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Animal-Trap (open access)

Animal-Trap

Patent for an animal trap. Illustrations included.
Date: June 25, 1907
Creator: Nance, Joseph J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Popper (open access)

Corn-Popper

Patent for a corn popper used for popping corn and general cooking. Illustrations included.
Date: June 25, 1907
Creator: Young, G. B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Popper (open access)

Corn-Popper

Patent for a corn popper. Illustrations included.
Date: June 25, 1907
Creator: Young, George B. & Young, Joseph H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grain-Fender (open access)

Grain-Fender

Patent for a grain fender to be used as an attachment to a grain table. Illustrations included.
Date: June 25, 1907
Creator: Dean, George A. & Hall, Samuel E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harrow (open access)

Harrow

Patent for a harrow designed to cultivate only one row of crops at a time. Illustrations included.
Date: June 25, 1907
Creator: Arnold, Jesse E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Knee-Pad (open access)

Knee-Pad

Patent for a knee pad, designed mainly for those who work in cotton fields. Illustrations included.
Date: June 25, 1907
Creator: Chambers, William Roleigh; Chambers, Solomon Roe & Chambers, Wade Hampton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nesting and Brooding Box (open access)

Nesting and Brooding Box

Patent for a nesting and brooding box made to keep poultry safe from other animals and to be easily transported. Illustrations included.
Date: June 25, 1907
Creator: Bradford, Joseph W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railroad-Rail (open access)

Railroad-Rail

Patent for a new railroad rail design. Illustrations included.
Date: June 25, 1907
Creator: King, Alphonse
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring-Heel (open access)

Spring-Heel

Patent for a spring heel made to absorb shocks from walking and to provide overall support for the heel. Illustrations included.
Date: June 25, 1907
Creator: Luzzi, August F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tool for Truing and Dressing Commutators. (open access)

Tool for Truing and Dressing Commutators.

Patent for a tool "for truing and dressing the commutators of dynamo motors... especially designed for truing and dressing the commutators of motors employed for propelling cars" (lines 9-14).
Date: June 25, 1907
Creator: Frick, Claus Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Replacer (open access)

Car Replacer

Patent for a car replacer. This invention is designed for the replacement of derailed locomotives, cars, and stock pens to the rails. Illustration included.
Date: June 18, 1907
Creator: Bowman, James M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compound Engine (open access)

Compound Engine

Patent for a compound railroad engine. This design is capable of operating under conditions resulting from an accident, the ability to start under full load via live steam to both the high and low pressure cylinders, and its working parts may be operated with one or both compounds. Illustration included.
Date: June 18, 1907
Creator: Symons, Wilson E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method of Protecting Vegetable Matter (open access)

Method of Protecting Vegetable Matter

Patent for a new method of protecting "stored vegetable matter, particularly corn, from the ravages of insects, especially the weevil." (Lines 9-11)
Date: June 18, 1907
Creator: Koy, August
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Can (open access)

Oil-Can

Patent for an oil can that prevents flames from going beyond the spout of the can and blocks gases from coming out of the can while still allowing the oil to be easily poured out.
Date: June 18, 1907
Creator: Harmon, William Ellis & Goodpasture, Thomas Boisarth
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil Can (open access)

Oil Can

Patent for an oil can. This design is a non-explosive air vented for pouring can. Illustration included.
Date: June 18, 1907
Creator: Demory, Alexander F. & Suhm, Carl J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Piano-Pedal. (open access)

Piano-Pedal.

Patent for a piano pedal made of one piece of cast metal to avoid the problem of loose connections between parts over time and which goes in a smaller hole in the bottom of the piano to prevent mice or dust from entering inside the piano.
Date: June 18, 1907
Creator: Norcross, Levi Watson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Preserving Apparatus (open access)

Preserving Apparatus

Patent for a preserving apparatus. This invention is designed to impregnate articles of food with preservatives or saccharine substance for the use of making catsups, nut syrups, fruit candy, and other like items. Illustration included.
Date: June 18, 1907
Creator: Holden, William G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Venetian Blind or Shade. (open access)

Venetian Blind or Shade.

Patent for a mechanism to control the opening and closing of Venetian blinds both by opening the slats or moving the whole blind up or down. It consists of rollers and gears that operate the blinds.
Date: June 18, 1907
Creator: Hughes, Wallace B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water-Heater. (open access)

Water-Heater.

Patent for a compact gas powered water heater that runs the water through firmly attached tubes that expand and contract with the water temperature and are placed in between heating elements. The machine can also be packed with ice to cool water in the tubes.
Date: June 18, 1907
Creator: Haynie, Brooks
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well-Screen (open access)

Well-Screen

Patent for a well screen to prevent the entrance of sand or gravel into the wall of a deep well.
Date: June 18, 1907
Creator: Stancliff, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Colter-Clamp (open access)

Adjustable Colter-Clamp

Patent for a colter clamp that may be fastened to a plow beam. Illustrations included.
Date: June 11, 1907
Creator: Allin, Joseph H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Foot (open access)

Cultivator Foot

Patent for a cultivator foot. Illustration included.
Date: June 11, 1907
Creator: Ferriott, Charles L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feed-Valve for Air-Brake Systems (open access)

Feed-Valve for Air-Brake Systems

Patent for a feed valve for air brake systems, designed to more efficiently refill the air supply of the auxiliary reservoir found in a train. Illustrations included
Date: June 11, 1907
Creator: Wagner, Godwin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flexible Metallic Hose (open access)

Flexible Metallic Hose

Patent for a flexible metallic hose to be used in places where both "flexibility and indestructibility are necessary" (lines 17-18). Illustrations included.
Date: June 11, 1907
Creator: Schultz, Wilhelm
System: The Portal to Texas History