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Automatic Rotary Hydraulic Casing-Spear. (open access)

Automatic Rotary Hydraulic Casing-Spear.

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Automatic Rotary Hydraulic Casing-Spears" (lines 5-7) which "relates to improvements in well-boring apparatus" (lines 13-14).
Date: December 26, 1905
Creator: Johnston, Horace G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Furniture-Handle. (open access)

Furniture-Handle.

Patent for a plate that improves the security of drop-handle furniture handles with posses superior advantages in point of simplicity, durability and general efficiency.
Date: December 26, 1905
Creator: Frank, Gustav
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crank For Drilling Machines (open access)

Crank For Drilling Machines

Patent for a crank used with drilling machines. Illustration included.
Date: December 18, 1906
Creator: Engleman, John Hickman
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Compress (open access)

Cotton Compress

Patent for improvements to the cutting mechanism in cotton compresses to "provide positive and reliable means for severing the full-grown or completed bale from the remaining column of compressed material and yieldingly supporting the said remaining column of compressed material under pressure to permit the baling operation to continue" (lines 21-27).
Date: March 26, 1900
Creator: Griffin, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Egg Preserving Compound (open access)

Egg Preserving Compound

Patent for a egg preserving compound. This invention consists of an air-excluding coating to prevent deterioration for an indefinite period.
Date: December 22, 1903
Creator: Brown, William F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Double Acting Pump (open access)

Double Acting Pump

Patent for a double acting pump. Illustration included.
Date: December 14, 1909
Creator: Holekamp, Richard G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Carrier-Frame for Baskets. (open access)

Carrier-Frame for Baskets.

Patent for a carrier frame for moving baskets up and down in a store, which does not get tangled with the basket ropes.
Date: December 24, 1907
Creator: Cameron. James H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coin Operating Vending Machine (open access)

Coin Operating Vending Machine

Patent for a coin operated vending machine. Illustration included.
Date: December 6, 1904
Creator: Davis, Alvah B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap (open access)

Animal-Trap

Patent for an animal trap with a new kind of trigger fir closing the door to the trap.
Date: December 13, 1910
Creator: Hatchell, Benjamin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin (open access)

Clothes-Pin

Patent for a clothes pin. Illustrations included.
Date: December 24, 1907
Creator: Cooke, Jasper Newton & Moeller, John Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Signal System for Electric Cars (open access)

Electric Signal System for Electric Cars

Patent for signal systems for electric railways where wires arranged in connection with the signal lamps at the ends of the blocks and on the cars will be lit to signal caution. There will also be a signal within the car if another moving car in the opposite direction enters the same block.
Date: December 26, 1905
Creator: Adams, Edwin J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bottle (open access)

Bottle

Patent for a new and useful improvements in bottles. This invention is to "provide an improved vessel of this class the neck of which is formed in such manner and provided with attachments so constructed that when the vessel has been filled and the attachment applied the vessel may be emptied of its contents, but cannot be refilled or reused" (line 12- 18).
Date: December 14, 1897
Creator: Saunders, David Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator. (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator.

Patent for a new and improved gas generator, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 5, 1899
Creator: Schaefer, Henry P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fluid Pressure Regulator (open access)

Fluid Pressure Regulator

Patent for a new and useful gas pressure regulator. This invention "relates to gas-pressure regulators especially adapted for use with gas stored under high pressure in a cylinder or similar portable storage vessel" (line 8 - 11).
Date: December 28, 1897
Creator: Clark, George Greenleaf
System: The Portal to Texas History
Farm Gate (open access)

Farm Gate

Patent for a farm gate to open without dismounting. Illustration included.
Date: December 15, 1903
Creator: Clarke, George R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crayon Holder (open access)

Crayon Holder

Patent for a new and useful improvements in crayon holders. This design is to "provide an improved device which may be constructed cheaply, be light, and have a neat appearance" (line 13-14).
Date: December 14, 1897
Creator: Rugeley, Fannie M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feeding Trough (open access)

Feeding Trough

Patent for a feeding trough. This invention is designed to prevent the waste of feed by collecting the feed pushed out during feeding. Illustration included.
Date: December 22, 1903
Creator: Butz, John F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling (open access)

Car Coupling

Patent for a rail car coupling. Illustration included.
Date: December 4, 1906
Creator: Yeiser, John Clarke & Story, Leonidas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Weighing-Scale (open access)

Automatic Weighing-Scale

Patent for improvements in automatic weightlifting scales. The modifications aim to facilitate the weighting of materials in bulk.
Date: December 12, 1911
Creator: Carter, Edward D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Farm Gate (open access)

Farm Gate

Patent for a farm gate. Illustrations included.
Date: December 22, 1903
Creator: Wilson, Craven & Sadler, Junius E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Piston-Rod Packing. (open access)

Piston-Rod Packing.

Patent for a piston packing device to decrease the wear on pistons in oil pumps.
Date: December 31, 1907
Creator: Martin, Robert Edward Lee
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Torpedo (open access)

Automobile Torpedo

Patent for a shell torpedo launcher for submarines.
Date: December 20, 1910
Creator: Douglas, William M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press. (open access)

Cotton-Press.

Patent for new and useful improvements in cotton presses, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 20, 1898
Creator: Mason, William R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ice-Making Apparatus (open access)

Ice-Making Apparatus

Patent for an ice-making apparatus that both cools the brine and makes the ice.
Date: December 31, 1912
Creator: Bell, Samuel Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History