Automatic Feed-Water Steam-Generator (open access)

Automatic Feed-Water Steam-Generator

Patent for a steam generator for hydrocarbon burners. Illustrations included.
Date: February 4, 1913
Creator: Mills, John H. T. & Mills, Virgil H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator. (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator.

Patent for certain new and useful improvement sin acetylene gas generators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 20, 1900
Creator: Pitts, William Wirt
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for "a cotton-chopper attachment for cultivators... to be applied to the ordinary sulky-cultivator frame... and when so applied to constitute and efficient machine for chopping and thinning cotton." (Lines 9-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 25, 1891
Creator: Cansler, Hurnon K. & Cansler, Thomas G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Blocker (open access)

Cotton Blocker

Patent for cotton blockers that prevent crops from becoming covered in soil during the harvesting process.
Date: February 15, 1921
Creator: Fowler, Alonzo. J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher. (open access)

Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for wire-stretching levers, with instructions and levers.
Date: October 20, 1891
Creator: Richardson, Jerome Shipley
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water-Reservoir For Stoves. (open access)

Water-Reservoir For Stoves.

Patent for a new and useful improvement in water reservoirs for stoves, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 13, 1900
Creator: Horsley, Robert Lee
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve Mechanism for Steam Engines (open access)

Valve Mechanism for Steam Engines

Patent for valve gear mechanism for steam engines.
Date: February 6, 1912
Creator: Broadway, Fred V.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lamp-Turning Mechanism (open access)

Lamp-Turning Mechanism

Patent for head lamps that the drivers can turn while driving to light the road.
Date: February 17, 1914
Creator: Maxfield, Nelson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement for Cotton Chopper (open access)

Improvement for Cotton Chopper

Patent for improvement for cotton choppers “so that the operator may regulate the depth of cut, and may shift the cutting member forward or back” (lines 18-20). Instructions and illustration included.
Date: February 2, 1915
Creator: Finch, Arthur M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Thill-Support. (open access)

Thill-Support.

Patent for an antirattling attachment for thill-couplings or thill-irons. It can attach to any axle and any thill, and causes the device to put constant pressure on the eye of the thill-iron. This prevents rattling where the iron is connected with the axel-clip and puts tension on the front of the thill-iron in a rearward direction. This tension balances the shafts and thills when the horse is attached to the thill. When the horse is unattached, the thill is held in an upright position by the attachment.
Date: February 18, 1896
Creator: Price, Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Motor Car Wheel (open access)

Motor Car Wheel

Patent for a more durable and reliable wheel for automobiles, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 21, 1907
Creator: Lane, Luther L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock (open access)

Nut-Lock

Patent for "a simple and inexpensive article which will securely hold a nut in place upon a bolt and form a yielding support beneath the same" (lines 13-16).
Date: February 18, 1902
Creator: Price, Thomas M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method of Making Ballast. (open access)

Method of Making Ballast.

Patent for "improvements in methods of making ballast adapted for railway and other uses" (lines 9-11), including illustrations.
Date: February 18, 1919
Creator: Butler, Henry G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Match-Box. (open access)

Match-Box.

Patent for a match-box that prevents "the wholesale removal therefrom of large numbers of matches by users and borrowers and their consequent wasteful expenditure, which, when this happens, as it commonly does in hotels and stores, makes the cost of matches an item of considerable expense to the proprietor" (lines 14-20).
Date: February 5, 1895
Creator: Holm, Martin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow. (open access)

Harrow.

Patent for a harrow that is constructed without frames, so it is lighter and easier to use. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 27, 1891
Creator: Grisham, James Madison
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cow, Calf and Colt Weaner. (open access)

Cow, Calf and Colt Weaner.

Patent for a weaner to be worn by cows, calves and colts "reducing inconvenience by the animal" (line 12) and allowing for the administration of medicine or antiseptic.
Date: February 13, 1906
Creator: Horn, William Thornbrough
System: The Portal to Texas History