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Cheese-Cutter
Patent for cheese cutter that features improvements which include guides for the knife, the box and cover, and the means for holding the cheese in place on a rotatable platform.
Date:
December 30, 1902
Creator:
Niggli, Emil
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Balance Attachment for Windmills.
Patent for an automatic balance device for windmills that attaches to the pump-rod.
Date:
December 23, 1902
Creator:
Terry, Blake
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Sweep.
Patent for cotton sweep. This invention helps in easy spreading and setting of sweeping blades, "since it provides a novel form of brace to be interposed between the blades of the sweep and the stock" (lines 15-17).
Date:
December 23, 1902
Creator:
Brown, Burel J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Reversible Garden-Plow.
Patent for a walking-plow with simple and compact construction. The depth for plowing is adjustable to height of individual operating.
Date:
December 23, 1902
Creator:
Nicholas, Joseph W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spring-frame for Motor-cycles
Patent for a suspension spring-frame that is lighter and provides better absorption of shock for motorbikes, with illustrations.
Date:
December 23, 1902
Creator:
White, Edward Young
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Telephone System.
Patent for improvements to an automatic switchboard "to provide a construction of board and a connected system of wiring which will permit a subscriber at a telephone in one town to call up the operator or central at a distant point and converse with him without operating the other instruments in his town and at the same time preventing other subscribers from breaking into the line" (lines 12-20).
Date:
December 23, 1902
Creator:
Wright, Wayne C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator-Shovel
Patent for a shovel that is designed for scrapping and opening furrows. The angle of the shovel blade can be easily adjusted to the correct angle as to make the correct size furrow row in the field.
Date:
December 19, 1902
Creator:
Johnson, Alvis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Angle-Bending Machine
Patent for angle-bending machine.
Date:
December 16, 1902
Creator:
Dillon, Ivy Hancock
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Touch-Regulating and Mute Attachment for Pianos
Patent for combined touch regulating and mute attachment for pianos.
Date:
December 16, 1902
Creator:
Harriss, Langdon & Kendall, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Mechanical Movement.
Patent for improved manner of rotary movement on various machines. Includes illustrations.
Date:
December 16, 1902
Creator:
Gibson, Levi D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Burner.
Patent for oil-burner that is used by being connected to a steam-boiler. It is simply constructed to produce a very high degree of heat with a comparatively small amount of hydrocarbon oil.
Date:
December 16, 1902
Creator:
Jenkins, Wellington S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Poison Distributor for Growing Plants
Patent for a device that can be easily attached to a cultivator and delivers poison to both the roots and the top of a plant, protecting the plant from pests and disease, with illustrations.
Date:
December 16, 1902
Creator:
Zedlitz, Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine.
Patent for an improvement in rotary engines, specifically in engines where the piston is operated by direct and expansive force of steam.
Date:
December 16, 1902
Creator:
Carothers, Samuel Eugene
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trace-Fastner
Patent for Trace Fastners which is useful for securing a trace upon a whiffletree.
Date:
December 16, 1902
Creator:
Thornton, Burus M. & Thornton, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wind-Motor.
Patent for wind motors that has new and useful improvements," is simple and durable in its constructions, very effective and powerful in operation, transmits the force of a series of wind-wheels to a common shaft for driving pumps or other machines" (lines 11-16).
Date:
December 16, 1902
Creator:
Cochran, James M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
CASH REGISTER.
Patent for improvements in cash-registers for making change and with a recording mechanism for printing amounts for which change is made, including descriptions of the parts of the mechanism and with illustrations.
Date:
December 9, 1902
Creator:
Woodson, James F. & Lindsay, Oscar L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Casing-Point
Patent for an improved casing point with improvements in the strainer or screen frame for wells.
Date:
December 9, 1902
Creator:
Lindstrom, Conrad
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin Feeder and Cleaner
Patent for cotton gin feeder and cleaner in which cotton passes over the screening surface by means of a picker-roller.
Date:
December 9, 1902
Creator:
Seifert, John W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fire-Clay Charcoal-Furnace
Patent for fire clay charcoal furnace. "The object of the invention is to provide a furnace of this character which shall be simple of construction, durable in use, comparatively inexpensive of production, and efficient in action" (lines 13-17).
Date:
December 9, 1902
Creator:
Koch, Charles Jean
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Injector-Burner.
Patent for injector burner that provides rapid vaporization by maximum heating the walls of oil chamber and also has improved nozzle with oil outlet pipe. It has a detachable burner nozzle and maximum spread of flame is given by the burner-tip.
Date:
December 9, 1902
Creator:
Reagan, Edgar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Reed-Organ.
Patent for reed-organs that is needed in the construction of reed-board to improve the quality and volume of the tone, produce a uniform pipe-tone throughout the different registers.
Date:
December 9, 1902
Creator:
Preston, Percy C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Bolting Machine
Patent for an more new and improved, more efficient bolting machine.
Date:
December 2, 1902
Creator:
Hollender, C. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History