Railway Switch. (open access)

Railway Switch.

Patent for a railway switch to be operated by foot and without structural change to existing construction.
Date: February 28, 1922
Creator: Arteaga, Ignacio
System: The Portal to Texas History
Can Opener (open access)

Can Opener

Patent for a can opener which cuts cleanly and rapidly around the outside wall of the can, so as to avoid jagged edges.
Date: February 14, 1922
Creator: Minor, Robert B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety Apparatus. (open access)

Safety Apparatus.

Patent for vehicle to safely have the right of way when reaching a crossing first.
Date: February 14, 1922
Creator: Duran, Arturo
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench (open access)

Wrench

Patent for a wrench designed for right and left-handed users, makes for simpler use of tool by having fewer components than other more standards wrenches.
Date: February 9, 1915
Creator: Wulff, William F. & Wulff, M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve-Grinding Device (open access)

Valve-Grinding Device

Patent for a device that can simultaneously grind "several valves of a multi-cylinder engine or motor" (lines 11-12). This device allows the "ready interchangeability, repair and adjustment of the working parts" (lines 16-17).
Date: February 4, 1919
Creator: Lohec, Joseph C.
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 "locking the control pedals of a motor vehicle from movement in either direction, the said lock being arranged between the pedals and arranged to simultaneously engage and lock both" (lines 9-14).
Date: February 27, 1919
Creator: Cameron, Robert G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve Construction (open access)

Valve Construction

Patent for improved valve construction which permits unobstructed passage from valves to intake and exhaust pipe in motor vehicles.
Date: February 5, 1918
Creator: Smith, Thomas Noah
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journal-Lubricator. (open access)

Journal-Lubricator.

Patent for a railway journal lubricator with a reservoir and lubricating rollers for supplying lubricant to the railway journal.
Date: February 4, 1919
Creator: Urbieta, Jose M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive-Pilot Coupling (open access)

Locomotive-Pilot Coupling

Patent for new and useful improvements in locomotive-pilot couplings (lines 5-6), including illustrations and instructions.
Date: February 8, 1900
Creator: Butcher, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wrench. (open access)

Wrench.

Patent for a new ratchet-wrench with "improved construction and combination of parts" (lines 26-27), including illustrations.
Date: February 2, 1886
Creator: Rettberg, Ernest Frederick & Ellis, Charles Carroll
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wave-Motor (open access)

Wave-Motor

Patent for a wave motor for vehicles that travel on water. Illustrations included.
Date: February 4, 1913
Creator: Stribling, Samuel L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Key. (open access)

Key.

Patent for a key, which can be produced in quantity but without any of them being able to open the same door.
Date: February 4, 1908
Creator: Katzenberger, Oscar
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lock (open access)

Lock

Patent for a lock. This invention is a design of door lock that uses a key and combination. Illustration included.
Date: February 12, 1907
Creator: Katzenberger, Oscar
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
Tractor. (open access)

Tractor.

Patent for an improvement in tractors that allowed adjustment to the tread or allowed distance between traction elements.
Date: February 10, 1920
Creator: Franklin, Floyd 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
Milk Cooler (open access)

Milk Cooler

Patent for a milk cooler. Illustration included.
Date: February 8, 1910
Creator: McNeel, James S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Press. (open access)

Press.

Patent for a new and improved press. This design "consists in compressing-rollers placed in suitable bearings, so as to coincide with an inlet-channel which receives and guides the fibrous substance to be baled into the baling-box of a press after the compressing-rollers have given it a preparatory pressing" (lines 10-16).
Date: February 9, 1886
Creator: Holmgreen, Julius H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Upholstered Furniture (open access)

Upholstered Furniture

Patent for "new and useful improvements in upholstered furniture", (lines 5-6), including illustration and instructions.
Date: February 19, 1900
Creator: Conrad, J. B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Padlock. (open access)

Padlock.

Patent for a padlock, which can only be opened with a certain key and prevents the use of many lock-picking devices.
Date: February 4, 1908
Creator: Katzenberger, Oscar
System: The Portal to Texas History
Motor-Cycle Frame. (open access)

Motor-Cycle Frame.

Patent for a motorcycle frame, which has a spring frame to reduce shocks while riding the motorcycle.
Date: February 8, 1910
Creator: Huser, Carl L. W.
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
Spring Wheel (open access)

Spring Wheel

Patent for a spring wheel design that will "effectually resist both the vertical and lateral stresses to which the wheel is subjected when in use" (lines 11-13), including illustrations.
Date: February 24, 1914
Creator: Mathiesen, Marius
System: The Portal to Texas History