: September 24, 1912
Creator: Kunkel, Albert R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Forming Implement. (open access)

Forming Implement.

Patent for a forming implement for sheet metal for making boiler parts.
Date: August 30, 1910
Creator: Gee, John H. & Coates, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for cotton chopper. Illustration included.
Date: October 1, 1907
Creator: Murray, Joel S. & Scarborough, Ezem H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Base for Columns (open access)

Base for Columns

Patent for a base for columns which drains water away from the base.
Date: September 20, 1910
Creator: Riley, Samuel L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Seat. (open access)

Car-Seat.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in car seats, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 27, 1900
Creator: Meier, Hermann
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator (open access)

Cultivator

Patent for a cultivator. This invention consists of a plurality of spring teeth or blades. Illustration included.
Date: February 26, 1907
Creator: Omberg, Niles E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Oiler (open access)

Automatic Oiler

Patent for an automatic oiler for railroad cars.
Date: January 17, 1911
Creator: Adams, Richard Field
System: The Portal to Texas History
Display Cabinet (open access)

Display Cabinet

Patent for display cabinet. Illustration included.
Date: April 4, 1905
Creator: Douglass, John A. & Fagg, Carye A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
AIR-BREAK SIGNALING AND RELEASEING DEVICE. (open access)

AIR-BREAK SIGNALING AND RELEASEING DEVICE.

Patent for an improvement in air-brake release-valve in trains to signal train crews and release the breaks if they become set for any reason, or stuck, while the train is moving, including descriptions of the release valve and illustrations.
Date: November 4, 1902
Creator: Dukesmith, Frank H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Derailing Device. (open access)

Derailing Device.

Patent for a derailing device to stop trains from colliding with one another by derailing the oncoming train.
Date: December 24, 1907
Creator: Clegg, William Owen
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator. (open access)

Cultivator.

Patent for a cultivator with adjustable teeth positions to allow for variation in distance between rows or different types of crops.
Date: March 26, 1907
Creator: Vance, Sidney, F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Burning Crude Oil (open access)

Apparatus for Burning Crude Oil

Patent for an apparatus for burning crude oil in stoves.
Date: November 22, 1910
Creator: Kunkel, Albert R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electrical Trolley-Replacer. (open access)

Electrical Trolley-Replacer.

Patent for an electric trolley replacer, which automatically replaces the trolley on the wheel.
Date: February 9, 1909
Creator: Sparks, Hubert Lorenzo
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard. (open access)

Cattle-Guard.

Patent for a cattle guard, which is made up of a wedge shaped piece of metal that allows a cows leg to be caught rather than the foot to allow easier removal of the leg by the cow.
Date: August 31, 1909
Creator: Mosher, Benjamin E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow (open access)

Harrow

Patent for a harrow. Illustration included.
Date: October 30, 1906
Creator: Henderson, Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boiler Attachment. (open access)

Boiler Attachment.

Patent for a boiler attachment to regulate the boiler feed pump.
Date: May 31, 1910
Creator: Morris, Gid M. & Watkins, J. H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator (open access)

Cultivator

Patent for a cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date: April 12, 1904
Creator: Vance, Sidney F. & Woodard, Lorenzo D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Switch (open access)

Automatic Switch

Patent for an automatic switch for railroad tracks.
Date: May 2, 1911
Creator: Pickle, Voyl C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Desk Attachment (open access)

Desk Attachment

Patent for a desk attachment. Illustration included.
Date: February 7, 1905
Creator: Miller, Hartford H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cloth Measuring Reel. (open access)

Cloth Measuring Reel.

Patent for a new and improved cloth-measuring wheel. This design "consists in the peculiar combination and arrangement of the cutting-board with two standards, whereby the said cutting-board is made to act as a sufficient brace for the frame, as well as to perform the offices of a cutting board. The invention also consists in means for producing a variable tension on the cloth as it passes from the roll to the reel, whereby the tendency of different thicknesses of cloth to wind the cloth in greater or lesser lengths than the register indicates is compensated for and corrected" (lines 27-39).
Date: January 3, 1882
Creator: Peters, James H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Converting Reciprocating into Rotary Motion. (open access)

Device for Converting Reciprocating into Rotary Motion.

Patent for a new and improved device for converting reciprocating into rotary motion. This design "has for its object to provide means whereby rotary motion may be converted into reciprocating motion or reciprocating motion into rotary motion without the intervention of cranks; and to this end it consists in a mutilated gear pinion secured to a rotating shaft and provided with suitable cams, whereby the gear-teeth upon the pinion are caused to engage with gear-teeth upon a yoke embracing said pinion" (lines 23-32).
Date: July 18, 1882
Creator: Richardson, John T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draw Bar for Locomotives. (open access)

Draw Bar for Locomotives.

Patent for a new and improved draw-bar for locomotives. This design consists, "with the frame of the locomotive and pilot mounted thereon, of the draw-bar connected to the frame, devices for locking and holding the draw-bar on the pilot, and a counter-weight for automatically elevating the draw-bar when released" (lines 97-102).
Date: August 16, 1892
Creator: Heidelberg, Samuel H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pounder. (open access)

Clothes-Pounder.

Patent for new and useful improvements in Washington Pounders by "having a series of concentric cones between the sides of which communication is had through apertures to carry away steam, and affords a suitable circulation of the water and air through the clothes." (Lines 17-22) Illustration is included.
Date: December 15, 1896
Creator: Toler, Henry Wilson.
System: The Portal to Texas History