Gravity Slide Ash Pan (open access)

Gravity Slide Ash Pan

Patent for a gravity slide ash pan. Illustration included.
Date: December 28, 1909
Creator: Ryan, John J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Tie-Plate and Rail-Anticreeper. (open access)

Combined Tie-Plate and Rail-Anticreeper.

Patent for a combined railroad tie and rail anti-creeping device, which prevents the rails from spreading.
Date: December 7, 1909
Creator: Clarke, Marcus S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Notching Means for Wire-Winding Machines. (open access)

Notching Means for Wire-Winding Machines.

Patent for notching means for wire winding machines, which evenly notches well screens with a chisel.
Date: December 7, 1909
Creator: Wergin, William Lewis
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water-Heater (open access)

Water-Heater

Patent for a water heater operated by heating pipes and coils. Illustrations included.
Date: December 29, 1908
Creator: Wood, Charles A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lever-Jack (open access)

Lever-Jack

Patent for a lever jack. Illustrations included.
Date: December 22, 1908
Creator: Dillon, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Indicator (open access)

Indicator

Patent for an indicator. This indicator if for the use with cars as a means for moving a belt that displays the name of streets. Illustration included.
Date: December 15, 1908
Creator: Bell, Harry M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well-Blower (open access)

Well-Blower

Patent for a well blower that is able to discharge the contents of a well at different air pressure levels. Illustrations included.
Date: December 15, 1908
Creator: McEvoy, Joseph H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well Mechanism (open access)

Well Mechanism

Patent for a well mechanism. Illustration included.
Date: December 1, 1908
Creator: Layne, Mahlon E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insulator and Protector for Electric Conductors (open access)

Insulator and Protector for Electric Conductors

Patent for a casing for electric wires made to protect them from wear, abrasion, or contact from other objects. Illustrations included.
Date: December 24, 1907
Creator: Copping, Thomas Cary
System: The Portal to Texas History
Straining-Plug. (open access)

Straining-Plug.

Patent for a strainer plug for water pipes.
Date: December 24, 1907
Creator: McEvoy, Joseph H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Wheel Chill (open access)

Car-Wheel Chill

Patent for a car wheel chill. Illustrations included.
Date: December 3, 1907
Creator: Carr, Benjamin M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Non-Refillable Bottle (open access)

Non-Refillable Bottle

Patent for non refillable bottle. Illustration included.
Date: December 25, 1906
Creator: Tull, Francis Scholais
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shutter Fastener (open access)

Shutter Fastener

Patent for a shutter fastener. Illustration included.
Date: December 18, 1906
Creator: Williams, John B.
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
Toy Fountain. (open access)

Toy Fountain.

Patent for toy foundation. It is "an improved form of toy fountain by which a column of water or other liquid may be discharged into the air from a suitable reservoir by pueumatic pressure" (lines 8-11).
Date: December 9, 1902
Creator: Attwater, Henry P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cinder Guard. (open access)

Cinder Guard.

Patent for a detachable cinder guard to be used with car panels. This cinder guard prevents cinders and other items that may cause combustion from entering a car window.
Date: December 31, 1901
Creator: Morse, Samuel Finley Breese & Tuggle, Samuel Ritchie
System: The Portal to Texas History
Broaching-Press (open access)

Broaching-Press

Patent for a device used with metal-working machines that provides more efficient finishing.
Date: December 25, 1900
Creator: Baker, Jason A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway-Frog. (open access)

Railway-Frog.

Patent for "a frog for crossing rails at switches or railway-crossings" (lines 8-9).
Date: December 25, 1900
Creator: Barry, James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coin-Holder. (open access)

Coin-Holder.

Patent for improvement in coin-holder “to be use on a belt to be worn by a person or on a stand placed on a counter, desk, or the like, and arranged to hold coins of desired denominations and to permit the user to conveniently and quickly remove coins of various denominations for making changes.” (Lines 10-16) Illustration is included.
Date: December 4, 1900
Creator: Miller, Thomas Octavus
System: The Portal to Texas History