Carbid-Feed Device for Acetylene-Gas Generators. (open access)

Carbid-Feed Device for Acetylene-Gas Generators.

Patent for a carbide-feed device for Acetylene gas generators, which prevents moisture from getting into the carbide and causing it to stick to the walls of the feed tube.
Date: October 19, 1909
Creator: Weaver, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton-Chopper, Harrow, and Cultivator (open access)

Combined Cotton-Chopper, Harrow, and Cultivator

Patent for an improved version of a machine which aids in the processing and maintenance of cotton plants. Includes description of parts and their use and illustrations.
Date: October 18, 1887
Creator: Robinson, John H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Toilet Article (open access)

Toilet Article

Patent for a combination brush and comb with cover, designed with spring clutches to allow each article to hold in its desired position, including illustrations and instructions
Date: October 9, 1917
Creator: Wigiert, Stash
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grate-Bar. (open access)

Grate-Bar.

Patent for an improved grate-bar that has a "semicylindrical journal rounded below, and its upper surface forming part of the grate-surface, with draft-spaces between the cross-walls forming the bearing portions, in combination with a supporting bar matching with said cross-walls and open under said draft-spaces, substantially as described" (lines 13-19). It is meant to sift ashes.
Date: October 13, 1896
Creator: Fuller, James T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safety Device for Railways. (open access)

Safety Device for Railways.

Patent for a safety device for railways that stops trains if they enter a danger zone, which indicates that the train is to close to another train.
Date: October 3, 1911
Creator: Mitchell, Charles B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Horseshoe. (open access)

Horseshoe.

Patent for a horseshoe that has "a double crease in the bottom face or under side of the shoe and peculiarly-arranged corrugations or roughened surfaces in the upper side of the shoe" (lines 13-17).
Date: October 27, 1896
Creator: Dellinger, Thomas Gamewell
System: The Portal to Texas History