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
Apparatus for Distilling Wood. (open access)

Apparatus for Distilling Wood.

Patent for improvements in wood distillers "wherein the liquids of the woods are extracted by subjection in a closed heated chamber or retort and carried by vaporization through the process of distillation to condensation" (lines 18-22).
Date: December 24, 1889
Creator: Spangler, Samuel H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow or Cultivator (open access)

Harrow or Cultivator

Patent for a harrow or cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date: May 24, 1904
Creator: Cutter, Oliver C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Marking-Tag. (open access)

Marking-Tag.

Patent for a marking-tag that is clamped around the edge of the merchandise that is being labeled. This tag is secure at its four corners "so as to obviate curling of the corners and to protect the ends of the fastener employed for securing the tag to the goods, whereby scratching of the hands and injurious contact of the points of the said fastener with the goods or merchandise are wholly obviated" (lines 12-18).
Date: March 24, 1896
Creator: Winkler, Charles
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