Resource Type

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
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
Crutch. (open access)

Crutch.

Patent for improvements in crutches by making the crutch adjustable in length according to a person’s height and “overcome the jerks by the movements with the crutches.” (Lines 15-16) Illustration is included.
Date: January 8, 1901
Creator: Hough, Orson E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water Heater. (open access)

Water Heater.

Patent for easy to clean water heater that is meant to deal with issues of hard water residue collecting on parts. Includes Illustrations.
Date: January 22, 1901
Creator: McKinnon, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transmitting-Gear for Windmills. (open access)

Transmitting-Gear for Windmills.

Patent for an improved transmitting-gear for windmills "which is simple and durable in construction, very effective in operation, and arranged to impart a long stroke to the pump-rod or other device to be actuated" (lines 11-14), including one illustration.
Date: January 22, 1901
Creator: Allison, Jesse H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon-Burner (open access)

Hydrocarbon-Burner

Patent for invention relates to improvements in hydrocarbon-burners of that class which are employed in apparatus for destroying vegetable growths, such as cactus-plants, for heating asphaltum, for concrete and surface drying, and for other purposes where great heat is required.
Date: February 21, 1900
Creator: Neuendorff, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mattress-Machine (open access)

Mattress-Machine

Patent for "an improved machine for making mattress from lint-cotton and the like materials, which is compressed into a bat, ejected from the press, and in the process of being ejected inserted in the tick" (lines 9-13) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 1, 1901
Creator: Morgan, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dental Clamp. (open access)

Dental Clamp.

Patent for a dental clamp "for holding pins for securement to metallic cover-plates for fillings" (lines 8-10), with illustrations.
Date: January 29, 1901
Creator: Mayes, Robert Martin
System: The Portal to Texas History