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Automatic Rotary Hydraulic Casing-Spear. (open access)

Automatic Rotary Hydraulic Casing-Spear.

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Automatic Rotary Hydraulic Casing-Spears" (lines 5-7) which "relates to improvements in well-boring apparatus" (lines 13-14).
Date: December 26, 1905
Creator: Johnston, Horace G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boat (open access)

Boat

Patent for a sportsman boat. It can be lowered or raised in adjacent to the water level based on the intentions of the user.
Date: December 26, 1905
Creator: Richardson, William A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle Guard and Gate (open access)

Cattle Guard and Gate

Patent for cattle guards utilizing a gate normally disposed across a railroad track. This gate is modified for operation by actuation of a moving train approaching the guard from either direction.
Date: December 26, 1905
Creator: Felkner, William G. & Butler, James T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper that thins plants and provides ample space between those plants to achieve mature and plentiful harvest.
Date: December 26, 1905
Creator: Butler, James T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for cotton choppers with a moving hoe-frame. The essential feature of the invention is to secure a special construction and arrangement of chopping blades which are adapted to be adjusted in such a way as to leave a greater or less number of the plants in a row as the chopper is operated.
Date: December 26, 1905
Creator: Felkner, William G. & Butler, James T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Signal System for Electric Cars (open access)

Electric Signal System for Electric Cars

Patent for signal systems for electric railways where wires arranged in connection with the signal lamps at the ends of the blocks and on the cars will be lit to signal caution. There will also be a signal within the car if another moving car in the opposite direction enters the same block.
Date: December 26, 1905
Creator: Adams, Edwin J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Folding Step for Public Carriers (open access)

Folding Step for Public Carriers

Patent for public carriers such as cars that are designed for transporting passengers, especially steam operated railways. This patent will provide these carriers with a string of steps at each end upon both sides to facilitate ingress and egress. These steps are stationary and for safety terminate a short distance away from the ground.
Date: December 26, 1905
Creator: Felkner, William G. & Butler, James T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Furniture-Handle. (open access)

Furniture-Handle.

Patent for a plate that improves the security of drop-handle furniture handles with posses superior advantages in point of simplicity, durability and general efficiency.
Date: December 26, 1905
Creator: Frank, Gustav
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail-Fastening for Plastic Ties and the Process of Making the Same. (open access)

Rail-Fastening for Plastic Ties and the Process of Making the Same.

Patent for " an improvement in rail-fastenings for plastic ties and the process of making the same." (lines 12-14) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 26, 1905
Creator: Percival, Herbert E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Riding-Frame for Implements. (open access)

Riding-Frame for Implements.

Patent for a new and useful improvement to riding frames used with implements utilized for agricultural purposes.
Date: December 26, 1905
Creator: Plummer, Alson Q.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Street-Cleaner. (open access)

Street-Cleaner.

Patent for a connection with the suction-head portion of pneumatic street sweepers that provides a dust or dirt disturbing element in the form of a brush or broom.
Date: December 26, 1905
Creator: Duke, Holmes
System: The Portal to Texas History
Caisson (open access)

Caisson

Patent for a caisson. This invention is used to remove quicksand while sinking piers in rivers. Illustration included.
Date: December 19, 1905
Creator: Gilbert, Edward Nathen
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Level, Grade, Distance, and Elevation Finder. (open access)

Combined Level, Grade, Distance, and Elevation Finder.

Patent for a tool that acts as a combined plumb and spirit level.
Date: December 19, 1905
Creator: Barclay, Charles B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Handling Apparatus (open access)

Cotton Handling Apparatus

Patent for a cotton handling apparatus. Illustration included.
Date: December 19, 1905
Creator: Tidwell, Albert F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator (open access)

Cultivator

Patent for creating cultivators with simplicity and efficiency. (lines 8-10)
Date: December 19, 1905
Creator: Rosenbaum, Eugene
System: The Portal to Texas History
Door Check (open access)

Door Check

Patent for door check. Illustration included.
Date: December 19, 1905
Creator: McGinnis, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Indicator (open access)

Indicator

Patent for an indicator. This invention is designed for use with phonographs, musicboxes, and like intruments. Illustration included.
Date: December 19, 1905
Creator: Pfleger, Frank Paul
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Elevating And Feeding Seed Cotton (open access)

Machine For Elevating And Feeding Seed Cotton

Patent for a machine for elevating and feeding seed cotton. Illustration included.
Date: December 19, 1905
Creator: Benefield, Chauncey R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process For Treating Petroleum-Oils (open access)

Process For Treating Petroleum-Oils

Patent for an improved process for treating petroleum oils, to remove asphaltum. (lines 9-12)
Date: December 19, 1905
Creator: Wintz, James Philip
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene Generator (open access)

Acetylene Generator

Patent for an acetylene generator. Illustration included.
Date: December 12, 1905
Creator: Sinclair, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Feed Device (open access)

Animal-Feed Device

Patent for an animal feed device that is collapsible and that can be suspended from fences, vehicle wheels, other structures, the ground, or the animal itself. (lines 10-15
Date: December 12, 1905
Creator: Russell, George Washington
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press (open access)

Baling-Press

Patent for Baling-Press designed particularly as a further improvement of the press and eliminate the long operating lever. (lines 12-14).
Date: December 12, 1905
Creator: Hayes, George Daniel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Binder For Books (open access)

Binder For Books

Patent describing an invention for a binder to securely hold pages, but allow leaves to be removed, and also lay flat. It includes oppositely-disposed hinged plates with a locking-rod.
Date: December 12, 1905
Creator: Crowder, Joseph Wade & Simmons, W. W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ladder (open access)

Ladder

Patent for ladders, more particularly to one adapted for use in connection with freight-cars. (lines 9-11) Design to prevent the grab-irons from becoming disconnected from the rails. (lines 27-29)
Date: December 12, 1905
Creator: Saling, Thomas W. & McKiel, James
System: The Portal to Texas History