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Blank for Making Perforated Tubing (open access)

Blank for Making Perforated Tubing

Patent for a blank for the manufacturing of well tubing used in water and oil wells.
Date: February 18, 1913
Creator: Layne, Mahlon E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator (open access)

Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator

Patent for combining both cotton choppers and cultivators. This will create a more easily operated piece of machinery.
Date: February 4, 1902
Creator: Bass, James Milton, Sr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cinder Guard. (open access)

Cinder Guard.

Patent for a detachable cinder guard to be used with car panels. This cinder guard prevents cinders and other items that may cause combustion from entering a car window.
Date: December 31, 1901
Creator: Morse, S. F. B. & Tuggle, S. R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn (open access)

Churn

Patent for a churn with mechanical assistance that will turn cream into butter faster than other churns.
Date: August 24, 1909
Creator: Harris, Jacob S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Car-Coupling. (open access)

Automatic Car-Coupling.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in automatic car couplings, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 13, 1898
Creator: Pettes, Moses M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coin-Bank or Toy Safe (open access)

Coin-Bank or Toy Safe

Patent for "coin-banks or toy safes for containing hoarded coin" (lines 8-9). To provide a simple mechanism which "can be manufactured at an extremely low cost, which shall be of marked simplicity in construction, and in which coin will be securely contained..." (lines 11-14) including illustrations.
Date: March 26, 1901
Creator: Clarke, Marcus S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Barrel-Shelf (open access)

Barrel-Shelf

Patent for barrel shelves which attach to barrels to hold up sacks during filling and fold up when out of use.
Date: May 4, 1909
Creator: Hughes, Alonzo
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clutch and Transmission Mechanism (open access)

Clutch and Transmission Mechanism

Patent for a clutch and transmission mechanism for automobiles which strengthens the load bearing of the clutch and allows greater flexibility in changing the load.
Date: January 25, 1910
Creator: Carpenter, John C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ballot-Box (open access)

Ballot-Box

Patent for a ballot box using black and white balls.
Date: March 4, 1902
Creator: Green, Charles D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pin (open access)

Clothes Pin

Patent for a clothes pin. Illustration included.
Date: November 13, 1906
Creator: Ingersoll, Charles J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Centrifugal Pump (open access)

Centrifugal Pump

Patent for a centrifugal pump. Illustration included.
Date: October 9, 1906
Creator: Bettis, William Irvin & Hamilton, Hugh
System: The Portal to Texas History
Case for Tourists' Glasses (open access)

Case for Tourists' Glasses

Patent for a case for tourists' glass which allows the glass to be easily taken in and out.
Date: November 24, 1908
Creator: Faehrmann, John M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Furnace (open access)

Furnace

Patent for locomotive-boiler furnaces with an easy to remove mounted fire box
Date: November 11, 1902
Creator: Meacher, George Washington
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Funnel. (open access)

Automatic Funnel.

Patent for a funnel which automatically seals when liquid in a receptacle reaches a certain level. The spout of the funnel also contains a stopper which can be lifted to permit liquid to pass into the receptacle at the desired time.
Date: June 13, 1911
Creator: Evans, Jesse M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bedstead Lock or Joint (open access)

Bedstead Lock or Joint

Patent for a bedstead lock or joint. Illustration included.
Date: August 17, 1901
Creator: Martin, Mack D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coin-Controlled Vending-Machine (open access)

Coin-Controlled Vending-Machine

Patent for a pencil vending machine that is coin-operated, with illustrations.
Date: September 5, 1911
Creator: Mathes, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Battery-Receptacle and Bell-Support (open access)

Combined Battery-Receptacle and Bell-Support

Patent for a battery receptacle and bell support for doorbells and alarms. Illustrations included.
Date: June 21, 1910
Creator: Koerber, James L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Band Fastening (open access)

Bale-Band Fastening

Patent for "a new and useful bale-band fastening or bale-tie for an object to provide a simple and efficient device for taking up a maximum amount of slack in the band with a minimum movement, while at the same time serving to tightly secure the band about the bale and preventing the same from loosening or the ends thereof from rending apart ." (lines 5-15) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 10, 1900
Creator: Campbell, Douglas M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle Guard (open access)

Cattle Guard

Patent for a cattle guard. Illustration included.
Date: June 16, 1908
Creator: York, Edward Jackson; Howze, Walter L. & Caldwell, Thomas W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Arc-Lamp (open access)

Arc-Lamp

Patent for an arc lamp which does not spark for use in headlights for trains and automobiles and in street lights.
Date: June 28, 1910
Creator: Anderson, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Penholders. (open access)

Attachment for Penholders.

Patent for a simple and effective attachment for penholders. It is "readily and easily attached to a penholder, and which is adapted to protect the fingers of the hand and prevent them from coming in contact with the pen or with the inked portion of the holder" (lines 15-19).
Date: November 12, 1895
Creator: McDonald, Michael Shaw
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Heating up Locomotive-Boilers. (open access)

Apparatus for Heating up Locomotive-Boilers.

Patent for an "apparatus for kindling fires in locomotives; and it is intended to provide an improved apparatus by which the fires may be rapidly and economically kindled and steam may be gotten up without much of the tedious delay now ordinarily incident to raising steam in a cold locomotive-boiler." (Lines 13-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 21, 1896
Creator: Connor, John T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle-Holder. (open access)

Bicycle-Holder.

Patent for a bicycle-holder that holds the bicycle upright. It consists of "a pair of plates clamped upon a portion of the frame of a bicycle, two pairs of ears formed integral with and depending from said plates, one pair of ears being formed convcavo-convex to form a socket between them and constructed with semicircular notches in their lower edges, a rod having a ball or spherical body on its upper end that is located and held for movement in the so formed socket, a lug formed integral with the lower end of one of the remaining pair of ears, and an arm pivoted between said remaining pair of ears, said arm having a bifurcated lower end that engages the rim or tire of the front wheel of the bicycle" (lines 40-54).
Date: February 11, 1896
Creator: McKanna, John J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Axle Box for Locomotives. (open access)

Axle Box for Locomotives.

Patent for a new and improved axle-box for locomotives. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a pedestal, of an axle-box mounted to slide vertically in the said pedestal, a second axle-box mounted with one side in a bearing in the said pedestal, and a connecting-rod secured to the last-named axle-box and pivotally connected with the first-named axle-box" (lines 67-73).
Date: April 2, 1889
Creator: Chase, Ransford T.
System: The Portal to Texas History