Attachment For Mowers (open access)

Attachment For Mowers

Patent for an improving to attachments for mowers that can be attached to shoe of the sickle bar. This attachment helps to raise the grain or growth being cut and bring it into the path of the sickle bar. It also works to ensure the cut grain will fall away from the standing grain.
Date: February 15, 1916
Creator: Muller, Hermann W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Cake-Rack (open access)

Automatic Cake-Rack

Patent for a display device of desert type foods.
Date: February 15, 1916
Creator: Jones, Seaborn W. & Postlethwaite, Alonzo W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bottle - Stopper. (open access)

Bottle - Stopper.

Patent for a new and useful bottle-stopper. This design is to "improve the construction of bottle-stoppers and to enable a metallic sealing-cap to be readily removed from the neck of a bottle without the use of an instrument" (line 11 - 14).
Date: February 15, 1898
Creator: Neuendorff, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Internal Combustion Engine. (open access)

Internal Combustion Engine.

Patent for an internal combustion engine consisting of a valve and cynlinder. The engine is made to avoid dead air space commonly present in valve casings.
Date: February 15, 1921
Creator: Blumberg, Hamilton G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lock. (open access)

Lock.

Patent for a new and useful combination lock designed for safe.
Date: February 15, 1898
Creator: Wise, Harry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method of Liberating the Fibers of the Agave and Similar Fleshy Plants. (open access)

Method of Liberating the Fibers of the Agave and Similar Fleshy Plants.

Patent for an alternative method in separating the plant fibers of agave and similar plants. This process omits the use of the popular chemical method in favor of a more natural fermentive bath.
Date: February 15, 1921
Creator: Quijano, Ramon
System: The Portal to Texas History
Steering-Wheel Lock. (open access)

Steering-Wheel Lock.

Patent for an improved steering wheel lock that avoids the need for a specially constructed lock. Utilizes parts of simple, cheap and sturdy construction capable of being used in any motor vehicle design.
Date: February 15, 1921
Creator: Gerfers, Richard P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tool. (open access)

Tool.

Patent for a new and improved tool for "various uses, being especially adapted as a clamp, vise, brace or drill-stock, or wrench" (line 9 -10).
Date: February 15, 1898
Creator: Poor, Morrill Hart
System: The Portal to Texas History
Union-Garment (open access)

Union-Garment

Patent for union garments with a strip of elastic or semi-elastic woven material at the back of the waist in order to allow the garment to stretch when worn.
Date: February 15, 1921
Creator: Hook, Thomas Wesley
System: The Portal to Texas History