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Hydraulic Swivel (open access)

Hydraulic Swivel

Patent for the hydraulic swivel. This is an improvement to the hydraulic swivel that already exists. It involves "the rotary well-drilling machines, to permit the flow of water to the point of the drill." (Black)
Date: December 1, 1914
Creator: Black, Lee J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Marker (open access)

Marker

Patent for a marker. This invention is for marking lines for planters, plows, and other farm implements. Illustration included.
Date: December 1, 1903
Creator: Kocks, John Barney
System: The Portal to Texas History
Land Boller (open access)

Land Boller

Patent for a land roller. Illustration included.
Date: December 1, 1908
Creator: Harry, Owen K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washing Apparatus. (open access)

Washing Apparatus.

Patent for a "new and useful Washing Apparatus" (lines 6-7) that decreases the cost and increases the efficiency of current washing machines by automatically circulating hot water and steam through the clothes.
Date: December 1, 1903
Creator: Huffman, Wiliam Anthony & Huffman, Oscar Moses
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hame Fastener (open access)

Hame Fastener

Patent for a hame fastener. The function of this invention is to permit ready attachment to and the removal of. Illustration included.
Date: December 1, 1903
Creator: Dodson, Roy
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hoeing-Machine. (open access)

Hoeing-Machine.

Patent for dual drive hoeing machine. Machine utilizes a "carriage, support brackets, journaled drive shaft, crank arm and gyrating arm" (p. 3, lines 31-34). The machine produces straight rows and eliminates side draft (p.1, 15-19)
Date: December 1, 1914
Creator: Ashely, John F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gate-Latch. (open access)

Gate-Latch.

Patent for gate-latches in which the gate will close automatically and may be opened by releasing the latch by hand or by the manipulation of the gate. (Lines 10-14) Illustration is included.
Date: December 1, 1903
Creator: McRae, Daniel M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hog-Catcher. (open access)

Hog-Catcher.

Patent for a hog catcher, which has a trigger operated spring loaded claw to catch the leg of a hog and lead it on a chain.
Date: December 1, 1908
Creator: Reichert, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fastener (open access)

Fastener

Patent for a fastener. This invention is an improved design for "securing the eyes to traces or tugs or fastening stirrup-leathers together" (line 9-11). Illustration included.
Date: December 1, 1903
Creator: Gardner, Eugene Silas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Expansible Pulley (open access)

Expansible Pulley

Patent for an expansible pulley. This invention is constructed to expand and contract easily with great durability. Illustration included.
Date: December 1, 1903
Creator: Peters, William Arthur & May, Reynolds
System: The Portal to Texas History
Filter (open access)

Filter

Patent for "a simple and efficient filter which is adapted to allow liquid or gas to freely pass therethrough and be cleansed of impurities and sediment" (lines 11-15). Illustrations included.
Date: December 1, 1914
Creator: Corn, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Tie (open access)

Railway-Tie

Patent for a railway tie that can be "firmly secured in the road-bed and which will hold single or double rails" (lines 10-11) so that they cannot be accidentally displaced, including illustrations.
Date: December 1, 1891
Creator: Budington, Albert G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Roller Boring-Drill. (open access)

Roller Boring-Drill.

Patent for an improved Roller Boring-Drills to provide a strong drill that reach the bottom of hole and can be manufactured for low cost.
Date: December 1, 1914
Creator: Hughes, Howard R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shaving and Sawdust Conveyer. (open access)

Shaving and Sawdust Conveyer.

Patent for improvements that increase the efficiency and safety of conveyers that move sawdust shavings from the saw mills to the furnace or storage rooms. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 19, 1891
Creator: Ross, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Fence Tool. (open access)

Wire-Fence Tool.

Patent for a device "that will combine in one all the tools actually necessary in building or repairing an ordinary wire fence." (Lines 14-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 1, 1896
Creator: Orton, Lewis W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journal-Bearing. (open access)

Journal-Bearing.

Patent for a journal-bearing that has an open spring ring that contains the journal and antifriciton devices in its center. The spring ring contracts to its minimum circumference when the journal and antifriciton devices are worn out. There is also a bearing-ring seat that allows contractions "without altering the disposition of the load" (lines 61-62).
Date: December 1, 1896
Creator: Woodworth, Charles H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ratchet-Wrench (open access)

Ratchet-Wrench

Patent for a ratchet wrench including illustrations.
Date: December 1, 1914
Creator: Lawson, Harry C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method of Balancing Relays. (open access)

Method of Balancing Relays.

Patent for a new method for balancing relays to protect electrical circuits, an "electric-alarm circuit" (lines 13-14).
Date: December 1, 1903
Creator: Sutton, Henry M.; Steele, Walter L. & Coerver, Michael
System: The Portal to Texas History
Necktie and Collar Fastener. (open access)

Necktie and Collar Fastener.

Patent for a new and improved tie and collar fastener. This design consists in "[a] fastener for securing the proper relation between the shirt-band, collar, and necktie, consisting of a spring adapted to fit inside the shirt-band and next to the neck, in combination with a hollow stud on the middle of the convex side, having a separable head with spring-catches, and the bent hook-sections, toothed . . . and arranged to separate the shirt-band, collar, and necktie" (lines 66-75).
Date: December 1, 1885
Creator: Coffey, Robert Samuel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gage (open access)

Gage

Patent for a gage in use with locomotive driving wheels of the axles, bushings, brasses, crank-pins, and wheel parts. Illustration included.
Date: December 1, 1903
Creator: Melvin, Josiah W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator. (open access)

Cultivator.

Patent for a cultivator used for sub-soiling and cultivating small grain.
Date: December 1, 1891
Creator: Thomas, James C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Kitchen-Cabinet. (open access)

Design for a Kitchen-Cabinet.

Patent for a new design of kitchen cabinets with doors that open downward. Includes illustrations.
Date: December 1, 1896
Creator: Webb, Samuel Baxtern
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for improvements in cotton choppers and thinners by using a combination of “a rectangular frame having the transverse arch, the axle having the ground-wheels and the drive-gears mounted on the axle, a stirrups shafts, cogs, rotary cutters, and a bifureated cam” (p. 2, lines 85-92) to construct the chopper. This new construction will “provide means for easily adjusting the knives or cutters, and for regulating the distance between the stands of cotton.” (Page 1, lines 12-15) Illustration is included.
Date: December 1, 1891
Creator: McCaul, James L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fumigator. (open access)

Fumigator.

Patent for an improved fumigator that's primary purpose is to kill insects within corn storage units without damaging either the corn or the building. Illustration included.
Date: December 1, 1891
Creator: Bozarth, Stephen P.
System: The Portal to Texas History