Bottle-Closure (open access)

Bottle-Closure

Patent for a bottle cap for milk bottles and similar types of glass bottles. This is designed to be easily removed, keep the mouth of the bottle clean, and can be cleansed, sterilized, and reused.
Date: December 10, 1918
Creator: Williams, Lee
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wheel. (open access)

Wheel.

Patent for an improved and resilient spring wheel for a vehicle.
Date: December 23, 1913
Creator: Collinsworth, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Reinforcing-Bar Supports. (open access)

Improvement in Reinforcing-Bar Supports.

Patent for improving "bar supports for use in concrete construction" (lines 9-10) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 29, 1914
Creator: Darr, Frank J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feeding Device for Hay-Presses. (open access)

Feeding Device for Hay-Presses.

Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Feeding Devices for Hay-Presses" (lines 5-6), including specifications and illustrations.
Date: December 14, 1915
Creator: Sandy, Sam S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rat Trap (open access)

Rat Trap

Patent for a rat trap. Illustration included.
Date: December 28, 1909
Creator: Turnbo, Lycurgus S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Incandescent Lamp (open access)

Incandescent Lamp

Patent for incandescent lamp. Illustration included.
Date: December 28, 1909
Creator: Crutchfield, Charles H. & Deshong, Andrew W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Support for Cutter-Heads. (open access)

Support for Cutter-Heads.

Patent for a support for cutter-heads that allows the operator to easily sharpen, dress, and treat the bits or cutters of the head. It has a spindle that turns and slides in a bearing and supports a cutter-head a pin in the spindle that is seated inn the grooves in the bearings, and a spring loaded bolt in the end of the spindle.
Date: December 4, 1894
Creator: Kendig, Andrew
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gin-Saw-Filing Machine. (open access)

Gin-Saw-Filing Machine.

Patent for a machine that is meant to file circular saws. The invention files "saws while mounted side-by side upon a saw arbor, as cotton gin saws usually are; means for moving the file carriage along upon the frame of the machine to locate it in front of the individual saws which are to be filed; means for raising and carrying the file over the saws when the carriage is to be moved; means for securing the file sash on the file carriage and of securing the file carriage upon the main frame by a single act; and means for converting a continuous rotary feed motion of the saws while being filed, to an intermittent motion which rotates the saws step-by-step from tooth to tooth" (lines 15-28).
Date: December 19, 1893
Creator: McCurry, James C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lumber-Trimmer. (open access)

Lumber-Trimmer.

Patent for an improved lumber-trimmer that has "a suitable carriage or number of carriages for conveying the lumber a series of swinging frames, which carry belted saws and also supporting-wheels, which wheels, if not tripped, will ride over the lumber, carrying the saws up with them out of an operative position, but which wheels, if tripped, will ride over the lumber, but permit the suspended saws to remain in operative position to trim the lumber at different points in its length, as may be desired" (lines 23-33).
Date: December 3, 1895
Creator: Coleman, Thomas A.
System: The Portal to Texas History