Mosquito-Net-Frame Attachment for Bedsteads. (open access)

Mosquito-Net-Frame Attachment for Bedsteads.

Patent for a mosquito net frame attachment designed to hold mosquito netting material over and around the bed frame, with illustrations.
Date: February 13, 1906
Creator: McCardell, William K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mold for Plastic Bodies (open access)

Mold for Plastic Bodies

Patent for a mold for forming plastic pieces with openings for wires to run through them.
Date: February 8, 1910
Creator: Crum, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary and Method of Securing the Pipe-Gripped Device Thereon (open access)

Rotary and Method of Securing the Pipe-Gripped Device Thereon

Patent for a rotary drill and method of securing the pipe gripping device onto it to lessen the strain on the drill parts.
Date: February 25, 1913
Creator: Decker, Harry R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail Joint (open access)

Rail Joint

Patent for a rail joint. Illustration included.
Date: February 7, 1905
Creator: Riggs, James M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Motor-Car (open access)

Railroad Motor-Car

Patent for railroad motor-car. The invention is "constructed that they can be knocked down to be loaded on passenger trains" (lines 11-13). Illustrations included.
Date: February 22, 1910
Creator: Reynolds, Stephen D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Fire and Burglar Alarm (open access)

Electric Fire and Burglar Alarm

Patent for new and useful improvements to fire and burglar alarms. The invention includes improvements so that frequent battery changes are not necessary.
Date: February 5, 1918
Creator: Bates, Lewis E. & Hanks, Vollie V.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draft Attachment. (open access)

Draft Attachment.

Patent for "an improved construction for draft attachments whereby we may dispense with the action of the ordinary doubletree or evener and throw the draft of each animal directly upon the axle-clips or fixed point of attachment on its side of the axle, thereby causing the draft of each animal to be independent of the other and avoid the tendency of the stronger, or in starting the quicker animal, pulling the weaker or slower animal backward and to one side of the line of draft." (Lines 14-25) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 26, 1895
Creator: Harmon, William Ellis & Garwood, John L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draft Attachment for Doubletrees. (open access)

Draft Attachment for Doubletrees.

Patent for "a draft attachment which shall prevent the swaying of the pole or tongue sidewise, and cause the draft of the animals to be independent of each other." (Lines 19-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 26, 1895
Creator: Harmon, William Ellis & Garwood, John L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drapery Support and Form (open access)

Drapery Support and Form

Patent for a new kind of drapery system that keeps the drapes pleated neatly and allows drapes to open and close easily with metal fasteners.
Date: February 17, 1914
Creator: Jantzen, Marius
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Harvester. (open access)

Cotton-Harvester.

Patent for a cotton-harvester meant to pick the ripe cotton but leaves the plants or unripe cotton and to improve the construction of cotton-harvesters.
Date: February 25, 1896
Creator: Pickering, Charles H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press (open access)

Baling Press

Patent for a baling press. This is an invention designed for use in baling cotton. Illustrations included.
Date: February 27, 1906
Creator: Washington, George M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale Forming Press. (open access)

Bale Forming Press.

Patent for a bale forming press to form bales of hay and automatically secure "baling wires around the bale as formed" (lines 13-14). It automatically stops the feeder when "the bale is being tied" (lines 19-20) and winds and automatically unwinds and winds the wire.
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Dudley, Andrew T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine (open access)

Rotary Engine

Patent for a rotary engine with a better flow of fluid to the casing.
Date: February 7, 1911
Creator: Nichols, Franklin Priestley
System: The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle-Wheel (open access)

Vehicle-Wheel

Patent for an improvement to the general construction of the wheel in order to make it easier to assemble and disassemble. The improvement also is intended to make the wheel cheaper and easier to manufacture.
Date: February 29, 1916
Creator: Downing, Otto P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Constant-Volume Valve. (open access)

Constant-Volume Valve.

Patent for an improved constant-volume valve that helps regulate the flow of liquid through a passage with an automatic valve.
Date: February 28, 1922
Creator: Dewey, Maurice J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator (open access)

Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator

Patent for combining both cotton choppers and cultivators. This will create a more easily operated piece of machinery.
Date: February 4, 1902
Creator: Bass, James Milton, Sr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drill Bit (open access)

Drill Bit

Patent for improvements in drill bits, particularly in the application used in drilling in soft formations, such as clay, gumbo, or similar material. The purpose of the invention is to provide a way to prevent the sticking of material to the drill and drill collar while the drilling operation is being performed.
Date: February 14, 1922
Creator: Childs, William L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pneumatic Disk Gin. (open access)

Pneumatic Disk Gin.

Patent for an improved version of a pneumatic disk gin. It has been designed for "ginning fibrous material, such as seed cotton" (lines 13-14) and improves the separation of the cotton and the seeds with the use of its perforated disks.
Date: February 14, 1922
Creator: Garner, James C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Extracting Liquid from Pulpous Material Machine (open access)

Machine for Extracting Liquid from Pulpous Material Machine

Patent for Extracting Liquid from Pulpous Material Machine that extracts oils and liquids from the remaining pulpous material from the process of grinding and cooking cotton. The main goal of this machine is to extract oil from cotton seed meal.
Date: February 10, 1920
Creator: Kinney, William L. & Cagle, Wiiliam E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed Cleaner (open access)

Seed Cleaner

Patent for cleaning seeds. This invention will improve seed cleaning and catch unwanted seeds.
Date: February 14, 1922
Creator: Garner, James C
System: The Portal to Texas History
Funnel for Forcing Molasses, &c. (open access)

Funnel for Forcing Molasses, &c.

Patent for a new and improved funnel. This design "relates to improvements in funnels for transferring molasses and other thick liquid and substances from one receptacle into bottles, jars, and other vessels; and the objects of [the] improvements are to provide a funnel with means for securing it to a table, counter, &c.; to provide said funnel with means for forcing a liquid therethrough and the forcing apparatus with a detachable spout thereunder" (lines 10-19).
Date: February 2, 1886
Creator: Henke, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Container. (open access)

Container.

Patent for new improved containers adapted for the shipment of eggs, including illustrations.
Date: February 27, 1917
Creator: Hall, Cyrus M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Filtering and Heating Device (open access)

Combined Filtering and Heating Device

Patent for a combined filtering and heating device for water that is attached to a dentist chair.
Date: February 21, 1911
Creator: Gambati, Olympio F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Heater and Filter (open access)

Combined Heater and Filter

Patent for a combined heater and filter. This invention is used in a dentists office to regulate the water supply for at the dentists chair. Illustration included.
Date: February 21, 1911
Creator: Gambati, Olympio F.
System: The Portal to Texas History