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Combination-Tool for Manipulating Wire (open access)

Combination-Tool for Manipulating Wire

Patent for a combination tool for manipulating wire, "a convenient hand-tool for bending, straightening, shortening, and otherwise manipulating the wires ordinarily used in the construction of fences," (lines 10-14).
Date: September 23, 1902
Creator: Cullen, Edwin C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Balance Attachment for Windmills. (open access)

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
Vehicle-Jack (open access)

Vehicle-Jack

Patent for a vehicle jack improvements that includes "a lifting-arm or support having a flexible winding element" (lines 15-16).
Date: September 23, 1902
Creator: Zwicker, August
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spring-frame for Motor-cycles (open access)

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. (open access)

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
Hame-Hook (open access)

Hame-Hook

Patent for "new and useful improvements in Hame-Hooks." (lines 5-6). "The object of the invention is to provide a hame-hook which shall be simple of construction, durable in use, comparatively inexpensive of production, and by means of which the tug or trace chain may be easily attached to the hame at various heights and be securely retained in position." (lines 12-18)
Date: September 23, 1902
Creator: Lindsay, George F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shears-Sharpener. (open access)

Shears-Sharpener.

Patent for improvement to shears sharpeners for barbers, with illustration. The device provides a means to hold the blade while the user is honing it, and could be made at a low cost.
Date: September 23, 1902
Creator: Rossler, Konrad
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Force-Pump (open access)

Rotary Force-Pump

Patent for an improved type of water pump that operates using a method where "valves of each piston work parallel to each other and through the cylinders at points diagonally opposite" (lines 15-17)
Date: September 23, 1902
Creator: Frank, Samuel M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Reversible Garden-Plow. (open access)

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
Cotton-Sweep. (open access)

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