Float Valve (open access)

Float Valve

Patent for improvements on float valves that will "resupply the tank with water when it is withdrawn to a certain lower level and also operate to cut off the inflow when the water will have reached a predetermined height in the trough" (lines 14-18).
Date: October 21, 1902
Creator: Mayfield, Jess Lewis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Railroad or Farm Gate. (open access)

Automatic Railroad or Farm Gate.

Patent for an improved automatic railroad or farm gate that uses the "weight of the car or wagon upon an operating-board and automatically close[s] after the train has passed, and which can also be opened by hand when it is desired to let a single person pass through, either upon foot or horseback" (lines 20-25).
Date: October 4, 1892
Creator: Benson, Joseph Robinson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design is "to provide a coupler . . . capable of being manipulated from the top or side of freight-cars and from the side or platform of passenger-cars" (lines 8-12). It consists, "with a draw-head provided with an upwardly-extending post, and a lever fulcrumed in said post, of a lock-link consisting of a horizontal body portion and a hook-extension at its rear end, and a lift-link provided with a nose at one extremity, the opposite extremity being pivoted to the lever and the nose pivotally connected with the forward end of the lock-link" (lines 55-64).
Date: December 16, 1890
Creator: Franks, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bed Bottom and Brace. (open access)

Bed Bottom and Brace.

Patent for an invention to "simplify and improve the construction of bedsteads and provide efficient and durable means for securing the slats to the bedstead and for securing the parts of the bedstead together," (lines 11-15) with instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 30, 1891
Creator: Lightfoot, Walter Hamond
System: The Portal to Texas History
Float-Valve. (open access)

Float-Valve.

Patent for improved float valve. This patent is especially adapted for use in water tanks and other receptacles for providing water for stock or for any other purposes.
Date: July 13, 1915
Creator: Sharp, Harry Q.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve (open access)

Valve

Patent for a water pipe valve. Illustrations included.
Date: July 6, 1909
Creator: Chalk, Russell H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve. (open access)

Valve.

Patent for a valve, which attaches easily to all sorts of liquid-filled reservoirs and is durable.
Date: September 29, 1908
Creator: Craddock, Lee Larrence & McCleary, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve (open access)

Valve

Patent for a valve. This design is for use with tanks. Illustration included.
Date: November 24, 1903
Creator: Fambrough, Andrew Clarence & Swearingen, Alonzo J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trap-Gun. (open access)

Trap-Gun.

Patent for a trap gun, which can be mounted on a post or in the ground.
Date: August 9, 1910
Creator: Lindsey, William Milton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pump-Valve Mechanism. (open access)

Pump-Valve Mechanism.

Patent for a pump valve mechanism for use in deep wells, which can be easily removed for cleaning and repair,
Date: August 13, 1907
Creator: Sheen, Davis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hair-Cutting Register. (open access)

Hair-Cutting Register.

Patent for a counting device for use by barber shops activated by taking on and off the head rest of a barbers chair, so that the shop owner knows how many hair cuts were given in each chair that day and can cross check the money taken in each day against the numbers of haircuts given.
Date: April 2, 1907
Creator: Kelley, Hugh, C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Thill-Coupling (open access)

Thill-Coupling

Patent for a thill coupling, one of the two pieces of wood that extend from the front of a carriage.
Date: January 3, 1893
Creator: Benson, Jospeh Robinson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shampoo-Registering Device. (open access)

Shampoo-Registering Device.

Patent for a shelf for shampoos in barber shops that counts how many times shampoos are taken off and put back on the shelf for the purpose of counting customers.
Date: April 2, 1907
Creator: Kelley, Hugh, C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shave-Registering Device. (open access)

Shave-Registering Device.

Patent for a shave registering device for use in barber shops, which is activated by the movement of the chair up and down.
Date: September 17, 1907
Creator: Kelley, Hugh C.
System: The Portal to Texas History