Coffee Pot (open access)

Coffee Pot

Patent for a coffee pot. Illustration included.
Date: February 28, 1905
Creator: James, Will S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chopping Machine (open access)

Chopping Machine

Patent for a chopping machine. Illustrations included.
Date: February 8, 1910
Creator: Kilman, John J. & McCown, J. R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Broom-Rack. (open access)

Broom-Rack.

Patent for a new suspended broom rack design with increased capacity for holding brooms, including illustrations.
Date: February 12, 1889
Creator: Jones, Wesley C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Hedge Trimmer and Mower. (open access)

Combined Hedge Trimmer and Mower.

Patent for a new and improved hedge trimmer and mower. This design "relates to certain new and useful improvements in that class of combined hedge-trimmers and mowers in which the side and top of a hedge are trimmed at the same time; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of the frame-work, the driving mechanism or gearing, and the cutting devices or knives" (lines 10-17).
Date: February 14, 1882
Creator: Lattner, Jacob V.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ant Trap. (open access)

Ant Trap.

Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design consists in "the combination of a tube having a longitudinal slot in its top at one end and a transverse slot in the bottom near the other end, the top of the tube on each side of the longitudinal slot bent downward, a pen secured to the end of the tube having the longitudinal slot, a portion of one side piece of the pen forming an end for the tube and the other side piece being cut away and secured to the tube, and a receptacle under the end of the tube having the transverse slot, the upper edges of the pen and of the receptacle being bent" (lines 65-77).
Date: February 28, 1888
Creator: Miller, Marshall Crittenden
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator-Hopple. (open access)

Cultivator-Hopple.

Patent for the simplification, strengthening, and adjustment of levers to make using a cultivator hopple easier to use.
Date: February 3, 1914
Creator: McCanless, Joseph E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement to Tire-Patch for Inner Tubes (open access)

Improvement to Tire-Patch for Inner Tubes

Patent for an improvement to tire-patches for inner tubes by making use of "a simple devise for jacketing that part of an inner tube which may be adjacent to a puncture or weak place in the outer casing to prevent blow outs" (lines 11-14). Instructions and illustrations included.
Date: February 9, 1915
Creator: Major, William W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Key-Board Attachment for Pianos. (open access)

Key-Board Attachment for Pianos.

Patent for a new keyboard attachment as educational aid for "pianos, organs &c. and has for its object to simplify the reading of music" (lines 9-11) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 12, 1889
Creator: Osborn, Enoch L. S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Binding Grain (open access)

Machine for Binding Grain

Patent for improvement in machines for binding grain for reapers.
Date: February 13, 1875
Creator: Tucker, Argyle W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Folding Store-Shelves. (open access)

Improvement in Folding Store-Shelves.

Patent for "a new and useful improvement in Folding and Portable Store-Shelving" (lines 3-5), including illustrations.
Date: February 9, 1875
Creator: Key, Minter P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Measuring and Leveling Instrument (open access)

Measuring and Leveling Instrument

Patent for a new measuring and leveling instrument that allows the user to determine "in a convenient and efficient manner the angularity of a surface or object with respect to a vertical or horizontal line" (lines 10-13). Instructions and illustration included.
Date: February 9, 1915
Creator: Richardson, O. C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Steam-Engine. (open access)

Steam-Engine.

Patent for "steam-engines of the reciprocating type, the purpose being to simplify the construction, reduce the number of working parts, economize in fuel, and to utilize the steam so as to obtain a maximum percentage of power therefrom." (line 8-13) instructions and illustrations included.
Date: February 13, 1906
Creator: Murphy, Joseph F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Switch-Thrower for Electric Railways (open access)

Switch-Thrower for Electric Railways

Patent for a switch-thrower for use with electric railways. This invention uses switch tongues via solenoids and engages a connection between the solenoids and the switch tongue. Illustrations included.
Date: February 22, 1910
Creator: Posey, James A. & Dunaway, John F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow Attachment for Cultivators. (open access)

Harrow Attachment for Cultivators.

Patent for a harrow attachment that permits the attachment to be held with its teeth disposed in any desired relation to the cultivator.
Date: February 20, 1912
Creator: Wynne, Robert S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate. (open access)

Gate.

Patent for an improved vertically swinging gate. Includes illustrations and instructions.
Date: February 21, 1893
Creator: Russell, Charles, H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Switch. (open access)

Railway-Switch.

Patent for a railway switch that is triggered by a shoe on a train car.
Date: February 7, 1911
Creator: Rousseau, Lawrence C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring Punch. (open access)

Spring Punch.

Patent for a new and improved spring-punch. This design "is to provide a punch in which the dies may be easily changed and adjusted, thus enabling one punch to serve for various purposes. [The] invention consists in constructing a punch with two or more sets of connected or geared levers, whereby the power of the jaws is greatly increased. It is not necessary, therefore, to apply as much power to the handles to produce the same result. The invention consists, further, in providing one of the jaws with a slot in which a number of dies may be secured" (lines 14-26).
Date: February 28, 1888
Creator: Jones, Wesley Corry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine (open access)

Rotary Engine

Patent for a rotary engine. Illustration included.
Date: February 23, 1909
Creator: Webster, George Lamont
System: The Portal to Texas History
Impregnator (open access)

Impregnator

Patent for an impregnator for mares.
Date: February 11, 1913
Creator: Curlee, Andrew J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for a new and useful plow to "provide a plow which by slight alterations, shifting, and leaving off of some of the parts can be made to break ground, bed the land, list, or perform any required work" (line 7 - 11).
Date: February 15, 1898
Creator: Ingram, John R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Handle-Protector. (open access)

Handle-Protector.

Patent for an improved device to protect handles of axes, hammers, and other tools which makes the handle stronger and prevents the head from falling off, including illustrations.
Date: February 16, 1915
Creator: Holik, Joseph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Quilting Attachment for Sewing-Machines. (open access)

Quilting Attachment for Sewing-Machines.

Patent for "quilting-frame attachments for sewing-machines, and has for its object the provision of a device which can be readily applied to any sewing-machine without marring or disfiguring the top thereof, and which will not overbalance the machine when quilting a large-sized bed-covering, and which can be easily detached and stored in a small compass so as to occupy a minimum amount of room when not required for use." (Lines 9-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 18, 1896
Creator: Moon, Richard D.; Spake, William H. & Bain, James H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Percolator. (open access)

Percolator.

Patent for a percolating tea- or coffeepot that segregates the tea or coffee within the body of the pot so that the material doesn't float freely in the liquid.
Date: February 25, 1902
Creator: Seney, Joshua C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nutcracker (open access)

Nutcracker

Patent for a nutcracker. Illustrations included.
Date: February 11, 1913
Creator: Harris, Irvin F.
System: The Portal to Texas History