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Crude-Oil Burner (open access)

Crude-Oil Burner

Patent for a crude oil burner for kitchen use such as cooking. Illustrations included.
Date: January 25, 1910
Creator: Brennan, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Airship (open access)

Airship

Patent for a dirigible airship. Illustrations included.
Date: January 3, 1911
Creator: Bradford, William J. D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Buggy Top Support (open access)

Buggy Top Support

Patent for a buggy top support. Illustration included.
Date: January 10, 1905
Creator: Mason, Everett H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Tooth. (open access)

Artificial Tooth.

Patent for a new and useful artificial tooth for "supplying missing teeth or crowning roots" (line 10 -11).
Date: January 11, 1898
Creator: Carroll, Houston Monroe
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Billing and Journal Sheet. (open access)

Combined Billing and Journal Sheet.

Patent for improvements in combined billing and journal sheets there by each sheet in the journal will serve as a billing sheet, a duplicate billing sheet, and a journal page at the same time. (Lines 18-20) Further, the bound book will serve as a permanent journal after the bills have been removed. (Lines 25-26) Illustration is included.
Date: January 4, 1910
Creator: Hartley, James William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boat. (open access)

Boat.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in boats to "increase the speed and insure greater safety and stability in sailing vessels, row-boats, canoes, and the like" (line 12-14).
Date: January 11, 1898
Creator: Evesson, Martin V. B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Wrench (open access)

Automatic Wrench

Patent for an automatic wrench. The wrench possesses a locking movable jaw. Illustrations included.
Date: January 7, 1913
Creator: Clay, Samuel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Burial-Vault (open access)

Burial-Vault

Patent for an air and moisture proof burial vault which can also expel gases. Illustrations included.
Date: January 3, 1911
Creator: Pepple, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling - Press (open access)

Baling - Press

Patent for a new and improved hay pressing or baling machine. This design "relates to presses or baling-machines, and more particularly to that class which are worked bu hand-power" (line 9 - 11).
Date: January 18, 1898
Creator: Younger, William Turner
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter. (open access)

Corn and Cotton Planter.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in corn an cotton planters. This design is to " provide the same with a sweep or plow which travels in front of the seeder or planter mechanism to open a furrow" (line 13 - 16).
Date: January 25, 1898
Creator: Wendeborn, Ernest Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Time-Controlled Operating Mechanism. (open access)

Automatic Time-Controlled Operating Mechanism.

Patent for improvements in automatic time-controlled operating mechanisms by using a combination of a spring-actuated rotary disk, a clock mechanism, and co-acting cams to automatically operating at predetermined times, electric switches and other devices, such as locking and unlocking doors of warehouses. Illustration is included.
Date: January 18, 1910
Creator: Chappel, James M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Can-Opener. (open access)

Can-Opener.

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Can-Openers." (line 5-6) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 9, 1909
Creator: Davis, James Walter & McBee, Marshall E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Relief Valve for Pneumatic Seed Cotton Distributers. (open access)

Automatic Relief Valve for Pneumatic Seed Cotton Distributers.

Patent for a valve that attaches to a flue upon a pneumatic-seed cotton distributor. Includes illustrations.
Date: January 6, 1903
Creator: Wade, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Check - Spring. (open access)

Check - Spring.

Patent for a new and improved check-spring. This design "relates to check reins; and its object is to provide a new and improved check-spring for preventing sudden jars to a horse's mouth when the animal throws his head forward" (line 7 - 11).
Date: January 18, 1898
Creator: Walker, Fred B. & Reid, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Core Lifter For Diamond Drills (open access)

Core Lifter For Diamond Drills

Patent for a core lifter for diamond drills. Illustration included.
Date: January 10, 1905
Creator: Dupuis, David & Carpenter, D. A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crude-Oil Burner (open access)

Crude-Oil Burner

Patent for a crude oil burner for stoves or heaters. Illustrations included.
Date: January 3, 1911
Creator: Risley, Carolile
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coffee-Pot. (open access)

Coffee-Pot.

Patent for coffee pot attachment to prevent coffee grounds from getting into the coffee pot's spout.
Date: January 2, 1912
Creator: Voyles, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Tool (open access)

Combination-Tool

Patent for improvements in combination-tools especially adapted for repairing rubber tires.
Date: January 1, 1901
Creator: Green, Samuel Milton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Copy Holder (open access)

Copy Holder

Patent for a copy holder for use while typewriting. Illustrations included.
Date: January 3, 1911
Creator: Ireland, Ward S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Beehive (open access)

Beehive

Patent for an artificial stone beehive. Illustrations included.
Date: January 19, 1909
Creator: Ward, Hugh T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bung and Air Connection for Beer-Kegs, &c. (open access)

Bung and Air Connection for Beer-Kegs, &c.

Patent for improvements in bungs and air connections for beer-kegs by using a metallic bung which has an opening (a bung-hole), “and provided atone side with a passage, the passage being interiorly threaded at its outer end, an air-tube provided with a valve and having a swiveled member exteriorly threaded and engaging the threaded portion of the passage, and the cork or stopper arranged within the inner portion of the bung-hole and closing the inner end of the passage.” (Lines 116-123, p. 3) Illustration is included.
Date: January 1, 1901
Creator: Morawetz, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boat Propeller (open access)

Boat Propeller

Patent for a boat propeller. Illustration included.
Date: January 1, 1907
Creator: Edgar, Samuel Nooley
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Smoke-Consumer and Vaporizer. (open access)

Combined Smoke-Consumer and Vaporizer.

Patent for a combined smoke-consumer and vaporizer that increases fuel efficiency in furnaces.
Date: January 9, 1912
Creator: Davis, Othman
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Bicycle-Rest. (open access)

Adjustable Bicycle-Rest.

Patent for a new and useful adjustable bicycle-rest, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 23, 1900
Creator: Wise, Harry
System: The Portal to Texas History