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
Collapsible Life-Boat (open access)

Collapsible Life-Boat

Patent for a lifeboat that can be rolled and unrolled from the side of vessels for easy access for patrons on boats in the event of emergency
Date: January 4, 1916
Creator: Dolejska, Frank & Herzik, Louis M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Beet-Harvesting Machine. (open access)

Beet-Harvesting Machine.

Patent for beet harvesting machine capable of plucking, cutting, and sorting vegetable parts.
Date: January 4, 1916
Creator: Holub, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench (open access)

Wrench

Patent for improvements in wrenches, particularly relating to the type generally known as the spanner wrench. The object of this invention is to provide an improved spanner wrench including means for reliably retaining the wrench head in proper position with relation to the object being rotated.
Date: January 4, 1916
Creator: Wright, John G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench (open access)

Wrench

Patent for wrench improvement. Allows for "instantaneous initial or preliminary adjustment to fit any size object within its capacity, and a final adjustment to engage the object firmly and securely and to provide a simple, practical, and efficient wrench of strong and durable construction, and equipped with ratchet mechanism for affording a quick adjustment of a sliding jaw and a threaded connection . . . " (13-21)
Date: January 4, 1916
Creator: Cunningham, Ira
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drill Machine. (open access)

Well-Drill Machine.

Patent for improvements in well-drill machine by improving its operating and feed mechanisms.
Date: January 4, 1910
Creator: Anthony, Russell
System: The Portal to Texas History
Kite. (open access)

Kite.

Patent for a new design of kite in which the frame is adjustable and able to form different shapes. Illustrations and instructions included.
Date: January 4, 1916
Creator: Exline, Marcus P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Door-Fastener. (open access)

Door-Fastener.

Patent for a door-fastener, lock, that can be attached to on the facing side or from the inside so that the fastener cannot be unlocked from the outside. The door-fastener is light weight so that it can be easily carried about.
Date: January 4, 1916
Creator: Scroggins, Fred.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lamp-Burner (open access)

Lamp-Burner

Patent for the provision of spring pressed clamps pivotally mounted on a burner and adapted to engage opposite sides of the base of a lamp chimney and thereby securely hold the lamp chimney in place on the burner and yet permit the ready removal of the chimney.
Date: January 4, 1916
Creator: Patterson, Simon H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydrocarbon Burner (open access)

Hydrocarbon Burner

Patent for a hydrocarbon burner. Illustration included.
Date: January 4, 1910
Creator: Colligan, John C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Post-Card Rack (open access)

Post-Card Rack

Patent for racks for supporting and displaying commodities for sale. The device comprises a rotary holder or rack mounted for rotation around a vertical axis and including a skirt-like outer wall made of flexible material folded to form circumferentially arranged pockets into which the lower ends of a large quantity of post cards or the like may be inserted and supported in connection with certain other elements of the structure.
Date: January 4, 1916
Creator: Honig, Gustav
System: The Portal to Texas History
Middle-Breaker and Turning-Plow. (open access)

Middle-Breaker and Turning-Plow.

Patent for improvements in middle-breakers and turning-plows by providing an attachment for the middle breakers or turning plow, in which it will permit lateral adjustment of the wheel, by the use of a compound axle of adjustable length. (Lines 10-15) Illustration is included.
Date: January 4, 1910
Creator: Armstrong, Josiah B. C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stable Rosin and Process of Making the Same (open access)

Stable Rosin and Process of Making the Same

Patent for the process of manufacturing hydrogenated rosin.
Date: January 4, 1916
Creator: Brooks, Benjamin T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washing Machine (open access)

Washing Machine

Patent for a washing machine. This invention consists of cooperating rotary rubbers.
Date: January 4, 1910
Creator: Hollingsworth, James Hollis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grass-Cutter (open access)

Grass-Cutter

Patent for a grass cutter adapted to be mounted on some part of a train of cars. The object of this invention is to provide a cutter which will cut the grass from railway tracks and to adapt the device for easy attachment to a truck of the car.
Date: January 4, 1916
Creator: Doak, John S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fishing-Float (open access)

Fishing-Float

Patent for a new and useful fishing-float, aiming to provide a means for frictionally clamping the line within the float, so that the float can be adjusted readily along the line whenever desired.
Date: January 4, 1916
Creator: Scott, John S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Tie. (open access)

Railway-Tie.

Patent for improvements in tailway-tie by “the provision of a clamping plate terminating at one end in a pair of spaced brackets that extend over the base flange of the rail, the said clamping plate being held in engagement with the base flange of the rail by a pair of spaced lugs formed with the top plate of the tie and which bear against the rear end of the clamping plate. Further, this would give greater strength and stability to the proper by seating the rail flange directly upon the top plate of the tie instead of upon the clamping plates.” (Lines 15-22) Illustration is included. This patent is related to Patent #865,354, issued on September 10, 1907 to the same inventor.
Date: January 4, 1910
Creator: Brister, William T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Folding Wagon-Top (open access)

Folding Wagon-Top

Patent for an improved portable vehicle top such as is used upon farm wagons and the like. The wagon-top is constructed so that it may be easily removably connected with a wagon, so that it may be folded when attached to the wagon, and so that it may provide improved means for releasably connecting the supporting leg of the top proper with the standards which carry the top.
Date: January 4, 1916
Creator: Safford, Edward B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Silo (open access)

Silo

Patent for improvements in silos, particularly in the means of tightening the boards and bracing the silos. The object of the invention is to provide a silo which will be easily put together and braced and which can be kept in an air-tight and a liquid tight condition, and to provide means for bracing the silo and for locking the boards in place.
Date: January 4, 1916
Creator: Crady, Charles C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pistol- Holster (open access)

Pistol- Holster

Patent for a pistol holder. The holder will secure the pistol in the position that it should be in, at all times.
Date: January 4, 1916
Creator: Parrish, Byron B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Handling Machine for Baskets (open access)

Handling Machine for Baskets

Patent for a handling machine for baskets. This invention is designed to form wire handles to baskets. Illustrations included.
Date: January 4, 1910
Creator: Haberle, Fred Leopold
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail Connection (open access)

Rail Connection

Patent for a rail connection. This invention consists of heavy fish-plates and screw bolts that are supported between adjacent cross ties
Date: January 4, 1910
Creator: Grass, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Joint. (open access)

Rail-Joint.

Patent for a rail joint designed to provide an improved joint employing means without the use of bolts for securely connecting adjacent rail ends together and holding them in place against longitudinal and spreading movement, including illustrations.
Date: January 4, 1916
Creator: Peppers, Jerry C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Device for Displaying Merchandise. (open access)

Device for Displaying Merchandise.

Patent for improvement in devices for displaying merchandise by providing a portable display device comprising a horizontally disposed frame removably secured to and supported upon standards and from which the merchandise is suspended for display. (Lines 17-21) Illustration is included.
Date: January 4, 1910
Creator: Binford, Jackson S.
System: The Portal to Texas History